Every week, Julia would go to visit her grandparents. ①The grandfather would give each child a few coins and tell them to buy something they like. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}They would buy toys and candy. After they grew a little bit older, their parents thought that it was time for them to learn how to manage（管理）money. So the parents asked the children to think of ways to manage money.

Ruben is the cleverest boy. He decided to earn money by buying and selling things. ②他得到了来自全家的支持。{#blank#}2{#/blank#}But Nico, the smallest child, still spent the money as usual. Ruben thought ③it was unfair and he stopped saving his money, too.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}

    For little Julia, she had a wonderful, secret plan. But ④她的父母对她感到非常失望. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}They thought Julia wasn't doing anything.

    One day, Julia came with a violin and played it for the family. Everyone was surprised. They knew that Julia liked the violin. ⑤but her family was too poor to afford the violin classes for her. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}So, Julia found a street violinist and asked his to teach her. In return, she gave his all her money. The violinist was deeply moved by Julia. He taught her for months and rent a violin to her. Then, Julia gave performances with the violinist in the street. By doing this, she earned enough money to pay for the violin.

    From the time each of my children started school, I packed their lunches. And in each lunch I packed, I included a note. Often written on a piece of small paper, it might be a thank-you for an unusual moment, a reminder of something we were happily expecting, or a bit of encouragement for the coming test or sporting event.

    In early grade school they loved their notes. But as children grow older they become self-conscious（有自我意识的）, and by the time he reached high school, my older son, Marc, informed me he no longer enjoyed my daily notes. Telling him that he no longer needed to read them but I still needed to write them, I continued until the day he graduated.

    Six years after high school graduation, Marc called and asked if he could move home for a couple of months. He had spent those years well, graduation from college, completing two internship（实习）in Washington, D.C., and finally, becoming a technical assistant in Sacramento. However, he had lived away from home except for short holiday visits. With his younger sister leaving for college, I was especially happy to have Marc back. Since I was still making lunch for his younger brother, I packed one of Marc, too. Imagine my surprise when I got a call from my 24-year-old son, asking about his lunch.

    “Did I do something wrong? Don't you love me any longer, Mom?” he asked.

    “Of course I love you, dear!” I laughingly said. “What's wrong?”

    “My note, Mom,” he answered. “Where's my note?”

    Please look at my family photo.

    Those are my grandparents. These are my parents. My mother is Mona. She likes red. She likes hamburgers for breakfast. And she often plays ping—pong. That is my brother. His name is Jack. He doesn't like red. He just likes yellow. He often has milk and bread for breakfast and then plays soccer. Now this is me. my name is Tony. I like blue very much. My sweaters, my T—shirts, my pants, my shoes are all blue. For my breakfast, I like eggs. I don't like soccer. It's so boring. I just like tennis. It's so fun. This is my family. I love my family.

    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.

    In the future, machines will be improved and do more and more work for man. Few people have to work for long hours. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} How will they use this leisure (空闲时间) in the world of tomorrow? Certainly they will still need holidays.

    In the future, the computer will help people to find the right place. The computer will ask them questions which they will answer by pressing a button. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} then the computer will tell them where to find the place they want for holiday. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} It will also help people to use their leisure time well. There will be more programmes on how to make and how to do things.

    In the future, people will certainly have to do less work. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} This means that the rest of the time will be mostly leisure time.

    Some scientists say that man of the future will be able to get enough pleasure and enjoyment on their own without going anywhere. According to other scientists, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} The cap will make him see, feel and hear all kinds of enjoyable things.