Each nose is special in its own way. However, according to a study done in 2013, the shape of your nose can show a number of things about your personality (性格). The researchers studied almost 1,700 pictures of people's noses and put them into 14 groups. They examined the nose shapes and posted their findings.
People with long noses have a strong wish to succeed in their professional (职业的) lives and are very diligent. They want things to be done perfectly and spend much time on their work. And they usually put their professional life first and their personal life second. People with shorter noses care about others and are true to friends. They value feelings more than anything else and they would rather be happy in their family than have a successful professional life. People with pointy (有尖头的) noses can give great advice on money. They usually use their money very wisely. Big nostrils (鼻孔) are a sign that someone likes to spend money rather than save it. And small nostrils show a strong belief that personal relationships and family are important.
Inventions That Will Make Your life Easier
LynQ
Getting separated from friends or a family member at a music festival can be a real headache. LynQ helps you find your loved ones when you get separated from the group. Unlike your smartphones , the small thing does not need any Wi-Fi to stay connected. It is a great tool for family vacations.
HabitAware
A common New Year's resolution centers around the idea of kicking some kind of bad habit. HabitAware is here to make your life a little easier. The beautiful little thing vibrates (颤动) anything it catches you falling into the bad habit you are trying to break.
Philips Somneo
The company Philips has something to help you get up earlier in 2020. The Philips Somneo is here to help you wake up better, without the very annoying (烦人的) sounds of a traditional alarm clock. The Somneo creates what is like a natural sunrise each morning while helping with your sleeping habits.
Eargo
The American company, Eargo is here to add a little excitement to the hearing aid (助听器) market. With 48 million Americans having hearing problems, the team hopes that their easy-to-use comfortable product will give these people the ability to hear again.
A sense of humor (幽默) can bring happiness to family life, since laughing together is a way to connect. And a good sense of humor also can make kids cleverer, healthier and better able to deal with difficulties, because a good sense of humor is not just about telling jokes, but about the response (反应) to things in a creative and funny way. It means you can see things from different sides and in different way.
Most of us may think humor is like our black hair or big feet. We have it since we are born. But a sense of humor is a completely learned quality (品质) that can be developed in kids, not something they're born with.
Kids, especially young kids may not understand what humor is, but you can do something funny to make them laugh. For example, you can put on a stupid hat and run after a 3-year-old boy, or pretend (假装) to carelessly fall into a river to make a first-grader laugh. As kids grow up, these things may be boring. But you can share some jokes as their sense of what's funny grows better.
Kids with a well-developed sense of humor are happier. They have the ability to find what's amusing in others. They can also deal with differences (their own and others') well. Kids who can enjoy and share humor are better liked by their friends and more able to go through hard times in childhood—from moving to a new town, to going to a new school. A good sense of humor is a skill that kids can use in their whole life to help them enjoy the funny parts of life, and not take themselves too seriously.
When we go to our beaches to enjoy Australia's sun and sand, we're continuously reminded of the need to wear a shirt, a hat and sunscreen (防晒霜). But we need also to pay attention to the resident birds that nest (筑巢) on our beaches and the migratory shorebirds (迁徙的滨鸟) that arrive every year from the north.
We have 18 kinds of resident shorebirds that spend all their lives in Australia, eating and breeding (繁殖) here on our beaches. But at least 37 other kinds move to Australia in spring and early summer. For most, a one-way trip from the north is some 10,000-13,000 km. Some of them are smaller than the adult human hand! After making the arduous journey here, migratory shorebirds increase in weight by eating the food on the beaches. These migratory birds are very sensitive (敏感的) to disturbance (干扰). Continual disturbance can stop them from finding enough food for their journey home. Some young birds and those that do not have the energy to make the return journey will stay here over winter.
Resident shorebirds face a number of different problems. Cats and dogs take adult birds as well as baby birds and eggs. Signs are often in place on the beaches to let people know of the presence of shorebirds, advising them to keep away from marked areas and to keep pets under control. Sadly, the advice is not always followed. Organizations and volunteers who find shorebird nests in open areas often place a cage (笼子) over the nest, which lets the birds come and go from the nest, but keeps larger animals out.
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I'm Julie. I own the Creative Cooking Café. I love my job and think working here is fun and interesting. My customers like my creative cooking way! My café is next to Colchester Hospital, many of my customers are doctors and nurses. They like to try something different. The businesswomen and businessmen from nearby offices are easy to please. They love my salads and say my apple pie is delicious. But some of my café's visitors prefer uncreative food. My friend Molly is artist, and she comes here every day and says to the waiter (serious) , “ Tell Julie I don't want (she) creative food. Give me a plate of egg and chips!" Everyone is welcome at the Creative Cooking Café, so if you want to find out what's on the menu, please drop by. And every Saturday the (one) customer to the café will get a free apple pie.
Oxford and Cambridge are the two oldest and most famous universities in the English-speaking world. We (not know) exactly how old Oxford University is, but we know that there (be) students there in 1096. In 1209, after an argument (争吵) between the students and the townspeople in Oxford, some of the students and teachers went to Cambridge and started a new university there.
Both universities are made up of a number of colleges where students live and study. Oxford has got forty-six colleges and Cambridge thirty-one. At first, only men could study at the two universities. At the end of the 19th century, however, some colleges (build) for women but they did not give degrees to them until the 1920s. Now all Oxford colleges are mixed, but Cambridge still has one for women only.
Many famous people have studied at Oxford and Cambridge. Twenty-six of Britain's prime ministers (首相) studied at Oxford. The former (前任的) US president, Bill Clinton, also studied there. So far, Cambridge (produce) a lot of famous scientists such as Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. 120 Nobel Prize winners studied or worked at Cambridge University.
Millions of tourists visit the two cities every year (see) the beautiful old university buildings. People often go boating on the rivers, too.
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Two years ago, I took a bus to visit a friend living on a farm. My friend promised to pick me up from the bus station. Once I got off the bus, I pulled my two suitcases (行李箱) and walked to the pickup area. , my friend got stuck in the heavy traffic and I had to wait for an hour at the pickup area. To make things worse, it started raining half an hour later. Looking around, I was to find that there was no place to take shelter (躲避) from the rain. Just as I was feeling , a man driving a car stopped in front of me and handed me an umbrella. I asked for his so I could mail it back when I finished using it. To my surprise, the man said, “ You don't have to it. Just pass the umbrella on to someone else when your car arrives.” When my friend finally , I gave the umbrella to a lady carrying a baby who just arrived at the pickup area. Before I left, I asked her to give it to anyone else in of the umbrella. When I arrived at my friend's farm, I was very tired, but happy that I was able to pass kindness on to others.
Kato Lomb was born at an exciting time. It was 1909 in Budapest, and the world that she grew up in was about to see great changes.
After getting her degree in chemistry, she saw little hope of getting a job in the scientific fields. So she decided to teach English. She just had to learn it first. In her language learning, Kato started reading cheap but exciting novels, carrying a dictionary with her all the time.
Her way of language learning made sense—if the story is exciting enough, it can keep you going past what you don't understand. In the end, you can pick up what you need from the context (上下文). The reading took her further than she could have imagined.
After the end of the Second World War, she began a long and successful career of interpretation (口译) and translation. In fact, she was one of the first professional simultaneous interpreters (专业同声传译) in the world. Simultaneous interpretation is a job much more difficult than translation as all the work happens in real time. Not stopping at English, she learned French, Russian, Polish, Chinese, Japanese and quite a few other languages that she used to work as a translator.
Kato believed that interest was the most important part of language leaning. Grammar could always come later if you were excited about learning and understanding new words in the language. No matter what language she was learning, she always believed she could complete the task and could keep studying her whole life.
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| do housework; such as…; help parents; learn to be independent (独立的) |
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①语言通顺, 要点齐全, 意思连贯, 条理清楚, 书写规范;
②文中不得出现真实的姓名和学校名称;
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As teenagers, we are the future of our homeland. We should develop ourselves fully. But how? Here is my opinion.
