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主要特征 |
充满温暖、爱心和欢笑； 相互关爱、尊重和理解 |
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主要益处 |
生长在和睦家庭环境中的孩子会乐观向上； 生活在和睦家庭中的父母会健康快乐 |
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父母该 怎么做 |
言行举止上做好表率； 充分尊重、信任孩子； 经常与孩子沟通交流 |
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你该怎么做 |
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How we can build up a harmonious family
A harmonious family is essential to our personal development and our physical and mental health.
Johnson Smith
Founder and CEO
Johnson Review
Western monarch butterflies(WMBs, 西部帝王蝶) fly thousands of miles every year, flying north in spring and summer, and south in fall. Now, scientists want people in the western US to give them a hand by sending in any pictures of monarchs they take this spring.
WMBs, like most butterflies, help plants create seeds, which can then create more plants by spreading a dust called pollen between plants. In turn, monarchs depend on plants. They gather sweet nectar (花蜜) from flowers for food. They rest and spend their winters in trees. And they depend completely on a plant called milkweed to lay their eggs.
Their number has been dropping sharply since the 1980s, when 3 million to 10 million butterflies migrated (迁徙) annually from the northwestern United States to spend the winter at hundreds of sites along the California coast. In 2020, less than 2, 000 monarchs were counted in the entire state. But in 2021, that number jumped to 247, 237. Scientists still don't fully understand this phenomenon. But they're studying it, saying it'll take years of tracking them to work it out.
Scientists have learned a lot about where Western monarchs spend the winters. But they know much less about where they go when they leave their winter homes. That's why scientists from several universities are organizing a project called "Western Monarch Mystery Challenge" to seek for practical assistance from "citizen scientists" in the American west.
They're asking anyone who sees a monarch butterfly outside of their winter homes this spring to take a picture and send it to them. By collecting the pictures, along with the date and place where the pictures were taken, scientists hope to learn more about what happens to the butterflies and where they are after they leave their winter homes and protect them better in the future.
Last year's increase in monarch number is great news. But the number of monarchs is still way below the millions of butterflies that migrated in the 1980s.
I did some research and examined how British English and American English changed between the 1930s and the 2000s. Take spelling, for example towards the 1960s it looked like the UK was going in the direction of not using the "u" in "colour" and writing "centre" as "center". But since then, the British have become more confident in some of their own spellings. In the 2000s, the UK used an American spelling choice about 11% of the time while Americans use a British one about 10% of the time. There is also no need to worry too much about American words, such as "vacation", "liquor" and "lawmaker" entering British English. There are a few examples of this kind of vocabulary change but they are mostly uncommon words and are not likely to change British English too much. The British are still using "mum" rather than "mom" and "petrol" rather than "gas".
But when we start thinking of language more in terms of style than vocabulary or spelling, a different picture appears. Some of the bigger trends (趋势) in American English are moving towards a freer use of language. American sentences are usually one word shorter in 2006 than they were in 1931.
Americans also use a lot more apostrophes (撇号) in their writing than they used to, which has the effect of turning the two words "do not" into the single "don't". "The hand of the king" becomes the shorter "The king's hand".
However, in all these ways Brits are changing too—and in the same way as Americans. They're just about 30 years behind the trend that Americans seem to be leading.
So this raises a question, is British English actively following American English or is this something that is simply a natural trend in language use? Perhaps the British would have gone in that direction even if America had been discovered? I'd like to agree with the second idea but because of the fact that British people learn plenty of American language through different ways, I think the first is more correct.
Help Migrant Workers
There is nothing like going home. More so if it is for the Spring Festival family reunion. For a migrant worker it perhaps means even more. To be able to set out on a homeward journey with money from a year's toil in his pocket is the best thing he can think of. They had to press hard for their defaulted payments, the salaries that were failed to pay up.
About 200 million migrant workers nationwide are something left behind by economic reforms and opening up due to their contributions in the past three decades. It is almost impossible to imagine life in these places without them. However, they still form a disadvantaged group. Their rights are violated in different forms. Among other things, unpaid salaries are the most painful of such violations that are likely to drive a migrant worker to desperate actions.
They have taken measures to prevent employers from holding back payments to them. Yet, as the financial crisis bites deep, some small enterprises that are struck the most try to reduce their economic losses by laying off migrant workers or refusing to pay them. So it is particularly important for governments at all levels to do an even better job in helping villager-turned-workers recover their unpaid salaries before the Spring Festival.
It is good news that quite a number of local governments have organized special taskforces to conduct inspections in those labor-intensive enterprises to make sure they have paid their migrant workers in a timely and fair manner. Construction commissions in almost all provinces have published hotlines for farmer-turned-construction workers to lodge complaints against their employers for withholding their salaries. But we need to look for solutions that will work at all times. We need to put in place a mechanism that will effectively prevent employers from holding back salaries to workers.
A. Some have reportedly climbed up chimneys to jump to their death unless they get their defaulted salaries.
B. It is something every Chinese look forward to as the traditional gala draws near.
C. Unfortunately, weeks preceding the Spring Festival have turned out to be hard times for migrant workers.
D. Hopefully, these efforts will send more workers on a happy journey home for the Spring Festival with their salaries in their pockets.
E. However difficult the situations they are in, it is too cruel and unfair for employers to hold back salaries they should pay their migrant workers.
F. Objectively speaking, governments at various levels have done a great deal in helping these workers recover their defaulted salaries.
Interesting Exhibitions Held in Four Different Museums
◆Name: the British Museum
Phone: 02073238000
Website: britishmuseum.org
Opening hours: daily 10 a.m.—5: 30 p.m.
Price: Free
This exhibition aims to show the mysteries of mummification (干尸化). From a king's daughter to a temple doorkeeper, the displays explore the identities of eight people, using their bodies to discover clues about how they lived. By using new methods, such as CT scanning and 3D visualization, the British Museum has been able to build up a picture of life in the Nile valley over 4, 000 years, from prehistoric Egypt to Christian Sudan.
◆Name: the Fashion and Textile Museum
Phone: 02074078664
Website: www.ftmlondon.org
Opening hours: daily 11 a.m.—5: 30 p.m.
Price: ￡8.80 adults, ￡5.50 students
This Fashion and Textile Museum is housing the firstever exhibition of the classic Mexican shawl(披肩), which became famous in the 20th century. Artists, photographers and fashion and textile designers will be exhibiting their colorful works there.
◆Name: the Victoria and Albert Museum
Phone: 02079422000
Website: vam.ac.uk
Opening hours: daily 10 a.m.—5: 45 p.m.；
Fri.10 a ． m.—10 p.m.
Price: Free
The Victoria and Albert Museum has dug out some of their most charming wedding dresses to record their history during the past two centuries. White wedding dresses were made popular by Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. See beautiful wedding dresses made by famous designers.
◆Name: the Science Museum
Phone: 02079424000
Website: sciencemuseum.org.uk
Opening hours: daily 10 a.m.—6 p.m.
Price: Free
This fourday festival displays the latest exciting gadgets and introduces their inventors. Visitors can explore electronics, build robots, get handson experiences with new technologies and have a go at 3D printing. There will be displays taking place throughout the festival, which is suitable for anyone aged ten and over.
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Last Saturday, I, with a friend of mine, were having a picnic in a park when it began to rain heavily. We packed everything up rapid and were ready to leave. My friend, her hair was already wet, suddenly couldn't move and speak. Her eye were rolling and she was about to lose consciousness. I was so frightening that I didn't know how to do. Luckily, a woman on a bicycle appeared. Struggle with the rain, she managed to call an ambulance. My friend has recovered the next morning. I am so grateful for the woman. But I haven't even got chance to thank her.
A wildfire burned down a couple's house in California in 1963. The couple, Chris and Lindy Date, were especially 1 to find their wedding2 gone with the flames.
"The photos are3 forever," Lindy thought, overwhelmed by a sense of loss. After careful research, 4, Mr Date decided to make a "longshot request" to the Cambridgeshire Collection, the county's archives (档案) service.
As they recalled, their wedding had been5 by Lettice Ramsey, of Ramsey and Muspratt.
"I did some online6 and found that the company had7 their negatives (底片) to the Cambridgeshire Collection in the 1980s," Mr Date said. "Ramsey and Muspratt was quite8 in Cambridge at the time, taking pictures of many of the city's best-known names."
He9 the archive "more in hope than expectation" to ask if the negatives had10
"They responded quickly to say they had photos which they11 were ours and sent three to me to12 ," Mr Date said. "The time I received them — I knew we would get our photos back! I was so13 to see them.
Steve Criswell, a local councillor, remarked, "We have a14 libraries and local studies team who are committed to helping the15, no matter how difficult it is to satisfy their requests.
