Do you often listen to music through earphones? Then you should be {#blank#}1{#/blank#} More than 1,000,000,000 young people are at risk of losing their hearing from loud music, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report says. The study {#blank#}2{#/blank#} that among people aged 12 to 35, nearly half were at risk because of {#blank#}3{#/blank#} levels of sound on MP3 players and smart{#blank#}4{#/blank#} . Volumes (音量) over 85 decibels (分贝) for eight hours or 100  decibels for 15 minutes can damage your ears. Traffic noise at rush hour can reach 85 decibels. Perhaps it's time{#blank#}5{#/blank#} the volume.

    My family makes the best chicken salad. Dad prepares all of the ingredients and Mom makes the relish. There{#blank#}1{#/blank#}a few things that make this chicken salad different from other chicken salad. First, we use fruit jam in the relish. You can buy any fruit jam, like banana jam or orange jam. But we have bottles of strawberry jam that my mother made, so we use strawberry jam. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(two), we put some green olives(橄榄). Green olives give the salad{#blank#}3{#/blank#}interesting taste and make a big{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(different). Now let me tell you how{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (make)the salad.

    First, mix{#blank#}6{#/blank#}all of the salad ingredients in a large bowl. The ingredients are{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(chicken), tomatoes, green olives, onions and apples. {#blank#}8{#/blank#}you like lettuce, you can also put some. Next, make the relish. Please mix the jam, the juice and the salt. Finally, mix the relish with the salad ingredients.

    Do you have a favorite chicken salad recipe? Please tell{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(we)about it. You can write{#blank#}10{#/blank#}greensalad@yahoo.com.

One day when Picasso was walking along a road, a woman passed by and saw him. She ran to Picasso for a painting as a gift. Picasso smiled and said {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(polite), "I'm sorry, Madam. I have nothing to paint. I am {#blank#}2{#/blank#}/ˈempti/ handed here. I may make you a painting some other time."

However, the woman didn't give up. She {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(keep) on, "Please, I am a big fan of you and I want to meet you for years." Hearing this, Picasso was moved and then took out a small {#blank#}4{#/blank#} of paper and a pen, and began to draw something. Within 10 seconds, Picasso finished {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(draw) and handed it to the woman, "Take this! It's a million-dollar painting."

But the woman thought Picasso was just playing a joke on her. How could it be {#blank#}6{#/blank#}/wɜːθ/ a million dollars just in 10 seconds? So she went to the market and was {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(surprise) to learn that it was true.

When meeting Picasso again, she wished she could be his student. She said, "Please teach me so that I can do the same thing {#blank#}8{#/blank#} such a short time."

Picasso smiled and said, "Dear, the drawing I made was not in 10 seconds {#blank#}9{#/blank#} my thirty-year efforts towards the arts!" The woman was speechless.

We fix our eyes on others' {#blank#}10{#/blank#}/səkˈses/ more often than the hard work and patience behind it. If we want to reach it, we need experience and struggle(奋斗).