Why is setting goals so {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（importance）? Because goals can help you do, be, and experience everything {#blank#}2{#/blank#} you want in life. Instead {#blank#}3{#/blank#} always letting life happen to you accidentally, goals allow yourself{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (make) your life happen in control. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (success) and happy people have set lots of goals to help them reach their aims. By {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (set) goals you can take control of your life. It's like having a map to show you {#blank#}7{#/blank#} you want to go.

    Winners in life always set goals and then follow{#blank#}8{#/blank#}. Winners decide what they want in life and then get there by making plans and setting goals. Unsuccessful people just let life happen by accident. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (goal) are not difficult to set, and they are also not difficult to reach. It is up to you to find out what your goals really are. It is you {#blank#}10{#/blank#} decide what to do and in what direction to aim your life.

    Today, after finishing dinner in town, my husband and I were driving back home. As we pulled over, we saw a couple painting their furniture.

    I went inside our home, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (change) and then went back out again to ask our neighbors if they needed any help. While leaving my home, I was plagued (困扰) by thoughts of {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (embarrass), denial, or being received. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}, I gathered the courage to go down and ask {#blank#}4{#/blank#} ,anyway!

    Initially, the woman denied. Then, the man said, “Sure”, and he handed me a spray paint bottle. We got into some good conversations {#blank#}5{#/blank#} painting with great effort.  When we finished, I briefly chatted with them before leaving.

    In the end, not only {#blank#}6{#/blank#} I enjoy helping them, but also learned about my neighbors. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the way home, I must admit, I couldn't help but wonder {#blank#}8{#/blank#} they might be thinking about me.  {#blank#}9{#/blank#} is tough to do a good deed for others and not expect that they will be thinking good about you.

    Today's experience taught me some  {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (value) lessons in my life! Hopefully, these lessons will help me continue my acts of kindness in future.

    Polar bears are suffering in a much {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (warm) world.

    Polar bears live in environments too cold for most animals. During much of the year, they live and hunt on the frozen Arctic sea ice. Nature has {#blank#}2{#/blank#} （prepare）them for the cold conditions. But nothing has prepared the bears for the danger {#blank#}3{#/blank#} threatens the only home they know.

    The polar bears' world is melting. Studies show that the amount of the polar ice {#blank#}4{#/blank#}（have）decreased by 9.8% every 10 years since 1978. Now about 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears live in the Arctic. Polar bears rely {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the sea ice for their survival. “The sea ice is more {#blank#}6{#/blank#} just this platform that the bears walk over,” says Andrew Derocher, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} scientist who studies North American polar bear populations. “{#blank#}8{#/blank#} it, they can't exist.”

    Some melting and refreezing of the polar ice is natural. But in a warmer world, these cycles speed up, and bears have less time {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (hunt). Normally, they have three months in the spring when they gain more weight. The extra fat is used later, when the bears are not {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(active) hunting.

    Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (probable) say that they go to learn languages, history, science and some other knowledge. That's quite true, but do you know {#blank#}2{#/blank#} they learn these things?

    We send our children to school to prepare them {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the future when they grow up and have to work for {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (they). Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life. But is that {#blank#}5{#/blank#} only reason why they go to school?

    There is more in education than just {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (learn) facts. We go to school to learn how to learn, so that when we have left school we can continue to learn. A man {#blank#}7{#/blank#} really knows how to learn will always be {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (success), because when he has to do something new, he will not only be able to do it well himself, he will also be able {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (teach) others how to do it in the best way. So the purpose of schools is not to teach languages, history, science, etc., but to teach {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (student) the way to learn.

    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.

    Do you have sleeping problems? If so, then these tips may help you fall asleep fast.

    Set aside the thought that you have to fall asleep. The more you think of it, the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (hard) you will fall asleep.

    The foods you eat also play {#blank#}2{#/blank#} important part. Avoid eating or drinking things like chocolates, coffee, tea and energy drinks. If you have to, then have them in the morning and never in the afternoon, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (especial) before going to bed. Don't eat too much at night. A full stomach will make it more difficult for you {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (fall) asleep because your body is working more time to digest the food you ate.

    Make a fixed time to go to bed. For example, by 9 o'clock in the evening you should already be {#blank#}5{#/blank#} bed. Do this even if you're not sleepy yet. Once {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (follow) this routine, you will gradually see that you will feel sleepy when it's 9 o'clock in the evening.

    Make your room {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (comfort) for sleeping. You should also take notes that the sleeping environment also {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (affect) your sleep. It must be in the room {#blank#}9{#/blank#} it's not noisy. Otherwise, you will find {#blank#}10{#/blank#} difficult to fall asleep again after waking up.