Do you love music? If you are a music lover, there are some music festivals for you to learn about.
Strawberry Music Festival
Held at the most beautiful fairgrounds in California, Strawberry Music Festival takes over the Nevada County Fairgrounds every Memorial Day for four days of family run. This park, which is set in the Sierra Nevada foothills, offers the perfect environment for camping and performances by some of the top artists. The festival also offers children's programmes, workshops and activities for all ages.
Tree Town Music Festival
You don't have to be in the Southwest or in Texas to enjoy yourself in the country lifestyle. Country living can be found all over the United States. Tree Town Music Festival in Forest City, Iowa, is a great example of country fun in the Midwest. Tree Town Music Festival features camping and live music from some of the biggest names in modern country.
Tampa Bay Indian Music & Dance Festival
This festival shows respect for the traditions of India and its people. Food, music and performances are top attractions and display the Indian heritage proudly. Yoga fans can catch a relaxing practice via kirtan (唱颂). This experience of Indian culture is fun for all ages.
SXSW Music Festival
The SXSW Music Festival is a global music event taking place every March in Austin, Texas. Each year the SXSW Music Festival hosts a wonderful mix of artists performing in bars, clubs, parks, hotels and more in Austin, Texas. Not limited in sort or regional focus, audiences can enjoy different kinds of musical styles at SXSW. At the 2018 edition, artists from 65 countries were represented among the 2,000-plus official performers.
A study has warned that seafood supplies from the world's oceans could be almost gone by the middle of the century. The researchers say there has already been a breakdown in wild populations of almost one third of currently fished sea-foods. The study says that means their catch has fallen by ninety percent from their highest level. Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia Canada led the intentional team that did the study. Professor Worm says species have recently been disappearing from oceans at an increasing speed. At this rate he says all seafood species could collapse by 2048.
Other studies have also warned about the dangers of overfishing and the effects on ocean environments. But not everyone thinks the oceans are likely to be empty, in, fifty years. Some scientists said parts of the world do have problems but others are doing a good job of protecting fish populations. Government officials in several countries with large fishing industries also questioned the research.
The study appeared earlier this month in Science magazine.
The researchers say damage to oceans affects not only fish populations but also the productivity of ecosystems. These complex systems help control water quality. The scientists say the loss of different kinds of sea life appears to increase the risk of fish kills and beach closures from harmful algae growth.
The scientists examined the results of thirty-two experiments and observed forty-eight protected areas. They also looked at records of catches worldwide. They studied records from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization from 1950 to 2003. And they examined archaeological information and other historical records for twelve coastal areas. That research reached back over a thousand years.
Boris Worm says the findings are, in his words, "beyond anything we suspected." But he also said the situation is not too late to core. He said that with good fisheries management, some species could completely recover in three to ten years.
On August 29th ， Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, an electric-car maker, announced that some of his customers would find that their cars had suddenly developed the ability to drive farther on a single battery charge. Like many modern vehicles, Mr. Musk's products are best thought of as Internet-connected computers on wheels. The cheaper models in Tesla' line-up have parts of their batteries disabled by the car's software in order to limit their range. At the tap of a keyboard in Palo Alto, the firm was able to remove those restrictions and give drivers temporary access to the full power of their batteries.
Mr. Musk's computerized cars are just one example of a much broader trend. As computers and connectivity become cheaper, it makes sense to bake them into more and more things that are not, in themselves, computers creating an "Internet of things", or IoT. It is a slow revolution that has been gathering pace for years, as computers have found their way into cars, telephones and televisions. But the transformation is about to speed up. One forecast is that by 2035 the world will have a trillion connected computers, built into everything from food packaging to bridges and clothes.
Such a world will bring many benefits. Consumers will get convenience. Amazon's Ring smart doorbells, for instance, come equipped with motion sensors(运动传感器) and video cameras. Working together, they can also form what is, in effect, a private CCTV(closed circuit television) network, allowing the firm to offer its customers a "digital neighborhood-watch" scheme and pass any interesting video along to the police.
Business will get efficiency, as information about the physical world that used to be temporary and uncertain becomes concrete and analyzable. Connected cows can have their eating habits and vital signs tracked in real time, which means they produce more milk and require less medicine when they fall ill. Such gains are individually small but, mixed again and again across an economy, they are the raw material of growth potentially a great deal of it.
In the long term, though, the most noticeable effects of the IoT will be on how the world works. One way to think of it is to regard it as the second phase of the Internet. Ever, more companies will become tech companies; the Internet will become widespread. As a result, a series of unsolved arguments about ownership, data, competition and security will spill over from the virtual world into the real one.
This season, the bushfires in Australia have burned more than 12.35 million acres of land. At least 25 people have been killed and 2000 homes destroyed. According to the BBC, this is the most casualties (伤亡) from wildfires in the country since 2009. The University of Sydney estimates that 480 million animals have died in South Wales alone.
Zeke Hausfather, an energy systems analyst and climate researcher at Berkeley Earth, said warmer temperatures and extreme weather have made Australia more susceptible to fires and increased the length of the fire season. "The drier conditions combined with record high temperatures in 2019 created main conditions for the disastrous fires. Australia's fires were worsened by the combination of those two. 2019 was the perfect storm for being the warmest year on record for Australia and the driest year on record for Australia," Hausfather added on Friday.
Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, said warmer ocean temperatures also contributed to more variable weather around the world. Trenberth believes that global warming contributed to energy imbalances and hot spots in the oceans, which can create a wave in the atmosphere that locks weather patterns in places, causing longer rain events in Indonesia, for example, and at the same time contributing to drought in Australia. He said that once an area experiences drought conditions for two months or more, it increases the risk of fires catching and spreading. Those changing weather patterns due to global warming make drought events longer.
Climate experts stress that climate change is not the only factor in the severity of wildfires. How land is managed can also impact the amount of fuel available for fires. Practices like controlled burns and other factors can impact the risk to people and property, such as warning systems and the type of development in a given area. Changing those policies has great potential to limit future damage from wildfires along with changes to how fire management resources are dispatched (派遣).
Floods are one of the most common disasters in the US. Some floods develop slowly. But flash floods can develop quickly, sometimes in just a few minutes and without any signs of rain.It carries rocks and can sweep away most things in its path.
If a flood is likely in your area, you should:
Listen to the radio or watch television for information. If there is any possibility of a flash flood, move at once to higher ground.
If you have time to prepare, you should:
Make your home safe by bringing in outdoor furniture. Move necessary items to an upper floor. Do not touch any electrical equipment if you are wet or standing in water.
If you have to leave your home right away, remember these tips:
Do not walk through moving water.If you have to walk in water, walk where the water is not moving. Use a stick to check the ground in front of you.
If flood-waters rise around your car, give up the car and move to higher ground if you can do so safely. Otherwise you and the car can be quickly swept away.
A. Do not drive into flooded areas.
B. Do not wait for instructions to move.
C. 20 cm depth of moving water can make you fall.
D. Turn off all pieces of electrical equipment.
E. Flash floods often have a dangerous wall of water.
F. Maybe you know floods, earthquakes, sandstorms, and so on.
G. During recent years, floods have caused billions of dollars in damage each year.
On Monday, 18-year-old Mauller from Uniontown, Ohio, wrote a message on Twitter. It says, "Yesterday I 1 coffee for the lady behind me at Starbucks. Later in the day I found this in my mailbox." Small acts can make a big difference and spread some2.
Mauller also 3 a photo of the handwritten note from the woman, Clawson, which 4 "Thank you for the coffee. I 5 go to Starbucks and treat myself but the last couple of months have been a bit of a 6."
Clawson wrote that her family was experiencing lots of 7 : Her father, who had provided daily care for her children, recently passed away, 8, Clawson to take the day off work; and the mom was soon leaving her job to 9 a stay-at-home mother.
"I cried when I found out you were so 10 to buy me coffee," wrote Clawson, "and I was thrilled to see your car go a couple of houses down from where I live. I felt it 11 for you to know that what you did for me was more than 12 a coffee. It was something that turned my whole day around and I felt so 13."
That day, Clawson felt guilty while sitting in Starbucks." I am no longer having 14, but I decided to buy coffee for myself and breakfast for the kids." When an employee at the order window said her coffee had been paid for, she was 15. On the way home, Clawson found herself trailing(追踪) the car driven by the stranger, who eventually 16 a driveway across the street and a few houses down from Clawso's 17. So, she and her children wrote a thank-you note and 18 it into Mauller's mailbox.
Mauller, a student at Kent State University says, "Strangers bought me coffee in the past, and I always 19 I could have thanked them," adding that she nearly 20 when she read Clawson's note.
Cholera was a deadly disease of its day. Neither its cause nor its cure (understand). So thousands of (terrify) people died when there was an outbreak. John Snow wanted to solve problem. He knew that cholera would not be controlled its cause was found.
He became interested in two theories possibly explained how cholera killed people. The first suggested that cholera (multiply) in the air. The second suggested that people absorbed this disease their bodies with their meals.
John Snow suspected that the second theory was correct but he needed evidence. So when another outbreak hit London in 1854, he was ready (begin) his enquiry. With all the evidence he gathered, John Snow was able to announce with (certain) that polluted water carried the virus. (final) “King Cholera” was defeated.
1）介绍你是如何利用网络学习英语的（至少写出两点）
2）简单谈谈你对利用网络学习英语的看法
3）请友好校的学生分享他们的经验。
注意：
1）词数不少于100；
2）可适当加入细节, 使内容充实、行文连贯；
3）开头和结尾已给出, 不计入总词数。
Good morning, dear friends. My name is Li Jin. I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about how I learn English on the Internet.
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Thank you.
