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　　After graduation from Harvard Medical School, Dr William Thomas never thought he'd work in a nursing home. Then, __1__, he became a medical director of a nursing home in New York, and his ideas began to __2__.“For the first time in my career, I was __3__ for the answer to the question-- what does it mean to __4__ another person?”

　　__15__ that the biggest trouble facing nursing-home residents（居住者）are helplessness, __6__ and boredom, he arranged laughter, usefulness and love as __7__.

　　__8__ Thomas calls it, he began the“Edenization”of the nursing home in 1992. At last he founded the Eden Alternative.

　　Lazy moments and loud television programmes were __9__ with lovely children, playful pets, __10__ plants and music in the lobby. These living things are __11__ into life. Residents are __12__ to tend the animals, water the plants, weed outdoor gardens and do crafts with the children.

　　The Eden Alternative changed the __13__ of the residents at this 80-bed nursing home. In a three-day study, the nursing home was __14__ with a nursing home of equal size. The Eden Alternative had 26 percent less nurse-aide turnover, 15 percent __15__ resident deaths and 38 percent lower medication costs.

　　In 1995 Dr Thomas __16__ his full time to the promotion of the Eden Alternative. More than 200 nursing homes throughout the country have __17__ the Edenization process. Thomas receives queries（质疑）from as __18__ away as Turkey, Japan, Brazil and the Nether-lands. He hopes that his idea of filling“__19__”into nursing homes and inviting the community in will help to“break conventional practice in long term __20__.”

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　　Since my family were not going to be helpful, I decided I would look for one all by myself and not tell them about it till I'd got one.

　　I had seen an agency（中介机构）advertised in a local newspaper. I rushed out of the __1__ in search of it. I was wildly excited, and as __2__ as if I were going on the stage. Finding the __3__ quite easily, I ran breathlessly through a door which said“Enter without knocking, if you please.”

　　The simple atmosphere of the office __4__ me. The woman looked carefully at me __5__ through her glasses, and then __6__ me in a low voice. I answered softly. All of a sudden I started to feel rather __7__. She wondered why I was looking for this sort of __8__. I felt even more helpless when she told me that it would be __9__ to get a job without __10__. I wondered whether I ought to leave, __11__ the telephone on her desk rang. I heard her say:

　　“__12__, I've got someone in the __13__ at this very moment who might __14__.”She wrote down a __15__, and held it out to me, saying: “Ring up this lady. She wants a __16__ immediately. In fact, you would have to start tomorrow by cooking a dinner for ten people.”

　　“Oh, yes, ” said I-- __17__ having cooked for more than four in my life. I __18__ her again and again, and rushed out to the __19__ telephone box. I collected my thoughts, took a deep breath, and rang the number. I said confidently that I was just what she was looking for.

　　I spent the next few hours __20__ cook books.

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　　My name's Jim Shelley and I'm an addict（有瘾的人）...”

　　With these words I began to __1__ the problem, the problem of my telephone addiction. I used to call people __2__, from the moment I woke up to the time I went to sleep. I __3__ to be phoned. I wanted to phone. Just one more call.

　　It started socially--a few calls each day. It seemed __4__, just a quick chat. Gradually though, the __5__ got worse, soon it was __6__ use, until, finally, addiction.

　　And it began to affect（影响）my __7__. During the day I would disappear for __8__ call. If I couldn't make a call, I spent the whole time waiting for the phone to ring. Getting more and more __9__, in the end, I would ring someone, then someone else, __10__ myself just one more call.

　　I was phoning people and __11__ messages to make sure __12__ calls would see me through the day. I used to arrive at friends, homes and before the door was closed, go straight for the phone with the __13__“Is it OK if I just use the phone...? At work, I became __14__ when my fellow workers tried to __15__ me from using the phone. And one day I hit my boss (with the phone). Finally the police caught me __16__ a phone box that had taken my last one pound coin, and I was __17__ to see a psychiatrist（心理医生）.

　　I haven't __18__ a phone in the house for three weeks now, and it's several days __19__ I used a phone box. I try not to watch TV because there are __20__ people on it making phone calls. My name is Jim Shelley and I am an addict.

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　　As science developed rapidly in the direction of technology, it supplies man a better and more comfortable life. Men will be working shorter and shorter hours, while housewives will also be able to have more free time. Can you imagine doing housework without a housewife? Scientists believe this will __1__ into realities in not very long time, and perhaps during your life time house-robots will take __2__ of housewives.

　　When I __3__ this kind of machine with housewives, some 90 percent of them replied __4__,“__5__ can I buy one?”__6__ 10 percent said,“I would be terrified to see it __7__ about my house.”But when I realized that it is __8__ to them that it could be turned __9__ or stopped, they quickly realized that it is a __10__ object.

　　In my own __11__ we have found that the washing-up machine is regarded as a good __12__ in the room. There's no greater __13__ than to go to bed in the evening and __14__ that the washing-up is being done downstairs after we are __15__.

　　Some families would __16__ to have their robot slaves __17__ all the downstairs housework after they were in __18__ at night, while others would have it __19__ in the mornings. But this would be entirely a matter of __20__.

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　　How often one hears children wishing they were grownups. And old people wishing they were __1__ again. Each age has its pleasure and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age __2__ him without wasting his time in useless __3__.

　　Childhood is a time then there are few responsibilities（责任）to make life __4__. If a child has good parents, he is __5__, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is __6__ that he will ever again in his life be __7__ so much without having to do anything in return. __8__, life is always giving new things to the child-things that have lost their __9__ for older people because they are too __10__. But a child has his __11__, he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is __12__ being told not to do something, or being __13__ for what he has wrongly done.

　　When a young man __14__ to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to __15__ his food, his clothes, and his room, but has work if he wants to live __16__. If he spends most of his time playing about in the ways that he used to as a child, he will __17__ hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society __18__ he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, __19__, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of __20__ for himself his position in society.

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　　Have you ever wondered why we buy more things than we need when we go shopping? Even if we're not in the mood for shopping it __1__ that many of us waste money on unwanted purchase（所购物）. However, consumers __2__ to admit this and in general see themselves as being __3__ enough not to be influenced by advertising, retailers'（零售商) __4__ or even their own mood when shopping.

　　__5__ surveys（调查）which have been carried out, there's a strong __6__ between people's psychology（心理）and their purchases. In other words, if consumers feel __7__, they buy more. It seems retailers have realized this, so they play __8__ to create a more pleasant atmosphere. Apart from __9__, visual（视觉的）tricks are used as well. __10__ goods are placed on shelves where they can easily be __11__ by adults, while children's goods are displayed on __12__ shelves. Other ways of making people buy without __13__ that they are being influenced is the use of vivid __14__ to make products stand out or the smell of baking bread or fresh coffee flowing __15__ the store, which may attract the shoppers' appetite（食欲）.

　　Therefore, it isn't. __16__ to go shopping when you are hungry since you are more likely to __17__ products you don't really need in addition, don't carry __18__ money when out shopping because the more you have the more you __19__.

　　So are you a smart shopper or one that gets tricked into buying without realizing it? __20__ next time you go shopping!

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　　Tim Becker and his neighbours are doing something to make their neighbourhood a trouble-free area.

　　When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn't __1__ drive to a store and back home. He always looks __2__ up and down the streets of his neighbourhood. He looks for any-thing __3__ such as strange cars, loud noises, __4__ windows, or people gathering on street corners.

　　Tim __5__ to a neighbourhood watch group in Stoneville, Indiana, USA. The neighbourhood watch group __6__ on the third Wednesday of every month. That's __7__ Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbours to discuss community __8__. Members of the neighbourhood watch group want to help the police __9__ their homes, streets and families safe.

　　Tina Stedman, president of __10__ neighbourhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime（犯罪）happens to other people but not __11__ them. Well, it's never happened to me, ”she said,“but I don't think anyone has the __12__ to steal from other people or to make them feel __13__ sitting in their own homes.”

　　Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbours __14__ out for one another.“We __15__ each other's homes. We keep watch on the neighbourhood at night and on weekends. Usually a __16__ of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn't look right, then we call the __17__. For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for __18__, or someone destroying property（财产）, we report to the police.”

　　Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups __19__ a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees,“Police are good people, but they can't do __20__.”

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　　The amount of usable water has always been of great interest in the world. __1__ springs and streams sometimes means control, particularly in the __2__ areas like the desert. The control is possible even without possession of large areas of __3__ land. In the early days of the American west, gun fights were not __4__ for the water resources（资源）, and laws had to be __5__ to protect the water rights of the __6__ and the use of the water resources accordingly.

　　__7__ is known to us all, there is not __8__ water in all places for everyone to use as much as he likes. Deciding on the __9__ of water that will be used in any particular period __10__ careful planning, so that people can manage and use water more __11__. Farmers have to change their use of or demand for water __12__ the water supply forecast（预报）.

　　The __13__ water supply forecast is based more on the water from the__14__than from the below. Interest is __15__ in the ways to increase rainfall by man-made methods, and to get water from the winter snow on mountain __16__. With special equipment, some scientists are studying the ways in which the mountain snow can be __17__, and with the help of a repeater station, they send the __18__ data（数据）to the base station. The operator at the base station can get the data at any time by __19__ a button. In the near future, the forecast and use of water __20__ probably depend on the advance knowledge of snow on mountains, not of water underground.

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　　If you cough occasionally, you may just be suffering from a common cold. __1__ if you have a rising fever with your __2__, or you have difficulty in breathing, you had better __3__ a doctor or call the emergency hotline (64629100 or 64629112)as soon as possible, __4__ these could be symptoms（症状）of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome).

　　If you want to __5__ extra precautions（预防）and buy a filter mask, go to your local drug store. Your Chinese friends may __6__ you to take Banlangen, a traditional Chinese medicine widely __7__ in China to activate the immune（免疫的）system, or fumigate vinegar in your house to __8__ viruses（病毒）in the__9__, but“these measures are of no use in__10__the disease, ”said Dr. Qi Xiaoqiu, Director General of the Department of Diseases Control, Ministry of Health.

　　If you have __11__ returned from Hong Kong or areas __12__ SARS has been active, go to your doctor and __13__ him or her of your recent trip. If you develop symptoms __14__ your trip, stop traveling until fully __15__. If you pass 12 days symptom-free after coming back from these areas, you __16__ set your mind at ease（无忧无虑的）.

　　The following are some preventive measures you can take __17__ by experts from the Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention:

　　●Wash hands with running water after sneezing, coughing or clearing your nose;

　　●Use a clean towel or tissue after washing hands;

　　●Do not share towels with __18__;

　　●Keep a healthy diet, add or __19__ clothes according to changes of the weather and exercise regularly and get plenty of sleep;

　　●Relieve stress and do not smoke so as to __20__ your body's resistance to diseases;

　　●Reduce visits to crowded places with poor ventilation.

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　　When I was 16 years old, I made my first visit to the United States. It wasn't the first time I had been __1__. Like most English children I learned French __2__ school and I had often been to France, so I __3__ speaking a foreign language to people who didn't understand __4__. But when I went to America I was really looking forward to __5__ a nice easy holiday without any __6__ problems.

　　__7__ wrong I was! The misunderstanding began at the airport. I was looking for a __8__ telephone to give my American friend Danny a __9__and tell her that I had arrived. A friendly old man saw me looking lost and asked __10__ he could help me. “Yes”, I said, “I want to give my friend a ring. ” “Well, that's __11__, ” he exclaimed. “Are you getting __12__? But aren't you a bit __13__?”“Who is talking about marriage?”I replied. “I __14__ want to give my friend a ring to tell her I've arrived. Can you tell me __15__ there's a phone box?”“Oh!”he said, “there's a phone downstairs.”

　　When at last we__16__ meet up, Danny explained the misunderstandings to me.“Don't worry, ” she said to me. “I had so many __17__ at first. There are lots of words which the Americans __18__ differently in meaning from us British. You'll soon get used to __19__ funny things they say. Most of the __20__ British and American people understand each other!”