What's the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hardwork, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} suggest knowledge, love and luck. If you arrange (排列) the 26 English letters in order and use {#blank#}2{#/blank#} to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…… 26 for z, you can change an English word {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a number. So hardwork becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98, meaning 98 is its mark. Knowledge: 11+ 14+ 15+ 23+ 12+ 5+ 4 + 7+ 5=96, love: 12+15+22+5=54, and {#blank#}4{#/blank#}: 12+21+3+11=47, a small mark. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} of these words can give one a full mark. What about money? It can't, either.

    Then what else? Don't be worried. You can always find an answer {#blank#}6{#/blank#}a problem in your life, when you change your way of {#blank#}7{#/blank#} at things or doing things, or your attitude(态度). Yes, attitude is the word. See for yourself: attitude: 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100, a full mark. Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most time people hope for a better life. It is possible that they will have a better life {#blank#}8{#/blank#} they change their attitudes. When you change your manner and become {#blank#}9{#/blank#} towards others, you'll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive attitude towards {#blank#}10{#/blank#}, you'll find it's also rewarding(有益的) though it has caused you losses(损失).

Jacky: Good morning, Eric. Nice to meet you here.

Eric: {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. You're Jacky, right?

Jacky: Yes, I am. We are{#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

Eric: That's good. And do you {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Xuzhou?

Jacky: Yes. But I live in Nanjing with my parents now.

Eric: What do you like doing in your free (空闲的) time?

Jacky: I love {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Ball games are fun, I think.

Eric: Really? I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} ball games, too.

Jacky: Great! We can play together.

    When young people in the United States get together for fun, probably they will dance. The ways that boys and girls dance will often change every year. They{#blank#}1{#/blank#}learning the newest dances.

    Years ago, the dances of young people were not very different from those of their parents, but high school and college students of today have{#blank#}2{#/blank#}their own music and dances. They like the new music that people can dance to in different ways.

    In the USA, there are many dances that are loved by young people, but the history of the dances isn't{#blank#}3{#/blank#}, the Twist(摇摆舞), for example. In the late 1950s, Chubby Checker started a dance that he called the "Twist" to make himself slim. The Twist, like many new dances, was very lively, and people who performed it used a lot of{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, After performing his new dance hundreds of times, Chubby was no longer as fat as before. The word "chubby" means "very fat". That was why the singer and dancer called him Chubby.