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Ms. Khazan's goal is to transform herself, over the course of one year, from a disagreeable introvert into a sunnier, livelier, more friendly extrovert. An enjoyable life seems well worth a bit of effort. She forces herself to take risks in improvisational comedy. She sets about throwing parties. She practices mindfulness. She feeds the homeless.

While exploring "the science and promise of personality change", the author is humorously open about her embarrassing efforts to break away from her familiar self. She admits joylessness and short-temper. Her openness has the effect of getting readers on her side. We're supporting her and, to be honest, we're supporting ourselves, too.

Yet let's say we can: Let's say we manage to adjust our big-five personality qualities so that we enhance our positive parts and reduce our deficiencies. How would we even know? One of the difficulties that any self-reformer faces is in measuring how much change his or her efforts have achieved. Ms. Khazan gets around this problem by regularly assessing her personality via a particular academic website. She uses the site's free questionnaire, takes the test again and tracks the changes regularly.

There is a lot of common sense here. Fake it until you make it. Your emotions follow your actions. Also: Other people are paying less attention to you than you imagine. It should be admitted that Ms. Khazan's stories, though rich in funny real-life examples, is pretty thin on science. But it's an entertaining read — and encouraging too.

Sara stops walking and points excitedly over the drystone wall into the field beyond. There, walking among the wandering sheep, is a lapwing, the official bird of the North Pennines. "They are brilliant," Sara says, a smile across her face as she watches the small bird peck grass. Early spring marks the return of lapwings to Teesdale, where Sara's family has lived for two decades.

Sara is out for one of her regular walks for inspiration, making drafts and mental notes to help her with her work. She specializes in making life-size bird sculptures out of wire, and some of her sculptures are installed on a nature road around Durham Wildlife Trust's reserve at Low Barns near Bishop Auckland.

"It's about drawing attention to certain birds," she says, adding: "A lot of the birds I've made have been endangered or are on the red list."

"I'm very conscious the birds that come up here are dropping in number. The environmental impact of what we do on birds is pretty severe, so anything I can do that makes people feel emotion or interest when they look at a sculpture is good for the environment."

Sara has science degrees from Aberystwyth, Sheffield and Durham, including one in zoology. But she also has a lifelong love of art and passion for creating things. Chirpy, one of the birds she made, recently spent a few weeks in London as part of the Royal Society of British Artists annual exhibition.

"It was an absolute treat to go down and they displayed him beautifully," Sara says, "People said to me ‘can you bear to let him go' and I was thinking ‘yeah, absolutely', because that' s the point of making these things."

A taste of The Sound of Music

Guests staying at the Hotel Hyperion can have a three-course meal inspired by The Sound of Music — thanks to Michael Daus, the executive chef of Gaumenfreund, the hotel's on-site restaurant. Part art, part sculpture, and part deconstruction, each component of the meal is a nod to the movie, Alpine culture, or the original Trapp family.

Take a singing bicycle tour

Ideal for a family, Maria's Bicycles offers a 3. 5-hour singing bicycle tour through all the major movie locations. Photo stops include the Mozart Bridge (where Maria and the children point at their favorite sights), Mirabell Gardens (from the famous "Do-Re-Mi" song), and the Felsenreitschule — the theater where the family sings "So Long" after winning the 1938 Salzburg Summer Festival.

Stay at Schloss Leopoldskron

Fans can check into Schloss Leopoldskron where scenes were filmed, including when viewers see Baron von Trapp and Baroness Schraeder drink pink lemonade, Maria and the children fall out of their boat, and Maria return from the abbey. However, the Venetian ballroom, staircase, and main foyer were reproduced in Hollywood.

Recreate a famous scene

Visitors to Salzburg can also take the Mönchsberg elevator or walk three miles to the Winkler Terrace, located by the Modern Museum of Salzburg. Fans can recreate the "Do-Re-Mi" scene. The view of the Salzach River and the old city center make a perfect backdrop for an Instagram-worthy snapshot.

（1）指出校园中不符合低碳环保理念的现象；

（2）建议从身边小事做起，如……；

（3）号召大家行动起来。

试题词汇：低碳校园 low carbon campus

注意：

（1）词数不少于100；

（2）可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯；

（3）开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

My fellow students,

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Thank you!

（1）对视频反映的情况予以肯定；

（2）介绍科技在你生活中的应用；

（3）希望国际友人来中国亲身体验。

试题词汇：短视频 video clip

注意：

（1）词数不少于100；

（2）可适当加入细节，使内容充实、行文连贯。

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Studies show teaching children how to cook at an early age helps with reading comprehension and fine motor ability, in addition to learning about nutrition and food safety. In 2015 Stephanie Drewry was looking for a cooking summer camp for her three children. To her dismay, she quickly realized such a camp didn't exist.

"I have my degree in education, but I had been staying home with my kids, " Drewry says. "I love working with kids, so I just decided to take a spare bedroom and turn it into a one-room cooking school called Sprouts Cooking School. "

The school grew in popularity so quickly that Drewry realized she would need more space outside her home for the classes. In 2017 she moved Sprouts into a 1,400-square-foot storefront (临街店面) in Carmel, Indiana. As demand grew, Drewry opened another Sprouts in the same area in 2022.

"Our classrooms are built with kids in mind. The worktops (操作台) in the classrooms are slightly lower than normal to fit in with their height," Drewry says. "All of the cooking facilities are domestic ones. I wanted to have them feel like cooking in their own home."

The school offers activities targeted at kids aged 3 to 13. Younger kids might make cookies while older ones are cooking soup and meatballs. There are birthday parties and summer camps as well. The fun part of the activities is that the kids can eat or take home whatever they make. They can also enjoy themselves in the themed classes like Harry Potter or Winter Wonder-land Baking. With all these activities, the school is extremely popular.

Teaching kids, especially those picky eaters, to cook helps a lot because they're more willing to eat something made by themselves. More importantly, it is also about releasing children into the world with a life skill they'll need as an adult when they're no longer in their parents' care.

Awake from a short sleep in her chair, my grandmother ran her fingers through her wavy white hair, looked out her window at the blue sky, and asked me what I would wish for if I had just one wish.

She often asks this, and I always answer the same way—"To have Granddad back" —which usually gets her reminiscing about him. Memories of their 67-year life together would always make her smile.

My grandmother was born in Ireland. In her teens, she moved to a poor village in England. At 28, my grandmother walked herself through the snow to birth her first child. When she was 50, she survived an emergency surgery. In her 60s, she suffered from arthritis(关节炎)but still managed to climb Snowdon, Wales's tallest peak.

About a decade ago, I noticed that she began to lose her hearing. If I asked what she had for lunch, she might say, "Oh, the weather has been lovely today. " She seemed to recycle the same handful of answers to my questions.

In recent years, I've been trying to show up for her more, in person. One day after I made us coffee, I asked her: "What's the secret to being successful in your 90s? "

"Oh Richard, so many people are old at 60. They just want to sit all day. You won't make it to 90 like that. You have to try. "

"Try what? "

"Try walking, " she said. "Try gardening. Try cooking. Trying doesn't require a lot of trying. Just try a little . Like, with this coffee you've made us. I know you tried . "

Even at 93, my grandmother still knits blankets for the local hospital's babies and buys books to continue with her French. "Age is just another bot- her attempting to convince you of the impossible in the world, but actually the world is filled with possibilities," she once said.

You might think these lakes would be expanding, not disappearing. As climate change warms the region — melting（融化）surface snow and ice as well as the permafrost（永冻层）— there should be more surface water, forming larger lakes and even new ones. Recently, however, scientists have observed not just shrinking（缩小的） lakes but lakes that have completely gone away.

Many scientists shared the commonsense expectation that as permafrost melted, lakes would at first expand with meltwater flowing into them. Eventually, researchers made a prediction that progressive warming during the 21st and 22nd centuries would dry out the Arctic, and lakes would begin to shrink. But now it looks as if Arctic lakes are disappearing a century sooner than predicted. A case in point is that some large, age-old lakes shrank dramatically in what appears to have been a matter of months. Scientists have labeled this phenomenon "disastrous lake loss"

What caused this? The frozen solid ground actually contains bits of rock, mineral and organic matter, leaving spaces in between. And because these spaces are filled with solid ice, liquid water cannot readily get inside, but it can when the permafrost melts, allowing more water to get through. Soon after that, around 192 lakes in northwestern Alaska are gone from sight.

Why did scientists miss this? One probable reason is that most climate models assume that the melting of permafrost is driven only by warming air.

New evidence suggests, however, that rainfall — particularly increasing autumn rain — is now contributing significantly to permafrost loss. The rainfall carries heat into the ground. Yet none of the existing models includes such processes.

That is a good example of why — no matter how complex our models are or may one day be — we need direct observation of the natural world.

That's what happened the day my club was reading aloud a poem by Henry Longfellow. I guess I was better than the others, for Miss Chevalier asked a while later, "Addie, I was wondering if you would recite the whole poem to the Saturday evening's club." She said a famous professor was going to give a lecture about the poet, and a presentation of that poem would be a fresh way to start.

She asked me to memorize it. "But that shouldn't be a problem for a child of your ability," she added. I'm telling you, my happy feet barely touched the ground all the way home. To me, that was the biggest thing ever and I soon learned the whole poem by heart, well prepared for our first rehearsal.

I was desperately nervous when I went to her office the next day. But the good thing was she always had the smile that would make you feel like you just did something right.

Halfway through the poem, Miss Chevalier stopped me and asked if I knew what "impetuous" meant. Despite her encouraging smile, I wanted to sink through the floor because I was unsure about its pronunciation as well as its meaning. Miss Chevalier pretended not to have noticed my red face and handed me a dictionary, asking me to read its definition aloud. "Impetuous has two definitions: rushing with great force or violence; acting suddenly, with little thought. "

She asked me which one fitted the poem. I read both definitions over again, trying to figure it out, but Miss Chevalier must have read my mind. "There is no wrong answer," she said, "I want to know your opinion, Addie." Hesitantly, I said, "Maybe… both."

She liked that. "One has to be impetuous both ways or they wouldn't dare to face up to any challenge. Would you call yourself impetuous?"

I knew she was asking for an opinion. "My mother thinks being impetuous for girls is improper, anyway."

She said my mom was somewhat right about that. "But girls should also be wise to take up challenges when needed. I believe you are such a girl."

After that, I would never call Miss Chevalier "Poodle" again.

The first book I picked up was Montaigne's Essays. To my surprise I discovered in the margins (页边空白) what clearly was my own faded hand-writing. So I was actually reading it again, but what I was rereading seemed entirely new. I also found sentences underlined. Only this time I wondered: Why did I underline this sentence? It's the next one that is important!

Clearly, my way of reading the text had shifted, and I myself had changed over the years. This raised the larger question of rereading. It comes in many forms. There's voluntary rereading, the result of a willful decision to revisit a book one has admired, or a book that has left one with some unanswered questions. This kind of planned revisit could also be for confirming certain details in the text, or for checking on the moves of a given character. A devoted teacher might also wish to refresh his closeness to a work, and thus avoid teaching through the same old written notes with soporific (让人瞌睡的) effects.

Contrarily, there's involuntary rereading. The original reading was either forgotten or so totally absorbed that the new chance encounter with the text produced surprise and astonishment. My reaction to the renewed reading no longer corresponded to the original experience, and I was no longer sure that I recognized myself as the same reader.

Then there are what one might call subconscious (潜意识的) rereadings, those that occur without the specific act of reading, much as the memory of a tune can keep coming back to the mind without its actually being heard again. This form of remembered contact with a book can accompany us during a lifetime and continue to strengthen and shape us. Much in the same manner, we may over the years recite to ourselves poems learnt by heart long ago, which have become part of our self-recognition.

All of these ways of reading are valuable. Renewed contact with a novel or a poem can activate the search for a better knowledge of the self. The new reading, a form of revision, uncovers the change in us. The newness is not in the text. It is we who have evolved. In the process of rereading, our outlook has also been significantly changed. Rereading makes it possible for us to see the world around us, ourselves included, in a new light.