Last Friday, as usual I went home by bike. But at a crossing, I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (sudden) knocked an old man off his bike. I hurried over and found that his leg {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (injure). Nervous and worried, I called my mom and told her what had happened. We decided to take him to the hospital first.

    Shortly after we arrived at the hospital, my mother came. I had some doubt {#blank#}3{#/blank#} there was anything seriously wrong with the old man. The doctor gave the old man a {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (detail) examination. To our delight and relief, there was nothing seriously wrong with him. We thanked the doctor and left. After that, we went back to the place {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the old man's bike was parked, only {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (find) it didn't work. So I immediately found a repairman to get it {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (fix). Soon he finished {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (repair) it. Before the old man left, my mom offered him our cell phone number in case he needed to contact us. Then the old man got on his bike and we waved goodbye to each other.

    If I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (ride) my bike carefully, I would have avoided the accident. Consequently, the unexpected accident made me realize that in the first place we should be careful, but once it occurs, we should take {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (responsible).

Emotional eating is when people use food as a way to deal with feelings {#blank#}1{#/blank#}of satisfying hunger. Believe it or not, we've all been there. Have you ever finished a whole bag of chips out of boredom or downed cookie after cookie while preparing {#blank#}2{#/blank#} a big test? But when done a lot — especially {#blank#}3{#/blank#} realizing it — emotional eating can affect weight, health, and overall well-being.

Understanding what drives emotional eating can help people {#blank#}4{#/blank#} steps to change it. One of the biggest myths about emotional eating is that it's caused by {#blank#}5{#/blank#}feelings. Yes, people often turn to food when they're stressed out, lonely, sad, anxious, or bored. But emotional eating can be linked to positive feelings too, like the romance of sharing dessert on Valentine's Day or the celebration of a holiday feast. Sometimes emotional eating is tied {#blank#}6{#/blank#} major life events, like a death or a divorce. More often, though, it's the countless little daily stresses {#blank#}7{#/blank#} cause someone {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(seek) comfort in food.

We're all emotional eaters to a degree. But for some people emotional eating can be a real problem,{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (cause) serious weight gain or other problems. The trouble with emotional eating is that once the pleasure of eating is gone, the feelings that cause it remain. And you often may feel worse about eating the amount or type of food you like. That's {#blank#}10{#/blank#}it helps to know the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger.

    Next time you reach for a snack, wait and think about which type of hunger is driving it.

    Once, three men got {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (lose) in the forest. They decided they would stay in the forest until they found {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(they) way. The next morning, one man went to find some food. Soon, the other two men were {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(astonish) to find him back with a deer and asked how he got the deer. The man replied, "I found tracks, I followed the tracks, and I got a deer." They both were {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (slight) confused because he had no weapons. A few days {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (late), the second guy went in search {#blank#}6{#/blank#} food and soon came back with a deer too. The other two asked how he managed {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (get) the deer. His reply was {#blank#}8{#/blank#} same as the first man's. Then it was the turn of the third guy to search for food. Many hours passed, and the third man {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (hold) nothing in his hands came back, with blood on his face. The other two asked him {#blank#}10{#/blank#} had happened. He looked at them and replied, "I found tracks, I followed the tracks, and I got hit by a train."

    Wang: What's G. P.A.?

    Smith: G. P.A. stands {#blank#}1{#/blank#}the grade quality point average. Quality points are used {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(determine) the students' rank in class, academic honors, and academic warning, and probation or suspension.

    Wang: How can I list my overall undergraduate G. P.A. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(use)3 digits?

    Smith: I think it's difficult to change your grade {#blank#}4{#/blank#} G. P.A., as our system of grading is different from {#blank#}5{#/blank#} in your country. I'd like to advise you to submit your {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(office) transcripts(文字稿)of all previous undergraduate and graduate work.

    Wang: That's a good idea. I took TOEFL last year, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} I haven't taken the GRE. What's to be done?

    Smith: The GRE may {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(require) by the particular graduate or professional program. You should go over the Table of Program carefully. What's your TOEFL{#blank#}9{#/blank#}?

    Wang: 630.

    Smith: Wonderful. In general, the graduate division requires a TOEFL score of at least 575. Those {#blank#}10{#/blank#}TOEFL scores are in the range 500­575 are admitted conditionally upon successful completion of further coursework in English as a second language.

How to achieve a healthy lifestyle

    We all know that it is good to live a healthy life. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (live) a healthy life means we should eat healthy food. Yet for many of us keeping a healthy lifestyle is very difficult. Part of this is because we are creatures of habit.

    So if you want {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (live) a healthy life, you have to change your habits that are not so healthy. In order to feel less tired, you have to replace your habit of sleeping only 4 hours a day with sleeping at least 6 hours a day.

    Now when most people decide to live a more healthy life, they try to deal with all of their habits all at once. Take losing weight {#blank#}3{#/blank#} example. They go on {#blank#}4{#/blank#} quite strict diet, and yes, they do lose weight, sometimes a lot of weight in a short period. But they do not really change their eating habits. So these people often notice they will gain the weight {#blank#}5{#/blank#} and more even, once they stop the diet.

    And the same holds true for these people. They start exercising in order to lose weight or to overcome a physical problem. Once the weight has been lost or the problem has been overcome, many stop {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (exercise). It has not become a habit.

    In fact, a lot of people don't look forward to {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (create) these habits, such as eating breakfast, regular physical exercise and enough sleep. People complain these habits are so {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (bore) and difficult to achieve that they have {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (little) time to spend on things they like to do. So people should change their attitudes first. What if you thought of chocolate as a kind of boring food? What if you thought of physical exercise as something {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (relax)?

    The traditional Chinese Longtaitou Festival, also called Dragon Head Raising Festival, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (fall) on the second day of the second lunar month every year, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the rain-bringing Dragon King is said to awaken {#blank#}3{#/blank#} his winter sleep. It's {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (wide) believed that the second day of the second month on the Chinese lunar calendar means the start of spring and farming.

    The festival is a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (reflect) of the ancient agrarian (耕作的)culture. Nowadays, although some of the old ways {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (celebrate) the festival are no longer in practice, some still keep on. Most of them are still identical to those practised in the ancient times, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (include) eating Chinese pancakes and noodles. The most famous {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (tradition) practice on this day is to have a haircut. Some people believe that going to the barber's on the second day of the second month will get rid of bad luck, while {#blank#}9{#/blank#} believe it is bad luck to get hair cut during the first month of the lunar calendar. Folk {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (activity)like dragon dance are also held during the Longtaitou Festival across China.