A Wild Child's Guide to Endangered Animals
From New York Times bestselling author Millie Marotta comes this gorgeous celebration of the animal kingdom. Highlighting 43 endangered species, the book takes readers on a trip around the world while learning about rare and well-known animals and their habitats.
Marcovaldo
Marcovaldo is a collection of 20 short stories written by Italo Calvino. Describing the life of a poor rural man living in northern Italy, the stories unfold according to the seasonal cycle of a year. Common themes in the stories include pollution, failure and poverty.
The Art of Mondo
Over the years, Mondo has received global recognition for its incredible art posters that bring to life classic films, television shows, and comics such as Jurassic Park. For the first time, The Art of Mondo brings together this highly sought-after art in one volume that showcases the incredible creativity of the studio's artists whose vastly different styles are united by one guiding principle: limitless passion for their subject matters.
The Coming of the Third Reich
There is no story in 20th-century history more important to understand than Hitler's rise to power and the collapse(坍塌) of civilization in Nazi Germany. The Coming of the Third Reich, by Richard Evans, offers a masterful combination of academic work, important new research and interpretations.
Patriarchy and Capitalism
Chizuko Ueno, a leading Japanese sociologist, feminist critic and public intellectual, has been a pioneer in women's studies and the author of many books, including Patriarchy and Capitalism.
Fauja Singh, 109, who broke marathon records and was called "Superman" before hanging up his running shoes six years ago, will be the subject of a Bollywood film, Fauja, tracing his remarkable career.
Mr. Singh, born in India in 1911, was an enthusiastic amateur runner in his youth, but gave it up. After a series of personal tragedies including the deaths of his wife and two of his children, he returned to his former passion in his eighties.
He moved to the UK soon after and now lives in Lyford, east London. He arrived for his first training session in Redbridge in a three- piece suit, and his first race was the London marathon in 2000. Three years later in Toronto, he broke the world record for the 90-plus. In 2011, when he turned 100, Mr. Singh set eight world records in a day. He ran the 100m in 23.14, then added the 200m. 400m, 800m, 1.500m, the mile, the 3.000m and 5.000m world records. Three of the events had never been attempted by anyone over the age of 100 before. Days later, he became the first centenarian to complete marathon, again in Toronto, with a time of 8: 25: 27.
Mr. Singh retired from competitive running in 2013 but continued jogging for pleasure. When asked about the secret of longevity he owed it to a vegetarian diet and avoiding smoking, alcohol and fried food. Of marathon running he said," The first 20 miles are not difficult. As for the last six miles, I keep talking to myself, 'Keep it up, old boy!'"
① Fauja moved to the UK. ②Fauja hung up his running shoes.
③Fauja set 8 world records in a day ④Fauja's wife and two of his children died.
Video calls are a common occurrence but have you imagined being able to touch the person on the other end of the line? Scientists are making this a reality.
Researchers at the University of New South Wales, Australia, have invented a soft skin stretch device(SSD), haptic(触觉的) device that can recreate the sense of touch. Haptic technology can copy the experience of touch by stimulating(刺激) the skin through force, vibration(震动) or motion.
Vibration is the most common haptic technology today and has been built into many electronic devices, such as one attached to the back of trackpad (触控板) in laptops. However haptic feedback with vibration becomes less sensitive when the trackpad is used continuously. The existing technology also has great difficulty recreating the sense of touch with objects in virtual environments or located remotely.
The new technology overcomes issues with existing haptic devices. The research team introduced a novel method to recreate the sense of touch through soft, artificial" muscles".
It works like this: imagine you call a friend in Australia. You wear a haptic glove with the SSDs and your friend also wears a glove with 3D force sensors. If your friend picks up an object, it will physically press against your friend's fingers. And the glove with 3D force sensors will measure these interactions. The force signals can be sent to your glove so your device will generate the same 3D forces, making you experience the same sense of touch as your friend.
The haptic devices could be used in various fields, allowing users to feel objects inside a virtual world or at a distance. This could be especially beneficial during such times like the COVID-19 pandemic when people rely on video calls to stay connected with loved ones. Or it could be used in medical practices. Doctors could feel a patient's organ tissues without touching them.
One of the tallest wooden buildings in Europe, a 98m timber(木材) mixture skyscraper, is to rise in Berlin.
The 29-storey WoHo tower, to be designed by a firm of Norwegian architects, is intended to be a "light-house project" for low-carbon construction, towering over Potsdamer Platz and the Landwehr Canal.
Its core, including lifts and staircase, is to be built around steel-reinforced(加固) concrete structure but the rest of the building, including flats, offices, cafes and a kindergarten, will be fashioned down wooden beams(横梁) and panels.
"As Norwegians, we are used to working a lot with timber." Nicolai Riise, CEO of the Mad Architects' Practice said.
"The thing about timber is that its carbon footprint is close to zero and that it's fantastic material to build with. If you look at this in a broader way, it's one of the ways we are going to be able to beat the climate crisis."
Wooden skyscrapers, once regarded as a pipe dream, have become realistic with the coming of cross-laminated-(交叉叠合) building techniques. Because these structures' parts are fit with care, they can be far lighter than their concrete equivalents(同等物) and are thought to be relatively resistant to fire. A cubic meter of wood can also take an estimated ton of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Larger wooden structures are planned elsewhere. London is examining blueprints for a 300-meter Oakwood Tower. A project in Tokyo could rise to 350m.
With the majority of children not going into school at the moment, staff, parents and pupils are pulling together to make sure their education is a success. As a teacher, I'd like to give some tips to parents and pupils on remote learning.
FOR PUPILS
Get online, on time.
Make sure you do log on in good time for the beginning or live lessons, rather than joining the lesson ten minutes in.
Play your part.
Contribute to the lesson. Talk, put your hand up, send messages in the chat whatever they might be. Teachers and other pupils love to see that. And don't be afraid to ask questions.
Take proper screen breaks during the day.
Enjoy your break time.Get outside, read a book, phone someone. At break or lunchtime in school you wouldn't sit in a classroom and continue to work, so you shouldn't do it at home either.
FOR PARENTS
It's often surprising how technologically able a young child is now, with the world of smart phones and the Internet. So let them show you what they need to be doing in class.
Give praise.
Now online, we share a lot of praise and give out school awards. They also need to be praised at home for getting their work done. Take a look at what they have been doing.
Get involved if you can.
This might be difficult for parents doing full-time jobs, but try to work together on something. We assign students research projects some of which might be challenging to them. And it's also good for their own well-being getting away from a laptop to make a cardboard castle or whatever it might be.
A. Let the child take the lead.
B. Keep pace with technology.
C. Don't stay sitting at your computer.
D. That's a perfect opportunity for parents to help.
E. Thus you will find the rest of the class challenging.
F. Otherwise you would have missed out on some teaching
G. At school kids are getting approval for the work they are doing well.
Night fell. Loug Falter came back home, teary-eyed and 1. The 33-year-old professional photographer had just run from one end of Hawaii's Waimea Bay to the other scanning the water 2 his "baby", a custom-made(定制的) blue surfboard.
On arriving home, Falter 3 his search online. "Was surfing tonight and 4 my baby." he wrote on Facebook. He hoped it would wash ashore in the coming days and that whoever 5 it would have also seen his Facebook post. But instead of pushing Falter's surfboard to 6, the currents of Waimea Bay swept it out to sea, 7 Hawaiian Island.
Weeks passed with no 8 of the surfboard. Then 9. Lyle Carlson, who had made the board for Falter, comforted him with the possible reunion but nobody knew when.
But Falter never completely 10 about the board. It 11on the remote island of Sarangani in the southern Philippines-six months after and over 5,000 miles away. The local fisherman sold the unusual 12 to Giovanne Branzuela, a 36-year-old elementary school teacher for $ 40. For Branzuela, riding the big waves had been his dream.
The once-blue board had 13 to a pale straw color during its journey, but its 14 markings were still there: two elephants and the words "Lyle Carlson Surfboards, Hawaii."
On realizing how far the surfboard had traveled, Branzuela 15 Carlson online, who, in turn, contacted Falter. Falter 16 the board was his and was 17 to learn his "baby" had floated across the world's largest ocean and 18.
He was thrilled, but not only for himself. Knowing someone an ocean away shared the same interest with him 19 a lot to Falter, He couldn't imagine a better 20 to the story.
Yungang Grottoes(石窟 )in Datong, Shanxi province, are a world cultural heritage site that(date) back to more than 1,500 years ago. In Yungang's 45 big grottoes and more than 200 small grottoes, there are about 59,000 figures of the Buddha, are a priceless treasure of human culture.
because of the effects of climate change and (nature) disasters, the grottoes face damage year by year. Thanks to (advance) digital technology, researchers are busy "duplicating" (复制) the Yungang Grottoes in an attempt to preserve the precious cultural relics. Employing 3D laser scanning technology, the researchers (digital) record the shapes, colors and other fine details of the grottoes and later reproduce them using 3D printing technology.
The new technology could enable more people(access) the cultural relics despite the distance. June, 2020 the researchers successfully "copied and pasted" cave No. 12 of the Yungang Grottoes for an (exhibit) in Hangzhou, in what is the world's first mobile 3D-printed 1: 1 "copy" of a grotto.
The Yungang researchers' attempt is a good example of technology helping to preserve cultural relics: It (hope) that the new digitalized technologies will facilitate(促进) the "rebirth" of the cultural legacy, and bring them to more places worldwide.
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，并在该词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 small, my parents sent me to boarding school. I felt very homesick that I cried all the time. Lonely and depressing I failed to continue studying there and returned back home. Luckily, when I was in high school, I get popular among my classmate. Once, our school organized a two-week stay in countryside. Again, I was away from home, without parents, without yummy food, even without a hot shower. To my happy, everybody was caring and everything made me feel at home. What great the change was! When the trip was over, my parents told me, "You've already growing up!" I know I'll be away and go after your dreams, but home will always remain in my heart.
