Once upon a time, a blind man was sitting at the roadside with a hat by his feet. There was a sign beside him, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (say), “I am blind. Please help me.” {#blank#}2{#/blank#} good many passers-by walked by him, but few of them helped him.

    A creative young man named Tom was going to his office. While walking by the blind man, he stopped {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(see) that the man only had a few coins in his hat. He bent down and put a few of his own coins in the hat. Without asking for the blind man's {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(permit), he took the sign, turned it around and wrote a new message. Then he put the sign by the feet of the blind man, and left.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (late) that afternoon, when Tom returned to the blind man, he saw the hat {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(fill) with bills and coins. The blind man recognized his footsteps and asked if {#blank#}7{#/blank#} was he who had changed his sign. He also wanted to know {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the man had done to the sign.

    Then the young man told the blind man that he {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (write) something like this on the sign, “It is spring now, but I can't see it.” {#blank#}10{#/blank#} （hear）what the young man said, the blind man expressed his gratitude to him and went home happily.

    Nowadays, we can find advertisements almost wherever we go. We are so used to them  {#blank#}1{#/blank#} we often do not even realize how many we see and hear in {#blank#}2{#/blank#}day. An advertisement uses words and pictures {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(persuade) people to buy a product or service, or to believe {#blank#}4{#/blank#} an idea. There are two main types of advertisements—commercial advertisements {#blank#}5{#/blank#}public service advertisements (PSAs). A commercial advertisement is {#blank#}6{#/blank#}someone has paid for to advertise a product or service. PSAs are often run for free, and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (mean) to educate people about health, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (safe), or any other problem that affects public welfare. When {#blank#}9{#/blank#}comes to advertisements, we must all use our {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(intelligent) and not be a slave to them.

    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.

    How would you feel if you woke up and found your entire computers—including your photos, your recent documents—no longer {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (access)? What if you found out that they had been wiped from your computer, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (leave) you with nothing but heartache?

    Guess what? It happens to people every single day. Every day, people across the country head into their local Apple store in {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (tear), broken computer in hand, praying as they wait in line that an expensive repair might, just might, recover the priceless, irreplaceable files. A few get lucky. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} for the rest, there's nothing anyone can do {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (help).

    Hasn't it happened to you? If your computer remains unprotected, it will, and it's only {#blank#}6{#/blank#} matter of time. But thanks {#blank#}7{#/blank#} recent breakthroughs in computer backup (备份) technology, you now have a number of options to prepare, and if you're smart, when your computer {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (crash), you shouldn't have any trouble {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (get) 100% of your files back that same day. I'm not talking about an external hard drive. I'm talking about an online backup solution that runs {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (quiet) in the background on your computer. If you have one installed (安装), when your computer crashes, you'll be just one click away from bringing your files back to life.