For Art Lovers
We Are Water Protectors
Carole Lindstrom, illustrated (加插图) by Michaela Goade
Water is life! The Water Protectors at Standing Rock and beyond have been battling to defend Mother Earth's sacred water to honor our ancestors, to provide for our peoples and for future generations. This picture book — seriously, it's breathtaking — was written by Carole Lindstrom of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe and illustrated by Michaela Goade. (For ages 3 to 6)
All Because You Matter
Tami Charles, illustrated by Bryan Collier
From the matter of the universe to Black Lives Matter, this illustrated book pulls together the real universe to make it clear that its young readers are special beyond belief. Drawing inspiration from his own grandmother's clothes-making, Bryan Collier pairs with Tami Charles to deliver an important message. (For ages 4 to 8)
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera (意大利蜂)
Candace Fleming, illustrated by Eric Rohmann
A beautifully illustrated Apis mellifera presented in tasty oil paints cycles. Young readers get a front row seat to the natural world while vivid words introduce the anxiety leading to the bee's first flight. Think each bee has just one job? Think again. Bees hold a variety of occupations during their short, lovely lives — and you thought you were busy! (For ages 6 to 9)
The Plain Janes
Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg's children comic about four girl artists attracted readers when it was released in 2007. Now, in a reissue (再版) that includes the original tales along with a new story, Castellucci ages up her message. While the Janes' lives have grown more complicated, Castellucci's theme remains sincere and — in these trying times — something many of us struggle to keep in mind. (For ages 8 to 15)
A blind Chinese climber reached the summit (顶点) of Qomolangma
known in the West as Mount Everest, on Monday morning, becoming the first blind person from Asia ever to conquer the world's highest summit.
Zhang Hong, 46, reached the top from the Nepali side, along with three high-altitude guides.
Zhang, who was born in Chongqing, lost his sight at the age of 21. He now works at Fukang Hospital Affiliated with Tibet University in Lhasa. As Zhang began his climb of Qomolangma, which is 8,848. 86 meters above sea level, his colleagues in Lhasa were excited to hear the news of his success.
"Many people may have doubted his attempt of climbing at first, but I was confident in him from the beginning," said Kyila, the secretary of the Fukang Angel Foundation, who also is a blind person. "I knew before that he could make it, and he did make it. I am really happy for him. He is a model for blind people to encourage them to chase their dreams."
Zhang's passion for climbing was inspired by Lotse, a famous Tibetan climber who conquered all the world's 14 summits above the altitude of 8,000 meters. Lotse had shared the story of the blind US mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer, who climbed Qomolangma in May 2001. Zhang was touched by the story, which ignited his dream of climbing.
As an amateur climber for years, Zhang had conquered three mountains above the altitude of 6,000 meters before climbing the world's highest summit. He had begun preparing for the Qomolangma climb in 2019. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic (流行病), all mountaineering teams on Qomolangma were canceled in Nepal and China last year, and he had to wait until recently to finally make the attempt.
In the digital age, we rely on technology such as social media in trying to build interesting and varied lives. Social networking sites like Facebook are designed and promoted to make us believe enthusiastically that they are able to open up new experiences for us. There are constant notifications (通知) and updates, urging us to check-in to find out what is new.
But if we do not use the technology wisely, we can end up becoming overly attached and trapped in a cycle of social media FOMO, a sign of deeper unhappiness. FOMO, or fear of missing out, is a fear that exciting or interesting events are happening somewhere else and that we are not able to join.
People who experience high levels of FOMO have been found to be more likely to give in to urges to write and check text messages while driving, as well as to use Facebook more often directly after waking, while going to sleep and during meals.
When it comes to lasting happiness, it is best not to give in to FOMO, but rather to deal with the cycle of desires that fuel it. Hard as it is, we are better off working toward facing the fearful reality that we cannot experience everything we might like than to get caught in a cycle of checking behaviors that only cause anxiety.
If we have become used to using social media as part of our attempts at living interesting lives, we must admit that it is not easy to change our approach. But change is almost always worthwhile in the long run.
The fact that FOMO is so common in our digital age is a sign that there is something wrong with the way we are pursuing happiness and that we are not as happy as we might think we are. It should warn us that, in our eagerness to use digital technology to try to make ourselves happier, we may unintentionally (无意之中) be bringing on exactly the opposite result.
In WALL-E, a science fiction movie, a little robot is responsible for cleaning a world covered in garbage; a world where there is no longer room for anything else, not even humans! The film encourages common people, worldwide leaders and businessmen to ask the obvious question: What can be done to prevent something like this happening? For some, microfactories could become the most promising answer.
Veena Sahajwalla, a materials scientist and engineer in Sydney, Australia, has discovered a solution to the challenging waste problem. Her one-stop approach could go beyond the existing recycling processes. Her waste microfactories mainly target electronic waste and plastic, and are essentially little trash processors. These can transform waste into new materials with the help of thermal(热的) technology.
"Using our green manufacturing technologies, these microfactories can transform waste, enabling local businesses and communities to not only solve local waste problems, but to develop a commercial opportunity from the valuable materials that are created," she explains.
Humans generate 2.01 billion tons of solid waste annually. And as the fastest growing waste stream, approximately 53.6 million tons of e-waste were generated globally by 2019. Despite current efforts, only 17.4 percent of this is known to have been collected and properly recycled. Meanwhile, worldwide e-waste generation is expected to continue to grow, reaching almost 80 million tons by 2030.
Although the most effective solution to the waste challenges would not generate as much trash, Sahajwalla microfactories provide hope for all the waste that already exists. Her solution not only decreases the amount of waste, but it also improves its management and enables new manufacturing opportunities around the new materials created.
WALL-E shows us the best and the worst of what human beings have to offer. It shows where the world is headed unless the human species slows down and stops developing at the current pace. But it also provides hope, showing that we also have a great power to change and improve.
How to Determine the Best Time to Exercise
Any time of the day you can spend to exercise is a good time for getting active. Consider your lifestyle and exercise goals to help find the right time for you.
You should determine when you have the most energy. Do you struggle to get out of the bed in the morning or do you wake up full of energy and ready to go? Once you establish what your sleep tendencies are, you will have a better idea of when your body is most likely to exercise. If you are not a morning person, do not schedule early morning exercise.
When are you the busiest? When do you tend to schedule your most important tasks? Try to fit in your exercise before or at least around these events if possible. Some people would prefer to put it first while others prefer to put it off until the end of the day when they are all caught up.
You should determine your exercise goals. Are you trying to lose weight? Are you trying to improve your performance? Are you trying to develop a consistent exercise routine? If you are trying to develop a routine, you may want to exercise in the morning. If you want to improve performance, afternoon or evening exercise may be best. Start by working out at different times of the day. By doing that you can know how you feel and find the time that works best with your schedule.
A. You should consider your daily schedule.
B. You should know how to start your exercise.
C. Keep an exercise note to help you evaluate each time.
D. The best time for exercise is different for each person.
E. Are you a night person and never get to bed before midnight?
F. When you find the goals are unsuitable, change them at once.
G. You should experiment with both morning and evening exercise.
A man in Tokyo who rents himself out to other people "to do nothing" has received many requests (请求)—and now he's getting paid for it.
Shoji Morimoto, 37, started 1 himself as a person who can "eat and drink, and give simple feedback (反馈), but do nothing more" in June, 20l8.
"I offer myself for rent, as a person who does 2," Morimoto 3 in his first tweet about this 4 service. "Is it difficult for you to enter a shop on your own? Are you 5 a player on your team? Do you need someone to keep a place for you? I can't do anything except 6 things."
Since then, he's received over 3, 000 request. He originally offered his 7 for free, but now 8 10, 000 yen (roughly $96) just to reduce the number of requests and to 9 the time-wasters.
Morimoto says he sees on average three to four clients (客户) a day. People rent him for a variety of 10 but most are bored and 11 and simply want to be listened to.
He 12 weddings, accompanied those filing for divorce, and caught butterflies with 13 in the park.
"I'm glad I was able to take a walk with someone while keeping a(n) 14 distance, where we didn't have to talk but could if we wanted to," one client 15 online.
One client says she has rented Morimoto on at least 10 occasions. She asked him to stay beside her when 16 a man for the first time, and also had him 17 her talk about her views on love, which she did not feel comfortable talking about to her friends.
Morimoto currently has nearly 268, 000 Twitter followers and has quit his full-time publishing job to "do nothing". When 18 why he thinks so many people are interested in his services, he said, "I'm not a 19 or an acquaintance (熟人). I'm free of the bothersome things that accompany relationships, but can 20 people's sense of loneliness. Maybe it's something like that for me."
Children are spending an (increase) amount of time indoors. (compare) to their grandparents who would have spent most of their free time exploring the world outside their front doors, kids these days are more likely to (find) at home. Computer games, television and tablets have replaced stick throwing, tree climbing and hole building as children spend more time indoors.
(thank) to parental fear and a reduction in green spaces, the time is spent outdoors tends to be parent-led nowadays. Parent-led play is very (difference) from unstructured play and does not offer the same benefits.
Both (be) important for children's growth, but many families are finding less time for unstructured play. As homework, clubs and groups and screens are competing for our kids' time, unstructured fun is left out in the cold.
Scientists have even created the term "Nature Deficit Disorder" due to the wealth of health problems that can develop from spending too much time indoors.
Unstructured play is just important as outdoor play for child (develop). It offers social, mental and physical benefits, as well as just being fun way to kill time.
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。
A professor gave a balloon to every student, which had to fill it, write their own name on it and threw it in the hallway. The professor then mixed all the balloon. The students were giving 5 minutes to get back their own balloon. Despite a busy search for, no one found their own balloon.
At that point the professor told the students to take first balloon that they found and hand them to the person whose name was written on it. Within 5 minutes everyone had their own balloon.
The professor said to the students, "These balloons are like happy. We will never find it if everyone keep looking for their own. But if we care about other people's, we'll find ours either."
