These days everyone wants to “get rich” overnight. We all   (1)   marrying someone from a wealthy family, making a lot of   (2)  ，or winning the lottery (彩票). But do these things really make us happy? Many of the richest celebrities (名人) happen to be some of the most   (3)   people. They buy expensive houses and clothes that they   (4)   use. They may become   (5)   and even become addicted to   (6)  . They have become so focused on money and material things that they forget about the people and activities they   (7)  .

   Now, more young people have the opportunity for a better education, and better chances of making a high   (8)  . These are great achievements，  (9)   will they make you happy? In the US many young people believe that being rich and being happy are two  (10)   things. When attending university, they often choose to study subjects that they are   (11)   rather than subjects that will get them   (12)   jobs. Instead of majoring in “business” or “management”，many American students today have majors like “theater” or “modern dance”. The   (13)   is that making a lot of money doesnˈt mean that you will be satisfied with your   (14)  . Nowadays, young people are   (15)  careers that they love doing rather than careers that pay well.

  I think thatas being   (16)   becomes more possible, we need to   (17)   what the term “fortune” really means. Do we need to have money and material things to be fortunate? Or does   (18)   just mean having what we need to be happy?   (19)  ，what things make you happy? Be honest with yourself. It may take   (20)   arich spouse(配偶)or much money to make you happy!

Should students wear school uniforms(校服) or not?

People might think that I am old fashioned   I think    school uniforms at school is a good idea. A school uniform helps us feel part of a group. For example, when our school football team plays with school team, the players will feel    to see all their school friends wearing the school colors.

Nowadays, when a school does not have its    uniform, many students wear very fashionable clothes to school. Some are    trying to show others that they have the coolest clothes in the school. I think this is wrong!    we look is not as important as   we learn at school. Why should we need to wear these kinds of clothes to school when the aim of going to school is to learn? If we want to look fashionable all the time, we will have to change our clothes every day. We come to school five times a week. This means new clothes all the . Won’t it be expensive to be fashionable?

students, we exercise and do sport all the time. We need clothes that are comfortable and do not need    care, but fashionable clothes are usually difficult to . I always play football with my friends after school. I would prefer a cotton shirt and cotton shorts   some fashionable clothes. I guess my mother be happy if I played football   an expensive shirt.

It is true that some school uniforms look very  . Many of them are made up of a shirt and trousers for boys, and a blouse and a shirt or a dress for girls. They are usually in boring colors like grey, black, white and brown as   . I am also a teenager like you who like bright colors and fashionable clothes. However, we should    on our studies during this important time of our lives.

The British are the most voracious (求知欲强烈的) newspaper readers in the world. They read newspapers at   (1)  ; they walk to the bus reading a newspaper; they read a newspaper on the   (2)   as they go to work; and on the way back home, after work, they read an evening   (3)  .

    There are many daily newspapers in   (4)  . All the nine national daily newspapers are   (5)  in London, and all appear every   (6)   except on Sundays. Most sell more than a million   (7)   a day and cost about three pence each.   (8)  the daily newspapers, there are a number of Sunday newspapers, many of which are   (9)  with the “dailies”. The Sunday papers are larger than the daily papers and are usually read for their   (10)  and other special long articles rather than their news reports.

    Of all the “morning papers”, the most   (11)  is The Times, which is not a government newspaper. The various newspapers usually have their own views on politics,   (12)   they are not organs (机构) of the political parties,   (13)  the Communist Morning Star. It is free for a newspaper to say exactly what it   (14)  about anybody or anything, though, of course,   (15)  newspapers are responsible for what they publish.

     However, it is true of some British papers, especially the Sunday papers, that in order to   (16)  more readers they have become vulgar (庸俗的). The main headlines have nothing to do with   (17)  news at all. And there are a few, especially The Times, the Guardian and the Observer, which are of the greatest importance in both guiding and expressing the free   (18)  of very important people.

    Nearly all papers pay special attention to the   (19)  of sports and games. The evening newspapers are often bought because the reader wants to know the winner of a race, or to get a good trip for a   (20)  that is still to be run.

 Giving Back

    The sad thing is that in today’s society people don’t perform these acts of kindness anymore, because they’re not receiving anything in return. With the holidays  (1)   the thought of some people being   (2)  in the streets with nothing to eat or no shelter really makes me  (3)  , so I decided to take action and make some people’s life a little  (4)  . The weekend right after Thanksgiving I decided to go out to the store and make about 10 packages that would help the less   (5)  . I drove myself to Walmart and bought something to eat or use and made them into little care   (6)  . I then drove to downtown in search of people who donˈt have a roof over their heads and have to   (7)   in the streets as the   (8)  weather approaches. Seeing the   (9)  on their faces as I approached them with the care package was probably one of the most   (10)  feelings ever, it feels great to be able to put a  (11)  on someone’s face without expecting anything   (12)  from them. As they ask for help in the streets and most people just   (13)  them and never do anything to help them. It’s not good to judge someone’s situation if you don’t know  (14)  they have been through in their past. In my opinion, everyone should try to think that those people are   (15)  too. Giving back is my way of   (16)  how lucky I am to have the life that I do. Most of the time we don’t know what brings people to the “   (17)   life” but   (18)   it is, it’s none of our business and if someone is trying to become a better person or just trying to survive, I say we lend a    (19)  to those in need. Go out there and give back, appreciate everything you have and never take anything for granted because there’s people out there who have practically   (20)  . 

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently surprised Chinese students when he spoke to them in Chinese. In a talk at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Zuckerberg spoke Chinese for about 30 minutes. Although his Mandarin was far from perfect, students and faculty cheered his   (1)  .Zuckerberg’s talk raises a large question: is Chinese the language of the future? Could it   (2)  English as the world’s international language? Mandarin Chinese already has the   (3)   native speakers of any language. And, China may soon   (4)   the United States as the world’s largest economy.

The   (5)   of the Chinese language is increasing in the United States and around the world. A small but growing number of American parents are even   (6)   their children to bilingual Chinese immersion schools. Leianne Clements has no cultural connection to China,   (7)   her children are learning Chinese at the Yu Ying Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Ms. Clements thinks knowing Chinese could give her children a competitive   (8)  .

Clayton Dube, head of the U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California, thinks Chinese will grow in   (9)  , especially for people who want to work and do business in China. “As China rises you can expect that more people will   (10)   the language. But is China going to replace English? I don’t think so—certainly not in my   (11)  , probably not in the next two, three, four generations.”

Dube says American pop culture is one reason for English’s   (12)   as a foreign language. “American movies, music, television, video games have   (13)   audiences ... So far China’s success in this field has been very   (14)  . Chinese films, Chinese television shows, Chinese music doesn’t have a huge following outside of China.”

Andres Martinez, a professor at Arizona State University, says that he   (15)   Chinese culture and expects the language to grow. But he says English, unlike Chinese, is not just   (16)   with one country, and will remain the global language.

Chinese is also a more difficult language to learn. The U.S. Foreign Service Institute estimates it would take a   (17)   English speaker 2,200 hours to reach professional fluency in Chinese. That is four times   (18)   than it would take to reach the same level in Dutch, French, or Spanish.   (19)  Chinese grammar is much simpler, Chinese has a tone and writing system that is more difficult for adult learners to master.

A recent survey by Gallup showed that only one in four Americans is able to speak more than one language. For most Americans, Brits, and Australians, learning a foreign language is a(n)   (20)  , not a necessary thing.

A Pennsylvania patrol (巡逻) officer rescued（营救）a German shepherd (牧羊犬) from a car accident in South Londonberry.

   Since the rescue, a photo of patrol officer Nick Ague carrying the    (1)    that his fellow police officers posted to Facebook has got nearly 4,500 likes and tons of   (2)   comments(评论).

"Amazing people still do exist (存在)!” one user   (3)   .

The act of heroism began on Aug. 11, when Ague heard on the radio that there had been a car   (4)  nearby, and that two dogs involved in the crash had fled (逃离) from the   (5)   .

"I heard other people say they saw a German shepherd    (6)   ," Ague told ABC News. com. "Based on the location I could    (7)    the dog was heading west."

So Ague and a few fellow  (8)    set out to find the dog, who they later learned was named Mya. They flagged Mya down,   (9)   every time they stopped their patrol cars, she would run from them. They called Myaˈ s    (10)   , and when she arrived on the scene, Mya    (11)   stopped running. And then the dog wouldnˈt move at all.

   That was when Ague realized something was   (12)  . He quickly realized that it wasnˈt that the dog wouldnˈt move but  (13)   not move.

"The dog was not moving because the skin on her feet was hanging off  (14)  the distance she ran," Ague explained. "She ran two miles from the crash on hot asphalt (柏油).

"When I realized thatˈs why she couldnˈt walk," he said, "the   (15)  thing I could think of doing was to pick her up."

 So he  (16)  Mya up, who he said weighed around 75 pounds, and   (17)  her about 100 yards to her owner’s car.

Myaˈs owner, Megan Smith, said that Myaˈs feet were already healed(痊愈), and she was now walking   (18)   .

Ague, who has a German shepherd of his own and described himself as "a real animal   (19)   ", said he never thought of doing anything besides   (20)  Mya.