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Were you the first or the last child in your family? Or were you a middle or an only child? Some people think matters where you were born in your family. But there are different ideas about what birth order means. Some people say that the oldest children, are smart and strong-willed, are very likely (succeed). The reason this is simple. Parents have a lot of time for their first child and give him or her a lot of attention. An only child will succeed for same reason.
What happens to the children in the family? Middle children don’t get so much attention, so they don’t feel that important. If a family has many children, the middle one sometimes gets lost in the crowd. The youngest child, , often gets special treatment. Often this child grows up to be funny. But a recent study saw things quite (difference). The study found that first children believed in family rules. They didn’t take many chances in lives. They usually (follow) orders. Rules didn’t mean as much to later children in the family. They took chances and they often did better in life.

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Spending more than an hour on your smartphone each day may be a sign that you are suffering from depression , new study has suggested . The more time is spent ( use ) a phone for any reason including texting and going online , the more likely volunteers were have the blues .
Monitoring people’s comings and ( go ) using GPS tracking on their phones also helped track mood . Spending most of your time at home was also ( link ) to depression , as was having an ( regular) daily schedule , such as unusual shift patterns . “ people are depressed , they tend to withdraw and don’t have the motivation and energy to go out and do things , ” said senior author David Mohr . “ The data showed depressed people tended not to go many places ( reflect ) the loss of motivation seen in depression ”
“ The significance of this is that we can detect if a person has depressive symptoms and the severity of those symptoms asking them any questions . Phones can provide data obviously and with no effort on the part of the users . ”

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Long ago there was a poor farmer called Fred. Fred and his wife Doris lived______(happy) together in their small old house. One winter night, the Luck Fairy visited _____.
“Fred, you’re a good farmer. I’d like to give you a wish,” said the Luck Fairy.
“A wish?” said Fred.
Fred and Doris smiled __ each other. Then Fred said, “Thank you, Luck Fairy. We’re very healthy and happy.”
“You work very hard __ you make very little money. Would you like some gold coins?” asked the Luck Fairy.
“We’re poor, but we have enough food ___(eat).” replied Fred.
“You can use the gold coin to buy ___ clothes. The winter here is very cold,” said Luck Fairy.
“______we haven’t got many clothes, we’ve got enough.” said Doris.
“Well, what about _ nice new house?” asked Luck Fairy.
“Thank you, but I love my small old house very much. I __(live) here since I was born. We don’t need a new house,” said Fred.
“You’re quite different _ ___ others. I like you very much,” said the Luck Fairy. “I wish you happy forever.” Then the Luck Fairy disappeared and never came back.

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It was a rainy night in New Orleans. At a bus station in the town, I watched a young girl____(cry) as her baggage was taken down. It seemed that she had lost her ticket. She cried and ____(beg) them not to leave her there.
The bus driver had a face of stone___no sign of wanting to help, and his heart was____(sure) the same. “Losing your ticket is like losing your money，” he said, leaving the girl in the rain. Then an old Indian stood___and blocked the driver's way, and would not let him pass____he said what he had to say. “How can you leave that girl out there? You can't leave her alone. You will meet your schedule，____she might meet her end.” The driver still didn't care about the young girl's problem. Then the old gentleman bought___a ticket and helped her put away the baggage. “How can I repay for___ kindness？” the girl said. “We are strangers and we won't meet again. A mere ‘thank you’ doesn't seem enough.” He replied, “What goes around comes around.”
This is what I've learned—Whatever you give, you will get it back. Always be___(help) and kind to others, and we'll be helped in the future.

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“That is my grandmother’s house,”I say, ( point ) across the baby to a shabby old house. I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage with Lise, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing treasured ( memorize ) for me. Lise was one of the mobile children, moved from house to house in childhood. She longs a sense of home, so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors ( live ) for 200 years.
We soon pull up by the house and I tell her it was like here, the memories rushing back, swift as the tide. Suddenly, I long ( walk ) again in the house where I was once so gloriously a child.
It still belongs to a member of the family, but has not been lived in for while. We cannot go into the house, I can still walk through the rooms in memory. Here, my mother sat in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lise Listens ( attentive ) as I talk and then says,“So this is where I began; where I belong.”
She has found her roots. To be rooted is “to have an origin”. We need that origin. Looking
backward, we discovered what is unique in ; learn the meaning of “I”. We must all go home again-----in reality or memory.