The Harvard Pre-College Program is a nice experience for high school students. Alongside peers(同辈)from around the world, you'll be introduced to college life as you attend classes, live on campus, and enjoy fun outings and activities.
◆Learning without limits
Biology, physics, law, writing and philosophy — these are just a few of the 30-plus courses you can choose from in each session. In our noncredit classes, we set aside grades so that you can fully commit to your growth as a well-rounded student. Class sizes typically range from 14 to 18 students to encourage interactive learning.
◆Living at Harvard
When you attend the Pre-College Program, you'll live in a historic undergraduate house, near Harvard Square. You will be with your fellow Pre-College students, resident directors, and proctors who provide support. You'll also enjoy meals in one of Harvard's dining halls, which are a short walk from Harvard Yard and provide many options for a variety of dietary needs.
◆Thriving outside the classroom
The summer Pre-College Program offers many mentally challenging co-curricular(补充课程的)activities beyond the classroom. With faculty and Harvard-affiliated experts, you will have the opportunity to participate in workshops on topics like the psychology of color-blindness, classic literature from around the world and science of happiness. From our Cambridge scavenger hunt to a trip to the Sand Sculpting Festival at America's first public beach, there's no shortage of fun activities in the Pre-College Program.
At your next meeting, wait for a pause in conversation and try to measure how long it lasts.
Among English speakers, chances are that it will be a second or two at moat. But while this pattern may be universal, our awareness of silence differs dramatically across cultures.
What one culture considers a confusing or awkward pause may be seen by others as a valuable moment of reflection and a sign of respect for what the last speaker has said. Research in Dutch(荷兰语) and also in English found that when a silence in conversation stretches to four seconds, people start o feel uneasy, In contrast, a separate study of business meetings found that Japanese people are happy with silences of 8. 2 seconds-nearly twice as long as in Americans' meetings.
In Japan. it is recognized that the best communication is when you don't speak at all. It's already a failure to understand each other by peaking because you're repairing that failure by using word.
In the US, it may start from the history of colonial (殖民地的) America as a crossroads of many different races. When you have a complex of difference. it's hard to develop common understanding unless you talk and there's understandably a kind of anxiety unless people are verbally devoted to developing a common life. This applies also to some extent lo London.
In contrast, when there's more homogeneity, perhaps it's easier or some kinds of silence to appear. For example, among your closest friends and family it's easier to sit in silence than with people you're less well acquainted with.
Encouraging pupils to keep noise to a minimum should be a valuable component of all children's education, according to new research.
Dr. Helen Lees, from Stirling University's school of education, says that "enforced (强制的)silence" is seen as a punishment and often acts to suppress children's natural ability. But she says that teaching children about the benefits of "enforced silence",— deliberate stillness that gives them the opportunity to focus and reflect in a stress-free environment— can have a significant effect on pupils' concentration and behavior.
It is the latest in a string of researches to establish a link between the classroom environment and pupils' academic ability.
A study almost a decade ago in London found that children's exam results were cut by as much as a third if they were taught in noisy classrooms. Teaching unions have also called for a limit of 26℃ to be put on classroom temperatures because teachers and pupils struggle to work in hot conditions, and some educationalists claim that too much clutter(杂乱的东西)on classroom walls can prevent children from concentrating.
Dr. Lees said, "When we take some research on school settings and put it all together, what we see is that education without silence does not make much sense. In areas of better learning outcomes, better self-confidence and well-being measures, enforced silence in a person's life and an individual's education is shown throughout the relevant research to be a benefit. "
Dozens of schools across Britain have already introduced periods of "reflective silence" into the timetable.
Kevin head of Sheringdale Primary, has just introduced a minute's silence at the start of twice-weekly meetings in which children are taught breathing techniques and encouraged to reflect. The school plans to introduce it into classrooms every day.
Royal Dutch Shell is launching a $ 300 million forestry program, at a time when an increasing number of oil companies are putting money in carbon offset (碳补偿) plans to meet climate goals. The company will spend the money over the next three years on projects to store carbon, including large forests in the Netherlands and Spain, and will start offering motorists the option of purchasing carbon offsets when they buy petrol at the pump.
The executives of the company explained that these carbon offset projects were a new business opportunity for Shell, as well as a way to meet its climate targets. "We believe that over time we will be building a business, because these carbon credits will become more valuable as carbon becomes more limited," they said. Shell recently decided to cut its net carbon footprint by 2-3 percent in five years, which includes emissions from the products it sells. The company plans to produce carbon credits from the forestry projects, then sell these credits on to customers buying its oil and gas products, or apply the credits to its own operations to lower its carbon footprint.
Plants absorb carbon dioxide as they grow and restoring forests and other natural areas is considered one of the simplest ways to store carbon. However, the voluntary market for carbon credits based on forestry projects has its critics, as projects in developing countries can be hard to monitor. Shell's move has also been criticized by some environmentalists. They worried that there was a risk of "green wash" when companies invested in forestry projects. "There is an entire debate about whether forestry projects truly reduce emissions or not," they said, pointing out that planting in one area could cause deforestation(滥伐森林) to another.
Shell said it would rely on the third party to ensure its forest program to meet the Voluntary Carbon Standard and strict biodiversity requirements. Mark Lewis, head of climate change investment research at BNP Paribas, said," Planting trees to offset emissions, as far as it goes, is a step in the right direction.
Five Tips That Help You Fall Asleep Quickly
Lower the room temperature
Our body temperature changes when we fall asleep. Core temperature decreases, while the temperature of your hands and feet increases. . Setting your thermostat (恒温器)to a cool temperature between 15-23℃ could help.
Waking up and going to bed at the same time each day can help your biological clock keep a regular schedule. Once your body adjusts to this schedule, it will be easier to fall asleep and wake up around the same time every day. So, set your alarm clock at the same time each day and go to bed at relatively the same time daily.
Turn off all electronics
. Watching TV, playing video games, and using a mobile phone can make it significantly harder for you to fall and stay asleep. It is recommended that you disconnect all electronics and put away computers and mobile phones so you can ensure a quiet place, free of distractions (干扰物).
Read something
Reading could be a good activity to help you calm down before bed. . But electronic books may produce a kind of light that can make it harder for you to fall asleep. So it is recommended to read a physical book in order to relax and improve your sleep.
Exercise during the day
It is important to maintain a moderate-intensity (强度适中的)exercise routine. The time of the day when you exercise is also critical. To promote better quality sleep, working out early in the morning appears to be better than working out later in the day. .
A. Get on a schedule
B. Change your biological clock
C. Overtraining has been linked to poor sleep
D. Using electronic devices late at night is terrible for sleep
E. You might be hard to fall asleep if your room is too warm
F. It seems that bedtime reading may promote longer sleep for you
G. Therefore, moderate exercise in the morning could benefit your sleep
A tornado is a rotating 1 of air from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most 2 has winds of more than 400 kilometres per hour.
Tornadoes can 3 cars, trains and even houses and put them down in the next street or 4 in the next town. They can take the fur5 the back of a cat. They destroy houses, but 6 the furniture inside exactly where it was.
7 , there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year, 8 about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries. The worst tornado of all time occurred in 1925, 9 three US states. By the time it ended, more than 700 people had been killed and 2,700 had been 10 .
11 are strong tropical storms. They cause huge waves, heavy rain and12 and usually hit the east coast of the US from Texas to Maine. The13 hurricane of all time occurred in 1,900. The disaster killed 6,000 people in a 14 of 37,000 and destroyed 3,600 buildings.
Charles Coghlan, an Irish actor, 15 to New York and became famous there. Then he moved to Galveston, 16 he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane17 . The cemetery where he was 18 was destroyed by the hurricane and his coffin19 in the sea. Eight years later, the coffin was found by fishermen in the east of Canada. The Gulf Stream had 20 it 3,000 kilometers up the eastern US coast to Canada. Coghlan traveled to Canada after he had been buried in Texas!
Li Ziqi, who lives in a village in Sichuan, has 103 videos to her credit, where her role varies from chef to gardener. These videos show her doing Sichuan's (tradition) local dishes, brewing peach blossom wine and making paper. And now she (regard) as an international influencer with 7. 72 million followers.
One of Li's (aim) is to make people take a closer look at the beauty of nature. Misty mountains, drops on lotus (荷花) leaves and gurgling water are all elements in her videos, (create) a fairy-like effect. Her tidy yard even reminds people a poem about pastoral life by Tao Yuanming (365-427), famous poet in Chinese history.
The peaceful lifestyle she shows strikes a chord (especial) with young people, few of have the liberty to live life at their own pace. Li's videos make them forget (they) anxieties. Watching Li making the basic necessities of life from raw materials with her bare hands ( make) them attain a sense of Zen (禅), helping them to find the direction to self development and contain the desire for worldly things.
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Dear Lucy,
I'd like to invite you to join us for a visit to the nearby nursing home on next Saturday for the Double Ninth Festival. It is a day for the elderly in our culture. We'll go and make dumplings and cakes with the elderly people here. We'll also spend some fun time together singing, dancing or playing games, which we hope will make us happy. We should back around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Unless you are able to come with us, please let us known and we'll wait for you at the gate at 9 in the morning.
Look forward to you reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
