When it comes to earning wealth, some people admire wealth to an extreme level, overlooking spiritual values. One of the most significant and incomparable spiritual values is wisdom. 【小题1】 However, a huge number of people believe that wealth surpasses wisdom.

The invaluable qualities wisdom inherits(继承)in a person cannot be bought by wealth. A wealthy individual may experience the most luxury and comfort on the Earth. 【小题2】

Albert Einstein once said. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” One needs to develop a positive mindset and the willingness to be polite and should possess a sense of sympathy. 【小题3】

You can consider wisdom as the person’s capability to make correct decisions and choices. 【小题4】 It keeps on enhancing with time. If a person is wealthy but lacks wisdom, he can certainly lose his wealth because there is a lack of knowledge and intelligence to hold that wealth for a long time.

【小题5】 Wisdom is in fact the key to wealth. Through wisdom come great wealth and ultimately the success. The violent pursuit of wealth could lead to failure and disappointment. However, the pursuit of wisdom guarantees you success and instills plenty of useful spiritual qualities within you. You can treat wisdom as the practical application of knowledge.

I was desperately nervous about becoming car-free. But eight months ago our car was hit by a passing vehicle and it was destroyed. No problem, I thought: we’ll buy another. But the insurance payout didn’t even begin to cover the costs of buying a new car—I worked out that, with the loan (贷款) we’d need plus petrol, insurance, parking permits and tax, we would make a payment as much as £600 a month.

And that’s when I had my fancy idea. Why not just give up having a car at all？I live in London. We have a railway station behind our house, a tube station 10 minutes’ walk away, and a bus stop at the end of the street. A new car club had just opened in our area, and one of its shiny little red Peugeots was parked nearby. If any family in Britain could live without a car, I reasoned, then surely we were that family.

But my new car-free idea, sadly, wasn’t shared by my family. My teenage daughters were horrified. What would their friends think about our family being “too poor to afford a car”？(I wasn’t that bothered what they thought, and I suggested the girls should take the same approach.)

My friends, too, were astonished at our plan. What would happen if someone got seriously ill overnight and needed to go to hospital？(an ambulance) How would the children get to and from their many events？(buses and trains) People smiled as though this was another of my mad ideas, before saying they were sure I’d soon realize that a car was a necessity.

Eight months on, I wonder whether we’ll ever own a car again. The idea that you “have to” own a car, especially if you live in a city, is all in the mind. I live—and many other citizens do too—in a place that has never been better served by public transport, and yet car ownership has never been higher. We worry about rising car costs, but we’d be better off asking something much more basic: do I really need a car？Certainly the answer is no, and I’m a lot richer because I dared to ask the question.

Your phone shuts down randomly. You have to charge it constantly. And you can barely see the screen through a spiderweb of cracks. Time for a new phone. But what should you do with the old one? The number one rule: never throw it in a garbage can or recycle bin. It might start a fire or even explode.

Smartphones contain lithium-ion batteries. So do tablets, laptop computers, electric cars, and many other devices, including some cameras, headphones, power tools, and more. These batteries offer the most energy for their size compared to other batteries. But if a lithium-ion battery gets damaged, it may overheat, leading to flames, fire, or even an explosion.

In 2017, cleaners in New York City threw an innocent-looking cardboard box into their garbage truck. When the truck’s compactor (垃圾捣碎机) squeezed the box and a battery hidden inside—BOOM! The battery exploded. The workers managed to take out the box and throw it in a puddle (水坑), putting out the flames. But explosions and fires are on the rise at recycling centers around the world, and lithium-ion batteries are usually to blame.

To safely get rid of a device that contains these batteries, take it to an electronics recycler. You can search for a drop-off location at call2recycle.org.

Even professionals have trouble handling some devices. Isauro Flores-Hernandez takes apart electronics at Cascade Asset Management in Madison, Wisconsin. Safely removing the battery from one iPad took him 40 minutes.

Many tech companies are more concerned about selling new devices than repairing or recycling old ones. They make more money that way. So they tend not to make it easy to break down their products. It may cost more to take the item apart than the materials inside are worth. That’s a deal-breaker for recycling centers. If an item is too tough to break down, it will go into a landfill. Do you think tech companies should do more to support safe and easy recycling?