You will meet many people in school, in college and at work. They'll try to have nicer cars, bigger houses, nicer clothes. To them, life is a{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(compete)—they have to do{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(good)than their peer(同龄人)to be happy.

Here's a secret: life isn't a match. It's a journey. If you spend it always {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(try) to impress others, you're wasting your life. Instead, learn to enjoy the journey. Make it a journey of happiness of continual improvement, and filled{#blank#}4{#/blank#}love.

    Don't worry about having a nicer car or house or anything material, or even{#blank#}5{#/blank#} better-paying job. None of them matters, and none of them will make you happier. You'll acquire these{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(thing) and then only want more. Instead, learn to be{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(satisfy) with having enough and then use the time {#blank#}8{#/blank#}would have been wasted to try to earn money to buy those things.

    Find your passion, and go after it{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(constant). Don't work for only paying the bills. Life is too short {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(waste) on a job you hate.

    Dujiangyan is the oldest man-made water system in the world, and a wonder in the development of Chinese science.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (build) over 2, 200 years ago in what is now Sichuan Province in Southwest China, this amazing engineering{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(achieve) is still used today.

    In ancient times, the region in which Dujiangyan now stands{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(suffer) from regular floods caused by overflow from the Minjiang River.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (help) the victims of the flooding, Li Bing, the region governor, together with his son, decided to find a solution. Li Bing, the region governor, together with his son, decided t find a solution. Li designed a series of channels built at different levels along Mount Yulei that would take away the floodwater while leaving the river flowing naturally.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (good) still, the extra water could be directed to the dry Chengdu Plain, making{#blank#}6{#/blank#}suitable for farming.

    Once the system was finished, no more floods occurred and the people were able to live {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(peaceful). Today, Dujiangyan is admired by scientists from around the world because of one feature. Unlike modern dams{#blank#}8{#/blank#} the water is blocked with a huge wall, Dujiangyan still lets water flow through the Minjiang River naturally{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (enable) ecosystem(生态系统) and fish populations to exist{#blank#}10{#/blank#}harmony.

    To this day, Kevin Hart still recalls the exact moment he learned this lifelong lesson{#blank#}1{#/blank#} he says came about one afternoon while he was under the care of his after-school babysitter,{#blank#}2{#/blank#} kind, grandmotherly woman named Miss Davis.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (typical), Han helped Miss Davis with housework after school. One day, however, Han skipped the housework and joined some friends {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a “game” of throwing rocks at passing cars.

    As it went, one of the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (stone) Hart threw broke a car window. On seeing this, Hart and his friends{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (flee) from the scene. The car stopped and the driver stepped out to find who did it. Eventually, his friends all pointed to Hart. “They threw me under the bus so fast!” he says.

News of the incident quickly made {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (it) way to Miss Davis.

    He spent the rest of the day in panic, fearing what {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (happen) when Davis told his mother.

    Yet, Miss Davis never told. Her act gave Hart an important lesson about trust. “You've got to give trust{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (get) trust,” he says. He was so{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(thank) that he never got into trouble as a teenager from then on, all because of Miss Davis.

    One Sunday morning in August I {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(go) to the local music festival. I left it early because I had an appointment {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(late) that day. My friends walked me to the bus stop and waited with me until the bus arrived.

    I got on the bus and found a seat near the back, and then I noticed a man {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(sit) at the front. He was pretending that a tiger toy was real and giving it a voice. He must be {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(mental) disabled. Behind him were other people to whom he was trying to talk, but after some minutes, he walked away and sat near me, looking {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(annoy).

    I didn't want to be laughed at for {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(talk) to him but I didn't like leaving him on his own {#blank#}7{#/blank#}.

    After a while I rose from my seat and walked to the front of the bus. I sat next to the man and introduced{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (I).

    We had {#blank#}9{#/blank#}amazing conversation. He got off the bus before me and I felt very happy the rest of the way home.

    I'm glad I made a choice. It made {#blank#}10{#/blank#} of us feel good.

    Last year the empty land across from my bus stop was a sad, empty, ugly space, with dead bushes and one short tree. Then some{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (gardener) changed that. They were tired of looking at the sad space while they were waiting {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the bus, so they made it into a beautiful garden. Now you can see colorful vegetable plants and sweet-smelling flowers. Yellow butterflies fly from plant to plant{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (happy), and tiny birds sing in the green trees. I love taking the bus now.

    Johann Strauss was{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Austrian composer of light music，particularly dance music and operettas (轻歌剧). He was born in Vienna in 1825. Although his father didn't want him{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(become) a musician, Strauss studied the violin{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(secret) when he was a child. When his father discovered his son was practicing on a violin one day, he gave him a beating,{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (say) that he was going to beat the music out of the boy. But that didn't prevent the boy from becoming one of the greatest{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(composer) of all time. He wrote his first waltz at six. At the age of 19, he decided to devote himself to{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(write) music. He formed his own orchestra and made a successful tour to Europe and soon became famous. The emperor of Austria was so{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(please) with his music that he appointed him the conductor at the court balls of Vienna. It was for these occasions that he wrote some of his most popular waltzes, among{#blank#}8{#/blank#}was the well­known favorite TheBlueDanube. In all，the talented Johann Strauss wrote more than 500 masterpieces. In his lifetime, he was known{#blank#}9{#/blank#}the Waltz King, and was largely responsible for the{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(popular) of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.