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Muse
For teens up to age 14, Muse teaches, challenges, and excites readers of both genders. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute, this magazine features award-winning authors and focuses on science, history, and the arts. Whether your teen is interested in genetics, video games, outer space, beekeeping, robots, or mythology, this magazine has it all!
Sports lllustrated Kids
Perfect for sports fans aged 8 to 14, SI Kids supplies readers with interesting sports news they DING won't want to miss. Articles on favorite athletes feature incredible photography and ilustrations.
Girls and boys alike will enjoy the advice from athletes, coaches, and experts in the field: they'll find tips on nutrition, performance, morale, and more.
Girls' Life Magazine
Designed for 10 to 15-year-olds, Girls' Life provides inspiration and entertainment for every reader.
She'll find tips for dealing with stress, navigating high school, achieving academic success, and beauty and fashion advice. This print magazine delivers fun — quizzes, reader submissions, and more — helping guide young women through their teen years while still allowing them to be young.
National Geographic Kids
While designed for kids aged six and up, this magazine features a lot of important, fun information about the world around us. Discover great stories about wildlife, current events, pop culture, science, technology, other kids' adventures, and more! They'll feel like they're exploring the places themselves, with stunning photography, lively stories, and exciting facts.
Anton was thrilled about his new job as an intern for his favorite director, Selma Honor. Seeing her documentary about race-car drivers had convinced Anton that he wanted to be a filmmaker. When he found out that she was filming a documentary about the local basketball team, he wrote her a letter offering his help. Getting the call from Selma's assistant had been the thrill of a lifetime.
Being on the set turned out to be quite different from what Anton had expected. He had imagined he would be standing behind Selma, watching her make crucial decisions during filming. Instead, the assistant director, Joe, had given Anton a box of index cards to place in alphabetical order, which is what Anton was doing in the gym when Selma arrived. She looked around quickly and said, "What's that kid doing in the shot? Get him out of here."
Joe hurried over and told Anton to finish his work in the hallway.
Anton sat on the hallway floor, carefully sorting the index cards while listening to the crew setting up for the big game that night. He heard Selma and Joe arguing, and then Joe came slamming through the gym doors. "She wants symbolism in a high school gym," he muttered angrily, "as if being a teenager weren't symbolic enough!"
Anton asked what Joe meant, and Joe explained that Selma was looking for a way to give the game a symbolic boost about choosing sides. Joe's bright red shirt gave Anton an idea.
Four hours later, the crowd was divided into two halves. All of the fans for the home team wore red shirts; all of the fans for the away team wore gray shirts. Selma smiled as she started to film, noting that Anton's idea really did add an additional competitive element to the game. She winked at Anton. He trailed behind her— once again certain that he had the best job in the world.
It scarcely seems surprising that learning to underline a modal verb, such as "can", and "may", does little to help students use them effectively in their own writing. These words are anyway grasped by tiny children without the need to know what they are called. This may tempt the conclusion that the teaching of grammar should be shelved altogether. But there are reasons to reform it rather than throw it away.
Understanding of language is part of a wider education in what makes human beings human. How concepts are turned into sounds, and how those sounds combine to form commands or questions, are issues that have occupied many language experts. What they reveal about the mind has exercised psychologists and cognitive scientists.
There are practical reasons to ask children to work hard at grammar, too. One is that a knowledge of it will make learning a foreign language easier. Even if you did know by nature how to make clauses in your native languages as a child — just without instruction — getting to grips with them in German or Russian in later years is simpler if you know how to define and spot them. As it is, many English-speakers come to understand grammar by studying a foreign language, rather than the other way round.
For grammarians keen on future jobs, the natural-language processing field is booming. After many years of poor results, technological wizards have developed programs for automated translation, speech recognition and other services that are actually usable, if far from perfect. These tools may rely more on knowledge of artificial intelligence than of the subjunctive, but linguistic expertise still matters, and may give beginners an edge over competitors whose best language is Python (一种编程语言).
Grammar could still be taught better. One small study showed improvement in some students when concepts are linked concretely to writing tasks. A cook does not need to know chemistry to make a delicious soup. But the science of how words combine to make meaning is fascinating and fundamental.
For those who can stomach it, working out before breakfast may be more beneficial for health than eating first, according to a study of meal timing and physical activity.
Athletes and scientists have long known that meal timing affects performance. However, far less has been known about how meal timing and exercise might affect general health.
To find out, British scientists conducted a study. They first found 10 overweight and inactive but otherwise healthy young men, whose lifestyles are, for better and worse, representative of those of most of us. They tested the men's fitness and resting metabolic (新陈代谢的) rates and took samples of their blood and fat tissue.
Then, on two separate morning visits to the scientists' lab, each man walked for an hour at an average speed that, in theory should allow his body to rely mainly on fat for fuel. Before one of these workouts, the men skipped breakfast, meaning that they exercised on a completely empty stomach after a long overnight fast (禁食). On the other occasion, they ate a rich morning meal about two hours before they started walking.
Just before and an hour after each workout, the scientists took additional samples of the men's blood and fat tissue. Then they compared the samples. There were considerable differences. Most obviously, the men displayed lower blood sugar levels at the start of their workouts when they had skipped breakfast than when they had eaten.
As a result, they burned more fat during walks on an empty stomach than when they had eaten first. On the other hand, they burned slightly more calories, on average, during the workout after breakfast than after fasting.
But it was the effects deep within the fat cells that may have been the most significant, the researchers found.
Multiple genes behaved differently, depending on whether someone had eaten or not before walking. Many of these genes produce proteins that can improve blood sugar regulation and insulin (胰岛素) levels throughout the body and so are associated with improved metabolic health. These genes were much more active when the men had fasted before exercise than when they had breakfasted.
The implication of these results is that to gain the greatest health benefits from exercise, it may be wise to skip eating first.
D. eat whatever is offered
C . decide wisely what to eatLearn to Cite Sources (引用资料)
During your university education, you'll be exposed to ideas and scientific theories of scholars and scientists. Unavoidably, your own ideas will be shaped by the ideas you come across. The academic challenge you face is to make something original. Your original work is the basis for your professor's evaluation of your performance. Thus, academic honesty is fundamental in your university education. It demands that you cite the source materials you base your own work on.
Correctly citing your sources helps you distinguish your own ideas from those of other scholars. On the readers' side, it permits a reader to determine the depth of your research. It also allows a reader to appreciate your original contribution to the research.
So you need to learn when to cite and how to provide an adequate or accurate reference list. If you fail to cite your sources, whether deliberately or carelessly, you will be found responsible for plagiarism (抄袭). If you are not sure, ask your professor for guidance before submitting the paper or report. Keep in mind this general rule: when in doubt, cite!
For example, students from East Asia may think that copying directly from sources is the proper way to do research. Students in France, preparing for the final examination, may be encouraged to memorize whole passages and copy them into papers. Those cultural differences can lead to false assumptions about academic requirements in the country you study in.
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A. International students may cheat in different ways. B. These include other scholars' ideas, figures, graphs and so on. C. On the contrary, lack of citing will only raise your readers' doubt. D. Often, students want to use others' opinions to support their own essays. E. For international students, it is important to know local academic expectations. F. Not knowing academic regulations is an unacceptable excuse for such behavior. G. That means you should go beyond what you learn from your textbooks or in the library. |
Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough. Success1fundamentally on our view of ourselves and of the2in our lives.
When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no3of knowing that his life was to change4. The class experiment that day was to5how heating a container of water would bring air bubbling (冒泡) to the surface.6, the container the teacher gave Wilson to heat7held something more volatile (易挥发的) than water. When Wilson heated it, the, container8leaving Wilson blinded in both eyes.
When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents9to find a way to deal with the catastrophe that had10their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident as 11He learned braille (盲文) quickly and12continued his education at Worcester College for the Blind. There, he not only did well as a student but also became a(n)13public speaker.
Later, he worked in Africa, where many people suffered from14, for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue15it could be fixed so easily. This moved him to action. And tens of millions in Africa and Asia can see because of the16Wilson made to preventing the17.
Wilson received several international18for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a19 . He proved that it's not what happens to us that20our lives — it's what we make of what happens.
The Chinese people take tree planting (serious). President Xi Jinping (join) local (present) residents for tree planting in the capital's suburbs in March this year — his 10th successive at the annual activity since he became China's top leader. Xi said that by joining other volunteers to plant trees, he wants to make his contribution to building green and beautiful China, and encourage society, especially the youth, (promote) ecological advancement.
When the People's Republic of China (found) in 1949, forests covered only 8.6 percent of the country's land area. The constant use of wood for cooking and heating had denuded (使变光秃) forests and reduced the green cover, (result) in environmental deterioration and desertification. It was under such circumstances that China launched national tree-planting campaign to build forest belts. Thanks to nationwide efforts, last year, it was reported that forest cover has increased to 23 percent of the country's land territory spread over 220 million hectares.
As a leader who in his youth toiled (辛苦工作) a farmer on the almost barren Loess Plateau for seven years, Xi knows better than many forests mean to a nation. The concept of "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets." has become a motto for China's future development.
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。
Before Christmas our school hold a winter sports meeting. As it was the last one at school, we did what we could perform well in an opening ceremony. Greatly to our happiness, our show was very much successful. My classmates took part in various events, or our head teacher even joined us in the relay race. Except Wang Lin, several other athletes also ranked Top 5. Some brought cameras to record the excited moments. It was quite a wonderful experience and that we obtained was great fun. Those out-of-class activity indeed helped us relieve the pressure from learning, and promoted us enthusiasm for future study.
