Computer games are popular all around the world. Many people   (1)   these games on the Internet. Games look more and more   (2)   as computer technology improves. Many people describe playing computer games as   (3)  anew world. Some games let people   (4)   their own cities. Some games take people on journeys. Other games allow people to talk over the Internet.

Gaming can   (5)   many positive effects. It can help people make friends, learn to solve problems and make decisions. It can   (6)   help improve eye and hand movement. However, gaming can become a   (7)  .

People addicted (沉溺) to computer games will find themselves   (8)   playing all the time. And this can   (9)   neglect (忽视). People with a gaming addiction often   (10)   their studies, work, sleep, relationships, food, and family. They are often unable to   (11)   the amount of time they play. And uncontrolled playing can lead to other problems like debt. Many gaming addicts spend all their   (12)   on gaming.

  (13)  , there have been far worse cases of gaming addiction. It was reported that a man died while playing an Internet computer game   (14)   he had been playing the same game for 50 hours with few   (15)  .

Today, many more governments and doctors are trying to solve the problem of gaming addiction. More people are learning about the problem. More people are getting   (16)  . And more people are changing their lives. Some people might blame the game   (17)   for creating the problem of gaming addiction. However, some people think   (18)  .

“It would be easy for me to blame the game,   (19)   I know that was not the problem. I ran away from my problems. I   (20)  inan Internet world instead of directly working to solve my problems,” a game addict said.

The New York Times published an article recently that shows great regret for the "death of conversation".It suggests that while technology such as cell phones, e-mails , and Internet posting makes us feel more   (1)  than ever, they’re also driving us   (2)  from people around us.

Users get final connectivity   (3)  the price of   (4)  face-to-face conversation. Sherry Turkle, author of the article in The New York Times says people are   (5)  to a different way of being “alone together”.

Actually   (6)  text messages or writing micro-blogs allows us to   (7)  thoughts.

  (8)  bits and pieces of online cannot   (9)  a “real conversation.” Lan Guo, 19, a freshman English major from Changsha University , said that she would like to hear people’s tone of voice and see their faces in a (n)  (10)  .“The give and take of ideas in a conversation sharpens our minds,” she said．She also mentions that   (11)  ourselves in mobile technology reduces our chance of starting conversations with strangers and   (12)  People.

Turkle mentioned the popular   (13)  of “I share, therefore I am” among this generation. Liu Xuan, a young writer from Taiwan and psychology graduate from Harvard University, thinks it’s a mindset adopted by most young people. They are so busy creating or polishing their online persona (网络人格)that they forget how to live a (n)  (14)  life. For example，They may   (15)  more about blogging about attending a party rather than enjoying being   (16)  

However，experts remind us that it’s unfair to   (17)  mobile technology. Chen Chen, a sociology expert at China Youth &Children Research Center, points out that it is still owners of gadgets , such as cell phones and tablets , who’re avoiding personal  (18)  We take advantage of these devices to hide ourselves   (19)  others. Texting messages or calling may be a (n)  (20)  to avoid contact with others, such as having eye contact．“Only by strengthening conversation can we understand each other. Simply throwing away the mobile gadgets is not a solution.”she said.

 It takes plenty of time for some adults to try to stop children playing. They are usually people who think of play as being the   (1)   of work and therefore a waste of time. For humans, work is a way of getting food to eat, and like humans,   (2)   must spend time doing the  (3)   things. Regardless of this, children   (4)   playing, and so do other young animals. It is quite   (5)   to keep both a small child and a young cat   (6)   for hours with a piece of paper.

    Hunting may be the most obvious skill   (7)   in play, but it is far from being the only one. Lambs and goat kids play   (8)  , although as adults they will never   (9)   anything other than some grass. But for these young animals too,   (10)   is an important part of learning. Sheep and goats are   (11)   hill and mountain animals. Running and skipping exercise young legs and develop a strong sense of   (12)   that will keep them safe on the steepest rocks.

  (13)   animals’ play, children’s play is not so different.   (14)   trees and catching flies are not the most obvious training for the adult world, but the flexibility   (15)   in these activities is similar to that required of a bus driver or businessman.

What we know about animals shows us that playing is a very good way of   (16)  , so maybe one of the best ways for   (17)   to learn is also by playing. Children find playing is fun, but   (18)   notice that they are also learning at the same time. Most people continue to play games long after they have become   (19)  , and perhaps that is because we rely so much on our   (20)   to learn.

Why do young adult children become independent so much later than they did in 1970，when the average age of independent living was 21? Why have reduced class sizes and increased per-pupil expenditures (花销）not  (1 )  higher academic achievement levels? Why is the mental health of today’s kids so poor when   (2 )  with that of children in the 1960s and before? Why do today’s    ( 3)  become defensive when told by teachers that their children have misbehaved in school?

The answer in two words: parental   (4)  . Those two words best summarize the   (5 )   between “old” child raising and new, post-1960s parenting. Then, the overall philosophy was that parents were not to be  ( 6 )  involved with their kids. They were available    (7)   crisis, but they stood a (an)  ( 8 )   distance from their kids and allowed them to experience the benefits of the trial-and-error process. It was the child’s   ( 9 )  , back then, to keep his or her parents from getting involved. That was   (10)    children learned to be responsible and determined.

Today’s parents help their kids with almost everything. These are parents who are  (11)  when it comes to an understanding of their purpose in their kids’ lives. Their involvement leads them to personalize everything that happens to their kids;     (12)  , the defensiveness. But given that schools and mental health professionals have been pushing parent involvement for nearly four decades, the confusion and defensiveness are  (13)    .

University researchers analyzed three decades of data relating to parent participation in children’s academics. Their conclusions   (14)    what I’ve been saying since the 1980s: parental help with homework  (15)  a child’s academic achievement and is not reflected on standardized tests.

Parents who manage a child’s social life interfere with the    (16)    of good social skills. Parents who manage a child’s after-school activities grow kids who don’t know how to    (17)    their own free time. Parents who get involved in their kids,   (18)        with peers grow kids who don’t know how to avoid much less trouble.

These kids have anxieties and fears of all sorts and don’t want to leave their     (19)   . And their parents, when the time comes, don’t know how to     (20)    being parents. You can imagine what will become of their future.

Scientists find that hard-working people live longer than average men and women. Career women are   (1)   than housewives. Evidence shows that the   (2)   are in poorer health than the job-holders. A study shows that   (3)   the unemployment rate increases by 1%, the death rate increases correspondingly by 2%. All this comes down to one point: Work is helpful to health.

    Why is work good for health? It is because work   (4)   people busy,   (5)    loneliness and solitude(独居). Researches show that people feel unhappy,   (6)   and lonely when they have nothing to do. Instead, the happiest are those who are   (7)  . Many high achievers who love their careers feel that they are happiest when they are working hard. Work serves as a   (8)   between man and reality. By work, people   (9)   with each other. By collective activity, they find friendship and warmth. This is helpful to health. The loss of work   (10)   the loss of everything. It affects man spiritually and   (11)   him liable（likely to be affected by）to disease.

      (12)   , work gives one a sense of fulfillment and a sense of   (13)  . Work makes one feel his value and status in society. When a   (14)   finishes his writing or a doctor successfully __55__ on a patient or a teacher sees his students   (15)  , they are happy   (16)   words.

    From the above we can   (17)   to the conclusion that the more you work, the   (18)   and healthier you will be. Let us work hard, study well and   (19)   a happy and healthy life.

A prank is naughty behavior that is at most scolded if it gets too much. This is   (1)  three Chinese students studying in California in the US described what they had done.
Zhai Yunyao, Yang Yuhan and Zhang Xinlei, all 19, called it a “prank” when they took their classmate Liu Yiran to a park where “Liu was … beaten, spat on,   (2)  with cigarettes and forced to eat her own hair during a five-hour attack”,   (3)  the Associated Press.

However, their “prank” in March 2015 was   (4)  a crime in the US. The punishment was years in prison for kidnapping and assault. Zhai was  (5)   to 13 years in prison, Yang to 10 years and Zhang to six years on Feb 17. They will be sent back to China   (6)   serving their sentences, reported The Los Angeles Times.

The bullying case has caused quite a discussion in China where school bullying is not   (7)  but is seldom considered a crime. According to a survey done by China Youth Daily in July last year, 73.3 percent of the 1,002   (8)   said they had experienced or seen bullying cases at school.
However,   (9)   offenders receive proper punishment. In most of the cases, offenders only get criticism from schools. Offenders under 14 have no criminal   (10)  . Those aged between 14 and 16 usually get a light punishment only when they  (11)  serious crimes like murder and rape, according to China’s laws.

“The articles about protecting minors have started to get  (12)  punishing school bullies,” commented an article in Bandao Metropolis Daily. “Some bullies even use the laws as a shield for their violent   (13)   .”

In   (14)   , the US is quite tough on bullying.
A(n)   (15)  of 46 of the 50 US states now have their own anti-bullying laws, according to the US Department of Education. Bullying, according to those anti-bullying laws,  (16)   not only direct physical contact like hitting, but also verbal assaults like name-calling.
Also, judges in the US have the right to   (17)   minor offenders as adults if the cases are serious or if they have criminal records.

China could learn from the US,   (18)   its legal system to stop bullying, some people have suggested. Huang Zhiyuan, a procurator at the Henan People’s Procuratorate, advocated lowering the criminal age in Procuratorate Daily. Li Fangchao of China Daily advised China to make a   (19)   anti-bullying law.

A more profound message the case showed to us is that “the common tolerant  (20)   toward bullying should be changed”, commented Jiaxing Daily. “When teenagers do something wrong, we should tolerate and help them when necessary. But all of these have a limit.”

       People give gifts in almost all societies. Gifts  41  festivals and other important events . Some gifts are expensive, or they may take months to create. Others are of less  42 , such as birthday cards.

       Gift giving is often a process of exchange (交换过程).  43  you receive a birthday gift from someone, that person usually  44  a birthday gift from you  45 . In some cultures, there are some rules about gift exchange. In Pakistan, for example, there is a tradition called “taking giving.” It  46  this way: You give the newly-married couple a gift, and they “repay” you with a gift of higher value. Then you give the couple  47  gift. This one should be worth the difference between the first two gifts. The gift exchange continues,  48  the same way.

       In many ancient cultures, people made  49  to their leaders to show their loyalty (忠诚). The Nubians in ancient Egypt are a good  50 . They brought gold to the Egyptian kings. Traditions like these  51  today in some parts of the world. In parts of Africa, for example, farmers may give gifts to the local leaders to  52  them for protection.

       Today presidents  53  bring gifts when they  54  a foreign leader. Leaders bring gifts to strengthen relationships between  55 , not to stress (强调) the power of the gift receiver.

       Gifts can  56  send special messages. For example, gifts can tell people that we are thinking of them and that we want them to feel  57 . Sometimes a gift makes us remember the giver. The gift keeps the  58  of a special person and a special relationship alive.

       ​There is no doubt about the good side of gift giving. That is why some people don’t  59  the idea that modern gift giving is very wasteful. It is  60  that there is an emotional benefit (情感好处) for people who exchange gifts. That is surely enough of a reason for the tradition to continue.

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.