Happiness is for everyone. You don't need to care about those people who lave beautiful    1    with large gardens and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of money and so on. Why? Because those who have big houses may often feel    2    and those who have cars may want to walk on the country roads in their    3    time.

In fact, happiness is always around you if you pay    4    to it. When you are    5    at school, your friends will help you; when you study hard in school, your parents will always take good care of your life and your health; when you get success, your friends will say congratulations to you; when you do something    6    , people around you will help you to correct it; and when you do something good to others, you will feel happy, too. All these are your happiness. If you take a bit more    7    of them, you can see    8    happiness is always around you.

Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling of your heart. When you are poor, you can say you are very happy, because you have something that can't be bought with money. When you    9    difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy, because you have more chances to    10    yourself. So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck. As the saying goes, life is like a revolving(旋转的) door. When it closes, it also opens. If you take every chance you get, you could be a happy and lucky person.

I was in my backyard the other night. The evening wind of autumn was blowing. It was    1    , clean and cool without being cold. My dogs were sitting on the freshly fallen leaves and looking up at me,     2    why we hadn't gone back inside yet. The reason was that I was spending some time gazing at the    3    . The sky was almost completely clear of clouds and the stars were twinkling.

It had been too long since I    4    looked at the billions of stars in the night sky. Those little dots of light felt so warm to my heart and inviting to my soul. They seemed to radiate(散发) peace, joy, and heavenly    5    to all who watched them.     6    , one of the few clouds left in the night sky drifted over the large patch of stars I was pondering on(思考) and then disappeared. I frowned(皱眉) as the sky grew a little    7    and finally decided too in.

l thought that each one of those little dots of light was special. Each one of them made the night sky a little    8    . Each one of them made the    9    more beautiful. I thought of each of our lives here and how much our light was needed as well.

Let your own love    10    from your smile, your laugh, and your life. Share your light and bring brightness with you wherever you go.

One day a police officer managed to get some fresh mushrooms(蘑菇). He was so    1    with what he had bought that he offered to share the mushrooms with his brother officers. When their breakfast arrived the next day, each officer found some mushrooms on his plate.

"Let the dog try a piece first," suggested one    2    officer who was afraid that the mushrooms might be poisonous. The dog seemed to enjoy his mushroom, and the officers then began to have their meals, saying that the mushrooms had a very strange but quite pleasant taste.

An hour later, however, they were all astonished when the gardener rushed in and said    3    the dog was dead.     4    , the officers jumped into their cars and rushed to the nearest hospital. Pumps(洗胃器) were used and the officers had a very    5    time getting rid of the mushrooms that    6    in their stomachs.

When they returned to the police station, they sat down and started to discuss the mushroom poisoning. Each man explained the pains that he had felt and they agreed that these had grown worse on their    7    to the hospital. The gardener was called to tell the way    8    the poor dog had died." Did it suffer much before death ?”asked one of the officers,     9    very pleased that he had escaped a painful death himself." No," the gardener looked rather    10    . "It was killed the moment a car hit it.”

How long can human beings live? Most scientists who study old age think that the human body is    1    to live no longer than 120 years.     2    ,110 years is probably the longest that anyone could hope to live--if he or she is extremely healthy and lucky. Some scientists even say we can live as long as 130 years! Yet, our cells simply cannot continue to reproduce    3    . They wear out, and as a result, we get old and eventually lie.

Even though we can't live forever, we are living a    4    life than ever before. In 1900, the average American life span(寿命)was only 47 years, but today it is 75 years!

When does old age begin then? Sixty-five may be out-of-date as the dividing line between middle age and old age. After all, many older people don't begin to experience physical and mental decline    5    after age 75 .

People are living longer because more people survive childhood. Before modern medicine changed the laws of nature, many children died    6    common childhood disease. Now that the chances of dying    7    are much lower, the chances of living long are much higher due to better diets and health care.

On the whole, our population is getting older. The    8    in our population will have lasting effects on our social development and our way of life. Some people fear such changes will be for the worse,     9    some see chances, not disaster. Many men and women in their "golden years" are healthy, still active, and young in mind.

As the society grows old, we need the contributions of our older citizens.     10    long lives ahead of them.they need to stay active and devoted.

Sandra had not been to Las Vegas more than a year. She was excited. Her sister Janie was coming by to    1    her up in about ten minutes. Sandra finished putting her toothbrush and toothpaste into her travel bag; those were: the last two items on her "to pack" list.

She had called ahead to get a room for Janice and herself. The hotel told her that no more rooms were available at the price    2    was advertised in the newspaper. This was no surprise to Sandra. So, she put down a $100 nonrefundable deposit on a room for two nights.

She looked at her watch. Janice was late, obviously. Sandra had forgotten to    3    Janice of today's departure time. To    4    it kindly, Janice was not    5    the most organized person in the world. Sandra called Janice up. She left a short    6    : "Where are you? It 's time to go to Vega:s ! "

A few minutes later, Janice called back. She had a big problem--a schedule    7    . She had already promised to attend her daughter's eighth-grade graduation ceremony this very weekend.

"Oh, Sandra, I 'm so sorry, " Janice said. "l know how much you had wanted to do this. I thought Alice's graduation ceremony and party were next week. l get so    8    sometimes. I'll make this up to you, l promise. Maybe you can call up Lily; she might be    9    .     10    , don't worry, I'll pay you for everything and we can make plans again."

Sandra sighed.

What personal qualities are desirable in a teacher? I think the following would be generally accepted.

Firstly, it teacher should be pleasant and attractive. This does not rule out people who are not good-looking or even ugly, because many such people have great personal charm. But it does rule out such    1    as the over-excitable, dull, sad, cold-mannered, and frustrated.

Secondly, it is not only desirable but essential for a teacher to have real capacity for sympathy--a capacity to understand the minds and thoughts of other people, especially,     2    of children. Closely    3    with this is the capacity to be tolerated—not, indeed, of what is wrong, but of the weakness of human nature which induces people, and especially children, to make mistakes.

Thirdly, I find it essential for a teacher to be honest. That is part of the technique of    4    , which demands that every now and then a teacher should put on an act to make his lesson interesting.

A teacher must be capable of great patience. This, I may say, is largely a matter of self-training and    5    , for we are    6    of us born like that.

Finally, I think a teacher should have the kind of mind.     7    always wants to go on learning. Teaching is a job at which one will never be    8    ; there is always something more to learn about it. There are three main subjects of study : the subject or subjects which the teacher is teaching; the methods by which the pupils can best be taught in the classes he is teaching; and--by far    9    the most important—the children, young people or adults whom he teach. The two main principles of British education today are that education is of the whole person, and that it is best    10    through full and active cooperation between persons, the teacher and the learner.

When Japan's Kamato Hongo died at the age of 116, she was the world 's oldest woman. But Mrs. Hongo seem to have had a perfectly    1    lifestyle, and there seems to be no particular reason for her to have lived so long. She enjoyed things that are sometimes considered to be    2    , such as drinking tea, coffee and even a small amount of alcohol every day, although she did not smoke. So    3    was her secret?

After getting married, she stayed on Kagoshima, the island where she was born    4    her husband on his farm during her long life. Mrs. Hongo gave birth to seven children, lived through three wars, and    5    a volcano eruption on Kagoshima in 1914.

    6    her eventful life, she was happy and hated being away from her family. She always kept a close relationship with all seven of her children, and in fact, when she could no longer look    7    herself , she went to live with one of her daughters, Shizue, and her family.

Then, at the end of her    8    life, Mrs. Hongo seemed to think more about her early life than the present, and sometimes    9    to recognize lose relatives and friends who visited her. She preferred to live in the    10    , and talked abut her very happy childhood. Was happiness the secret of her long life?

During their lives, many people experience difficulties and struggle to do something. Some solve their problem, but some    1    . When I lived in China, it was hard for me to learn Chinese and adapt to Chinese    2    . When I first went to school I was    3    at the class situation. There were 70 to 75 students in one class, and the classroom was very small.

Language was a very big    4    for me because when I were at school, I didn't    5    anything that the teacher and students sail. I just sat in my seat without doing anything, so when I went back home. I    6    and told my mom that I wanted to go back to America.

When I calmed down, I decided that I had to study Chinese very hard, but it was very difficult to learn the language. Every day at school, I tried to    7    Chinese students and make friends with them. When the school was over, I studied Chines all night    8    Chinese elementary school books. That turned out to be a very good way for me to lean Chinese. Little by little, I began to speak Chinese in school. I could finally participate in the    9    , and I began to make many friends. Naturally, I achieved a very high grade in the exam and I was able to adapt to Chinese customs.

Now, I like lo talk with Chinese students and I like Chines food, too. The experience of    10    to learn Chinese in China was a very valuable experience for me. I'll never forget that time when I learned so much.

Scientists who study the brain have found out a great deal about how we learn. They have    1    that babies learn much more from the sights and sounds around them than we thought before. You can help your baby by taking advantage of her hunger to learn.

From the    2    beginning, babies try to imitate(模仿) the sounds they hear us make. They "read" the    3    on our faces and our movements. That is    4    it is so important to talk, sing, and smile to your child. Hearing you talk is your baby's first.     5    toward becoming a reader, because it helps her to love language and to learn words.

As your child grows older,     6    . talking with her. Ask her about the things she does. Ask her about the events and people in the story you read together. Let her know you are carefully    7    what she says. By keeping her in talking and listening, you are    8    encouraging your child to think as she speaks.     9    , you are showing that you respect her knowledge and her ability to    10    learning.

A great deal of attention is being paid today to the so-called digital divide—the division of the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor. And that divide does exist today. My wife and l lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was less    1    then, however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide.     2    , there are: reasons to be optimistic.

There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide    3    . As the Internet becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize access--after all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left    4    , want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet will he netted together.     5    , l now believe the digital divide will narrow rather than widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet may well be the most powerful tool for combating world poverty that we've ever had.

Of course, the use of the Internet isn't the only way to defeat poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has    6    potential.

To    7    advantage of this tool, some poor countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment. Countries that still think foreign investment is a/ an    8    of their sovereignty might well study the history of    9    (the basic structural foundations of a society ) in the United States. When the United States built its industrial infrastructure, it didn't have the capital to do so. And that is    10    America's Second Wave infrastructure—including roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on--were built with foreign investment.