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"SAI BABA! Sai Baba! Sai Baba! Hahahaha!"

"Today is Shimla's big day! We have a celebrity visiting our city! Hahahaha!" Rani's cheekcs burned with embarrassment and tears stung her eyes as she elbowed her way to the exit through the crowd of teasing boys in the packed school bus. It wasn't the first time she'd been called Sai Baba, after the famous Hindu holy man (印度圣人) she'd seen on TV with his trademark afro (爆炸式卷发) towering over his head.

But this time had to be the worst. Rani jumped off the school bus, angry thoughts hovering inside Rani's head as she marched home in the drizzling rain. Why did her hair have to curl like a giant cotton candy balloon just when she wanted it to behave? Why, why. why, fumed Rani as she turned the back door key.

"Rani, is that you?" Mama called from the family room. Suddenly Rani's cousins, Amit and Sumit, came charging toward her. "How many eggs does Rani have in that nest on her head?" screamed Amit. "Let me get that wig (假发) off Rani's head!" shouted Sumit. Before she could think, Rani had fled out the door and went back up the road she'd walked down minutes before. Halfway up, she slid unseen behind a green curtain of bamboo. Tearing through the wild growth, she made her way down a narrow mud path into a clearing (空地). She threw her schoolbag on the ground and breathed hard.

"I hate my hair!" she cried. Collapsing on her schoolbag, she bitterly remembered the time she'd spent trying to smooth her hair in vain. Before long, she fell into a fitful sleep.

"RANI! RAA-AANI!"

Rani woke up to Mama's calls. She sounded anxious. "I'll never go home, " she promised herself darkly. Mama let Amit and Sumit make fun of me. Papa would never have done that. He would listen to me and stand by my side. The minutes wore on. Alone in her secret hideout, Rani watched the shadow of Mamna get longer and begin to disappear as dusk fell.

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Suddenly, leaves rustling, someone or something was making its way into the clearing. 

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The next moment Papa was sitting beside her. 

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Tea is commonly considered native to Southern China. However, in a garden in Geling village in Metog county in the Tibet autonomous region, the morning air is filled with the sweet aroma of  (fresh) picked tea. 

Tsering Yangdron, a 25-year-old Monba, one of the ethnic groups live in this region, skillfully makes her way through the garden, carefully picking tender tea leaves and tossing them into a bamboo basket tied to her waist. Tea picking (become) a habit for her over the past five years. After she is done, Tsering Yangdron goes back home, where she also runs a homestay. "We have come up with dish of fresh tea buds fried with eggs, " she said. A kilogram of fresh tea buds (sell) for 300 yuan. Once (dry) and processed to make green tea, their value increases significantly.

Geling was once inaccessible as a result of the dense forests, the opening of the Metog highway in 2013 significantly improved connectivity and created opportunities for economic growth. Prior to Huang Jiabin's appointment the village's Party secretary, the tea plantation in Geling was a neglected piece of land.

" (realize) the valley was suitable for growing tea, since 2018, we have improved the management of the tea plantation, introduced advanced planting techniques and provided training for (village), " Huang said.

I was busy and often dealt with customer emails at lunch. Even fifteen minutes in the employee lunchroom seemed a 1 . My company, like many companies, cut costs by not 2  people as they left. The survivors had to take up more 3 . 

For me, this 4 no lunch hour, plus taking work home. I wanted to 5 , but I couldn't until I had another job in hand. 6 in theory, but given how annoyed the extra hours made me feel, it was difficult to convince 7 employers to hire me. I felt trapped. Then a chance 8 with a little girl changed my perspective. The girl was 9 happy, standing in line with her mom at the grocery.

"Good day at school?" I asked.

A nod. 

"What's your favorite subject?"

I smiled at the answer. I 10  when that had been my answer. At that time, no teachers told you what to do at lunch. We just played happily. 

That brief 11  left me wondering: What had happened to lunch?

I knew that by law I was 12  to a lunch break. So I decided to start 13  it. I began to had a walk during the lunch break, which made me refreshed. 

Now I'm still 14 a new position but with less stressed-out urgency than before. You can't always change your 15 , but you can always change your perspective.

How to accept change in life and embrace it positively

Change is the only constant in life. Because whether we want it or not, change is inevitable. It is "change" that makes our life move forward. It's "change" that makes life exciting and worth living. Let's see how to stay strong when we face changes in life.

Accept the situation

Changes happen expectedly and unexpectedly. But there can be changes that happen so suddenly that you might have to experience painful days and have a tough time coping with them. Give yourself sometime to come to terms with it. You may have to go through a mourning period where you have to experience all kinds of emotions. Let the emotions come out and make space for them. It's normal to feel sad and a sense of loss when you think about your old life. Seek support and if possible, take a few days off to find your strength. It's important to learn to deal with the transition phase before you fully start living the new reality.

Embrace the unknown

Most of us are afraid of the unknown and therefore are resistant to change. Even if it is for good, we hesitate to accept change because human beings love structure and routine. But I have often experienced in my life that the "unknown" I feared so much was not that scary at all, once I went through it. And that my worries were something that my mind made up. Truth be told, most of the things I worried about didn't happen anyway. If we are not willing to embrace the unknown, we may miss out on lots of good things that life has kept in store for us.

One of the reasons change is difficult to accept is because of the range of emotions we feel when we confront change. Acknowledge your fears but stop yourself from being tunnel-visioned. Our mind has away of bringing up possible scenarios and fear them. But I have learned over the years that most of the things we fear don't happen and usually, something good comes from change. I recently learned how to embrace emotions from one of my spiritual teachers. She would say, "When you feel emotions, give them a name and acknowledge that they have come to ‘visit'. "

A. Acknowledge your fears. 

B. Look at how far you have come. 

C. The sooner we learn to make peace with this fact, the better. 

D. We fear the unknown because anything can happen to us there. 

E. Expected or planned changes can buy us sometime for preparation. 

F. It's important to embrace your feelings and accept that they are there.

G. People who have experienced the loss of loved ones often talk about how that experience changed them. 

Whether we are sitting down or standing up, still or moving, body posture influences our mood. Several studies have shown this link between physical posture and mood. Others have shown a relationship between our mood and our cognitive (认知的) performance, including memory, reasoning, learning, and the speed of reaction and processing of information. 

So a logical question arises. Can body posture influence our cognitive performance?

Previously, a New Zealand team (University of Auckland) carried out an experiment on posture when we walk, especially in the street. The team had found a very clear influence of our posture on our mood and confidence. It appears that walking with a hunched back, bowed head and motionless arms have a negative influence on our mental state. 

Indeed, the researchers found that the simple act of straightening up, standing up straight, with your head held high, and gazing forward gives us a serious boost of confidence. Not only does our spontaneous posture have a psychological effect, but by correcting it, it is possible to bring about improvement in the long term. 

In this other study, this time carried out by an Austrian team (Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg), researchers observed the same phenomenon, this time in a sitting position. Young adults were invited to participate in tests presented as intended to assess their ability to concentrate. In fact, the researchers had them sit in different postures — from upright to very slumped (消沉) — in order to note their influences on mood and cognition. 

A first observation indicates that "sitting upright" is associated with a better overall mood. It is also found to have a positive influence on the speed of processing information and completing tasks, although the test pass rate does not vary significantly with posture.

Finally, and surprisingly enough, blood pressure is a little more favorable in an upright position. To further complete the list of benefits of sitting upright, we will add that it is widely recommended for protecting the back in case of work that requires sitting for a long time. 

Do you crave chips, pizza, donuts, or cake? These kinds of foods are high in sugar and fats, which make them delicious but not nutritious. A recent analysis suggests that certain ingredients in these types of processed foods can be addictive. 

According to the research published in the journal Addiction, certain foods can trigger the same feelings as drugs. It all comes down to what's happening in the brain. When we feel happy, it's due to a flood of the feel-good chemical dopamine(多巴胺) in the striatum. This region is part of the brain's reward circuit. The striatum gets a dopamine rush when something good happens. Drugs and alcohol can cause a similar high. So, it turns out, can some popular snack foods.

"We're designed to find carbohydrates(碳水化合物) and fats, " says Ashley Gearhardt, a psychologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Evolving such tastes helped our ancestors "overcome famine and make sure we survive, " she explains. That critical role shaped the brain's reward system, making us hard-wired to enjoy carbohydrates and fatty foods.

The problem isn't with all foods containing carbohydrates and fats. Fruit is full of sugar. Oats and other whole grains have lots of carbohydrates. Nuts and meat have fat. But such unprocessed foods—eaten in a form that's similar to how they grew—also contain other nutrients, such as fiber, that slow digestion. That limits how quickly our bodies can absorb the nutrients.

Cookies, candy, soda, fries and other highly processed foods lack those additional nutrients. Such foods contain ingredients that have been highly changed from their natural state. They're chock full of easy-to-absorb carbohydrates and added fats. What's more, they often contain ingredients that don't naturally occur together. When we eat these foods, we get a quick "hit" of carbs and fats that give the brain a boost. That makes us want to eat them again and again.

During my first year in college, I was silent. I was too afraid of saying something wrong. 

I declared a religion major as a sophomore and took a class from Barbara, a young theologian. My mind was split open by a range of new thinkers and writers and by the quality of Barbara's questions, I finally had something to say and the energy to say it. I was a frequent visitor during Barbara's office hours, a rocket of words. She listened and calmly responded, a perfect contrast to my feverish ramblings. I loved what she saw in me, which was a range of abilities I had never seen in myself. In the following years, our relationship gradually deepened, but I was always conscious of a teacher-student dynamic.

This changed fundamentally when I became a parent. I had my son in March 2010, and Barbara was one of the first to congratulate me. When, nine months later, my child was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease, a rare and always terminal illness with no treatment and no cure, she sent me a letter-handwritten on a white legal pad. For the next two and a half years, Barbara wrote me regular, sometimes weekly, letters, remarkable letters that are revealing, loving, and kind. 

The letter written right before my son died, when he was three, was the most personal and perhaps the most profound. "I think he's made you better by opening up the great fire of your love, " she wrote, "with his small but magnificent existence. " I have never in my life read a more deeply comforting sentence, one that spoke to my grandest hopes, my deepest fears, and the only faith that remains to me, which is a belief in chaos. Our love had bloomed and deepened from a guarded mutual respect to a richer, deeper friendship.

Mentors are meant to lead those in their charge into fresh understanding, help them sort and filter new experiences, assist in the project of making sense out of the chaos that is human life. Mentors observe and accompany the darkest despair, the wildest sorrow, and the most unexpected joy. 

Getting to know your money personality can help you rein in your spending habits and take back control of your personal finances. Here finance saving money expert Pete Ridley at CarFinanceSaver reveals the UKs core money personalities, along with actions to adopt that reduce the negative consequences of each personality type. 

The Spontaneous Spender

A spontaneous spender refers to a person that exhibits a "spend now, think later" attitude. They can find it tricky to differentiate between "need to haves" and "nice to haves", and often feel "spender's guilt".

"Before you make a purchase, take time to decide whether the item is a ‘need to have' or a ‘nice to have'. This will aid in avoiding splurges (挥霍) that provide short term satisfaction and post-spenders' guilt. " says Ridley.

The Determined Saver

An underlying sense of worry and fear can be at the root of a persistent saver, and their determination to save disguises an overwhelming fear of money. 

"Saving is great, " says Ridley, "but it's important to regard money as a friend and not an enemy. Always be sure to make non-essential purchases. These items don't have to be a major expense, but just enough that you acknowledge that money can be there to be enjoyed and not just put away. "

The Money=Status

This personality type can live beyond their means by making purchases that they don't need, striving to keep up with others and saying yes to friendship plans that they cannot afford, to keep up the appearance of financial wellbeing.

"It's here that you can adopt the 50/20/30 rule: 50 percent essential living expenses, 30 percent disposable income and 20 percent saving and paying debts, " suggests Ridley.

This will maintain financial wellbeing while helping to acknowledge that money doesn't necessarily equal status or even impress those around you.

As he lay awake that night, Tony could hear his parents discussing his sister Alice's birthday. It was just two days away. Birthdays were always a lot of fun, even though there was no money for store-bought gifts. Nearly all of toys he and his sister had were homemade. There was nothing wrong with that, he knew. Like many families in this part, they were poor.

This birthday would be different, though. Alice was older now, and he'd seen how her eyes lit up when she saw the new doll at Honey House, a neighborhood store just down the road from their house.

How he longed for her to have it! An idea finally came to him just before he went to bed. After a quick breakfast the following morning, he tied a bag to the handlebars of his bike and headed toward a village hill. 

After a long journey, he reached his destination, the mango forest. There were already two other boys there. Tony grabbed his bag and set to work immediately. 

The sun was high overhead. The weather was hot and nearly all of the taller trees held ripe mangoes but they were well beyond reach. Tony struggled to climb the trees to pick mangoes, though he fell off many times. 

His efforts were sometimes rewarded when a mango dropped into the bag. After a while his neck ached from looking upward, and his arms grew sore. He kept at it, though, and by late afternoon his bag was nearly full. 

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Tony rushed back to Honey House, out of breath, only to find the owner of the store was going to close the door.

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The following morning, Alice walked into the kitchen and took a seat at the breakfast table.

In Lanzhou, Gansu province, the day begins a hot bowl of beef noodles. 

According to a recent archaeological (discover) in Qinghai Province where a 50-centimeter-long noodle was unearthed, the noodles have a history of about 4,000 years. 

Recently the first recipe (菜谱) for Lanzhou beef noodles was discovered in unusual form of a poem (古诗) by the late 18th century scholar Chen Weijing. Few (write) recipes survive from the Qing Dynasty, because cook (consider) a lower-end profession (职业) then, which hardly attracted educated people. The poem listed two ingredients per line, although without further (instruction) such as the amount of each ingredient or the cooking time. 

The second person (improve) Lanzhou beef noodles was a cook named Ma Zilu, lived in the early twentieth century. By that time, hundreds of beef noodle restaurants had opened in Lanzhou, and the taste in each location differed (significant). After achieving a form of unity among the different restaurants in Lanzhou, Ma later opened a small food cart and traveled around China,  (introduce) the dish all the way to the southeast port city of Guangzhou. 

When I was a boy, my parents owned a small grocery store. As I 1 those days, many people come to mind. One such person was Nick. 

I still remember the first time I saw him—or perhaps "experienced" him is a more 2 term. The moment he entered the store I could feel a rush of 3 fill the place. Singing at the top of his lungs, Nick made quite a(n) 4 .

Nick had great enthusiasm for life. I really admired him for his ability to be completely himself and at 5 with everyone he met and in every situation. For me his 6 wasn't really what he did or how he did it, but rather that he was absolutely comfortable simply being himself — a true free spirit. The memory of Nick 7 me of the encouraging phrase, "Dance like no one is 8 . "

Countless times I've resisted expressing myself simply because I didn't want to 9 looking silly or foolish. I often 10 my true self behind a wall of insecurity, but respect those who 11 this inhibition (压抑). No 12 this is why I remember Nick so fondly, for he was who he was, and didn't for a second 13 any of it back. Whether you loved him or hated him, Nick most certainly danced to his own 14 and never apologized for it.

Perhaps someday I, too, will have the courage and confidence to 15 the steps to that dance. 

Change Your Routines(日常生活)

It can be difficult to move forward in a new direction if you just keep following the same routines day in and day out. People tend to(倾向于) be creatures of habits, and sometimes that feeling of being stuck in a rut (墨守陈规) can result from a sense of boredom(无聊).  Here are some things you can try:

This can be a great way to enrich(使丰富)your social connections and learn interesting things about the people who are around you. So you can choose a person around you and then talk with him. 

Have some fun.  For example, you can hang out with friends or take up a hobby that you are always interested in. Set aside some time during the week, during which you can spend your energy in having a good time. 

Try something new. Whether it is taking a new way to work, watching a new show, or signing up for some kind of class,  This can help add the beautiful scenery to your life and may give you a totally new life. 

Be spontaneous (自发的). If you are bored with some part of your life, start trying to live in the moment. Say yes to the experiences that are without any plans and do not be afraid to do the unexpected things. 

A. Start a conversation. 

B. accept what you are feeling. 

C. Try to head outdoors for a walk. 

D. Do things that are not carefully pre-planned. 

E. Spend some time on an activity you truly love. 

F. explore the world around you in new and different ways. 

G. So look for ways you can add some different experiences to each day. 

Whales are important animals in the sea. The organizations of the world are calling all nations not to kill or eat whales any more. But Japan's new whaling(捕鲸) plan is a great danger to the living of these large animals. It will also do harm to the sea interests (利益) of other surrounding countries including China, experts said.

After the Japanese government made its decision clear on Nov. 8, 2016 to catch 100 more whales in 2017, many animal experts in the world voiced their angry answers. According to a Japan News report, Japan caught 174 minke whales and 140 sei whales totally in the northwest Pacific Ocean in 2017. 

"After years of overfishing(过度捕捞),the population of minke whales in the northwest Pacific Ocean has been reduced to a dangerous level. Therefore, Japan should stop whaling in the area," said Wang Yaming, a leader of the International Whaling Organization. According to Wang, most whales living in the northwest Pacific Ocean are migratory(迁徙的)animals，and their traveling way is very close to the land of Russia, South Korea, North Korea, Japan and China. Japan's whaling will also have a terrible influence on those countries.

Although the world has stopped to catch and kill whales, Japan lies to others that its killing of whales is just for scientific purposes. However, many experts don't agree with it completely. "Japan should not kill more whales, as doing so would harm the international whale resources(资源). Japan's whaling in the northwest Pacific Ocean hasn't drawn much more attention because it hardly influences the interests of western countries. " Wang explained.

It is really high time for Japan to stop its whaling from now on. 

Years ago, as a business reporter, I interviewed an advertising manager. I was there to ask about the latest campaign. But when I sat down, he wanted to talk about writing novels. 

He spent hours meeting with clients(客户), but he dreamed of being a novelist instead. I remember thinking: Sure, everybody dreams to be a novelist. Who doesn't?

A decade later, however, I was surprised to see the same person on TV, holding up his new book. James Patterson had developed into a best-selling author. He has since published more than 100 New York Times best sellers. 

"I never thought of myself as an advertising person," he told me when I asked how he'd done it. "I always planned to be a writer. " Mr. Patterson's ability to sec himself as a writer shows a term(术语) "possible selves. " It describes how people envision their futures: what they may become, or want to become, etc.

The term, created in 1986 by the social psychologists Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius,grew out of research on self-concept and self-perception(自我知觉). While self-concepts, like "I am a kind person" or "I am a good parent", are based on the present, the researchers found that people are also influenced by possible selves - what they might become in the future and how they might change.

These possible selves,both positive and negative,are closely related to motivation (动机). In a small study, when young adults were made to envision themselves as either regular exercisers (hoped-for selves) or inactive (feared selves),both groups exercised more in the weeks afterward. But researchers have found that imagining positive possible selves can improve health and reduce depression by holding out the hope for a better future. 

A possible self can help you realize daydreams, which seem to be unrealistic, "if you build a bridge from your ‘now' self to the possible self," Dr. Markus said. But how do we build that bridge?