Summer Program Guide for Teens
Pre-College Immersive Program
Wellesley College is known for the thousands of accomplished (有成就的) women it has sent out into the world — women who are committed to making a difference. Especially designed for high school girls, the program is based on Wellesley's campus. Students will take courses and become members of the Wellesley community.
When: July 7 - August 1
More Information: 781-283-2748
Young Scholars Program
Open to high school students who have an academic average of 3.2 or better, the program is a great introduction to the University of Maryland. Seminars featuring speakers in innovative (革新的) career or academic fields further enrich the learning experience. Students enjoy movie nights, activities at the students' union and more.
When: July 8 - July 27
More Information: 301-405-7762
Zeal Adventure and Travel
We offer two-week and three-week long trips to Hawaii, Alaska, Australia, Costa Rica, and Spain. All trips include 15 to 25 hours of community service activities. Depending on your trip of choice, you'll be volunteering with sea turtles, caring for dogs in Spain, and much more. Every trip also includes exciting outdoor activities like surfing, ice climbing and hiking.
More Information: 844-282-9325
California College Tour
Students will visit top schools throughout the state on this fun-filled tour. The tour includes enjoying tourist attractions along the way, including Disneyland! Along the way, students take college tours, meet with admissions staff, and learn how to make the most out of future college visits.
More Information: 510-548-6612
If you're like me and can speak only English, travelling around Europe makes you feel pretty dumb. I find almost every person there is fluent in at least two languages. I suppose it's necessary when so many different countries, each with its own language, have to communicate so closely with one another.
But the level of linguistic ability there still amazes me. A shopkeeper in Venice the other day was talking to me in English, while at the same time in French and Italian with two other shoppers. I was curious. "How many languages do you speak?" I asked. She thought a bit, saying "Italian, Japanese, French, Spanish and German. But I don't speak English well."
That's why I feel stupid. Because it seems a bit rich to walk into someone else's country, offer up a few poor attempts at the local language and from then on expect everyone to speak to you in your mother language. I was in Barcelona, when a Portuguese (葡萄牙的) waiter complained to us about the arrogance of the Spanish who, according to him, wouldn't bother to learn Portuguese before they came to his country. That doesn't sound like me at all.
But how annoying is it when you think you're speaking well and the locals cut you off with their perfect English? Ted's much braver than I am at giving new languages a go. And wherever he fails, he rolls with either Spanish or English with a different accent.
It's amazing how much you take language for granted until you can't understand it any more. How can you properly learn about a culture without speaking its language? You're forever left standing in the cold looking into a window of delights just out of your grasp.
An exhibition of Song Buyun's works is now running at the museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition will run through Feb 27.
These days, a long-awaited snowfall in Beijing easily creates a fanfare (轰动) online. One needn't go outside to feel people's excitement at a blanket of snow, as a glimpse of the photos and videos uploaded on social media will be enough.
Seventy years ago, however, while snow was common in Beijing, cameras were seldom to be seen; few were able to record the scenery of this historical city. One of the few was Song Buyun, the late oil painter and water-colorist who walked the streets and recorded the beauty of Beijing's centuries-old architecture.
Cultural landmarks frozen in time are displayed in Song's Beijing landscape series, picturing the peaceful atmosphere of the city's historical spots over the course of a year, such as Tiantan. He documented people visiting the Palace Museum, swimming in lakes and clearing snow off the streets.
Dying in 1992, Song didn't have a chance to show this body of work during his lifetime. It was eight years later that these paintings were made public for the first time at an exhibition held in his memory.
"Song's paintings show the harmony between architecture and its surroundings," says Fan Di'an, dean of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. "The colors are vivid and arranged tastefully to give a refreshing look to these old buildings. Combining skills of Chinese and Western art, his works preserve the varied landscape of a city, and under his brushwork, Song injected rich emotions, allowing his work to stand the test of time."
This year researchers expect the world to post 1.35 trillion photographs, or about 3.7 billion per day. All those pixels (像素) take up a lot of room if they are stored on personal computers or s phones, which is one reason why many people store their images in the cloud. But unlike a hard on drive which can be encrypted (加密) to protect its data, cloud storage users have to trust that a tech platform will keep their private pictures safe. Now a team of Columbia University computer scientists has developed a tool to encrypt images stored on many popular cloud services while allowing authorized users to browse and display their photographs as usual.
Malicious (恶意的) attempts to access or leak cloud-based photographs can expose personal information. In November 2019, for example, a bug in the popular photograph storage app Google Photos mistakenly shared some users' private videos with strangers. Security experts also worry about employees at cloud storage companies on purpose accessing users' images.
So the Columbia researchers came up with a system called Easy Secure Photos (ESP), which they presented at a recent conference. "We wanted to see if we could make it possible to encrypt data while using existing services," says computer scientist Jason Nieh, one of the developers of ESP. "Everyone wants to stay with Google Photos and not have to register on a new encrypted-image cloud storage service."
To overcome this problem, they created a tool that preserves blocks of pixels but moves them around to effectively hide the photograph. First, ESP's algorithm (算法) divides a photograph into three separate files, each one containing the image's red, green or blue color data. Then the system hides the pixel blocks around among these three files (allowing a block from the red file, for instance, to hide out in the green or blue ones). But the program does nothing within the pixel blocks, where all the image processing happens. As a result, the files remain unchanged images but end up looking like grainy (粗糙的) black-and-white ones to anyone who accesses them without the decryption (解密) key.
Stop Being Angry and Bitter
It is extremely difficult to get rid of deep anger and bitterness. You could spend years carrying these emotions inside you, resulting in depression or even substance abuse (滥用药物). You owe it to yourself to get over the anger and bitterness and find peace in life.
You can't overcome your anger or bitterness if you keep rolling to it and making excuses about why you are angry and bitter. Promise to move on from the past. You are in control of your life and you can get rid of the anger and bitterness. When you start feeling bitter or angry, make a conscious effort to stop.
This is difficult, but it is a necessary part of curing and moving on with life. Speak to the person who hurt you and tell him you forgive him. Alternatively, write a letter to the person who hurt you. Whatever you do you must forgive so that you can move on with your life.
Find ways to be grateful for what you have. Look around you and count your blessings. Perhaps you have a loving family or a good job. Make thankfulness and gratefulness a part of your everyday life. Your anger and bitterness will move away and eventually disappear as you become happier and more content with life.
Express your deep-rooted feelings of anger and bitterness. Perhaps you have kept it bottled up for years. You can even talk to a pastor (牧师) or counselor. The point is to talk about your feelings so that you can move on from the anger and bitterness.
A. Stop making excuses for your feelings.
B. Forgive those who have caused you anger.
C. Ask those who hurt you to apologize to you.
D. You need to let it go, so talk to family or friends.
E. Keep a journal and write about the ways in which you are grateful.
F. Whatever happens, remember to find out the problem and solve it.
G. You must rid yourself of these harmful feelings before your life is ruined.
Phyllis George, the former Miss America who became a female sportscasting pioneer on CBS's The NFL Today and served as the first lady of Kentucky, has 1. She was 70. A family spokeswoman said George died Thursday in hospital 2 a long fight with blood disorder.
Her children gave a joint statement,3"For many, Mom was known for her 4 as the pioneering female sportscaster, 50th Miss America and first lady. To us, she was the most incredible 5 we could ever ask for."
George joined in The NFL Today in 1975 and 6 her sports broadcasting and worked on the live show, interviewing star athletes, which won 7 for her. She also covered horse racing and 8the entertainment show People and CBS Morning News.
George9 wrote a male friend and told him that her sportscasting wouldn't 10 because it was a man's job. However, none of the difficulties she met with 11her. With her great courage and 12, she managed to range into a(an) 13variety of roles, in media, the film industry, food and beauty products, and as the first lady of the bluegrass state.
"Saying yes to yourself opens up 14 that can take you 15_," George wrote.
"She had 16 and enthusiasm that made her a valuable 17." Pilson said. "She didn't claim to know a 18amount about sports, but she knew about people, which is why her interviews were 19. She was a warm person and that 20 through on the set and in the interviews."
As the name suggests, Sichuan Hot Pot was born in Sichuan Province, is known for its (prefer) for spicy food. This mouth-burning and tongue-numbing hot pot has been gaining a large amount of attention in recent years in foreign countries.
The (universe) accepted theory traces the Sichuan Hot Pot back to early 20 century when the port workers and fishermen who worked and lived along the Yangtze River could not afford (eat) the regular cuts of meat so they figured out a way to cook cheap meats and offal(内脏) boiling them in a pot of extremely spicy soup. The use of spicy soup first (intend) to cover the taste from the offal. However, after some (adjust) of fragrant spices, this one pot meal became a popular dish in Sichuan region.
After years of continuous development, eating Sichuan Hot Pot today (be) no longer what the poor like. Offal still remains as classic hot pot ingredients, high quality meats and seafood ingredients are also common on the menu. The modern hot pot has been shaped into a complex meal that starts with sliced meat, offal, and seafood, (follow) by vegetables and ends with noodles.
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．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
To be honesty, it was my older brother that inspired my passion for the violin. When I was five years old, he came home from school one day with the violin and played it. I was green with envy and wanted to start immediate. My first violin is given by my violin teacher and I named it with the little dog called ToTo in The Wizard of Oz. Now, I am the youngest members of the Australian Youth Orchestra. Surrounded by many more older and more advanced players, I have no choice but try and keep up with their level of playing. I often invite some of my friends which are not so into classical music to a concert and he love it.
1）会议时间：本周五晚18:00-19:00
2）会议地点：腾讯视频会议（Tecent Video Conference），会议码654 922 652
3）会议内容：班主任讲学习技巧和时间管理方法，同学们谈自己的想法与计划
4）会议准备：（1）下载 Tecent App并提前五分钟登录会议室 （2）准备发言稿
注意：
1）词数100左右；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：登录会议室 log into the meeting room
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The Class Committee
December 31st, 2021
