Were you the first or the last child in your family? Or were you a middle or an only child? Some people think it matters where you were born in your family. But there 【小题1】(be) different ideas about 【小题2】 birth order means. Some people say that the oldest children, 【小题3】are smart and strong-willed, are very likely to succeed. The reason for this is simple. Parents have a lot of time for their first child and give him or her a lot of attention. An only child will succeed for【小题4】same reason.

What happens to the other children in the family? Middle children don’t get so much attention, so they don’t feel that important. If a family has many children, the middle one sometimes gets 【小题5】(lose) in the crowd. The youngest child, 【小题6】, often gets special treatment. Often this child grows up to be funny. But a recent study saw things quite 【小题7】(different). The study 【小题8】(find) that first children believed in family rules. They didn’t take many chances in 【小题9】(they)lives. They usually followed orders. Rules didn’t mean as much to later children in the family. They took chances and they often 【小题10】(do) better in life.

FANG HUSHENG is a bright, lively, 82-year-old woman from Beijing 【小题1】 is learning to use a smart-phone ... but it's been【小题2】 struggle. "Technology advances so fast. What is supposed to make life【小题3】 (easy) is now creating problems for us old people," she says.

Fang grew up in a simpler age【小题4】 you had to actually leave your house to shop, buy a train ticket or【小题5】 (make) a doctor's appointment. Now all of these things can be done with a smart- phone and, in some cases, only with a smart-phone. Recently an elderly man in Dalian was unable to travel on the subway【小题6】 his QR health code needed【小题7】 (scan) to enter the subway. "What is a QR code?" the man asked. "I have money to buy a ticket, why do I need a smart-phone?" In the end, he left the station, 【小题8】 (feel) confused and embarrassed.

Many older people have physical and health issues. Poor eyesight makes reading characters on small screen difficult. And "leathery fingers" (it means their fingers are less sensitive) make【小题9】 hard to use touch screens. Perhaps these are problems that smart-phone makers 【小题10】 try to resolve.

UK-based supermarket Waitrose has been accused by social media users for selling tree leaves at 6 pounds.

Photos of various tree leaves packaged in plastic bags and arranged as flower bouquets(花束) went hot on social media lately, 【小题1】 (cause) complaints because of the product's price, six British pounds. Considering tree leaves can literally be picked up from the street this time of year, it's understandable that some people went after Waitrose, accusing the supermarket of trying to make money by selling 【小题2】that is actually free.

"A bag of actual leaves? I'll sell you a bin bag of leaves for 10p," one customer wrote.

"This has got to be from the drunk Monday morning meeting category of ideas," someone else commented.

Apparently, the bizarre bouquets appeared on Waitrose supermarket shelves as a way to welcome autumn, and 【小题3】 (feature) a sticker urging customers to "bring the outdoors inside".

"Brighten up your home with freshly picked flowers 【小题4】pleasant scents(香味)refresh the season," the official product description read. "We source the best blooms from expert growers, and handle them gently【小题5】 they can look beautiful for longer."

【小题6】the generally negative feedback on its autumn-themed product, the British supermarket proudly announced that the idea 【小题7】(inspire) at the beginning of autumn by a demand from shoppers.

"【小题8】we intend to offer, we base our decision on the demands from customers. Our customers love using these leaves to mix in with their seasonal flowers to brighten their homes," a Waitrose spokesperson told The Sun.

Interestingly, there were those who seemed to somewhat justify the price tag of this bag of leaves. They said that those were obviously "high quality leaves". Their claim 【小题9】be true. But even a bottle of wine can be bought at the same price or less. It seems crazy to charge 6 pounds for a bag of leaves.

This isn't the first time that English shops and supermarkets【小题10】 (make) news headlines for selling free things at high prices. There used to be a shop in London, which sold painted logs for $14 apiece.