School on Wheels
School on Wheels provides educational resources for homeless children in Southern California by giving one-on-one weekly tutoring sessions and packing backpacks. Teens from 16-18 years of age can become tutors! Check out the volunteer page. //www.schoolonwheels.org, for more information.
California Science Center
The California Science Center offers a variety of volunteer opportunities for teens (the minimum age is 16 years old) and adults. Volunteers join staff members and aid them in educating guests about exhibitions, helping with science fairs, or providing administrative support. Visit the volunteer page, //californiasciencecenter.org, for more information.
LINC Cares
LINC Cares offers life-improving services to families, seniors, and people with special needs that live in LINC Housing communities. Activities include after-school and summer programs, health classes, social events, nature outings, and arts and culture activities. Volunteers (the minimum age is 16 years old) can enter any of the diverse range of service opportunities! Find out more information at //www.linchousing.org.
LA Regional Food Bank
Voluntcers are needed to help sort, inspect, and repackage donated food from local food drives and donations. The minimum age requirement to volunteer is 14 years old. Follow //www.lafoodbank.org for volunteer opportunities.
Proyecto Jardin
Situated in Boyle Heights, this urban garden in the community values a sustainable community food system and promotes cross-cultural learning through gardening. Volunteers do not need to be experts, but must be above the age of 16. Volunteers can join programs focused on farming, participating in community service, and sharing knowledge of food sustainability. Visit //proyectojardin. org for more information.
South Korea has the biggest rate of Internet addiction in the world and it is increasingly the country's children who are spending every waking moment immersing themselves in fantasy role plays or gaming In the remote mountains of South Korea, teenage Internet addicts are turning up for a 12-day boot camp.
Kyle Won's addiction is out of control. He spends 10 hours a day on the Internet. Now Kyle's smartphone is taken away. The teachers here do what they can to get them socializing again; for many, the only friends they have had are online. "I have relationships on the Internet and a real distance has gown with my real-life friends and I know it's not good," Kyle said. The teachers show them other possibilities and bring back dreams and hopes that have been buried by their addictions. "We teach them methods of managing their desire to use the Internet so that they can continue to use it when they go back home," Shim Yong-school, a teacher here, said. After just two days Kyle said It was helpful. He's set a good example to others though he hasn't reached the goal completely.
Sout Korean psychiatrists (精神病专家) are urging more/action as they are finding evidence that too much screen time is a barrier to the developing minds. Professor Kang Seak Young from Dankook, University said the addiction was damaging critical thinking. "It affects the frontal lobes (额叶) which are important to critical analysis" Professor Kang said. "Reading a book and guessing what happens in the story next show activity in frontal lobes but playing popular computer games for a long time shows no activity."
South Korea is one of the most wired nations on Earth, but it does have a cost. One in every ten kids is an addict so the country is now learning how to manage its high-tech future to avoid more serious consequences.
I have a special place in my heart for libraries. I have for as long as I can remember. I was always an enthusiastic reader, sometimes reading up to three books a day as a child. Stories were like air to me and while other kids played ball or went to parties, I lived out adventures through the books I checked out from the library.
My first job was working at the Ukiah Library when I was 16 years old .It was a dream job and I did everything from shelving books to reading to the children for story time.
As I grew older and became a mother, the library took on a new place and an added meaning in my life. I had several children and books were our main source(来源) of entertainment. It was a big deal for us to load up and go to the local library, where my kids could pick out books to read or books they wanted me to read to them.
I always read ,using different voices ,as though I were acting out the stories with my voice and they loved it !It was a special time to bond with my children and it filled them with the wonderment of books .
Now, I see my children taking their children to the library and I love that the excitement of going to the library lives on form generation to generation.
As a novelist, I've found a new relationship with libraries. I encourage readers to go to their local library when they can't afford to purchase a book. I see libraries as a safe haven(避风港) for readers and writers, a bridge that helps put together a reader with a book. Libraries, in their own way, help fight book piracy(盗版行为) and 1 think all writers should support libraries in a significant way when they can. Encourage readers to use the library. Share library announcements on your social media. Frequent them and talk about them when you can.
Cities have been described as essential to climate change solutions, but they can also raise the kinds of ecologists that will bring us into a more comprehensive biological future.
As a black wildlife biologist from Philadelphia, I stood out among my coworkers. My presence in ecology has challenged assumptions about not only what a biologist looks like, but also where a biologist comes from. In the U.S., ecology was and is mainly white and conducted in rural landscapes, but I had no history of camping, fishing, hunting or hiking. I had yet to recognize that Philadelphia, with its four seasons and richness of squirrels (松鼠), row homes and festivals, was actually my first ecological classroom. There I witnessed wild cats eating birds and rats, people shooting bats from their homes and snakes being killed by lawn mowers (割草机). This is as much ecology in action as anything we witness in fields and forests.
Urban wild animals exhibit many features and behaviors that set them apart from their rural twins: they may be bigger, eat more diverse food sources, are active at different times of the day, move differently and have different personalities. Some biologists argue they are even "smarter". Besides, urban wildlife balances more risks—such as road chemical poisons and diseases from domestic animals—with rewards. Some of those rewards come from humans providing food and some from the distribution of our parks and water bodies.
In our professional lives as biologists, living with such wild animals can make us more tolerant of species diversity, which can benefit the natural world. Nature is no longer only primitive wilderness but includes sounds of human laughter and garbage trucks. We expect more biologists from urban settings because urban environments naturally train keen observers who are the future of ecology.
Many films and TV shows will tell you that sharks are scary and often eat beach–goers. Sharks play an important ecological role in the ocean.
Many of these fish are top predators (捕食者). They can help control populations of other animals. However, other sharks serve as clean- up crews, chowing down on migrating (迁徙的) birds when they fall out of the sky. Migrating land-based birds that fall from the sky as they cross the Gulf of Mexico can end up in the belly of a young tiger shark. But not all sharks are meat-eaters.
As a group, sharks are much, much older than we are. The first shark— like fish appeared more than 400 million years ago. Some have saw— toothed noses, and some may have big hooks on their heads.
They have super-sensitive noses and use snouts (鼻子) to find weak electrical signals from their food. Scientists are even trying to design materials to imitate shark's bacteria-battling skin.
A. But that's simply not true.
B. There are many different birds.
C. Sharks also have a lot of fascinating talents.
D. They usually migrate in a very long distance.
E. Some are peaceful plant- eaters, like the whale shark.
F. Since that time, they've existed in many different forms.
G. Tiger sharks, for example, eat migratory birds that fall out of the sky.
For the past ten years, my dad and I have attended the same school — he as an administrator and I as a student. Our relationship, in and out of school, has been totally unpredictable.
When I was younger, all that my dad said was doctrine (信条) and anything he did I, 1 , copied. As I grew older, we were not as 2 as we used to be. He wasn't cool anymore. He listened to 3 country music and laughed to loudly in front of my friends. He became a total embarrassment.
However, the 4 that occurred in school were even worse. This 5 continued into high school, but we somehow began to find a balance. Things started to 6 around the time of my 10th-grade physics project. The 7 was to build a wood bridge with the best strength-to-weight ratio (比率). All the students and physics teachers 8 . So did my dad, the only administrator! Embarrassed, as usual, I 9 the scene. 10 , later when I learned from my friends that my dad defeated all competitors and won everyone's admiration, I found that mixed in with my 11 was a touch of pride.
I had needed someone else to show me what I 12 in my dad. It wasn't the fact that he'd won; it was more than that. I began to 13 many of the same values and sometimes the same opinions that we have.
I feel 14 to have such an unusual father. The 15 I have developed with my dad over the years has enabled me to look back and see how I've grown.
Chinese TV drama Awakening Age, tells the story of how the Communist Party of China (CPC) (found) in 1921, ended several months ago, but it remains a hot topic among young people.
The TV series (celebrate) the 100th birthday of the CPC has won high praise online. The stories of the young people in the drama, who devoted everything, even their lives, the revolution (革命), have touched a large number of viewers. The storytelling in the show has also been praised by viewers for (successful) showing the depth of the CPC's history and spirit. Many audiences were inspired to find background (inform) about the series and commented that it was their first time that they (learn) the history about the founding of the Party and the country. "I read many of Lu Xun's novels such as A Madman's Diary when I was in elementary school, I couldn't understand why he wrote them or the angry feelings (hide) in the characters. After watching the drama, I read them again and found that I could understand what they wanted to convey to (reader)," said Li Lin, an 18-year-old viewer.
Once upon a time, there were two brothers who lived on two adjoining(相邻的) farms. The elder brother is John and the younger one is Jack. One day they got a problem. It was the first serious disagreement in 40 years of farming side-by-side, sharing machines and using goods as needed. Clearly they could not get on well with each other like before and the long-time good relationship fell apart. It began with a small misunderstanding and then it grew into a big difference. Finally, they had a quarrel with each other followed by weeks of silence. No one was willing to be the first to accept mistakes or forgive each other.
One morning there was a knock on John's door. He opened it to find a man with a carpenter's toolbox. "I'm a carpenter(木匠), and I am good at making chairs, tables, and even bridges. Now I'm looking for a few days' work," the man said. "Perhaps you would have some small projects and I could help. Could I help you?"
"Yes," said John. "I do have a job for you. Look across the river at that farm. That's my neighbor. In fact, it's my younger brother! There was a piece of grassland between us. However, he recently brought his bulldozer(推土机) and now there is a river between us. Well, he may have done this to upset me on purpose, but I'll do more. See the wood over there? I want you to build a fence, an eight-foot-long fence, so I won't need to see his place or his face anymore."
The carpenter said, "I think I understand the situation. Show me the materials and I'll be able to do a job that pleases you."
John had to go to town to buy something for his farm, so he helped the carpenter get the materials ready and then he left.
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The carpenter worked hard all that day.
The two brothers stood at each end of the bridge.
