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Thirty-five years ago，with just one acre of land，a couple of seeds and a bucket of hope，one Nigerian-born scientist began his mission to defeat famine (饥荒) on his continent.
News of the drought across Africa in the early 1980s troubled Nzamujo. Equipped with a microbiology PhD and his faith, he travelled back to Africa. There, he found a continent ecologically rich, diverse and capable of producing food. He believes drought wasn't the only reason for widespread hunger, and that sustainability had been left out.
Nzamujo began designing a "zero waste" agriculture system that would not only increase food security，but also help the environment and create jobs. In 1985, he started his sustainable farm "Songhai" in the West African country of Benin.
Nzamujo lives on the farm and constantly updates his techniques：He credits his degrees in science and engineering for Songhai's success. But he also thanks his spiritual and cultural roots，and his father—a driving force in his life who encouraged him to pursue his studies to the highest degree and to use Songhai to share his knowledge.
Songhai has several "eco-literacy" development programs. They range from 18-month training courses for farmer-enterprisers, to shorter stays to learn techniques like weeding. People come from all over the world to study Nzamujo's methods.
After seeing success on his first zero waste farm, he expanded throughout Benin and western Africa. Today, the Songhai model is applied across the continent, including Nigeria, Uganda, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Nzamujo says they've trained more than 7,000 farmer-enterprisers and more than 30,000 people in total since it began.
Nzamujo believes zero waste agriculture is now steadily tackling the issues he set out to defeat: hunger，unemployment and environmental declines. And he wants to see it go further.
Several years ago, Jeremy Clarkson, presenter of the famous BBC television programme 'Top Gear', discovered that one of his guests was half German and half Irish. Immediately, he said, "That's quite a strange combination. It's like, 'this must be done absolutely perfectly… tomorrow' ".
This joke played on stereotypes of the Germans as efficient and the Irish as lazy. Many people could understandably be offended by these kinds of assertions (断言). We do not know every Irish person, so how can we then conclude that every Irish person is lazy?
I recently read on a website that Irish business people were described as being "generally rather casual" and "more outwardly friendly than many European countries". German business people, on the other hand, are considered to be very direct and according to the website, they "do not need a personal relationship in order to do business". Once you hear advice like this, it becomes easier to understand where jokes like the one in the first paragraph come from.
So why do some people disapprove of the kind of stereotypes as seen in Clarkson's joke, but not batting an eyelid (眨眼) when it comes to generalizations. What is the difference between the two?
By definition, a stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. A cultural characteristic, on the other hand, is a pattern of behaviour that is typical of a certain group.
So what does this really mean? Stereotypes are simply overstated assumptions about groups of people. Imagine if a tourist visited a small town in Switzerland and saw a number of locals playing the alphorn instrument, and then claimed that Swiss people can play the alphorn. This would be a stereotype! This is an overstated image of the Swiss which is based on one tourist's experience.
If, however, this tourist were to say that the Swiss are very punctual, this could be seen as a cultural characteristic. This is because it is a pattern of behaviour which is very typical in Switzerland: from their transport system to their business meetings. In this way, some people argue that generalizing another culture is not just useful, but important. Politicians always have to be mindful of the cultural characteristics of different countries. By becoming aware of different cultural characteristics, they can avoid causing offence in those cultures. However, others argue that generalizing cultures will always lead to offensive stereotypes. They argue that the best thing we can do is to stop generalizing cultures and start treating people as individuals.
All this raises important questions: can making generalizations about groups of people be a positive thing? Or should we always avoid making broad assumptions about different groups?
To show empathy is to identify with another's feelings. It is to emotionally put yourself in the place at another. The ability to empathize is directly dependent on your ability to feel your own feelings and identify them.
If you have never felt a certain feeling, it will be hard for you to understand how another person is feeling. If you have never put your hand in a flame, you will not know the pain of fire. If you have not experienced jealousy, you will not understand its power. Reading about a feeling and intellectually knowing about it is very different than actually experiencing it for yourself.
Among those with an equal level of emotional intelligence, the person who has actually experienced the widest range and variety of feelings —the great depths of depression and the heights of fulfillment, for example, —is the one who is most able to empathize. On the other hand, when we say that someone "can't relate to" other people, it is likely because they haven't experienced, acknowledged or accepted many feelings of their own. Once you have felt discriminated against, for example, it is much easier to relate with someone else who has been discriminated against. Our innate emotional intelligence gives us the ability to quickly recall those instances and form associations when we encounter discrimination again. We then can use the "reliving" of those emotions to guide our thinking and actions. This is one of the ways nature slowly evolves towards a higher level of survival.
For this process to work, the first step is that we must be able to experience our own emotions. This means we must be open to them and not distract ourselves from them or try to numb ourselves from our feelings through drugs, alcohol, etc.
Next, we need to become aware of what we are actually feeling —to acknowledge, identify, and accept our feelings. Only then can we empathize with others. That is one reason why it is important to work on your own emotional awareness and sensitivity, that is, to be "in touch with" your feelings.
Throughout my life, there is one teacher who really impresses me. .
My time in 8th grade felt like forever because you just want to be in high school already. Math you just wanted to sleep, science you wanted to cry, social studies you would wish for it to be over, but English class would just make up for the whole day. Mrs. Thomas would actually make me want to stay awake in her class. It was like she actually understood us and knew how to keep our full attention. Every day I couldn't wait to go to her class. You could talk to her like she was your friend and not your boss.
Like in the beginning of the year she made us take pictures of ourselves and write goals of what you wanted for the school year. Every day, when you would come into class, you would look at your goals and see if you achieve any; it was pretty smart. I remember she also made us write a letter to ourselves in the beginning of the year. We opened them at the end of the year to see how much we changed. It was like she was trying to push us to be able to complete those goals, so that later on in life we can use that ability again. If you wanted an A, you had to work for that A.
Mrs. Thomas not only got us ready for high school but also really prepared me for life in the future.
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A. The following is a class she taught us B. She made me realize how interesting learning can be C. She often made us struggle for what we dreamed of in life D. I remember how much fun it was to do activity in her class E. She would wake me up when I sometimes slept in her class F. She would make jokes that would relate to the lesson and please us G. I'm just waiting for the next teacher who can affect my life and me as a person |
In life, do you choose to take the road everyone has taken, or do you choose the path that is best for you? It might be1to choose what everyone has done, especially if it seemed to work for them. But is that what truly2for you?
On a recent hiking3, my partner and I decided to take a popular trail in the4direction. This was an old, well-traveled trail that people had been hiking and biking from A to Z for years. For our own reasons, we chose to travel from Z to A. Going backwards made more sense with my5. The trip would take several days and going backwards6that I would end the trip closer to the airport for my flight home.
As my partner and I walked, everyone crossing our path had something to say, "You're going the wrong way. Are you lost? Are you returning7you forgot something? Are you crazy? The path occasionally crossed a8. When it did, even passing cars beeped to9us in the "right" direction.
Why did people only see one way? Because that's what everyone does? Because that's how it's always been done? We even10to talk to a Danish woman who said, "We have a(n)11in my country：when you go backwards to everyone else, it's because you're avoiding something." I couldn't believe it. We were just enjoying connecting with nature, hiking the way that best12us. Had we gone the "wrong" way? No. At least, not for us.
I decided to13the path I chose.14, we had an amazing experience. Choosing the "wrong" path was right for me. When your inner 15tells you something is right (or wrong), listen to it. It's your instinct. It's speaking to you for a reason and it knows, better than anyone, what's best for you.
The world's oceans reached their hottest level in recorded history last year, supercharging (加剧) extreme weather events, scientists have reported. They found that the five hottest recorded years in the oceans (occur) since 2015, and that the rate of heating since 1986 was eight times higher than from 1960-85. Oceans cover 71% of the planet and water can absorb thousands of times more heat than air, is why 93% of global heating is taken up by seas.
Hotter oceans destroy rainfall patterns, which (lead) to floods, droughts and wildfires. Heat also causes seawater (expand) and drives up sea levels. Scientists expect about one metre of sea level rise by the end of the century, (threaten) 150 million people. Higher temperatures in the seas are also harming marine (海洋的) life, with number of ocean heatwaves increasing(sharp).
The study also finds that the sinking of surface waters and upwelling of deeper water is reducing as the seas heat up. This means the surface layers heats up even further and fewer nutrients for marine life are brought up from the (deep).
"The oceans reached yet another new record level of warmth in 2020, a record drop in global carbon emissions (排放). The planet will continue to warm up as long as we emit carbon into the atmosphere," said Prof Michael Mann of Penn State University..
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Schedule for EELS Winter English Courses |
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English courses |
Total hours of study |
Total hours of part-time job |
Date |
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Three-week course |
60 |
24 |
February 1- February 21 |
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Two-week course |
30 |
No job but tour instead |
February 1- February 24 |
写作要点：1）在以上两种课程中任选一种并说出理由；
2）你现今的英语水平及哪些具体的语言技巧需要得到提高；
3）其它的个人要求。
写作要求：1）80-100词；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sir/Madam,
Yours,
Li Hua
