那些知道如何充分利用经验的人总能避免犯同样的错误。(avoid)

  It was a very cold January evening, the end of a day Bill thought would never end. His doctor told him that he might go blind. Bill wasastounded. He couldn’t believe such a terrible thing would happen to him. After all, he thought, how could he—a husband, a father of two beautiful children, a man who had been healthy in his whole life—go blind?

  But Bill was a lucky man. After being totally blind for five months, he regained his vision and was able to see his amazing family again. After he regained his vision, he decided to do something to help others. He wanted to be of service to the less fortunate.

  Having decided to help others, Bill asked himself, “Whom should I help?”. Bill always loved children and that was his first thought. He then decided to focus his energies on helping children with illnesses and disabilities. He wanted to help them make their dreams come true and receive treatment, so Bill started the non-profit (非盈利) foundation—Reachout America, with the duty to send kids with illnesses and disabilities to camps. The camps could help them stay with children who were dealing with some of the same things they were dealing with.

  Since June 2006, Reachout America has not only sent many kids to various camps across America, including awesome（精彩的） horse- riding camps and space camps for children who dream of flying to the moon, but also helped them receive treatment and recover.

  Bill’s personal nightmare（噩梦）changed into a blessing and a dream has come true for hundreds of sick and disabled children across America. You can help, too. Reachout America continues to raise money through various programs and seek volunteers so that many other children can continue to go to camps and receive treatment. Offer your help if you are interested.

 People around us, especially our friends, have a strong influence on our lives. We all want to

believe that they are the best but sometimes it is not so. As you change over the years, people and your friends change, too. If you are following a path of growth, then you must be prepared to grow new friendships too.

Be open to meeting new people. No matter whether your life has changed or not, always be open to letting new people into your life. They are like a fresh wind on a hot day. They can inspire you. They can give you new ideas. They can become your new best friends. Don’t limit yourself to the circle of people you already know, or you will limit your own ways to grow.

Make sure that you are a friend that you would like to have. Are you always there for your friends? Do you help them? Do you actually listen to them? Can you accept and understand the changes that happened or are happening in their lives? Do you enjoy giving as much as receiving? Answer these questions for yourself first and see if you are the one who needs to grow to the level of your friends.

Explore new ways to make friends. New people won’t just suddenly appear in your life. If you want to meet somebody then you need to start exploring the world. You can make friends online. You can start a new hobby. You can just start talking to a stranger who seems interesting to you. Be the one who starts the relationship, not the one who is waiting for something to happen.

What have we become? A society in which someone can have hundreds of online friends and yet go for days without human contact. We scan; we click; we text people in the next room instead of speaking to them; we even check our library books out by ourselves when once we might have chatted to a friendly person with an ink pad and a date stamp.

Loneliness can be dangerous. Recent research suggests that it may shorten people’s lives and make them more vulnerableto serious illness. It can distort (扭曲) senses of reality and even become an element that drives a few desperate young men to open fire on a cinema audience or a classroom full of children. Electronic voices on various devices can be the only ones some people hear. And what those voices say is not always true.

No man is an island, we are frequently reminded. There are those who choose to lead solitary (孤独的)lives, and live them well, but on the whole we are sociable beings and we suffer if we are on our own too much. Human contact makes us happier, although virtual relationships can be very positive.

So what could lonely people do to make real friends? An answer, among many, is to read more books. Reading begins alone but becomes a shared activity when a reader, for example, joins a book group, attends a literary festival or signs up for a continuing education course on an aspect of literature that interests them. There’s no shame in turning up to any of these alone, and fellowship is guaranteed. Fellow readers may well turn out be like-minded; it’s a basis for new friendships and sustained relationships. Sharing an understanding of a book is a good way of sharing feelings safely. Literary characters can be useful as personas.

But there is another important reason why everyone should read more books, and in particular fiction. The responsibility to fight loneliness lies with those who do not suffer from it. Lonely people often feel that there is no one who understands them or can share their point of view. They need to know that actually there are. That requires everybody else to make the imaginative leap of feeling that connection, and reading fiction helps. It makes people more empathic (移情) — sympathy for fictitious (虚构的)characters can translate into compassion (同情)in real life.

The stories of strangers reach us through many means: news bulletins, interviews, biography and memoir (回忆录), but also drama and fiction. Walking a mile in their shoes might help turn some of those strangers into real friends.

Many children may be afraid that they won’t understand what has been assigned, or that they will have to spend too much time to complete it. No matter   1   your child feels anxiety, there are a few steps you can take to make the process   2  (easy).

Talk to your children---Children don’t always want to express that   3   have a problem. If you think your child may have   4   anxiety issue when it comes to homework, allow them to talk to you about it. Make sure that they know everyone   5   issues and that when you talk about them, you learn how to work together to get that problem   6  (solve).

Create a dedicated workspace---Your child may feel overwhelmed when they try to make decisions   7__   (concern) their homework.   8   (thing) like where to sit, how to gather supplies, and what time to start can affect their study time. No one comes pre-programmed with study skills. Create a dedicated workspace     __9   your child can learn how to start the process. Ensure that the space is   10   (comfort) and quiet.

　　More than half of all Chinese have a smartphone. They reach for it the moment they wake up， keeping it in hand all day. At    ​61        (party)， more people are on their smartphones than on their drinks. In addition， too many people are using smartphones while        62        (drive). And as a result， many car accidents happen everyday on the road. Drivers confirm that text messaging is their number one driving interruption. Smartphones are unbelievably becoming more important than the lives of        63        (them) and others. As many people take risks just        64       ​ (send) a text or check their messages， smartphones are        65        many ways very dangerous to people.

　　The smartphone        66        (affect) our desire　to communicate face to face with others. Besides， it is lowering people’s competence to communicate. In many cases， some people check or send text messages in the presence of a friend，        67        means that the person they are texting is more important. Most        68        (serious)， relying on smartphones to make friends does not give us        69        same advantage as making new friends in the real world. Face－to－face conversations will give us much        70        (strong) communication skills in the long run.

(1)I live just by the Walmart super market, so it' s c ________ for me to go shopping.

(2) Although she has changed so much during these years, I r________ her in the crowd at once.

(3) As the time goes on, he' s g________ becoming familiar with the new school.

(4)They are discussing different a________ to learning English at the class meeting.

(5)His excellent performance in the English Speech Competition i________ the rest of us to make greater efforts than before.