An old Japanese man kept a sparrow{#blank#}1{#/blank#}which he was very fond. One day it flew away. He went out,{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (look) all over the place for his sparrow. At last, he met his sparrow. “I missed you very much, sparrow.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}you follow me home ? "{#blank#}4{#/blank#}the sparrow was happy to see the old man, it shook{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(it) head. There were many other birds. They all looked healthy. "I am glad you have good companions, dear sparrow." said the old man. When it was time for the old man to leave, the sparrow gave him a basket as a present. "Well," said the old man's wife{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(anger) when he returned, "where have you been all day?" "I have been to the home of my lost sparrow”, replied he. When he opened the basket he was{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(amaze) to find it was full of gold. The old woman was very greedy. But she used to treat it very badly. She unashamedly asked for a present. “Alright”，replied the sparrow, “I offer you two{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(choose). One basket is light and the other is heavy{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(pick )one out，and you can take it home.” The greedy old woman cried out, "I'll take{#blank#}10{#/blank#}heavy one. " So the old woman carried the heavy basket breathlessly all the way. But when she arrived home and opened the basket, it was full of stones.

    Disposing(处理) of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and more people choose to live close together in cities, the waste disposal problem becomes {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(increase) difficult.

    During the eighteenth century, it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select a faraway spot{#blank#}2{#/blank#}a dump site(垃圾场). People {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (transport) household rubbish, rotted wood, and old possessions to the site. Regularly some of the trash was burned and the rest was buried. The {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (pleasant) sights and smells caused no problem because nobody lived close by. Factories mills (制造厂), and other industrial sites also had waste to be disposed of. Those located on rivers often just dumped the unwanted {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (remaining) into the water. Others built huge burners with chimneys to deal with the problem.

    Several facts make these choices {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (accept) to modern society. The first problem is space. Dumps,{#blank#}7{#/blank#}are now called landfills, are most needed in heavily populated areas. Such areas rarely have empty land suitable for this purpose. The land is either too expensive or too close to residential neighborhoods. A long distance dump has been a common practice,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} once farm areas are refusing to accept rubbish from elsewhere, cheap land within trucking distance of major city areas is nonexistent.{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (aware) of pollution dangers has resulted in more strict rules of waste disposal. Pollution of rivers, ground water, land and air is a price people can no longer pay to get rid of waste. The amount of waste, however, continues to grow.

    {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (recycle) efforts have become commonplace, and many towns require their people to take part. Even the most efficient recycling programs, however, can hope to deal with only about 50 percent of a city's reusable waste.

    For many young people, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (go) to university is one of the most important {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(stage) of their lives. It is the time when young people will move out of {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (they) home to live with other people, often strangers. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(especial) in the US, people often travel very far from home to study. It is a time to be {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (dependence).

    At university, you {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (teach) by lectures and professors who are leading figures in their study. The opportunity to learn from and to discuss with them is {#blank#}7{#/blank#} drives some people to apply to university. Students are required to choose a major that they wish to study. Apart {#blank#}8{#/blank#}the academic benefit, life at university can also allow students {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (develop) their interests in many fields.

    Therefore, university is a place {#blank#}10{#/blank#}you attain knowledge, to develop your values and accept those who may be different.

    Rhiannon Lambert, who treats about 180 clients a year with various kinds of eating disorders, says the number of those caused by "clean eating" {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (double) in the past three years. "They develop particular habits, or won't eat food when walking, because they think that food can only be eaten when they {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (seat)," she said.

    Clean eating is promoted by some food bloggers, who are increasingly thought by a number of medical experts to be having a bad influence on young people today. "Young people lose this and cannot afford the lifestyle needed to follow it," Lambert said. Health bloggers {#blank#}3{#/blank#} not have enough knowledge but offer dangerous advice. These people are now role models {#blank#}4{#/blank#} word will inspire young people. I have clients who think they have to be a strict vegetarian to be successful. The extreme form of this is known as orthorexia nervosa (健康食品强迫症).

    Ursula Philpot, a dietitian at the British Dietetic Association, said, "It is difficult to blame them completely. If it weren't the bloggers, then it could be {#blank#}5{#/blank#} else. Orthorexia affects more girls than boys, although boys are much more affected than girls." Philpot said, "At the top of most people's lists of bad foods includes gluten (麸质) and dairy. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} you talk to young people more, you will find some of them worry all day about eating a biscuit."

    The condition starts out as an attempt {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (eat) more healthily, but those who experience it fully focus on food quality and purity. "There may be several reasons for someone to take up clean eating," Philpot said. "Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses and their causes are complex. Research is telling us that they may be more biologically based than we thought, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} social and environmental factors also play a part in their development."

    Deanne Jade, the founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, said, "A lot of young people don't think they need treatment and there are too many messages in the media. What worries me is that a lot of people {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (promote) these ideas have no knowledge of nutrition. I don't know what the solution is, but in many cases, getting people to recover from an eating disorder means {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (get) them to relax their ideas about clean eating."

    It is a great{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(true) that life is difficult. Once we really understand and accept it, then life is no longer difficult. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}, most of us do not fully see it. They just complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is a really painful one. Problems, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(base) on their nature, cause sadness or regret or anger or fear. These are {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(comfort) feelings, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. It is in the whole process of solving problems {#blank#}6{#/blank#} life has its meaning. Problems are the serious test that tells us success from failure. When we want to strengthen the growth of human spirit, we encourage the human ability {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(solve) problems, just as in school we set problems for our children to deal with. {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(learn) from the pain of meeting and working out problems is{#blank#}9{#/blank#}great benefit. As Benjamin Franklin said, “Those things that hurt, instruct.” For this reason, wise people learn not to fear but to welcome{#blank#}10{#/blank#} pain of problems.

    Wallace's giant bee is the world's {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (large) bee, with a body the size of a human thumb and wings that can spread to about 2.5 inches. That may sound {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (frighten), but the bee isn't likely to hurt anyone. It uses its large jaws (嘴) to collect a sticky goo, called resin, from trees. The bee {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (make) its home in termite mounds (白蚁丘) found on trees, using the resin to protect its nest from the termites. Until recently, the bee had been seen by scientists only {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (two), once in 1868 and again in 1981.