I {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (live) together with my grandparents since I was born. It was they who took care of me when I was young. Now I am {#blank#}2{#/blank#}（get) more and more {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (patient) with them. I didn't bother to repeat my words {#blank#}4{#/blank#} they didn't understand; sometimes I even snapped at(严厉说） them when they kept {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (complain).

    A few days ago, I read an article. It says “Aging is like a disease {#blank#}6{#/blank#} is inevitable(不可避免的）for everyone, though nobody wants it. Be patient with the old, because one day you will become one of them.” I become very {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (guilt) when I read those words. Indeed, I wouldn't like to {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (treat) in a bad way when I was old. What I need, as well as many {#blank#}9{#/blank#} young people, is to be a bit more patient to them. From now on, when I am with them, I {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (try) to recall what they have given me and show more patience with them.

    If we look at successful people, we can always see that they are usually not those {#blank#}1{#/blank#} never faced failure at all in their life. In fact, some of the most successful people in this world we have heard of {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (start) out poorly, and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (actual) they have failed many times.

    There are so many other great {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (fail) that famous people met with. For example, the most famous basketball player of all time. Michael Jordan was just {#blank#}5{#/blank#} ordinary person before he joined the NBA and he was even cut out from his school basketball team {#blank#}6{#/blank#} they said he was “lack of skill”. The greatest inventor in history, Albert Einstein was thought as mentally retarded (智力迟钝的) when he was young. He didn't speak until he turned 4 and didn't read until he was 7. His grades were so poor in school {#blank#}7{#/blank#} his teacher finally asked him {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (quit) his school.

    Successful people do not complain {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the adversity (逆境). Instead, they accept the adversity as part of life and never put blame onto {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (other).

    I won't call myself the most accomplished person when it comes to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (hold) chopsticks. In fact, I'm pretty sure that my technique looks clumsy at times. I tend to hold {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (I) in the middle, more like beginner than expert.

    Still, since I eat almost every meal with the eating utensil (器皿) of choice in China, it's not uncommon for a new friend or acquaintance to come to a simple {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (conclude) after observing me that my Chinese husband, Jun, must have shown me {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to use them before.

    They are wrong. I've used chopsticks ever since I was a teenager, a time when my sister and mother were both fond of Chinese cuisine and introduced me {#blank#}5{#/blank#} many new dishes, along with the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (prefer) utensils in China. We always kept bamboo chopsticks along with our {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (knife), forks and spoons, ready for whenever we happened to have Chinese food for dinner. It was my closest family {#blank#}8{#/blank#} observed my first mistakes I made in using chopsticks.

    Plus, I lived over two years in China before Jun and I started dating and I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (expect) to use chopsticks in almost every restaurant, stand and bar. Trust me, when you're hungry you figure out pretty fast what it takes to down (咽下) {#blank#}10{#/blank#} meal with these utensils.

    There are all kinds of {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(festival)throughout the world，festivals to satisfy and please the ancestors，to honour some famous people {#blank#}2{#/blank#} important events，and to express people's gratitude to the God for bringing them a year of plenty. For example，Japanese observe Obon, when people go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} India，October 2 is a national festival to honour Mohandas Gandhi，who helped India become an {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(depend) country. And in China the Spring Festival, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} is celebrated in January or February，is the {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(much)energetic and important because it is a festival that {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(look) forward to the coming of spring. Why are all these festivals everywhere？Because during the festivals，people can get together {#blank#}8{#/blank#}( eat), drink and have fun with each other, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(forget) all the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(day) struggles and demands for a while.

    It's never easy for {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Asia athlete to shine in track and field events. But Su Bingtian 28,  {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. (know) as the "Chinese flying man", became the first male Chinese sprinter to win a {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (globe) medal in an individual event. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}March 3, he took the silver in the men's 60m final at the World Indoor Championships in the UK. In the final, Su Bingtian ran his personal best of 6.42 seconds,{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (break) the Asian record of 6.43, which he also set last month in Germany.

    The last time a Chinese athlete achieved a milestone was in 2004, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} . Liu Xiang won a gold medal in Athens in the 110m hurdles. Inevitably, Su{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(compare) to Liu. "Liu Xiang is my idol and also my friend," Su told Xinhua News Agency.

    As a matter of fact, Su had expected {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (win) a bronze during the final. "There is no difference between silver {#blank#}9{#/blank#}bronze. Even a bronze could prove that Chinese sprinters have made breakthroughs in major world {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(compete)," he said.

    Looking out of the window of his Ford truck, Bob Fitzgerald sees large, undesirable plants growing in the fields.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (visitor) to his neighborhood in Princess Anne, Maryland {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(main) see dying forests and empty farmland.

    Fitzgerald says the land{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(be) in his family for over 3 centuries. "I'd say in the next 20 years. You're going to lose{#blank#}4{#/blank#}very high percentage of that land."

    The land around the Chesapeake Bay has been sinking for hundreds of years. But climate change is making things{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(bad). As sea level rises, salt water is entering rivers and other waterways. As a result, the ground is becoming too salty for crops{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(grow) on.

    Maryland's Eastern Shore is home to some of the oldest farms in North America.

    Fitzgerald says he has seen big changes during his life.

    "You just can't believe{#blank#}7{#/blank#}it's been taking things over in the last 15 or 20 years. I can show you land around here that people raised tomatoes on when I was a little boy. And now it's gone."

    Around the world, scientists warn that coastal farms are under{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(threaten) from rising seas and salt water. A World Bank report estimates rice production in coastal areas of Bangladesh may fall{#blank#}9{#/blank#}15 percent by the year 2050. Another study found hundreds of millions of people will{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(force) to move inland because of rising waters.