Abbaye, a master artist, was ready to retire in 1392. One day, Bartoli, a rich Italian merchant, 1 him saying, "Could you 2 my portrait on my banquet room wall? It's 20 feet tall.”
“I'm ready to retire," Abbaye shook his head,“so I'm not 3.”But seeing the disappointment in Bartoli's eyes, he 4 his mind, "Well, there's a possibility if you can find it in your 5 to allow me to explore the 6 of my abilities. Furthermore, already I can see your 7 .So I insist
that while l work your portrait stay 8 even from you!”
“No problem," Bartoli agreed, though he thought it was 9 ，"Anything you wish, but it must look realistic．”
Immediately the master artist 10 a high curtain in front of the wall, -through which Bartoli couldn't see at all.
A week passed. "How is it coming?" asked the 11 Bartoli.
“It's coming quite well. You see, a masterpiece 12 quite a while at least.” Abbaye answered from behind the 13 ．
Another three, four weeks passed and 14half a year went by. Bartoli lost his 15 .“Today I must see it!" he shouted.
Stepping from behind the curtain 16 surprised by such anger, Abbaye said calmly," That's fine.
You needed only to request it.” And he 17 aside the 20 - foot curtain.
Bartoli stared at the masterpiece and then his mouth 18 open. He was obviously so angry that his eyes 19 red. So what was wrong? Abbaye had drawn to his heart's 20 for 20 feet tall. Perhaps Bartoli couldn't tolerate his abstract expression, which Picasso would have been proud of.
Check out any woman's wardrobe and you will be sure to find at least one pair of high heel shoes there. After all, which woman can 1 wearing something that makes her look taller and her legs 2 longer? Unfortunately, those high heel shoes women love so much 3 their name, and can end up doing more damage than you can imagine 4 the spine(脊柱) and lower back—if care is not taken.
Murlowska, a therapist(治疗师 ), is 5 with the consequences of wearing high heels. A majority of 6 who arrive at Murlowska's office come to her with back and lower back problems. Very often the 7 are the result of not walking properly in high heels or choosing the 8 kind of footwear.
"I know women love wearing high heels but they can 9 extreme damage to the body," Murlowska says, "I recently had a patient who had a terrible fall while walking in high heels and twisted her 10. She did not think much of it at the time, but the next morning she 11 up to find her knee swollen and painful."
If a woman walks in heels 12 than five centimeters, several pressure points develop in various parts of the body which experience 13. Essentially, a woman wearing high heels is attempting to 14 her entire body on a very small area. This causes extreme stress on the muscles of the legs 15 increasing the chances of the ankle getting twisted. This can 16 damage to the knee ligaments(韧带) and tendons(腱). High heels force the 17 into an unnatural down-turned position. Consequently, the rest of the body has to 18 itself in order to stay balanced. The lower part of the spine as well as the hip bone tilts(倾斜) forward while the 19spine and the neck tilts back in order to maintain balance."
Over a period of time, the hip bone also gets 20 because of the change in the center of gravity as a result of wearing high heels.
In a world where comparisons happen non-stop, it is difficult to look outside yourself and to ever be 1 with who you are. There's always someone who's a bit 2. The only solution is to reach 3 and measure against what Warren Buffett calls your own inner yardstick. There is no more 4 measure for comparison than who you were yesterday, last week or last decade, when you were at your 5.
Nothing useful ever comes from comparison to others. 6 you see yourself as better than someone and you get 7, or you see someone else as better than you and you feel like all your hard work is for 8. It is a fool's game. Not one of us is 9 alike. The only direct and honest comparison is 10 yourself. Everything else is apples to oranges.
My opinion is that you are only 11 to compare yourself to someone else if their life 12 is the same as your own. Good luck finding that match. And one thing is for sure. No matter how hard you work and how 13 you are, there will always be someone who can run a little faster, jump a little higher, score a little better or look a little nicer in a swimsuit. And if there's not, you can 14 someone is coming up fast behind you. So how can you always win in life? Become your best 15.
Having an image of your most recent past limits is the perfect thing to 16 you to the next level. If you ran 7 flights of stairs yesterday, then do 8 today. Who 17 if the guy next to you did 15? It doesn't make a bit of 18. You are a more fit person today than you were yesterday. Your own 19 is all you need.
If you 20 to a slightly higher standard of yourself every day, you will always be at the top of your game.
We all know that sports may help us become stronger. But their1 go far beyond this. Research shows that sports that 2 aiming and hitting skills, for example, tennis, badminton and baseball, help children increase 3 . They help develop leadership qualities and 4 team spirit in kids. They involve competition. Playing sports teaches them to accept 5 with a positive spirit when they lose a game.
Playing sports does a lot of good to the development of 6 skills. Sports teach you to communicate with people and work together as a 7 . Sports improve collective thinking and help develop your planning and organizational skills, too. Sports build 8 , since winning a game always gives you a sense of accomplishment.
Playing sports requires you to strategize(制定策略). You need to be very 9 to score goals or earn points. You need to 10 strategies to win. You need to judge your competitor's strategy and change yours 11 . This certainly involves clever thinking, which sports 12 . Studies show that kids who play sports 13 do well in school and college.
Playing sports brings you 14 . Jumping about, running around, racing to get ahead, 15 , falling and standing up again, all of them are a(n) 16 of playing sports. There is no 17 to the happiness this brings. 18 , sports are a form of exercise which produces happiness molecules (分子) in your body, thus improving your mental health. You can't be sad 19 playing sports. Sports produce 20 energy in you and the people around you.
Making friends is a skill. Like most skills，it 1 with practice. If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be able to take some actions. You must first go 2 there are people. You won't make friends staying home alone.
3 a club or a group, for talking with those who like the same things as you do is 4 easier. 5 join someone in some activities.
Many people are 6 when talking to people. After all，meeting7means facing the unknown. And it's human nature to feel a bit uncomfortable about the 8.
Most of our fears about dealing with new people come from doubts about ourselves. We think other people are judging us，find us too tall or too short，too 9 or too fat. 10 don't forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to 11 yourself as you are，and try to put the other person at ease(舒适). And you'll feel more 12.
Try to act self-confidently(自信地) even if you don't feel that way 13 you enter a room full of strangers，such as a new classroom，walk tall and straight，look directly at other people and 14. If you see someone you'd like to 15 something to, don't wait for 16 person to start a conversation.
Just meeting someone 17 doesn't mean that you will make friends with that person—18 is based on mutual(相互的) liking and “give and take”. It takes 19 and effort to develop. And there are things that 20 a new friendship from growing.
It is easy to overlook the role that your body plays in influencing your mood(情绪). When you are1, you may find yourself blaming work pressures or an unknown future. However, it could just be that you've been sitting behind your desk too long.
One way to improve your mood is2. Psychologically, it provides you with a break from the stresses in your life. Also, in the process, you may aim for3goals, like a new personal running record or a better body shape. The achievement of a particular goal makes you feel good and contributes to your4. That is why exercise has been shown to5your self-respect.
You do not have to train yourself6to feel the psychological benefits of exercise. What really matters is7, not intensity(强度) of your exercise. You can try walking for 30 minutes five times per week or simply gardening on weekends.
“I couldn't survive without music,” says fifteen-year-old Steve. In the morning, Steve wakes up to his favorite 1 station. He listens to rock on the radio while he eats 2. He puts on his personal stereo (立体声唱机) before he leaves the house and listens to cassettes on the bus to 3.
“Last week I put my headphones on in the maths 4.” admits Steve. “The teacher was really 5. She took my headphones away and I couldn't use them for a week. It was 6.” At home Steve does his homework to music—loud music.
“My mother 7 shouts ‘Turn it down!'” says Steve. “She can't 8 how I can work 9 music on, but music 10 me to concentrate.” Steve would like to make music himself. “I'm learning to play the guitar.11, it doesn't sound too good at the 12. But I'm going to keep practicing!”
For 13 like Steve, music is a very important part of 14. Music is social; it brings people together at discos, parties and concerts. Fast,15 music is full of energy; it helps people to 16 their problems and have 17. Music talks about love, freedom and imagination. There are always new songs and new styles.
18 Steve's mother agrees that music brings some problems. “Steve is a sensible boy,” she says, “I don't think he would ever take drugs hearing rock. But I 19 worry about his hearing with all that loud music. And it 20 me crazy!”
A couple of weeks ago, when we were leaving one of those horrible giant trampoline bouncy（弹跳床）places, my 11-year-old daughter said to me, “I don't think I'm very1. You know, like Rocket (her brother). He seems to be really good at sports.”
What came out of my mouth2me: “No, you're kind of not.”
Okay, let me back up. As you may have guessed, this child has been with me for about 11 years,3I've had enough time to4her engaged in physical acts: jumping, climbing, running, and organized sports.
And the kid is just5me: two left feet. If anybody was ever NOT a “natural”6, that person is me.
But even7these facts, my first instinct（本能反应）was to snow her with some8 “Oh, no, honey. You're good at sports! You just have to keep 9!” But I decided to tell her the10, and I could see it hurt a bit.
So I said more: “Ava, we all have things we are particularly,11good at. Like you and12. You're in the 5th grade and read Charles Dickens. That isn't13, but you've done it without even trying. But all of us also have things that we are14in. If we want to get good at those things, we have to put in twice the15of the people around us to get to a decent（相当的）point and even harder if we want to be16.”
She was nodding. She totally17it. Why? Because it's the truth. Sometimes I wonder why we run around talking nonsense（胡扯）to our kids when they can18the truth. And they can smell rubbish from a mile away. In other words, they can easily recognize you are19. In addition, if they don't know where they20now, they'll never know how to get somewhere new.
We find different kinds of animals in the world. Some animals, such as tigers and lions, live in big forests and they are called 1 animals. Some others like sheep and dogs are2by men and they are called domestic animals (家养动物). These animals are very different from one another, but we can 3 them into big groups: those that eat other animals and those that eat grass and leaves. Animals like the4belong to the first group.
Animals are 5 great use to human beings. Men6 wild animals for their 7 and meat. Domestic animals are 8 more important to men. Without them, life will be 9People make use of animals in many 10.
Cows and pigs are useful to men's 11. They give 80% of the12men eat every year. Skin of some animals can be 13 into expensive overcoats and shoes, which are warm and comfortable and 14 a long time. They are very welcome in15countries.
Wool, which is now one of the most important materials (原料) for textile (纺织)16 comes from some certain17 From cows, we get milk. And we shouldn't 18that some domestic animals are kept for transport. Many people 19ride horses. Arabs ride on camels that travel in deserts for days without drinking. In some places animals are still used to plough (犁地) the field. It is20 that men just can't live without these animals.
All over the world people swim for fun. Swimming is enjoyed by people of 1ages, from the very young to the very old. There are many places for people to swim in swimming pools. Many schools, hotels and clubs have swimming pools. Some people have pools of2in their yards.
Swimming is one of3forms of exercise. It can4 hearts and bodies strong. It can also help blood circulate(循环). Handicapped people can keep their bodies in better condition by swimming5they can't enjoy sports.
6 is a good idea for parents to see to it(务必做到) that their children learn to swim7an early age. So their children will8it for the rest of their lives.
There are many rules for water safety. These rules can help save not only your life9the life of a friend. First of all, know10. Many schools11 swimming lessons to children. Adults(成人) can learn to swim at public pools.12 rule to remember is never to swim 13. Always swim with a friend and know 14 in the water at all times. It is best to swim 15 in safe places if you are beginners. If every one learned to swim and obeyed the rules for water safety, most drawing(溺水) could be avoided.
I was in my third year of teaching creative writing at a high school in New York, when one of my students, 15 year old Micky, gave me a note from his mother. It 1 his absence from class the day before.
I had seen Micky himself writing the note at his desk. Most parental excuse notes I received were penned by my 2.The forged (伪造的) excuse notes made a large pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative to crazy. The3of those notes didn't realize that honest excuse notes were usually 4：“Peter was late because the alarm clock didn't go off.”
The students always said that it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject, but when they 5excuse notes, they were brilliant.
So one day I gave the excuse notes to my classes, saying，“They're 6to be written by parents, but actually they are not. True, Micky? ” The students looked at me 7.
“Now, this will be the first class to study the 8of the excuse notes—the first class, ever, to practice writing them. You're so 9to have a teacher like me who has taken your best writing and turned it into a 10worthy of study.”
Everyone smiled as I went on, “You used your 11. So try more now. Today I'd like you to write ‘An Excuse Note from Adam/Eve to God'.”12 went down. Pens raced 13paper. For the first time ever I saw students so 14in their writing that they had to be asked to go to lunch by their friends.
The next day everyone had excuse notes. 15 discussions followed. The headmaster entered the classroom and walked 16 ， looking at papers, and then said, “I'd like you to see me in my office.” My heart 17.
When I stepped into his office, he came to 18my hand and said, “I just want to tell you that that lesson, that task, whatever the hell you were doing, was 19.Those kids were writing on the college20.Thank you.”
Ever since I could remember, one phrase — open up your heart — has always made me feel uncomfortable. Whenever I heard it, 1from movies, music or adults, I thought doing so meant 2good judgment of my own, rather than following a practical approach to life. But the real 3was my distrust of others. From past 4, opening up my heart meant giving others the opportunity to influence how I felt about myself, and this was the dangerous area 5 I could not afford for anyone to enter.
However, the older I got, the 6 I distanced myself from other people. I was jealous when I saw how 7 other people communicating and getting on with one another, 8 their experiences and their feelings, and really being comfortable. I began to believe that there was something terribly 9 with me.
Only recently have I been able to find enough 10to let my defence go. Being warm and 11is easy for most people, but for me, it was 12 that I was unfamiliar with. I began to understand that I 13 to take an active role in my relationships with others. Even though I've been able to open myself up to others, I'm still 14 about how to do so.
My fears became true when I began to feel how easily others had a(n) 15 on me. I began to feel the pull of the opinions of others, many of which I did not 16. Though these opinions were not my own, they still had an influence on my own 17. I realized that I 18 both my individuality （个性） and the relationships I had 19 with others too much. So, something had to 20.
I began to realize that approval is not always necessary. If I don't agree with someone, I can always express my point of view, as long as I don't make other people feel bad. And I can still keep my individuality.
If failure is like a day without the sunshine, I'll still smile at it, as clouds may be dancing in the sky. Success does not 1 every person, just like the sun doesn't shine every day.
Do you give up your plan to go hiking 2 because the weather isn't as good as you had hoped? No, of course not. I would rather go on trying no matter what I 3 and enjoy on the way to my destination (目的地).4, failure is like a naughty boy who plays with us on the way to our goals. Not only does he want to 5 us, but he wants to help us become braver. The more we 6, the braver we'll be.
If failure is the 7 without the moon, I'll still smile at it, as stars may twinkle on us still. 8, we all like the moon, but should we ignore the stars? There is always something more important than 9. In other words, we shouldn't only 10 on whether we succeed or fail. In fact, we learn a lot from failure. It is really helpful. The more we learn from failure, the 11 we'll be.
If failure is a bird without 12, I'll still smile at it. Flying isn't the only thing a bird can do. If we can't be 13 by the wide blue sky, why don't we 14 adapting ourselves to the forest through our beautiful singing? Failure 15 us that we should believe in ourselves. We may fail in one area, but we may 16 in another. Maybe we'll find that we have a talent for something we never knew about before. Who 17 ?
Life is like a box of chocolates, and you 18 know what you're going to get. Just keep on trying. The process of trying is much more valuable than the 19.
Smile at 20 and smile at life.
Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his diary; now, a teenager with 1 problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog (博客). In many ways, a diary and a blog are very 2. But what makes blogging different from writing in a(n) 3 diary?
The biggest difference is that a blog is much more 4 than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of 5 that he does not want to 6 with others.
It's interesting that someone who writes in a blog 7 a diary will probably write nearly the same information.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her 8. She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. 9 I was her age, I wrote about the same thing, but 10 in my dairy. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was 11 that my sister might read it.
The biggest 12 with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something 13 about him in my diary, he would never know. 14, if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might 15 her blog and get angry.
There are also 16 to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, "Nobody cares about me…" Because no one would 17 about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friend would quickly 18 and tell her how much they 19 her. Blog help people 20 in contact with their friend and know what the people around them are doing.
Dear Maya Shao-ming,
To me, June 6, 1990 is a special day. My long awaited dream came true 1 your father cried, "A girl!" You are 2 just a second child. You, little daughter, are the link to our 3 line, the legacy of another woman's pain and sacrifice 31 years ago.
Let me tell you about your Chinese grandmother. Somewhere in Hong Kong, in the late fifties, a young waitress found herself pregnant by a cook, probably a co-worker at her restaurant. She carried the baby to term, suffered to give it birth, and kept the little girl for the first three months of her life. I like to think that my mother—your grandmother—4 me and fought to 5 me on her own, 6 that the daily struggle was too hard. Worn down by the 7 of the new baby and perhaps the constant threat of starvation, she made the painful decision to 8 her girl so that both of us might have a chance for a better life.
9, I was dropped at the orphanage steps or somewhere else. I will probably never know the 10. Having a baby in her 11 state would have brought shame on the family in 12, so she probably kept my existence a secret. Once I was out of her life, it was 13 I had never been born.
Nevertheless, someone gave me a lucky name "Siu Wai". "Siu" means "little," and "Wai" means "clever". Therefore, my baby name was "Clever little one." Who chose those words? Who cared enough to note my arrival in the world?
I lost my 14 name for 18 years. It was Americanized for convenience to "Sue". But like an ill-fitting coat, it made me 15. I hated the name. But even more, I hated being Chinese. It 16 many years to become proud of my Asian origin and work up the courage to take back my birth-name.
Your name, "Shao-ming", is very much like mine—"Shao" means "17". And "ming" is "bright", as in a shining sun or moon. Whose lives will you brighten, little Maya? Your past is more complete than mine, and each day I cradle you in your babyhood, generously giving you the loving care I 18 for my first two years. When I pat you, I comfort the 19 baby inside me who 20 cries for her mother.
Sweet Maya, it doesn't matter what you "become" later on. You have already fulfilled my wildest dreams.
I love you.
Among all the seasons I like summer best. First of all, summer is when school is out and I can spend most of my time 1 both outside and in. My parents 2 me to get out in sunlight as much as possible. This is fine since my friends and I like to 3 together. We often go on bike trips, which give us a lot of 4.
Besides, there are more daylight hours to 5. The sun stays out longer, 6 sometimes after eight in the evening. This means that there's a lot more 7. I can go swimming or just 8 to get a suntan (日光浴). I don't want to do it for too long, 9 I don't want to get burnt. The sun is the reason why we often take a walk outside, which I believe can help us stay 10.
The last reason is that it's the 11 time of year for us since we don't get very much sunny weather where we 12. For most of the year, it's either cool and 13 or cold and icy in my country. We only have three months of reprieve(缓解) from the 14 weather—-that is summer. When my neighbors and I want to 15 the summer, we go out, have barbecues or just sit and talk 16. This is a good thing to do at night when the 17 of the day remains in the air.
18, summer is the time of year that really puts together everything I like to 19. It is certainly the reason that 20 me most.
Few Americans stay in one place for a lifetime. We 1 from the city to the suburbs, from high school to college in a different state, from a job in one region to a better job 2, from the home where we 3 our children to the home where we plan to live in 4. With each move we are5 making new friends, who become part of our new life.
For many of us the summer is a special time for forming new6. Today, millions of Americans go on vocation 7, and they go not only to see new sights but also — in those places where they do not feel too 8 — with the hope of meeting new people. No one really 9 a vacation trip to produce a close friend, but the beginning of a friendship is possible. Surely in every country people 10 friendship?
The word "friend" to American people can be 11 to a wide range of relationships — to someone one has known for a few weeks in a new place, to a close business companion, to a childhood playmate, to a man or woman, to a 12colleague. There are real 13 among these relations for Americans — a friendship may be 14, casual, situational or deep and lasting. But to a European, who sees only our surface behavior, the differences are not clear.
As Europeans see it, all kinds of "friends" flow 15 of Americans' homes with little ceremony. They may be parents of the children's friends, house guests of neighbors, members of a committee, business associates from another town or even another country. 16 as a guest into an American home, the European visitor finds no 17 differences. The atmosphere is 18. Most people, old and young, are called 19 first names. Americans' characteristic openness to different styles of relationship makes it possible for us to find new friends abroad with whom we feel 20.
Companies like Arjuna are beginning to take action to deal with pay inequality, but it doesn't tell the full story of women's experience.
Microsoft's chief executive, Satya Nadella, earned bad fame for his 1 that women should not bother to ask for raises 2 , he suggested in October 2014, they should have faith that the system will reward them appropriately. Stopping from asking for a raise, he added, is actually good.
When his remarks were greeted with anger, Nadella back-pedalled (出尔反尔) at the speed of light. Less than a year later, Microsoft was 3 by a former employee, Katie Moussouris, now chief policy officer at Hacker One, claiming gender prejudice.
Moussouris 4 that she was only one of a number of women at Microsoft who 5 less that their male colleagues. Moussouris also mentioned that can received preferential treatment in 6 and systematically received more favorable job reviews.
There is no way to know whether Moussouris's claims are 7 , because Microsoft does not disclose any data about the 8to which men and women are paid differently for doing similar jobs. That may soon change, if Arjuna Capital succeeds in placing a(n) 9 before Microsoft's shareholders and convincing enough of them to vote in favor of it, thus requiring the company to 10 disclose that information for the first time and helping women make up their minds to require the 11 of the gender pay inequality.
Arjuna, the activist arm of Baldwin Brothers, an investment advisory firm, is 12 top technology firms, in search of precisely this information. Shareholders of eBays, Expedia,
Facebook and Google will vote on proposals that would 13 the creation of reports detailing the percentage of pay 14 between male and female employees, spelling out both firms' policies, in an attempt to address how the companies would set about closing or 15 that gap, and specific targets.
Meeting your family's nutritional needs may seem difficult considering today's busy lifestyle.But it doesn't have to 1, even a new emphasis 2 more fruit and vegetables doesn't necessarily mean more preparation time if you 3 the convenience of canned foods.
When you open a 4 of fruit or vegetables at home you have fresh-packed nutritional produce at hand, with no man-made ingredients and no preservatives(防腐剂). And all the work has been 5 for you：the slicing, the peeling, even the cooking.Canned fruit and vegetables leave you the 6 to be creative.And with the variety of fruit and vegetables available these days, you can serve different combinations, create new dishes, and 7 new tastes to old recipes.Canned foods are good as well.A United States Department of Agriculture and National Nutritional Foods Association co-sponsored study shows canned vegetables to be just as 8 as fresh or frozen.Because canned vegetables are 9 within hours of being packed, they generally retain(保留)70 to 90 percent of their nutrients.
Fruit and vegetables canning is as 10 as your grandmother "stores up" tomatoes and other things from the garden.Fresh produce is taken from the field at just the right time, 11 to the cannery(罐头食品厂), checked, washed, sealed, and sterilized(消毒). All this generally 12 in less than 24 hours to 13 the best quality and nutritional value without the need for any preservatives.
Use the liquids that vegetables are 14 in as a substitute for water in recipes to get that last drop of good nutrition.Most major brands of canned fruit and vegetables include nutritional 15 and ingredient statements on their labels.This is especially important to those on calorie-conscious or restricted diets.
I always knew that I depended too much on my phone. 1 I didn't know how much, so I decided to do this2to find out.
Every morning since I got a smart phone, I've used The Weather Forecast App to find out what to3. On the first morning I had to dress without guidance, but4I was able to guess that the day would be cold and foggy by looking out of my window.
I couldn't know what time it was. I haven't worn a5for more than a year, because my phone 6the time. So l was late for 7 friends who had been on the bus for two hours from Santa Monica to Palos Verdes I was also 8 for my part-time job. And9I couldn't call people to tell them that I was running late.
Getting places was harder, too. I got10 because l couldn't use the GPS on my phone. My driving, though got a lot 11 because I no longer had my phone in one hand checking dinections while 12 my car.
But the number one trouble was not having my contact list. I forgot to write down my friends' and family members' phone numbers before l13 the challenge. It was sad to realize that l couldn't 14 my brother's and my mum's cell phone numbers. Oh, how l 15 to turn on the phone for just a second to look up phone numbers!
Even with all the problems, however, l found16not worrying about missing a text message or an e-mail.
This challenge was a(n)17learning experience. It surprised me how I'd taken no notice of even the 18things like remembering phone numbers. We all should 19some time to think about how we can depend 20on our cell phones.
