The season of ice cream treats is in full swing. Nothing captures pure joy and innocence like an ice cream cone（蛋筒）dripping down your hand.
But have you ever wondered why some ice cream just stands apart from all the others? What really makes good ice cream? Well ,here's how to tell high-quality ice cream without even Lasting it.
Let the ingredients speak
High-quality ice cream is always made with real vanilla（香草）nuts，chocolate or fruit. On the other hand, if you've ever looked closely at the ingredients of ice cream from less fancy brands, you may have noticed that they only say "vanilla flavored "or "chocolate flavored". This is because they don't contain real vanilla or chocolate.
Check the butterfat（乳乳脂）content
What differences do butterfat make? Besides making ice cream taste less like frozen milk, butterfat gives the product a creamy texture and a good flavor. In order to even be called ice cream in the United States, the product must contain at least 10 percent butterfat, according to the Food and Drug Administration's regulations. High-quality brands of ice cream usually contain anywhere from 13 to 17 percent butterfat.
Take home the heavier one
Ice cream mixtures have air pumped into them as they freeze. Air is essential, or ice cream would be as hard as rock. The legal limit for the amount of air in the US is 100 percent. A more dense（浓的）ice cream will be creamier and will melt more slowly in the mouth.
But how can we tell which ice cream has less air in it? Well, one thing you should know about ice cream is that it's usually sold by volume, not by weight. The containers may be equal in size, but one ice cream may be denser than another and therefore weighs more.
I can't prove this, but I'm sure it's true: nobody on their deathbed ever wished they'd spent more time watching television. Life is short, and there are too many activities that are more important and fulfilling than sitting in front of a television for hours on end. That's not to suggest you should remove television from your life completely. But I've come to see it as something best placed at the edge of life, rather than the center.
I didn't always feel that way. In fact, there was a period in my life when I wasted nearly six hours of my day watching television and watch till I fell asleep near midnight. Eight hours later, I'd wake up with the TV still on, feeling no more rested than when I went to sleep. When you do the math, it's rather shocking. Six hours per day adds up to 2,190 hours over the course of a year, which equates to about 91 days.
Although I failed to recognize it at the time, it's clear now that watching TV had become a full-blown（全部）addiction for me. It was a way that I used to distract myself from the problems， fears and challenges I was refusing to deal with in my life. I used television to distract from the shame, embarrassment and stress I felt about some irresponsible financial decisions and their resulting fallout. I used it to avoid facing my fear of stepping out into the world more fully, connecting with others and pursuing the higher purpose to which my soul was being called. I used il to cope（处理）with boredom and fill the space of an otherwise empty life.
In short，my life was a mess and my self-esteem（自尊）was short，and while TV may have provided a short-term escape from that reality, it kept me locked within it.
Luckily, now I no longer live such a life. So how did I make it?
It's safe to say Yellowstone National Park is still looking good at the ripe old age of 150. The park, which stretches into Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, is known for its unique natural scenery，bountiful wildlife， and deep history. It also helped usher（引领）in the broader national park movement in the U. S. , according to Chuck Sams, the director of the National Park Service.
"We now celebrate something much bigger than the park itself-the beginning of the national park idea, an idea that spread through the country and around the world, inspiring governments to protect natural and cultural treasures 'for the benefit and enjoyment of the people,'" he said in a statement.
Yellowstone is home to the largest concentration of mammals in the lower 48 states. Bears, wolves, coyotes, moose, and a large population of small animals can be found in the park. It's also the only place in the U. S. where bison（野牛）have lived continuously since prehistoric times. It was looking risky for a period in the 1900s,when the animal was hunted down from a previous high of tens of thousands to less than two dozen. This bison conservation effort continues to this day.
Yellowstone shut its gates in March 2020 due to coronavirus concerns and remained closed for nearly two months. But the park broke attendance records after it reopened. The park reported 4. 9 million recreation visits in 2021-up 28% from 2020 and making it the busiest year on record. July 2021 was the most-visited month in Yellowstone's history and the first time visitation exceeded 1 million visits in a single month. It's Yellowstone's natural beauty and deep history that brings millions of visitors each year.
"Yellowstone's 150th anniversary will be an important moment in time for the world," said Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly."It's an opportunity for us to reflect on the lessons of the old days while focusing our efforts to strengthen Yellowstone and our many partnerships for the future."
Adults are often embarrassed about asking for help. It's an act that can make people feel sensitive. The moment you ask for directions， after all，you reveal（泄露）that you may be lost. Seeking someone's assistance can make you feel like you are broadcasting your incompetence. New research suggests young children don't seek help in school, even when they need it, for the same reason.
To learn more about how children think about seeking help, we asked 576 children, ages four to nine, to predict the behavior of two kids in a story. One of the characters genuinely wanted to be smart, and the other merely wanted to seem smart to others.
Children thought that the kid who wanted to seem smart would be less likely to ask for assistance. They could still conceive of（想象）situations in which the kid who wanted to seem smart would seek help: when assistance could be sought privately (on a computer rather than in person), children thought both characters were equally likely to ask for it.
We also found that they recognize several more behaviors that might make a child appear less smart in front of fellow kids, such as admitting to failure or modestly downplaying successes. Children are therefore acutely aware of several ways in which a person's actions might make them appear less clever in the eyes of others.
However, a number of solutions can be found to help children. Our first instinct may be to motivate seeking help by emphasizing its educational benefits. But reputational barriers likely require reputation-based solutions. For example, instructors could create activities in which each student becomes an "expert" on a different topic, and then children must ask one another for help to master all of the material. If seeking help is understood as a commonplace classroom activity, kids may be less likely to think of it as indicative（表明）of one's ability.
Seeking help could even be framed as socially desirable. After all, asking for help often benefits not just the help seeker but also others listening in who have similar questions or struggles.
How to be a good neighbour
Do you know your neighbors? Like really know them? Their first names, the types of cars they drive, what holidays they celebrate?
According to a 2021Pew Research study, roughly a quarter of adults under 30 report that they don't know any of their neighbors. The following tips are both for young people and adults in the room.
Get to know your neighbors.
It may seem obvious, but getting to know your neighbors is the first step to becoming a kind neighbor. And if you feel comfortable, let them know that you're there to help, if they ever need another hand.
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It can feel so easy to just go home, close your door and turn on the TV without having to make small talk, but connecting with others is worth the effort. And if you take the first step, your small acts of kindness can encourage others to pay that kindness forward-making even more people feel good.
Make small kind gestures a daily practice.
Another way to take care of your neighborhood is by making small acts of kindness a daily practice. Use the skills and resources available to you-maybe you aren't a baker, but you have an amazing garden. You can ask your partner or kids to help you pick flowers from your garden to give your new neighbor a bouquet. .
Check your implicit bias（偏见）.
But remember to check your bias, and ask yourself why you feel uncomfortable and unsafe, rather than putting the blame on your neighbors.
Actions speak louder than words, and your attitudes towards marginalized and vulnerable people also set an example for your kids. So be mindful of the different people in your community and actively remind yourself to treat everyone with respect and care.
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A. Remember, every small gesture counts. B. Meet and engage with different people. C. Remind yourself that being connected feels good. D. Building a caring community is a valuable way to stay connected to the place you live. E. It doesn't take a lot of money or a grand gesture to be an active neighbor. F. Looking out for your neighbors is an important part of being in a community. G. Get out of your comfort zone and try to learn their names and what they do for work. |
Jessica Long, from Baltimore, Maryland, USA is a champion by all definitions of the word. She is one of the world's most decorated1. Jessica was the youngest athlete, at 12 years old，lo win a Paralympics（残奥会）medal.
Jessica was born in Irkutsk, Russia with a severe and rare birth defect-fibular hemimelia. This means that part of her2bones was missing or deformed. Fearing she could not3Jessica，her young mother placed her in a Russian orphanage（孤儿院）. Fortunately，she was4by an American family when she was 13 months old. She required 25 differen5to help her leg condition. But unfortunately, both of her legs had to be6when she was just 18 months old.
Jessica learned to walk with7legs. As a child, she took up8including gymnastics, cheerleading, ice skating, biking, and rock climbing. Jessica began swimming at her grandparents' house. she was9about swimming, never once allowing her disability to10her back. "I always loved pretending I was a11or a mermaid while swimming. " she once said. She really excelled at swimming. Shortly after she started competing, Jessica was12as Maryland's Female Swimmer of the Year with a Disability. Even though Long was13with her physical limitations, she was encouraged to enter her first Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece. She won three gold medals in swimming at the age of 12! But she did not14on her success. Jessica has gone on to win 23 medals for Team USA at the Paralympics! While she began her15out of anger and frustration, she is now a positive16on a mission to inspire the next generation of Paralympians!
Jessica believes her condition is an opportunity rather than a17. Having a disability doesn't mean her life is not18. Jessica always believe she can do anything. She always gives 110%. And she never allowed herself to19. As she says, "The only disability in life is a20attitude".
After being abroad for decades,68 Chinese cultural relics(lose)to the United Kingdom recently returned to their homeland thanks to the joint efforts of the two countries. These relics,(date) from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qing Dynasty, included a variety of items, most ofare plates, vases, and figurines.
Among the returned relics there arelarge number of bluish white porcelain of the Song Dynasty． Archaeologists believe that these wares（陶器）（make） in Jingdezhen Kiln, Jinxi Kiln in Jiangxi province and Fanchang Kiln in Anhui province. The wares not only reflect the spread of bluish white porcelain-making technique,also the social and economic development and commercial prosperity in the Song Dynasty.
(general),they are very well preserved and in good shape and many of them are of great value for historical and (science)studies.
However, the process of getting the relics home was not easy. In 1995 over 3,000 relics were smuggled to UK. Due to a local(buyer) unwillingness to negotiate, these 68 relics had to remain impounded by British police. But Chinese authorities never stopped their efforts and (stay) in close contact with the embassy. After many negotiations during the past 25 years the relics were finally returned.
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删除：把多余的词用斜线（1）划掉。
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Yesterday afternoon I happened see a touching event in Hongxing Park. Some people were boating on the lake, among whom were perhaps a happy family. They were taking photos when the girl fell off from the boat into the water. Then came a cry of "help! help!" Obviously, they can not swim at all. On hearing the help, a young man rushed towards a lake quickly. Without any hesitation, she jumped into the lake but swam to the drowning girl. Eventually, the girl was saving by the young man. How happily the people were! But the brave young man disappeared before the parent could thank him.
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Every Setback Is a Test for Us
Hello, everyone. I'm Li Hua. Today I am very glad to have the chance to speak about the topic: Every Setback Is a Test for Us.
Thanks for your listening.
