（Tim doesn’t feel well. He goes to see a doctor.）

A: Good morning , doctor.

B: Good morning , young man.  (1)  

A: I have a headache and I can’t move my neck.

B: Lie down here ,please.  (2)   Does it hurt when I press (按) here?

A: Yes … ouch … that hurts a lot.

B:   (3)  

A: For about a week.

B: Oh … you sit in the same way for too long without moving, right?

A: That’s true. I sit in front of the computer in the same way for too long.   (4)  

B: No , nothing serious. Take breaks from the computer and have a good rest for two or three days.   (5)  Remember that health comes first.

A: Oh, I see. Thanks a lot , doctor.

B: You’re welcome.

 In most countries, people usually eat   (1)   food on special holidays. A special day in the United States is Thanksgiving. It is always on the fourth   (2)    in November, and is a time to give   (3)   for food in the autumn. At this time, people also remember the first   (4)   from England who came to live in America about 400 years ago. These travelers had a long, hard winter, and many of them died. In the next   (5)  , they thanked life and food in their new home.  

These days, most Americans still   (1)   this idea of giving thanks by having a big   (2)   with their friends and family. But do you know Canada has Thanksgiving Day? In Canada, people have Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October. Why is Thanksgiving Day   (3)   in Canada than in America? This is   (4)   Canada is north of the United States, and is colder. The harvest (收获) comes earlier in the year. On that day, many Canadians put flowers, vegetables and fruit around their homes. Like in America, the main dish of this meal is   (5)   always turkey, at a Thanksgiving Day dinner. They are saying "Thank you" for the life and food every year.

Starting high school is a great experience for any teenager. Whether you are coming from a middle school(grades six through eight) or a junior high school(grades seven through nine), there are many things about high that are different from your old school environment.  (1)     

You will face being in a new school, making new friends in an unfamiliar class and getting to know new teachers. These new teachers will usually have higher academic(学术的) level than your middle and junior-high schoolteachers.  (2)  In return, they expect you to work hard and develop your skills, On top of all this, peer pressure(同伴压力) to drink and smoke often increases in high school.   (3)   

Although there is a lot of pressure, it is nothing you cannot deal with. If you are feeling pressure to do something that you feel is wrong, talk to a friend, parent or counselor to find a solution(解决) .  (4)   If you are not succeeding academically, find someone to help you. If you feel lonely, try to join a school club or group to make new friends.

   (5)  With time, you will come to be thankful for everything about your experience. On the point of starting you high school, are you ready?

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   Florence lived in the countryside of Kenya (肯尼亚) in Africa. When she was 12, the only thing she wanted was to finish school. But for many girls like her, school is only a dream. ___  (1)  ____ Families will probably spend money educating boys. Many girls have to marry early.

   But Florence was able to continue her education. ____  (2)  ____ Lisa started an organization to provide many girls with the best education possible. Florence was the first of 320 Kenyan girls among them.

   ___  (3)  _____ During her visit, she heard that many women made and sold baskets. They used the money to send their daughters to school. Two years later, she started to help sell the Kenyan crafts(工艺品) in the US. In 1998, Lisa began helping girls continue their education.

   ____  (4)  ____ In January, 2015, she started the fourth one. “I want to prepare them for college,” Lisa said.

   The new high school is called Tembea, which means “to walk”. Florence is walking towards a bright future. ____  (5)  ____ “Florence is the first in her family to finish high school and college,” said Lisa. “She is an example for all girls in Kenya.”

A problem is only a problem until there is a solution. We find solutions by thinking creatively.  (1)   In other words, we think outside the box. Sometimes thinking outside the box solves not just one, but two problems.

Amsterdam is one of the most crowded cities in Europe. As a result, housing is very expensive, especially for students.   (2)   However, finding this type of apartments was almost impossible until recently.

While the colleges in Amsterdam were trying to solve the housing problem, thousands of shipping containers (集装箱) were lying quietly in ports around the world. These huge steel containers carry products from one counry to another. The life of each container is about 10 years.   (3)   Yet they can’t recycle all of them because there are so many.

Back in Amsterdam, a company came up with an amazing idea. Why not reuse these shipping containers as student apartments?   (4)   They are all the same size and fit together perfectly. The steel is strong. Moreover, these containers are so widely available that they are quite cheap to buy. For all these reasons, they can be used to build apartments quickly andvcheaply. Building began in 2005, and after only a few weeks, hundreds of Amsterdam students had new homes.

When students hears about this idea, they thought the container apartment would be small, noisy and cold.   (5)   Each container apartment has a kitchen, a bedroom with a study area, and a bathroom. The apartments are warm and quiet. They even have a high-speed Internet connection. Living in a shipping container has become popular. Today, over 3000 Amsterdam students live in the container village.

How do you turn your interests into a business? Mohammed Ali, 15, a ten gamer from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, UK, is a good example.

 At the age of 12, he learned how to code by using You Tube and even made his own video game. He put his video game on the Internet.   (1)   He has already made $30000. He also makes websites and is working on an app, which will be open to the public in August.

  (2)   “When I fist started making money, I thought I’d just spend it all.   (3)   I save most of it in the bank, because I want to do more in the future,” he told the Daily Mail.

He became interested in computer when his parents bought him one at the age of 6.   (4)  

But after playing so many games, he decided to make his own.

Then, Ali learned how to code using You Tube video and by reading books in the subject. In 2012, he made his own game called Project 2006 after working on it for seven months. It was a role—playing game and more than 300 people are members.   (5)   

In the future, he wants to go to university and study the computer science, “I’m looking forward to studying computer science, not business because I’ve got a lot of experience in business already.” He told the Daily Star.

Teenage life — better now，or in the past?

Does this situation sound familiar (熟悉)？

You are complaining (抱怨)to your parents about something. Maybe your computer isn't powerful enough to play the latest games.   (1)  Then you hear...

When I was your age, there weren’t any computers or video games. And I didn’t get a bike until I was sixteen. And it was second-hand.   (2)   ”

So, is it really true that life is better for teenagers now? It is certainly true that many teenagers have got more things nowadays.  (2)   So parents have got more money to spend on each child. And many things are cheaper than they were when our parents were children.

  (3)  Forty years ago, no one could imagine a world with tiny computers and amazing smartphones. And now these things are necessary — we can’t imagine living without them!

However, technology often means we spend more time at home. And often it，s just us, with our computer or television. Teenagers don’t do enough exercise.   (4)  And, although young people still get on well with their friends，some people think teenagers today don’t have so many social activities as they did in the past.

What do you think? How is teenage life better these days?

There is a proverb that “     ,” which means that it’s not good if there are too many people working together.