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   Kids perform differently in school. Their performances vary, even if they have  _（1）___ personalities or come from the same background. _（2）___, this kind of phenomenon is caused by many factors. Recently, a new study of Nova Scotia fifth-graders _（3）___that kids who eat better perform _（4）___in school. Students who ate an adequate amount of fruit, vegetables, protein, fiber and other components of a  _（5）___ diet were significantly less likely to  _（6）___ a literacy test, Dr. Paul found.

   While a healthy diet is _（7）thought to be important for good school  _（8）, there has actually been little study on this _（9）, Paul and his colleagues noted. To investigate, they looked at 4,589 fifth-graders _（10）_ in the Children's Lifestyle and School Performance Study, 875 (19.1 percent) of whom had failed an elementary literacy assessment  （11）_the majority had passed it.

   The researchers found, students' good eating habits are based on their diet   (1)  , including adequacy and variety. If the kid   (2)  enough and abundant nutrients in the daily life, he or she will be more likely to do well in the test,  _（14）after the researchers adjusted the data for the effects of  _（15）__income and education, school, and sex. Eating plenty of fruit and vegetables, and getting fewer calories from fat, was also  _（16）_with a lower risk of failing the test.

   Till now, Paul and his _（17）_ say, most researches on diet and school performance have only  _（18）___on the importance of eating breakfast, as well as the bad  _（19）___ of hunger and malnutrition(营养不良). "This study extends current knowledge in this area. It shows us the importance of overall diet quality to academic results," the researchers  _（20）___.

At the age of 13, my son Tim became interested in surfing. Before and after school each day, he would put on his surfing suit, go to the seaside and be   (1)  to be challenged by his friends. But his great love for surfing was tested one   (2)  afternoon.

"Your son’sbeen in an accident. When he surfed to the top of the water, the point of the board was headed toward his   (3)  ", the lifeguard reported over the phone.   (4)  , My husband Mike sent Tim to the emergency room, where he received 26 stitches(缝针) around the eye.

I was on a(an)   (5)  to get back home from a meeting. Mike drove   (6)  to the airport after they left the doctor’soffice. He   (7)  me at the gate and told me Tim was waiting in the car. I   (8)  to the car. My poor son was sitting in the back seat with both arms   (9)  out toward me crying, "Oh, Ma, I’m so   (10)  you’re home." I cried in his arms telling him how   (11)  I felt about not being there when the lifeguard called.

"It’sokay, Mom," he comforted me. "You don’tknow   (12)  to surf anyway."

"What?" I asked,   (13)  by his logic.

"I’ll be   (14)  , anyway. The doctor says I can go back surfing in eight days." Was he  (15)  ? I wanted to tell him he wasn’t allowed to go near   (16)  again until he was 35, but instead I kept silent and prayed he would   (17)  surfing forever.

For the next seven days he kept   (18)  me to let him go back on the board. One day after I repeated "No" to him for the 100th time, he beat me at my own game. "Mom, you taught me never to give up what we   (19)  ." Then he handed me a book titled“Never give up”I bought for him as a birthday gift.

I   (20)  . Years later Tim was among the top 25 professional surfers in the world. And he always keeps in mind that passionate people embrace what they love and never give up.

A few weeks ago, one of my dearest friends lost her two-year-old daughter forever. My friend and I live on ____（1）____ sides of the country, so I took a trip to visit her. I was ____（2）____ about what I was going to say to her and her ____（3）_. How was I going to find the words to ____（4）____ them? I want to find ____（5）____ words.___（6）___, it was too hard.

   Having two ____（7）___ children at home. I felt I couldn't truly understand her pain, so how ____（8）____  was I going to be able to comfort her? I walked into her home and could never have ___（9）____  the life-changing words that would be spoken between us.

   My friend, one of the ______（10）___ people I know, said something during her time of sadness that was such a simple phrase but will forever impress me in my _____（11）___. As she was describing the events leading to the ___（12）____  of her daughter, she tried, to express her___（13）____  heartbreak as she ___（14）____  her sweet child in the hospital. She said to me with tears___（15）____ her face. "You're a mom, you know."

   ____（16）____, it was at that moment, with that phrase, ___（17）____  I was able to start to understand her sadness. Sure, I was completely heartbroken for her sadness, as death is ___（18）____ for anyone. But I'll___（19）____  that I didn't fully understand it. I do understand the ____（20）____  that she once got from playing with her child. And to lose that? There are no words.

   Except "I'm a mom, I know" with tears.

I had never felt so confused when I saw a small piece of paper under my pillow with the word “Dad” written on it. It was still a(n)   (1)   to me when my youngest brother came in announcing that he had left me the   (2)   there. Ever since my father   (3)  , I’ve felt that I’ve become more like a father to my brothers than an older brother,   (4)   never to this extent.

My whole life I grew up without a   (5)  , without someone to show me how life worked. Being   (6)   like that made me quieter towards people around me. I watched my best friend talk with his father and   (7)   what it was like to have someone like that in my life.   (8)   them I wondered if I was going to be a   (9)   father. And being around my brothers proved I would. I've watched them   (10)  . I tried to be more than a big brother to them, and   (11)   to teach them everything they needed to know.

High school is the hardest time for a person. But it's also the most   (12)   point to make a difference, not just in the   (13)  , but on the football field. To be a football coach is one of my   (14)  . I want to show kids that life is just like a game of   (15)  . You should always go into it with your shoulders down and your head up, go as   (16)   as you can and look for the hole.

I'll try to help them succeed where they believe they have   (17)  . I'll teach them to get around   (18)   not by pushing through the wall, but by looking to the side and finding the path around. My brothers' performance   (19)   me I can do well in life and that's what I want to do for others. As the American philosopher, Tyron Edwards, once said, "If you would   (20)   know anything, teach it to others."

In the past, man did not have to think about the protection of his environment. There were few people on the Earth, and__  (1)  __resources seemed to be__  (2)  _.

Things are now__  (3)  __. The world has become too__  (4)  __. We are_  (5)  _up our natural resources too quickly, and at the same time we are__  (6)  __our environment with dangerous chemicals. If we continue to do this, human life on the Earth__  (7)  _not survive.

Everyone__  (8)  __today that if too many fish are taken from the sea, there will soon be none__  (9)  __. Yet, with modern fishing__  (10)  __， more and more fish are caught. We know that if too many trees are cut__  (11)  __，__  (12)  __will disappear and nothing will grow on the land. Yet, we___  (13)  _to use bigger and more__  (14)  _machines to get more and more trees.

We realize that if rivers are polluted with waste products from factories, we will die. __  (15)  __， in most countries wastes are__  (16)  __put into rivers or into the sea, and there are__  (17)  __laws to stop this.

We know，__  (18)  _， that if the__  (19)  _of the world continues to rise at the present rate, in a few years there will not be enough__  (20)  _.

What can we do to solve these problems?

I worked in a store three years ago. I remember one girl who started  (1)  there a few months after me. I remember always meeting her, I donˈt know  (2)  but for a strange reason we would never talk. We would just see each other and smile.

She would  (3)  smile in a really happy way until one day when we got to work in the  (4)  department again. She  (5)  as if she was the happiest girl in the world. But I had a strange feeling. So I went up to her and asked, "Whatˈs wrong with you?"She answered, "Why?^" I said, "I could feel youˈre very  (6)  today and youˈre trying to hide it."

She was shocked as if I had  (7)  her deepest secret, so we started  (8)  .She told me why she was feeling like that and why she was  (9)  to hide it and we had a good time together. Time  (10)  and we became good friends. Sheˈd always tell me I had changed her  (11)  in so many ways, but I could not  (12)  how it had happened. I would just smile, not understanding what she  (13)  by that.

Today this girl is one of my best  (14)  .I really donˈt know what I would do  (15)  her. She has been there for me in every possible way a friend could be. I guess what Iˈm trying to say is that you  (16)  know when youˈre helping yourself. I  (17)  this girl never knowing that at the same time I was helping myself by finding a(n)  (18)  friend.

So the next time you see a  (19)  ,and he looks as if he needs  (20)  who will listen to him, listen to what he has to say. You never know, you might just end up helping yourself.

 When I was a teenager I volunteered to work at the water station at a 10,000 m race. My ____  (1)  ____ was to pass out water to the runners. I remember being so excited to see all the different kinds of ___(2)____ who passed by and ____  (2)  ____ a cup of water. The next year I signed up for the race and gave it a ___  (3)  ____.

   The first 10,000 m race was quite an experience. I jogged, I walked, I jogged and I walked. At times, I didn't ____  (4)  ____ if I could finish.

   At one point near the end, a 70 - year - old man ran past me very ___  (5)  ____, and I felt embarrassed that I was 50 years younger than him and I couldn't even keep up with him. I felt ____  (6)  ___ for a second.

   But then I ____  (7)  ____ something. He was running his race and I was running mine. He had __(9)___ abilities, experience, training and goals for himself. I had mine. Remember my ___(10)____ was only to finish.

   After a minute, it ____  (8)  ____ me that this was a lesson I could draw from. I learned ____  (9)  ____ about myself in that moment. I turned my ____  (10)  ____ into inspiration.

   I decided that I would not ____  (11)  ____ running races. In fact, I would run even more races and I would learn how to train and ___  (12)  ____ properly and one day I would be one of those 70 - year - olds who were still running. As I ____  (13)  ____ the finishing line, I was proud of my ____  (14)  ____.

   In life we all have those moments when we ____  (15)  ____ ourselves with others. It's only ____  (16)  ____. Don't allow those moments to weaken you. Turn them into ____  (17)  ____ and let them inspire you. Use them to show you what is possible.

My husband and I insisted that our children were old enough to clean their rooms and make their beds. But they thought   (1)  . My complaints, even self-justified shouting, were always landing on   (2)  ears. Very often a whole hour’s scolding would end with their   (3)  into tears, I felt very frustrated. I realized I needed to  (4)  my method of “mothering”.

One day when they were at school, I spent some time   (5)   their rooms. On their desks, in plain  (6)   , I left the cards: “Dear Bill (the other card was   (7)  to Sarah), your room was messy this morning and I’m sure you like it clean. Love, the Room Fairy.”  (8)   arriving back, the children were   (9)  excited to receive the little note from the Room Fairy. The next day, their rooms were fairly tidy. Sure enough, there was another note from the Room Fairy  (10)  for them, thanking them for their nice “gift” of a clean room and   (11)  asking them to play a certain violin    (12)  . Each day, thank--you notes would be written differently to keep the ideas  (13)  .

   Sometimes the Room Fairy would propose a little   (14)  : “If you can finish your homework and   (15)   your lessons before dinner, I’ d like to watch a particular television program with you tonight.” Sometimes some colored markers or other little items would be left in   (16)  of well done jobs the day   (17)  .

     (18)  I can’t remember how long “the Room Fairy” continued leaving her love notes. When they were age appropriate, we used various versions of Post-Its(贴条). The bathroom mirror became the  (19)  centre of our home. Appointments, notices about visiting relatives, lesson schedules, and changes in plans could be posted.

   We all benefited from and   (20)  the idea of sharing reminders and daily details of life through notes. I believe the true advantage of the Room Fairy notes survives in our frequent and enjoyable communication.

Many years ago, a teacher and his student lay down under a large tree near a large grass area. Then__ （1）___ the student asked the teacher, “ Teacher, I’ m puzzled. How do we ___（2）__ our soul mate.(灵魂伴侣)? Could you please __（3）__ me? "

  ___  (1)  for a few seconds, the teacher then answered, “ Well, it’s a pretty hard and easy question.” The teacher__ （5）__ , “ Look that way. There is a lot of （6）__ . Why don’t you walk there? But please don’t walk __（7）__ . On your way, try to find a blade (叶片) of beautiful grass and __（8）__ it and then give it to me. But just one.”

  The student said OK and then he walked straight __（9）__ to the grassy field. A few minutes later, the student came back __（10）__ . When the teacher asked the __（11）__ , the student said, “ On my journey, I found quite a __（12）__ beautiful blades of grass, but I __（13）__ that I would find a better one, so I didn’t pick it.   (2)   I didn’t realize that I was at the __（15）__ of the field, and I hadn’t picked any because you told me not to go back, so I didn’t go back.” Hearing this, the teacher said, “ That’s __（16）__ will happen in real life.”

   What is the _（17）_ of this story? In the story, grass is the people around you; the beautiful blade grass is the people that _（18） you and the grassy field is time. In looking for your soul mate, please don’t always __（19）_ and hope that there will be a better one. By doing that, you’ll __（20）__ your lifetime. Remember “ Time Never Goes Back.”

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     Almost all the people alive today can relate to the 90s music. When we hear music from the time, we just cannot help ourselves － we sing along. The 90s music is not easy to define(定义): it is a diverse combination of many artists and music styles; there is no definite artist or style that one can individually use to identify 90s music.

     There are thousands of reasons to love the 90s music, but here are 3 things that help people to be close to the 90s music.

     A Trip Down the Memory Lane

     Whether one will admit or not, listening to the 90s music gives a person an excuse to have a trip down the memory lane. The point is: whatever experiences we had during this period can be related to a song. So listening to old songs brings back the memories and all we have to do is travel down that memory lane at ease.

     Birth of Legendary Artists

     Many of the artists that we now know and love started during the 90s.So we must give credit to this period and all the producers that existed during that time for being able to discover our favorite artists. A lot of great songs during this period were created as well. Some of those songs are still in our iPads, cell phones or computers. We simply cannot get enough of them. Even the pictures of the artists that we admire are still hanging on our walls. If asked why, one can simply answer that we cannot get over them.

     Diversity

     As mentioned, there are many artists and styles that represent the 90s time period. So you get to listen to a numerous styles of music and get to know a lot of artists. There is a certain diversity that has not been present during any other period; this diversity is what makes the 90s more memorable than other decades of music. So get that MP3 player out and listen to your favorite 90s music and then enjoy your trip back to a simpler time.