France is a country of great food, great fashion, and great art. It is also the birthplace of various painting movements and has been home to the world's most influential painters.
Claude Monet
Claude Monet started the Impressionist movement that completely changed the face of French painting in the second half of the 19th century. He first started out with selling charcoal pictures in Paris and started painting with oil after meeting Eugene Boudin. Eugene, who taught him to use oil paints, also encouraged him to paint outdoors. Later he mastered the technique and painted with his own style.
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was a post-Impressionist French painter of Dutch origin, whose work had a huge influence on the 20th century art. His early works consisted more of somber(忧伤的) earth tones. However, influenced by Gauguin, Monet, Pissarro, and Bernard, he adopted brighter colors in his works, started experimenting with various techniques and formed his own one. Having produced more than 2，000 works of art, the artist sold only one painting during his lifetime-The Red Vineyard at Arles.
Edouard Manet
As one of the first artists to paint modern life, he began to paint in his own style, maintaining some of Couture's technique like the use of thick lines and dark colors. He was greatly influenced by Claude Monet and Berthe Morisot, which can be seen in his use of light shades. Most of his paintings show scenes from daily life on the streets of Paris.
Camille Pissarro
In his early years, Pissarro painted scenes of rivers or paths from memory. After meeting Paul Cezanne, who shared his interest of painting in a more realistic style, he changed his course to Impressionism. During his career, he experimented with various styles and formed his own one.
For quite some time I have had an interest in the situation of the homeless. I have read about it, prayed over it, and have done small things to help. But feeling that I could, and should do more to make a difference, I concluded that living as a homeless man -- at least for a very brief period -- was the best way to understand what it's like to have no place to call home.
I decided that St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church would be my first stop. Since the church opens its basement to homeless people every Friday for a hot meal St. Vincent's was symbolically a very good place to start my day as a homeless man.
After praying before the Blessed Sacrament, I hit the subfreezing streets with no money. I got into a line of men, women and children waiting to be admitted into the dining room where a free hot meal is served every day.
From there I walked to Health Care for the Homeless -- an organization dedicated to providing free medical care to people who have no permanent residence. Inside were about 75 homeless women and men waiting to be seen by a nurse. There I spoke with an older man who had serious family problems that caused his homelessness.
Next, I stopped at a hotel and fast-food restaurant asking if they were hiring. From there I walked the streets of downtown Baltimore asking people for a little loose change to buy a cup of coffee. I politely approached approximately 35 people. About 30 of them ignored me, and said they didn't have any money, or simply said no. But five people did offer me a small donation. I explained what I was doing, and thankfully declined their generosity.
Later that night, as I walked back to my vehicle, I realized that I was a richer person for having lived one day as a homeless man. I thought about the homeless men and women I encountered, and their problems.
Arthur Lih of Massapequa sold his first LifeVac, a device to help save people's life, to a fire department about 18 months ago, when the Jericho Fire Department purchased 21 of the devices. Now about 10 Long Island fire departments have purchased Lih's invention, which is designed to draw foreign objects from the throats of choking victims when procedures such as the Heimlich Maneuver (海姆立克急救法) don't work. He has sold about 5，000 LifeVac devices in the United States and abroad since the device went on the market in August 2014.
The Freeport Fire Department is one of Lih's clients. It bought about 25 LifeVac devices to put on trucks, as well as in chiefs' vehicles, said Ray Maguire, the department's executive director. "It's an extra tool in the toolbox, " Maguire said. "I'd be surprised if anyone who sees it doesn't purchase it. It's that tool you may only need once, but it's the tool you really want in case you need it. It's affordable. I have it in my car. I have one at home, too. "
Dr. Lee Smith at Northwell Health said that if a choking victim can't breathe, he or she becomes a candidate for the Heimlich. If the Heimlich doesn't work, the victim would probably lose consciousness because of a lack of oxygen.
A challenge for any new medical device is convincing potential users that it works and is safe. In tests, the LifeVac successfully removed an obstruction (阻塞物) from the throat of a dead human body on the first try 49 out of 50 times, according to an August research article in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.
Lih invented the product in his garage, inspired after he went with a friend to a hospital while the friend's mother was going through tests. The friend said the last time he was there, a 7-year-old child had choked to death on a grape.
Scientists have developed a new type of smart bandage that can signal the type of bacterial infection it's protecting, just like a traffic light, as well as release the right type of drugs on demand. The traffic light system works just like this: Green means no bacteria or a low concentration of bacteria, yellow means drug-sensitive (DS) bacteria responsive to standard antibiotics (抗生素) and causes antibiotic release, and red means drug-resistant (DR) bacteria that need extra help to be wiped out.
In testing the bandage on mice, the research team was able to successfully treat both DS and DR infections using the new method. However, the common methods of sensing resistance are limited by time, the requirement for professional personnel, and expensive instruments. Moreover, the abuse of antibiotics causes the accelerated process of bacterial resistance.
It's easy to see how a simple bandage and light could overcome some of these limitations. Treatment doesn't have to wait for a doctor to make a diagnosis, and the bandage can get the right sort of drugs applied at the earliest opportunity. What's more, the person wearing the bandage gets real-time feedback on what's happening with the infection, if there's an infection at all. The researchers say it offers numerous benefits over existing treatments that make use of light.
We've been seeing quite a few upgrades to the traditional bandage in recent years, thanks to advances in science-like the nanofibre mesh (纳米纤维网) that attracts bacteria and draws some of it out, speeding up the healing process. Then there's the novel bandage for treating burns, which stops bacteria from multiplying and lowers the risk of infection.
The more work that a bandage can do while it's protecting a wound, the better. Efforts to improve bandages continue and now we've got a bandage that not only releases antibiotics, but also tells the patient exactly what's going on too.
Four surprising ways to boost your heart health
As much as 80 percent of premature heart disease is preventable by making specific lifestyle choices. Some strategies, such as exercising and managing weight, are well known. "A small change in your everyday routine can potentially have a big impact in the long run, " says preventive cardiologist Dr. Beth Abramson, a spokesperson for the Heart and Stroke (中风) Foundation of Canada.
Get eight hours of sleep.
If we don't have enough sleep, our bodies also have more difficulty controlling blood pressure, inflammation and glucose levels.
Doing good for others helps your self-respect and relieves stress. Research issued in Psychosomatic Medicine in 2016 showed that a feeling of purpose in life is linked to a lower likelihood of heart attack and stroke. Depending on the type of work you do, volunteering might even increase your physical activity.
Avoid polluted air.
Exposure to this kind of pollution over time raises your risk of heart disease. Try to get your outdoor exercise far away from highways and industrial districts, and spend more time indoors when the air quality index is poor.
Laugh.
A 2016 study in the Journal of Epidemiology of more than 20，000 people over the age of 65 found a lower risk of cardiovascular (心血管的) disease in those who reported laughing every day. It may also serve as a mini-workout, helping your circulation and protecting the health of your arteries (动脉).
A. Be kind to others.
B. Engage in volunteer work.
C. You should laugh everyday.
D. Laughter reduces stress and depression.
E. But others may not have crossed your mind.
F. These factors can all have an impact on heart health.
G. Even short periods of it are unhealthy for people with other cardiovascular risks
On a bright sunny day, I stared my day off by volunteering at the L. A. Food Bank. My reason for volunteering at the food bank was to satisfy my need to help others and leave a 1 ， however small a difference it is, in someone's world. As I2the food bank, there were lots of people there. The room appeared to be 3 as people waited in lines to 4 with coordinators (协调员).
Everybody volunteering began heading quickly to their given 5 after checking in. Coordinators6 me to repackage donated food items (物品) from local food drives after being sorted and 7 by other volunteer. When I 8 the donated food items, each bag had to contain the correct amount of food items. As a team, we effectively worked similarly to a 9 assembly (装配) line as the items continuously moved down the row to volunteers. My task required a lot of 10 when trying to work swiftly with my hands while ensuring that items placed in bags were correctly 11. Here I had a chance to communicate with a variety of people while improving my 12 skills. We worked together as a team to 13 that our task was going effectively.
By helping pack food items, I was able to make as significant impact on my community by helping people fight 14 and giving them hope for a better life. After this experience, I feel a sense of 15 within me which does not usually happen.
Inside the 9th exhibition hall at Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM)，paintings and sculptures both Louvre Museum and the Palace Museum in Beijing reflect one theme (precise): a historical China-West exchange.
Since the museum opened to the public in July, the museum has welcomed large number of tourists and constant new exhibitions. For those are in charge, it seems they have a rather u permanent mission：making the HKPM a (globe ) center for cultural exchanges between the East and West.
Among the new 69 relics (遗址)are a set of three paintings from the Album of Beasts, (create) by noble painters Yu Sheng and Zhang Weibang during the Qing Dynasty. The 180-page Album of Beasts has been considered as a (combine ) of reality and imagination, as well as
the Orient and Europe, as the two artists painted images of animals from Chinese classics (use) light and shadow techniques typical of Western art. The introduction to the painting explains that this kind of animal (see) as a flying horse when walking on land, but when it flies it becomes the North Star.
For the staff, the best way to introduce to visitors the historic integration between the East and the West (be) to put what the paintings convey right where they can see them.
Peter woke up early in the morning. He went downstairs in a hurry and started to have his breakfast as quickly as possible. "Why are you in such a hurry, early bird?" Mum asked him. " We will have an English spelling test today, Mum, " Peter said. "Mr. White promised to offer prizes to those who get 100. "
Peter reviewed the spelling of each word once more carefully when Dad drove him to school. At last, it was time for the students to have a test. "Responsibility, "Mr. White started. Peter wrote it on his test paper quickly and confidently.
"The second word: contribution, " Mr. White said. "So easy. " Peter thought happily. He quickly wrote the word down. Thirty words later, the test papers were collected by Mr. White. After marking the test papers, Mr. White said, "Three of you win a prize today for excellent test scores. Peter, David and Mary get 100 on the spelling test!"
Mr. White praised them. Meanwhile, he gave the three students each a dictionary. Peter's was an English-Chinese dictionary - the one he liked best. Peter was so excited that he held it high when his classmates cheered.
After Mr. White gave the test paper back, Peter had a look at the words, feeling proud of his spelling. All of a sudden, the word "contribution" confused him. It didn't seem right. Peter began to compare it with the one on the word list. It turned out that he had spelled it wrong.
Staring at the red sign "100" which was written on his test paper, Peter was lost in thought. After a while, he remembered a lesson Mum used to teach him, "We ought to be an honest person. "
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Peter raised his hand slowly and nervously.
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Peter didn't expect that his teacher would praise him for being honest.
