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A few years ago, I was having dinner with some good friends to celebrate the upcoming Christmas holiday. As we were finishing up that evening, one of my friends told us a very story about something that had happened the day before. Her son's friend was in his mid-twenties and self-employed. He lived on the second floor of a house nearby. Someone who lived on the first floor had been smoking and fell asleep. The house burnt down. All the people escaped, but the house was completely destroyed with everything in it.

All this young man had werethe clothes on his back and his pickup truck. He had no family in the area and nowhere to go. My friend was putting him up for a few days until he could decide what to do next. 

Those of us sitting at the dinner table were horrified. Everyone started opening their wallets to contribute money. My friend put up her hand and said, "He will not accept money. We tried to persuade him, but he thinks it is charity and won't take it. All he wants is a warm coat and some used clothing if anyone has some. "

We were all more than happy to fulfill this request and were told that he wore a size 2XL. None of us knew men who wore that size, so it was going to be a bit of a challenge to take care of this quickly. 

It was a typically cold New York Christmas, and I couldn't imagine him without a coat. I shed tears on the drive home, a combination of grateful tears for the many blessings I had in my life and sad tears for this poor youngmanand his troubles.

I went to bed and woke up in the middle of the night with a very clear thought in my mind. I was to find this young man a coat. 

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The next morning, I went to a nearby charity shop. 

A few minutes later, the salesgirl came out of the back room with a brand-new coat. 

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Dear Kevin,

I'm writing to

Yours,

LiHua

Many years ago, when we first went to Canada, we were driving through Montana to Colorado with our two children. As it was getting late we 1 looking for a hotel only to find out that it was 2 time in that part of the country, and all the hotels were 3 .

Finally, we stopped at a gas station to fill the car up with gas. My husband asked for a(n) 4 book and told the woman at the counter that we were trying to find a hotel. She told us it would be 5 .He tried for 15 minutes. When he was 6 ,the woman, Linda, said she and her family lived nearby and would be happy if we spent the night at her home. 

My husband was 7 at her offer of generosity. She called her son to 8 us, since she had to work at the gas station till midnight. 

When we reached their home, her husband 9 us. He invited us to have coffee and chat while we 10 his wife. She came back past 12 am. We asked if we could slip away in the morning so as not to 11 them. They said we were now 12 and we would have to have breakfast with them. 

Next morning, we ate breakfast, and when we were leaving, my husband asked if he could offer some 13 .They would not hear of it and 14 we were their guests. We kept in touch with them for many years, and invited them to our home, too. Over the years, we have lost touch with them, but have 15 forgotten their kindness. 

Friendships can be sources of joy and sources of sorrow. There isn't exactly a rule book on what to do when things get tense or bad. .

Broken promises

Jan Yager, a specialist in this field often hears from people who've been hurt by a friend's broken promise. Dr. Yagerlikes to point out we don't have formal contracts with friends where we've agreed to never disappoint each other. Therefore if you bring a fantasy about what the ideal friend will do in any situation to a relationship, .

When things feel unbalanced

Maybe you feel like you're always sharing about your life, but your friend doesn't open up about hers. It's common for relationships to experience periods where things are unbalanced. Maybe one friend is going through a breakup and needs extra support. It's also possible another friend simply has more to discuss at any given time. .

It doesn't feel great when you check Facebook Monday morning to find out that your friends went on a weekend getaway without you. Scott Christnelly, another specialist, says, "I encourage clients to express their feelings about it but also not to jump to conclusions. "Then find someone else to talk to — maybe, a family member, or a close friend (not the one who went on the trip) — to explain how you feel. If you do make conversations, .

A. Feeling left out

B. Feeling stressed out

C. you are expecting too much of your friend

D. you are setting yourself up for disappointment

E. you can brainstorm what might have happened and how you will respond

F. In times like these, it's important that you practice becoming a better listener

G. Here are tips on how to manage the common relationship difficulties from specialists

Culture is too complex to define in simple terms. However, there are certain agreed-on fundamentals that can be easily identified. One is that culture is a total pattern of behaviourthat is consistent in its components. Another fundamental is that culture is learned behaviour. The third is that culture is behaviourthat is shared by a group of people. 

To understand the culture of a particular country or region, one could examine its components, among which are material culture, language, and social organization. Material culture includes the tools and symbols in a society, not including those physical things found in nature, unless they have undergone some change or have been given meaning by people. For example, a mouse running on a street is not part of a culture, but the Mickey Mouse is. The way we consume and what we consume are heavily influenced by material culture. 

Language is the most obvious difference between cultures, which reflects the nature and values of that culture. Industrialized societies have a rich vocabulary for commercial and industrial activities, while less industrialized societies may have richer vocabularies for matters important to their societies. 

Social organization differs somewhat from society to society. The primary kind of community association is based on blood ties. In many developing countries, the extended family fulfills several social and economic roles. Itprovides mutual protection, psychological support and a kind of economic insurance or social security for its members. The term "brothers" in Zaire includes those whom we call cousins and uncles.

Cultural analysis serves a variety of purposes. Understanding the various dimensions and their inter-relatedness helps promote cross-cultural awareness. It leads on to the promotion of goodwill, social and economic planning and harmony between social groupings or societies. 

On the "healthy" section of any breakfast menu, you're bound to spot an egg white omelet (煎蛋卷). With no fat and just a quarter of the calories in a whole egg, the whites look like the best choice at first glance. Not so fast, though new research shows a good reason why you might want to keep the yolk (蛋黄) in if you want to get fit. Plus, forget the bad impression that the cholesterol (胆固醇) in yolks has gotten in the past. The USDA removed limits on dietary cholesterol in its most recent dietary guidelines. It's all because evidence doesn't back up claims that the cholesterol you eat has much influence on blood cholesterol levels.

In a recent study, researchers had ten young men eat either whole eggs or egg whites after completing a strength-training workout. Both egg choices contained 18 grams of protein, and the eggs were developed with chemical markers. Thanks to them, the researchers tracked how the men's bodies used amino acids (氨基酸) from the eggs and egg whites, and found some surprising results. About 65 to 70 percent of amino acids were available in the blood for both the whole egg and egg white groups suggesting they'd be equally useful in building muscles. But the rest of the results didn't back up that conclusion.

When the researchers looked specifically at how much protein synthesis — the process that helps muscles repair and grow — occurred, one form of egg clearly did better than the other. "Having whole eggs immediately after exercise resulted in greater protein synthesis than just having egg whites," says lead study author Nicholas Burdin a statement.

Although this study was too small I to be conclusive, its conclusion backs up whole egg benefits that nutritionists have been praising for years. From their point of view egg whites are high-protein, low-calorie, but the yolk contains nearly all of an egg's vitamins. And one study found that adults who eat whole eggs in the morning lose more weight and body fat than those who get the same number of calories from a bread-based breakfast. While no large studies have looked into the weight-loss benefits of whole eggs vs egg whites, there's also no evidence that the 140 calories in two whole large eggs should scare you away. Crack on, egg lovers.

Some interesting places in Barcelona

Barcelona is now Europe's sixth most visited city. If you've never visited it before, a plan to go there is worth making because there's so much to see. The following will definitely leave a deep impression on the first-timers in Barcelona.

Grab a fresh snack at La BoqueriaMarket

Barcelona's biggest market is found right in the middle of the famous La Rambla. Its central location means that it's always packed with people, so prepare to push your way through the stands! The selection and quality of ingredients are excellent. Grab a milk shake and get lost in the crowds.

Look down on the city from the majestic Park Guell

The mosaic-covered buildings of Park Guellhave come to be the postcard photo of Barcelona! The park itself is remarkably beautiful and has one of the best views of the whole city. The best way to reach Park Guellfrom the city centreis to take Bus 24 from PlacaCatalunya. Some areas of the park are free, while the best pats require you to buy a ticket. 

Appreciate 4,000 original Picassos at the Picasso Museum

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona showcases one of the most extensive Picasso collections in the world, with a particular highlight on much of his early work. Picasso spent his adolescent years in Barcelona, and it is the place where he developed his artistic training. The Museum is located in the heart of the Old Town, in the very streets where the young Picasso lived his Barcelona life. 

Take a tour of historic Camp Nou

The second biggest association football stadium in the world is home to one of the most historic clubs of all time. A tour at Camp Nouincludes access to the Camp NouMuseum where you will be able to see 22 Liga and 4 Champions League trophies in the same room. Explore an area solely dedicated to Barcelona's hero, Leo Messi.

For my fifth-grade science fair project, I got six chicken eggs in an incubator(孵化器). 

"But I don't know anything about hatching an egg. "

Mrs. Brubeck smiled. "You don't have to be an immediate expert at everything, Juli. The idea here is to learn something new. "

"But what if they die?"

"Then they die. Document your work scientifically and you'll still get an A. " She pulled The Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickensfrom her bookshelf and said, "Read the book and set yourself up tonight. "

That night I came home, more worried than ever. I'd read the book. I had to turn the eggs three times a day and regulate the temperature and humidity(湿度). But aside from that, what was there to do?

My father came with a cardboard tube and a flashlight. He taped the two together so that the light beam was forced straight out the tube. "I will show you how to candle the eggs," he said, then switched off the light and held an egg up to the cardboard tube. "The light lets you see through the shell so you can watch the embryo(胚胎) develop. Look, see the dark spot here?"

"Is that an embryo?"

"That's it!"

Suddenly it felt real. The eggs were alive! Surely they had to live!

For the next three weeks, I was completely consumed with the growing of chicks. I labeled the eggs A, B, C, D, E and F, but before long they had names, too: Abby, Bonnie, Clyde, Dexter, Eunice and Florence. Every day I weighed them, candled them, turned them. I drew diagrams of various stages of an embryo's development. I documented the daily changes and weight loss of each egg. On the outside the eggs were boring, but I knew what was happening inside!

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Then one morning I was candling Bonnie when I noticed a gentle peck(啄). 

The day came when I was supposed to hand in my science fair project. 

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the concert hall   音乐厅

Dear Jeff ,

I'm glad to tell you that

Yours sincerely,

Li Jin

On a weekend in early October, Hu Wenjue and a group of children gathered in a wetland park. Hu pointed at a wild bird and spoke in a low voice while the children were listening (careful). 

Hu is a pioneer in nature education in Hefei, Anhui Province. He (found) an organization five years ago to offer several nature- based (program) for children under 12years old. Through various outdoor activities, such as (identify) plants and exploring forests, nature education aims (teach) participants, mostly urban residents, how to appreciate, respect and live in harmony nature. 

"Respecting the laws of nature and coexisting with nature harmoniously, we couldchange our lifestyle for the better and it is a virtuous cycle (良性循环), " Hu said. He hopes to see more people protect naturepromote green development and ecological civilization in China.

In recent years, great development (see) in nature education in China, is nourished (滋养) by the country's rich natural resources such as nature reserves, forest parks, wetland parks and geological parks.

"Nature is generous to us if (give) more effective protection, and don't forget that we all belong to nature," Hu said.

I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 13. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to E1 Capitan, a huge rock of 3,300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew 1 I wanted to climb it. That has been my life's passion ever since — 2 the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I've long made Yosemite my 3 .

About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of 4 , like toilet paper, beer cans, and empty boxes, around the area. It's 5 me why visitors started respecting the place 6 and treated such a beautiful home-like place this way.

I tried 7 trash (垃圾) myself, but the job was too big. I would spend an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so 8 it that I decided something had to change. 

As a rock-climbing guide, I knew 9 about organizing any big event. But in 2004, together with some climbers, I set a date for a cleanup. On that day, more than 300 people showed up. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was amazing how much we were able to 10 . I couldn't believe the 11 we made — the park looked clean!

Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2007 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of trash and 12 132 miles of roadway. 

I often hear people 13 about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by doing rather than complaining. We need to teach by 14 . You can't blame others 15 you start with yourself.

Wherever we go, we are surrounded by history. Across the globe, cultural heritage (遗产) is passed down through the generations. Yet, we fight a never-ending and very expensive war to preserve it for the future. And today, it is under attack as never before. Technology is often seen as something that destroys the past. . 

Creating copies via 2D images is extremely laborious and time-consuming. AI technologies are being used to do all the required sourcing, allowing lots of images to be cross-referenced and stored in hours. . AI will also make the restoration and preservation of existing cultural heritage far easier and is vastly superior to previous methods. 

Airborne technology (机载技术) is being increasingly used in the fight to preserve our cultural heritage. 

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has already been used to reveal over 60, 000 Mayan structures that were lying undiscovered in the jungles of Guatemala, without needing a single boot on the ground. Drones (无人机) are also being used to document and monitor huge areas and remove the need for all that costly manpower. 

Human interaction with the most important sites and architecture is doing a great deal of harm. Virtual Reality (VR) technology will play a leading role in preserving our cultural heritage in the coming years. , VR technology will gradually become the way that people experience them. We'll all eventually be able to walk through places, look at (and touch!) artifacts and works of art without ever seeing them with our own eyes.

. Efforts in research, data sharing and project work will need to be pooled internationally. Using the technical expertise of specialist organizations will become ever more important to the sustainable promoting and preserving of the cultural heritage of countries all across the world. 

A. It is being used to save and find it

B. Technology has shaped conflict in several ways

C. But it is now the most essential weapon in the battle

D. Our cultural heritage will be protected via technology

E. This will enable even better and more accurate copies to be created

F. As more cultural heritage sites and objects are digitally mapped and recorded

G. When it measures distances by hitting a target and analyzing the reflected light

Have you been exercising and eating clean, but when you step on the scale, it says you've gained a few pounds? "That's normal, and it doesn't mean that your workouts are not effective,"says Jeffrey A. Dolgan, an exercise physiologist in Miami Beach, Florida.

"A person's scale mass is a combination of muscle, fat, bone, blood, and even the air that we carry in our lungs," he says. "Immediately after a workout routine, the percentage of mass in each body part can shift as much as 15 percent. " So if you're gaining weight while working out and eating healthy, it's probably not the type of weight gain that you think it is.

The scale can't tell you how much of your body weight is muscle or fat, which means if your goal is to improve your fitness level, the scale is not the best tool for measuring improvements. When you start to change your body composition with your workouts — by building more muscle mass and decreasing your body fat — your scale weight may increase, while your body fat percentage may decrease. These changes happen over weeks and months (not hours or days) so the scale is useless when tracking them.

You may argue that you weigh a few pounds less after a high intensity (强度) training class. Don't get too excited — it's just water loss due to sweat. Water makes up approximately 65 to 90 percent of a person's weight, and variation in water content of the human body can move the scale by ten pounds or more from day to day.

So ignore the scale and pay more attention to objective measurement tools like body Lhs composition. Keep in mind that if you're exercising but gaining weight, you may actually look slimmer.

Several years ago, Jason Box, a scientist from Ohio, flew 31 giant rolls of white plastic to a glacier (冰川) in Greenland. He and his team spread them across 10,000 feet of ice, and then left. His idea was that the white blanket would reflect back the rays of the sun, keeping the ice cool below. When he came back to check the results, he found it worked. Exposed ice had melted faster than covered ice. Hehad not only saved two feet of glacier in a short time. No coal plants (煤炭工厂) were shut down, no jobs were lost, and nobody was taxed or fired. Just the sort of fix we're looking for.

"Thank you, but no thank you. " says Ralph King, a climate scientist. Hetold Grey Childs, author and commentator, that people think technology can save the planet, "but there are other things we need to deal with, like consumption (消费). They burned $50,000 just for the helicopter to bring the plastic to the glacier. "This experiment gives people false hope that climate change can be fixed (解决，处理) without changing human behavior. . It can't. Technology won't give us a free ride (搭便车).

Individuals respond to climate change differently. Climatologist Kelly Smith is hardly alone in her prediction that someday soon we won't be climate victims; we will be climate choosers. More scientists agree with her that if the human race survives, the engineers will get smarter, the tools will get better, and one day we will control the climate. But what then? "Just the mention of us controlling the climate sent a small shiver (颤抖) down my back", Grey Childs writes, "Something sounds wrong about it. "

Me? I like it better when the earth takes care of itself. I guess one day we will have to run theplace, but for the moment, sitting at my desk. looking out at the trees bending wildly and the wind howling. I'm happy not to be in charge.

Ms Yuting Zhou is an early-career environmental advisor working on industrial wastewater pollution management, In her work, she's learning about an important type of environmental pollution, and finding ways to help companies manage water resources better.

When we asked Yuting how old she was when she got interested in environmental problems, we were surprised by her response. "I must have been about six years old. I used to watch an American TV series about an environmentalist Superhero named Captain Planet. "

There is one serious pollution event somewhere in the world. The concern about environmental issues deeply influenced Yuting. But how does one prepare to be a "Superwoman"? For Yuting, it came down to a reflection on what she might be good at — in her case, the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subjects-and making considered choices in her education.

She began to study environmental engineering, and found a passion for the subject. "During my graduate studies. " I researched different kinds of health effects.

While she developed valuable skills that would help her in her career, she also learnt more about herself and her role in the world. "I learnt that science requires a scientific proof through repeated and sometimes long processes. Although I completed and published my research in a top academic journal, I realized that I'm not fit for laboratory work. I needed more interaction with people, and to solve real-life problems. "

Within three days of graduating, Yuting was on a plane heading to Kenya. She was excited about working for the United Nations because there were people from various industries and backgrounds gathering to improve the environment and create a more sustainable (可持续的) future — a lot like the setting of Caprain Planetwhich brought light to her in the first place. 

My mum and grandma drove me to a 5km race. There was a fierce thunderstorm, and when we got there, I had to wait for it to pass beneath an overhang (屋檐) with the other runners. I started to feel a little nervous, because some of the people there looked really fast. They had proper running shoes and long skinny legs. They were all different ages. I wasn't wearing running clothes; just a normal T-shirt and shorts.

An hour after the official start time even though it was still raining, the race organiserssaid we could go. That morning, I was running confidently and feeling strong. The route went through a neighbourhoodand there were quite a few people cheering us on, but I didn't see any faces I knew. It started to pour again, but I love running in the rain: It keeps me cool and I can keep going for longer, even when I get tired, when I run, I don't wear a watch to see what distance I'm at；I just focus on moving, breathing and how my body feels.

At one point, I came to a split (分叉) in the course. A woman who was directing us blocked off (封锁) the route which I was meant to take and told me to go the other way, so I followed her directions. 

I was confused, but just kept running. I knew I must be close to finishing the 5km, but I couldn't see the finishing line. After a while I saw route directions for a 10km race. I was worried and thought I was lost, but had to keep going. My body started to get tired and my muscles a little sore. I said to myself, "You're almost there. Just keep breathing. "Eventually I saw the finishing line and spotted my mum. She looked angry. I got past the line and she was yelling, "Why did you do this, Kade? You are in so much trouble. "

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I learned why my mum was angry later. 


 

My mum went up to the lady who was timing the race.