Disappointed. B. Unsurprised. C. Excited.
Tea Cottage Wants You!
Join us in Tea Cottage—the best Chinese restaurant in town. We are now looking for someone interested in working with us.
2 Cooks
At least two years' work experience in a restaurant kitchen
Good at making Chinese dishes
Able to work on weekends
Work time: 16:00—21:00 every day (USD $600/ week)
Waiters/Waitresses
At least one year's work experience in cafes or restaurants
Part-time welcome
Work time: 11:00—15:00 or 16:00—21:00 (USD $16/ hour)
2 Cleaners
No experience needed
Part-time welcome
Wash dishes, clean the kitchen
Work time: 12:00—15:00 or 17:00—22:00 (USD $12/ hour)
We're also looking for singers and bands for Wednesday nights!
Call 213-333-6789 Ms Wu
I was working as a consultant （顾问） in a beer company, helping the president and senior vice-presidents with something important. It was a big challenge. At the same time, my mother was in the final stages of cancer.
I worked during the day and drove miles home to be with her every night. It was tiring and stressful, but it was what I wanted to do. My promise was to continue to do excellent consulting during the day, even though my evenings were very hard. I didn't want to bother the president with my situation. But I felt someone at the company wanted to know what was going on. So I told the vice president of Human Resources, asking him not to share the information with anyone.
A few days later, the president called me into his office. I figured he wanted to talk to me about one of the many issues we were working on. When I entered, he asked me to sit down. He faced me from across his large desk, looked me in the eye and said, "I heard your mother is very ill."
I was totally taken by surprise and burst into tears. He just looked at me, let my crying subside （平息）, and then he gently said a sentence I will never forget, "Whatever you need." That was it. His understanding and willingness both to let me be in my pain and to offer me everything were qualities of compassion （同情） that I carry with me to this day.
Walking is the best form of exercise. It is good for the upper respiratory （与呼吸有关的） system and the legs. It helps us control our weight and blood sugar. Walking is also a good way to help you make more friends, bringing chances to see new things and meet new people. Personally I try to walk at least 5 miles daily.
As well as walking, I also cycle around Xiamen. Cycling is great for weight loss and helps to build stamina （耐力）. However, cycling does not allow for the same level of social contact as a walk. It is for this reason that I will strongly suggest that you try long-distance walking if you want to be physically healthy. I originally started walking around Xiamen because I didn't have a car, but I soon started to enjoy the walking for its own sake.
I have also made many friends during my walks. It's not uncommon for my 5-mile walk to sometimes take as long as 2 or 3 hours, because I stop to chat with different shop owners along my route. These days, if I skip my walk for even one day, the people in the shops may want to know why I didn't come.
I'll never forget the first time some people followed me when I was walking, and asked if it was okay for them to walk with me, I really didn't know what to say, so I just replied that I didn't mind. I have been invited for lunch, dinner and sometimes just to sit and drink tea with total strangers. There is nothing more pleasant than walking past a schoolyard and hearing all the kids say hello to me.
We can picture a future world where machines will enlarge our human abilities and help us make better life choices, from health to wealth, as we live longer and longer and technology continues its rapid development. Through our dialogue and digital pieces, AI （人工智能） will understand our life goals and wishes, our duties and limitations. It will help us plan different life events, so we can spend more time enjoying life's moments.
The ability for AI to understand the complexities （复杂性） and slight differences of human conversation is, however, one hurdle （障碍）. There are several thousand known living languages in the world today. Adding to the difficulties are the varied ways words are shared and used across different cultures, including grammar, levels of education and styles of the speakers. Google Duplex, the technology supporting Google Assistant, which places phone calls using a natural-sounding human voice instead of a robotic one, is an early attempt to address such challenges in human communications. But these are just initial whispers in voice of AI's long journey.
Beyond making reservations and conducting simple dialogues, virtual assistants will need to become far more useful and further fit into the parts of our everyday lives. Not only will they need to foresee what we need before we ask, they also need to understand the context of our conversations and react accordingly. Imagine a snow day when school is canceled for the kids. Knowing that you must now stay at home with your children, your phone would remind you, asking if you'd like your meetings moved to the following day. Or imagine how much more pleasant your journey home from a business trip would be if your phone could automatically arrange for a ride waiting to pick you up at the airport, based on your travel plan, location, and habits. The possibilities are endless.
How to Make Sure You Enjoy Your Trip
A trip is a planned journey that one arranges in advance and whose main purpose is to search for adventure and to create a memorable moment. Here are the steps on how to make sure your trip is enjoyable.
Plan it well. Trips should be ideally planned to go well. A checklist is helpful, making sure you've got all your needs.
Pack necessities. Bring what you need. Trips are short journeys and belong to the sub-level of traveling. Pack only the things you need.
Be safe. To be cautious is smart. No matter what you are up to, surfing, cliff diving, snowboarding or scuba diving, it is always recommended to be safe. Don't be stubborn and put yourself in harm's way when there are precautions.
You may see delays （延误）, different cultures, lifestyles, foods, and even a shortage of cash sometimes—these are all what travel is about—experiencing things with a new perspective （视角）. Once you expect to experience new things, you'll be a happy traveler and free from stress.
Save the memory. This is not one of those regular days so you ought to save the moment. It will make your trip more enjoyable after all that craziness; you get something to review the good times.
A. Travel with an open mind.
B. Get prepared for everything new.
C. This is all we expect from a trip.
D. Seize the moment by taking pictures.
E. It is important to wear protective equipment when necessary.
F. It is easy to get tired if you have too many things in your package.
G. Take your time, a day or a week ahead to make a plan for your trip.
A little girl created a perfect gift for her mother's birthday. It was a drawing of a 1 on white paper with the words "For mom: love, love, love" decorated with hearts. She folded her letter, but then she 2 it.
For most people, that would be the 3 of this story, but this story had a different result. James Carrell 4 the letter. He had just 5 his mother, wishing her a happy birthday. After he hung up, Carrell saw the paper on the ground outside of a hardware store in Manvel. "I 6 it was a gift," said Carrell. "I opened it up and saw the flower and hearts. It really 7 me." Carrell thought the letter would 8 someone's day and that maybe he could find the 9 , so he posted it on the Internet. The message moved a lot of people, especially one man.
"I was sitting at my friend's house and saw a man's 10 ," said Carrell.
The comments included one from Robert Alvarado. He wrote, "I can't believe you found my baby's letter." Carrell reached Alvarado to 11 the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally 12 on Thursday night, one day after Alvarado's wife's birthday.
"13 the letter made it home," said Alvarado. "We are 14 for what James Carrell did."
We often forget the power of little things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell's small act left a (n) 15 impression.
Music is everywhere nowadays. Music (absolute) plays an important part in daily life and there are different types of music in the world, such as Blues, Black music, Rock & Roll, Dance music of Punks, Disco, Jazz, Classical music, Rap, Pop-music and so on.
Music (use) in advertising, radios, TV, films and the supermarkets in people are always attracted by the sweet-sounding music. So, you can see that the companies need music (make) more money.
Why do so many people enjoy music? Actually, we prefer expressing through music, so we can share many feelings other people. Music is one of the most (power) things in our life. When we are tired after work or when we are nervous, listening to music makes us feel more (relax) and better. Listening to music (help) us face the difficulties we meet in (we) life and makes us forget some problems. Besides, we can learn more about the cultures of different countries then learn about the world better.
—I have just finished my work and ____ to take a shower.
—Sorry. ____.
1. 节日名称和时间；
2. 主要庆祝活动（至少两个）；
3. 节日意义。
注意：
1. 词数80左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
