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

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

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

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

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   . And more people are changing their lives. Some people might blame the game  for creating the problem of gaming addiction. However, some people think.

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

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!

        Do you feel upset when you hear that your school might not allow cell phones? Do you break into a cold sweat（汗） when your cell phone battery(电池) dies? If you   (1)   live without your cell phone, you might have a   (2)  .

   A recent study found that some people could be   (3)   to their cell phones. The study was conducted atStaffordshire Universityin England. About 40 percent of students   (4)   said they couldn’t do without their cell phones. About 90% said they took their   (5)   with them everywhere. One third of students surveyed said they used cell phones to   (6)   themselves up.

   The study also asked students 18 to 25 questions designed to   (7)   addictive(上瘾的) behavior. The results found that one in six cell phone users have a lot in   (8)   with gambling addicts (赌瘾). Some people said they sometimes lied about their cell phone use.   (9)   admitted stealing to pay for their cell phone habit.

   Dr David Sheffield,   (10)   conducted the study, said he wasn’t surprised by the   (11)  . “Students use their phones   (12)  , and this has both positive   (13)   such as staying in touch with friends and   (14)  , and negative ones too, such as financial costs and social costs,” he told Weekly Reader. “The most   (15)   finding was that a number of people reported they had      (16)  arelationship or job because they spent too much time on mobile phones .”

  (17)   part of the study, some students agreed to take a   (18)   from their cell phones. After three phone-free days, students reported feeling less   (19)   about their daily lives. That might be a   (20)   reason to hang up the phone!

 One of the most successful and influential women in American history, Eleanor Roosevelt once said that she had one regret: she wished she had been   (1)  . Who hasn’t felt the same way? We are all too aware of our physical imperfections. To overcome them, we   (2)    billions of dollars every year to cosmetics, diet products, fashion, and plastic surgery.

  Why do we care so much about   (3)  we look? Because it matters. Because beauty is powerful. Because even if when we learn to value people mostly for being kind and wise and funny, we are still  (4)  by beauty. No matter how much we argue  (5)  it or pretend to be immune（免疫）, beauty   (6)    its power to us. There is simply no  (7)  .

  Aristotle said, “ Beauty is a greater recommendation than any form of   (8)   .” It’s not fair, but it’s   (9)  . We simply treat beautiful people better than we do others.   (10)   a photograph of a beautiful author to an essay,   (11)     people will think that is more creative and more intelligently written than exactly the same essay   (12)   by the photo of a homely author.

  Our   (13)   to physical beauty is not something we can   (14)   at will. We are born with it. Experiments conducted by psychologist Judith J. Langlois   (15)    that even small babies prefer to look at attractive faces and are  (16)  to the same faces which adults have   (17)  to be attractive.

  There are more important things in life than beauty. But as Etcoff   (18)   it, “We have to understand beauty, or we will always be a (n)   (19)   to it.” If you aim to be wise and kind and funny, it doesn’t follow that you can’t also try your best to look beautiful. There is no reason to feel  (20)    about being moved by beauty’s power. It moves us all.

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.

The winter skies are gray and it’s cold outside. The nights come early and we spend a lot more time  (1)   and alone. Many people   (2)   winter: so cold, so dark, so boring. But I like winter because I have more time to read.

  For many students reading means school; it means  (3)    . Reading is something your teacher assigns and it’s something you’re     (4)   . Reading is something you have to do, not something you want to do. But for me and many other people, reading is the most     (5)  thing we can imagine. Getting lost in a good book can   (6)   a cold winter evening disappear. Dull grey shies are no  (7)   for the fantastic adventures of Frodo in The Lord of the Rings, or for romantic trouble-making of Jane Austen’s Emma, or for the youthful problems of Holden Caulfield in The Cather in the Rye.

  All of those books are studied in North American high schools. They are interesting and well-written books that  (8)   young people.    (9)   even there, many high school students don’t enjoy reading the books because they are  (10)   their school work ：“Oh, my God! Two hundred pages! I’ll never be able to read  (11)   much.” But sometimes a funny thing happens. They begin to read and they begin to follow the    (12)   .Suddenly, the world inside the book becomes more exciting and more wonderful than the world they   (13)   . At the moment the though  (14)  reading is work disappears and reading becomes  (15)   .

  Reading anything is  (16)  but reading good books is a terrific way to improve your English. Good writers write English very well and   (17)   you with good examples to follow.   And good books will tell you more about English  (18)  :what people think, how they talk, how they interact with each other. But don’t let me   (19)   it by telling you that reading is good for you. Just think of it as a good way to   (20)  on a cold winter evening.

How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, impolite waiter，rude boss，or an insensitive employee   (1)  your day?

     One day I was in a taxi and we headed   (2)   the airport. We were driving in the  (3)  lane when suddenly a black car drove out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his   (4)  ，slide sideways，and at the very last moment our car stopped and   (5)  the other car by just inches！The driver of the other car looked around and started   (6)   at us.

     My taxi driver just   (7)  and waved at the guy. And I mean he was really   (8)  . So I asked，"Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital！” This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call “The Law of the Garbage Truck”. He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of   (9)  , full of frustration，full of anger，and full of disappointment. As their garbage   (10)  up，they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on   (11)  ．Don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave，wish them well，and move on.

     Believe me. You’ll be   (12)  ．Don’t take their garbage and   (13)   it to other people at work，at home，or on the streets. Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with  (14)   ．The mark of your success is how quickly you can refocus on what’s   (15)  in your life. Roy Baumeister，a psychology researcher from Florida State University，found in his extensive research that you   (16)  bad things more often than good things in your life. You store the bad memories more easily, and you   (17)  them more frequently.

    So…Love the people who treat you right. Ignore the ones who don’t. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you   (18)   it！

    When you follow “The Law of the Garbage Truck”，you take back control of your life. You make room for the good by  (19)   go of the bad. Have a Garbage-Free Day！Have a marvelous，garbage-free day！The seeds you plant today   (20)   the harvest you reap tomorrow.

   We are often warned by our teacher not to waste precious time, because time   (1)  will never return. I think it quite  (2)  What does time look like? Nobody knows for we can’t see it or   (3)  it and no amount of money can  (4)  it. Time is abstract（抽象的）, so we have to   (5)  about it.

    Time passes very quickly. Some students say they don’t have  (6)  time to review all their lessons. It is because they don’t know how to make  (7)  of their time. They waste it in going to theatres, cinemas and parks, and doing   (8)  things. Why do we study every day? Why do we   (9)  ? Why do most people would rather  (10)  buses instead of walking? The  (11)  is very simple. We wish to save time because time is  (12)  

    Today we are living in the 21st century. We look upon time as   (13)   When a person dies, his life   (14)   Since life is short, we must    (15)  our time and energy to our study so that we may be able to  (16)   the people well in the future. Laziness is the  (17)   of time, for it does not only bring us failure but also   (18)   us other harm. If it is necessary for us to do our work today, let us do it today and not  (19)   it until tomorrow. Remember that time is much more   (20)   than money.

All parents want to see their children succeed in life.

They want their children to have more than   (1)  they had, yet they often fail to give their children what is  (2)  needed.

Today’s children typically have their private   (3)  with a television, toys, cell phones, their own computers. When they come of age, they will even have their own   (4)  . Often, they do not treasure these as much as the previous generations did. Furthermore, they are sometimes more than just spoiled   (5)  these items give immediate satisfaction when they really need some attention. Gradually, they depend on these immediate distractions in order to relieve their 46  . Thus kids develop   (6)   attention spans with little patience.

    If   (7)  is a virtue, then why don’t parents   (8)   bring out the best in them?

    In today’s society, it is far   (9)  _ to entertain children than it is to instruct them in   (10)  development skills. In the current fast-paced society, parents choose to  52  _themselves with work in order to earn more and provide their children with a good living environment. They do not   (11)  enough time to play or communicate with their children. So parents can easily offer their children new toys  (12)  develop their children’s sense of duty which will lead their children through self-learning to understand the   (13)  of hard work and patience.   (14)  , the best method for parents to teach patience to their children is not by  (15)  them things, but by giving their children a(n)   (16)  to explore and learn about things that   (17)  them. Using this method, parents can eventually teach their children the same hard lessons that they have   (18)   learned too.