BUS SERVICE
New York City — Brennan, New Jersey
(Trip time: 30 minutes each way)
Timetable
●Buses leave the Railway Station, New York 7:00 a.m. and every half-hour thereafter(此后) until 11:30 p.m. (7 days a week).
●Buses leave Brennan Station 20 minutes before and after every hour from 6:20 a.m. to 10:40 p.m. (7 days a week).
●Evening rush hours(5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.) buses leave the Railway Station, New York every 15 minutes (Monday — Friday).
●Holidays: buses leave every hour on the hour time, each direction.
All tickets must be bought at Window 12, the Railway Station, New York, or at the Brennan Station Window before boarding buses.
Having attended a first-aid-at-work course, Brian Cracknell soon found himself responding to two emergencies in a week.
Brian was at work in his bus company office in Weston-super-Mare on May 18 when a colleague called to say there had been an accident at a bus stop nearby. He ran to the scene with his first aid kit and found an old lady sitting at the bus stop. When boarding (上车) the bus, the old lady painfully hurt her left leg, which was bleeding.
He introduced himself, and asked some basic first aid questions to get a general picture of her health. Then he put his jacket on the floor, using the lady's coat as a pillow, and gently laid her down so he could raise her legs and apply some bandages. Brian said, "At first I was a bit worried about remembering to do all the right things. I made sure she was as comfortable as possible." When he had nearly finished, he told the lady that she was his first one. The lady said he was doing a great job.
Just a week later, Brian got a second call-out to help another lady at a bus stop.
Having used his new skills twice within a short time, Brian has decided to sign up as a Red Cross first aid volunteer. As he said, "I just thought: what's the point in having this knowledge if I'm not going to use it? It felt really good to help those people. I was so proud of myself afterwards, so I'm going to join the Red Cross."
A Japanese company has ordered all of its 2,700 employees to get identical (一模一样的) hairstyles. For men, the preferred cut is short on the sides and back but longer on top. For women, the company prefers a bob with a longer fringe (刘海) that can be swept to one side. This unusual request is its effort to help the country save energy.
The spokeswoman for the Tokyo-based construction firm Maeda Corporation Chizuru Inoue explained, "Our company is eager to protect the environment and we encourage our staff to carry out many environment-friendly actions."
She added, "We are not sure of the data yet, but we believe if people have short hair, they do not need to use their hair driers for so long and they will use less water. If all our employees do this, then we may save a lot of power." Some staff are confused about which style they must have and have been asking which salons (美容院) give the best cut.
The energy-saving move is part of a national campaign to reduce energy consumption (消耗) following the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Japan has been struggling to produce enough electricity since the tsunami (海啸) ended production at the Fukushima plants. The disaster resulted in a review of the country's energy policy that now means less than a quarter of its remaining nuclear plants are in use. The government has talked about a move away from nuclear energy towards more sustainable (能持续的) technologies. Many government departments have taken measures to save power, including a reduced use of air conditioning in offices and schools. Many employees cannot turn down the air conditioner below 27 degrees in the hottest summer months.
It turns out that nodding off (睡觉) in class may not be a bad idea, as a new study has shown that going to sleep shortly after learning new materials is the best way to remember them.
According to US lead author Jessica Payne, a psychologist at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, nodding off after learning something new is like "telling" the sleeping brain what to remember. Along with colleagues, she studied 207 students who slept for at least six hours per night. Students were randomly (随机地) assigned to study something declarative (陈述的) at 9 am or 9 pm, and returned for testing 30 minutes, 12 hours or 24 hours later.
Declarative memory refers to the ability to consciously (有意识地) remember facts and events, and can be divided into memory for events and memory for facts about the world. People use both types of memory every day — remembering where they parked today or learning how a colleague prefers to be called.
At the 12-hour retest, memory was better following a night of sleep compared to a day of wakefulness (不眠). At the 24-hour retest, with all students having received both a full night of sleep and a full day of wakefulness, students' memories were greater when sleep happened shortly after learning rather than following a full day of wakefulness." Our study confirms that sleeping directly after learning something new is beneficial for memory. What's special for this study is that we have shown sleep's influence on declarative memory," Payne said. "Since we found that sleeping soon after learning benefited both types of memory, this means that it would be a good thing to go over any information you need to remember before going to bed. In some sense, you may be telling the sleeping brain what to consolidate (巩固)."
Most of life is regular. You do the same things you did yesterday, the day before and every day for the last month. Habits, good or bad, make you who you are.If you know how to change your habits, then even a small effort can create big changes. Here are some tips to get you started:
One habit for 30 days. You focus on one change for thirty days.I've used this as the basis for most of my habit changes. It certainly works to form the automatic (自动的) programs that run in the background of your mind.
Replace lost needs. If you switch on your computer and start removing hardware (硬件), what will happen?Similarly, you can't just pull out habits without replacing the needs they meet. Giving up television might mean you need to find a new way to relax or get information.
One habit at a time. A month may seem like a long time to focus on only one change, but I've found trying to change more than a few habits at a time to be unwise.Multitasking (多任务处理) between three or four often means none become habits.
Your change should involve one or two rules, not a dozen. Exercising once each day for at least thirty minutes is easier to follow than exercising on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays by doing yoga the first day and mountain biking the third day. Simple rules create habits while complex rules create headaches.
A. Keep it simple.
B. The key is how to control them.
C. Chances are that your computer will not work.
D. After that time it will surely become a habit.
E. You can't know whether a different habit will work until you try it.
F. With just one habit change, you can focus on making it really stick.
G. If your change brings you more pain than joy, you'd better give it up.
My son Advait is 4 years old. He taught me a beautiful1today. He called out to me today saying, "Papa, sit down." That usually means2everything and sitting down to play with him. So I did that because he would not stop calling out till I3. He was playing with beads(有孔小珠), threading (穿过) them one by one. As you know, it is a great exercise that helps4manual skills.
Finally, after he5playing with the beads, it was time to put them in the box. He slowly 6each bead, looked at it as if it were made of chocolate and then put it into the box.
With over a hundred beads to go, I was getting7. "Why couldn't he pick up ten in one go and put them in?" I wondered. Then I8that he did this with as much involvement as while we were9earlier. There was no10in his playing and his putting the beads away. My morning would be11. And then it occurred to me that this boy was enjoying the whole12.
Looking at how13my son was putting the beads into the box after he had finished his game14me that the process is the goal. The joy is not in getting there but in every15of the journey.
Isn't this what living in the NOW is all about? Advait, my son, was showing me that it was about16every moment with complete love and peace. The truest and happiest moments of my17have been the ones when I fully took part in without18the past or the future.
Thank you, my dear boy, for all lessons that you19.I am so20.
On keeping a Diary in English
Keeping a diary in English is one of the(effect) ways to improve our English writing ability.
(compare) with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takestime. It can help us to develop the habit of thinking in English.we persist in this practice, gradually we'll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, we certainly run up against many(difficult). In the first place,often happens that we have trouble(find) appropriate words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there are many idiomatic ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard for us to put them into English properly.
As far as I(concern), my suggestion is that we should always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. Whenever something beats us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then consult our dictionary. We can also turn to our English teacher for help, if necessary. In short, I believe that it isgreat use to keep a diary in English fordevelopment of our writing skills.
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：把多余的词用斜线（\）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．每处错误及其修改仅限一词。2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Jack,
Thanks for your kind help while my stay in Britain. With your help, I have made great progresses in my English study.
How is Mr. Richard? I want to know something about her life. I want to keep in touch for him, and unfortunately without his address I can't contact with him. Did you have his e-mail address or telephone number?
Would you like to visit Beijing during summer holiday? You see, Beijing is a very good tourist city, that is well-known for its culture and places of interesting. I can show you around the city then. I am sure you will stay here happy and learn a lot of things.
Yours,
Li Hua
