AppFire
This application provides for users apps that are free and highly discounted daily. By using this app, you only need to submit some information when registering. After filling it up, you are eligible to have access to a list of recommended downloads.
Starling
Based on bank nature, this app has been a good one in that regard. They have a banking license and allow you to open a current account through your phone for just some minutes. You are even liable to earn interest on the money held in your account through this app. The app will notice you with alerts when you spend money as it will help you outline what you have spent in categories like shopping, bill, foods and many more.
Campus Special
This app is greatly used by students as it enables them to have great deals on food stores and restaurants around the school. It also gives you the opportunity to order food from your hostel through your phone on pick-up delivery. The good thing about this app is that it enables you to get more rewards when you often use it. Those rewards can be used at your usual local food stores.
ATM Locator
This is another interesting app that can assist you in financial needs. When you are hooked up in an area that is not familiar to you and you are interested in getting some cash, instead of moving up and down in searching for the nearest place to withdraw some cash, this app should give you comfort in doing that. It helps you to find cash points that are very near to you, and it will display them on the map for you to check through.
Jamie Whitmore, 43, isn't used to slowing down. The professional athlete who became a gold medalist of Olympics for the disabled has never met a challenge she couldn't overcome, whether it was a mountain bike race-or cancer.
One morning in 2007, Whitmore found her leg muscles were tight when trying for a jog. Thinking she'd pushed herself too hard in the last race, she ignored the pain. Later at a sports camp in Arizona, she realized something was wrong. "Once I got on my bike I was so painful that it was hard to pick my legs up. I flew back home to go to a hospital." What doctors found shocked them all: Whitmore had a soft tissue tumor (肿瘤)that started in the bone, and the tumor was wrapped around her nerve of waist, touching several vital organs.
After the surgery, Whitmore had to learn to walk again with the help of a physical doctor. She also started radiation treatment, but four months later, doctors had worse news: A scan had shown the cancer was back. "This time it was more aggressive. Doctors took the rest of my nerve in the waist, and removed some cancer from my tail bone. " Whitmore developed sepsis(败血症) from the surgery and endured a two-month recovery. "My scans were coming back clear of cancer, but now I had all of these other complications(并发症)."
Today, Whitmore is a mother and cancer-free. She has won a gold medal in the Paralympics, and has set two world records. Whitmore has some advice for others with limitations: Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do. You have to find out yourself. Some doctors told me I would never ride anything more than a stationary bike. And yet I rode my mountain bike 104 miles climbing from 9,000 feet to 14,000 feet. You just can't give up."
The 2020 summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo next year. Japan has made 5,000 medals for the winners. But this Olympic medals are more special than most—-they are made entirely out of recycled electronics.
One new focus of the Tokyo Olympics is to make them "sustainable"—-to avoid using too many natural resources, so that the games are environmentally friendly. As part of this goal, the organizers decided to make all of the Olympic medals out of metal recycled from old electronics. They needed gold for first place medals, silver for second, and bronze for third. You might not know it, but almost all electronics are made with small amounts of "precious" metals, like gold and silver. But collecting enough of these metals to make 5,000 medals is a huge challenge. That's because the amount of metal in each device is tiny. It would take about 20,000 cell phones to get just 2. 2 pounds (1kilogram) of gold.
Beginning in April 2017, organizers placed collection boxes around the country, and asked people to turn in their old electronic devices for the Olympic medals. Soon people began to fill up the boxes, turning in smart phones, digital cameras and laptops. By the end, 1,621 local governments had helped out with the collection process. The Japanese mobile phone company NTT Docomo collected 6.21 million used cell phones. In all, around 158,000,000 pounds (71,667,660 kilograms) of electronics were collected.
Then came the job of breaking those phones down into smaller pieces. This is a difficult job. It's also dangerous, because some of the metals and other things that go into electronics aren't safe for people to touch or breathe. That's why it's not a good idea to try something like this at home. Once the devices were broken down, the metals had to be carefully separated out. By the end of March, the organizers had hit their targets. The opening ceremony for the 2020 summer Olympics will take place in Tokyo on July 24,020.
We know that reading is good for children. Now, a new study suggests that just being around books has its benefits. A team of researchers in Australia finds that growing up with a large library at home improves literacy (读写能力)，number-sense, and even technological skills in later life. It appeared in the journal Social Science Research.
The researchers were exploring the advantages of scholarly culture. They were interested in a curious observation that some call the "radiation effect". "Radiation effect is a situation where children grow up around books, but they don't read books. But somehow books benefit them, even though they don't read them as much as their parents wish them to." Joanna Sikora, a sociologist in Australia. Joana and her colleagues analysed data collected between 2011 and 2015 by the Organization for Economic Development. The survey assessed the literacy, numeracy(计算能力), and technological competency of more than 160 ,000 adults from 31 countries. And it included a question about how many books participants had in their homes during adolescence. "What we were able to make clear was that people growing up around books had better literacy, numeracy and digital problem-solving skills than people who had fewer books growing up but had similar education levels, similar jobs, and even similar adult habits in terms of reading or working at various numeracy-improving activities."
In fact, teens who only made it through high school but were raised in a bookish environment did as well in adulthood as college graduates who grew up in a house without books. Now, how might mere exposure lead to intellectual improvement? "If we grow up in a house, in a home where parents enjoy books，where books are given as birthday presents and valued, this is something that becomes a part of our identity and gives us this lifelong urge to always come close to books and read more than we would."
So keep shelves piled with books. Your kids will not only be grateful, they'll be more likely to be able to spell grateful correctly as well.
Learning how to use new words well will make it easier to learn a language and make you more knowledgeable.
If you're committed to building your vocabulary, set a goal for yourself. Try to learn three new words a day and use them in your speech and writing. With great efforts, you can learn several thousand new words that you will remember and use.
Write more. Actively exercising your writing muscles will keep your vocabulary strong. Write letters to old friends and use lots of specific details. If you typically avoid writing group emails or participating in group discussions, change your habits and write more.
Use flash cards or post--it notes around your house. To learn new words, try some simple memorization techniques. Hang post-it notes with meanings of some words you hope to memorize in the kitchen, so you can study it while making your morning cup. Even if you're watching TV, keep some flash cards with you and study.
Use accurate adjectives and precise nouns. The best writers aim to keep it short and accurate. Take out the dictionaries and choose the most accurate words possible in your sentences. A word is a useful addition to your vocabulary if it reduces the number of the words in a sentence.
A. Have a goal.
B. Set an example.
C. Don't use three words when one will do.
D. You can start keeping a diary or start a blog.
E. Consider taking on more writing tasks at work.
F. Stick a new word to each house plant so you can study while watering.
G. It pays to create a good habit of guessing what the writer is trying to say.
When Addisyn Goss met a homeless man two years ago, she learned that he had been in such a bad situation for many years. His stories of1inspired the now 10-year-old girl to take action, and she2the "Snuggle Sacks" campaign around Flint, Michigan.
"She immediately wanted to do something to3," said Addisyn's mom, Stacy Daul."4is something we see on the way to the grocery store, so it really has a painful effect on the kids, who have never expected someone around them should live such a5life." Addisyn's sister and brother, Sheridan and Jaxson, also help 6 the movement. Together they've7about 1, 700 survival kits(救生包) to people8. The Snuggle Sacks include snacks and warm9for men, women and children sleeping outside.
Their efforts have10and as Stacy said, "The donations have kept coming… we are so11of her!" Two years later, Addisyn12about 100 bags per month and delivers them13to individuals living on the streets or to homeless shelters.
"When people come up14to get a Snuggle Sack, it makes me happy," Addisyn said. "They love15the socks right away, and I can see they are smiling16they live a hard life. It gives me hope that I am helping."
For people like Addisyn, age is no17 to having a positive effect on their communities. Having been18by circumstances in their own lives，they have19great responsibilities in the society. Their actions continue to help so many others, and20in the community.
Thanks to the Chinese government scholarship, I was able to come to China and realize my dream as international student. In my two years of Master's study, I collected a bunch of wonderful memories.
One of them was joining a hiking marathon or climbing to the top of a mountain. I did not win the marathon, the sight of the beautiful landscapes along the way was enough for me. In China, I found that hiking was one of the best leisure (activity) of Chinese people.
The visit Zijin Mountain last year was the most challenging yet very memorable to me because of the bad weather in winter and the long hours of journey (reach) the top. The temperature at that time reached a freezing point. My hands were stone cold and my face (go) very pale. When we reached the top, it was just so (attract). The sunset view was the best of all. One of my friends took a photo of (I) and my Chinese friend as if we were sharing the sun with our hands. We stayed on top for a while, until we felt that we should be leaving before we would (total) freeze to death.
I believe that (climb) mountains gives someone a sense of direction and a motivation to reach your goal no matter how hard or unimaginable it could be.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（A），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，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均限--词
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Hope everything goes well with you. In terms of your unhealth lifestyle, I'm writing to give you some suggestion.
First of all, green and nutritious foods are necessary to our daily life, without that we can't build a healthy body. However, it's time that you can eat more fruits and vegetables rather than fast food. Drinking water instead of coke cola is wise choice. Second, you're supposed to cut down the time spending on the electronic products, which it is beneficial to your eyes and brain.
The last point to bear in mind is that early to bed or early to rise will make a man healthy, wealthy and wisely. Hope my advice can benefit you.
