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You can pay for your trips on the Metro in a few ways during your visit to Washington DC. The information below will tell you about each.

SmarTrip Cards

You will need a SmarTrip card to enter and exit the DC Metro system.

A SmarTrip card is required for each rider aged 5 and older. Cards cannot be shared, so each rider needs their own. Note that up to two children under age five may travel free with each fare-paying adult.

SmarTrip cards can be ordered online, or you can buy a card at the station. They cost $15 each, with the price covering $2 for the card itself and a preloaded $13 credit.

Pay-As-You-Go

Another way to travel is by paying as you go.

There is no set fare (车费) for all trips, as fares between stations depend on the distance, the day, and the time.

The system does charge less at certain times. From 5:00 am until 9:30 pm on weekdays, the cost will land between $2.25 and $6. After 9:30 pm on weekdays and over weekends, there will be a flat rate of $2.25.

1-Day and 3-Day Passes

If you don't want to worry about loading your card throughout the day, you can purchase a 1-day pass for $13/person or a 3-day pass for $28/person.

There are no travel restrictions so you can use this pass anytime and without additional charges. This may seem like a great deal. The farther out your hotel or accommodations are, the better off this deal will be.

For most people, a one-or three-day pass makes sense only if you plan to make more than two longer-distance round trips daily.

Remember that all Metrorail trips are a flat $2.25 fare on Saturdays and Sundays, so a pass is usually not the best deal if you use Metro mostly on weekends. You are better off paying as you go.

The Flow Project is still going today, and it pairs undergraduate artists with water scientists to create art pieces inspired by water, ranging from paintings and drawings, clothes and sculptures, to dance and music. Their work highlights the value of art not only as a tool to communicate science, but also as a way to inspire new science.

Aakriti Bagchi, an undergraduate student studying fashion design, was paired with Yuan Liu, a third-year PhD student in environmental engineering who studies storms and flooding in the Mississippi River Basin.

Liu generates computer models of storms caused by atmospheric rivers, which are large amounts of water vapor (水蒸气) that move on to land from tropical seas. His models aim to predict flood outcomes from these storms in the Mississippi River Basin.

Patterns and designs from Liu's research inspired visual elements that Bagchi transformed into a wearable jacket.

She designed the jacket with blue and brown yarns (纱线) through white fabric to present the multiple layers of water vapor involved in the storms Liu studies. The front of the jacket showcases patches (块) of fabric to form a map of the river basin. Bagchi chose each patch to represent the basin's various regions.

"There's so much you can do with fashion," Bagchi says. "You can do all your research and you can find crazy solutions. And finding ways to show your thoughts in a creative sense or just in a very clear way is very important."

But Bagchi's art wasn't the only thing inspired by the cooperation. Liu says talking with Bagchi throughout the process and seeing how she approaches problems encouraged him to take a step back and consider new approaches to his own work.

"I think it does shift a little bit of the focus when I'm doing research from just thinking about all those details, those mathematics, to some of the big pictures," Liu says. "That's pretty important actually, for you to become a better scientist."

"Creative imagination" is what we normally consider to be creativity with a large C. And there are two phases to creative imagination. "Divergent thinking" is the ability to think of a wide variety of ideas, all somehow connected to a main problem or topic. It is supported by intuitive   (直觉的) thinking, which is fast and automatic. You then need "convergent thinking" to help you evaluate the ideas for usefulness within the main problem or topic. This process is supported by analytical thinking — which is slow and deliberate — allowing us to select the right idea.

For many people, the ability to become completely absorbed by an idea is key to finalizing a successful, creative project. For that you need something scientists call "fantastical imagination", which describes your tendency to have highly vivid fantasies and level of absorption in imaginary worlds.

However, given that one's fantastic imagination can increase daydreaming and tends to increase as a response to painful events by becoming an escape from reality, it may not seem like a desirable ability to have, at first glance. There are benefits, however. Fantasy engagement in children is associated with increased creative imagination. For adults, it may help improve creative problem-solving and planning.

"Episodic imagination" is similar to fantastic imagination but mainly makes use of real memory details rather than imaginary details when visualizing events in our mind's eye.

This helps individuals to better imagine alternative pasts and learn from their mistakes, or imagine their futures and prepare for them. Research shows that individuals with a higher capacity for visual imagery experience more sensory details when imagining their future.

Though many self-improvement books claim "imagine it and it will happen", this is actually the opposite of what you should be doing. The best preparation for the future is to imagine the process — not the outcome — of your desired future event. One study showed that when students imagined desired outcomes (good grades for an upcoming test) they performed significantly worse than students who imagined the process of getting to the desired outcomes (imagining studying thoroughly). Perhaps now you have something to keep in mind for your New Year's resolutions?

For example, they can find a description of a Neanderthal suffering from severe disabilities along with evidence of the challenges faced, as noted in the archaeological (考古的) record, under the heading "Did anyone care if someone was ill or weak?"

Dr Penny Spikins, from the University of York's Department of Archaeology, said: "The web resource challenges our perceptions of the past as competitive, populated only by the strong, towards a more realistic version of prehistory in which individuals cared for each other, and where the support of weaknesses and differences made humans successful."

Research has shown that it is during teenage years that complex emotional capacities and capacities for complex moral judgments develop. Archaeologists at York investigated whether these complex emotions could be better understood if schools could help young people explore where some of our emotional processes came from.

Dr Spikins said: "Findings related to cultural practices suggest that Neanderthals had a system of caring for their sick and injured, as well as women who needed help in childbirth. This sort of care would have meant difficult strategic, as well as emotional, decisions had to be made, which impacted on an individual's relationship with others and ultimately their survival as a species."

"This made us wonder whether challenging the assumption that our evolutionary past was defined by uncaring behaviors, would make us think differently about how we understand the decisions we make that impact on our own personal health and well-being today. In many ways talking about the distant past can also provide a safe place in which to discuss how complicated and difficult our emotions can be."

"One million years ago it would have been so much easier for a group of early humans to abandon a woman with severe disabilities. We know, however, that they were prepared to risk being attacked by predators (捕食性动物) to look after her."

"We hope that this resource will task young people with asking — why? — and give them a chance to think about what this tells us about human life today."

You can't use the 80/20 rule to your advantage unless you know what it is you want to focus on. How do you cut out all the background noise and zero in on that 20% that's going to make an extraordinary difference in your life?

Your purpose is the foundation of everything in your life or in your business. It's that important. Your purpose could be something like having more time with your family, the freedom to live life on your terms, or the money to travel the world. In business, your purpose is your company vision. It's the reason you started the business in the first place.

Write down five things you could start doing today to help you get to live your purpose. Then prioritize them by how fast they will get you to your goal. The top item — the most meaningful — is your first priority.

You're not done yet. Priorities are nice, but they're not enough to get you over the finish line. You need to create SMART goals: steps you can take that are specific, measurable, Achievable, Realistic and set within a Time Frame. These specific action items are the real 20% of the 80/20 rule — the things you'll spend 20% of your time doing that will generate the best results.

A. Now it's time to get more specific.

B. It explains why focusing on key tasks matters.

C. Rank your purposes by the level of importance.

D. You can apply the principle to your personal goals.

E. Then you need to hold yourself accountable for them.

F. Follow this equation: Purpose + Priority = Productivity.

G. If you don't know your purpose, you can't create goals or take action.

Legally blind and born with a rare condition causing her eyes to shift constantly, she couldn't see well. Her mom2 that she was fearless, so she signed Lola up for gymnastics when she was three. She loved the3 right away and gymnastics became her favorite. Learning gymnastics has been more difficult for her, but she doesn't let her4 stop her from doing whatever she wants to.

She likes the determination it takes to do the sport. Her biggest5 is the balance beam. Because of her double vision, she must use her sense of6 to help her during her routine. "You have to7 your mind that it'll take you where you want to go." says Lola.

To be a top-level gymnast, one must be brave. The beam is probably the most8 for anyone because it's four inches wide. Lola doesn't want to be9 differently from others. At the competitions, the judges don't know about her vision10, because she doesn't think they need to know, which11 her mom.

Lola never thinks about12. And her13 is to reach level 9 in gymnastics and to be a gymnastics coach.14 of all her hard work and success, she says it's helped her overcome problems in her life outside gymnastics, too. Her15 for others is "just believe yourself".

According to recent studies, it seems that the workplace is about to witness massive changes. Generally, it（anticipate）that such changes are likely to include a more automated workplace. This will result in the loss of certain jobs, especially those involving intense physical labour. Additionally, to keep up with new technologies, greater emphasis will need to be placed on（continue）training, which will get employees out of their comfort zone. Therefore, progress in the workplace will not necessarily mean（promote）to superior positions, but rather being moved sideways so that employees' individual skills can be best used to meet a（company）changing needs.

Besides, more importance will be attached to "soft skills". Currently, heavy focus is put on training in "hard skills", such as machine operating and software programming. However, in the future, employers will look to hire people（commit）to learning. As a result, employees will need to attain excellent soft skills such as communication,（cooperate）and leadership. Despite that, any prejudice either of the two skills will not be allowed.

We are fond of these changes or not, we will need to face them. We can survive and even succeed in the workplace of the future if we keep our passion for work,（effective）interact with co-workers and sharpen our ability to adapt.

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Dear Xiaoming,

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Yours,

Li Hua

It was my twelfth birthday, and what I really wanted was a new bicycle. But I knew that my family couldn't afford one. A new bike was just a dream, so I was forced to accept a bedside table with lockable drawers. At least I would have a safe place to keep my private stuff.

We went to a charity shop, where we found an old dark one among the donated items. It didn't look too cool, but I thought that I would paint it to make it look better.

After we took it home, I was getting ready to paint it. When I pulled the drawers out, I felt something stuck to the back. I reached in all the way, and guess what? A sealed bag with some papers in it.

When I opened the bag, I realized that the papers were official documents. And, wrapped in them were a bunch of ten-dollar and twenty-dollar bills! Talk about finding a treasure! And on my birthday!

"Is this some kind of joke?" I said aloud. I went ahead and read the papers, and it turned out to be a will. Some old lady was leaving her savings for her son and grandchildren.

My mind was going crazy. Was I the luckiest twelve-year-old ever? With this money I could buy the coolest bicycle. Who knows?

I began counting. When I reached a thousand dollars, my mother was knocking on my bedroom door. I quickly closed the drawer with the money in it.

"Do you want some help? Is everything all right?" she asked.

No, everything was not right. Actually, my stomach was growling.

"I'm okay," I lied.

When my mother left my room, I lay on my bed, starting thinking. What a dilemma! I wished there were someone I could talk with. Could I keep it and get all kinds of stuff for me and my family? It wouldn't be too bad for me to keep it, if I shared it... right? Thoughts ran through my mind.

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I finally made a decision and called my parents into my bedroom.

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Though surprised, the shop owner helped find the family's telephone number.

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