When young F.W. Woolworth was a store clerk, he tried to convince his boss to have a ten－cent sale to reduce inventory(存货). The boss agreed, and the idea was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} great success. This inspired Woolworth {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (open) his own store and price the items at a nickel and a dime (角). He needed capital for such a venture ，{#blank#}3{#/blank#} he asked his boss to supply the capital for part interest in the store. His boss turned him {#blank#}4{#/blank#} directly."The idea is too risky，" he told Woolworth." {#blank#}5{#/blank#} are not enough items to sell for five and ten cents."

Woolworth went ahead {#blank#}6{#/blank#} his boss' support. But he not only was {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (success) in his first store, but {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (eventual) owned a chain of F.W. Woolworth stores across the nation. Later, his former boss {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (hear) to remark，"As far as I can figure out, every word I used to turn Woolworth down {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (cost) me about a million dollars."

    Keeping in touch with our friends is an important part of friendship. This does not mean that {#blank#}1{#/blank#} have to write or call our friends every day. It does mean, however, that we {#blank#}2{#/blank#} care enough about our friends to find out how they are doing from time to time.

    People have different habits about keeping in touch with others. Some like to call their friends, sometimes many times {#blank#}3{#/blank#}day. Others prefer to e-mail their friends. Still {#blank#}4{#/blank#} prefer writing letters so that they can include photos or interesting articles {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the envelopes along with their letters. Some even write postcards while they are on vacation {#blank#}6{#/blank#}send them to friends.

    Every kind of communication is important. It is {#blank#}7{#/blank#}important what kind of call we make or letter we send.{#blank#}8{#/blank#}is important is that we let others know we care about them.

    How do learning habits influence learning results? It's useful and necessary to discuss learning habits. There is a famous {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (say) “Good habits lead to good endings”, which shows the importance of habits.

     “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Also {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (show) a healthy everyday habit helps to build up our body. Thus, good learning habits can help us gain great learning results, high scores and abundant knowledge {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (include). At first，learning habits form our ways of thinking and {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(attitude) to the content of our learning.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} ( obvious)，a good habit can help us to speed up to reach our destinations. As we can see，developing a good habit is so important {#blank#}6{#/blank#} I would like to introduce one kind of good learning habits — keep a learning diary every day. We can start the habit by {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (write) a learning summary and remember to record something {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (impress) and meaningful. Keep it in mind, and we can gain this good learning habit and benefit from it.

    What's {#blank#}9{#/blank#}（much），I find out that I still have some bad learning habits {#blank#}10{#/blank#} well. I can only concentrate on reading for a short time and I will conquer this problem by spending more effort on concentration practice in future.

I believe that through my efforts，I can gain good learning results by having good habits.

    Learning{#blank#}1{#/blank#} new language is not easy, but a Chinese in Washington D.C. says he knows how to make it less {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(difficulty). Li Lei teaching Chinese to children says, “The magic key to {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(teach) a language is culture.”

    Li came to Washington through the State Department's Teachers of Critical Language Program, which brings teachers from China and Egypt to America. One of the goals of the program is {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(help) American students learn Chinese and Arabic.

    The program helps the teachers and students learn about the {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(culture) of other countries. Li says learning languages helps students learn {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(much) about the world.

    Spanish is the native language of many of Li's students at Cooke Elementary School, so many of {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(they) are learning English and Chinese at the same time.

    Li {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(explore) the local Chinese community and many other cultures in Washington so far. He says the children at the school, some of {#blank#}9{#/blank#} are as young as five years old, might not remember all of the Chinese characters he teaches them, and that they might even forget his name. And he hopes that they will always remember him {#blank#}10{#/blank#} a teacher they liked and respected.