The day before Christmas I pulled into a store parking lot and counted my money again. It wasn't much. I 1 being poor, not having enough to 2 my small children a few simple toys. As I was 3 I noticed the Salvation Army (救世军) bell ringer at the4. I felt bad again because I didn't feel I could 5 anything to give him. I started walking towards the entrance 6 two cars entered empty parking spaces in front of me. The first was a7, new Cadillac which became the 8 of me the moment I saw it. “How 9 I thought, “would it be to have enough money to buy a car like that!” The second car10, was an ancient car more shabby than the one I was driving.

    A man got out of the Cadillac and hurried into the store 11 past the bell ringer without a second 12. Out of the old car came a young mother with three small children following 13 behind her. Her clothes looked as 14 as her car, yet she slopped at the entrance and 15 a bill. In that second a(n)16 touched me, my envy and dislike 17 me, and all the love and joy filled me. I fished a bill out of my own purse18 it in the Salvation Army kettle, and wished the 19 a “Merry Christmas!”

    Now I felt I was a poor man hut rich on the 20. After finding a few things for my kids, I drove home with my heart singing.

    The day before Christmas I pulled into a store parking lot and counted my money again. It wasn't much. I 1 being poor, not having enough to 2 my small children a few simple toys. As I was 3 I noticed the Salvation Army (救世军) bell ringer at the4. I felt bad again because I didn't feel I could 5 anything to give him. I started walking towards the entrance 6 two cars entered empty parking spaces in front of me. The first was a7, new Cadillac which became the 8 of me the moment I saw it. “How 9 I thought, “would it be to have enough money to buy a car like that!” The second car10, was an ancient car more shabby than the one I was driving.

    A man got out of the Cadillac and hurried into the store 11 past the bell ringer without a second 12. Out of the old car came a young mother with three small children following 13 behind her. Her clothes looked as 14 as her car, yet she slopped at the entrance and 15 a bill. In that second a(n)16 touched me, my envy and dislike 17 me, and all the love and joy filled me. I fished a bill out of my own purse18 it in the Salvation Army kettle, and wished the 19 a “Merry Christmas!”

    Now I felt I was a poor man hut rich on the 20. After finding a few things for my kids, I drove home with my heart singing.

    The day before Christmas I pulled into a store parking lot and counted my money again. It wasn't much. I 1 being poor, not having enough to 2 my small children a few simple toys. As I was 3 I noticed the Salvation Army (救世军) bell ringer at the4. I felt bad again because I didn't feel I could 5 anything to give him. I started walking towards the entrance 6 two cars entered empty parking spaces in front of me. The first was a7, new Cadillac which became the 8 of me the moment I saw it. “How 9 I thought, “would it be to have enough money to buy a car like that!” The second car10, was an ancient car more shabby than the one I was driving.

    A man got out of the Cadillac and hurried into the store 11 past the bell ringer without a second 12. Out of the old car came a young mother with three small children following 13 behind her. Her clothes looked as 14 as her car, yet she slopped at the entrance and 15 a bill. In that second a(n)16 touched me, my envy and dislike 17 me, and all the love and joy filled me. I fished a bill out of my own purse18 it in the Salvation Army kettle, and wished the 19 a “Merry Christmas!”

    Now I felt I was a poor man hut rich on the 20. After finding a few things for my kids, I drove home with my heart singing.

    Lots of people find it hard to get up in the morning and put the blame on the alarm clock. In fact, the key to easy morning wake-up lies in resting your body clock {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Here is how to make one.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#} In order to make a change, you need to decide why it's important. Do you want to get up in time to have breakfast with your family, get in some exercise or just be better prepared for your day? Once you are clear about your reason, tell your family or roommates about the change you want to make.

    Rethink mornings. Now that you know why you want to wake up, consider re-arranging your morning activities. If you want time to have breakfast with your family, save some time the night before by setting out clothes, shoes, and bags{#blank#}3{#/blank#} That's a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maker with a timer.

    Keep your sleep/wake schedule on weekends. If you're tired out by Friday night, sleeping in on Saturday could sound wonderful. But compensating (弥补) on the weekends actually feeds into your sleepiness the following week, a recent study found{#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    Keep a record and evaluate it weekly. Keep track of your efforts and write down how you feel. After you've tried a new method for a week, take a look at your record.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} If rot, take another look at other methods you could try.

A. Gel a sleep specialist.

B. Find the right motivation.

C. A better plan for sleep can help.

D. And consider setting a second alarm.

E. If the steps you take arc working, keep it up.

F. Slick to your set bedtime and wake-up time, no matter the clay it is.

G. Reconsider the 15 minutes you spend in line at the café to get coffee.

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2).提出建议并说明理由：向朋友倾诉，加强户外运动，保持积极心态等。

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Hi, Worried,

    I'm sorry to know that you're having such a bad time at the moment.

                                                                                                                                                Yours,

                                                                                                                                                Li Hua

MY Travel Experience in China

    During the summer holidays I visited a variety of regions in China.

My first stop was Beijing and of course the Great Wall. Without question it lived up to my {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (expect).

    After a long journey, I reached Yunnan. With{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(it) minority villages and impressive landscapes, Yunnan had a lot to offer. One of my {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (enjoy) moments in Yunnan was during my visit to The Tiger Leaping Gorge. The climb over the gorge was at times exhausting {#blank#}4{#/blank#} always breathtaking. The views couldn't {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (imagine) in their beauty and they {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (leave) me with many great memories.

    After taking a boat from the mainland I arrived at {#blank#}7{#/blank#} island province of Hainan. There I visited Baihua Waterfall. Floating on a pool of water at the base and looking up at the waterfall with a background of blue sky was one of the most {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (relax) experiences of my life.

    Throughout China there are many ancient buildings and in particular ancient towns. Lijiang and Dali both have glorious {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (example) of this. It was remarkable to step back in time and get an idea of{#blank#}10{#/blank#} China might have looked like all those years ago. I thought the buildings were beautiful and full of history.

    I had a wonderful time! China is both fascinating and beautiful!

MY Travel Experience in China

    During the summer holidays I visited a variety of regions in China.

My first stop was Beijing and of course the Great Wall. Without question it lived up to my {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (expect).

    After a long journey, I reached Yunnan. With{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(it) minority villages and impressive landscapes, Yunnan had a lot to offer. One of my {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (enjoy) moments in Yunnan was during my visit to The Tiger Leaping Gorge. The climb over the gorge was at times exhausting {#blank#}4{#/blank#} always breathtaking. The views couldn't {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (imagine) in their beauty and they {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (leave) me with many great memories.

    After taking a boat from the mainland I arrived at {#blank#}7{#/blank#} island province of Hainan. There I visited Baihua Waterfall. Floating on a pool of water at the base and looking up at the waterfall with a background of blue sky was one of the most {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (relax) experiences of my life.

    Throughout China there are many ancient buildings and in particular ancient towns. Lijiang and Dali both have glorious {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (example) of this. It was remarkable to step back in time and get an idea of{#blank#}10{#/blank#} China might have looked like all those years ago. I thought the buildings were beautiful and full of history.

    I had a wonderful time! China is both fascinating and beautiful!

    The popular smartphone application Instagram (照片分享) has changed the way we look at photography, even our world. The photo-worthy moments we share serve as an important function in cultivating the photographic artistic eye.

    Instagram has got people to start noticing the art in their everyday life. It has also allowed us to share the artful moments in our lives with others. Clearly, making people focus on beautiful moments in their lives and how to share them is a positive takeaway from Instagram.

    Not only has Instagram changed the way we look at things around us, but it has also changed the way people view professional photography. Instagram has turned everyone with a smartphone into an artist. Opening up art to the general community is a groundbreaking (创新的) aspect of this application. Making artistic attempts accessible for everyone to discover their artistic talents and explore creatively is something that has made people find the beauty in the everyday. However, this accessibility has also created questioning around art and respect deserved by professional photography.

    The art in a professional photograph versus an Instagram can sometimes be hard to notice at a quick glance. But photographs taken by true professional photographers hold something that Instagram's can't match in terms of photographic quality, or advanced compositional knowledge.

    This is not to say Instagram is a lesser art. Aesthetic qualities of art are a personal matter and how good an artwork is depends on personal preferences. Good is a very arbitrary term in the art world. For example, I may find one photo more pleasing than another, but not everyone has to agree with me.

    The point I am trying to make is that professional photography should not be lost, but instead approached with a new, enhanced level of respect and admiration—despite how accessible, common and fun Instagram now makes the taking and sharing of photos.

    Christmas was near a season that we took seriously in our house. But a week or so before the 25th, my father would give each of his children $ 20. This was the 1970s, and $ 20 was quite a bit of money.

    But I saw it differently. My father trusted me to have the smart to spend money wisely. Even better, he gave me the means to get it. On a very basic level, my father was giving me a shopping spree (狂欢) every year.. But he was also giving me charge over my own fun, trusting my ability to manage money and making me feel like a grown-up. He didn't buy me Sherlock Holmes, but he gave me the means to walk into the bookstore and choose it for myself, so it felt like a gift from him.

    My mother had a gift for giving me what I needed, usually right at the moment I needed it most. This was when I was 25, I failed at being an adult on my very first try. I had quitted my previous job but had no new one. But when my mother paid me a visit, I put on a good show, telling her I had started my own company.

    My mother knew that I was trying hard and failing at that time. It wasn't until after she left that I noticed at the foot of my bed an envelope thick with cash. She knew how desperately I needed it. She knew that had she just shown up with groceries, or offered to pay my rent, she would have made me feel much worse. The cold, hard cash meant she was helping me. And, funnily enough, the distance with which she gave the gift felt like she was giving me space to fix my life and preserve my dignity. My mother and father both did the same thing. One was giving me the means to take my own decisions, and the other was giving me a second chance when those decisions had cost me dearly.

    Christmas was near a season that we took seriously in our house. But a week or so before the 25th, my father would give each of his children $ 20. This was the 1970s, and $ 20 was quite a bit of money.

    But I saw it differently. My father trusted me to have the smart to spend money wisely. Even better, he gave me the means to get it. On a very basic level, my father was giving me a shopping spree (狂欢) every year.. But he was also giving me charge over my own fun, trusting my ability to manage money and making me feel like a grown-up. He didn't buy me Sherlock Holmes, but he gave me the means to walk into the bookstore and choose it for myself, so it felt like a gift from him.

    My mother had a gift for giving me what I needed, usually right at the moment I needed it most. This was when I was 25, I failed at being an adult on my very first try. I had quitted my previous job but had no new one. But when my mother paid me a visit, I put on a good show, telling her I had started my own company.

    My mother knew that I was trying hard and failing at that time. It wasn't until after she left that I noticed at the foot of my bed an envelope thick with cash. She knew how desperately I needed it. She knew that had she just shown up with groceries, or offered to pay my rent, she would have made me feel much worse. The cold, hard cash meant she was helping me. And, funnily enough, the distance with which she gave the gift felt like she was giving me space to fix my life and preserve my dignity. My mother and father both did the same thing. One was giving me the means to take my own decisions, and the other was giving me a second chance when those decisions had cost me dearly.

    English is full of colorful phrases to describe shyness. Someone shy might be called shrinking violet or a wallflower, while for especially nervous types we have the curious expression: they wouldn't say boo to a goose.

    None of these are traditionally seen as positive descriptions, even if you like geese. In a culture of go-getting, high achievers, shy people don't come first. Or that's what the self-help industry would have you believe. Bookshops are filled with vital tomes(巨著) that promise to help beat social fears and find success in life, love and business. That is why one book, Shrinking Violets: A Field Guide to Shyness, bucks the trend. It became a sudden success across English-language media recently for its new take-on shyness.

    Author Joe Moran says that despite struggling with shyness and longing for loneliness all his life, being shy can also be "a gift". Freed from the constant urge to participate and compete in social situations, people are liberated to look at the world in new ways, and gain fresh insights.

    Indeed, many of the world's great thinkers and artists are introverts(内向的人). Scientists Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein preferred their own company; actress Keira Knightley often finds herself tongue-tied at parties; and Harry Potter author JK Rowling claims she used to be too nervous to even borrow a pen.

    Moran told BBC Future: "I think shyness probably does turn you into an amateur anthropologist(人类学家), really-you are more likely to be an observer."

    So, while extroverts make all the noise, they don't necessarily have the best ideas.

    If you're shy, you've probably known this for a long time. You just don't shout about it.

How to Build a Student's Self-Confidence

    Educating students means more than giving them academic knowledge. Simply knowing a correct response doesn't give a student the confidence to raise his hand to answer a question. Students perform best in constructive learning environments{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Provide leadership opportunities for students. Cultivate (培养) important characteristics, including responsibility and independence by assigning students to take different classroom roles. Suitable jobs include hall monitors, audio-visual assistants and classroom helpers.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}

Set achievable goals for each student.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}Engage in ongoing dialogue regarding your expectations and their individual progress. Reward students for meeting challenges, while persuading struggling students back on track.

    Give constructive feedback to help reduce weaknesses and strengthen strengths. Teach students that self-confidence isn't built from being harmed by praise. Remain honest with each student to encourage them to speak out their problems, instead of avoiding or denying their existence. Make corrections without damaging your students' confidence.

    Encourage students to set high standards for themselves.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}Reinforce(强化) this message with age-appropriate examples and literature. Provide consistent encouragement to students to show your commitment to their success.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Realize that conquering difficult tasks builds mental toughness and fosters persistence. Relay this message to your students by asking each one to write a goal that focuses on improving a weak area. Help your students develop relevant attack plans.

A. Push students to improve their weaknesses.

B. Self-confidence games can help students of all ages.

C. Reassure students that they are capable of achieving greatness.

D. You can ease students' insecurities with various activities that build confidence.

E. They are especially useful in helping young children build success for their future.

F. Realize that overcoming self-doubt to achieve objectives helps build students' confidence.

G. Mastering some duties can help build confidence and erase fear of trying new experiences.