One Sunday morning in August I (go) to the local music festival. I left it early because I had an appointment (late) that day. My friends walked me to the bus stop and waited with me until the bus arrived.
I got on the bus and found a seat near the back, and then I noticed a man (sit) at the front. He was pretending that a tiger toy was real and giving it a voice. He must be (mental) disabled. Behind him were other people to whom he was trying to talk, but after some minutes, he walked away and sat near me, looking (annoy).
I didn't want to be laughed at for (talk) to him but I didn't like leaving him on his own .
After a while I rose from my seat and walked to the front of the bus. I sat next to the man and introduced (I).
We had amazing conversation. He got off the bus before me and I felt very happy the rest of the way home.
I'm glad I made a choice. It made of us feel good.
Tea is one of the most popular (drink) in the world. Ancient Chinese agricultural production (guide) by solar terms (节气) for a long time, and so has tea production. Picking tea leaves is important spring activity in South China. Tea (pick) before Qingming is called Mingqian tea. Because of the small output good quality, Mingqian tea is considered quite valuable.
In spring, local hillsides are often filled with tea pickers as well as farmers (plant) on their land. The beautiful scenery of tea farms in the countryside is (benefit) to the tourism in these places. Many families take their children to experience the fun of picking tea leaves during spring outings. Picking tea leaves (reflect) hard work of Chinese people and it is one of the traditional virtues. Today scientists know that tea contains chemicals that keep cells (细胞) dying. Most teas have caffeine in them, makes you feel more active. Some people have problems drinking tea because it can cause sleeplessness.
Located in the checkroom in Union Station as I am, I see everybody that comes up the stairs. Harry came in a little over three years ago and waited at the head of the stairs for the passengers from the 9: 05 train.
I remember seeing Harry that first evening. He wasn't much more than a thin, anxious kid then. He was all dressed up and I knew he was meeting his girl and that they would be married twenty minutes after she arrived.
Well, the passengers came up and I had to get busy. I didn't look toward the stairs again until nearly time for the 9: 18 and I was very surprised to see that the young fellow was still there.
She didn't come on the 9: 18 either, nor on the 9: 40, and when the passengers from the 10: 02 had all arrived and left, Harry was looking pretty desperate. Pretty soon he came close to my window so I called out and asked him what she looked like.
"She's small and dark," he said, "and nineteen years old and very neat in the way she walks. She has a face," he said, thinking a minute, "that has lots of spirit. I mean she can get mad but she never stays mad for long, and her eyebrows come to a little point in the middle. She's got a brown fur, but maybe she isn't wearing it."
He showed me the telegram he'd received: ARRIVE THURSDAY. MEET ME STATION. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE. MAY. He told me she was a typist and when he telephoned her former boss, all they know was that she left her job to get married.
Harry met every train for the next three or four days. I could see that they all thought that May had simply played a trick on him. But I never believed that, somehow.
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After about two weeks , Harry I had to get a job began to work as a clerk for Tony, the owner of the magazine stand(书报亭).……
For a while they just hung there to each other laughing and crying.……
China Science Daily announced Thursday that it has used software to automatically generate news stories about the latest discoveries from the world's leading science journals.The robot science reporter,called "Xiaoke",was co-created by the newspaper and researchers from Peking University in about half a year.
It is the latest case of Chinese news organizations using computer technology to create the content.According to its inventors,Xiaoke has generated over 200 stories based on the English abstract of papers published in journals such as Science , Nature , Cell and The New England Journal of Medicine.
Before publication,the automatically generated articles will go through a review process.A group of scientists and the newspaper's editors will check the content or give supplementary(补充的) information.
Zhang Mingwei,head of the program and vice editor-in-chief of the newspaper,said inventors would make Xiaoke a "cross-linguistic(跨语言的) academic secretary" to help Chinese scientists overcome language barriers and have easy and quick access to the latest scientific advances in English-language publications.Lead researcher Wan Xiaojun of Peking University,in charge of the system's design and technology,stressed that the content generation tool could do far more than translation.According to Wan,Xiaoke is good at selecting complex words and sentences,which can help turn articles full of confusing technical terms into easy and readable news reports.
The readers of the robot reporter are not limited to professionals and they also include the general public,the inventors said.Science reporting is important in spreading information about discoveries and in popularizing knowledge to people.
E-mail应该包括下列内容:
1)、减肥的方法:每天运动,适当节食……
2)、避免(avoid doing sth.)使用减肥药,不食用垃圾食品……
注意:1)、E-mail的开头和结尾已经为你写好。
2)、词数:100左右。
3)、可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
Dear Li Hua
You say you want to lose weight but you are not sure how to do it correctly.
Best wishes
Deng Ping
Honeybee populations in the United States (decrease) dramatically over the decades. And a new study suggests that a certain kind of pesticide could be making things (bad).
The number of honeybees hasn't changed much over the past few years, but the overall picture doesn't look good for an insect that plays important role in our food supply. Scientists don't know for sure this is happening. Pesticides and parasites (寄生虫) are the most suspected reasons, and a study recently published in the scientific journal. One suggests that neonicotinolds (烟碱类农药) ,types of pesticides that (use) around the world, are incredibly poisonous to honeybees and other insects. Part of the reason for that is because these pesticides appear (stick) around in the environment and stay dangerous for longer periods of time.
Though they're deadly to insects, neonicotinolds are not considered dangerous to humans. An ongoing challenge farmers is finding ways to keep other insects away while still (protect) bees. Pesticides may not discriminate between the insects they kill, though neonicotinolds maker says the chemical's risk to bees is lower when it's used properly. The U. S. Department of Agriculture says it's (likely) that there's one magic (solve) to the problem, but there are a number of organizations trying to help honeybees.
Why the youth sense anger in faces
We tend to believe that older people are more positive and younger people are more sensitive to social cues (暗示).
Recently scientists investigated this idea by testing 10,000 men and women. They wanted to see if age affected a person's ability to identify facial emotions, such as fear and anger.
The researchers from McLean Hospital in the US used a Web-based platform to collect happiness data. It showed the participants two headshots (头部特写)of random people. They were then asked to identify which subject was angrier, happier, or more fearful.
The research found that younger people were able to better identify angry and fearful facial cues than older people.
"From studies and anecdotal evidence, we know that the everyday experiences of an adolescent are different from an older person, but we wanted to understand how these experiences might be linked with differences in basic emotion understanding,wrote Laura Germine, the study's senior author.
But what is it that makes young people more sensitive?
"This is the exact age when young people are most sensitive to forms of negative social cues, such as bullying," Lauren Rutter, the study's lead author, told Science Daily. "The normal development of anger sensitivity can contribute to some of the challenges that arise during this phase of development.
On the contrary across the whole 10,000-person survey, researchers found no decline in the perception (感知)of happiness among older participants.
"What's remarkable is that we see declines in many visual perceptual abilities as we get older, but here we did not see such declines in the perception of happiness, Germine told Neuro Science News.
She added that these findings fit well with other researches, showing that older adults tend to have more positive emotions and a positive outlook.
Following the paper's release, Rutter told Neuro Science News that gathering their primary research online allowed the team to research into a "much larger and more diverse sample set" than previous studies.
Title: Why the youth sense anger in faces | |
Purpose of the research | The idea whether age affects people's ability to identify facial emotions. |
Process of the research | The researchers happiness data on a web-based platform. |
Two head shots were shown to the participants. | |
Participants were asked to identify the more subject. | |
of the research | Younger people are at identifying negative social cues. |
Adolescence is the exact age when anger sensitivity reaches its . | |
Perception of happiness isn't on the with age. | |
Self-assessment of the research | What the research proves with other researches. |
In comparison with previous studies, the sample set of the research is superior in its size and . |
Life Doesn't Just Happen to Us
Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough. Success depends mainly on our view of ourselves and of the events in our lives.
When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no way of knowing that his life was to change completely. The class experiment that day was to show heating a container of water would bring air bubbling to the surface. Somehow, the container the teacher gave Wilson (heat) mistakenly held something more volatile(易挥发的) than water. When Wilson heated it, the container exploded, (leave) Wilson blinded in both eyes.
When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents attempted to find a way to deal with the disaster that (happen) to their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident a disaster. He learned braille(盲文) quickly and continued his education at Worcester College for the Blind. There, he not only did well as a student but also became an (accomplish) public speaker.
Later, he worked in Africa, many people suffered from blindness for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to accept his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue when it be fixed so easily. Wilson did his best to prevent the preventable tens of millions in Africa and Asia could recover their sight.
Wilson received several international awards for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a vision. He proved that it's not what happens to us determines our lives- it's what we make of what happens.
My husband was ________ ( 不愿批评的 ) and accepted everything I said. ( 根据汉语意思单词拼写 )
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Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. 71 The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. 72
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap and they should teach them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever.
73 Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. __74 It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, a well – cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self - confidence.
Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. 75
A. But is it correct?
B. And that is more important.
C. Cooking demands patience and time.
D. They also require their children to take a lot of tests.
E. They also want their children to take extra - course activities.
F. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.
G. Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.
---- Has your brother returned from the USA yet?
---- Yes, but he ____ here for only two days before his company sent him to Australia.
A. stayed B. has stayed C. will stay D. was staying