A rich (有钱的) father took his son on a trip to the countryside. He wanted to show 【小题1】 son how poor the people there were and wished him to cherish (珍爱) what he had. They spent 【小题2】 a few days with a family there.

On their way back home, the father 【小题3】 about his son’s ideas about the trip. So he asked, “How was 【小题4】 trip?”

“It was great, Dad!”

“What did you learn 【小题5】 the trip?” the father asked.

After thinking for a while, the son answered, “We have one dog 【小题6】 the family has four. We have a swimming pool but they have a big river with many 【小题7】 swimming in it. We have very 【小题8】 lights but they have lots of stars at night. We buy food in the supermarket but they 【小题9】 food in their garden for themselves. We have walls around the house to protect us but they have friends to make them feel safe. Dad, thank you for 【小题10】 me how poor we are.”

The father couldn’t say anything, and he just stood there quietly.

Life has changed a lot 【小题1】 COVID-19(新冠病)happened in the world.

Many people find 【小题2】 staying at home, bored and lonely. But if we look at history, we see many great people made their best work when they were 【小题3】. Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and James Clerk Maxwell, three of the greatest 【小题4】 in history, worked by themselves most of the time. They learned from others not by working with them, but by 【小题5】 their papers and books.

Here is another example. In 1606, when an epidemic(流行病)【小题6】 London, all the theaters in the city were closed. At that time, English playwright(剧作家)William Shakespeare worked as an actor at The King’s Men theater. After finding himself without much work, but lots of free time, Shakespeare 【小题7】 working. He wrote King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra before the year was over.

【小题8】, a picture of “the Reader in Fang Cang” has been popular on the Internet. The picture of him reading in bed in the newly-built hospital in Wuhan really touched people. “When you feel worried, look at the picture and you’ll feel that it’s no big 【小题9】 to meet difficulties in life.” said one Weibo user. 2022 is a special year. People around the world have to fight 【小题10】 COVID-19. But do remember that the hope is in the front.

A student spent four years working days and nights while she worked on her university degree. After university, she had her eye on a teaching 【小题1】 at a primary school. She had an interview with the school’s headmaster.

To everyone’s surprise, the would-be teacher didn’t get the job. “I found a small hole in my stockings (长袜) earlier,” she said. “I thought about changing them, but I knew I’d be 【小题2】 if I did that. By the time I got to the interview, the hole was even 【小题3】. I walked in and said sorry for not looking my best. ”

The headmaster said, “If you don’t take the time to prepare yourself well 【小题4】 an interview, what kind of teacher are you going to be?”

First impressions (印象) are lasting ones. In other words, if you are well-prepared when you first meet others, they may feel more positive (积极的) about you. However, if you give an interviewer a 【小题5】 impression, he may believe you are not ready for the job. You might not always get a second 【小题6】. Most employers (雇主) believe that those who look as if they care about 【小题7】 will also care about their work.