An old Spanish proverb states, “Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week”. How many  (1)   have we put off our dreams until tomorrow? I’d say, too many. Our dreams should not, and cannot wait. We have to go for them now! Here’s    (2)    .

  Tomorrow is not (3).

Nobody likes to talk about death，but the   (3)  is everybody is going to die  (4)  . None of us know the day, or the hour.   (5)  today is all we have．Make the decision to go after every dream, big or small, right now.

   The world is   (6)  your gift.

You were born into the world with a  (7)  gift, which nobody on this earth can copy. Sure, other people may be able to sing, but they’ll never be able to sing   (8)  like you . Sure, other people can write, but they’ll never be able to write in the same  (9)  that you write. Don’t deprive (剥夺) the world of your gift. It’s the oxygen that we need to  (10)   .Therefore, it is your responsibility to   (11)  exactly what your gift is，and use it to   (12)  your life and the lives of those   (13)  you .

   You can’t let fear win.

One of the biggest dream   (14)  is fear. Many people could have achieved amazing

things   (15)  they weren’t afraid. Just think about all the things you’ve wanted to do，but allow fear to tell you that you were not good,or   (16)  enough. Never let fear stop you from   (17)  your dreams.  

   You will be much happier if you go for it.

Imagine how much happier you will be if you’re living the life you  (18)  dreamed about. The only thing that is stopping you is you.  (19)  your own happiness. Don’t keep your dreams waiting. Go after them today!

War, money and power are a few things that countries and people are

concerned about.__(1)__I agree that those things are important, I believe that everyone should start

to__(2)__ more on a growing problem—global warming.

Global warming will not only__(3)__our country and our generation, but also the entire__(4)_ and future generations. It is__(5)__ because the weather has been a lot warmer over the past few years, which__(6)__the melting(融化) of the ice in the Antarctic. This will soon cause water levels to __(7)_and flood parts of the world.

Many people ignore this problem because they feel__(8)__ they canˈt do anything about it and

have more__(9)__things to worry about. If we all__(10)__so, then our ozone layer(臭氧层) will

be__(11)__and the planet will no longer be able to make life continue to exist. We should do our

best to limit the use of our planetˈs __(12)__resources(资源) and keep our air clean.__(13)__，future

generations will suffer from our__(14)_.

Some might feel that they canˈt stop global warming from__(15)__. But if every single person does his or her part in keeping the air clean, then it will become a__(16)__effort. Sure, there are some things that cause pollution and that we wonˈt be able to__(17)__change. This may include cars burning oil, but we can__(18)__adjust some of these things. People can start carpooling, taking the bus, riding their bikes, or__(19)__just walking.

If everyone takes__(20)__now, I believe we can start seeing remarkable results within a few

years.

I believe in the power of the unknown. I believe that asenseof the   (1)   inspires us in all of our creative activities, from  (2)  to art.

When I was a child, after bedtime I would often  (3)  my bed in my sleeping clothes, go to the  (4)  and stare at the stars. I had so many questions. How far away were those tiny points of light? Didspace go on_  (5)  and ever, or was there some end to space, some giant edge? And if so, what  (6)  beyond the edge?

  (7)  of my childhood questions: Did  (8)  go on forever? I looked at pictures of my parents and grandparents and tried to  (9)  their parents, and so on, back through the generations, back and back through time. Looking out of my bedroom window  (10)  _the endlessness of space, time seemed to spread forward and backward  (11)  , swallowing me, swallowing my parents and great-grandparents, the whole  (12)  of earth. Does time go on forever? Or is there some  (13)  of time? And if so, what came before?

When I  (14)  , I became a professional astrophysicist.  (15)  I never answered any of these questions, they continued to  (16)  me, to affect me, to drive me in my scientific research, to cause me to live on just fish and no sleep for  (17)  at a time while I was  (18)  a science problem. These  (19)  questions, and questions like them, challenge and never leave the leading__  (20)  of today.

Job stress has been known to cause heart problems in people who already have cardiovascular(心血管) disease. Now Finnish scientists have shown that the pressure of work can __  (1)  _cause damage in healthy people.

   High blood pressure, lack of __  (2)  _, smoking and being overweight __  (3)  __ to heart disease -- a __  (4)  __ killer in many industrialized countries.

But Mika Kivimaki, of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, and his colleagues, who studied the __  (5)  __ histories of 812 healthy Finnish men and women in a metal industry company over 25 years, said job stress also plays an important role.

   Workers who had the highest job-related stress levels at the start of the study were more than twice as __  (6)  __ to die of heart disease, __  (7)  __ the study published in The British Medical Journal.

   Work stress __  (8)  __ too much work as well as a lack of satisfaction and feeling undervalued and __  (9)  .

   Many people work long hours, but if the effort is __  (10)  __, the stress is minimized. Kivimaki said job pressure is damaging when being overworked is __  (11)  __ with little or no control, unfair supervision and few career opportunities.

The British Heart Foundation said the results __  (12)  __ earlier research showing that people in jobs with low control, such as manual workers, could be at greater __(13)__ of heart disease than other employees.

   "It is __  (13)  __ for people to try to minimize levels of stress at work and for employers to __(15)__ people to have more control at work and to be rewarded for their success," the foundation said in a statement.

Friends are very important in our everyday life. Everyone 21 friends. We all like to feel close to someone.22 is nice to have a friend to talk, laugh, and do things with.23 , sometimes we need to be alone. We don’t always want people 24. But we would feel lonely if we

25had a friend.

No two people are 26. Friends 27 don’t get on well. That doesn’t mean that they no longer like each other. Most of the time they will make up (言归于好) and become 28 again.

Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very 29. We miss them very much, but we can 30 them and write to them. And wecan31new friends. It is encouraging to find out how much we like new people when we get to know them.

There’s more good news for people who have friends. They live 32 than people who don’t. Why? Friends can make us feel happy.33happy helps you stay well. Or it could be just done that someone cares. If some one cares about you, you will take 34 care of 35.

An elderly woman told the police that, as she entered a restroom, she was slightly pushed by a woman behind her. A few minutes later, as she was about to  41   for a moustache remover at a nearby store, she discovered that her wallet was  42  from her purse. Apparently the woman who had   43  her had cleverly stolen her wallet. This type of  44   is called pick-pocketing.

    Perhaps an even more personal kind of theft is known a housebreaking, or   45   . After such an accident, the victims often report a feeling of   46  . They seldom regain the comfort and   47   they used to have in their home. They   48    feel like they are being watched; they feel that if they go out, the burglars will again  49  . They feel uncomfortable when they are home, and they also feel uncomfortable when they  50  .

   Burglars get lucky or make their own luck. Sometimes homeowners forget to  51   all their windows or doors. Sometimes burglars will break a window, cut through a screen door, or force  52   a side door.

   Thieves have no  53  .They will steal from anyone that they think is vulnerable(脆弱的），and that means the  54  are their frequent victims. Some thieves are very clever, some are very lucky, but all of  55   make an honest person’s life more    56  . It’s too bad that all of them can’t be caught and   57   into honest people.

     Imagine that: a world with no thief, a world where you can  58  your bicycle unsecured on the sidewalk, or leave your purse  59  in your shopping cart. Is this only a(n)  60   ? Some say that if you can dream about it, it can be realized.

Why do some people live to be older than others? Do some kinds of personalities lead to longer lives? And what effect does your personality have on your longevity?

A new study   36  that those living the longest are more outgoing and less neurotic (神经质的) than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be   37  and sympathetic than women with a   38  life span (寿命). These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary   39 : those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough   40  to make it through tough times.

However, other characteristics that you might consider   41  had no impact on whether study   42  were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old.   43 , being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might   44  all those bad-tempered old people who are   45  in their ways.

Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the   46  of a longstanding psychological debate. But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive (努力) to be as   47  as possible.

 48 , another recent study shows that your mother’s personality may also help   49  your longevity. That study found that those moms who were more   50  and angry were more likely to   51  their kids unhealthy diets. Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to   52  when we’re adults, which may mean that kids of downhearted moms   53  dying younger.

Personality isn’t destiny (定数), and everyone knows that individuals can learn to   54 . But both studies show that long life isn’t just a   55  of your physical health but of your mental health.

Many students often say that they don't have “ enough time” to do all their schoolwork.

My  36    is often brief, “You have as much time as the president.” I usually carry on a bit about there being twenty-four hours in the day for  37   , and suggest that “not enough time” is not an  38     explanation of not getting something   39   .

   40 in graduate school, I tried to prove to one of my professors    41   saying that I was working hard. His answer to me was, “That's irrelevant.   42    is important is the  43   of your work. ” Since then I have had time to think carefully about the   44   of “ hard worker” ,and I have come to some    45  — all  relevant to the problem of how much time we have.

If you analyze the matter, you can identify two parts of the problem: There is,    46  , the matter of “ time” , which we can think of as   47   . Then there is the problem of “work” during that time. But, as my professor suggested, it's not how hard one works  48    the quality of the product that's important.

That led me to a new idea: the quality of the work. That   49    is perhaps best explained by a sign I once saw on the wall in someone's office: “Don't work harder. Work smarter. ”There are a lot of   50   in that idea.

If you can't get more time, and few of us can, the only solution is to improve the quality of the work. That means thinking of   51   to get more out of the same time than we might otherwise get. That should lead us to an analysis of our working habits. Since “work” for students usually means “homework”, the expression “working” habits should be read as “   52    habits”.

Then, as a smart student, you will   53  to improve those skills that you use in study,    54   reading and writing. If you learn to read better and write better, there are big benefits that   55  in all your studies.

Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor-cars   (1)   a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world a day,   (2)   computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts（吹嘘）of saving   (3)   seconds in handling tasks.

       All this saves time, but at a   (4)  . When we lose or   (5)   half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, we get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag and our   (6)   feel that they have been left behind in another time zone. Again, spending too long at   (7)   results in painful wrists and fingers.

       However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not   (8)  , or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it   (9)   to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting     ___  (10)   take us into another world.

There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted   (11)   to the farming of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a   (12)  ___     pattern. There is much that we might   (13)   about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faced: they farmed with bare hands,   (14)   lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone.

Modern machinery has   (15)   people from that primitive existence. But attitudes towards it     ___  (16)   across generations. Some find today’s technology a   (17)  . Others consider it a curse. I suppose the positive side is that primitive existence is still   (18)   for anyone who really wants it. Anyway, computers can be shut   (19)   and most places in the world can be reached on foot. Regardless of anyone’s view on the subject, it’s hard to imagine what life would be like   (20)   daily advancements in technology.

Many adults take too much time to attempt to stop children playing. They are usually the people who think of playing as being the   (1)   of working and therefore a waste of time and energy. 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 really   (4)   playing, and so do other young animals. So 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 they will never   (8)   anything other than some grass. But for these young animals too,   (9)   is an important part of learning. Sheep and goats are   (10)   hill and mountain animals. Running and skipping exercise young legs and develop a strong sense of   (11)   that will keep them safe on the steepest rocks.

  (12)   animals play, human play is not so different.   (13)   trees and catching flies are not the most obvious training for the adult world, but the flexibility   (14)   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   (15)  , so maybe one of the best ways for   (16)   to learn is also by playing. Children find playing is fun, but   (17)   notice that they are also learning at the same time. Most people continue to play games long after they have become   (18)  , and perhaps that is because we rely so much on our   (19)   to learn.