The requirements for high school graduation have just changed in my community．As a result, all students must  1 sixty hours of service learning,  2   they will not receive a diploma．Service learning is academic learning that also helps the community．  3 of service learning include cleaning up a polluted river, working in a soup kitchen, or tutoring a student． 4   a service experience, students must keep a journal（日志）and then write a 5 about what they have learned．

        Supporters claim that there are many  6   of service learning．Perhaps most importantly, students are forced to think  7  their own interests and become 8    of the needs of others．Students are also able to learn real-life skills that 9    shouldering responsibility, solving problems, and working as part of a team．10   , students can explore possible careers11   service learning．For example, if a student wonders what teaching is like, he or she can choose to work in an elementary school classroom a few afternoons each month．

12 there are many benefits, opponents 13 problems with the new requirement．First, they 14 that the main reason students go to school is to learn core subjects and skills．Because service learning is time-consuming, students spend 15 time studying the core subjects．Second, they believe that forcing students to work without 16 goes against the law．By requiring service, the school takes away an individual's freedom to choose．

       In my view, service learning is a great way to 17 to the community, learn new skills, and explore different careers． 18 , I don’t believe you should force people to help others  the  19  to help must come from the heart．I think the best   20 is one that gives students choices: a student should be able to choose sixty hours of independent study or sixty hours of service．Choice encourages both freedom and responsibility, and as young adults, we must learn to handle both wisely．

    Arts often lie at the bottom when students and parents are asked to rate subjects learned in school according to their importance. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not1 Too often it is viewed as mere entertainment, but certainly not an2priority (最重要的事). This view is shortsighted.3music education is 4and important for all students.

    Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of human beings who 5 it, it reflects their thinking and values,6 the social environment it came from. Rock music shows a7just as surely as does a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their 8 is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and9It gives us identity as a society.

    Music provides a kind of emotive perception (感知) that can10 be shown in any other way. Science can just explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts11explore emotive meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and 12 to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.

    In exploration of the world, the arts are as13 as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings “talk” to each other. They are the 14 of civilization through which we15 our fears, our curiosity, our hunger, our discoveries and our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can be 16with others. When we do not give children access (机会) to an important way of expressing themselves such as music,17they miss an effective way to express themselves.

    Science and technology do not tell us what it 18to be human. The arts do. Through music, we express and 19human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love.

    So music education is far more necessary than people to20

    History has some very special qualities about it. It is a 1 of what has happened in the past, and the really interesting thing is that much of history has been 2 time and again. It allows us to learn from the past, both the 3 made and the successes achieved.

    One of the 4 of history is that it allows us to know how famous people 5 when they were faced with challenges in their life.6 these challenges happened at a certain time in the past or in a 7 country or culture, all of them can always teach us something 8.

    Take for example the 9 of Thomas Edison and how many times he 10 while on the road to finally inventing the light bulb. He could be held out as an example of a person who 11 stopped trying. I am sure he was 12 by those difficulties but he did not let them stop him. He had a 13 and he just kept trying until he reached success.

    Or, think about the story of Abraham Lincoln who 14 to become President of the United States even though he suffered 15 losses. Most of us only know about his success.16, his life was not an easy one. His story makes us keep moving forward no matter what 17 we have in life.

    These true history stories will make you stop to reconsider 18 or going after your dreams even though you may not think you have the courage or the 19 for now to get what you have always wanted. They could help you make decisions and 20 when you have no idea what to do. They could inspire you to be all that you can be.

    For the most part, I don't think about getting older. Perhaps it's just that I've been doing it for a long time so it isn't a top-of-mind 1. Perhaps it's because I like to keep busy and just don't think about it. Sometimes, 2something happens that makes me consider my death and what lies ahead.

    I used to be a radio broadcaster and recently I was 3 by the activity director at a senior citizen's home near where I live. She told me there are a couple of 4 broadcasters who live in the home and they 5 really enjoy a visit from someone with a similar 6 who can trade stories with them about the good old days. I'm retired, and I have some free time 7 I said, "sure, I'd come for a visit or two." That has 8 a routine in which I spend an afternoon each week chatting with the old boys and helping them to revisit memories of happier, busier times.

    One of them, it turns out, is 9 tied to an oxygen generating machine, can only move about in a wheel-chair using portable oxygen and 10, has dementia(痴呆) and knows he is slowly 11 his memory and ability to think clearly. My other new friend in the home has cerebral palsy(大脑瘫痪) and is also 12 to a wheel-chair. Neither man can live 13 any more; they can't drive a car, can't prepare their own meals, can't plant a garden or mow a lawn. But they're being well cared for and they have family members who come for 14 visits and now I guess they have me. For me, though, it's a look at what may lie ahead, perhaps not for a number of years, perhaps tomorrow, I have no way of 15.

    The thought of being dead doesn't bother me although I'm in absolutely no 16 to get there. What bothers me, if I think about it in the dark moments 17 all have from time to time, is the 18 of dying. The young people who 19 the majority of this magazine's readership won't understand this because they are immortal. I was immortal once too and I'm still going strong and feeling great. That said, I go to visit the men in the senior's home and sometimes I look 20 into the unknown. Life gets interesting in unforeseen ways as one gets older.

    A good dictionary is 1important tool(工具). It will tell you2 only what a word means but3how it 4. A dictionary needs to be printed again about every ten years. Languages develop(发展)and a good dictionary must5these new changes.

    A new English dictionary will only tell you6most people use the language today. It won't tell you what is right 7wrong. It may tell you the right time to use a word. If only 8 people use a word, a dictionary will9 tell you this or not list(编列) it.

    10 dictionary will tell you many interesting facts. If you type(用打字机打)a word and the word is too long, 11in your dictionary. All dictionaries show you12to break(拆开) a word. And they also show you how a word13.

    Every dictionary, of course, tells you what a word means. But some words, like “get” or “take”, may have lots of meanings(意思). In some dictionaries, the main(主要的)meanings are often listed first. In14, the newest meanings are listed last. So before you use your dictionary, you should always15the front part. This part explains16.

    Some dictionaries also show you where a word comes17. Do you know that the word “brand”(标记) comes from an old word? This old word means “to burn”. This is because18 years ago people burned their names on tables or boats to show who 19them. They also burned their own names on their farm animals 20they would not be stolen.

    Your dictionary also has a lot of other interesting facts in it. After you have learned to use a dictionary, it can become your best useful book.

    Some people say that childhood is the best time of your life.1, being a child has both advantages and disadvantages.

    On the good side, you have very few responsibilities.2, you don't have to go to3, pay bills, or do the shopping, cooking, or cleaning. This4you have plenty of free5to do whatever you want — watch TV, play on the computer, go out with friends, play sports, or enjoy other6. On top of that, public transport, cinema, and sports centers7much less for children. All in all, being a child is a(n)8time in life.

    However, there are9some disadvantages. For one thing, you have to spend all day, Monday to Friday, at school.10usually means you have to do homework,11you have to take12. What is more, you may have a lot of free time, but you are seldom13to do whatever you want. You usually have to14your parents if you can do things, from going shopping in town to staying out late or going to a party. Last of all,15there are often cheaper prices for 16, things are still expensive — and parents are not17generous (大方的) with pocket money. There's never enough to do everything you want. The18is that sometimes there's not enough to do anything at all!

    To sum up (总之), although some people see childhood as the best time in life, I 19that children have no real choice or money. Nevertheless (虽然如此), it is 20that choice and money bring responsibilities — which increase with age.

    In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child's acquisition of each new skill-the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his 1 learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any 2. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. 3, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.

    Parents vary greatly in their 4of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters, others are severe over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the5 represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child's own happiness.

    As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching. To 6 a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality (道德). Also, parents should realize that "7 is better than precept". If they are not sincere and do not 8  what they preach (说教), their children may grow 9 and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled. A sudden 10  of a marked difference between their parents' principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.

    At the end of the First World War, in 1918. China was convinced it would be able to reclaim the territories occupied by the Germans in present-day Shandong Province. After all, it had fought along with the Allies. However it was not to be. The warlord government of the day had 1 struck a deal with the Japanese, offering the German colonies in return for financial support. The Allies, 2, acknowledged Japan's territorial claims in China. When it became known in China in April 1919 that the negotiations over the Treaty of Versailles(凡尔赛条约)would not 3 China's claims, it gave rise to a movement that might be considered even more revolutionary than the one that ended the Empire.

    In the course of this May Fourth Movement  some 5,000 students from Peking University hit the streets to 4 the Versailles Treaty. But more was at stake than Japan's grabbing of land. When one considers the 1911 Revolution as a mere regime(政体)change, it become clear that the numerous popular demands for modernization had not been satisfied yet.

    The May Fourth Movement was part cultural revolution, part 5 movement. On the cultural side, the students had been inspired in the preceding two decades by Western thought, creating a feeling of frustration and 6 with Chinese tradition. In the intellectual ferment(酝酿/骚动)that resulted from this, answers were sought for the questions why and how China had lagged behind the West. The negative influences of traditional morality, the clan(宗族)system and Confucianism were seen as the main causes. China in its shaky state could only be cured by "Two Doctors": Doctor Science(赛先生)and Doctor Democracy(德先生).

    At the same time, intellectuals untied in the New Culture Movement attempted to make Chinese culture more 7 to social groups beyond the traditional scholar-officials. To this end, they advocated a Literary Revolution, in which wenyan, the ossified(僵化的)system of 8language, was to be replaced by a system based on conversational language, the so-called baihua. Hu Shi is one of the scholars who 9 with this movement, and meanwhile Lu Xun is seen as one of the most productive practitioners of this type of writing that came into 10 in the 1920s.

    The social aspects of May Fourth consisted of attempts to free the Chinese woman, although this was often limited to movements to bring foot-binding to a halt. Nonetheless, in the cities newly 11 women, modern girls who had been educated, became a loud voice for further changes.

    May Fourth is seen as a critical 12 for the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. Before 1919, there was hardly any interest in what was happening in Russia. After May Fourth, Marxism was seen as a 13 revolutionary ideology for a predominantly agricultural society such as China still was.

    Even today, May Fourth functions as a point of 14 for China. The Party may interpret the events of 1919 as being brought about by its earliest members, and it may turn Lu Xun into the Marxist writer he would refuse to be, but the fact 15 that May Fourth truly set China on its revolutionary path.

    Less is more. This is why we say: reduce things by half instead of doubling them, get rid of junk instead of piling it up, slow down instead of 1. Apply these 2 in your everyday life, and you will find yourself being on your journey to simplification.

    When you concentrate on one task, you find you have 3 that you didn't even know you had. Just imagine: you are at a fair and you have to 4 two heavy pigs over 100 yards. If you keep 5 one and then the other, it will take a long time, 6 one of them will keep slipping out of your hand and 7. But if you tie one pig in a place, pick up the other, gather all your 8, make a dash for the finish line, pause for a moment, run back, get 9 one, and with great determination, carry the second pig to the finish line, and then you can be sure of success.

    The stress of work is now 10 almost in all occupations. In the modern nuclear family, the stress that formerly would have been 11 among all the relatives is now 12 on the individual partner.

    If you have the feeling that 24 hours per day is not 13, then it's not because the day has too 14 hours, but because you have too many activities. A simple fact is that 15 people tend to forget. The 16 is equally simple: refuse to accept so many assignments.

    "I can handle stress" is regarded as a positive statement. People who can handle stress are given more—until one day they 17. Pay careful attention to the signs that tell you that you are under more stress than you can 18. These signs come from various 19 of life. You are ill, or your work efficiency is 20.

    If you have any of these symptoms, change your life goals and decrease your tolerance of stress. Say openly, "I can't manage that."

    The 600-year-old Forbidden City is the world's largest palace. It1more than 17 million2every year. If we were to travel back to the past, this3palace would be a4to us with a lot remaining to be discovered.

    It was when all5in Beijing were low except for the Forbidden City, which was surrounded by high6and a wide moat (护城河). After7the golden roof (屋顶) from the outside, people could only8what it looked like inside.

    9 an area of 720,000 square meters in the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City was built from 1406 to 1420 by the third10of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, the Forbidden City was where the highest11of the country laid. Emperors were born, lived, fought and12there. Various13events happened there. It saw the14and downs of the Ming and Qing dynasties, as well as how feudal monarchy (封建帝制)15came to an end in China.

    The lives of the royal families were16through many documents (文件). They17a large amount of valuable material for today's historical18, as well as inspiration for literature and entertainment.

    In 1987, the Forbidden City was19as a UNESCO World Heritage site. For world leaders who visit China, it is a must-see tourist20. When they pay a state visit to China, our top leaders may show them around there.

    We are warned by our teachers not to waste time because time1will never return. I think it quite2. What does time look3? Nobody knows, and we can't see it or touch it and no4of money can buy it. Time is abstract, so we have to5about it.

    Time passes very quickly. Some students say they don't have6time to review their lessons. It is7they don't know how to make use of their time. They waste it in going to theatres or playing, and8other useless things. Why do we study every day? Why do we work? Why do most people9take buses instead of walking? The answer is very10. We wish to save time because time is11.

    Today we are living in the 21^st century. We12time as life. When a person dies, his life ends. Since life is short, we must13our time and energy to our study so that we14be able to work and live well in the future. Laziness is the15of time, for it not only bring us16, but also does other17to us. If it is necessary for us to do our work today,18 we do it today and not19it until tomorrow. Remember that time is much more20.

The novelist's medium is the written word. One might almost say the1word. Typically the novel is 2by a silent individual reader, who may be anywhere at the time. The paperback novel is still the cheapest, most portable and adaptable form of 3entertainment. It is limited to a single channel of information—4. The narrative can go, 5, anywhere, into space, people's head, palaces, prisons and pyramids without any consideration of cost or practical possibility. In determining the shape and content of his narrative, the writer is restricted by nothing except purely artistic criteria (标准).The novelist keeps absolute control over his text until it is published and received by the audience. He may be advised by his editor to revise his 6, but if the writer 7 to meet this condition, no one would be 8. It is not unknown for a famous novelist to deliver his or her manuscript and expect the publisher to print it9as written.

    However, not even the most famous playwright would submit a script (剧本)and expect it to be 10 without any rewriting. This is because plays and motion pictures are cooperative forms of narrative, using more than one channel of 11.

    The production of a stage play involves, as well as the12of the author, the physical 13 of the actors, their voices and gestures, the "set" and possibly music. Although the script is the essential part of both play and film, it is a 14 for following revision negotiated between the writer and other creative people involved. They're given "approval" of the choice of a director and actors and have the right to attend rehearsals(排练), during which period they may undertake more15 work. In the case of screenplay, the writer may have little or no control over the final form of his work. So in this respect contracts for the production of plays protect the rights of16.

    In film or television work, on the other hand, the screenplay has no contractual rights to this degree of consultation. While the script is going through its various17, the writer is in the driver's seat, although sometimes receiving criticism from the producer and the director. But once the production is under way, artistic control over the project tends to pass to the 18. This is a fact 19 by most journalistic critics of television drama, who tend to give all the20 or blame for success or failure of a production to the writer and actors, ignoring the contribution, for good and ill, of the director.

    Why is setting goals important? Because goals can help you do, be, and experience everything you want in life.1just letting life happen to you, goals allow you to make your life happen. Successful people2how their life should be and set lots of goals. By setting goals, you are3your life. It's like having a4to show you where you want to go. Think of it this way. There are5drivers. One has a destination in mind (her goal) which can be found on a map. She can drive straight there without any6time or wrong turns. The other driver has no goal or destination or map. She starts off at the same time from the same place as the first driver,7she drives aimlessly around, never getting anywhere, just8gas. Which driver do you want to be? Winners in life set goals and follow through on them. They decide what they want in life and then get there by making9and setting goals. Unsuccessful people just let life happen by accident. Goals aren't difficult to set and they aren't difficult to reach. It's up to you to find out what your goals really are. You must know what to achieve and in what direction to aim your life, or you'll be 10.

A recent article in The Wall Street journal says that Chinese students in American universities are not getting the most out of their educational opportunities. The article says that 1 Chinese students work hard, many are not acquiring the soft skills that come with fully participating in campus life.

Soft skills refer to things like socialization and learning to be 2. These are the skills students develop by 3 socially with American and other international students and by learning how to handle problems in a new 4 and make their own decisions. A large number of Chinese students, 5, tend to self-segregate, that is, they just 6 other Chinese students and 7 the campus culture and even the wider American culture that surrounds them.

Jocelyn Jia, a 22-year-old from Hainan studying at the university of north Carolina at Chapel Hill, says, "If you just come to study and hang out with Chinese people, all you bring back to China is the 8. It's just a piece of paper. That's it" Jocelyn studies hard, but she likes to 9, too. She's taking every opportunity to make American friends and experience things she couldn't have at a(n) 10 university.

Chinese companies want to hire "haigui" like Jocelyn. Ken Chen of a consulting firm in Shanghai says an American college education teaches you how to socialize, develop your 11 and know how to think and solve problems. Mr. Chen says these are the kinds of people he is looking for.

An American education isn't 12, though. It can cost as much as U.S. $200,000 for a four-year program. But Charlotte Fan, a graduate of Duke University from Shanghai, says the 13 was worth it. She's now working for an American company and, in the Wall Street Journal article, is quoted as saying. "I've learned a lot and changed a lot in college, not just to learn knowledge, but more importantly the way of thinking, creativity, communication—the soft skills you never learn from 14 but learn from day-to-day life and from interacting with all the smart kids around you in school. Those sorts of things are what a Chinese education doesn't 15."

    You may not realize it, but you are doing much more than just studying when you are at school. School is also the place 1you socialize and learn to get along with people. But this is 2easy. What can you do 3you just don't like one of your classmates?

    If you discover that you have problems4your classmates or friends, the most important thing to learn is tolerance. Tolerance is the5to recognize and respect the6in others. We cannot change the way that other people act, 7it is important to learn to live happily with them.

    Practicing tolerance will allow everyone to form better 8with each other. Getting to know someone 9help you understand why they do things 10from you. It is important to remember that just because something is different does not mean that it is bad. 11teaches us to keep an even temper and open mind.

    One thing to12is the old saying, "Treat others how you want13". You would like to be treated kindly by your classmates, so it is14to treat them with equal kindness. If you tolerate15 it does not mean that you have to like it. No one is asking you to 16who you are or what you believe in. Tolerance just means that you will be17of the differences in others and not try to make them change.

    It is important to18tolerance because it will make everyone's lives easier. Learn to19people for their different abilities and interests. The world is a very20, and practicing tolerance in your own school and city can help make a difference.

In the Ituri rain forest in America live many different tribes (部落), one of 1 is Pygmy. Most of the Pygmies are not taller than four feet. They 2 only about eighty pounds each. In spite of their small size, they are the best 3 among all the jungle people. Even the great elephant can be 4 by them. They can shoot three or four arrows so 5 that often the last one leaves the bow 6 the first has hit its mark. If an arrow should miss its 7, the impatient Pygmy may become very angry, 8 his arrows and step on them.

Since they do not plant any crops, Pygmies are 9 moving around. They seldom sleep in one camp for more than a few days. In their camps there is no 10 at all except some weapons (武器) such as spears, bows, and arrows. There are 11 cooking pots either. Food is eaten 12 or smoked over a fire. So when the tribe moves to a new camp there is 13 to carry except their weapons and babies too small to walk.

Pygmies can move on the trees almost as skillfully as 14. Often they travel great distances through the branches without 15 the ground.

One of the 16 facts about the small men and women is their appetite (胃口). A Pygmy can 17 sixty bananas at a single meal 18 quantities of meat. After eating, they will 19 on their hard earth bed and groan all night. But in the morning, they are ready to eat the same amount of food all over again.

In spite of the 20 life, Pygmies are almost always good-natured and helpful. They seldom lie, steal or fight among themselves.

What does it take to become famous? Talent in singing, dancing or acting? Or 1good looks? These days, it seems like a pretty 2, and a lot of makeup can make anyone a popular star. But, occasionally, an honest smile and a hard-working attitude might take you quite. 3.

Recently, an Tibetan young man named Tashi Dingzhen has gained a lot of online followers. Though his4to fame has been very much accidental, Dingzhen has since been5by both the local tourism department, and the online streaming platform Tencent Video. However, when 6about his own dreams, the 20-year-old said that he wants to be a "horse-racing prince", a decision which has been 7by many.

8 can be fleeting (稍纵即逝的). Every day there are thousands of people on the internet 9the latest trends, behaving in very similar ways, and taking part in the same type of variety shows... all for the10to gain fame and fortune. A few 11down the line, or perhaps even only a few months later, the majority of these individuals or groups will12from our memories in the end.

Everyone is born13. We like different things, have different personalities, and pursue different dreams. That is what makes life so dynamic (有活力的) and 14. Should Dingzhen choose to take Tencent Video's 15and try to become a celebrity, he might just end up16 into the background under heavy makeup and uniform dance moves. Of course, it's 17that his fame will fade even faster if he stays home and continues to race horses. But at least then he will be able to follow his 18to do what he wants19choosing to pursue fame and, in the end, 20himself. If you were in his shoes, what would you do?

Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it 1 with patience(耐心). If you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to 2 some action. You must first go where there are people. You won't make friends staying home 3.

Joining a club or group, talking to those who like the same things 4 you do is much easier. Or join someone 5 some activity. Many people are 6 when talking to new people. 7 all, meeting strangers means seeing the unknown. And it's human nature to feel a bit 8 about the unknown. Most of fears (害怕) about dealing 9 new people come from doubts about 10. We imagine other people are 11 us — finding us too tall or too short, too this or too that. But don't forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept yourself 12 you are ,and try to put the other at ease (放松). You'll both feel more comfortable.

Try to act self-confident(自信) even 13 you don't feel that way when you 14 a room full of strangers. Walk tall and straight, look15 at other people and smile. If you see someone you'd like to 16, say something. Don't wait for 17 person to start a conversation.

Just meeting someone 18 does not mean that you'll make friends with that person. 19 is based on mutual(相互的) likings and "give and take". They take time and effort to develop. And there are things that keep a new friendship from20.

Remains of ancient civilization are places which were designed and built as a lasting tribute (致敬)to some individuals or events. By visiting these1monuments, you are sure to be amazed by how2the ancient civilization that existed centuries before you was. Some of the facilities which could be dated back hundreds of years ago are still in use today. Besides, you will also3at the mysterious stories behind it. The Great Wall, 4, is probably the best-known monument of China, which consists of a network of wall and towers through which the attack warnings could be received within minutes. 5then had enough time to prepare. Estimates of the total length of the monument6, depending on which sections are included and how they are measured.

Even older than the Great Wall of China is the Great Pyramid of Giza. Over a 20-year period, thousands of workers made the vision become7with numerous blocks, each weighing more than two tons. It's still a (n)8to modern people how ancient men handled9of these giant stones in a time when cars or boats never existed some 4500 years ago. The pyramid served not only as a tomb for King Khufu, but also a place of religious activities. According to ancient Egyptian belief, the pyramid, where the mummy was placed, provided a place for the king to pass into the afterlife. Then his servants performed rituals (仪式)to bring10to the dead king's soul, removing all the unrest and pain from his next life.

Have you ever been asked the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I am someone who's1 been able to answer the question. The problem wasn't that I didn't have any 2—it was that I had too many. In high school, I liked English, Math and Art and I built websites and I played the guitar. This continued after my high school, 3 at a certain point, I started to get bored. And usually I would try and 4 anyway, because I had already devoted so much time and energy and sometimes money to this field. But eventually this sense of 5 would get to be too much. And I would have to let it go.

This pattern caused me a lot of 6 for two reasons. The first was that I wasn't sure how I was going to turn any of this into a career. I thought that I would eventually have to pick one thing, deny all of my other passions. The 7 reason was that I worried that there was something wrong with this, and something wrong with me for being unable to stick with anything. I was afraid of commitment. 8, there is nothing wrong with me. I am just a multipotentialite (多重潜能者). A multipotentialite is someone 9 many interests and creative pursuits. It is easy to see your multipotentiality as a limitation that you need to 10. But what I have learnt is that there are three multipotentialite 11: Idea synthesis(综合), rapid learning and adaptability.

In fact, some of the best teams are made up of a specialist and multipotentialites. The specialist can dive in deep ideas, 12 the multipotentialites bring a width of knowledge to the project. It is a 13 partnership. So what I hope is this: If you are a specialist at heart, then by all means, specialise. But to the multipotentialites, please 14 your many passions and follow your curiosity. The world 15 multipotentialites.