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.

    Jack Ma is the founder and CEO of the alibaba.com,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} is the biggest e-commerce company in China. The website is an English-language site. It aims to offer suppliers and consumers{#blank#}2{#/blank#} direct means to communicate, and thereby save time and money {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (efficient). This model of business {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (refer) to as B2B (business to business), and it has attracted millions of users worldwide. On the back of this success. Jack Ma and his team developed Taobao in 2001. Today, alibaba.com is considered by many to be one of the best B2B{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (site), with over 7 million users{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (come) from more than 200 countries and religions. Jack Ma{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (become) the first Chinese businessman to appear on the cover of the famous magazine Forbes in the past 50 years. Jack Ma is respected by people not just because of his success, but also because of his{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (person). Although modest, Jack Ma is a very {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (ambition) man. When asked about his future plan, he once said, 'I believe that in the next ten years, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the top three Internet companies in the world, one will be from China—and we want to be that company.'

    This is a meaningful and impressive story. A man came to the USA. After settling down at {#blank#}1{#/blank#}island, he went into a cafeteria to get something {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (eat). He sat down at an empty table {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (silent) and waited for someone to take his order, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} nobody did. Finally, a woman with a plate full of food {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (sit) opposite him and informed him {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the cafeteria worked. “Start out at that end,” she said. “Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end, they'll tell you how much you have to pay.”

    “I soon learned how everything worked in the USA,” the man told a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (rely) friend. He said, “Life's a cafeteria here. You can get anything as long as you are {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (will) to pay the price.”

    You can even get success, but you'll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (you). You can't change the things that you can't avoid or prevent. The only thing you can do is control your attitude. Once you reach that point in life, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (achieve) won't be too far away.

    I want to introduce my class to you. My class {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (be) very small and there {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (be) only 20 students in it. Some {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (be) boys and the others {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (be) girls. All of us {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (be) getting along well with each other. None of us {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (have) quarrelled with each other. Every boy and every girl {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (help) the others in every subject, so nobody {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (fail) in any exam. Our headmaster often {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (praise) us for our helping each other. Every weekend, there {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (be) a meeting and our headmaster, with five of us, {#blank#}11{#/blank#} (attend) it, discussing how to make our class better.

    Such {#blank#}12{#/blank#} (be) our class, a happy and friendly family.

    English perfectly shows the "network effects" of a global tongue: the more people use it, the more useful it is. Parents expect their children {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(master)English, which is encouraging the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(grow)of private schooling. Education authorities are switching to English medium, in part to control the outflow(外流) of children into the private sector.

Teaching children in English is fine if that is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} they speak at home and their parents are fluent {#blank#}4{#/blank#} it. But that is not {#blank#}5{#/blank#} case in most public and low-cost private schools. Children are taught in a language they don't understand by teachers {#blank#}6{#/blank#} English is poor. The children learn neither English nor anything else.

    Research shows that children learn {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(much)when they are taught in their mother tongue than they do when they are taught in any other language. In a study of children in 12 schools in Cameroon last month, those taught in Kom {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(do)better than those taught in English in all subjects.

    English should be an important subject at school, but not {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(necessary)the language of instruction. Rather than switching to English-medium teaching, governments fearful of {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(lose) custom (光顾) to the private sector should look at the many possible ways of improving public schools.