Whether you're having trouble because your subject is difficult, time consuming or — let's be honest —boring. We have some tips here that can help you improve your studying habits. Keep reading for 5 ways you can study smarter.
Rather than living in a cave with your nose in the books all day, grab a friend from your class and study with them. Group studying helps you to engage and process the information more deeply.
Step into your teacher's shoes
Ask yourself “If I am the teacher, what would I put on the test?” You have probably experienced a few of your teacher's tests and quizzes by now. Learn from them for the next test. The structure is usually the same, and teachers have specific types of information that they want you to learn. Remember, teachers don't expect you to memorize every single detail, just the ones they feel is important.
Find ways to connect what you are learning to real life or to other related concepts. It's harder to remember each piece of a puzzle individually than it is to recall the completed picture. Find ways to relate pieces of information to each other and cluster（使聚集） them.
Feed your brain
A hungry brain is an ineffective one. Because of this, what you eat and drink also play a huge role in how sharp your brain is. Healthy foods provide nutrients to your brain cells to keep them energized.
Take breaks.
It needs exercise to make it stronger, but it can also tire if you overwork it. Imagine that each minute of studying is a push-up and you have to complete 100. If you try to do them all at once, you'll fatigue to the point where you can't continue.
A. Make up your mind
B. Paint bigger pictures
C. Your brain is like a muscle.
D. It's your job to figure out what that is.
E. So don’t expect to do your teacher's job.
F. Study with a partner or in groups, and peer teach.
G. Your brain needs the proper nutrients to keep it going.
Is there such a thing as being “overprotective”？
I can honestly say that my answer to that question (change) dramatically (戏剧性地) since I became a parent.
Before the birth of my daughter, I taught at private school, often viewing my students as overprotected, worrying would happen when they went on to middle schools.
Some did well, and some did not.Some needed constant pats on the back, words of (inspire) and extra support, which I (happy) gave.Others were content on their own, needing little no interaction (互动) with their teacher.
I'd always supposed their parents were overprotective, for they were the ones that still walked their (five) graders into the classroom and met them at the school gate.
Admittedly, I laughed at those parents, (think) their children would never learn to be (independence) if they didn't let go just a little.Then I had my own daughter.The moment I looked at her little face, I (know) I'd do everything in my power to protect her and make sure she always feels safe!
When a child is told he is "uncool", it can be very painful. He may say he doesn't care, and even act in ways that are opposite of cool on purpose(故意地). But these are simple ways to deal with sadness by pretending it's not there.
Helping a child feel better in school has to be careful. If you say, "Why are you worried about what other children think about you? It doesn't matter!" Children know that it does matter. Instead, an active way may be best. You could say, "I'm going to do a couple of things for you to help you feel better in school."
If a boy is having trouble making friends, the teacher can help him. The teacher can arrange things so that he has chances to use his abilities to contribute to class projects. This is how the other children learn how to value his good qualities and to like him. A teacher can also raise a child's popularity in the group by showing that he values that child. It even helps to put him in a seat next to a very popular child, or let him be a partner with that child in activities, etc.
There are things that parents can do at home, too. Be friendly when your child brings others home to play. Encourage him to invite friends to meals and then serve the dishes they consider "super". When you plan trips, picnics, movies, and other shows, invite another child with whom your child wants to be friends.
What you can do is give him a chance to join a group that may be shutting him out. Then, if he has good qualities, he can start to build real friendship of his own.
From self-driving cars to carebots (care+robots) for elderly people, rapid development in technology has long represented a possible threat to many jobs normally performed by people. But experts now believe that almost 50 per cent of occupations existing today will be completely unnecessary by 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to change businesses.
"The next fifteen years will see a revolution in how we work, and a revolution will necessarily take place in how we plan and think about workplaces," said Peter Andrew, Director of Workplace Strategy for CBRE Asia Pacific.
A growing number of jobs in the future will require creative intelligence, social skills and the ability to use artificial intelligence.
The report is based on interviews with 200 experts, business leaders and young people from Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. It shows that in the US technology already destroys more jobs than it creates.
But the report states: "Losing occupations does not necessarily mean losing jobs—just changing what people do." Growth in new jobs could occur as much, according to the research.
"The growth of 20- to 40-person companies that have the speed and technological know-how will directly challenge big companies," it states.
A 2014 report by Pew Research Centre found 52 per cent of experts in artificial intelligence and robotics were optimistic about the future and believed there would still be enough jobs in the next few years. The optimists pictured "a future in which robots do not take the place of more jobs than they create," according to Aaron Smith, the report's co-author.
"Technology will continue to affect jobs, but more jobs seem likely to be created. Although there have always been unemployed people, when we reached a few billion people there were billions of jobs. There is no shortage of things that need to be done and that will not change," Microsoft's Jonathan Grudin told researchers.
Last Friday when Jose Rodriguez, a 5-year-old white boy, asked his mother Lydia Rodriguez if he could get his blonde hair cut like his black friend Reddy's, and of course his mother agreed. For a very 1 reason the two pre-school friends decided to 2 their teacher with matching haircuts.
Jose 3 that if he and Reddy had the same haircut, no one would be able to 4 them apart. Reddy apparently thought this trick was 5 as well.
"It is just two 6 boys. Obviously, they see they are different colours, but they just don't care. It is not 7," Rodriguez said. She sees Jose's inability to see a 8 between himself and his friend as a parenting win. "I just taught him to 9 everyone the same," she said.
The teacher played along and 10 she was talking to Jose when Reddy arrived before Jose and told the teacher and his 11he was Jose.
On Monday, Rodriguez 12 the story on the Facebook.78,000 people 13 it and the story has gone viral(疯传). On the post she wrote: "If this isn't proof that 14 and prejudice is something that is 15, I don't know what is. Their 16 is the only difference Jose sees in the two of them. Though Jose loves 17 himself on TV and the Internet, he remains unsure why his haircut became such a big 18."
He still has no idea why people 19 so much," Rodriguez said. "He wanted to 20 Reddy and now he thinks they look the same."
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In 1989, fresh out of high school, I had the difficult task of choosing a career path before college started in three months. In those days in Pakistan, there were limited options: becoming a doctor or an engineer, or entering the financial world after getting a business degree. I wasn't interested in engineering, so that I was left with medicine or business. I couldn't decide.
My uncle suggested that I do a work placement to experience it for a month in an international company followed by a month in a hospital. After that, I could make a decision. It seemed like a brilliant idea.
I was accepted for a month's placement at a foreign bank in Karachi. I got a feel for how the world of finance functioned, made new friends, and generally enjoyed the mostly easy-going work surroundings.
The month passed rapidly, and soon I began working at a leading hospital in Karachi. The experience couldn't have been more different. The hospital had an intense environment. The days started early (at 7 am, compared to 9 am at the bank), and were filled with endless duties. And the night calls! This was crazy, working all day, through the night, and again the next day.
I began thinking about my two experiences. The bank had offered a more relaxing atmosphere, better working hours and less stress. The hospital was full of excitement and unpredictability, but the studying and training was difficult. It seemed that the business option was going to win out.
Near the end of my month at the hospital, I was driving home after an especially busy night call. In front of me was a public bus, with college students sitting on the top. As the driver weaved through (穿梭) traffic, I could see the boys shaking from side to side.
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2）至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
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Suddenly, a boy fell off the back of the bus.
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The next day, when I went to hospital to see the boy, all his family got up, with grateful smiles on their faces.
Why is she looking at me?
What picture do you have of the future? Will life in the future be better, worse or the same as now? What do you hope about the future?
Futurologists (未来学家) predict that life will probably be very different in 2050 in all the fields of activity, from entertainment to technology. First of all, it seems that TV channels will have disappeared by 2050. Instead, people will choose a program from a 'menu' and a computer will send the program directly to the television. By 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers and books will come to us by computer.
In what concerns the environment, water will have become one of our most serious problems. Demand for water will increase ten times between now and 2050 and there could be serious shortages. Some futurologists predict that water could be the cause of war if we don't act now.
In transport, cars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fast. Cars will have computers to control the speed of the cars and there won't be any accidents. Today many cars have computers that tell drivers exactly where they are. By 2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to your destination.
In the domain of technology, robots will have replaced people in factories. Many factories already use robots. Big companies prefer robots—they do not ask for pay rises or go on strike, and they work 24 hours a day. By 2050, we will see robots everywhere—in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homes.
Last but not least, medicine technology will have conquered many diseases. Today scientists have discovered how to control genes. They have already produced clones of animals. By 2050, scientists will be able to produce clones of people and decide how they look, how they behave and how much intelligence they have. Scientists will be able to do these things—but should they?
One of the most efficient ways to achieve peace and speed up economies (经济) is to provide girls with better education and more rights. Today, girls' lack of access (进入) to basic education is getting more serious when it comes to the use of digital (数码的) technology, leaving them far behind boys. And because the world is even more digital, those who lack basic internet skills will find it increasingly more difficult to take part in the formal economy, to get a quality education, and to have their voices heard.
Since 2013 the global gender gap (性别差异) in male and female access to the Internet has actually increased from 11 to 12 percent. Worse yet, women and girls living in the poorest countries are 31 percent less likely than men and boys to have access to the Internet. In developing countries, some 200 million fewer women than men own a mobile phone, the most common means of Internet access there. This digital divide is increasing, and should it continue at the present pace, it is projected that over 75 percent of women and girls will lack Internet access and digital skills.
There are many causes of the digital gender gap. They include girls' exclusion (排斥) from basic education, from specific technology education and high costs of mobile phones and Internet access.
Indeed, one of the so-called reasons why girls may be discouraged from learning how to access and use digital technology is also a groundless one—that girls are simply not good at using technology.
Without the help of the government, most of the benefits of technological change will be enjoyed only by men, exacerbating gender inequality.
