Honors Program
The honors program is for students who have enjoyed their experience in research with a guide teacher and are looking for a highlight experience during their final year. The program has specific requirements for our majors described below.
Application
Students participate in the honors program during their final year. Students who expect to have a 3. 5 accumulative GPA by the fall of senior year should have identified a guide teacher and applied for NBB honors by May 1st of their third year. Applications are brief and include basic information such as guide teacher name, project title, and current GPA.
Coursework
During senior year, honors students take two research-experience courses. Participation in these courses includes at least 12 hours of work on the research project each week as well as weekly meetings with other researchers to develop professional skills.
Essay
The majority of our major work with guide teachers in research experiences, and many students co-author manuscripts (手稿) published in leading journals. However, only honors students are guided and helped through the process of writing an essay. All students' essays are published online through the university library and, after the data being forbidden to be included in other articles, the essays are available to search.
It never occurred to me when I was little that gardens were anything less than wonderful places. Granddad's garden was on the bank of a river and sloped gently down towards the water. You couldn't reach the river but you could hear the sound of the water and the birds that sang in the trees above.
At home, his son, my father, could be quiet and withdrawn. I wouldn't want to make him sound humorless. He wasn't. Silly things would amuse him. I realize that, deep down, he was probably disappointed that he hadn't made more of his life. He left school without qualifications and became a beginner to a plumber(水管工). Plumbing was not something he was passionate about. It was just what he did. He was never particularly ambitious, though there was a moment when he and Mum thought of emigrating to Canada, but it came to nothing. Where he came into his own was around the house. He had an "eye for the job." Be it bookshelves or a cupboard—what he could achieve was astonishing.
Of the three options, moors (荒野), woods or river—the river was the one that usually got my vote. On a stretch of the river I was allowed to disappear with my imagination into another world. With a fishing net over my shoulder I could set off in shoes that were last year's model. I'd walk along the river bank looking for a suitable spot where I could take off the painful shoes and leave them with my picnic while I adventured out, peering through the water for any fish that I could scoop up with the net and take home.
I wanted to leave school as soon as possible but that seemed an unlikely prospect until one day my father announced, "They've got a post for an gardener in the Parks Department. I thought you might be interested." He might still have preferred it if I became a carpenter. But I like to feel that somewhere inside him was a feeling that things might just turn out for the best. Maybe I'm cheating myself, but I prefer to believe that in his heart, although he hated gardening himself, he'd watched me doing it for long enough and noticed my unfailing passion for all things that grew and flowered and fruited.
One of the greatest challenges in caring for such intelligent animals as chimpanzees (猩猩) is providing them with enriching experiences. Every day, the chimpanzees at Project Chimps receive morning and evening food-based enrichment devices, but caregivers are always looking for more ways to keep the chimps mentally engaged. With 79 chimpanzees, each with their distinctive personality, care staff often find that different chimps react differently to new enrichment.
Last year, we began inviting musicians to perform for chimps to see how they may respond. A violin performance received quite the response. Additional musicians were lined up to visit but the corona-virus has stopped the activities, which we hope to resume in the near future.
This past week, we brought an electric piano for the chimps to investigate. Some chimps, like twins Buttercup and Clarisse, were immediately interested and could not wait to tap out a few notes. Others, like Emma, were more interested in trying to take it apart.
29-year-old Precious has very little tolerance for the piano. She sat off to the side for a few minutes, but eventually she decided that was enough. She called an end to the enrichment session by throwing a handful of waste at the piano. Receiving her message loud and clear, we removed the piano.
We could never have guessed how 33-year-old Luke would react to it. As with many retired lab chimpanzees, Luke has some anxiety issues. He seems particularly distrustful of anything new, including people, food, and enrichment. But when we presented the chimps with the piano, Luke was the first to investigate. We could not believe our eyes—this usually anxious chimpanzee bravely chose to explore something new!
To us at Project Chimps, this is what it is all about: giving chimpanzees the freedom to choose. We are honored to be part of their journey.
The Trades Union Congress(TUC) has urged the government to use high productivity from the greater use of robots and artificial intelligence to reverse(推翻) planned changes to the state retirement age.
Before its annual congress in Brighton, the TUC said higher productivity thanks to technological innovation(革新) ought to bring greater benefits for working people. It said recent progress had mainly benefited business owners, rather than being shared across the workforce through better wages and working conditions. Frances O'Grady, the TUC general secretary, said: "Robots and Al could let us produce more for less, promoting national prosperity. But we need a debate about who benefits from this wealth, and how workers get a fair share. "
There have been previous waves of technological advances since the first Industrial Revolution, when inefficient jobs have been replaced by machines or the number of people required to do work has been reduced. Such advances have not led to a total loss of jobs, but have disturbed the type of work people do.
There are concerns that the current stage of innovation could be more damaging, while the rewards from higher productivity have not necessarily led to higher wages. The latest available figures show low unemployment unseen since the mid-1970s, but growth in real wages remains negative.
In 1950, almost one in three workers worked in manufacturing, while one in twelve worked in professional and technical services. By 2016 the proportions(比例) had changed completely, but in the communities which were affected, the jobs lost in manufacturing were not replaced by jobs of similar or better quality. Wages in former industrial areas were still 10% below the national average.
The increase in the state retirement age by seven years, which was controversially(有争议的) brought forward by the Work and Pensions Secretary David Gauke, is expected to affect about 7 million people in their late 30s and early 40s. As well as opposing the proposal on the retirement age, the TUC said workers should be given the right to a midlife career review, while firms should invest more in workplace training. At present, the UK invests just half of the EU average, it said. O'Grady said: "Robots are not just terminators (终结者). Some of today's jobs will not survive, but new jobs will be created. We must make sure that tomorrow's jobs are no worse than today's. "
Open an app at your smart phone and scan the code bar on the garbage can. When you throw garbage into the garbage can, it will show the weight of the garbage and the points you can get from doing so. It will become more popular in the future. Yes, we are talking about the smart garbage can.
The environmental problems have become constant headaches in the development of those cities. Encouraging garbage classification has become an effective way.
In some cities, a variety of multifunctional smart garbage cans are being put into use. In Beijing, for example, a smart garbage can is equipped with an LED screen, which not only shows national policies on garbage classification but also shows the correct steps for garbage sorting. It can also calculate the weight of the garbage and the accumulated points one can get. They can be traded for some articles of daily use. Its body is actually a screen. It is equipped with some Internal sensors. When people throw garbage into it, the internal sensors can automatically tell the types of the garbage. Meanwhile, people can see how to deal with them.
Garbage disposal is a small issue that involves everybody each day. However, it is also a big issue. With smart garbage cans in our daily life, the idea of garbage sorting will become more established. Our dream of building a greener and more beautiful China will come true so long as we start to make small changes right now.
A. Garbage sorting has been a new fashion.
B. Another kind of garbage can is even smarter.
C. It is no wonder that residents cheered for their presence.
D. Such a way of handling garbage has appeared in some cities.
E. It will affect China's transformation towards green development.
F. Over 200 million tons of garbage is produced each year in some cities.
G. The good habit of garbage classification can improve the living environment.
British Cycling had recently hired Dave Brailsford as its new director. At the time, professional cyclists in Great Britain had 1 nearly one hundred years of mediocrity(平庸). In fact, their2 had been so poor that one of the top bike companies in Europe 3 to sell bikes to the team because they were afraid that it would hurt sales if other professionals saw the British people using their bikes.
What made Brailsford different from previous coaches was his4 of searching for a tiny improvement in everything they do. The whole principle came from the idea that if you5 everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, improve it by 1 percent and you will get a6 increase when you put them all together.
Brailsford and his coaches began by making small7. They redesigned the bike seats to make them more8. They asked riders to wear electrically heated over-shorts to 9 ideal muscle temperature while riding and used biofeedback sensors to 10how each athlete responded to a particular workout.
But they didn't stop there. They11 to find 1 percent improvements in overlooked areas. They hired a(n)12 to teach each rider the best way to wash their hands to reduce the 13 of catching a cold. They even painted the 14 of the team truck white, which helped them 15little bits of dust that would normally slip by 16 but could affect the performance of the17tuned bikes.
As these and hundreds of other small improvements were 18, the results came faster than anyone could have 19. Just five years after Brailsford took over, they20 the road and track cycling events in all the important Games.
With a popular online comic strip (连环画), overseas Chinese artist Cao Siyu (enjoyable) sets about deconstructing stereotypes (成见) and cultural misunderstandings between East and West.
After she encountered many misunderstandings and came face to face with stereotypical views about China, Cao (inspire) to create Tiny Eyes Comics, an internet-based cartoon strip. Although (post) in her own Instagram account, so appealing was the strip, which was among her 300 online comics, 41, 000 followers were attracted to her Instagram account.
Italian magazine Grazia says, "Her simple sketches have played essential part in making it easier to understand Chinese culture. " One of her comics shows the cultural (difference) behind the debate about usage of masks throughout the pandemic. we wear a mask or not is the question that has led to controversy and, some cases, even physical conflict. In the strip she explains that Chinese people wear masks to prevent infection, has proved to be the most effective way to shield off virus.
Many foreign readers say they find her illustrations enlightening, helping them to understand China, while Chinese immigrants have felt understood, according to Cao. This feedback and (connect) with her readers have been "the biggest motivation" for her to keep creating.
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。
About a year before, I pulled into CC Mall do some shopping. I found a shopping cart what was in the parking space next to my car, and saw a purse in it. I didn't know who it was belonged to. I opened the purse and went through the cards with no lucky of finding something but a woman's name, and then I found the address on the top of her check. I drove 15 miles to this lady's house and knock at the door. No one was home at that time, so I left a note with my phone number on it. She eventually called me and we arranged the appointment. While I got to her house, she offered me dinner and all the money in her purse, but I mustn't accept it. I told her that it was the right thing to do.
