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Opera at Music Hall: 1243 Elm Street. The season runs June through August, with additional performances in March and September. The Opera honors Enjoy the Arts membership discounts. Phone: 241-2742.

http://www.cityopera.com.

Chamber Orchestra: The Orchestra plays at Memorial Hall at 1406 Elm Street, which offers several concerts from March through June. Call 723-1182 for more information.

http://www.chamberorch.com.

Symphony Orchestra: At Music Hall and Riverbend. For ticket sales, call 381-3300. Regular season runs September through May at Music Hall in summer at Riverbend.

http://www.symphony.org/home.asp.

College Conservatory of Music (CCM): Performances are on the main campus(校园) of the university, usually at Patricia Cobbett Theater. CCM organizes a variety of events, including performances by the well-known LaSalle Quartet, CCM's Philharmonic Orchestra, and various groups of musicians presenting Baroque through modern music. Students with I.D. cards can attend the events for free. A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183.

http://www.ccm.uc.edu/events/calendar.

Riverbend Music Theater: 6295 Kellogg Ave. Large outdoor theater with the closest seats under cover (price difference).Big name shows all summer long! Phone:232-6220.

http://www.riverbendmusic.com.

There's something else that's always been in her life: a type of skin lupus (狼疮) . "All of my life, I tried to find ways to make it better," Guarddon said. "And that led to my trying to help others feel better about their skin." The attempt took her to the U.S. in 1994, where she studied science and piano. And then she began a career in skin care. " To me, skin is a form of art," she said. " I love making women feel beautiful."

" I wanted to create something of my own," Guarddon said. " I wanted to realize my dream." Her dream? Combining all of her passions into one.

The result is Poet's Garden Apothecary, Guarddon's own skin care line and the online business: Poet's Garden Alchemist. Guarddon teamed up with a laboratory to create her line of products, which she called "skin poetry". The products, made for every skin type, include an oil face cleanser, day cream and night cream. With each purchase, customers receive a custom poem from one of the company's contributors. And some earnings from the business go to the Poetry Foundation.

In the first few months of running business, Guarddon said, Poet's Garden Alchemist is turning into an online poet's movement. She often hosts live poetry readings on Instagram. " To me, skin care and poetry go together," she says. " I'm trying to show that beauty is not just skin deep. It's about our voice and how we express it."

This isn't a sign of malfunctioning though, researchers think, and may actually be evidence that the brain is operating healthily. Unusual heat signatures could potentially be used in the future to look for signs of brain damage or disorder.

"To me, the most surprising finding from our study is that the healthy human brain can reach temperatures that would be diagnosed as fever anywhere else in the body," says biologist John O'Neill from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the UK. "Such high temperatures have been measured in people with brain injuries in the past, but had been assumed to result from the injury."

Previously, those measurements taken from people with brain injuries had been the primary insight scientists had into brain temperatures which isn't the same as capturing the state of the brain during everyday life.

Here, the team used a technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)-measuring chemical patterns through magnetic fields to measure brain temperature in 40healthy volunteers, aged from 20 to 40 years old. What's more, they combined this information with data on circadian rhythms (生理节奏) and time of day.

The average brain temperature was38. 5℃ (101.3F) the researchers found, more than2degrees higher than under the tongue. The highest brain temperature recorded was40. 9℃(105. 6℃). Daily variations averaged around1℃(1.8F), with the outer parts of the brain generally cooler.

"We found that brain temperature drops at night before you go to sleep and rises during the day, "says O'Neill. "There is good reason to believe this daily variation is associated with long-term brain health—something we hope to investigate next."

Two teenagers from Hong Kong asked themselves the same question. Now they've developed a door handle that can kill germs on contact.

The idea is simple. Every time the door is opened, the movement creates power that starts a germ-killing reaction on the handle. In lab tests, their system killed about 99.8 percent of the germs that they spread onto lab dishes covered with their material.

Research by others has shown that door handles in public areas are often home to lots of bacteria and viruses, notes 17-year-old Sum Ming("Simon"）Wong. He and schoolmate Kin Pong ( Michael ) Li, 18, wanted to design a covering for door handles that would kill germs.

After doing some research, they learned that a mineral called titanium dioxide(二氧化钛）is known to kill bacteria. It's already used in many products, from paints to desserts. To make their covering, the teenagers made the mineral into a very fine powder.

Titanium dioxide kills bacteria best when lit by ultraviolet(紫外线的）light, says Simon. UV light is found in sunlight. But UV light does not naturally shine on indoor handles or any used at night, so the teenagers light their door handle from within.

To make sure the light reaches the coated surface, the teenagers made their door handle out of clear glass, Each end fits into a bracket (托架).Inside one of the brackets is a strong light-emitting diode(LED). From it comes UV light.

And here's the interesting part: The power that makes the UV light shine comes from opening and closing the door. The power from the door is then carried by wire to the LED inside the door handle.

The door handle system, Michael and Simon say, might cost no more than about $13 (about 81 yuan) to build.

The weather is the most common topic in Britain.. Because in Britain the weather changes a lot. Wind, rain, sun, cloud, snow — they can all happen in Britain.

At banks, cinemas, shops, bus stops you can always see people in queues (排队). They stand and wait quietly, often for a long time. Each new person stands at the end of the queue — sometimes in rain, wind or snow. They never complain and they will get quite upset when someone jumps the queue.

Men always shake hands when they meet. They shook hands to show that they didn't have a sword (剑). Now shaking hands is a custom in most countries. In Britain you don't shake hands with your friends or family members. But you do shake hands when you meet a person for the first time.

And they always send birthday cards or presents. There are also other cards like Christmas cards, good luck cards, congratulations on your new baby cards and getting well soon cards. They have everything for every important moment.

British people are very superstitious (迷信的). They believe in all sorts of signs they see. For them black cats are lucky. The more leaves you catch, the more lucky you will be. On the contrary, never open an umbrella in the house and never break a mirror because they mean seven years of bad luck.

A. Another common thing in Britain is queuing.

B. Why do the British talk about the weather so often?

C. Hundreds of years ago, soldiers began this custom.

D. In autumn if you catch falling leaves you are lucky.

E. Shopping is another common topic in Britain.

F. They also pay attention to tiny details like your birthday.

G. Never walk under a ladder, and don't walk past somebody on the stairs.

However, the fact was that she'd almost always top the class examinations and everyone was confused. Some students said she was3 because she wasn't so4 in class. Although nobody could prove that she was actually cheating, they totally5 that she did.

I'm pretty socially awkward so I never really talked to her. She was leaving school this year and I was truly6 about how she was so good during exams and how she didn't let other's remarks(言论) affect her. So I7 decided to find out what was up. She told me that her friend was severely(严重地)socially anxious and she'd fallen behind in studies because she couldn't dare to ask doubts in class or ask for8 from others. So they had this system where during lectures her friend would9 any questions she had, and then the girl would10 them for her. With her help, her friend made11, though this girl suffered prejudice(偏见) for being stupid when she was actually really smart.

It was such a12 story that it really changed the way I13 people. I wouldn't be quick to jump to conclusions. It also taught me a14: standing beside our friends when they15 us isn't always an easy choice. But when you care about them, it's the only choice.

 The Chinese Spring Festival (regard) as the most significant festival of the year among the Chinese. There are  number of things people usually do before the Chinese Spring Festival. One of these is cleaning the house for the Lunar New Year. Therefore, sweeping dust out of the house is a way of saying goodbye to the old things. important custom for families is to decorate their doors with red couplets. In the southern part of China, people will buy fresh flowers or orange trees (decorate) their homes. The (important) custom of the Chinese Spring Festival is the big family dinner on the eve of the Lunar New Year. This is usually a big reunion of grandparents, parents, and children. It reflects how important family is to Chinese people around the world. That is  millions of Chinese people travel long distances to get home before the eve of the Lunar New Year. (eat) fish is supposed to bring more wealth and prosperity than one needs, as the (pronounce) of "fish" in Chinese (yu) is also used for "surplus".

 Deeply (root) in the heart of the Chinese people, these (tradition) customs will be passed down generation by generation.

1. 享受免费住宿

2. 游览名胜古迹

3. 品尝特色小吃

4. 感受当地历史文化和风土人情

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3.开头结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数

Dear Jackson,

How is everything going?

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Looking forward to your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

Once, when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus (马戏团). Finally, there was only one family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me. There were eight children, all probably under the age of twelve. You could tell they didn't have a lot of money.

Their clothes were not expensive, but they were clean. The children were well-behaved, all of them standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents, holding hands. They were excitedly talking about the clowns, elephants, and other acts they would see that night with their brothers or sisters in a low voice.

One could sense they had never been to the circus before. It promised to be highlight of their young lives. The father and mother were at the head of the pack, standing proud as could be. The mother was holding her husband's hand, looking up at him as if to say, "You are my knight in shining armor."

He was smiling and responding in pride, looking back at her as if to say, "You got that right." The ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He proudly responded, "Please let me buy eight children's tickets and two adult tickets so I can take my family to the circus."

The ticket lady gave the price. The man's wife let go of his hand, her head dropped, and his lips began to shake. The father leaned a little closer and asked, "How much did you say?"

The ticket lady again told him the price. The man didn't have enough money. How could he turn and tell his eight children that he didn't have enough money to take them to the circus?

Actually we were not wealthy in any sense. So I understand how the kids would feel. I felt sorry for them.

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1.所续写短文的词数应为150词左右；

2.续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好。

Paragraph 1: Seeing what was going on, my dad put his hand in his pocket, pulled out a $20 bill and dropped (扔) it on the ground.

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Paragraph 2: That day my father and I went back to our car and drove home without any tickets.

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