Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time or it {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (consider) an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties．But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming．Some think it may be a very {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (health) thing to do．Some researchers are finding that daydreaming may be important to mental health．Daydreaming, they tell us, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a good means  of relaxation．But its benefits go{#blank#}4{#/blank#} this．A number of psychologists have conducted experiments and have reached some{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (surprise) conclusion．

    Dr．Joan T．Freyberg has concluded that daydreaming contributes growth．It also improves{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (concentrate),attention span, and the ability to get along with others．Industrialist Henry J．Kaiser believed that much of his success was due{#blank#}7{#/blank#} the positive use of daydreaming．Florence Nightingale dreamed of becoming a nurse．The young Thomas Edison pictured{#blank#}8{#/blank#} as an inventor．

    For these notable achievers, it appears that their daydreams came  {#blank#}9{#/blank#}．Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick offered this advice: “Hold a picture of yourself…in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it．Picture yourself {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (vivid) as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible．

    I borrowed {#blank#}1{#/blank#} story book from the library the other day and took it home. One evening, having finished supper, I went back to my room and started to read the book that I {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (borrow). I was so {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (absorb) that I knocked the coffee cup over {#blank#}4{#/blank#} accident, pouring the coffee onto the book. Wet through and colored brown, the book turned out to be a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (terribly) mess at once. Of course, I couldn't return the dirty book and the loss should be covered. The next day, I went to the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (big) bookstore in my city, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} there were various kinds of books. I finally found several {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (copy) of the same book and bought {#blank#}9{#/blank#} . When I returned the new story book and explained the reason, the librarian accepted the book and praised me for my honesty and {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (responsible)

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    My daughter, Jane, never dreamed of receiving a letter from a girl of her own age in Holland. Last year, we were travelling across the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} and Jane put a piece of paper with her name and address on it into a bottle . She {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the bottle into the sea. She never thought of it again, but ten minutes later, she received a letter from a girl in Holland. Both girls write to each other {#blank#}3{#/blank#} now. However, they have decided to use the post office. Letters will cost a little more, but they will certainly travel faster.

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I had a letter from my sister yesterday. She lives in Nigeria. In her letter , she said that she would come to England next year. If she comes, she will get a {#blank#}4{#/blank#} We are now living in a beautiful new house in the country. Work on it had begun {#blank#}5{#/blank#} my sister left. The house was completed five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks {#blank#}6{#/blank#} to some people. It {#blank#}7{#/blank#} be the only modern house in the district.

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I enter the hotel manager's office and sat down. I had just lost £50 and I felt very upset.‘I left the money in my room,'I said, ‘and it's not there now.'The manager was {#blank#}8{#/blank#} , but he could do nothing. ‘Everyone's losing money these days,'he said. He started to complain about this wicked world but was {#blank#}9{#/blank#} by a knock at the door. A girl came in and put an envelop on his desk. It contained £50 . ‘I found this {#blank#}10{#/blank#} this gentleman's room,'she said. ‘Well,'I said to the manager, ‘there is still some honesty in this world! ‘

    A young man and an old man were waiting for a bus. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} sat next to each other. “What's that in your bag?” asked the young man, pointing to a big bag beside the old man. “Gold. There was nothing but gold,” answered the old man. The young man could not believe his own ears and was {#blank#}2{#/blank#} great surprise. Then he began to think about {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to get the money. The old man was very tired and it seemed that he could hardly keep his eyes open. After a while the old man {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (lie) down on the chair and fell asleep.

    The young man took {#blank#}5{#/blank#} big bag gently and quietly. But when he was just about to run away, he found a corner of his fur coat was under the old man's body. Several times he tried to pull it out,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} in vain. At last he took off his coat,{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (think) that the gold in the bag must cost far more than his fur coat.

    Worried but {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (delight), the young man ran out of the station as quickly as his legs could carry him, until he reached a place {#blank#}9{#/blank#} he thought the old man couldn't find him. He stopped and quickly opened the bag but he just found a great many of small stones in it. Then he ran back to the station {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (hurry) only to find that the old man was gone.

    A motto is a sentence or a phrase which can inspire us especially when we are {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (face) with difficulties. Many of us use well-know {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (say) as mottos, such as “Where there is a will, there is a way.” Or “nothing is difficult if you put your heat into it.”, and so on. My motto is “God helps those who help{#blank#}3{#/blank#} Sometimes I am lazy {#blank#}4{#/blank#} don't want to make efforts to work hard, but the moment I think of my motto I will get{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(energy) again and devote myself to what I am doing. I write my motto {#blank#}6{#/blank#} I can see it easily. Every time I fail in my exam and begin to lose heart, the sight of my motto inspires me {#blank#}7{#/blank#} much confidence. My motto also makes me become an {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (dependent) person. That is to say, I won't rely on others {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (easy). My friends, what is your motto? If you still haven't got a motto, please choose {#blank#}10{#/blank#} because a motto can have a great effect on you.