A group of adults, highly succeeded in their jobs, went to visit their old professor. Soon they began to c{#blank#}1{#/blank#} the stress in work and life.

    The professor went to the kitchen and returned with a pot of coffee and all kinds of cups—crystal(水晶的), glass, plastic; some nice looking, some plain looking, some expensive, some cheap. And he told them to help t{#blank#}2{#/blank#} to the coffee.

    When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, "I've noticed that all the nice looking expensive cups were t{#blank#}3{#/blank#}, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is n{#blank#}4{#/blank#} for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your p{#blank#}5{#/blank#} and stress.

    You know that the cup itself a{#blank#}6{#/blank#} no quality to the coffee. What you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups.

    Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and positions in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold life, and the t{#blank#}7{#/blank#} of cup does not change the quality of our life. Sometimes, by c{#blank#}8{#/blank#} only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee that God has p{#blank#}9{#/blank#} us. God gave us the coffee, not the cups. Please enjoy your coffee!

    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love feverously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And leave the r{#blank#}10{#/blank#} to God.

    Life in the future will be different from life today. Between then and now many changes will{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(发生). But what will the changes be?

    People{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(相信)that the population is growing fast There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(科学家们)say that computers will be smaller and more useful in the future. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in school then. And robots can help people in many ways. So it's possible for people to work{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(更少的)hours than they do now. Traveling will he much cheaper and easier. And more people will go to other counties for{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(假期).

    There will he changes in our food, too There will be more{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(建筑物)in the towns and cities. Meat will be more expensive. However, they will plant more fruit trees and vegetables. {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(或许)people will be{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(更健康). Work in the future will be different, too. Robots will do{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(危险的)and hard work. Because of this, many people will not have{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(足够)work to do. This will be a problem.

    Zhou, the father of a student in Nanjing, was sitting at home one day. All of a sudden, he realized he {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (很少) spoke to his son's teachers all term. He wasn't even invited to a parents' meeting!

    Zhou decided to ask his son. The answer his son gave him was a big shock. Zhou's son paid a man 50 yuan and asked him to be his "father" at a parents' meeting!

    "I did badly in my {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (考试) and I didn't {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (敢于) to tell my father about that," says the boy. " My father is always {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (骄傲的) of me. I didn't want to make him feel angry.

    This boy is not the only student to do that. Six of his classmates have used their money to do that, too. Most of them played the trick because they were afraid of being punished for getting bad {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (得分).

    Teachers say that parents are to blame (对……负有责任) for kids' buying "fathers". "Parents are {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (要求) too much of their children," they say. "Sometimes many students {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (未能做到)，and they don't know how to face their parents then.

    Students should make friends with their parents. Experts on teenagers say that is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (确切地) the best way to {#blank#}9{#/blank#}( 对付) with this problem. Then students will be able to have heart to-heart talks with their parents. These talks will be {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (有帮助的) to solve the problem.