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Chris Smith looked like any other young boy in his class: thick hair, a wide smile, and playing sports. By all appearances, life for Chris was the same as it was for a hundred other boys in the small town where he grew up, except for the constant evictions (驱赶), and eventually being homeless.
Chris' father was reckless (鲁莽的) with finances and dishonest in business. His mother tried her best to run the home until Chris' little brother drowned (溺亡), then his father went to prison, and finally the family fell apart.
"My mom shut down emotionally. Everything got worse," Chris remembers. Then she was gone and ran away from home without telling Chris. He did the best he could, sleeping on his newly married sister's sofa. "They didn't have much money, and I know it was a burden to take me in at 17 years old, I was going to drop out from high school and make it on my own."
But Chris' history teacher had different ideas. When Chris' study began to go down, she cornered him. "You're the smartest kid in the class," she told him. "If you don't graduate, you're going to regret it."
"School was my safe place," Chris says. School also offered him heat and food. It became the closest thing to home he could find, compared to his father's old truck that became his bed and his study space. He remembers his hair freezing onto the window in the winter.
When graduation came, Chris earned a full scholarship to college and graduated in the top 10 of his class. When it's time to apply for medical residencies, Chris set his sights high. He applied for residencies around the country and included the No. 1 program in the nation: Johns Hopkins. And then the letter came. Chris was in.
"I didn't really think I had a chance. But I had learned to give everything my best shot. Life is never fair. But if you don't give up, you will give yourself a better chance to make it," Chris says.
Under a midday summer sun in California's Sacramento Valley, rice farmer Peter Rystrom walks across a dusty and bare plot of land, dry soil crunching (碎裂) beneath each step. In a typical year, he'd be walking across green rice fields in inches of water. But today the soil is dry and baking in the 35℃ heat. It hasn't rained for 4 weeks in a row.
"Climate change is expected to worsen the state's extreme swings in rainfall," researchers reported in Nature Climate Change in 2018. Low water levels in rivers have forced farmers like Rystrom, whose family has been growing rice on this land for four generations, to reduce their water use.
"If we lose our rice crops, we have to deal with severe food crisis. Climate change is already threatening rice-growing regions around the world. This is not a future problem. This is happening now," says plant geneticist Pamela Ronald of the University of California, Davis, who identifies genes in rice that help the plant stand up to dryness, disease, flood, etc.
To save and even boost production, rice growers, engineers and researchers have turned to water-saving irrigation (灌溉) routines. Building canal systems and reservoirs (水库) can help farmers dampen their fields. But for some, the solution to rice's climate-related problems lies in enhancing the plant itself. They hold that establishing rice gene banks that store hundreds of thousands of rice varieties ready to be bred into new, dryness-tolerant varieties is more practical and effective. Solutions may be hidden in the DNA of those older breeds.
Three decades have passed since its initial development, and some researchers are looking beyond the genetic variability preserved in rice gene banks, searching instead for useful genes from other species, including plants and bacteria. But picking genes from one species and putting them into another, or genetic recombination, remains debatable. The most famous example of genetically changed rice is Golden Rice (GR). "Looking ahead, it will be crucial for countries to embrace GR rice. But it will take time," says Ismail, principal scientist at IRRI,
The measurement of blood pressure goes back almost three centuries, leading to the procedure that we all know and that our family doctor performs when we have checkups: A cuff (袖口) goes around our arm, which is first inflated (膨胀), and then deflated (放气), in a controlled manner, to determine our maximum and minimum blood pressure.
But the use of inflatable-cuff blood pressure monitors has some disadvantages. For one thing, unless people have home monitors, they must go to a chemistry shop, doctor's office or health center to learn what their blood pressure is. Another barrier is that repeated inflation and deflation of the cuff can cause difficulties when, for example, a patient is in the hospital and needs frequent blood pressure monitoring. And the last one is that since cuffs don't allow continuous measurement of blood pressure, they're only providing a measurement at a specific moment.
Today, a new generation of blood pressure devices have been developed and their aim is to make it easier to judge high blood pressure. Unlike traditional devices, they do without the arm cuff and offer blood pressure values on demand. Users just press their finger on a sensor on a watch and ring.
The various cuffless measuring devices are based on methods that, instead of directly determining blood pressure, use sensors to capture various indirect signals. These signals are processed by different sets of mathematical procedures to obtain the blood pressure values. It is like inferring fever by measuring an increase in heart beat and sweating instead of using a thermometer (体温表), or divining the result of a soccer match from outside the stadium by listening to the screams of the soccer fans.
The development of devices for measuring blood pressure without a blood pressure cuff is progressing rapidly, but that doesn't mean they are ready used to make diagnostic and treatment decisions. "The road to clinical application may be some day in the near future, but not now," Avolio says.
Summarizing, or writing a summary, means giving a brief overview of a text's main points in your own words. For example, when you're writing an academic text like an essay, a research paper, or a dissertation (学位论文), you'll integrate sources in a variety of ways. But it's often appropriate to sum up a whole article or chapter if it is especially relevant to your own research. Here are some key steps that can help you to do it:
Step 1: Read the text.
You should read the article more than once to make sure you've thoroughly understood it. It's often effective to read in three stages:
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◆ Read the article carefully, highlighting important points and taking notes as you read.
◆ Skim the article again to confirm you've understood the key points, and reread any particularly important or difficult passages.
Step 2: Break the text down into sections.
If the text is a scientific paper, it is probably already organized into clearly marked sections, usually including an introduction, methods, results, and discussion. But most articles and essays will be structured around a series of sub-points or themes.
Step 3: Identify the key points in each section.
Now it's time to go through each section and pick out its most important points. Keep in mind that a summary does not involve paraphrasing (改述) every single paragraph of the article.
Step 4: Write the summary.
Now that you know the key points that the article aims to communicate, you need to put them in your own words. To avoid plagiarism (抄袭) and show you've understood the article, it's essential to properly paraphrase the author's ideas.
Step 5:
Finally, read through the article once more to ensure that:
◆ You've accurately represented the author's work.
◆ You haven't missed any essential information.
◆ The phrasing is not too similar to any sentences in the original.
A. Boil the summary down further.
B. Check the summary against the article.
C. You might use a brief quote to support your point.
D. Scan the article quickly to get a sense of its topic and overall shape.
E. Your goal is to select the essential points, leaving out background information or details.
F. To make the text more manageable and understand its sub-points, divide it into smaller parts.
G. In any case, the goal of summarizing is to give your reader a clear understanding of the original source.
"In my childhood, the village was a different world altogether. The houses were old, roads were 1 . But now, our village boasts modern, well-constructed homes, wide well-lit roads, and practically every household owns 2 one car," Li Jing, the director assistant to the village secretary of Maotianping Village Committee in Enshi, Hubei province.
Li is a native of this village and was one of the first from her community to pursue higher 3 . She studied hotel management and tourism at Wuhan University of Science and Technology. After graduation, she gained a(n) 4 in the hotel industry. 5 , she made the life-altering decision last year to return to her village.
"I want to be an integral part of my hometown's development and 6 real changes that improve the livelihoods of our villagers 7 realizing my own personal value," Li said.
Enshi, renowned for its breathtaking scenery, 8 relies on agriculture and most of its farmers grow potatoes. Li projects to showcase the agricultural riches 9 by its residents.
"Here, we are 10 with a humid climate and over 70 percent forest coverage. This makes it an ideal setting for cultivating potatoes," Li explained. "You can find selenium-rich (富含硒的) potatoes here, as the soil in our village boasts 11 selenium content, a trace 12 known for its health benefits."
In addition to potato farming, Li's team has created positions like potato managers, similar to 13 and sales specialists. There's even a role for a potato assessor, responsible for 14 the best-looking potatoes for sale. In the future, Li hopes to continue helping her fellow villagers raise their potato production and increase their 15 .
Anhui, an ancient and beautiful region, began to prosper during the Tang (618—907) and Song (960—1279) dynasties. In the times the Grand Canal, a UNESCO World Heritage site, directly connected Beijing in the north and Hangzhou in the south, Anhui traders (fan) out across China. That's why Anhui food is now among China's eight great cuisines.
Anhui cuisine offers plenty of other options and many dishes have interesting stories, for example, chouguiyu. It is said that a certain businessman had made fortune in Hangzhou, where he had first tasted a kind of fish that was sweet, fresh and had few tiny bones. He (immediate) thought of his elderly parents. He bought some to bring to them. However, the long journey took its toll (毁坏) on the fish and when he finally reached home, they were all (smell). His mother, an economical woman, decided to cook the fish nevertheless. To everyone's surprise, the fish smelled bad tasted very good. These days, Anhui chefs deliberately allow the fish to reach certain (ripe) before cooking it.
Anhui cuisine (characterise) by its heavy use of oil, deeply flavored sauces, and superior soups and stock. The main cooking style is to braise (炖) or roast. Its chefs specialize ingredients available locally, such as fish, pigeons, bamboo shoots, etc. Anhui folk also like to salt their own meats like ham and pork, which goes into the pot with chicken and duck to produce very deeply flavored soups. A popular dish is salted meat on a bed of bamboo shoots (steam) on a wooden cutting board. Unlike some other regional cuisines, this is one cooking style that is very heavy on animal protein and relatively light on the greens.
The city circle was quiet when my van pulled up to Two's Company café. It was 8:00 A.M., and the mom-and-pop businesses wouldn't be open for another three hours. As the film crew of student movie-makers hopped out of the van and started unloading a ton of equipment, I sat in the driver's seat reading a book.
I learned a long time ago that I was not wanted or needed on the set. Sometimes, that made me feel a bit sad. These kids used to need a parent's advice, help and caring. Now, as older teens, they were making their own decisions, helping each other and supporting their friends through whatever assignments they were given.
Emptied of its movie-related contents, the van now became the place to leave personal items. My job, as the driver, was to stay within calling distance with the keys so that if anything was needed I could open the van. Knowing that I could crawl (爬行) into a corner somewhere and finish reading the book that a friend asked me to critique, I looked for a place to sit down. Against a wall, in the shade, just twenty or so paces away, I spied a beautifully carved park bench. I noticed that a man was sitting on one end, but there was plenty of room for at least two more bodies. Walking over, I set my drink on the ground near the leg of the bench and sat on the end seat so that I could rest my elbow (肘) on the arm. The man on the other end looked at me oddly but remained seated.
I quickly discovered that he'd probably spent the night on the bench. His clothes were untidy, his hair was messy, and I was soon confronted (使……面对) with a strong and very unpleasant smell of body sweat. I looked at him and smiled, and he smiled back with a mouth of misshapen and blacked-out teeth. That was it. He wasn't bothering me, and I guessed I wasn't bothering him. We both sat there for over an hour. I was reading. He was intently watching the filming.
注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右；2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
He then stood.
I was shocked.
