A proverb says, "Time is money". But in my opinion, time is even {#blank#}1{#/blank#} precious than money. Why？{#blank#}2{#/blank#} when money is spent, we can earn it back. However, when time is {#blank#}3{#/blank#}（go） , it will never return. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} is known to all that the time we can use is limited. Therefore we should make {#blank#}5{#/blank#} use of our time to study hard so as to serve our country in {#blank#}6{#/blank#} future. But it is a pity that there are a lot of people {#blank#}7{#/blank#} do not realize the value of time. They waste their precious time smoking, drinking and playing. In {#blank#}8{#/blank#} word, we should form the good habit of {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (save) time. Do not put off what can be done today {#blank#}10{#/blank#} tomorrow.

    In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear {#blank#}1{#/blank#} spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves correctly with {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (confident) and without hesitation. Thirdly, we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (grammatical) correct.

    There is no easy way to success {#blank#}4{#/blank#} language learning. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} good memory is a great help, but it is not enough only {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long lists of words and {#blank#}7{#/blank#} meanings, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of advice for those {#blank#}9{#/blank#} are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practise speaking and {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(write) the language whenever we can.

    Once a group of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (high) successful engineers got together to visit their old university professor, Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. While they were {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (talk), the professor went and prepared coffee in the kitchen. Then back with a pot of coffee and cups {#blank#}3{#/blank#} different kinds, some ordinary-looking, some expensive, some delicate, the professor told them to help {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(they) to hot coffee. When they all had a cup of coffee in their hands, he said, "If you noticed, all the nice-looking expensive cups {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(take)up, leaving behind the plain and cheap-looking ones. While it's normal for you to choose the best for yourselves, that's the source of your problems and stress. In {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(real), the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. What mattered most was coffee, not the cup, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} you went for the best cups directly and {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (bad) still, you began eyeing each other's cups. If life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They're just tools {#blank#}9{#/blank#} hold and contain life, but the quality of life doesn't change. Sometimes by {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (concentrate) only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

    Don't let the cups drive you, and enjoy the coffee instead.