Are you truly happy? .
. It is easy to begin to think negatively when you are surrounded by people who think that way. On the contrary, if you are surrounded by people who are happy, their emotional state will be infectious.
. These few minutes will give you the opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continuous happiness.
. Whether you treat yourself to lunch, take a long, relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearance, you will be putting yourself in a better mood.
. Find a way to make light of a situation that would otherwise make you happy.
Keeping healthy is another way to achieve happiness.
A. Finding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness.
B. The following tips may help you to create happiness.
C. Surround yourself with happy people.
D. There are some reasons in life that lead to unhappiness.
E. Being overweight or not eating nutritious foods can have a negative effect on your health.
F. Spend a few minutes each day thinking about the things that make you happy.
G. It‘'s also important to take some time each day to do something nice for yourself.
In 1974, after filling out fifty applications, going through four interviews, and winning one offer, I took what I could get — a teaching job at what I considered a distant wild area: western New Jersey. My characteristic optimism was alive only when I reminded myself that I would be doing what I had wanted to do since I was fourteen — teaching English.
School started, I was teaching English. I worked hard, taking time off only to eat and sleep. And then there was my sixth grade class who were only six years younger than me. I had a problem long before I knew it. I was struggling in my work as a young idealistic teacher. I wanted to make literature come alive and to promote a love of the written word. The students wanted to throw spitballs and whisper dirty words in the back of the room.
In college I had been taught that a successful educator should ignore bad behavior. So I did, confident that, the bad behavior would disappear as I gave my students positive attention. But in fact, humans particularly teenagers rarely seem reasonable. By the time my boss, who was also my taskmaster, known to be the strictest, most demanding, quickest to fire inexperienced teachers, came into the classroom to observe me, the students exhibited very little good behavior.
My boss sat in the back of the room. The boys in the class were making animal noises, hitting each other while the girls filed their nails or read magazines. I just pretended it all wasn't happening, and went on lecturing and tried to ask some inspiring questions. My boss, sitting in the back of room, seemed to be growing angrier and angrier. After twenty minutes he left, silently. Visions of unemployment marched before my eyes.
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After class, I took a deep breath and walked into his office.
Fifteen years later, I still drive that winding road to the same school.
Do you know what a big dream is? Does a big dream show one's future? Or, is a big dream something that provides only entertainment? Children dream big dreams, but there are three barriers to realizing dreams
The self
Immediately following the birth of a big dream, a negative self-talk takes over and gives all the reasons why it cannot happen. This voice inside of people is the ego（自我）.It's there for protecting and should be listened to. Sometimes it is right, but more often it is wrong That's why only a handful of people make their dream come true
Family and friends
Family and friends are a lot the ego. so they will often list all the reasons why the big dreams won't come true. Sometimes, family and friends destroy dreams of those they love most, out of their own fear of those left behind.
If one gets past the first two barriers, one has to face the world. It is the last and the most terrible barrier. In the past, big dreamers were locked up and sometimes even killed when they were shown to the world. Fortunately, in most of the world today, big dreamers just get laughed at When children feel confident and then try their best, they will be ready to accept any failure. The truth is that every great dreamer whose dreams have never seen the light of success knows failure well. They simply fail until they succeed
A. The world
B. The future
C. Most people are influenced by it
D. They want to protect those they love
E. And their big dream is to be a rock star or a famous artist
F. They often kill them before they ever have a chance to grow
G. The way to realize a big dream is with confidence and action
Have you ever been in a position where you were expected and required to take music lessons even though you had no interest?
The situation was this: my father was a music teacher. My mother was a piano player and, in fact, the whole family was very musical. I was the only one who didn't know how to play a musical instrument.
And, as a lot of families do, I was required to take the piano lessons even though I had no interest in learning how to play it. So, it started. Lesson after lesson I suffered. Finally, I just quit practicing and my piano teacher told my parents that I was hopeless. Great — no more piano lessons.
But my parents still thought that I should learn a musical instrument. In their opinion, having no interest in playing the piano didn't mean that I had no interest in other instruments. So they chose some other instruments for me, but the same things happened. It seemed that I was a bit headstrong (任性的) but, at the same time, I knew what I wasn't interested in.
The musical story didn't end here. It went on to where I decided what I wanted to learn — to play the drums. I loved playing the drums and played in several bands.
The point is this: if you are not ready to do something, you won't do it no matter how much someone else wants you to do it. Or, at the very least, you will certainly not put your heart and soul into it and will surely fail.
Think now what you really love doing and get down to it.
It's a real case of fish out of water. Blennies (鲇鱼) in the South Pacific Ocean are gradually relocating to land to escape their predators (捕食者), in an example of evolution in action.
Fish first began crawling onto dry land about 400 million years ago, kicking off an evolutionary chain of events that led to humans. But their reasons for exiting the sea have been uncertain.
To look for clues, Terry Ord at the University of New South Wales in Australia has been studying several species of blennies at Rarotonga, the largest of the Cook Islands.
At low tide, blennies are commonly found swimming in rock pools around the edges of the island. But when high tide moves in, they climb up to dry land and move around the rocks until the tide retreats.
The researchers found that this is most likely to avoid predators that swim in with the rising tide – mainly bigger fish like lionfish.
To test what would happen if blennies did not have an escape plan, they made blenny models and sank them in the sea. The mimics ended up with wounds, bite marks and chunks-missing.
Of course, there are still dangers for blennies on land, like the occasional bird attack, but the predation risk on land is a third that of underwater.
What's more, moving onto land has additional benefits for blennies. Holes in the rocks provide sheltered nests for laying eggs, and they can maintain their diet of bacteria.
In fact, several species of blenny fish at Rarotonga have already made the full transition to land-dwelling (陆生的) species. They continue to breathe with their gills, but have developed stronger tail fins and jump from rock to rock.
Ord believes that many evolutionary processes have been driven by the need to escape predators. “It is often assumed that animals move homes to find new sources of food, but in many cases, escaping predators is a stronger motivation.” he says.
How can we all get more laughter into our lives? Here is what the experts suggest:
Nancy Alguire, a teacher in Clifton Park, N.Y. was once painfully shy and she seldom laughed. Then she married a circus clown (小丑). “I became interested in the clowns,” she recalls,“ One day I put on a costume and paint my face. That afternoon my whole life changed. I learned to laugh and enjoy life in a way I had never done before.” To this day, she still makes it a rule to be with people who enjoy life and laughing.
It doesn't take you too much time and can be easy. Collect favorite cartoons and jokes. Also, keep a paper for writing down humor you find in everyday life.“Good ideas come and go fast, you have to capture them quickly or they are gone,” says Virginia Tooper.
Laugh when you need it most.
“” says comedian Bill Cosby.“And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it,” he insists.
Gray Alan, a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota, claims that laughter is a skill we can all gain—because it comes naturally. Just remember: we are just here for a period, so get a few laughs.
A. You can soften the worst blows through humor. B. Mix with people who laugh. C. Practise the art of laughing. D. Keep a laughter file. E. He who laughs last laughs best. F. But it's also something that has to be developed. G. People's joy can affect those around them. |
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In China, people and giant pandas have been living together for thousands of years. But China's human population has been great growing. More population means more land is needed for farming. It also means more forests are cut for wood to build and heat houses. Lose of habitat in lowland areas has forced pandas live only in the mountains. The most damaged result of development have been that it has divided the panda's habitat into little islands of forest. Today, many pandas are isolated in these small sections of forest, because of they will cross into areas which people live. The result is that the giant pandas can connect with each others to mate and have babies.
Besides, to our relief, there is still some good news that people are trying to help the giant pandas by creating protected areas.
You've probably seen ads for apps promising to make you smarter in just a few minutes a day. Hundreds of so-called "brain training" programs can be bought for download.
These simple games are designed to challenge mental abilities, with the ultimate goal of improving the performance of important everyday tasks.
But can just clicking away at animations of swimming fish or flashed streets signs on your phone really help you improve the way your brain functions?
Two large groups of scientists and mental health practitioners published consensus statements, months apart in 2014, on the effectiveness of these kinds of brain games.
Both included people with years of research experience and expertise in cognition (认知), learning, skill acquisition, neuroscience and dementia (痴呆). Both groups carefully considered the same body of evidence available at the time.
However, they issued exactly opposite statements.
One concluded that "there is little evidence that playing brain games improves potential broad cognitive abilities, or that it enables one to better handle a complex condition of everyday life."
The other argued that "a large and growing body of evidence shows that certain cognitive training methods can significantly improve cognitive function, including in ways that generalize to everyday life."
Brain training programs are an attractive shortcut, a "get smart quick" scheme. But improving or maintaining cognition is likely not going to be quick and easy. Instead, it may require a lifetime — or at least an extended period – of cognitive challenge and learning.
If you're worried about your cognition, what should you do?
First, if you do engage in brain games, and you enjoy them, please continue to play. But keep your expectations realistic. If you're playing only to obtain cognitive benefits, instead consider other activities that might be as cognitively inspiring, or at least more rewarding — like learning a new language, for instance, or learning to play a musical instrument.
Unfortunately, when I dropped in, Doctor Li _____ for Beijing to join in the fight again SARS, so we only had time for a few words.
A. just left B. has just left
C. is just leaving D. was just leaving
1. Prices have risen steadily during the past _________(十年), namely from 2005 to now.
2. His interest in this subject gradually _________(减少) because he dislikes the new teacher.
3. Such _________(装饰品) is a typical feature of the new year festival.
4. It was not long before the ________(潮湿的) clothes dried up in the sun.
5. I must apologize for the ________(延误) in writing back to you.
6. I am much __________(高兴) to be present at the lecture and to give you a speech.
7. The thin mailman _________(递送) letters and parcels from door to door every morning.
8. Our headteacher _________(要求) we get to the classroom before half past six in the morning.
9. He had been suffering from toothache for a few days before he went to see a _________(牙医).
10. The hero should _________ (值得/应得) praise and a reward for his brave behavior.
11. It’s admitted that everyone _________(期望/想要) to live in a world free of wars and starvation.
12. If you don’t speak good English, you will be at a big _________(劣势) when seeking a job.
13. There was a ________(失望的) look on his face when he failed to pass the driving test again.
14. Our school _________(阻止/使气馁) us from staying up late to study.
15. Every day after I get up, I _______(给……穿衣服) my son and then wash his hands and face.
16. So _________(满是灰尘的) is the window that I can’t see anything clearly outside.
17. I _______(捐赠) my blood for free each year with the hope of helping those people in need.
18. He works hard, but he does not ______(赚/挣) much money to support his family.
19. I go all out for my ideal university, for I think nothing is more important than ________(教育).
20. What is certain is that every ________(结果) must have a cause.
21. I work hard to improve my English, believing that my ________(努力) will pay off soon.
22. There are four _________(紧急情况) exits in the department store in all.
23. To save money, many shops prefer to ________(雇佣) students during summer vacation.
24. Without your _________(鼓励), I would have given up learning and dropped out of school.
25. When asked why she remained single all the time, she felt a bit _________(尴尬).
It is known to all that________you exercise regularly，you won’t keep good health.
A．unless B．whenever C．although D．if
The truth 61 trees are vital to our life is not a secret. They provide us with food, wood and most 62 (important), oxygen. Now there is one more thing we can add to this list—blocking out harmful bacteria from water.
The discovery 63 (make) by a team consisting 64 scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high school students 65 were seeking a natural water filter—one that would help communities in developing countries that do not have access to modern water filter systems.
The 66 (research), led by Professor Rohit Karnik, decided to turn to trees for help 67 they could allow liquid to flow through, while blocking out air bubbles.
They began by cutting 1.5-inch-wide sections of tree bark from the branches of a white pine tree. The people related then tested the wood’s filtering ability by pouring water containing red dye particles of different sizes through. 68 their amazement, they found that it was effective in trapping all the articles. 69 (encourage), the team conducted 70 experiment, this time with water that contained bacteria. Sure enough, the sapwood held back 99% of the bacteria, allowing only 1% to flow through.
