What is your favorite color? Do you like yellow, orange, red? If you do, you must be an optimist, a leader, an active person who enjoys life, people and excitement. Do you prefer graysand blues? Then you are probably quiet, shy and you would rather follow than lead. If you love green, you are strong-minded and determined. You wish to succeed and want other people to see you are successful. At least this is what psychologists tell us, and they should know, because they have been seriously studying the meaning of color preference, and the effect that colors have on human beings. They tell us that we don't choose our favorite color as we grow up. If you happen to love brown, you did so as soon as you opened your eyes, or at least as soon as you could see clearly.

    A yellow room makes us feel more cheerful and comfortable than a dark green one, and a red dress rings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. On the other hand, black is depressing. Light and bright colors make people not only happier but also more active. It is a fact that factory workers work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines are painted orange rather than black or dark grey.

    Remember, then, that if you feel low, you can always brighten your day or your life with a new shirt or a few colorful things. Remember also that you will know your friends and your enemies better when you find out what colors they like and dislike. And don't forget that anyone can guess a lot about your character when you choose a piece of handkerchief.

Wind, rain, and ice have been shaping Brimham Rocks for the last 320 million years. It has even become a National Trust landmark and an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, (draw) visitors to enjoy the outdoors of North Yorkshire, England. Earlier this year, , some visitors have damaged it in a few seconds.

At around 8：45 pm on Friday, June l, a group of five young people (see) pushing a rock at the top of one of the cliffs, North Yorkshire Police said. This resulted the rock falling from the top, causing damage to the cliff face. The damage is serious and it is now in a potentially (可能地) (danger) condition.

The incident has caused huge damage to both the rock and the cliff face, and those teens put (they) in danger and have created a potential risk for other visitors to Brimham Rocks.

Helen Clarke, from the National Trust, (add), "It might have been fun for some people. Actually, it is just (complete)meaningless and needless. "

While everyone is angry with the teens on social media, the police are asking for help. you have any (inform) about the identity of those teens, please contact officers at 12180097959.

    Jason, our son, was born with cerebral palsy（脑瘫）. My wife and I often comforted him as he faced many 1 in his early years.

    It was 2 to see him regularly chosen last for baseball, but his most 3 time came when he began high school. One afternoon, Jason returned home in 4 and shouted: "I'm never going to school again!" He was 5 with food that other kids had 6 him on the school bus on the way home. Jason later told us what had 7. A few days earlier, Jason had 8 up for the school running team. That day, a few older students made 9 of his performance on the track. I called the headmaster about the 10, and it never happened again.

    One day, as the other kids exercised in the gym, they 11 one lonely runner-Jason jogging around the snow-covered track. A few weeks later, Jason said to me, "Dad, I was ready for the 12. He added that each month, each student 13 an "athlete of the month" and voted for the 14. Jason's name had never been 15. But that day, one student said: "Sir, I would like to propose Jason for athlete of the month. "The coach looked 16. "He works harder than any of us, Sir," the student continued. Tears 17 in Jason's eyes as everyone in the class put their hands up. We, also in tears, looked on as he 18 displayed his certificate.

    Whenever I despair, I think of this story. I 19 myself that challenges are not overcome by 20, but by patience, determination, and faith.

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The human face is a remarkable piece of work. The astonishing variety of facial features helps people recognize each other and is important to the formation of complex societies. So is the face's ability to send emotional signals, whether through an unconscious reddening of face or a false smile. People spend much of their waking lives, in the office and the courtroom as well as the bar and the bedroom, reading faces, for signs of attraction, trust and cheat. They also spend plenty of time trying to dissimulate.

Technology is rapidly catching up with the human ability to read faces. In America, facial recognition is used by churches to track prayers' attendance; in Britain, by shopkeepers to spot past thieves. This year Welsh police used it to arrest a suspect outside a football game. In China, it verifies the identities of ride-hailing (网约车) drivers, permits tourists to enter attractions and lets people pay for things with a smile. Apple's new iPhone is expected to use it to unlock the home screen.

Compared with human skills, such applications might expand steadily in scale. Some breakthroughs, such as flight or the Internet, obviously transform human abilities; facial recognition seems merely to encode them. Although faces are peculiar to individuals, they are also public, so technology does not, at first sight, intrude on something that is private. And yet the ability to record, store and analyse images of faces cheaply, quickly and on a vast scale promises one day to bring about major changes to our understanding of privacy, fairness and trust.

Start with privacy. One big difference between faces and other biometric (计量生物学的) data, such as fingerprints, is that they work at a distance. Anyone with a phone can take a picture for facial-recognition programs to use. FindFace, an app in Russia, compares snaps of strangers with pictures on VKontakte, a social network, and can identify people with a 70% accuracy rate. Even if private firms are unable to join the dots between images and identity, the state often can. Photographs of half of America's adult population are stored in databases that can be used by the FBI. Law-enforcement agencies now have a powerful weapon in their ability to track criminals, but at enormous potential cost to citizens' privacy.

    The short video industry experienced explosive growth in 2018, with its market value reaching 11.8 billion yuan, up 110 percent. It is estimated that the figure will hit 35 billion yuan by 2020.

    There are several ways for short video posters to make a profit: from advertisements, virtual gifts sent by fans which can be converted into cash, selling products online or charging viewers for the content.

    Some of the main video sharing platforms such as Douyin, also known as TikTok, and Kuaishou have launched campaigns cooperating with local governments to help some rural residents out of poverty. In the past year, over 16 million vloggers gained income on Kuaishou, of which 3.4 million people came from areas in poverty but with rich resources.

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I know you probably don't realize it," Booth told her mother, "but you spend the first 20 to 30 minutes of every conversation complaining." When her mother objected, the two agreed to start keeping a running timer. "When we sit down to talk, I'll bring a notebook," Booth says. "When she starts complaining, she will see me writing, catch herself, then stop.". But before long, it was clear that Booth's intervention not only helped her mother, it also helped their relationship. So, how do you get a chronic (长期的) complainer to realize the problem for the sake of your health and his?

Change the subject. , some complainers will change their mood. If your neighbor is complaining about the phone company, tell him about an unexpected call you received from an old friend. If your coworker is complaining about your boss, ask whether he met the new employee.

. When a chronic complainer tells you about his latest problem, ask nicely what he has done to improve it.

Summarize the complaint. If your complainer keeps repeating himself, he may stop if you show that you're listening. .

Be honest. When you have things to do, tell the complainer that you must cut the conversation short. . Rather than pointing a finger at the other person, focus on the effect it's having on you.

A. Tell the complainer to stop

B. Challenge the person to act

C. Ask the complainer what the problem is

D. You may not be brave and confident like Booth

E. You can simply tell the truth and talk about the topic gently

F. If you shift the conversation in a direction that interests them

G. You can tell him what you have heard to show the main points

Anyone who cares about what schools and colleges teach and how their students learn will be interested in the memoir (回忆录) of Ralph W. Tyler, who is one of the most famous men in American education.

Born in Chicago in 1902, brought up and schooled in Nebraska, the 19-year-old college graduate Ralph Tyler became hooked on teaching while teaching as a science teacher in South Dakota and changed his major from medicine to education.

Graduate work at the University of Chicago found him connected with honorable educators Charles Judd and W. W. Charters, whose ideas of teaching and testing had an effect on his later work. In 1927, he became a teacher of Ohio State University where he further developed a new method of testing.

Tyler became well-known nationally in 1938, when he carried his work with the Eight-Year Study from Ohio State University to the University of Chicago at the invitation of Robert Hutchins.

Tyler was the first director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a position he held for fourteen years. There, he firmly believed that researchers should be free to seek an independent spirit in their work.

Although Tyler officially retired (退休) in 1967, he never actually retired. He served on a long list of educational organizations in the United States and abroad. Even in his 80s he traveled across the country to advise teachers and management people on how to set objectives (目标) that develop the best teaching and learning within their schools.

It is clear that young people are now renting at record rates, yet the appetite to make a house a home remains equally high. While picking out the perfect color for the living room or putting down new carpets might have been important decorative choices for their parents, young people are increasingly finding more temporary solutions to the challenge of making a rental home look fantastic without annoying their landlords.

For some young renters, personalizing a home can come down to affordable, stylish additions. Houseplant sales have increased almost 50% in the US over the last three years, and mass market retailers such as Zara, ASOS and H&M have all recently launched homeware ranges, focusing largely on smaller items like vases, cushions and candles that are easy to be included into an already furnished space.

Some businesses are now even offering to equip homes with pay-per-month furniture, with everything from sofas to houseplants up for rent. This gives landlords the opportunity to attract renters with fashionable decorations rather than old sofas and mismatched furnishings, as well as offering renters the opportunity to personalize their own temporary space.

"I think that in all industries personalized yet accessible, affordable services are very popular," says Rhiannon Smith, a spokesperson for plant rental company The Plant Library. "People want things to feel good, without having to think too much about it or pay too much for it. I'd expect it's a section that will be very popular and continue to grow."

    If your home were on fire, what would you try to save? Our area was just a few miles from the largest wildfire in Colorado's history. On getting the call to evacuate(疏散), we had to consider what we couldn't live without, 1 whatever we could save and leaving immediately.

We 2 suitcases with necessary clothes. We took the 3 financial records —- who wants to 4 himself with the government over 5 documents? Now, what else? We seized the valuable family 6 from the walls, which couldn't be replaced.

    Then we took a hard look at all that 7. A lamp that 8 my great grandmother. A9 my wife learned to play as a kid. A large tent we spent months 10 money for camping. Bedroom furniture we wanted to pass down to our 11 some day. The gifts that decorated our house from our treasured friends. These things 12 our love as a family and friends. It was 13 to move everything from our home. 14 at all that we might lose, I found it difficult to say goodbye. But 15, I felt warm.

    We were 16 with memories as we 17 at these items. Each had stories to tell just like the photos. They told about where we'd been, where we 18 were and where we were going. They were 19 of those people we had loved and who loved us. Now I didn't think my "things" meant that much to me. Indeed, the spirit of them was all that truly 20.

        My color television has given me nothing but a headache. I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn’t fit. I let a salesclerk fool me into buying a discontinued model. I realized this a day later, when I saw newspaper advertisements for the set at seventy-five dollars less than I had paid. The set worked so beautiful when I first got it home that I would keep it on until stations signed off for the night. Fortunately, I didn't get any channels showing all-night movies or I would never have gotten to bed.

       Then I started developing a problem with the set that involved static(静电) noise. For some reason, when certain shows switched into a commercial, a loud noise would sound for a few seconds. Gradually, this noise began to appear during a show, and to get rid of it, I had to change to another channel and then change it back. Sometimes this technique would not work, and I had to pick up the set and shake it to remove the sound. I actually began to build up my arm muscles(肌肉) shaking my set.

       When neither of these methods removed the static noise, I would sit helplessly and wait for the noise to go away. At last I ended up hitting the set with my first, and it stopped working altogether. My trip to the repair shop cost me $62, and the sit is working well now, but I keep expecting more trouble.