People often don't do what they really want to for fear of failure. You don't apply for a job {#blank#}1{#/blank#}case you don't get it. You don't perform at the school concert b{#blank#}2{#/blank#}others might laugh at you. A lack of confidence can l{#blank#}3{#/blank#} to a lot of suffering. The key to o{#blank#}4{#/blank#}this problem is to believe in yourself. This might be{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(容易)said than done, but there are many w{#blank#}6{#/blank#} to help you do this. Talk about your problem with a friend or look {#blank#}7{#/blank#}advice on the Internet. Imagine yourself being {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(成功）and practice breathing techniques to keep you calm when you get nervous. And the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} important thing is： believe you can do it. When you've{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (学会）to do that, you are well on your way.

They haven't decided to settle in. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} is more difficult than they expected. (adjust)

    China is a big old country，{#blank#}1{#/blank#} has a history of more than five thousand years. We are proud of {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(it) culture and part of the culture even influences the world {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (great), for example, the thought of Confucius(孔子). As Chinese economy develops very fast and plays {#blank#}4{#/blank#} important role in the world, more and more {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (foreign) learn Mandarin (普通话) in Confucius institutions. The Chinese traditional culture can be tested by the time. It unites the whole nation and no matter {#blank#}6{#/blank#} kind of disaster comes, we will fight together for the country's future. Today, many young people lose faith in traditional culture and they are crazy {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the western culture. They follow the western fashion, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (think) we are the old style. But some day, they {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(realize) they are wrong {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(ignore) traditional culture.

People eat rice all over the world

    Rice {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (believe) to have been first grown in China or possibly somewhere else in eastern Asia around 10,000 years ago. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} earliest evidence of rice farming comes from a 7,000-year-old site near the lower Yangtze River village of Hemudu in Zhejiang province in China.

    Rice is a kind of food which requires much labor. In developed countries, the planting and harvesting is done {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(most) with machines. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, in much of the world, these things are still largely done by hand. It takes one farmer 1,000 to 2,000 working hours {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(raise)a rice crop on 2.5 acres of land. The fact that rice needs so much labor means{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(keep)a lot of the population on the land.

    Rice is also a crop {#blank#}7{#/blank#} need of lots of water. The wet rice grown in most of Asia needs hot weather after a period of rain and conditions provided by the rainy seasons affect many of the places {#blank#}8{#/blank#} rice is grown.

    Rice straws(稻杆）{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(leave)in the fields add nutrients(营养物)to the soil after rice is harvested(收割). For the next crop, rice farmers can often enjoy a good harvest by adding little {#blank#}10{#/blank#} no fertilizer.(肥料)