Edinburgh is the world's festival city. There are 12 festivals throughout the year, half of which are celebrated during the mouths of July and August.
Hundreds of thousands of people visit the Scottish capital during the summer. Here are some of the events they can enjoy:
The Edinburgh International Festival
This is the original Edinburgh festival, which began in 1947. Actors, musicians, dancers and opera singers from all over the world perform to huge audience. You need tickets for most events which take place in theatres around the city.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (艺穗节)
This is the largest arts festival in the world with thousands of shows taking place across the city, More than 20,000 artists participate in it. as the festival is open to anyone. Visitors can choose from a huge variety of acts. Join thousands of visitors and locals at the Royal Mile, Edinburgh's min street, 10 watch all kinds of performers and shows.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival
The largest book festival in the world began in 1983 and tokes place every year in Charlotte Square Gardens, in the centre of Edinburgh. There are more than 700 events for children and adults who love books. You can meet many authors, talk to them, ask them to sign a book or listen to them talk about their stories. Children can listen to stories and watch illustrators (插画家) draw pictures.
The Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
Music lovers come to this festival to enjoy music shows around the city. One of the highlights of this musical event in the street carnival (嘉年华), which is free to all. Artists perform street theatre, dance and circus shows in amazing costumes, and everyone can join in the dancing.
When I tell people I wrote a book with my dad, they usually say, "It must be nice to think of the legacy (遗产) you created with someone who means 90 much to you."
This was a beautiful idea, but it was not the way I, or my dad, ever thought about the cooperation. Though we created something we are proud of, "nice" is not the word either of us uses to describe the process.
"It was more confrontation (对抗) than cooperation," my dad likes to say. I agree.
When we landed a book deal, we began a wring journey that was more difficult than either of us had expected, but also far more rewarding.
For almost three years, we met once or twice a week at my parents' house and talked daily about the plan and the outline of each chapter. After the meeting, one of would write a rough draft that the other would build on. I wanted the book to focus on positive vices (不良习惯): such as moderate (适度的) chocolate. However, my dad felt the book should include chapters dealing with things like walking and sending tine with family Finally, I saw it his way. He said the book was about more than just good advices. It was about encouraging people to enjoy life in healthy ways.
Writing this book was a reminder that our family members share not only our faults but also our strengths. My dad is smart, funny, critical and caring. He has a strong passion for the truth. I hope I share these great qualities. For this book, he researched each topic with an enthusiasm 1 had never seen from him, and he insisted that we constantly question and critically analyze every piece of information-even our own conclusions. He was determined to cooperate on a book, not because he could not write one on his own, but because he believed that we could create something better together than we could alone.
I am not sure if our cooperation led to better writing, but it led to a better writing experience. Writing this book was difficult, sometimes more difficult than past projects, but it was never lonely.
Megan Piontkowski, an artist and illustrator, was out of work due to the pandemic (流行病). She learned through a friend that a Brooklyn hospital needed fabric masks for workers. Piontkowski already had some fabric on hand and a sewing machine, so she got to work. She washed the fabric, sewed masks, washed them again, and hung them to dry. After that she drove them to the hospital. When she asked if the hospital would pay for the masks. she was told they had no money.
"I felt very mixed about it," she told VOX, a famous American TV station. She knew the hospital needed masks badly. But meanwhile, "I'm out of work and I 'm being asked to donate them." "The fact that she wasn't compensated (补偿) for sewing highly necessary items felt like a ease of traditional 'women's work' not being valued," Piontkowski said. While larger companies have begun massive cloth masks in recent weeks, much of the work of making the protective clothes, especially in the early stages of the pandemic, was done at home-often by women. That gender breakdown is continuing in some volunteer efforts-about 85 percent of the around 70 volunteers sewing masks for the New York City-based group Face Mask Aid, for example, are women.
And masks are only part of the story. The demands of daily life during the coronavirus pandemic are many, from shopping for food shortages and virus fears to caring for children when schools and day cares are closed. And in many cases, women are the ones figuring out how to meet those new demands. Some women are still working outside the home a essential workers but shouldering care responsibilities when they get home.
It doesn't have to be this way. With more men going into tasks like cooking and educating children, it is potential to reset gender norms. "The pandemic is potentially sparking new conversations about divisions of labor," Jill Yavorsky, a sociology professor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, told VOX.
Researchers studied data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, organised by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States and looked at the relationship between coupe of coffee drunk per day, and both total body fat percentage and abdominal or 'trunk' fat.
They found that women aged 20- 44 who drank two or three cups of coffee per day had the lowest levels of obesity, 3.4% lower than people who did not consume coffee. Among women aged between 45-69. those who drank four a more cups had an obesity percentage 4.1% lover.
Overall, the average total body fat percentage was 2.8% lower among women of all ages who drank two or three cups of coffee per day.
The findings were consistent whether the coffee consumed was caffeinated or decaffeinated and among smoker/non-smokers and those suffering from chronic diseases when compared to those in good health.
In men, the relationship was less significant although men aged 20-44 who drank two or three cups per day had 1.39% less total fat and 1.8% less trunk fat than those who did not consume coffee.
Around 7 million tons of coffee is consumed globally every year. Dr Lee Smith, Reader in Public Health at Anglia Ruskin University and senior author of the study, said: "Our research suggests that there may be active compounds in coffee other than caffeine that manage weigh and which could potentially be used as anti-obesity compounds."
"It could Le possible that coffee, or its effective ingredients could be integrated into a healthy diet strategy to reduce the burden of chronic conditions related to the obesity," Dr Lee Smith added, "I is important o interpret the finding of this study in light of its limitations-the study was at a specific point in time so trends cannot be established. However, we don't believe that someone's weight is likely to influence their coffee consumption."
The habit of reading is one of the greatest resources of mankind, and we enjoy reading books that belong to us much more than the ones that are borrowed.
A borrowed book is like a guest in the house and should be treated with care and considerate formality. You must see that it keeps no dirty or destroyed pages. You cannot mark it and you cannot use it as you like. If it is a distinguished guest, it really makes you feel empty when he or she leaves.
However, your own books belong to you. Books are for use, not for show. You should own no book that you are afraid to mark up, or afraid to place on the table, wide open and face down. Private ownership also encourages meaningful marking.
This practice enables you to remember more easily the significant sayings, and to refer to them quickly and then review them more frequently in the future.
One should have one's own bookshelves, which should not have doors, glass windows or keys. What's more, the best wallpaper is books, which are more varied in color and appearance than any other wallpaper. They are more attractive in design and if you sit alone in the room, you are surrounded with close friends.
How could it be? Books are of the people, by the people and for the people. They are part of history and the best part of personality. Book-friends have this advantage over living friends. The living friends are usually almost unreachable and we also can't always see our personal friends. But in a private library, you can at any moment talk with Shakespeare or Dumas or Dickens. Instead of seeing them masked, your look into their innermost heart of heart.
A. Books are the ladder of human progress.
B. Marking instructive passages in books is a good habit.
C. And then, you really ought to return a borrowed book someday.
D. They should be free and accessible to the hand as well as to the eyes.
E. Out devotion to reading has never made us a person who lives alone.
F. There is no doubt that in these books you see these great men at their best.
G. You can do your ultimate best to entertain yourself as an audience or an actor.
My father never kept anything for emotional purpose except once. 1 was the only one in my family who cared about baseball and I always 1 watching my heroes at Yankee Stadium. One winter, I wrote down a 2 of the summer dates and dreamed every night. To my surprise, one evening I saw my father 3 it before going out to work.
The following Sunday he told me, "Let's put away some money into a 4 each week, and maybe we can go to Yankee Stadium this summer." I 5 washed out a jar and 6 a label: YANKEE. STADIUM FUND,1 960.
Each of us 7 to the jar weekly. 8, we still had not gone to a game because my father had had to work every Saturday. So one day, I 9 him of the remaining time, and then he 10 me, "Don't worry and we will have a(an) 11 Saturday."
On the morning of the last game, I sat waiting hopelessly with no 12 of my father who had been to work suddenly appeared and yelled, "I got two 13!"
I could hardly 14 when we finally sat together, father and son, 15 my New York Yankees. I sat cheering, but for my father, all I could see is a face 16 tiredness from working all week.
In 1963, my father died suddenly while working. In his bedroom, I noticed a 17ticket in his yellowed book, which 18, "October 4, 1960, General Admission." My father, who19 nothing for emotional reasons, bad decided to keep this, a(an) 20 of our afternoon together. Carefully, I placed the ticket stub back into his prayer book, and slowly walked downstairs to begin rest of my life without my father.
My Mind-Shifting Qomolangma Swim
Lewis Pugh is a famous swimmer, who swam across the North Pole in 2007. The water there was so cold his fingers were (freeze). Why did Pugh do this? Well, he wants people(pay) attention to global warming.
As a boy, Lewis visited national parks and he learned how fragile and (amaze) the Earth is. Now he (intend) to protect the Earth. He decided to swim in water near the North Pole to bring attention to the melting glaciers. Lewis said that the swim was so painful that would be his last time swimming in freezing water. when he heard about Lake Imja, near Mt. Qomolangma, high in the Himalayas, he decided to swim in cold water again.
Mt. Qomolangma is the (tall) mountain in the world and swimming there is very difficult. Because of global warming, glaciers on Mt. Qonolangma are melting and leaving lake behind, Lake Imja.
Lewis says he learned two (lesson) from swimming at Mount Qomolangma. First, he learned that people can unintentionally do a lot of damage. We do things which hunt the Earth because we know no other way to live. Second, We can all do we can to protect our environment if we change the way we think and think more about our future.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^）。并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用科线（ \）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不计分。
It was still snoring this afternoon. Many classmates go to the playground for sports and games after the second period. I did not want to take a part in the activities at first because I feared not only cold but also the snow what would make my clothes wet. Beside, I intended to make full use of every minute review my lessons for the coming exams. When know why I stayed in the classroom, our monitor persuaded him to go out. He said sports can train our character especially in so weather, and we could learn something more through experience than books. Then we together went to the playground happy.
