A：What are you doing?

B：I'm trying to {#blank#}1{#/blank#}some information about Mo Yan on the Internet.

A：He's a world—famous{#blank#}2{#/blank#}now.He's the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize.

B：Right.Do you know the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}  date when he was awarded the prize(他获奖的那一天)?

A：Yes.It's on 11th October，2012.Much of his writing is about the {#blank#}4{#/blank#}life in his home town.

B：When did he begin to write?

A：Well，he {#blank#}5{#/blank#}a soldier in 1976 and began to write in 1981，{#blank#}6{#/blank#}26.I know five of his works have been turned into films.

B：Thank you for telling me so much.

Maybe you always wonder why your pocket money disappeared so quickly. Well, this may be {#blank#}1{#/blank#}you don't have a careful plan. If you try a budget for your pocket money, you will find you can stop money {#blank#}2{#/blank#} going so fast. A budget is a plan to control where your money {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(go) . Careful budget can help you save for the things you want but can't pay for just now. Useful or not? Look at the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (follow) before you start your budget:

● Every month there are things we have to pay for, like school lunches and buses，which are{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (important).There are also things we would like to spend money on — just for fun! All these are {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (month) expenses (开销).

● Since we can't have money for everything, we have to make {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (choose). We need to ask if we really need something or just want it. Needs are what you must have in order to live, like food and water. Wants are things you would like to have or do, but not necessary. For example, CDs and cartoons.

● List what you must spend on needs — and if there is money left, you will save for things you really want. This {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (call) a budget.

● If you don't have enough money for what you need, you may have to give up one for the other. No budget is fixed. Keep an eye on  {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (you). Maybe you wanted a cartoon book but now you want{#blank#}10{#/blank#} MP3 . Your needs may change into wants, or your wants may change into needs.

    A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, "I am blind, please {#blank#}1{#/blank#}"

    There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned {#blank#}3{#/blank#} around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} words.

    Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot {#blank#}5{#/blank#} people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. The boy recognized (识别) his footsteps and asked," Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

    The man said, "I only wrote the {#blank#}7{#/blank#}. I said what you said but in {#blank#}8{#/blank#} different way. "

    What he had written was, "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it."

    Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

    Of course {#blank#}9{#/blank#} signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it {#blank#}10{#/blank#} he was blind.