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Do you dream of taking each day as it comes? Are you ready, as a new college graduate, to 1)______ down with a job you’ll stick to for years? How would you like a solo adventure abroad instead? If you worry you’ve had very little money 2)______ up, why not consider a working holiday?

Sightseeing and meeting new people sound really exciting, right? Quickly 3)______ with shooting photos and videos around? Yes, to 4)______ amazing scenes and memorable moments! For once, you don’t have to think about the job market at home. Nonetheless, you’d better be forewarned. The idea of taking a working holiday abroad may mean uncertainty and anxiety as a result of stepping outside your comfort zone. For example, you won’t have the 5)______ support readily available from your family and friends.

People you will meet daily don’t speak your language and may not 6)______ the same cultural beliefs as yours. Besides, in the first few days you have no 7)______ how to find a job and end up 8)______ out. So here are the tips: (1) Going on 9)______ first to find friends who’ve been in the country longer than you and who can recommend you to their previous workplace. (2) Using a working holiday program 10)______ to your arrival that helps you find a job, get a tax number, open a bank account, and more.

People often ask me how to get off the consumer escalator (自动扶梯). Step one is to begin to control your consumer desires. For example, don’t surf shopping 1)______. You also have to convince the other people around you to start acting differently too.

One response by a growing number of Americans has been to reject the 2)______ of work and spend. Adjusting their consumption, working less, even embracing principles of being 3)______ with simplicity. For the 4)______ of fewer working hours, they often have to leave their jobs, and that’s a cost not many of us can pay. We need to 5)______ up those corporate policies to give people the right to work less, to give people better vacations.

We need to 6)______ a progressive consumption tax, which puts higher burdens on the people who buy expensive products.

Today our identities are so deeply wrapped up in the 7)______ products that we own and use. To get out of work and spend we need to look carefully at the messages that are coming from Madison Avenue. Much of what they’re telling us is that exclusivity (排他性) is the cool value we want to 8)______ for, but isn’t a better value system than one which highlights our commonality, which is more about connecting with other people, rather than 9)______ up with them and having more than they do. We can make those connections ourselves. This should be the 10)______ of our life philosophy.

Chinese students in pursuit of an American education have helped drive up international enrollments at colleges across the United States. Every fall semester sees an increase of their number compared with the 1)______ period of the previous year. There is no denying their 2)______ benefits American colleges culturally and financially.

Studying abroad is beneficial personally for Chinese students too, if they are prepared for certain challenges. The first challenge is the cost of studying at an American college. Typically Chinese parents pay. It is an expected part of the culture that they make big 3)______ for their children, who will hopefully 4)______ them in the future. Students can choose to work part time to earn some money and 5)______ their parents of the financial burden.

The second challenge is parental pressure. Some Chinese parents choose colleges for their children. In a new learning environment, teacher-student interactions are essential for a productive college career. However, Chinese parents’ lack of knowledge of American education could make their children suffer academically and emotionally when their 6)______ for big research universities causes their children to miss out on learning and social opportunities offered by small and less 7)______ liberal arts colleges. It is a(n) 8)______ of growing up for Chinese students when they have to obey their parents, but they must take more 9)______ for their own lives. The greatest challenge of studying abroad is culture shock. It is hard, but if Chinese students can break out of their own groups and put their challenges in 10)______, then they will gain more out of their experience of studying abroad.

Who is an “adult”? Many would 1)______ having completed schooling, working steadily, living 2)______ of one’s parents, marrying, and having children as the markers of adulthood, traditionally achieved between the late teens and the early thirties. However, compared with their parents’ generation, young people today are taking longer to complete their schooling, to settle into steady employment, to establish their own households, to get married, and to fulfil the 3)______ to raise children. The psychologist Jeffrey Arnett describes the phase of life for those now between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five as a period of relative independence from social roles and expectations. As such, 4)______ adulthood provides some younger people, especially those who have access to parental resources and supports into their twenties, with new opportunities for exploring their 5)______, particularly in the areas of work, love, and worldviews.

Those who do not have resources, however, 6)______ problems.

Many observers have thought about the factors that have made the transition from 7)______ to adulthood more complex and variable. Some believe that industrialization, improved health, and increased life expectancies have changed the 8)______ life sequences of the early twentieth century. Others think that the rising cost of housing in some parts of the country explains why young people are increasingly likely to live with their parents. Still others suggest that because this generation’s parents has fewer children, they are able to provide support that 9)______ the needs of each child, allowing their children to prolong their dependence and lengthening the time it takes them to complete their education and find 10)______ employment and independent living arrangements.

Driverless vehicles, otherwise known as autonomous, automated or self-driving cars, are no longer science fiction. The technology is here. Google is at the 1)______ in testing driverless cars. Its self-driving car project 2)______ from the Darpa Grand Challenges for robotic vehicles in the early 2000s. It has incorporated the latest technological 3)______ into its design at every phase ever since.

A driverless car is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human 4)______. Many tech companies are now homing in on 5)______ intelligence for the capability.

A driverless car needs to have sensors to understand the world around it and a brain that collects, 6)______ and chooses specific actions, such as 7)______ speed, based on information gathered.

Assuming the various autonomous driving features are safer than relying on driver experience and 8)______, automobile insurance costs will decline. But the sensors, cameras and complex software providing autonomous driving are far more expensive to replace and repair.

Also, these autonomous driving features 9)______ inside vehicles create new risks: What if the Internet shuts down or hackers attack traffic control systems? Who then pays the damages — the owner, or the car producer?

Last year a European research project, RoboLaw, was created to 10)______ such a legal challenge and will deliver its guidelines on regulations to the European Commission in the spring.

One golden retriever has proved why dogs are really a man’s best friend. No one can 1)______ the loving relationship between the faithful dog and her owner Bob in northern Michigan. Kelsey is 2)______ for saving her injured owner, who had fallen and broken his neck, from freezing to death in the snow on New Year’s Eve.

What was supposed to be a night of celebrations quickly turned into a 3)______ for Bob as he lay helpless in the snow for nearly 20 hours. About an hour before the big countdown, Bob ran out of his house to grab a piece of wood for his fireplace when he slipped and fell, breaking his neck.

He tried to scream for help. 4)______, no one came in 5)_______ to his cries — his nearest neighbor is about a quarter mile away.

The temperature dropped to 24 degrees. Bob had come out 6)______ dressed in pajamas (睡衣) and slippers. He lay paralyzed in the snow yelling for help. It was Kelsey that came and stayed by his side, barking to draw attention to the life-or-death situation instead of 7)______ her owner. She kept the 8)______ warm by licking his face and lying on his body.

The next day, Bob’s neighbor 9)______ on him and called 911. Bob didn’t have any frost bite. “I am sure it was because of Kelsey’s determination,” he said.

Now Bob is recovering in the hospital after surgery. Based on his doctor’s 10)______, he will still have to go through many hours of physical therapy. But thanks to his dog and doctor, he knows he’ll be just fine.

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