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My husband, our children and I have had wonderful camping experiences over the past ten years. 

Some of our 1  are funny, especially from the early years when our children were little. Once, we 2  along Chalk Creek. I was 3  that our 15-month-old boy would fall into the creek（小溪）. I tied a rope around his waist to keep him near to our spot. That lasted about ten minutes. He was 4  , and his crying let the whole campground know it. So 5  tying him up, I just kept a close eye on him. It 6  —he didn't end up in the creek. My three-year-old, however, did. 

Another time, we rented a boat in Vallecito Lake. The sky was clear when we 7  , but storms move in fast in the mountains, and this one quickly 8  our peaceful morning trip. The 9  picked up and thunder rolled. My husband stopped fishing to 10  the motor. Nothing. He tried again. No 11  . We were stuck in the middle of the lake with a dead motor. As we all sat there 12  , a fisherman pulled up, threw us a rope and towed（拖） us back. We were 13  . 

Now, every year when my husband pulls our camper out of the garage, we are filled with a sense of 14  , wondering what camping fun and 15  we will experience next. 

Friendship needs care and attention to keep it in good health. Here are five ways to sustain（保持）long-distance friendships. 

●Set a regular date. 

Long- lasting friendships share the characteristic that both sides equally contact（联系） and share with one another. With busy schedules, squeezing in phone calls can be a challenge.  . 

●More isn't always merrier

Make sure you have communicated with your friend about how frequently each of you wants to be contacted and what method works best for you both.  . There are alternatives to constant written communication, such as leaving voice messages or having a group chat. 

●Practise empathy（共情）

●  . The friend who is remaining needs to be sensitive to all the additional time demands placed on the friend who has moved. The one in the new environment should be sympathetic to the fact that your friend may feel abandoned. 

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Anniversaries and birthdays carry even more weight in long-distance friendships. Although technology might make day-to-day communication possible, extra effort goes a long way on special days. Simply keeping a diary that keeps track of friends' birthdays and other important dates will make sure nothing slips by you. 

●Don't rely on technology alone

  , but long-distance friendships-even close ones-may require more conscious effort to sustain. Try to seek out chances to renew friendships. How to do it? Just spend face-to-face time together whenever possible. 

A. Remember important dates 

B. Compensate（补偿, 赔偿）by writing letters 

C. It is also helpful for you to be a friendship keeper 

D. Try to find a time that works for both of you and stick to it 

E. Friends need to talk about their preferred methods of communication 

F. It is easy to have a sense of connectedness through social media 

G. You may be the friend who left or the one who was left behind

Much of our thinking about health is based on wishful thinking. But science provides clear and simple advice for a healthy life. Graham Lawton explores the evidence. Graham proves that you don't have to be a health and fitness extremist to be reasonably healthy. He has rounded up the latest and strictest health research and changed it into useful advice on all the big health questions: diet, weight loss, exercise, sleep, ageing and so on. 

Graham, New Scientist feature writer, is not the common health expert. He sometimes eats fast food. He has a gym membership but rarely uses it. And he takes medicine to keep his blood pressure under control. He neither has a diet plan nor a 6-week program to keep fit and thin. 

But he does have a much better weapon: science. In a talk, Graham explains the basic science, tells people some of the secrets of science, teaches people to use the ability of judgement to tell the good from the bad, and helps them to see beyond the headlines. The talk allows people to eat healthily, lose weight, and sort the truth out from science facts. 

But he loves outdoor sports. Last year Graham cycled over 1, 200 miles and ran the same distance of 15 marathons. He often goes swimming outdoors, walks up eight flights of stairs to his desk instead of taking the lift. He eats his five copies of fruit and vegetables a day, keeps enough water in his body, and doesn't eat much meat. Despite all the bad habits, his good ones seem to be winning. Graham is 50, but his "biological age" was recently measured as 45.

As you probably know, learning a foreign language is sometimes challenging. But it can also be fun We spend hundreds of hours at school trying to get our tongues round different vocabulary and grammar in order to earn a qualification. But learning to speak a second language is more than just passing an exam—it opens doors to new opportunities, helps you to communicate with others and makes travelling overseas more satisfactory. 

It might come as a surprise that the number of teenagers learning foreign languages in UK secondary schools has dropped by 45% since the turn of the millennium. German and French have fallen the most-these languages from two of the UK's closest trading partners have declined at GCSE level. Another survey of secondary schools suggests a third of students have dropped at least one language from their GCSE exam options. There are some reasons for this, including many students' opinion that languages are difficult. Others have questioned the need for a second language when translation technology is advancing. 

Matthew Fell, chief UK policy director for business group the CBI, believes that "The decline in language learning in schools must be reversed, or else the UK will be less competitive globally and young people less prepared for the modern world. " But even for those who are eager to study another language the opportunity is being reduced. In Scotland, for example, foreign language subjects are being pressed out of many secondary school timetables with some head teachers blaming pressure on the curriculum.

However, some native English speakers have admitted the benefits of speaking another tongue Cassandra Scott, from Edinburgh, studied three languages in her final year at school. She is now a freelance translator in Edinburgh, and says "Learning languages at school really set the course for my career. "

I am a freshman at Orange High School. In 2013, I founded an organization called Love For The Elderly. So many elderly people have no one to care for them, and no one to love them. When I say this, I am talking about pure love, unconditional love that shows kindness no matter what the situations may be. 

The elderly have smoothed the pathway of success for our generation. They should be shown appreciation（感激） and kindness, but are often forgotten. I am are all of you have someone in your hearts who has been at a nursing home. Think of them while I say this; they should get the best, nothing but the best. The elderly are such an unusual group of people, and their shining wisdom can most certainly be learned from. This idea of showing appreciation to the elderly reverberated（回响） inside my head, until finally, I decided it was time to step up and make a difference. 

My love for and ability in writing led me to create an organization, where people from all across the world send nameless letters filled with kindness and joy, from Iceland, Romania, Finland, Australia, and more. I then send these letters to senior centers, and nursing homes located all across the country. To this date, I have collected over 1, 000 letters, and the reaction I have received from these organizations has been truly unbelievable. 

This past month, I had the opportunity to receive $100 from KindSpring through their monthly kindness competition to help my organization. This money has been of great help. We do not receive much money, and so it helped to pay for many costs, including postage and envelopes. This act of kindness has been very helpful to my organization, and I could not be more appreciative. If any of you would like to get involved in my organization, please visit lovefortheelderly. org.

As a popular tour operator, Travel China Guide designs a lot of China tour packages（旅游套餐） for foreigners with the best-selling travel deals to wonderful must-see destinations and offers the best quality services. We warmly invite you to join us on an exciting vacation. Today we will offer you a three days' private Zhangjiajie in-depth tour. 

Day 1 Arrival in Zhangjiajie

Welcome to this charming city, Zhangjiajie. Your guide and driver will pick you up at the airport and drive you to the hotel we booked for you ahead of time. The rest time of the day remains free for you to relax. 

Day 2 Glass Bridge in Zhangjiajie

Today, your private Zhangjiajie tour will start with a visit to the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon, where you will have a chance to experience the world's longest and highest glass bridge, Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge. In addition to an unforgettable experience, it will also give you a special angle to enjoy the beauty of the Grand Valley. 

Afterwards, your guide will lead you to the Baofeng Lake where you will take a scenic boat ride. 

When you finish visiting the scenic area, the driver will send you back to the hotel. 

Day 3 Away From Zhangjiajie

Today your Zhangjiajie tour will continue to go to the Tianmen Mountain, known as the most beautiful "Hanging Garden" in the world. Tianmen Mountain is named after a natural wonder, Tianmen Cave, which is a naturally formed hole among thousand-metre high cliffs. In addition to this wonder, you may also see different old trees, green vines and rare animals there.

Your three-day Zhangjiajie tour package will come to an end here. You will then be driven to the airport and we will say goodbye there. If you want to have your China tour schedule further, we will be glad to provide detailed information. 

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The School Newspaper

Growing up in Ireland, Pierce Forde loved motorcycles. His 1  in it only grew as he got older. 

One day, Forde was heading straight through a crossing when a car 2  turned left. The vehicle dashed against his motorcycle, whose front wheel 3  to the ground, severely injuring him and he was 4  on the ground. 

Out of nowhere, a man 5 at his side. He took Forde's hand and said, "You'll be OK, brother." Even though his 6 , Forde noticed the man's deep and comfort-giving 7 which reminded him of the singer Barry White.

"What's your name?" the man asked. "Pierce. . . "Forde replied.

Forde started shaking. So the man 8 the same questions several times, "What's your name? What day is today? Where do you live?" He insisted that Forde concentrate on him but not on his 9 .

Luckily, the doctors arrived and took Forde to the 10 . He had been there for three weeks when, one day, the man who had helped him 11  at his hospital room. 

"I just started 12 . . . just tears rolling down my face. My13 is here," Forde recalled.

Ford and the man 14 about their life. After about one hour's conversation, they shook hands. The man wished Forde an early 15 and he walked out of the door.

Delicious and sweet bananas are full of vitamins, trace elements and nutrients. It is the raw material of many healthy foods, too. ? Usually ends up in the garbage cans, right? There are, however, three uses of banana skins that you may have never thought of. 

The first one is to cover for grilled chicken. Chicken baked on the grill (烤架) is very tasty and healthy., you should take its skin off. In this way, however, the meat remains unprotected over the heat and fire and can dry out easily. If you cover the chicken with banana skin, it will protect the meat from drying out.. 

Are you looking for a quick solution to refresh your tired skin or a budget friendly and natural antiwrinkle treatment?. Place a small banana skin under your eyes, apply it on your face for 5 minutes and then wash it off, which might help reduce wrinkles on your face and relieve swollen eyes. 

The last one is that banana skins are cheap and simple teeth whitening. Simply rub your freshly washed teeth with the inside of the banana shell every day for about 2 minutes. Salicylic (水杨酸的) acid in bananas gently causes teeth to become white, effectively removing dirt.

A. But what about the banana skins

B. And what are the banana functions

C. In both cases, the banana skins may help you

D. However, if you want to make it even healthier

E. It will cost you too much time to make your teeth whiter

F. The banana skin will basically work as the chicken skin would

G. You don't have to spend your salary on dentistry to make your teeth whiter

Engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo are successfully using a robot to help keep children with learning disabilities focused on their work. This was one of the key results in a new study that also found both the youngsters and their instructors valued the positive classroom contributions made by the robot. 

"Overall, the findings demonstrate that the robot has a positive effect on students," said Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn, a professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Educators have in recent years explored the use of social robots to help students learn, but most often, their research has focused on children with autism (孤独症). As a result, little work has been done on the use of socially assistive robots for students with learning disabilities. 

Along with two other Waterloo engineering researchers and three experts from the Learning. Disabilities Society in Vancouver, Dautenhahn decided to change this, conducting a series of tests with a small humanoid (仿人的) robot called QTrobot. 

Dautenhahn said the robot's ability to perform gestures using its head and hands, accompanied by its speech and facial features, makes it very suitable for children with learning disabilities.

Building on promising earlier research, the researchers divided 16 students with learning disabilities into two groups. In one group, students worked one on-one with an instructor only. In the other group, the students worked one-on-one with an instructor and a QTrobot. In the latter group, the instructor used a tablet to direct the robot, which then autonomously performed various activities using its speech and gestures. While the instructor controlled the sessions, the robot took over at certain times to lead the students. 

Besides introducing the session, the robot set goals and provided self-regulating strategies, if necessary. If the learning process was getting off- track, the robot used strategies such as games, riddles and physical movements to redirect the students back to the task. 

"Students who worked with the robot," Dautenhahn said, "were generally more engaged with their tasks and could complete their tasks at a higher rate compared to the students who weren't assisted by a robot.

If you've ever eaten a free doughnut (甜甜圈) on the first Friday in June, you've celebrated the Doughnut Lassies- whether you realized it or not, National Doughnut Day was established to honor the Salvation Army volunteers who fried sugary snacks for World War I soldiers on the front line.

When the US entered World War I in 1917, the Salvation Army, a charity organization, sent about 250 volunteers (who were mostly women) to France, where the American army was stationed. The plan was to bring treats and supplies as close to the front line as possible. But the closer the volunteers got to the action, the fewer resources they could access.

Margaret Sheldon and Helen Purviance were credited with bringing doughnuts to the Wester Front. They had a handful of ingredients, including flour, sugar, animal fats, baking powder and canned milk. Doughnuts were one of the few sweet foods they could make without an oven, and once they had a fire hot enough to heat the oil, they could fry them up fast. The women had the pan to cook them in, but for other parts, they had to get creative. For example, grape juice bottles became rolling pins (擀面杖) when necessary. 

Sheldon and Purviance's pan could fit seven doughnuts at a time, and on day one, they made just 150 doughnuts for the group of 800 men. The soldiers even fought over a doughnut. Then they made some changes to their operation, and eventually made 5,000 doughnuts a day. The snacks were so popular that the volunteers earned the nickname " Doughnut Lassies", while the soldiers they served were nicknamed "Doughboys".

The Doughnut Lassies' impact didn't end with World War I. The American soldiers' experiences overseas made doughnuts a commonly eaten food for them back home.

Every parent wants their children to develop well. Sometimes it seems that a child's game is empty entertainment and it would be better to replace it with something more useful. However, for a child, play is the main way of interacting with the world, mastering new knowledge and skills.

The game forms a unique model of the world, redesigned in accordance with the needs and capabilities of the children. It reflects the real world and helps to master it. That is why it is so important to choose the right toys for your children. 

For a child, any game is the same productive activity as work for an adult. And if the result of adult work is the produced "product", for children, the result of the game is new knowledge about the world and a better understanding of how the world works. Interacting with other children during the game, the child develops his or her own style of behavior and communication. In short, play is critical to development because it is the way a child interacts with the world.

Through the game, children learn new skills and develop speech, thinking and logic, memory, attention and other mental functions. In games, children learn to follow the rules, control their behaviors, develop communication skills with peers and adults. Often the game becomes a way for children to cope with their difficult experiences and express their feelings of fear, anger, resentment, sadness and shame. The game also will bring pleasure, joy and a lot of other positive emotions to children- and the significance of this cannot be underestimated. Also, through the game, children learn to be proud of their success, which supports their self-esteem. Adequate self-esteem is the key to the full development of the individual. 

The role of an adult in play is to support and encourage the child. This helps the child understand that his opinion is valuable, and his ideas and fantasies deserve respect.

Whether you plan to head out to the theater, or watch films and TV shows on the sofa, our experts have gathered their favorite and different styles' films and TV shows of 2022.

All That Breathes

The documentary is set against the climate disaster of the failing river and crowded neighborhoods of Delhi. It follows two brothers who run a hospital for injured birds. The winged stars stumble (蹒跚而行) and fly across the screen as their caretakers start healing, both for the birds and their broken city. 

Style: Documentary

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

I was not expecting to be undone by the last several minutes of this movie, but there I was, crying over a very familiar story that suddenly felt new all over again. The animation is lively and beautifully detailed; the actors are nearly perfect, especially Ewan McGregor as the lovely version of the cricket (蟋蟀). 

Style: Animation, kid friendly, music and musicals, science fiction

Moonage Daydream

As a committed music documentary watcher, I was completely unprepared for the IMAX world building that director Brett Morgen brought to his authorized biography of David Bowie. Morgen made a film designed for vision and hearing, a film that both celebrates Bowie's music and conveys the currents of a real life.

Style: Music and musicals

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Set 10 years before James T. Kirk's as a captain, this series takes big swings-showing us the origin story of trainee Nyota Uhura, rewriting Mr. Spock's romantic past and enriching the heroic command of Christopher Pike. Paired with updated visual effects and storytelling, it's wonderful.

Style: Action, drama, science fiction and fantasy