New York is 3 hours ahead of California, but it does not make California slow, or that New York is fast. Both are working based on their own “ Time Zone”（时区）.

Someone graduated at the age of 22, yet waited 5 years before finding a good job! And there is another who graduated at 27 and got hired immediately!

Someone became a CEO at 25, and died at 50.While another became a CEO at 50, and lived to 90 years.

Someone is still single, while someone else got married and waited 10 years having a child. There is another who had a baby within a year of marriage.

Obama retires(退休) at 55, but Trump starts at 70.

Absolutely everyone in this world works based on their Time Zone. People can have things worked out only according to their pace. (步调)

People around you might seem to go ahead of you; some might seem to be behind you. But everyone is running their own race, in their own time.

Don’t envy them or laugh at them. They are in their TIME ZONE, and you are in yours!

Life is about waiting for the right moment to act. Hold on, be strong, and stay true to yourself .Fight in your time zone.

So, RELAX. You’re not LATE. You’re not EARLY. You are very much ON TIME , and in your time zone destiny set up for you.

We all love our parents and turn to them for help when we’re in need, but would you like to add (添加) your parents to be your friends in social networks(社交网络),   (1)  QQ and We-chat? Would you like to let them   (2)   your online activities?

    Parents   (3)   little about social networks. But now, more and more parents are beginning to find how important social networks are in their lives. A lot of parents are learning how to use social networks from their children. And some parents are teaching   (4)   about it.

But are we going to add our parents to be our friends? It’s   (5)   to decide. On one hand, we don’t say no to our parents because it may hurt their feelings or make them feel we have    (6)   to hide (隐藏). On the other hand, if we let them be our friends, we will feel that we are not free to talk on social networks.  

Some people think that parents don’t need to be   (7)   if their children don’t want to add them into their friends list. “When your children say no to you, it doesn’t mean that they are hiding something, but it means that they want to be independent (独立的)   (8)   they can do something on their own.”

 Perhaps we should spend more time   (9)   with our parents face to face if we want a friends list   (10)   our parents in.

To encourage reading, a Chinese company placed over 10,000 books around the underground, in taxis and on planes in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The activity earned the support of many Chinese stars. The “book-dropping battle,” however, won little praise. Instead, the movement drew much criticism(批评).

Some books were left untouched. Around the underground, passengers thought the books were left there to save the seats. Some books were taken away by cleaners. People also complained that they couldn’t get to the books—the carriages were too crowded.

The movement led to a hot debate.

Most people thought it could do little to encourage reading. “I think the best result is that people take selfies(自拍)when they pick up the books and write a post in WeChat. After that, they will just bring the books back home and place them on their bookshelves,” wrote one Weibo user.

Some pointed out that while Watson was a great reader, the Chinese stars who supported the movement didn’t seem to be reading much. Isn’t it embarrassing that the movement is supported by stars who don’t read a lot?

Murong Xuecun is a famous Chinese writer. He thought the book-sharing campaign was not at all a bad thing. “In the past years, the Chinese economy(经济) has been developing rapidly. Everybody is busy with work. They don’t have time for reading,” said Murong.“However, just because Chinese people don’t read regularly, it doesn’t mean we should do nothing to encourage reading, ” Murong added.

       Readers (《朗读者》) is a popular TV show in China. It invites (邀请) people to read aloud (大声地) on the stage (舞台). The show also tells moving (感人的) stories behind those people. They can read everything, like poems (诗), books, and letters.

       Many people are fans of the show. They begin (开始) to enjoy reading aloud at home.

       Now, the show gives people a place to read. It is a reading pavilion (朗读亭). It showed up in cities like Shanghai, Hangzhou and Xi’an. Let’s have a look!

       The pavilion is not very big. Only one person can come into it each (每一) time. There is a microphone (麦克风) in it and it records (记录) people’s voices.

       Everyone can read for three minutes in it. You can read anything you like. The show will pick (挑选) some of the readers and invite them to read on TV.

    Lots of people come to the pavilion to read. Yu Duohan is an 11-year-old girl from Shanghai. “I love reading aloud,” she said. “It makes the story become more beautiful.”

    The pavilion will also come to other cities across the country (国家). You can read your favorite stories in the pavilion soon.

What would you do if you found a wallet on the street? Maybe you say quickly that you want to  (1)  it back to the owner．But what if there’s lots of money in it，for example,$50，000？You may spend time deciding  (2)  to do．But Pakistani hotel cleaner Mr Khan showed us how to be  (3)  .

Mr Khan is a cleaner in a  (4)  in Pakistan．He only makes less than$240 a month．But he handed the$50，000 over to the hotel as  (5)  as he found it．He said he never considered keeping the money  (6)  ．“Although times are hard for everyone，that doesnˈt mean we should start stealing and  (7)  things which don’t belong to us，”Mr Khan said．

Mr Khan is a father of five and he hopes his act of kindness will  (8)  his country．“I want people around the world to know that there are many good people in Pakistan—not  (9)   is a terrorist(恐怖分子)here，”he said．

Mr Khan has been  (10)  as a national hero．The government was proud of him and said that this is the face of Pakistan that people donˈt see normally．He was also given a $220 award by the hotel．

Everyone must have experiences of setting off fireworks and firecrackers（爆竹）during the Spring Festival, but this year, stricter  (1)   on fireworks and firecrackers have been made by many cities and provinces. Since air pollution is   (2)  more and more serious all over China, the government has taken action.

Different cities have taken   (3)   measures to prevent that. For example, Beijing has told citizens that if there is someone who   (4)   the rules again, setting off fireworks and firecrackers will be completely banned. Shanghai even asks people to write down their   (5)   names and addresses on their ID cards when they buy fireworks and firecrackers.

The more fireworks and firecrackers, the  (6)   serious the air pollution will be. Although many people are quite sure of it, tradition is still popular in some areas. People believe that fireworks and firecrackers are useful for  (7)  away evil spirits（恶魔）. And people  (8)  live and work in cities follow the tradition when they go back to their rural homes for the Spring Festival. In big cities, however, citizens are ready to give up the pleasure of setting off fireworks and firecrackers to   (9)   some fresh air.

All in all, people should think twice before they  (10)   a choice between practicing customs and enjoying a healthy life.

Some ten years ago, I was in a public school in Boston. One day, Mrs. Smith gave a physics  ____  (1)  ____ to our class. When the papers were marked, she discovered that twelve boys had made exactly the ____  (2)  ____ mistakes through the test. There was nothing really new about cheating in exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs. Smith didn't even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to remain after class. I was one of the twelve. Mrs. Smith asked ____  (3)  ____ questions, and she didn't scold(责备) us, either. ____  (4)  ____, she wrote on the blackboard the word “Honesty”. She then told us to ____  (5)  ____ the word into our exercise-books one hundred times. I don't know about the other eleven boys. In my opinion, I can say it was the most important single ____  (6)  ____ of my life. Today ____  (7)  ____ of us are asked to make great decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle (战场). But all of us are called upon daily to make a great many personal decisions. Should the wallet found in the street be put into a pocket ____  (8)  ____ handed in to the policeman? Should the extra change received at the store be forgotten or ____  (9)  ____? Nobody will know ____  (10)  ____ you. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always better to live with someone you respect(尊敬).

In China, most families only have one child, so parents treated their children as a king. They buy everything that their children want to have, don’t   (1)   their children do any housework. As a result, children just open their   (2)   to be fed and stretch out(伸出) their arms to be dressed every day. More and more Chinese teenagers(青少年) find life more difficult   (3)   their parents. This is a big problem. 

Joy is 15 years old. One day her parents   (4)  because of business, so she had to stay at home alone. At first she thought she would be happy   (5)  her parents were not in. She could do    (6)  she liked. But when it was six o’clock in the afternoon, she felt   (7)  . “Oh, it’s time to have supper. Where can I get my food?” she said to herself. Later she found some food in the fridge, but she didn’t know how to   (8)   it. At that moment, she missed her parents very much. At last she could   (9)  go to the supermarket and  bought something to eat.

Many teenagers are  the same as Joy. So I think they should learn some basic life   (10)  , like cooking, tidying up their rooms or dressing themselves properly. They shouldn’t depend too much on their parents.

 People usually check whether their keys, purses and phones are with them before going out, but many people in China now have one more important thing to take, a mask (口罩). They hope it can protect them ____（1）__ terrible air.

   Many cities in China saw a lot of foggy days in April. In Beijing, there were eight days in April full of smog. It is dirty air ____  (1)  ____ looks like a mixture of fog and smoke. The smoke is mainly from cars and factories in cities. Poor air is bad for people's health, ____  (2)  ____ for children and old people. They fell ill easily and the ____  (3)  ___ were full of people. They had problems with their noses and lungs.

   So it's necessary ____  (4)  ____ people from doing so many bad things to the environment. For example, people should use cars less and ____  (5)  ____ burn lots of coal and gas. Government needs to take measures to make factories stop pouring ____（  (6)  ___ waste air into the sky.

   Three students from No. 4 High School in Beijing ____  (7)  ____ a report to advise how to protect the environment. They suggested ____  (8)  ____ people should plant more trees and set off fewer fireworks for celebration.

   We hope more people will join us in ____  (9)  ___ a difference. In this way, the blue sky will certainly return for good.