Harvard English Language Center
Information for New Students
CLASS TIME: 9:00a.m.—10:00a.m., 10:30a.m.—12:00a.m., 1:30p.m.—3:00p.m..
The Language Center is open from Monday to Friday. Each class has one afternoon free per week. On the first day, go to the lecture hall to check your timetable.
SELF-ACCESS: The language laboratory (Room 1110) is open from Monday to Friday (3:15p.m. -5:00p.m.) for all full-time students.
You can learn how to use computers for language games or word-processing. There are tapes for students to borrow to practice their English. Go in and ask the teacher to show you. If you plan to take public examinations, there are dictation and listening comprehension tapes for you to practice with. There are close exercises on the computers. Ask your class teacher for a list of past exam essays. Students can borrow tapes to take home but they must be returned after two days.
ATTENDANCE (出勤):All students are expected to attend classes as it is required. Students who do not attend classes will be reported to OSS. Eighty percent attendance is required for students to receive their certificates (证书) when they finish their courses. It is also required by OSS for an extension to your visa.
BOOKS: If students are given course books, the books are their responsibility. If a book is lost, the student will be expected to pay for it.
If students wish to buy books, there is a bookshop in the college specializing in English books (Room 3520).
Betty White, a longtime television star who enjoyed a second wave of popularity in her 90s, was best known for her roles on The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Before Betty White's death at the age of 99 on New Year's Eve, she was regularly asked to reveal her secret to living a long, happy life. Her answers often came in the form of humor. In 2011, the Golden Girls actress appeared on the Late Show With David Letterman and shared her "Top 10 Tips for Living a Long and Healthy Life." "Try not to die," White said. "Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts," and "get eight hours of beauty sleep — nine if you're ugly". The following year White told The New York Times that she was a "health nut" whose "favorite food is hot dogs with French fries. And my exercise — I have a two-story house and a very bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs."
However, there were times when White gave some more serious understanding about how mental health was really important in staying healthy. "First of all, keep busy and don't focus everything on you. That wears out pretty fast. It's not hard to find things you're interested in, but enjoy them and get involved in them. And I think that keeps you on your toes," she told journalist Katie Couric on her 95th birthday.
White would have turned 100 on Jan. 17, 2022 and for a People profile that was meant to celebrate her centennial year, the actress spoke about how she was feeling. "I'm so lucky to be in such good health and feel so good at this age," she said. "It's amazing."
A young female athlete in the Philippines recently won many gold medals during a sports meet despite not having proper running shoes. Rhea Ballos, an 11-year-old student of Salvation Elementary School in Balason, Iloilo, was only wearing bandages around her feet when she competed at the Iloilo Schools Sports Meet.
Facebook user Valenzuela posted pictures of the girl with her feet wrapped in bandages bearing the famous Nike logo. Ballos even wrote the word "NIKE" on the sides of her "shoe" to complete the "Nike running shoes" look. The bandages were tightly wrapped around her feet, creating a thin protective layer against the track. While she was actually barefoot during the races, she was still able to defeat her competitors who all more proper footwear intended for running,
According to the post, Ballos bagged the top awards in the 400-meter dash, the 800-meter run, and the 1500-meter run in the girls' categories in the inter school sporting event held in Iloilo, central Philippines.
When pictures of her "Nike" footwear become popular, Flipinos on social media praised her. Many noted that instead of falling into self-pity, she was even able to make light of the situation by drawing the Nike logo on her "running shoes". Some of the commenters of Valenzuela's post expressed how the girl deserved to be recognized by Nike and that the brand should actually give her a new pair of real Nike shoes. Others started getting in touch with the American sports brand, as well as local basketball specialty store Titan 22.
It did not take long for Titan co-founder and Alaska Aces head coach Jeffrey Cariaso to take notice of Ballos' outstanding achievement. Cariaso immediately made an effort to get in touch with the young track runner. The seven-time PBA champion has since talked to the student as well as her coaches in an apparent bid to help her out.
A hybrid electric vehicle (混合动力车) or HEV is a vehicle driven by the combination of petrol engine and electric motor. Terrence has been driving a HEV for five years. He really doesn't understand why more people aren't accepting them. "I probably spend about $ 7 a day on petrol," the taxi driver told news. com. au. In his previous conventional vehicle Terrence said he was spending up to $ 30 a day on petrol, meaning he saves almost $ 6000 every year.
The Toyota spokesman said this was quite a high saving and official tests estimate (估计) an average driver would only save about 33 percent off their current bill. This means a driver paying $ 30 a day on petrol would see their bill drop to about $ 20 using the hybrid. "A taxi driver that drives in built-up areas and spends little time on highways will notice a higher fuel saving," he said. "Low speeds allow the electric motors to be used more and the petrol engine used less."
While some people are skeptical about how reliable hybrids are, Terrence said he had never run out of power. His Camry cost about $ 34,000 and so after five years, it's nearly paid for itself. "For cab drivers, it's a real advantage because of the cost-effectiveness," he said. Terrence has no complaints about the car. "I love it, the calm and quietness of it, the simplicity of it—you just jump in and go. The maintenance（保养）is really low. But the only difficulty is finding someone to service the car as there are not many experienced mechanics（机修工）."
Terrence said it's "extraordinary" that more drivers aren't buying more hybrid electric vehicles and that governments are not encouraging this more. "I think people have a view that you have to plug it in, which is not true. A lack of information about the cars may be stopping people from taking the plunge. It's not promoted at all for the public to understand—it's simplifying the actual owning of a car—you don't have to do so many things to own it and run it, it's just so much simpler. Why wouldn't the government promote such a thing?"
Everyone is faced with problems at some point or the other. The problems, however, become different when past strategies do not work and there is no obvious solution. This can cause anxiety and stress. However, all you need to do is remain calm and use a new, different method. Here are some easy ways to solve problems.
Acknowledge that there is a problem. Many people refuse to acknowledge that there is a problem. They continue thinking everything will disappear on its own, so they fail to seek timely help. This does not help the situation in any way.
Keep a journal. Keeping a daily journal is the best way to solve deeper problems that may be affecting your peace of mind. Sometimes, just by writing down issues, you might get to see that a problem isn't as big as you are thinking.
Often, to solve a problem, you need to test your limits. You may have to take on certain challenges including learning something new to improve yourself. If you continue thinking of the problem as a threat and view yourself as a failure or a weak person, you will not be able to deal with the problem. Nevertheless, if you can see some benefits coming out of the problem, you will be in a better position to accept the challenge and learn something new.
Seek help. If you are still unable to solve the issue despite giving it much thought and attention, seek help from friends, colleagues, family or even professionals.
A. Challenge yourself.
B. Set achievable goals.
C. Instead, it can make the problem bigger than before.
D. So write down all the problems you are facing right now.
E. Sometimes, certain problems can't be solved on your own.
F. So try to come up with at least 10 different solutions to a problem.
G. Many problems can be solved by using methods we might have used before.
The idea of donating mosquito nets to millions of Africans came to Katherine Commale's mind when she was only five years old. She1a documentary about Africa, which2that on average, every 30 seconds one child died of malaria（疟疾）there, which can be caused by mosquito bites. This made her3, but it also4her to do something to save their lives5. Katherine started6money for mosquito nets so that Africans don't have to7malaria. She sent nets to Africa through an organization called Nothing But Nets. By making hand-decorated8with her family and giving them to those who donated money. Katherine inspired people to 9her. Her10was posted on the website of Nothing But Nets. People were touched by her 11, which went beyond age and race,12were pouring in from around the world.
However. Katherine still seemed13. She and her friends wrote letters to the14who were on the list of The World's Billionaires,15they could contribute money. After receiving the letter, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation16that it would donate three million dollars to Nothing But Nets.17to have more people know Katherine's18, the foundation invested（投资）in filming a public welfare documentary.
Thanks to Katherine, the frequency of children's death19from malaria in Africa has been decreased to one person every 120 seconds. Katherine's kindness influenced the world even though she was only a little girl. She showed that no one is too20to change the world into a better place.
A 13-year study of early childhood development (make) by Harvard University has shown that, by the age of three, most children have the big potential (understand) about 1,000 words-most of the language they will use in ordinary conversation for the rest of their lives.
Furthermore, research has shown that while every child is born with a natural curiosity, it can decline (great) during the second and third years of life. Researchers say that the human personality (form) during the first two years of life, and during the first three years children learn the basic skills they will use in all their later learning both at home school.
is generally acknowledged that young people from poorer socio-economic backgrounds tend to do less well in our education system. As a result of the research evidence of the (important) of the first three years of a child's life, a pilot programme focused on parents as the child's first teachers started in the US. As the programme shows, working with the family, rather than bypassing the parents, (be) the most effective way of (help) children get off to the best possible start in life.
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。
A social media influencer is someone who has a plenty of followers online. What that person says, or does, or buys, or wear can influence the decisions of their followers! That is why we call him "social media influencers" and simply "influencers". I like Miss Manners best between all the influencers. She continual guides me in my online activity and acts as my social compass on a daily basis. When in doubt, I thought to myself "what will Miss Manners do?" What I'm eager follow is not Miss Manners herself but the overall idea behind her and what she represents. It's all about be polite, interesting and engaging, which is the point of social media.
