For many young people, going to university is one of the most important 【小题1】 (stage) of their lives. It is the time 【小题2】 young people will move out of 【小题3】 (they) home to live with other people, often strangers.【小题4】 (especial) in the U.S, people often travel very far 【小题5】 home to study. It is a time to be 【小题6】 (independence).

At university, you will 【小题7】 (teach) by lectures and professors who are leading figures in their study. The opportunity to learn from and to discuss with them is 【小题8】 drives some people to apply to university. Students are required to choose a major that they wish to study. Apart from the academic benefit, life at university also can allow students 【小题9】 (develop) their interests in many fields.

Therefore, university is a place 【小题10】 you attain knowledge, develop your values and accept those who may be different.

Smartphones are becoming more and more of a necessity for high school students. Therefore, a discussion 【小题1】 (hold) about whether the senior school students should use our smartphones at school last week. Different people have different opinions. People supporting the idea consider it convenient 【小题2】 (contact) the students’ parents when necessary. However, people who are 【小题3】 it find it easy for some students to be addicted to playing the smartphones, 【小题4】 has a negative effect on their studies. It is even worse that smartphones can also discourage students’ will.

When I packed up my life and moved from the comforts of my little hometown to Waco, I remember feeling 【小题1】(lose). All my friends were so excited to start their own lives, but I just wasn’t sure 【小题2】 I was ready for that yet. Many things worried me. But I hid my fears and when the time 【小题3】(final) came, I 【小题4】 (hug) my mother goodbye, made the two-hour one-way drive from Coppel to Waco, and set up my new room.

For the first few 【小题5】 (week), I didn’t miss home or really feel any kind of emotion at all except tired. There was so much for me to learn that I hadn’t had time to think about anything. My energy was directed towards figuring out campus, 【小题6】 I was not familiar with at all. I explored every corner, 【小题7】 (look) for the perfect place to study. I learned to set 【小题8】 (I) a schedule of getting groceries, cleaning my room and doing my laundry on Sundays.

Nowadays, in my second semester, I feel like I have almost adapted 【小题9】 the university life. The transition from high school to college wasn’t as difficult as my mind made me think it would be. One of the best things college has taught me is how to be 【小题10】 (independence).