One day, Mary was working in her office in London {#blank#}1{#/blank#}she received an email from her friend Joan. In Joan's email, she persuaded Mary {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(look) for a flat in London for her. As she had {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (little) money than before, the flat had to be cheap, but it had to be modern, with elevators and gas lines. Though Mary found {#blank#}4{#/blank#} difficult to find such a flat, she still went from one block to another, looking for a flat {#blank#}5{#/blank#} would meet Joan's requirements(要求). Having tried too many times, Mary came up {#blank#}6{#/blank#} her boss and asked him for advice {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (polite). It was the first time that she {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (talk) with her boss about her personal problems. It happened that the boss just had such a flat for rent, so they quickly reached {#blank#}9{#/blank#} agreement. But to her surprise, when she emailed Joan, telling her the good news, Joan said that she had changed {#blank#}10{#/blank#} mind— she was not going to London.

    {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(see) from outer space, Earth is a blue planet, due to the fact that the ocean covers over 70 percent of its surface. According to a new study published in the journal Science, the ocean plays a great role in {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(slow)down global warming. It is" {#blank#}3{#/blank#}important buffer(缓冲物)", {#blank#}4{#/blank#}The New York Times put it.

    The oceans can absorb 93 percent of the heat trapped by the greenhouse gases {#blank#}5{#/blank#}humans release into the atmosphere. And the other 7 percent {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(absorb)by the air, land and ice caps, according to the Guardian.

    "If the ocean wasn't absorbing as much heat, the surface of the land would heat up much {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (fast) than it is right now," said professor Malin L. Pinsky at Rutgers University in the US. "In fact, the ocean is saving us from rapid warming right now."

    However, the ocean itself, as Discover Magazine noted, is heating up 40 percent faster on average than the United Nations {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(believe) five years ago. That means if the ocean temperatures increase {#blank#}9{#/blank#} this speed, the high water temperatures "will kill off marine ecosystems, raise sea {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (level) and make hurricanes more destructive (破坏性的)", the Guardian reported.

    We want everyone to respect us. Do we respect everyone around us? The answer is a big NO! We don't respect {#blank#}1{#/blank#}we think is better than us, we don't respect poor and old people, and we don't respect who we feel is less better {#blank#}2{#/blank#}us. So how can we win respect? The easiest way {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (gain) respect is by giving respect.

    Winning respect might be difficult but not impossible. Don't use bad language. Being {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(help) and listening to someone are a sign of giving respect and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(win) respect as well. With patience and practice, you can get any kind of virtue.

    Flowers are the main {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(attract) of any type of decoration and in the same way respect is the beauty of life. Life is terrible {#blank#}7{#/blank#}respect. Just think whenever you go to a party, every one there is not treated equally. Do you know why? Because of {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(they) manners.

    Why are we not treated sometimes as {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(expect)? Because we do the same to others who have expectations from us. Relationship can be healthy if we never cross the walls of respect. Without respect, you can't live. You need respect everywhere in life, in work, in society or in family. A respected person {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(speak) politely.

This is where my kids grew up

    For years now, I've been wanting to sell our home, the place where my husband and I raised our kids. But to me, this house is more than just a building. In the front room, there's a wall that has hundreds of pencil lines. Every growth stage {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(mark) in pencils, with each child's name and the date.

    Of all the objects and all the memories, it's this one thing in a home that's {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(hard) to leave behind. Our kids grow in so many ways, but the wall is physical evidence of their progress. Friends I know have visited their previous home only {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(discover) their wall of heights has been freshly painted over. Over the years, I've talked about how much I would hate leaving that wall behind when I moved, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the last marks were made 10 years ago when my kids stopped growing. So one day, while I was at work, my children decided to do {#blank#}5{#/blank#} about it.

    They hired Jacquie Manning, a professional photographer {#blank#}6{#/blank#} work is about capturing the beautiful things in life. She came to our house while I was at work, and over several hours, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(take) photos of the hundreds of drawings and lines, little grey fingerprints, and old marks. Somehow, she managed to photograph {#blank#}8{#/blank#} we had experienced in all those years. Afterwards, she put all the photos together into one image, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(transform) them into a beautiful history of my family.

    Three weeks later, my children's wonderful gift made its way to me —{#blank#}10{#/blank#} life-size photo of the pencil lines and fingerprints that represents entire lifetimes of love and growth.