Most people nowadays are{#blank#}1{#/blank#}busy with their lives that they do not have time to enjoy a healthy and {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(balance) diet. For most individuals, as{#blank#}3{#/blank#}result of eating foods rich in fats and sugar several years, they choose{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(go)on a diet but do not succeed at the end. Be sure to be with a strong awareness(意识） that you are{#blank#}5{#/blank#}you eat! Therefore, maintaining a healthy diet not only{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(provide) your body with energy but also numerous health benefits. One is that you will keep a healthy weight and is also the easiest and most {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(benefit) way in which you can be energetic and protect yourself {#blank#}8{#/blank#}a number of diseases when{#blank#}9{#/blank#}（grow）old. Another benefit is that you will meet your everyday nutritional requirements(要求). Basically speaking, you should ensure that you take good amount of vegetables, grains, milk and proteins. In most cases, a healthy diet can help you decrease the risk of{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(get) some diseases like diabetes and cancer.

    A Frenchman went to a small Italian town and stayed with his wife at the best hotel there. One night, he went out for a walk alone. It was late and the small street was dark and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(quietly). Suddenly he felt someone behind him. He turned his head and saw an Italian young man,{#blank#}2{#/blank#} quickly walked past him. The man was nearly {#blank#}3{#/blank#} of sight when the Frenchman suddenly found that his watch was{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(miss). He thought that {#blank#}5{#/blank#} must be the Italian who had taken his watch. He decided {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (follow) him and get back the watch. Soon the Frenchman{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(catch) up with the Italian . Neither of them understood the other's language. The Frenchman frightened the Italian with his fist(拳头) while{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (point) at the Italian's watch. In the end the Italian gave up his watch to the Frenchman. When he returned to the hotel, the Frenchman told his wife what had happened. He was{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (great) surprised when his wife pointed to the watch on the table. Now he realized that by mistake he{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(rob) the watch and it was the Italian's.

    Today, home-ownership has reached extremely high levels. Modern generations tend to believe there is something wrong with them {#blank#}1{#/blank#} they rent. However, is high home-ownership really as people imagine？{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (stare) at data first, we realize that the most successful, stable, attractive country in the Western world is Switzerland. It has tiny unemployment; wealth; high happiness and mental-health scores. Does it have high home-ownership rates? Absolutely not. In Switzerland, about seven in ten of the population are renters. Yet, with Europe's {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (low) home-ownership rate, the nation thrives. Now go to the other end of the misery distribution. Spain has approximately the highest home-ownership rate in Europe (at more than 80%). But one-quarter of its population are unemployed.

    A likely reason is that high levels of home-ownership mess up the labour market. In a sensibly functioning economy it is easy for people to move around to drop into the vibrant job slots {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (throw) up by technological change. With a high degree of owner-occupation, everything slows. Folk get stuck. Renters can go to new jobs. In that way they do the economy a favours. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Friedman said, the rate of unemployment depends on the flexibility of the housing market.

Next we come to economic breakdown. Most analysts accept that at heart it was the housing market-obsessive pursuit of homes, the engendered mortgage（房贷） lending and an unavoidable house-price crash— {#blank#}6{#/blank#} sank the Western world. Germany, say, with its more efficient rental market, had a far smoother ride through trouble.

    As for the monetary system, in the past few decades, in the hope of getting untaxed capital gains way above their true labour earnings, many people threw their spare cash into buying larger houses or building extra bedrooms. TV programmes about how to make easy money, beautiful rising house prices, and most importantly, our faulty tax system encouraged that. When {#blank#}7{#/blank#} some point market broke down, everyone suffered. Our countries ought, instead, to design tax systems that encourage people to invest in productive real activities and in innovation. Renting leaves money free for better purposes. That also points to the role of sensible budgeting over a person's lifetime. Why should we think that when we die it is necessary {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (pay) off an entire house？

    Our children do not deserve it. Let them pay for themselves. We {#blank#}9{#/blank#} rent-and enjoy our lives with the money saved.

    Finally, moderation usually pays off. Our scientific understanding of how economies function is horribly limited. This suggests that the golden rule should be to avoid extremes. A50-50mix of home-ownership and renting, not the 70-30split that is now observed in so many Western nations, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (make) sense.

Why Acting Is So Much More Than It Appears to Be

For many people, acting appears to be people talking while getting emotional, which is why so many people think they can do it. No one imagines {#blank#}1{#/blank#}waking up one day and being a professional singer or pianist. But for actors, they say, "acting is hard only {#blank#}2{#/blank#}one has to memorize lines, if I could remember, I could be an actor, too."

But acting isn't just about memorizing lines and talking in conversational reality. As Meisner said, "Acting is doing things truthfully under imaginary circumstances." If {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(understand) correctly, this definition is an ambitious and remarkable thing to strive for.

To do things truthfully, actors must acquire many challenging skills . {#blank#}4{#/blank#}these skills, the script will remain flat on the page, despite being recited out loud. To make a script come to life in a believable way, the actor {#blank#}5{#/blank#}make active choices.

Imagine for a moment how many different ways there are {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(deliver) one single line. Even something as simple as "close the door" can mean so many different things and {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(express) in so many different ways. The words are the writer's, but the behavior {#blank#}8{#/blank#}brings them to vivid life? That is the actor.

The goal of great actors? That's to act naturally. Good quality acting must always come down to a kind of naturalness that makes those acting skills {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(visible) to the audience. In other words, a good actor must not appear to be acting at all.

So do not be fooled into thinking that {#blank#}10{#/blank#}can read and speak can be an actor. The naturalness displayed by great actors is exactly what makes you think that way, but it took them years of training to get to this point. It is so much more than you know.