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Generation Z is different. As a whole, Americans born between the late 1990s and early 2000s are less likely to have work or look for it: their labour-force-participation rate is 71%, compared with 75% for millennials (born between 1980 and the late 1990s) and 78% for Generation X (born in the decade or so to 1980) when each came of age. As a result, they make up a smaller share of the workforce. With graduation ceremonies behind them, the latest group of diploma-holders are entering the job market. What they want from employers is also not quite the same as in generations past.

Although Gen-Z employees felt more lonely and isolated than their older colleagues at the start of the pandemic, the ability to work remotely has brought new possibilities. The benefits go beyond working in your pyjamas. Many are taking calls from beach chairs and hammocks (吊床) in more comfortable places or fleeing big cities in search for cheaper or larger homes.

This has big implications. Industries with jobs that cannot be done from home are falling out of favour with recent graduates. A study by ManpowerGroup, an employment company, suggests an inverse relationship (反比关系) between talent shortages and flexible working policies. The sectors which are either less able to offer remote work or have been slower to embrace it-including construction, finance and manufacturing-have faced some of the biggest skills gaps for all types of jobs.

That in turn has accelerated a pre-existing trend of young employees trading Wall Street for Silicon Valley. Now technology bosses are more willing than their opposite competitors in finance to let employees work from home (or anywhere else). Annual rankings of employer desirability by Universum, a graduate-staffing consultancy, bear this out. In 2008 the list of best employers graded by American graduates was dominated by big banks and the Big Four consulting firms. By 2021 seven of the ten highest spots were occupied by tech and media giants.

Leek Town Warriors was a girls' football team which used to get routinely defeated every time they turned out, until James Henry stepped in two years ago. He tended to transform the team's fortunes and then took the job when the previous coach quit. With the help of his assistant Andy Austin, they started training hard in April 2020.

Some players had never kicked a football before joining the team, so training them took hours of hard work and patience. After a good few weeks, they got down to training and really started to take it in what the coach wanted. "I insist on doing the basic stuff well and letting the girls decide what they feel they need to work on." James said.

James' first season was ruined by the pandemic, which forced him and Andy to get creative with training. They organized team-building activities with the girls to help them bond on and off the field. James then spent the sessions they could hold focusing on the basics of football like passing and shooting, bringing the girls up to a good standard.

James watched the girls develop over the course of last year, and in September they played their first match of the new season. They won the game, and since then went on an unbeaten run of eight games. The team's star player, 15-year-old Chelsea, has also impressed the audience individually, becoming the top scorer in the league with incredible 30 goals.

James said, "All the effort that the girls, us coaches and parents have put in to get this point has been enormous. If I hadn't had the support of Andy helping me every week, this would have been an impossible task. So I'm incredibly grateful to have him on side. All we want is to bring more girls into the game and show that it's not all about having the best players; it's about hard work and giving everyone the chance to play."

Weald & Downland Living Museum

Fun fact

Over 50 historic buildings from across the Weald and Downland area have been dismantled (拆除) and then reconstructed across a lovely 40-acre site in the south downs national park.

The collection of buildings represents almost a thousand years of rural life in south-east England: furnished just as they would have been in the past-complete with the homes, farms and public buildings. There's a sense of exploring a real village as you wander between them along green paths, stopping to climb the stairs of a 17th-century craftsman's (工匠) cottage to lie on the straw bed or sheltering from a shower in a smoky, 14th-century hall.

Getting there

The Stagecoach 60 bus service from Chichester to Midhurst stops just five minutes away at Grooms Yard, Singleton. The nearest railway stations are Chichester (2 miles) and Haslemere (7 miles). The museum is on Town Lane in Singleton, reached via the A286 from Chichester to Midhurst. Parking is free and there are disabled parking spaces opposite the museum shop.

Value for money?

Yes. It's not cheap but it's a special experience that easily fills a day. Plus it's a valuable cause worth supporting. Adults £14 children 5—17 and students £6.50, under-4s free, family £38 (two adults and two children) or £25 (one adult and three children).

Opening hours

Daily 10 a.m.—5 p.m. (last entry 4 p.m.).

A Chocolate Cake

Sam is autistic (患孤独症的). Thus, dining out can be tricky. Though he loves to eat, he dislikes the loud noise over restaurant dining. Ever resourceful, he has a solution overpower all noise with a much louder noise of his own. 

This begins with what I like to think of as dueling (斗) tables: neighboring parties raised their volume followed by Sam increasing his until some sort of extreme point is reached, making us quite unpopular with family, most friends and other diners. 

Faced with a possibility of forever dining alone, I decided to work on dining skills at a trendy new spot early one Tuesday night. 

To my delight, we arrived at an empty restaurant, So far, so good. Everything went well until two older women entered, Well-groomed (干净整洁的) and elegantly dressed in an understated way, they were seated two tables away from us. I felt a bit worried about what might happen. 

The women began to chat, paying little notice to us. Sam happily took this as his cue (暗示) to start talking and drown them out. I leaned into Sam and asked for a quiet voice, but unfortunately, Sam had left that voice at home, I glanced at the neighboring table, knowing we wouldn't go unnoticed much longer. I quickly resorted to Plan B: eat quickly and leave. Sam, who normally ate his favorite chocolate cake quickly, suddenly embraced the concept of leisurely dining and refused to rush—all while chattering away endlessly.

"SHUSH! (嘘)" I said, a little angry. Sam responded by giggling loudly. "Be quiet!"

I could sense that the two women were now watching us. Finally, the older of the two women leaned over. Here it comes, I thought. 

注意： 1. 续写词数应为150左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

"Honey, stop shushing that boy," she said, completely surprising me.

……

Sam smiled because someone wanted him to do what he did best; make noise and eat chocolate cake. 

注意：1.写作词数应80左右；2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Dear Mr Smith,

……

Yours,

Li Hua

Think of travel in Greece, and your mind may wander to images of ferries cruising(巡航)across the Aegean Sea. Taking to the water is essential if you plan to travel between the Greek islands, but there (be) plenty of other ways to enjoy Greece's amazing landscapes, including planes, trains, buses bicycles.

Cycling in Greece is growing in  (popular), best done in spring and fall rather than high summer. Strong leg muscles are  must to tackle the mountains, or you can stick to some of the  (flat) coast roads than the mountain roads. Some are bicycle-friendly, but others have such steep roads  cycling is not recommended.

Overall, cycling infrastructure around Greece leaves something to be desired. Bicycle lanes are rare to nonexistent, and there is a real danger from speeding cars —  (drive) by locals and tourists alike.

Bicycles may be carried for free on some ferries, while on others, there may be a fee, or they may not be allowed at all because of a lack of space on board.

You can rent bicycles in most tourist hangouts, but they are not as  (wide) available as cars and motorcycles. Prices range  €10 to €20 per day,  (depend) on the type of bicycle. Always make sure the rental cost includes the use of a helmet.

Seven-year-old Maggie Kuznia loves books, but she seems to love sharing the stories she reads even more. Qnce or twice a week, the little girl puts a few books in her backpack and gets ready to 1  the elderly at Good Samaritan Society.

Maggie's mom, Tiffany Kuznia, works as the activity director at the retirement facility and often brings her daughter with her to 2 . One day, as little Maggie was packing her bag, Tiffany Kuznia 3 her to bring her toys. Maggie quickly replied that she had 4 plans for the day. "I'm going to bring books and I'm going to read to the residents." she 5 .

With time, Maggie has become so beloved among the residents that she even has "6 " she reads to every week. She often visits each one for over an hour with her mom regularly checking in on her to make sure she isn't overstaying her 7 . Much to Maggie's 8 , the residents are more than happy to have her around for extended periods of time. The 9 usually leads to coloring books and doing puzzles with her elderly friends, who 10 Maggie a granddaughter of their own.

Maggie hopes to inspire other kids of her age to read to the elderly. 11 polishing her reading abilities and having a group of devoted 12 , her senior friends are always ready to help her when she trips up on a 13 word. As for the residents, Maggie seems to 14 their day. "I think the intergenerational part is so good," Patti Griggs, a resident Maggie has befriended, said. "Everybody likes to have the 15 of another person and be special to them."

Dogs may have earned the title of our best friends through their interactions with humans, but now researchers say these social skills could, be present shortly after birth rather than being learned.

To better understand the role of bi ology in dogs' abilities to communicate with humans, the researchers studied 375 eight-week-old service dogs. They looked at how these dogs performed in a series of tasks. designed to measure their communication skills. The puppies were still living with their littermates (同窝出生者) and had not been sent to live with a volunteer puppy raiser, making it unlikely that they had learned about his or her behavior.

In the first task, a person hid a treat. beneath one of two overturned cups and pointed to it to see if the puppy could follow the gesture. Since dogs are good at using noses to find things a treat was also taped to the insides of, both cups. In the second task, puppies watched as the researchers placed a yellow, block next to/the correct cup, instead of pointing to indicate where the puppy should look for the food.

The third task was designed to observe puppies' tendency to look at human faces. The researchers spoke to the puppy in a voice people sometimes use when talking to a baby. They then. measured how long the puppy fixed a stare on the human.

In, the last task, researchers sealed a. treat inside a closed container and presented it to the puppy. They then measured how often the puppy looked to the human for help in opening the container.

The study found that while many of the puppies were responsive to humans' physical and verbal cues, very few looked to humans for help with the unsolvable task. Researchers said, "This suggests that while puppies may be born knowing how to respond to human-initiated communication, the ability to initiate communication on their own may come later." The next step will be to see if specific genes that may contribute to dogs' abilities to communicate with humans can be identified.

I've never had a great sense of direction. And I often wander into shops and, upon coming back out, can't remember which way I've come from — left or right? Many people are like me, and why do some constantly have no idea where they are?

The hippocampus (海马体) is a region of the brain associated with memory and involved in sense of direction. And a nearby region has also been associated with sense of direction. There are four known types of navigation-related neurons (神经元), found in these regions place cells, grid cells, border cells and head direction cells.

In short, you can think of place cells as an internal cognitive (认知的) map; they identify where you are. Grid cells are like a GPS system in our brain; they tell us about the relationship of this place to other places we've been to. Border cells respond to the presence of environmental boundaries at a specific direction and distance from us. Lastly, head direction cells are activated when our head faces a specific direction. These cells will fire electrical impulses when we enter familiar locations, with each group of cells relating to a specific place.

Our reliance on GPS and smartphones may have decreased the ability to use our internal maps. Older adults who regularly used GPS had less activity in their hippocampus, compared with those who did not use GPS. They also performed slightly worse in a cognition test. In contrast, a study involving London taxi drivers found they significantly larger hippocampus than ordinary people.

You can improve your way-finding ability specifically by practicing the skill, according to Aziz, PhD of neurology at Temple University School of Medicine. "The more you get out and go to places, the better," he says. Physical exercise improves the blood flow to the brain, while mental exercise, such as doing puzzles or learning a new language, stimulates the development of new nerve cells and connections in your brain.

During World War II, Duchess Nina Douglas-Hamilton played a vital role in looking after animals.

As the war broke out, the government issued orders for the mass killing livestock (家畜) to prevent them from being captured or destroyed by the enemy. Duchess Nina launched a campaign to save as many animals as possible, and soon became known as the "animal heroine" for her efforts.

Duchess Nina worked with local farmers and animal owners to relocate animals to safer areas, such as the Scottish Highlands. She also established a network of volunteers who helped to care for animals during the war. She organized feeding programs, medical care and transportation, ensuring that animals were well looked after even during the most difficult times. The most challenging aspect of her work was the shortage of food during the war. So she established a vegetable garden and used leftovers to create nutritious meals for animals. She also reached out to the public for donations of food and supplies, and was able to secure enough resources to keep animals healthy and fed.

In addition to her work with domestic animals, Duchess Nina wạs also a strong advocate for wildlife conservation. She established a center for wild animals Scotland, where she provided a safe place for deer, foxes and other animals that were threatened by the war. She also worked with local protection groups to protect natural habitats.

Duchess Nina's work during World War II was not without its risks. She frequently risked her life to save animals, often driving through perilous areas.

Sadly, some people saw her efforts as a distraction from the war effort. However, she continued to work tirelessly for animals. After the war, Duchess Nina's work was recognized by the government and she got an important award for her services to animals.