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Visit the UC Botanical Garden Hours

The Garden is open by reservation only.

Members Hour：9-11 am Workdays, 8-11 am Saturday

General Admission：12 am-4 pm daily

Closed the First Tuesday of the month

Admission

Online advanced admission tickets are required for all visitors, including members. Members must sign in to receive their free admission.

Adults: ﹩15

Seniors (65+): ﹩12

Juniors (7- 17): ﹩7

Children 6 and under: Free

Non-UCB Students:﹩12

UCB faculty, staff, & students: Free

Visit Guidelines

Face coverings are required for visitors over the age of two. Please keep 6 feet of distance between you and other visitors who are not in your social group. While UCBG has taken necessary safety measures, there is still a risk of exposure to COVID-19 in any public place where people are present. Please stay home if you are sick.

Please stay on the paths and out of the Garden beds. The Garden is a living museum for the public to enjoy and respect. Do not damage, pick, or remove any plant material or items in the Garden. The Garden is a research facility with many ongoing projects that must not be disturbed.

Smoking is not allowed.

Pets are not allowed in the Garden to protect our plant collection. However, trained service dogs are permitted.

Photoshoots are currently not allowed due to pandemic health restrictions.

The world held its breath when the scene of a car crash was broadcast on five television and the name Tiger Woods flashed across the screen. The Los Angeles Times reported the car rolled over many times and Woods was not able to get out of the car on his own. Fortunately, he was wearing his seat bell, which very likely saved his life. Woods was saved from the badly damaged car with the "jaws of life" by firefighters. Then he was immediately transported to Harbor-UCLA，the busiest hospital in Los Angeles, and was undergoing surgery for leg injuries, as recent reports said.

Thankfully, his injuries aren't life-threatening. We do have some clues in the released statements as to what injuries Woods has suffered. First, we heard about open fractures, in which the broken bones poke (露出) through the skin. Woods is said to have had a rod (杆) placed down a bone, which is one way to treat a fracture and allow the bone to heal in a better position. Given the multiplicity of fractures, Woods may have also had an external fixator, something kept outside the skin. Moving forward, he will also need to heal and strengthen his muscles, which can take a year or longer

Woods, 45, is one of the most successful professional golfers of all time. He has won 15 major championships and most recently won The Masters in 2019 after missing a good deal of lime recovering from a back injury. It is far too early to say whether he will play professional golf again, and there is no doubt his injuries are a severe obstacle to his chances of ever returning to the tour, particularly because he is in his 40s, and has suffered other career-threatening injuries.

Woods's tragedies are what makes him human, but his comebacks are what make him inspirational. Woods's legendary story has been marked by several peaks and valleys. Let's hope this is the deepest valley before the greatest peak.

As stay-at-home orders relieve and cities reopen for business, many doctors and hospital administrators are calling for a quick return of health care to pre-pandemic levels. For months now, routine care has been postponed. Elective procedures - big moneymakers -were stopped so that hospitals could transfer resources to treating Covid-19 patients. Routine clinic visits were canceled or replaced by online sessions. This has resulted in great financial losses for hospitals and clinics. Hospitals have been forced to reduce employees or cut pay.

Most patients, on the other hand, at least those with stable chronic (慢性的) conditions, seem to have done OK. In a recent survey, only one in ten respondents said their health or a family member's health had worsened as a result of delayed care. Eighty-six percent said their health had stayed about the same.

Admittedly, postponing health care had terrible health consequences for some patients with non-Covid-19 illnesses. Still, a majority of patients seem to have done better than what most doctors expected. It will probably take years to understand why. However, perhaps Americans don't require the volume（体积）of care that their doctors are used to providing.

It is well recognized that a substantial amount of health care in America is wasteful, accounting for hundreds of billions of dollars of the total health care budget. Wasteful care is driven by many forces: "defensive" medicine by doctors trying to avoid lawsuits；the high prices that American doctors and hospitals charge；a lack of consensus about which treatments are effective; and the widespread belief that newer, more expensive technology is always better.

In a survey a few years ago, two-thirds of doctors in the United States admitted that between 15 percent and 30 percent of heath care is probably unnecessary. Studies suggest that up to 20 percent of surgeries in some specialties are unnecessary. If your surgery was postponed because of the pandemic, it is worth having a conversation with your doctor about whether it is still needed.

Many institutions are using this difficult time in our nation's history to make changes. The health care system should do the same.

"Imagine this for a second: one man, with total control of billions of people's stolen data. All their secrets, their lives, their futures. I owe it all to Specter (Specter is an evil organization in the James Bond movies)." "Specter showed me that whoever controls the data, controls the future." This was the invitation that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg recently gave his online audience as he stared at the camera.

Or maybe not. On closer observation, it turned out to be something called a "deepfake video", where the speaker inside is simply a digital fake of Zuckerburg. The video was created by artists Bill Posters and Daniel Howe with help from artificial intelligence companies and displayed over the past week or so at an art show in Britain on the influence of technology. The fake video was made using AI that can create the illusion of a real person saying or doing things that they have never actually done.

Such tricks may appear to be risk-free, but experts are warning that the video manipulation technology could easily be used to spread fake news or damage someone's reputation.

Media alteration tools are nothing new, but the real danger now is that fakery is getting cheaper than ever to create a deepfake video, all you need is a few photos and the Internet. With little help, it gives birth to something new, something real. This brings questions about how to approach the problem of doctored videos.

Two solutions have been proposed: using technology to identify these modified videos, and making it punishable by law to slur (诽谤)one's name through the deepfake technology.

However, neither option is ideal, because it's not the technology itself that is the issue, but the motives it is being used for.

Too much salt - and not enough whole grains, fruits and vegetables-may be shaving years off our lives, a new analysis suggests.

In a study published Wednesday in the Lancet, researchers looked at peopled eating habits across 195 countries to estimate how much poor diets contribute to the number of deaths. ? That 11 million people die each year around the world due, at least in part, to certain foods or lack of them, according to the study.

Lead author Ashkan Afshin, an epidemiologist (流行病学家) at the University of Washington, said the researchers estimated , including cigarette smoking, known to be one of the greatest threats to public health.

The problem, he said, is not only what people are eating; The study estimated that globally, 3 million deaths were attributed to (归因于) too much salt-but another 3 million deaths were attributed to too little whole grains and another 2 million deaths to too little fruit. -a balanced diet is important for a long, healthy life.

? Nestle, a professor at New York University, suggested that it makes sense that dietary risks are higher because everyone eats—but not everyone smokes. So, she said that "diet is a risk factor for everybody".

A. Why did they do that

B. What are their findings

C. but it's also what they're not eating

D. that some bad habits lead to more health problems

E. Experts say it confirms what health professionals have been teaching for years

F. But is a poor diet really responsible for more deaths than even cigarette smoking

G. that poor diets are responsible for more deaths around the world than any other risk factor

My mother used to ask me what the most important part of the body is. Through the years I would guess at what was the correct1.

When I was younger, I thought sound was very important, so I said, "My2, Mommy."

She said, "No. Many people are deaf. "

Several years had passed3she asked me again. Since making my first4, I had5the correct answer. So I told her, "Mommy,6 is very important to everybody, so it must be our eyes."

She looked at me and told me, "You are learning fast, but there are many people who are7."

Then last year, my Grandpa8. Everybody was hurt and crying. It was our9to say our final good-bye to Grandpa. I was 10when she asked me with tears in the eyes, "Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?"

She saw the11on my face and said, "This question is very important. It shows you have really lived your life. It's your12, my dear."

I asked, "Is it because it13your head？"

She14,"No, it's because it can hold the head of a friend or loved one when they cry." Then I knew the most important body part is not a selfish one. It is15to the pain of others.

For much of history, reading was a fairly noisy activity. Some 4, 000 years ago, the commonly used words for "to read" literally (mean)"to cry out" or "to listen".

Today, silent reading is the norm(常态). The majority of (we) bottle the words in our heads as if sitting in the hushed confines of a library. Reading out loud is (large) reserved for bedtime stories and performances.

But a growing body of research suggests that we may be missing out by reading only with the voices inside our minds. The ancient art of reading aloud has a number of (benefit) for adults, from helping improve our memories and understand complex texts, to (strengthen) emotional bonds between people.

Colin MacLeod, psychologist at the University of Waterloo in Canada, has extensively researched the impact of reading aloud on memory. So far he as well as his collaborators (show) that people consistently remember words and texts better if they read them aloud if they read them silently.

In another study, adults (age) 67 to 88 were given the same task - reading words either silently or aloud - before then writing down all those they could remember. They were able to recall 27% of the words they had read aloud, only 10% of those they'd read silently.

1）表达生日祝福；

2）介绍中国结（如外观、象征意义、装饰作用等）。

注意：1）词数：80词左右；2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：中国结Chinese knot

Dear Tom,

……

Yours,

Li Hua

In 1989 an 8. 2 earthquake almost flattened America, killing over 30，000 people in less than four minutes. In the midst of utter devastation and chaos, a father left his wife safely at home and rushed to the school where his son was supposed to be, only to discover that the building was as flat as a pancake.

After the unforgettably initial shock, he remembered the promise he had made to his son: "No matter what, I'll always be there for you!" And tears began to fill his eyes. As he looked at the pile of ruins that once was the school, it looked hopeless, but he kept remembering his commitment to his son.

He began to direct his attention towards where he walked his son to class at school each morning. Remembering his son's classroom would be in the back right comer of the building; he rushed there and started digging through the ruins.

As he was digging, other helpless parents arrived, clutching their hearts, saying："My son!" "My daughter!" Other well-meaning parents tried to pull him off what was left of the school, saying: "It's too late! They're all dead! You can't help! Go home! Come on, face reality, there's nothing you can do!"

To each parent he responded with one line:" Are you going to help me now?" And then he continued to dig for his son, stone by stone. The fire chief showed up and tried to pull him off the school's ruins saying, "Fires are breaking out, explosions are happening everywhere. You're in danger. We'll take care of it. Go home. "To which this loving, caring American father asked, "Are you going to help me now？"

The police came and said, "You're angry, anxious and it's over. You're endangering others. Go home. We'll handle it!" To which he replied, "Are you going to help me now?" No one helped.

注意：

1）续写词数应为150词左右。

2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Courageously he went on alone because he needed to know for himself："Is my boy alive or is he dead？"     ▲    .

"What's going on in there？How is it, my son?" the father asked.     ▲    .