Li Hua found himself full of regrets for the first one and a half【小题1】(month)of his college life. He was majoring in civil engineering in【小题2】he had no interest at all.

He regretted that he had taken civil engineering as a major. He did extremely well in the English part of his college entrance exams, especially in listening and【小题3】(fill)in the blanks. He was【小题4】(confidence) that he could do well if he were an English major.

But, it wasn't so easy【小题5】 he thought. The university wanted 40,000 Yuan to make the change. That was a lot for a family like【小题6】(he). He told the head of the foreign languages department how miserable and worried he was as a civil engineering major and how【小题7】he wanted to be an English major and asked【小题8】 an informal oral test. His efforts【小题9】(pay)off. In the end, he changed his major without paying anything

It's been a year since then, but he still remembers that day clearly. He has this to say, “Life is too short to feel sorry. You've got to do something【小题10】(change) your disadvantage.”

During the Spring Festival, my parents and some of my relatives gave me some gift money. What should I do 【小题1】 the money? I had attempted 【小题2】(buy) a new coat. I 【小题3】(imagine) wearing a new pair of sports shoes. With the gift money I could afford to buy 【小题4】 I wanted. 【小题5】 I soon gave up the idea because I knew I was still a student at school.

Besides, my parents always lived 【小题6】 simple life. Their money was not 【小题7】(easy) earned. Thinking of this, I decided to open a savings account at a bank the following day. My parents were very 【小题8】(please) with my idea. From now on, I’ll make both 【小题9】(end) meet as a student financially supported by my parents. I am looking forward to my dream 【小题10】(realize) one day with the money earned through my hard work.

On paper alone you would never guess that I grew up poor and hungry. These years my 【小题1】（recent）annual salary was over $ 700,000. I am a Truman National Security Fellow and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. My publisher has just released my latest book series on quantitative finance in worldwide distribution.

【小题2】 of it feels like enough. I feel 【小题3】 I am wired (极度紧张的) for a permanent state of fight or flight, waiting for the other shoe to drop. I’ve chosen not to have children, partly because—— 【小题4】 any success——I still don’t feel I have a safety net. If you knew me personally, you 【小题5】 get glimpses of stress, self-doubt, anxiety, and depression.

In my childhood, I spent a lot of my time 【小题6】 (ponder) basic questions. Where will my next meal come from? Will I have electricity tomorrow? I 【小题7】 (acquaint) with the embarrassment of my mom trying to hide our food stamps at the grocery store checkout. I remembered panic setting in as early as age eight, at the prospect of a perpetual uncertain about everything in life, from food to clothes to education. I knew that the life I was living couldn’t be normal. I just wasn’t sure 【小题8】 it was that was wrong with the tiny microcosm I was born into.

As an adult I thought I’d figured that out. I’d always thought my upbringing had made me wary and caution, in “lessons learned” kind of way. Over the past decades, though, that narrative 【小题9】 (evolve). We’ve learned that the stresses 【小题10】 (associate) with poverty have the potential to change our biology in ways we hadn’t imagined. It can reduce the surface area of your brain, shorten your telomeres, and lifespan, increase your chance of obesity, and make you more likely to take outsized risks.