Kate and Sandy are sisters. They live in a big city. Kate is two years {#blank#}1{#/blank#} than Sandy. She likes{#blank#}2{#/blank#}in the city very much. She thinks living in the city is much more{#blank#}3{#/blank#}than living in the countryside. She likes the light (灯光) at {#blank#}4{#/blank#} in her city. She thinks the lights are{#blank#}5{#/blank#}than the stars. She enjoys{#blank#}6{#/blank#}and she reads books more than Sandy. Sandy dislikes living in the city. She likes the countryside better. She often{#blank#}7{#/blank#} her grandma in the countryside and spends her{#blank#}8{#/blank#} there. In the countryside, Sandy often takes walks after{#blank#}9{#/blank#} . She thinks it can{#blank#}10{#/blank#}her very relaxed.

    Do you have a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} lifestyle? I think I do. First, I have many good{#blank#}2{#/blank#} habits. I like junk food, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, I hardly eat it. I eat fruit and vegetables every day. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} they are not very delicious, but they are good {#blank#}5{#/blank#}health. Second, I exercise every day. It is said that if people run every day, they will have healthier hearts than {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, so I run for about thirty minutes every morning. {#blank#}7{#/blank#}, I have good living habits. I try {#blank#}8{#/blank#}eight hours every night. That {#blank#}9{#/blank#}me to be energetic(精力充沛的) the next day. And I can study better and {#blank#}10{#/blank#} good grades(成绩).

    What do you think of my lifestyle? Can you learn something from it?

    In China, people think being modest(谦虚的）is a virtue(美德）and being proud is bad. Once I heard an American boy say to a Chinese girl, " Your spoken English is good. "But the girl answered," No, no. My English is very poor. "The boy felt {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. He thought he might not make himself understood or the girl had not heard him  {#blank#}2{#/blank#} " Yes, you speak very well," he said again. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}the girl still kept saying " No". In the end, the boy didn't know {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to say. What's wrong with the girl's answer? She didn't {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the praise in the same way as the American people do. She {#blank#}6{#/blank#} what the American boy had said, but she thought she should be modest. In the west, people will feel {#blank#}7{#/blank#} and confident when they are praised. So if someone says the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} you have made is very delicious, you should say," "Thank you." In western countries, if you say " No" while working, people may think that you really cannot do it. If you often say "No", you'll certainly be {#blank#}9{#/blank#} upon by others. So in the west, you should be  {#blank#}10{#/blank#} to show yourself. In my opinion, being confident does not mean being proud, so sometimes you should be confident of yourself.

    I have got a good friend Betty. She's an Australian girl. She {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in Sydney with her parents and her little brother. Her father works in a museum. Her mother teaches English in a {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. Her little brother Jimmy is only four. He doesn't go to school.

    Betty is a very {#blank#}3{#/blank#} girl. She likes swimming and playing ball games. From Monday to Friday she is at school and her parents are at work. But Jimmy often plays {#blank#}4{#/blank#} his dog Bobby. After supper her father watches football games on TV. Her mother does {#blank#}5{#/blank#} reading and Betty does her homework.