In only fifty years, English   (1)   (develop) into the language most

  (2)   (wide) spoken and used in the world. English in the working language of most international organizations, international trade and tourism. Businessmen and tourists often come to China without being able to speak   (3)  .Chinese businessmen, taxi drivers and students talk with them using English. English is also the language of   (4)   (globe) culture, such as the popular music and the Internet. You can listen to the English songs   (5)   the radio   (6)   use English to communicate   (7)   people around the world through the Internet.With so many people   (8)   (communicate) in English every day, it will become   (9)  （important）to have   (10)   good knowledge of English.

      In much of Asia, especially the so-called “rice bowl” cultures of China, Japan, Korea,   (1)    Vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.

      Chopsticks are usually two long, thin pieces of wood or bamboo. They can also be made of plastic, animal bone or metal. Sometimes chopsticks are quite artistic. Truly elegant chopsticks might   (2)   (make) of gold and silver with Chinese characters. Skilled workers also combine various hardwoods and metal   (3)   (create) special designs.

       The Chinese have used chopsticks for five thousand years. People probably cooked their food in large pots,   (4)   (use) twigs (树枝) to remove it. Over time,   (5)   the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly. Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which   (6)   (gradual) turned into chopsticks.

        Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius,   (7)   lived from roughly 551 to 479 B.C., influenced the   (8)   (develop) of chopsticks. Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and   (9)   (be) too violent for use at the table.

Chopsticks are not used everywhere in Asia. In India, for example, most people traditionally eat   (10)   their hands.

One day while I was shopping in a supermarket, I met a man buying 24 ____  (1)  ____ (bottle) of milk and lots of bread.

    I was surprised and asked, "____  (2)  ____ do you buy so much food?" He smiled and said, "These are ____  (3)  ____ my street dogs. Today, I want ____  (4)  ____ (be) a Santa for them."

    I said, " Well, ____  (5)  ____ is too early for you to be a Santa. Christmas comes in December, which is almost in half a year's time."

    he smiled and said ____  (6)  ____(cheerful), "Yes. I love to be Mr. Santa in the month of June. Santa is a man ____  (7)  ____(represent) surprise and love. Santa comes in December as expected. But in real life there is a hidden Santa in each of us, no matter ____  (8)  ____ month it is. When we offer food to a poor man or an umbrella to someone who ____  (9)  ____(catch) in the rain, we are Santa there. So when you offer help to others or get help from others, just think that Santa has come all the way for you."

    He left and I was happy that I had met him. We just need to realize that Santa is around us spreading ____  (10)  ____(happy) and unconditional! love.

Few people need to be told not to overspend on credit or debit cards(贷记卡). You know you shouldn’t, even if you always do. What you need are solutions. Whatever your problems with money, you can change—but it’s going to take work. After all, you’re trying to break lifelong patterns. Start with these strategies.

Strategy 1

A lot of people set themselves up for failure because they have a mindset of either indulgence (放纵) or deprivation (克制). If you try to deprive yourself of too much, where you spend almost nothing, then you end up giving up, and you indulge, and then you overspend. So if you have an unrealistic plan, you’re probably going to lose control. Good habits happen when planned; bad habits happen on their own.

Strategy 2

Changing your mindset is effective in solving the problem. Take Smith-Acuna for example. She says she had a couple in therapy who constantly quarreled about what she feels has become a monetary cliché. They would always argue about how much money they were spending at Starbucks. The wife loved capping off each workday with a drink. Ultimately, the wife ended up quitting her Starbucks habit. Instead of replacing her drink with nothing, she got something else, something free, in return.

Strategy 3

It’s a good start if you switch from paying for merchandise and services with a debit or credit card to paying with cash. It’s easy when you’re using plastic to mindlessly swipe and fall into a pattern of not thinking or noticing how much you’re actually spending. You can divide up your money and put it into envelopes, marking down on the envelopes what each pile of money is for. That can make it easier to see where your money is going.

Strategy 4

Get a receipt for every purchase. Breaking up your expenses into categories like food, clothing, housing, medical care and so on, but also labeling each expense as a need or a want. Be realistic as to what is really necessary. A need is something where you would die or go to jail if you didn’t spend the money or ruin your credit. At the end of the month, total up all the categories. Do this, and you’ll be more educated about how much money you actually have, and how much you have left over for fun stuff.

Strategy 5

There is probably a reason you developed bad habits, which are often adopted on the road easier traveled. So if you’re suddenly balancing your bank account every day, or you’re regularly putting money into an emergency fund, plan to give yourself some sort of prize for the past two weeks. You’ve been saving money or spending it more wisely, so you can probably afford it.

It is true that people with better education are usually able to get    1  (good) paying jobs. In other words, they have more   2   (chance) to choose a good job  3    people with little or no   4   (educate) don’t. It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs.    5   this isn’t accepted by all people. Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life   6    (get) education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education.

   7  fact, if education is just a way of   8    (make) a living, people don’t need to spend so much time in school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not    9 (teach) to everyone. Even language and math need not be taught in detail(详细地), either.   10  is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.

Commercial advertisement was once thought of as a technique of the marketers to inform the potential buyers about the availability of certain products. It was seen more as a medium to inform the buyers rather than persuade them to buy. The present day marketers see advertisement as a medium to damage the image of their competitors and their products. This indeed, is an undesirable and an immoral practice. Instead of speaking about their own products, these marketers speak about the drawbacks (often without any basics) of the competing products.

People watching TV advertisements would notice that there has always been an advertisement war between the marketers of different consumer goods. A few such cases are given below.

1 Parachute Coconut Oil vs. V.V.D. Gold

Some time back, the producer of V.V.D Gold Coconut Oil claimed in their TV advertisement that only their products was superior and the one sold in blue colour bottles (the reference was to Parachute coconut oil) was suitable only for un-natural hair.

2 Tata Salt vs. Captain Cook

Tata salt was first iodised (碘处理) salt marketed by an Indian Company. It has been enjoying a good and steady market. Captain Cook, another producer of iodised salt, who entered the market later, had to adopt some strategy to get control of the market. The TV advertisement of Captain Cook stressed on ‘Free flow’ of their salt when transferred to a container. The producer of Tata Salt retaliated (报复) by saying that the claim of Captain Cook was a trick and those who were quality conscious should deal with it with caution.

3Pepsi vs. Coco Cola

Coca Cola was selected as the official soft drink for the Wills World Cricket 1996. When the cricket series was on, the marketers of Pepsi constantly advertised on TV. Their advertisement gave the idea that the cricketers preferred only Pepsi and as a matter of fact there was nothing official about it.

4 Horlicks vs. Complan

Sometime back, the TV advertisement of Complan, a health drink directly attacked Horlicks, which has been in the market for several decades. The claim of Complan was that their brand (which according to them was Brand C) has a higher percentage of ingredients (材料) compared to Brand H (reference was nothing but to Horlicks).

The above examples clearly show how the technique of advertisement is misused by some marketers to ruin the image of their competitors. This, certainly, is not a healthy trend.

Any marketer should only speak about his products and not about his competitors’ products. The awareness of consumers has certainly increased over the years and they are no longer easily taken in. There are many consumer products like salt, oil shaving blades etc. But one thing for sure is that offering the same product in a different container will not make the product different.

Mass media like Radio, Television and newspaper should not allow advertisements that tell lies. Legal regulations, in this regard, should also be made stricter.

My dear husband,                                            

           I am sending you this letter by e-mail so that you will be sure to read it. Please forgive us for leaving, but I think you should know   (1)   has happened at home since your computer entered our lives two years ago. You just spend all day playing games or   (2)   (chat) online. After all, both the kids and I need a normal life so we chose to leave. The children are doing well. Tommy is seven now and he is a bright and handsome boy. He has developed   (3)   great interest in arts. You should be very proud   (4)   him. Little Jennifer turned five in September.   (5)   is an attractive child and quite smart. She still remembers the day   (6)   you spent the whole afternoon with us on her birthday. Now we   (7)   (take) a trip and I have to do the packing. I have hired a housekeeper to take care of things while we are away. I believe she can put things   (8)   order, fill your coffee cup and bring your meals to your desk, just the way you like it. I hope you and the computer will have a   (9)   (love) time while we are not at home. Tommy, Jennifer and I will miss you often. Try to remember us while your computer is booting, or call me on condition   (10)   you think we are more important than the computer.

                                                                                                                                                                                                       Love,

                                                                                                                                                                                                               Your wife

When I was 10, Mom and I went shopping at the Central Market. As usual, she parked the car on the second floor. I followed her down the stairs and entered the department store. I was excited   (1)   there were not only a lot of people, but also many colorful   (2)   ( display) of goods. We shopped for 2 hours,    (3)    what we bought were only Mom’s high heels and my pen. It was about 4 pm, and we were on the fifth floor.

“Mama, my leg hurt, I want to go home,” I said and walked   (4)   (quick) to an elevator. Mom followed me into the elevator,   (5)    (press) button 3 absent-mindedly. The elevator slowly stopped. We walked out to the   (6)   (park) space. Mom went straight to block 2 that she felt familiar with, and I followed her.

“Oh, my God!” Mom shouted. “Where ’s my car? It has disappeared. Our car has been stolen!” Immediately, a guard came and asked us    (7)    had happened.

“My car has disappeared! I always park here,” Mom cried   (8)   (anxiety) .

“Are you sure you parked on the third floor?” the guard asked     (9)   (patience).

At the words, Mom was so embarrassed that she ran to the stairs as quickly as possible,   (10)   (leave) her completely confused son behind.