I am writing to ask for my advice on my relationship with my teenage son. 【小题1】 (tell) the truth, I often struggle to get along with him. Recently we 【小题2】 (argue) with each other a great deal. He is anxious about his skin because it has started to become very oily, with lots of red spots. I keep telling him that these changes are normal and   【小题3】 things will turn out just fine. I asked him to see a doctor but then he became angry and we had 【小题4】 argument. The whole experience was really terrible and I do not want to go through the same pain again. What should I do?

This morning, my parents left on a long trip to Hawaii. They were as 【小题1】(excite) as if it were their honeymoon.

When my parents married, they had only enough money for a three-day trip fifty miles from home. They made an 【小题2】(agree) that each day they would put a dollar in a special metal box and save it for a honeymoon inHawai for their fiftieth anniversary (周年纪念).

Dad was a policeman, and Mum was a school teacher. They lived in a small house and did all 【小题3】(they) own repairs. Raising five children was a challenge, and sometimes money was short, 【小题4】 no matter what emergeney came up, Dad would not let Mum take any money out of the “Hawaii account”. As 【小题5】 account grew, they put it in a savings account.

My parents 【小题6】(be) always very much in love since the day they got married. I can remember Dad 【小题7】(come) home and telling Mum, “I have a dollar in my pocket,” and she would smile at him and say, “I know how 【小题8】(spend) it.” When each of us children married, Mum and Dad gave us a small metal box and told us their secret, 【小题9】 we found charming (有魅力的). All five of us are now saving for our dream honeymoon. Mum and Dad never told us how much money they had managed to save, but it must have been 【小题10】(fair) large.

My name is Randall Davis. Years ago, I wanted 【小题1】(make) something of myself working as an editor. However, I realized later that the most important things in life lived within the walls of my own home. So today my 【小题2】(great) interest is my family.

I enjoy 【小题3】(spend) time with my family. I have four children, and we go hiking and camping together. On our hikes, we often talk about life or tell 【小题4】(story). We always have fun taking pictures. I can also focus 【小题5】my kids without the distractions (分心) of video games or the Internet. Telling stories sounds easy, 【小题6】when you have to think of a new story on a hot, 12-kilometre hike through the desert, you have come up with ideas off the top of your head.

Now, this doesn’t mean we don’t have problems; all families face challenges in 【小题7】(they) lives, and our family 【小题8】(be) no exception. However, we try to talk 【小题9】(open)about our problems, and we try to solve our problems together. Building 【小题10】strong family takes time, but it is worth the effort.