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Clearing Your Plate with Tech

Multiple actions have been taken to fight food waste, but one young man is making a big difference with technology.

Liu Jichen, 23, a student from Tsinghua University, has developed a WeChat mini- program called "Clear Your Plate". After a meal, users can open the mini-program and take a picture of their empty plates. Once the image is recognized by the AI, students can collect points and use them to buy gifts or purchase charity meals donated to children in poor rural areas.

Liu and his team, together with other organizations, launched the "Clear Your Plate" campaign in November for the third year. It has swept over 1,017 universities across the country.

The one-month campaign attracted almost 1.6 million participants and collectively reduced food waste by 862 tons and carbon emissions by 3,337 tons, The China Youth Daily reported.

The idea to develop such a mini-program came from Liu's experience in a canteen. In 2017, he found that a restaurant would give diners who finished off their food a card and offer small gifts after a certain number of cards had been collected.

"Technological innovation is a good way to reduce food waste," Liu thought. He organized a team of 20 members to work on the project at the end of 2017. To solve the AI's problem of identifying photos of empty plates, the team spent half a year collecting over 100,000 samples in canteens and restaurants. In 2018, the mini-program was officially put into operation on Oct 16, World Food Day. They then launched a campaign later that year.

"There were so many unknowns in research and development. For our team members, the biggest psychological challenge was whether we were confident enough to complete it," Liu said. They not only achieved their goal, but now, the mini-program has more than 5 million registered users, according to Liu.

Thanks to his innovative and practical actions concerning social issues, Liu, along with the other 16 members, stood out among more than 7,600 candidates around the world to be inducted (入选) into the 2020 Class of Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals by the UN Office of the Secretary General's Envoy on Youth in September.

"We hope our efforts can start a new trend among the younger generation by encouraging them to cherish their food and develop the habit of thrift (节约)," Liu told China Daily.

"Through the campaign, we hope to inspire everyone to take action against food waste and to contribute Chinese wisdom and solutions to global food security challenges," he added.

My favorite thing about autumn is that I have an excuse to make my mom apple cake again. So, I always thought, once my first child was in primary school, I would enjoy taking part in bake sale fundraisers.

Instead, I fear them. I do not imagine that funds for football uniforms appear out of thin air. So I dutifully show up to each bake sale with home-made cakes.

Still, bake sales trouble me. They feel like a holdover from a time when many moms didn't work and it was supposed they had a lot of time to bake cookies for children. Women who don't have the time to bake at home and who bring packaged cookies are seen as breaking a great American tradition.

What are we selling at bake sales, anyway? Are we advertising our baking skills? Or is the goal to raise money? Children happily buy cupcakes from a store, so why do we care that nobody in a home kitchen worked late into the night to make them?

Actually, if you look closely at the economics, they just don't add up. We might spend $10 on ingredients to make 18 cupcakes that sell for $2 each. Think of this $26 as profit supposing that the hours spent shopping and baking and packing things up and taking them to school, and possibly selling and cleaning up afterward, don't have value. Volunteering your time and energy to something important is worth praising. But neither the ingredients nor the work is "free", and many parents can't afford to give them away.

This is not an attack against people who love to make banana bread and have the time to do so. But most people do not. Most parents struggle to get even the most basic parenting tasks finished in the limited time between the end of the workday and children's bedtimes. It feels crazy to take time away from helping with homework, or actually making dinner, to spend hours on a fundraiser.

The secrets of dreaming are always interesting psychologists. It is generally acknowledged in the field that dreams people have during this time between childhood and early adulthood are the strongest and most influential. Yet not enough is known about the repeated patterns of dreaming. Researchers are still trying to answer a basic question: How does dreaming relate to the life experiences and developmental challenges?

William Domhoff and Adam Schneider, at the University of California, help to answer this question by examining the lengthy dream series of two individuals, "Izzy" and "Jasmine". Izzy provided a collection of 4,329 dream reports from between the ages of 12 and 25, while Jasmine provided 664 dreams recorded between the ages of 14 and 25.

Large collections of dreams like these pose challenges to researchers. Until recently, the means of studying dream series was to employ a team of recorders who take the time to code each dream for a predetermined number of content categories, and then compare their results. Nowadays, digital technologies enable the analysis of language usage in dreams with high speed, precision, and objectivity. This marks a revolutionary advance in the science of dreaming. However, it can only lead so far.

To gain more specific and detailed insights, Domhoff and Schneider tailored word strings for each dreamer, mixing elements of traditional research with digital tools for analyzing large data sets. For Izzy these word strings included "family and relatives", "celebrities" and "fantasy", while the word strings they created for Jasmine included "familiar places", "electrical equipment" and "music". The researchers used these word strings to identify connections between their dreams and real lives. Surprisingly, the results of the analysis revealed a great deal of consistency and continuity in both sets of dreams. Izzy pays much attention to pop culture, and has affection for famous actors. Jasmine is an accomplished musician and performer.

"The frequencies of dream elements reveal the intensity of the dreamer's personal concern with that element in waking thought," Domhoff and Schneider conclude. For anyone who still claims dreaming is merely random nonsense from the brain and mental world, these findings are hard to explain away.

Self-disciplined people are not all outstanding people.Some of them read every day. Some of them never run late. The real difference between an elite (精英) person and an ordinary person is that an elite person can manage his or her time well.

What people call self-discipline is in fact self-management. One example is staying fit. Never underestimate someone who is in good shape. Anyone who has ever tried to lose weight knows that it's not easy.  If someone is in good shape, it shows that he knows the principles of staying fit and is able to stick to a plan that uses these principles.

If someone is in good shape, it means that this person is good at managing themselves and their time.  It also shows that this person is able to keep persevering and can balance long-term goals with short-term goals. So if someone is in good shape, he or she is more than just healthy.

 First of all, set a goal and write down your reasons for wanting to achieve it.

Create a list of all the things you need to do to achieve this goal and start to work on them one at a time. With self-discipline, small things in life will no longer trouble you. Only through self-discipline can you truly own your future.

A. How do you learn self-management?

B. That's where their success comes from.

C. This skill gives you the power to stick to your decisions.

D. But nearly all outstanding people are self-disciplined people.

E. Whether it is natural or acquired, it is a great skill.

F. It's even harder to avoid putting weight back on.

G. Self-discipline means self control, which is a sign of inner strength.

From the window of my room, I could see a tall cotton-rose hibiscus (木槿). In spring when green leaves were half 1 by mist, the tree looked very charming dotted with red flowers. This 2 neighbor often set my mind working. I gradually regarded it as my best friend.

3 , when I opened the window one morning, to my4 , the tree was almost bare beyond 5 as a result of the storm the night before. Struck by this scene, I was6 with a sudden sadness at the thought "all the flowers are doomed to fall". I could not help 7 with emotion: the8 of life never runs smooth, for there are so many ups and downs, twists and turns. The vicissitudes (变迁) of my life saw my beloved friends9one after another. Isn't it similar to the tree whose flowers fell in the 10?

This event 11 from my memory as time went by. One day after I came home from the countryside, I found the room airless and 12 opened the window. Something outside 13 my eye. It was a plum (梅子) tree all red with flowers beautifully set off by the sunset. The surprise discovery struck me with 14.

When the last petal (花瓣) dropped, all the joyful admiration for the hibiscus was gone as if nothing was left, 15 the landscape was again charming with the red flowers to 16people of life's alternation (替代) and continuance. Can't it be said that life is actually a symphony, a 17 composition of gain and loss?

Standing by the window lost in thought for a long time, I realized no scenery in the world remains18. As long as you keep your heart 19 in the sun, every dawn will20 a fine prospect and the world will always be about new hopes.

One of the biggest Internet(succeed) is a website called Friends Reunited.

Friends Reunited brings together — that is, unites— old friends,  used to be close, but have not seen each other for a long time. The website was begun in 1999 by a London couple called Stephen and Julie Pankhurst. Julie wanted to know what her old school friends were doing. Did they all have families  their own? Did they still live in the same area?

Stephen and his business partner, Jason Porter, built  website. Slowly, people heard about the site and became interested. By the end of 2000 the site had 3,000 members. Then the website  (mention) on a radio programme and afterwards the site became (increase) popular.

How can you find old friends  (use) Friends Reunited? It's very easy. People join the website and give information about  — the name of their old school, the

neighbourhood they lived in, the college they went to, etc. To find an old friend, you type in their name, school …. You may find that your friend is a member of the website, and you can then contact him or her through the website. Most people are very happy (reply), and people often become friends again as a result. Thanks to Friends United, millions of people  (find) each other again to date.

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2）只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

When I was a little kid, I dreamed of keep a dog as my pet and companion. My parents disagreed, saying that I was too young that I couldn't take care of me, let alone a dog. I didn't give up. Instead, I tried to be independence and often helped with housework. A few month later, my parents found that I had become more considerate than before. They finally approve of my request. On my eighth birthday, they bought me lovely dog as a gift. Followed my parents' directions, I've learned how to raise the dog. I still miss those old days that we accompanied with each other.

封回信，内容包括：

1）你喜欢的运动项目及原因,

2）现在参加该运动的情况如何,

3）询问对方的体育爱好。

注意：1）词数：100左右。

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear David,

……

Yours sincerely,

Li hua