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       Confidence (自信）is very important in daily life. It is helpful to develop a healthy attitude(态度）. If people are more confident, they are much happier. And they can have more chances to be successful. Here are some suggestions to be more confident.

       Speak loud! When you are not confident, you can't do well what you want to do. You speak in a voice so low that other people can hardly hear you. Try to speak loud in order that people can hear you clearly. The high voice can help you become more confident.
       Play sports! Physical exercise makes you tired but completely relaxed. A strong body helps you be full of confidence.

       Encourage yourself! Write down a list of things you did during the day to see how many things you have done well. Give yourself praise(表扬) for the good things you've done.
      Keep a hobby! If you like drawing, draw as much as you can. In some ways, a hobby can make you perfect. And it will make you happy and confident.

    On June 2, 1886, a German captain threw a message in a bottle into the water while his ship crossed the Indian Ocean. Around 132 years later in January, the bottle was found on the Australian coast{#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    The bottle was thrown into the water to track ocean currents (洋流). Between 1864 and 1933, German sailors threw thousands of bottles into the sea.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}

    But throwing messages in bottles into the ocean is not just for scientists. People send out such messages for many reasons. Some people write information about themselves in the hopes of finding a pen pal{#blank#}3{#/blank#} And still other people just write down some jokes, song lyrics or anything else they think might be fun.

    There are even online messages in bottles. People can send the messages through WeChat or QQ.

    The reasons and ways might be different, but the goal is always the same: to reach out and try to connect with someone{#blank#}4{#/blank#} In 1988, the British band The Police wrote a song called Message in A Bottle that describes this feeling.

    As the song's lyrics say, we are “a hundred billion castaways(被抛弃者) looking for a home”. When will you feel relieved (释然的) ? “A hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore{#blank#}5{#/blank#}

A. Others write down secrets, hoping that the waves will wash them away.

B. This kind of shared feeling might be why this tradition has remained popular for so long.

C. making it the oldest-known message in a bottle in the world.

D. Seems I'm not alone at being alone.

E. Some 663 of those messages were found later.

    A young man went to visit a wise man who lived deep in the mountain. He wanted to ask for wisdom of life.

    "Excuse me! {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Is it the day we were born or the day we die? Is it the day we fall in love or the day we are successful?" the young man asked.

    "None. The most important day in our lives is today." the wise man replied calmly.

    "Why?" the young man was very surprised. "{#blank#}2{#/blank#}"

    "No. Nothing has happened today."

    "So is it because of my visit?"

    "Even if nobody visited me today, today is still very important, because today is the only wealth we have. No matter how important yesterday is, it has gone by; {#blank#}3{#/blank#}No matter how ordinary and boring today is, it is in our hands."

The young man still wanted to ask something, but the wise man stopped him and said, "When we are talking about the importance of today, we have wasted a lot of it. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    Having understood this, the young man nodded and then went down the mountain.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Therefore, what we should do now is to forget yesterday and tomorrow and catch hold of today!

Whenever my child caused me to change my schedule, I thought to myself "We don't have time for this. "

Therefore, the two words I most commonly spoke to my child were: "Hurry up. " But my promise to  1 was made almost three years ago, and I began my journey to grasp what 2  in life. 

My younger daughter is my living reminder of why I must keep trying to slow down. 

The two of us had taken a bike ride to the supermarket.  After buying an ice cream for my daughter, she sat down at a table 3 looking at the ice cream she held in her hand.  Suddenly a look of worry appeared upon her face. "Do I have to rush, Mama?"

I nearly cried. Perhaps the pains of a  4  life don't ever completely disappear, I thought sadly.  As my child looked up at me waiting to know whether she could take her time, I knew I had a choice.  I could sit there in sorrow thinking about the number of times when I told my child to rush through life  5  the fact that today I'm trying to do things differently. I chose to live in today. 

"You don't have to rush," I said  6 .  Her whole face immediately brightened and her shoulders    relaxed. And so we sat side-by-side talking.  There were even moments when we sat in  7 just smiling at each other. 

When she got to the last bite, she held out the ice cream for me.  "I  8  the last bite for you, Mama. "My daughter said proudly. I realized I just got the deal of a lifetime.  I gave my child a little time. 

9 , she gave me her last bite, also reminded me that things taste sweeter and love comes 10 when you stop rushing through life. 

One day Mr. Smith went to a dinner party. He was wearing old clothes. He came into the room, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} people in the room didn't look at him. They didn't ask him to sit{#blank#}2{#/blank#} the table. He wasn't happy. But he said{#blank#}3{#/blank#} （something）. 

Mr. Smith went home and put{#blank#}4{#/blank#}his best clothes. He went back to the party. All the guests in the room{#blank#}5{#/blank#}（stand） up and looked at him. They gave him good food to eat. Mr. Smith took {#blank#}6{#/blank#}his coat, and put it on the food and said, "Eat, coat！"

The other people were{#blank#}7{#/blank#}（surprise） and asked, "What are you doing? Why do you do that? "

Mr. Smith answered, "I am asking my coat to eat food. When I {#blank#}8{#/blank#}（wear） old clothes, the man standing at the door didn't let me in until I showed him my{#blank#}9{#/blank#}（invite）. When I came in, you didn't ask me to sit down. Now I am wearing these nice clothes and you give me good food to eat. Now I see, you give the food to my coat, not to{#blank#}10{#/blank#}（I）. "

 Are you looking at me? Do you know me? I am a dodo (渡渡 鸟)! You may think that I am just a character (角色) in the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} fact, there were thousands of us in the past— for real. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} now you cannot find us in nature.

 We {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (live) on an island in the Indian Ocean. In the happy old days, there was a lot of food to eat. All the other animals were friendly. What a safe and {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (peace) life!

 However, in the late {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (sixteen) century, humans arrived. They cut down the trees and our lovely forest was gone(消失). They could hunt us very{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (easy) because we were slow and could not fly. What's more, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(they) pigs, cats and dogs ate our eggs. As a result, we soon died out.

 So today we are standing in some {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (museum) around the planet. When you see us, please remember our sad story. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} world is full of fantastic animals. Please try your best {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (help) them. Make them as happy as a clam, not as dead as a dodo.