You may not use any of the words more than once.discipline urgent persistent endangered smothersnapping pointless distractions delete sniffingintentional bizarre definition backcountry enforcePeople's practice of leading a healthy and balanced life has been time-honored. To secure a clean break from technology, the author did not use the Internet in a three-week hike, and couldn't help 1 __________ at other hikers using their smartphones. But his pride came to an end when he realized his 2 __________ of a "clean break" is questionable. It's understandable that people take 3 __________ breaks from a highly technological and civilized world, trying to strike a balance between technology and life. The truth is that the more accessible the Internet, the more 4 __________ people's desire to escape. The ever-growing cell towers nearly 5 __________ the planet with signals, leading to an increasingly 6 __________ waldeinsamkeit day by day. Consequently, some people make 7 __________ attempts to run away from the 8 __________ of technology. Nevertheless, leaving technology behind is not a rational action, but a(n) 9 __________ practice to seek the feeling of solitude. To adapt to a changing world happily and healthily, we need the 10 __________ to have a balanced use of technology to create waldeinsamkeit by ourselves, instead of depending on wilderness or wasteland to create such a feeling.

4 Complete the following paragraph with words from the word bank. You may not use any of the words more than once. discipline urgent persistent endangered smother snapping pointless distractions delete sniffing intentional bizarre definition backcountry enforce People's practice of leading a healthy and balanced life has been time-honored. To secure a clean break from technology, the author did not use the Internet in a three-week hike, and couldn't help 1 __________ at other hikers using their smartphones. But his pride came to an end when he realized his 2 __________ of a "clean break" is questionable. It's understandable that people take 3 __________ breaks from a highly technological and civilized world, trying to strike a balance between technology and life. The truth is that the more accessible the Internet, the more 4 __________ people's desire to escape. The ever-growing cell towers nearly 5 __________ the planet with signals, leading to an increasingly 6 __________ waldeinsamkeit day by day. Consequently, some people make 7 __________ attempts to run away from the 8 __________ of technology. Nevertheless, leaving technology behind is not a rational action, but a(n) 9 __________ practice to seek the feeling of solitude. To adapt to a changing world happily and healthily, we need the 10 __________ to have a balanced use of technology to create waldeinsamkeit by ourselves, instead of depending on wilderness or wasteland to create such a feeling.