Our cat was ready to give birth to her kittens. My son was curious and excited to see the birth of these new babies. The event took place yesterday. The cat (give) birth to one kitten by the time he arrived home from school. He was so amazed at he saw. When the second was on its way, the mother cat began to yell very loudly. I saw tears in my son's eyes because he learned about the pain of giving birth.
Dave Tally has no home and few possessions. So, when he discovered an abandoned backpack $3,300 in it last week, the temptation (诱惑) to keep the money for (he) must have been unbelievable. But he turned the money into the Tempe Community Action Agency, he volunteers. The organization found the source of the cash: a student who had planned to use the money (buy) a used car. The student was grateful to have the money (return). And word spread about Tally's good deed.
The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival. It usually (fall) in October. In a mysterious book Yi Jing in ancient time, number （think）to be "Yang", （mean）positive. Because the 9th day of the 9th lunar month is pronounced as "Jiu Jiu" in Chinese, which means "forever", the Chinese ancestors considered it a lucky day worth celebration. That's why ancient Chinese began to celebrate this festival.
The Power of Kindness
Leo Kellner loves helping people in the sweetest way possibleby baking them cakes and pies. The 99-year-old man from Hastings, Nebraska, 1 his wife in 2012. They had been together for 72 years.
Since his wife passed away, Kellner took up 2as a way to give back to the community. "I didn't know what to do with myself ," Kellner said. "I was 3 all the time, and I thought I'd better do something that could make me get out of the 4and be good to the community as well, and that's how it started."
That first year, Kellner made 144 pies for people in need. He 5 community organizations to let them know he'd like to connect with families having a 6 time. Kellner then started reaching out to those families, getting to know them, and baking up some lovely cakes and pies during their time of need.
What he did made him 7 known around the communities. And whenever people met him, they showed their 8 to him.
"I regard everybody as a 9 I love everybody even people that gave me an unpleasant time when things were going hard for me.
Born in 1918, Kellner lived 10 the Great Depression, when his family lost their farm. Kellner had to move from state to state as a teenager looking for possible 11 on farms to make a living. "I knew what it was to be 12 , and a lot of times we just had vegetables and flour mixed up together;" he said. "So as long as I can do it, I will lend a helping hand."
And Kellner's made quite a/an 13 . "I've got friends from all over," he said. "I've gotten thank-you cards from Alaska". Through his baking, Kellner has helped the 14 a lot.
15 is powerful. Children begin to learn to cook so they can spread 16 just as he does. Kellner believes that this interest to give to everyone just might be the secret to a long, 17 life.
Life constantly presents us with opportunities to take an extra step or do a kind deed that will make a 18 . And the wonderful thing is that as we do, it changes things for the 19 for us too. Kindness is also a kind of noble cycle. It twice blessed; it blesses him who 20 , and him who receives.
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Mickey Wilson had been on the mountain only a few seconds when he heard the scream. Wilson, 28 years old, had just gotten off the cable car (索道缆车) at the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in Keystone, Colorado, along with his friends Billy Simmons and Hans Mueller. Their friend Richard had been on the cable car ahead of them, but when the men reached the top of the lift, he had disappeared. The men walked toward the source of the scream and found skiers stopped on the slope, pointing to the cable car. And then the friends screamed too.
"Oh, Richard!" yelled Mueller.
When Richard had tried to jump off the cable car, his backpack had been caught in the chair, which then dragged him back down the hill. In the process, the backpack belt twisted around his neck, making him breathless. Now Richard's body was swinging four feet above the snow. The cable car operator had quickly stopped it, and the friends kicked off their skis and ran toward the scene. They made a human pyramid to try to reach Richard, but the unconscious man was too far off the ground. With the clock ticking, Wilson ran to the ladder of a nearby lift tower. Scared skiers watched as he struggled the 25 feet. After he reached the top, Wilson's first challenge was to climb onto the two-inch steel cable that held the chairs. He handled the balance and height bravely, but he knew he could not walk on the cable. Therefore, he calmed down and sat over it and then used his hands to pull himself to Richard quickly. Wilson's greatest fear wasn't that he'd fall, but that he wouldn't reach Richard. "This was life or death," he said.
When he reached Richard's chair, Wilson swung a leg over the cable and attempted to drop down onto it. But as he did that, his jacket caught on the movable footrest, which was in the up position. The footrest began to slide down, with Wilson attached. But before that could happen, he managed to free himself and reached Richard.
Fortunately, the ski patrol (巡查) had gathered below and performed emergency treatment on Richard, who had been hanging for about five minutes, then skied him down to an ambulance.
That night, Richard called from the hospital to express his thanks to Wilson, his other friends and the workers at the Arapahoe Basin Ski Area.
Loud cheers and applause broke out at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab on Monday, November 25, 2018, as the unmanned lander, called Insight, touched down on Mars, after nearly seven years from design to launch to landing.
The great arrival of the spacecraftdesigned to listen for quakes and shakes as a way to discover the Red Planet's inner secrets, how it formed billions of years ago and, how other planets like Earth took shapemarked the eighth successful landing on Mars in Nasa's history.
Minutes after InSight landed on the surface of Mars, the first image was sent back, showing a wide flat area as seen through a dirty camera.
The touchdown came after a nearly seven-month, 300 million-mile travel from Earth to Mars, during which the InSight spacecraft had to slow down from a speed of more than 12,000 mph. The spacecraft's heat shelter helped the lander survive temperatures as high as 2,700℉.
Each step along the way was watched nervously at JPL, with updates delayed by the eight-minute light travel time between Earth and Mars. Mission controllers hugged each other with joy when the signals were received. "We are proud of everything that has gone on today," they told us reporters.
The first picture of the surface of Mars was sent back to Earth by one of the MarCO nanosatellites (马可纳米卫星) that accompanied InSight during its travel to Mars. The dust from the landing made the view unclear. Pictures from it were expected to be clearer once the dust settled and the lens cover (镜头盖) was removed.
Hours later, InSight's batteries were charging as expected. The InSight team also passed on another picture, taken by a different camera that's fixed on the lander's robotic arm. The view is clearer, showing the robotic arm and the seismometer, which is used to discover the actual movement of the ground.
The latest data from the Office for National Statistics shows that one in every 12 kids is living in homes where no one has worked for at least a year. That may be due to unemployment or issues such as sickness or disability that mean they can't work, and aren't required to. This is known as being in a "long term workless" family.
The issues faced by children in workless families have very bad influence on their development and education, limiting their future employment prospects, and reducing their opportunities to succeed throughout their lives.
Not only does worklessness reduce family income, it can also damage families' health and stability, and thus destroy children's development. This is because many workless families are held back by disadvantages such as debt, drug and alcohol dependency, and by homelessness. Suffering from the family problems, many children face a greater and greater possibility of repeating the poor outcomes of their parents. Government research has shown that children in workless families are almost twice as likely not to reach the expected level at all stages of their education. For example, three-quarters of children from families where no one works failed to reach the expected level at General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), compared to around half of children in lower-income working families.
So attention should be paid to children in out-of-work homes. Having working parents means a child is more likely to do better at school, to have better health, education and development, and also means they are less likely to fall into crime.
But for some families, worklessness, or not employment, is the norm. They just choose not to work. These families often face huge barriers to getting on with their lives but they take the opportunities offered by the society. Parents' ability to work is frustrated by issues like low skills or poor mental or physical health, or drug and alcohol dependency, leaving children without the stability they need.
We all want to help workless families with complex problems so that their children can take advantage of the opportunities in Britain. We all want parents to have the chance to go out to earn a living and to enjoy the pleasure of work, so that their children can benefit from the good examples of working parents. In doing so, we should know the need to understand the complex issues that some families face and to develop a new approach to deal with poverty. Because the root causes are not financial. It is about helping families overcome the problems they face so that they can go as far as their talents and hard work will take them. We shouldn't retreat from acting to deal with disadvantages, because we know the costs of inaction to individuals, communities and society.
Sleep Patterns and Health Troubles
When Carol Gee turned 55, she made a new friend: 4 a.m. In the past, she usually slept through it. She's not the only older adult to have the same experience. In 2017, a national vote conducted by the University of Michigan found that 46 percent of adults 65 and older have trouble falling asleep on a regular basis.
Brains can slow. Wounds take longer to heal. And sleep patterns shift, too. The most noticeable and often most annoying changes are how sleep and wake-up times change and sleep gets lighter, often beginning in middle age. This can come as news to many, says Michael V. Vitiello, a psychologist at the University of Washington who specializes in sleep in aging.
Studies have found that poor sleep can have a particular threat to older adults.
Falls, depression and anxiety, problems with memory, and increased suicide risk are among the impacts of sleepless issues in this population group that researchers have found.
As with changes in sleep architecture and timing, scientists are still unsure why those risk associations exist. Kristine Yaffe, a neuropsychiatrist (神经精神病学家) at the University of California's San Francisco School of Medicine who specializes in dementia, warns that there are more questions than answers when it comes to dementia and sleep. He found that if people have dementia, they tend not to sleep well. Do sleep problems actually lead to dementia?
What is clear is the association between good sleep and psychological well-being in older adults. But sleep quantity didn't show the same effects. And therein, experts say, may lie the key to understanding sleep as you age. If you're sleeping less, but don't feel negative effects out of bed, the changes you notice may just be normal age-related.
Your bedtime pattern changes as you age, is that a sign of trouble? "A lot of older adults recognize that they don't sleep the same as they did when they were 18, but they can still function and they're OK. And all is well with the universe."
A. Researchers think it's hard to say.
B. But recently it has become her new wake-up time.
C. Over time, Vitiello says, sleep patterns simply change.
D. Statistics indicate that restless night is bad to our health.
E. As people age, the body changes in all sorts of predictable ways.
F. Too much work and pressure in life often cause you to wake up earlier.
G. Changes in the brain can be associated with a number of types of dementia.
