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Shweta Hule wraps her sari around her ankles and bends to pick wild "weeds" from the river and drop them into a bowl, which will be made into fritters, a sort of snack to be served at the little restaurant attached to the B&B Hule manages in Vengurla.
Wild eatable plants are common in kitchens here. Hule's weed, found in mangrove forests, is juicy. Harvesting some of the plant is helping preserve the mangroves, a globally endangered salt-tolerant trees that stop coastal erosion（侵蚀）and absorb storm damage.
Hule is head of Swamini, a self-help group founded by nine women who started Mandavi Eco Tourism in 2017. Vengurla is known for its beautiful beaches and seafood, but the climate crisis has made fishing for a living here unsustainable, so people are trying to find other sources of income. They came up with the idea of providing mangrove sightseeing for tourists in Vengurla's Mandavi River.
The safaris offer visitorsa unique hour-long tour of the mangroves. Food has also become a key attraction: local spicy coconut curries, with homegrown or wild vegetables. Tourists are encouraged to go crabbing, and their catch is cooked and served.
Hule only discovered recently that the weed was eatable when she met tourists from another coastal city. She learned that the salty plant is rich in vitamins. She made her own version of the fritters, with chickpea flour,and presented it at the wild vegetable festival. "It was an instant hit. This boosted the confidence to include these fritters in our restaurant menu," says Hule.
Swamini's Guest House also serves vegetarian meals and plates of fish and crab sourced from the river. "The satisfaction after the visitors enjoy our meal is the real currency. We had guests from London who were so happy
with our food that they took down the recipe. Such people help our business grow. What more can we want?" says Hule.
For anyone trying to lose weight, there's a truth we can all universally acknowledge that better health is often positioned as a numbers game. Hit the right number, and all your health problems will magically resolve, so the logic goes. Yet increasingly, science is revealing that losing weight may not be a silver bullet after all. In a mouse study published in the journal Science，looking specifically at an inflammatory（炎症的）eye condition linked to obesity called macular degeneration（黄斑退化）， researchers found the struggle for better health doesn't necessarily begin and end with weight loss.
Researchers conducted experiments on mice that were fed a high-fat diet for 11 weeks, making them gain weight The mice were then put on a diet of low-fat food for 9 weeks, making them lose weight. Another group of mice only ate the low-fat diet as a control. Researchers shot lasers into the eyes of both the yo-yo dieter mice and the control mice to encourage atypical blood vessel（非典型性血管）growth，a mark of macular degeneration.
Among the mice that had gained and then lost weight, there was about 40 percent more atypical blood vessel growth than their stable diet peers. Driving the growth appeared to be macrophages（巨噬细胞）. In the yo-yo dieter mice, these cells had been reprogrammed to cause inflammation. Taken together, these cells appeared to have an outsize role in atypical blood vessel growth in the eyes. Meanwhile, in the mice fed only a low-fat diet, inflammatory changes were absent. The results suggest that eating a high-fat diet that causes weight gain, even if followed by weight loss, leaves an inflammatory mark on mouse macrophages.
The research comes during a period of renewed interest in anti-obesity drugs. But medicines that help people shed pounds do not treat inflammation linked to a history of weight gain. "How to engage these findings with medicine interventions is a challenge," says Bapat, head of the research.
In the threatening trouble of climate change, growing commercial crops on solar farms is a potentially efficient use of agricultural land that can both increase commercial food production and improve solar panel performance and longevity（寿命），according to a new Cornell research.
"We now have，for the first time， a physics-based tool to estimate the costs and benefits of co-locating（共用） solar panels and commercial agriculture in terms of increased power conversion efficiency and solar-panel longevity," said lead author Henry Williams, a doctoral student in Cornell Engineering.
"There is potential for agrivoltaic （农业光伏）systems，where agriculture and solar panels coexist， to provide increased passive cooling through taller panel heights, more reflective ground cover and higher evapotranspiration （蒸散） rates compared to traditional solar farms，＂said Max Zhang， professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, "We can generate renewable electricity and conserve farmland through agrivoltaic systems. " In New York, for example, about 40% of solar farm capacity has been developed on agricultural lands, while about 84% of land suitable for solar development is agricultural, according to a previous research study from Zhang's group.
The engineers showed that solar panels mounted over vegetation reveal surface temperature drops compared to those built over bare ground. Solar panels were mounted 4 meters above a cotton crop and the solar panels showed temperature reductions by up to 10 degrees Celsius, compared with those mounted a half-meter above bare soil.
"As you decrease the solar panel operating temperature, you can increase efficiency and improve the longevity of your solar panels," said Williams, "We're showing double benefits. On one hand, you have food production for farmers, and on the other hand, we've shown improved longevity and improved conversion efficiency for solar developers. "
"Up to this point, most of the benefits from agrivoltaic systems have been around areas with sufficient sunshine," said Zhang, "This research is taking a step toward the application of agrivoltaics in the Northeastern U. S. faced with the land-use competition. "
When you say， "You shouldn't do that，＂ to a teenager，your feedback（反馈）is likely to be met with an eye roll. By the time kids turn into teens, they don't think they need much help from adults-especially their parents.
It's important for your teens to be able to hear constructive criticism without automatically becoming defensive. They'll need your advice on how they can improve their chances of success. But before they can take that advice, they'll have to be open to listening to it. Every time you give your teens constructive criticism, you give them an opportunity to grow and change.
If you're offering constructive feedback, view your role as a guide. Point out what your teen did well while adding what she/he could do better next time. Besides, point out mistakes in a gentle manner. It can help them see that mistakes aren't something they should be ashamed of. They can learn how to bounce back from failure.
If your teens don't trust you when you are giving them feedback, they won't listen to what you have to say. Rather than thinking about how to apply your feedback to their life, they'll invest their energy into thinking why your advice doesn't matter. If your teens respect you, they'll have respect for your opinion.
It must be noted that after you've expressed your concern, ask your teens for their opinion. Showing a willingness to listen to them can go a long way toward encouraging them to listen to you.
A. Listen to your teens' opinion.
B. It could help them become a better person.
C. Instead, they can use it as a learning opportunity.
D. Your teens need to know how to improve their social skills.
E. For constructive criticism, a healthy relationship is necessary.
F. Then, they'll need to be able to be open to changing their behavior.
G. However, constructive criticism can be essential to your teens' welfare.
I grew up in a community of South Indian immigrants. Every auntie I know has a kitchen drawer containing carefully1 yogurt dabbas. Dabba is an Indian word for "box", but it refers to all kinds of 2 too.
The reused dabbas 3 storing leftovers, religious offerings and pot-luck contributions. When I went away to university, my mom used to 4 food and send it to me with strict 5 to wash the dabbas and bring them home.
But just6 every auntie valued dabbas, every uncle hated them. Whenever my father7 about them, my mom would shoot him a look that would surely have killed a8 man.
Now, I found my way to Halifax, where I'm a physician and have a family of my own. Like my mother, I'm also a 9 owner of an expensive dabba collection, which I10 with great enthusiasm. No matter how many glass, microwave-and oven-safe containers I have, no matter how beautiful or 11 they may be, I cannot stop collecting yogurt containers.
When I married my husband, an American from Boston, handling cultural differences is surely a(n)12 . The other night, I heard him 13 in the kitchen, and the next morning, I found my dabbas in the recycling bin. I narrowed my eyes a little as I 14 them out, washed them up and replaced them in their drawer. I was practicing my mother's death 15 .
A new adaptation of Chinese mythological stories has won the heart of audiences with its distinctive style. The animation series, Yao-Chinese Folktales,(gain) more than 110 million views online since it was released.
The series, co-produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio and Bilibili, is collection of 20-minute short films, made up of eight separate stories feature) monster-like characters, or yao in Chinese. The collection, ranges from ancient stories to science fiction, from emotional connection with hometowns to romantic love from life themes to questions for humanity, presents Chinese culture and philosophy. For example, the first episode, named "Nobody", tells a pig monster's story (base) on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. The creative team put the perspective on the little monsters who used to have blurry faces and didn't even have names in the story.
Li Zao, general producer, said it was impossible (predict) what the eventual outcome would be at first. Now，the （favor） comments exceeded（超出）the expectations of the creative team. These contained both the audience's (recognize) of the work and their hopes of Chinese animation. Besides adapting the taste of the masses, the team also wanted to guide them to appreciate different types of work.
One day I got stuck in the Tube on my way to work.
The Tube-that's what most people call it-is London's underground railway system.
It was about nine o'clock in the morning, the middle of the rush-hour. Nobody had expected something unusual would happen later and everyone was doing their usual: a pretty girl gave her boyfriend sweet kisses one after another. Sitting next to me, a young woman with a suitcase and a baby took a scarf out of her suitcase and made her baby a nest, so that it could lie more comfortably. In fact, the train had just left Green Park Station when, instead of speeding up, it started to slow down and then came to a stand-still.
Ten minutes passed, though it seemed like half a day. The train didn't move. Had the railway men forgotten all about our existence? Had there been a crash on the line in front? How serious was the breakdown? We had no means of knowing. However, to anxious people who are stuck in the Tube, I suppose it doesn't really matter what it is that has broken down. What they care is when they can get out of the trouble.
Twenty minutes passed. All hope of getting to work on time had long since gone. Had the train really broken down? Several people thought so, but they were wrong. A railway man at last came down the length of the train to tell us that the power supply had failed, and that we were not to worry as they were working to put it right.
We could not leave the train， as it had stopped in the tunnel（隧道）， not at a station. There was nothing else to do. The weak signal disabled cellphones. Besides，the train was getting hot and stuffy（闷）. I even began to wonder if we were going to stay there for the rest of the day.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左石：2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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The hopeless waiting in the darkness drove us crazy.
Paragraph 2:
As a commuter（上班族）who traveled to work on the train every day， I thought it my duty to do something.
