Facebook CEO Zuckerberg just had a baby girl named Max, and to honor the occasion, he's giving away the majority of his wealth．In the letter {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (write) by Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (they) new baby girl, he announced the birth of his first child and the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (create) of the Chan Zuckerberg Fund, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} will focus on curing disease, connecting people and {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (build) strong communities．

    “For your generation to live in {#blank#}6{#/blank#} better world, there is so much more our generation can do,” Zuckerberg wrote．“Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges．” The couple {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (donate) nearly all of their Facebook stock to the cause．“We will give 99% of our Facebook shares － currently about $45 billion － to advance this {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (value) mission,” he wrote．“We know this is a small contribution compared {#blank#}9{#/blank#} all the resources and talents already working on these issues．But we want to do {#blank#}10{#/blank#} we can, working along with many others．

    Sometimes your friends start to talk about a new video game or a new app they have downloaded. It sounds pretty cool, and your friends really seem to like it. You become so {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(interest) in it that you want to buy it too. Has this ever happened to you?

    In the US and in places around the world, there is a similar feeling of wanting the {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(new), greatest tech gadgets (小玩意). There is a big {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(attract) to getting the latest technology even though people may not need it. But why is this?

    As to(关于) these technologies, there's {#blank#}4{#/blank#} initial （最初的） excitement that {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(get) people's attention, according to Richard Larson, a director at MIT, US. If there's a big group of people {#blank#}6{#/blank#} want these things, you want to be a part of the excitement too.

    One of the major US {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(company) that really take advantage of this is Apple. It comes out with a new iPhone with very small changes every year. But people still flock (涌入) to the stores even if they have just bought the previous phone.

    However,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} （buy）these things may not always be the best choice. You could be buying things that you don't really need and {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (spend) too much money just for the right to show it off to your friends.

    Not only that, but our need to always be on your phones or playing video games takes {#blank#}10{#/blank#} a lot of time in our lives. So is this excitement over technology a good or a bad thing?

    If we look at successful people, we can always see that they are usually not those {#blank#}1{#/blank#} never faced failure at all in their life. In fact, some of the most successful people in this world we have heard of {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (start) out poorly, and {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (actual) they have failed many times.

    There are so many other great {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (fail) that famous people met with. For example, the most famous basketball player of all time. Michael Jordan was just {#blank#}5{#/blank#} ordinary person before he joined the NBA and he was even cut out from his school basketball team {#blank#}6{#/blank#} they said he was “lack of skill”. The greatest inventor in history, Albert Einstein was thought as mentally retarded (智力迟钝的) when he was young. He didn't speak until he turned 4 and didn't read until he was 7. His grades were so poor in school {#blank#}7{#/blank#} his teacher finally asked him {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (quit) his school.

    Successful people do not complain {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the adversity (逆境). Instead, they accept the adversity as part of life and never put blame onto {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (other).

    A study shows that new technology is reducing children's ability {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(use) a pencil or pen. The study is from the National Health Service in the UK. Researchers said that nowadays, children spend so much time swiping iPads or mobile phone screens {#blank#}2{#/blank#}they cannot hold a pencil properly. Children are not using{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(pencil), so they now lack the muscle{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (strong) in their hands to be able to write {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(proper). Researcher Dr Sally Payne said: “Children are not coming into school with the strong hand and the ability they{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (have)

    10 years ago. Children {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (come) into school are being given a pencil but are increasingly not able to hold it because they don't have the fundamental (基本的) movement skills.”

    The researchers said technology is changing the physical way that children write, draw or make things. Dr Payne explained why. She said: “It's{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(easy) to give a child an iPad than encourage them to do muscle-building play such as building blocks, cutting and sticking, or pulling toys and ropes. One expert said {#blank#}9{#/blank#} a child isn't strong enough to hold a pencil, perhaps their whole body is weak. She said it was better for children's physical development to climb trees {#blank#}10{#/blank#} to watch YouTube videos.

    There is a common fear of the number 13. It's a number just like any other, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} there are horror movies about it; some buildings {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (intention) have no I3th floor; and plenty of couple avoid gating married on the13th of the month.

    What makes this number so scary? Historians have pointed a few potential {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (reason) about the origin of this fear, the most popular of which is that there were 13 diners at the Last Supper. The 13th lo arrive was Judas,  {#blank#}4{#/blank#} betrayed Jesus.

    Actually, there are no problems with the number {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (it). Maybe 13 is next to the number 12, and that makes it look bad. In many ancient cultures, 12 {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (consider) to be a perfect number. Most ancient civilizations based their systems of telling time around the number 12. There are 12 hours on a clock, and 12 months in a year. Twelve is also {#blank#}7{#/blank#} largest number that also has one syllable (音节) in English. As the number immediately following this “perfect” one, 13 seemed imperfect, {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(inspire) unease throughout the ancient world.

    So far, both myth and math {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (combine) to make this particular number scarier than any other. The uneasiness about the number, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (dale) hark to ancient times, has been developed over the years.