We high school students do have some growing pains，but we can get rid of them correctly and wisely. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}，some of us are upset {#blank#}2{#/blank#} our body styles and looks. It's unnecessary and it's not important at all.We needn't care about it.It is one's inner beauty {#blank#}3{#/blank#} matters. Second，we sometimes seem to be misunderstood {#blank#}4{#/blank#} our teachers，parents and classmates.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (face) with this，we can find a proper time to have a heart-to-heart talk with them，trying to remove the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (understand)．Some of us have fewer friends.I think being open-minded and friendly will do us good. Third，we may fall behind others,{#blank#}7{#/blank#} makes us stressed. Actually we can encourage {#blank#}8{#/blank#} to work efficiently，full of {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (determine)． At last，some of us don't have much pocket money，so we feel unhappy. Isn't it strange? So long as we have some，that's enough. And we can learn {#blank#}10{#/blank#} to spend money.

    It seems that Chinese people have always loved to discuss {#blank#}1{#/blank#} differences between northerners and southerners. Now, another difference has drawn wide attention: the way northerners and southerners shop for food at markets.

    People from southern China normally buy {#blank#}2{#/blank#}they need for just one or two meals at a time. It's normal for them to buy just half a Chinese cabbage, two {#blank#}3{#/blank#}（potato）and 25 grams of beef at a time, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}， a person may be laughed at if they do this in the north. Instead, buying enough vegetables and meat for a week {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（be）normal.

    The difference could be because {#blank#}6{#/blank#}the different climates. Food can {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（keep）for a long time in the north, as it's {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（usual）cold and dry there. Many northerners have the habit of {#blank#}9{#/blank#}（store）food for a long time. But due to the hot and wet weather in the south, southern Chinese people prefer {#blank#}10{#/blank#}（buy）just enough food for one meal or one day. Otherwise, the food may go bad.

    Maybe these debates about different customs help us to understand each other better.

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens, more commonly {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (know) as Mark Twain, was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida. Twain is considered{#blank#}2{#/blank#} greatest author and humorist of the 19th-century American literature (文学).

    In 1839 the Clemens family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River where he was brought {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. Like many authors of his day he had little formal education. His education came from the print shops and newspaper offices {#blank#}4{#/blank#} he worked as a youth. In 1853 Twain left Hannibal to travel. On a trip to New Orleans he persuaded a riverboat pilot {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (teach) him his skill. By the spring of 1859 Twain was a licensed riverboat pilot.

    After a(n) {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (success) attempt at gold and silver mining he joined the staff of a newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada. He first wrote under the pen name Mark Twain in 1863. 

    He continued to travel as a reporter for various newspapers, and in 1869 his travel letters from Europe {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (collect) into the popular book The Innocents Abroad. Between 1873 and 1889 he wrote seven novels {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (include) his Mississippi River books.

    {#blank#}9{#/blank#} Twain's life and career progressed he lost much of the humorous style of his earlier years. What was expressed more and more in his later works was {#blank#}10{#/blank#} human beings are selfish. Even so Twain is best remembered as a great humorist.

    The Hong Kong –Zhuhai–Macao Bridge, the world's {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (long) cross-sea bridge, enters the history of human engineering and connection as a point of pride upon {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (it) opening to traffic at 9 a. m. on Oct. 24, 2018.

    One day after the opening was announced at a ceremony {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (hold) in Zhuhai, the bridge's ports in three different administrative regions started serving travelers around the clock, opening 24 hours a day, seven days a week. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (ensure) faster boundary crossings for passengers, the Macao and Zhuhai ports jointly use a one-off immigration model, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} allows travelers to queue up only once to finish both exit and entry procedures of the two cities in about thirty {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (second).

    Apart {#blank#}7{#/blank#} private cars, taxis and goods vehicles, two types of public transportation—shuttle bus and cross-boundary coach—can also run on the HZMB. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} frequency of shuttle buses is about 5-10 minutes during peak hours. Booking tickets for the shuttle bus online in advance {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (be) available since 9 am on Tuesday. With the bridge now in service, the travelling time between Zhuhai and Hong Kong International Airport will {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (shorten) from 4 hours to 45 minutes.

    There is a wonderful story about Jimmy Durante, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}is one of the great singers in the twentieth century. One day, when {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(ask)to be part of a show for some old World War II soldiers, Jimmy said he could afford only a few minutes and {#blank#}3{#/blank#}he would come if they wouldn't mind his singing one short song and immediately leaving for his next appointment. Of course, the show's director agreed happily.

    But when Jimmy got on stage, something {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(surprise) happened. He went through the short song and then stayed. The applause grew louder and louder and he kept staying. Pretty soon, he had been on stage{#blank#}5{#/blank#}fifteen, twenty, and then thirty minutes. One of his assistants behind the stage stopped him and said, “I thought you had to go after a few minutes. What happened?” Jimmy answered, “I did have to go, but I can show you the reason{#blank#}6{#/blank#} I stayed. You can see for yourself if you look at the front row.” In the front row {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(be) two men, both of {#blank#}8{#/blank#}had lost an arm in the war. {#blank#}9{#/blank#}had lost his right arm and the other had lost his left. Together, they were able to clap, and that was exactly{#blank#}10{#/blank#} they were doing, loudly and cheerfully.

    When I was in the seventh grade, I had{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(difficult) behaving. My heart was in the right place, but I couldn't always follow the rules. I played many tricks{#blank#}2{#/blank#}my schoolmates. Once, I even pulled a girl's hair on the school bus to get her attention. As{#blank#}3{#/blank#}result, I was repeatedly sent to the office of the headmaster. Although I hated going there, I did not hate the headmaster, Mr. Smith.

    When he punished me for {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(put) some ants into a classmate's pencil box, it didn't hurt at all, but it did hurt my feelings. I thought so much of him and moments like that seemed{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(prove) I was hopelessly bad.

    When I was called to Mr. Smith's office for the sixth time, I had no idea what I had done. I felt{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(disappoint) as I walked down there. I went into his office, sat down, and{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(look) at the floor. Then he said the last thing I expected to hear. "Kevin, I've heard you've been behaving really well{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(recent). I want you to know how proud I am of you."

    Mr. Smith was really kind. He made me realize that I was just a kid{#blank#}9{#/blank#}had problems with{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(behave). Mr. Smith gave me some hope by giving me some love. I will just remember him forever.