Many people travel during the holiday season but do not make sure that their houses and homes  {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (protect).Crime goes up {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (rapid) during the winter and summer holiday seasons.Here are some things that you should keep in mind when you go {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a holiday.

     Always give {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(strange)the feeling that you are at home. Have the snow {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (clean) off your stairs or out ofyour driveway during the winter season. You might ask someone to park {#blank#}6{#/blank#} carsin your driveway.

       Tell your newspaper deliverer that you are not at home. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (have)a pile of newspapers and other mail on your doorsteps tells people that you arenot at home, so you could also have a neighbor {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a relative get yourmail every day.

       Fix a timer in some of your rooms {#blank#}9{#/blank#} turns lights on andoff during different times of the day. Some TVs also come with a timer that youcould set to be turned on during certain times. Have motion (运动) sensitive lights outside your house that keep thieves away {#blank#}10{#/blank#} you are not at home.

    Some students who had graduated visited their university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. To offer his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(return) with a pot of coffee and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} variety of cups—porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking, some expensive—telling them to help {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to the coffee.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} was when all the students had a cup of coffee in hand that he said, “All the nice-looking expensive cups have been taken up, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (leave) behind the plain and cheap ones. Actually, the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}all of you really want is coffee, not the cup. You consciously went for the best cups, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} then you began eyeing others' cups.”

    “Now consider this Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups, {#blank#}8{#/blank#}  are just tools to hold and contain life. The type of cup we have does not change the quality of life. If we concentrate only {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the cups, we fail to enjoy the coffee. I {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (true) hope that you will never let the cups drive you ... enjoy the coffee instead.”

    When Jack was a small boy, he was once asked to give a speech about “A Big Challenge in My Life”．To talk before the whole class, he was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (terrible) shy the moment he thought of so many eyes {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (stare) at him. He had no other{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (choose), though. First Jack was to draft the speech, which was just a piece of cake for him because he was a good writer. But the hard part {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (lie) in his oral presentation, for it was not allowed to read from the paper. He had to give the speech {#blank#}5{#/blank#} his memory and in front of such a big audience!

    A real trial began when Jack stood on the platform with his legs trembling and his mind blank. He didn't know how much time had passed by. His listeners were still waiting patiently and without any signs of laughing. Gradually he found himself back, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (give) out his speech without much difficulty. After what seemed to be a hundred years, he found the audience applauding. He made {#blank#}7{#/blank#}！From then on, his fear of talking before the audience disappeared. Actually with his confidence {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (build) up, Jack now turns out to be a great speaker. As we know, the greater difficulty we meet on our way to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (succeed), the {#blank#}10{#/blank#} likely we will achieve our goals.

    Qing Ming {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(associate) with Jie Zitui, who lived in Shanxi province in 600 B.C. Legend goes that Jie saved his starving lord's life by serving a piece of his own leg. When the lord {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(success) in becoming the ruler, he invited his {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(faith) follower to join him. However, Jie turned down his invitation, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(prefer) to lead {#blank#}5{#/blank#} simple life with his mother in the mountain.

    Believing that he could force Jie out by burning the mountain, the lord ordered his men to set the forest {#blank#}6{#/blank#} fire. To{#blank#}7{#/blank#} astonishment, Jie chose to remain {#blank#}8{#/blank#} he was and was burnt to death. {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(remember) Jie, the lord ordered all fires in every home to be put out on the anniversary of Jie's death. Thus began the "cold food feast", a day when no food could be cooked since no fire could {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(light).