Mosquitos (蚊子)can cause us serious diseases. Until now. we've used different things to keep them away. But none of these ways actually protect us for more than 20 minutes! Now there is a new way to keep mosquitos away from you ever again without using any chemicals at all.
What is it all about?
It's called the Mosquitron—a new mosquito catcher or killer. It's very easy to control and it can protect your home from all the mosquitos!
How does it work?
Instead of trying to keep the mosquitos away, it attracts them, then catches them and finally kills them! Basically, it will attract the mosquitos into the Mosquitron, with a completely harmless UV-PT producing light. Next to the UV-PT light is a powerful reverse (反向的)fan that sucks (吸)the mosquitos through a one-way trapdoor. Once they are trapped in the drying basket« they are dried to death by the fan in 2 minutes.
How much does it cost?
You'd be surprised to find that you can get it right now for just $89. It might seem expensive at first. However, when you compare it with other products which need regular, expensive repair and don't work for more than 10 minutes, it is pretty cheap. In fact, some products using the same UV technology are priced over $250! to buy a mosquitron?
That's very easy. You can only buy it from the supplier's website.
A 76-year-old grandmother, dressed in Hanfu, the traditional clothing of China attracted hundreds of thousands of people's attention with her beauty and passion for life. The first short video was filmed by her grandson Liu Haochen in early October, and received 1. 76 million likes on short video platform Douyin within a month.
Now known as "Grandma of Chenchen" with 200，000 fans, she has tried on many different Chinese traditional clothing, dutiful headwear and fans with traditional Chinese pammgs are some of her favorite parts in dressing. Liu, also a lover of Hanfu. said he wanted to share happy memories with his grandma and to record her life at old age. And he found she was quite suitable for the clothing.
The grandma learned Peking Opera al 13, entered an opera school al 19 and then became an actress at Hunan Peking Opera in Hunan province. Now at the age of 76, she is still teaching opera.
She said she agreed the moment Liu invited her to shoot a video. I didn't really know what it was about at the time. I thought it would be good to spend some time with Chenchen," she said, as Liu had been busy working far from home.
In October, she participated in a catwalk show in Changzhou, with performers much younger than her. Although the show went on in the rain, all the audience enjoyed the show. "When I was on the stage, the audience kept shouting my name. I was very cheerful, she said.
Along with videos about Hanfu, she also shares her daily life, which is full of happiness and smile—shopping, chatting with friends and playing with cats. She said she felt as young as a young person.
A new study shows that the increased heat from Arctic (北极的)rivers is making sea ice in the Arctic Ocean gradually disappear. The study published this week in Science Advance was led by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, together with other scientists in the United States, United Arab Emi rates, Finland and Canada.
According to the research, the main Arctic rivers bring more heat to the Arctic Ocean than they did in 1980. River heat is one of the reasons that cause sea ice loss of the Arctic Ocean. That loss is equal to about 120,000 square miles of 1-mcter thick ice. "If Alaska were covered by 1-meter thick icc. 20% of Alaska would be gone," explained Igor Polyakov, a re- searcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' International Arctic Research Center.
Rivers have the greatest influence during spring. The wanning water pours into the ice covered Arctic Ocean and spreads below the ice, slowly destroying it. Once the sea ice melts(融化), the warm water makes the temperature go up. The research found that much more river heat energy entered the air. Since air is mobile, this means river heat can influence areas of the Arctic far from river deltas (三角洲).
The influence was the most prominent in the Siberian Arctic, where several large rivers go into the Arctic Ocean. Canada's Mackenzie River is the only river large enough to contribute to sea ice meh near Alaska, but the state's smaller rivers are also a source of heat.
Polyakov says that rising global air temperatures will continue to warm Arctic rivers in the future. As rivers heat up, more warm water will flow into the Arctic Ocean, melting more sea ice.
Facebook has developed a kind of Al (人工智能), translating between any pair of 100 languages without depending on first translating to English.
Facebook 's system was trained on a data (数据)set of 7. 5 billion sentence pairs collected from the web across 100 languages though not all the languages had an equal number of sentence pairs. "What I was really interested in was cutting out English as a middle man. Globally there are plenty of countries where they speak two languages that aren't English," says Angela Fan of Facebook Al who led the work.
For some language pairs, the new system shows obvious improvements in translation quality. For example, translating from Spanish to Portuguese is extremely strong because Spanish is the second-most spoken first language worldwide, meaning the researchers can get a lot of data. Translation between English and Belarusian also is improved because the Al can translate Russian into English, which shares similarities with Belarusian.
While the system isn't in use on the social network site. Facebook plans to put it to work soon to manage the 20 billion translations made every day when people click "Translate" on posts (帖子))written in more than 160 languages. "Future work will be done on other language," says Fan "especially for languages where we don't have a lot of data, like South-East Asian and African languages."
The work "breaks away from the English-centric models and tries to build more different models", says Sheila Castilho of the ADAPT Centre at Dublin City University. Ireland. "Thai's pretty new and different. But it's hard to know if the Al does a right translation work," says Castilho. "The users may not know the other language, so they cannot judge the correctness of the translation."
It could be time to admit that you have a habit of putting off your tasks because you waste too much time on the Internet. If you are ready to cut down the time that you spend on it, it may seem difficult.
Pay attention to the time that you spend on the Internet. Make sure you know how long it takes you to do each task and record exactly what you do. Then determine if an activity is really necessary. You'd be surprised at how much time you actually spend on necessary instead of unnecessary online activities.
Though it may feel strange to use technology to stop you from using technology, this is what we face today. To improve your work efficiency (效率)while you are online, use apps that block the access (通道)to websites you always go to. This way will tell you not to jump over to the websites when you have the task to do.
When working, avoid using your phone. With your smart phone at hand, you will waste lots of time on the Internet You have to stop wasting time online. Put away your phone when you are working or studying. So you are unable to check your phone because you don't see it.
Ask others for help. If you can't control yourself and you waste too much time on the Internet, it may be time to ask others for help. Your family members can be helpful to you.
A. Keep your phone in another room.
B. Block the access to your favorite websites.
C. It is easier for you to control yourself with others' help.
D. Here are some methods that help you do with the difficulty.
E. Do all of your computer work at the beginning of your project.
F. To break the habit, learn how to manage the time you spend online.
G. You will find these useful tips can help you solve most of your problems.
This morning, when I shaved in the mirror. I found my body was growing older. There was no doubt about it My 1 which used to be brown with a touch of gray was now gray with a touch of brown. There was even so 2 hair left on the top of the head. My forehead wrinkles appeared when I smiled I thought about letting my 3 grow for a second but I didn't really want to look like Father Christmas.
When I stepped back. I could see I had become 4 as well. I because while my metabolism (新陈代谢)had 5, my eating hadn't. My muscles were painful and my body was also 6. However, the work must go on. 7 was my deepest love. An article in my 8 seemed to be formed I was thinking of writing the words down in case I would 9 them when I came into my study. When I looked in the mirror again. I 10 and felt a joy in my heart. I thought that no matter how old I looked my soul was forever 11. The truth is while I have been gradually growing older on the outside, I have been for a while, growing younger on the inside. I can remember how serious, 12 and worried I was in my twenties and thirties. I often felt the burden of life was 13 heavy. But now at fifty, my heart feels 14 and my days look brighter. I have more faith and less fear. In the end. all of our bodies will 15 and die, but our soul won't.
A 16-year-old Kansas boy will soon earn his high-school diploma (文凭).And a few days later, he'll travel to Harvard (collect) his bachelor's degree. Ulysses High School senior Braxton Moral (attend) graduation ceremonies (典礼)a few days later to become only student to gain a four year high school degree and a bachelor s degree from Harvard at the same time (successful). "Harvard has changed the rules.” said Braxton s father, Carlos Moral, so his son will be the only one reaching that standard. Braxton will be 17 when he (get) his diplomas. The Ulysses school district allowed him to take some high school (class) while he was still in middle school. Before high school, he took a class offered at Fort Hays State University. Then he (admit) to Harvard. Braxton at the same time studied at the high school and the Harvard Extension School. The program typically serves adultswork and can't study on campus full time.
Ulysses High School math teacher Patsy Love served as the proctor (学监)for the Harvard program, managing Braxton's tests in Kansas. "We are keeping an eye on Braxton to make sure he is not too pressed or proud, which may have an effect his development," said Julie Moral, Braxton's mother. "I'm so happy with his (achieve)."
John was crazy about playing basketball. Every day after school, he would spend much time practicing basketball skills. Sometimes, he didn't go back home until sunset, which made his mother extremely angry. One day. as he was given a chance to watch a basketball game, he dreamed about being a member of the college basketball team the next year. On the way, he was delighted secretly. He thought no one in the world was luckier than him. Suddenly. a car hit him. What a terrible experience! It seemed like a bad dream.
John woke up in a hospital room. He was frightened to death. He realized that he couldn't move both of his legs. At that time, the doctor came in. When the doctor told him that both his legs were broken and he had to sit in the wheelchair for the time being, he knew his college basketball dream was over. He was really depressed. John followed what the doc tors had told him. but it did not work entirely. When he left hospital# John was sent to a health recovery center. He never heard of this center before, but it was not far away from his house. Although he felt unwilling to go there, he had no choice but to accept the fact.
A week later, he arrived there unhappily. The first person he met was Sunny Chen, who was so kind and friendly that he warmly welcome John to go there. Sunny's legs were badly hurt in a skating accident. He told John that he would help him recover soon. Though Sunny couldn't move his legs, he became the coach of a basketball team called the Suns. After a period of recovery training. John felt his legs were all right. So Sunny invited him to join the game Sunny guided the team on his wheelchair. John played badly, but for the first time since the accident, he stopped feeling sorry for himself.
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John was glad that his dream of being a member of the basketball team came true.
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Sunny saw all John did. lost in thought.
