An old Japanese man kept a sparrow{#blank#}1{#/blank#}which he was very fond. One day it flew away. He went out,{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (look) all over the place for his sparrow. At last, he met his sparrow. “I missed you very much, sparrow.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}you follow me home ? "{#blank#}4{#/blank#}the sparrow was happy to see the old man, it shook{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(it) head. There were many other birds. They all looked healthy. "I am glad you have good companions, dear sparrow." said the old man. When it was time for the old man to leave, the sparrow gave him a basket as a present. "Well," said the old man's wife{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(anger) when he returned, "where have you been all day?" "I have been to the home of my lost sparrow”, replied he. When he opened the basket he was{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(amaze) to find it was full of gold. The old woman was very greedy. But she used to treat it very badly. She unashamedly asked for a present. “Alright”，replied the sparrow, “I offer you two{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(choose). One basket is light and the other is heavy{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(pick )one out，and you can take it home.” The greedy old woman cried out, "I'll take{#blank#}10{#/blank#}heavy one. " So the old woman carried the heavy basket breathlessly all the way. But when she arrived home and opened the basket, it was full of stones.

    For example, one evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake {#blank#}1{#/blank#} until half past eleven {#blank#}2{#/blank#} have a good look at the moon by myself. But as the moon gave far too much light, I didn't dare open a window. Another time five months ago, I happened to be upstairs{#blank#}3{#/blank#} when the window was open. I didn't go downstairs until the window had to be shut. The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} clouds held me {#blank#}5{#/blank#} in their {#blank#}6{#/blank#}; it was the first time in a year and a half that I had seen the night{#blank#}7{#/blank#}.

    Since a university education in the United States {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(be)very expensive, most students work in addition to studying. Students {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(usual)work part-time, but some students take full-time jobs.

    A typical job for a students would be working {#blank#}3{#/blank#}a waiter or waitress. Other typical off-campus jobs would include being a clerk in a store or delivering pizza. Sometimes students also find jobs on campus such as cleaning, working in a cafeteria or library or answering {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(telephone). Most student jobs are entry-level and low paying, but have flexible schedule{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(allow) students to attend classes.

    Sometimes students also hold more responsible positions such as managers, or if they are lucky, positions in their area of study,{#blank#}6{#/blank#}they hope will help them find employment after they graduate.

    {#blank#}7{#/blank#}double responsibilities of working and studying result in a very busy,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (stress)life for some students.{#blank#}9{#/blank#}, it is the only way for many people to finance their college educations. Some Americans believe that the work experience is good for the students {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(they)since it gives them a taste of “the real world” outside the school.

    It is a great {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (true) that life is difficult. Once we really understand and accept it, then life is no longer difficult. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} , most of us do not fully see it. They just complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is a really painful one. Problems, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(depend) on their nature, cause sadness or regret or anger or fear. These are {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(comfort) feelings, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. It is in this whole process of solving problems {#blank#}6{#/blank#} life has its meaning. Problems are the serious test that tells us success from failure. When we want to strengthen the growth of human spirit, we encourage the human ability {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (solve) problems, just as in school we set problems for our children to deal with. Learning from the pain of meeting and working out problems is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} great benefit. As Benjamin Franklin {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(say), “Those things that hurt, instruct.” For this reason, wise people learn not to fear but to welcome {#blank#}10{#/blank#} pain of problems.

You Are a Time Traveler

    Time travel has long fascinated people. Traveling to the past or future would allow you to live in exciting periods of history or get a glimpse(一瞥) of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} the future holds. Think about it. If you could travel in time, where would you go? Perhaps you would voyage far ahead of the present day {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (meet)your future self! What about watching an original performance of {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Shakespeare play in Elizabethan England? Or maybe you would pay a visit to {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (you)as a baby.

    Since these ideas are universally appealing to everyone, it is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (nature)that time travel interests so many writers, filmmakers, and scientists. It has been depicted in a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (various) of media, such as literature, film, and science reports. But you might be surprised to realize that {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the smallest sense of the term, we are all time travelers. Even as you sit here {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (read)this article, time is racing forward. The future becomes the past as soon as it happens. The present is so fleeting(稍纵即近)! Everything you do quickly {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (become) part of the past, and so it is that we move through time. The famous scientist Albert Einstein, assigned a mathematical formula to this idea, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} is called The Theory of Relativity.

Smiling

    Smile is a universal language, which is widely used throughout the world. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}, the meaning of a smile in different cultures may be different. Depending on different cultures, smiling can express joy and {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(amuse), but it can also indicate embarrassment. The following examples show this point of view:

    In an attempt to be open and {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(friend), people in the United States smile a lot. Every one smiles at each other and this nonverbal communication shows being polite in the United States. But in China, smiling is not only {#blank#}4{#/blank#} expression of happiness, but also a way to avoid {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(be) embarrassed. Chinese people like smiling when they are embarrassed in order to avoid embarrassment. Smiling is a kind of good will but not sneer(嘲笑).For example, when a child {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (fall) from a bike, the adults in China may smile, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} is a kind of gentle encouragement and may not be a kind of impolite laugh.

    Related {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the smile is the laugh. Also, different cultures have different {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (meaning)about laugh. Americans can enjoy a very heartfelt belly laugh that comes from the deepest emotions while most Chinese may think {#blank#}10{#/blank#} silly to laugh that way.