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I got so much7 watching them first as a child and then as an adult. They never became8 and they always filled me with delight. I never9 them and put them in a jar as some kids did because I was afraid I might hurt these magical creatures of10. Their time on this earth was so11 that I tried to enjoy them each night they were here. It always12 me when they disappeared in the fall and it always made my heart sing when they13 again the next summer.

I think I enjoy these little fireflies so much because we're14 to them in lots of ways. Our time here is brief too, but we still do our best to give out light, and knowing that others will be shining long after we are gone is a (n)15 to us. Let's share our light and love while we are here then.

How does it feel when you admit that you have done something wrong? Taking responsibility for your actions not only feels good, it teaches you to trust yourself and strengthens friendships.

What does being responsible mean?

It can be easy to blame(责怪) others or make excuses for mistakes, but being responsible means accepting that you are wrong. You could say the bus was late, but being responsible means apologizing and accepting that it was your responsibility to get there on time. However, being responsible doesn't mean taking the blame for things you can't change. You're only responsible for things that you can control.

According to research, understanding you have control over your own actions makes you feel more positive and hopeful about the future. For example, I remember a time I got the sofa dirty. I was going to lie about it because if my mum saw it, she would get angry. But after I told her the truth, I wasn't in as much trouble as I thought. Instead, mom praised me for my honesty. Being responsible helps you to gain people's trust.

How can you be responsible?

One way of doing this is by drawing a circle of control: what is in this circle of control and what is out of this circle. As well as being responsible for what you can change, try accepting the things you can't. We can't always control what happens to us. We can still choose our attitude. And most of the time, attitude decides if you are truly a responsible person.

A. What makes you responsible?

B. How is being responsible good for you?

C. But we can control how we respond to it.

D. Start by understanding what is in and out of your control.

E. Taking responsibility can also make others trust you more.

F. Imagine agreeing to meet a friend and then turning up late.

G. This can increase your happiness and help you achieve more.

Gillian Sandstrom, a lecturer in psychology,would often talk with a woman working on a hot dog stand. "I started nodding and smiling at the lady. When she replied, the small connection made me feel seen, safe and part of the community," says Sandstrom. This positive connection led her to study the effect of simple social communication. She found that people were about 17 percent happier on the days when they started a chat over a coffee machine,or said hi to a neighbour. "My work clearly shows that talking to strangers makes you more positive," she says. "It also encourages you to trust other people more,which makes the world friendlier and safer."

The reason is simple. We want to connect with others. The more people we do this with,the happier we are. In fact, according to a study from Harvard Business School, people who talk within more different relationship levels, including friends, family members, co-workers and strangers, are happier than those with a less broad mix of communication.

The problem is that many of us find the idea of beginning a conversation with strangers a bit frightening. Humans are naturally afraid of being refused. As a result, even though we can sense deep down that nothing too bad could happen if we start a conversation with a stranger, a part of us is afraid of getting hurt doing it.

The good news is that what we fear most rarely happens. In Dr Sandstrom's work, she found that only ten percent of contact received no answers. The more often we speak to people, the easier it becomes, "Doing it time and time again was the key," says Dr Sandstrom. "The more people talked to strangers, the less worried they felt about being refused and more confident they became in their ability to start and continue a:conversation."

If you're in search of a better night's sleep, trying a sleep music app might be the answer. Here are some sleep music apps to choose from.

Calm

Calm has an impressively large library of relaxation and sleep-causing sounds. It stands out for providing the latest collection of modern music from popular artists. This app offers a free version, but to really take advantage of what Calm has to offer, you had better choose the paid version, which costs $69.99 for one year. A lifetime membership is $399.99.

Headspace

Headspace is an app designed in the simplest way that makes it quick and easy to use its library of sleep-specific music, so it is friendly to the aged. Helpful suggestions point out features like how to set a timer without making you feel the app difficult to use. Headspace only costs $39.99 yearly.

Relax Melodies

Relax Melodies is designed to calm your mind with relaxing sounds. "Discover" page helps you find some app features, like bedtime stories and breathing exercises. Though its free version provides a great introduction to the idea of sleep music, the paid version unlocks a larger library of sounds. It only costs $49.99 yearly or you can pay $8.99 a month.

Pzizz

One thing that sets Pzizz apart is its voice narration (旁白), with male and female options available. Usually, the voice is low and calm. If you find the presence of a voice to be comforting or benefit from someone helping you to relax your mind and body, then Pzizz is suitable for you. Monthly costs for it are $7.99, yearly $49.99 and lifetime $249.99.

"This is a protected area, so these animals should not be fearful of us," he says. "But whether you're a wildlife tourist, or a poacher (盗猎者), or whatever, you're all going to be seen as the same thing. The presence of the human is equally dangerous, regardless of what type of human you are."

Clinchy and his colleagues had already discovered that the fear of predators (捕食者) can cause species to decline in number. Wanting to find out which was the most feared, the team decided to test humans against lions often seen as the world's most fearsome predator on land, says Clinchy.

They set up loudspeakers and cameras on trees 10 meters away from animal paths near 21 waterholes in Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa, which hosts one of the largest remaining lion populations in the world. When animals approached the waterholes, the speakers immediately played back one of four kinds of recordings, all at the same volume. These included men and women speaking calmly in local languages, lions snarling, gun shots with or without barking dogs and the calls of regional birds.

The researchers captured 15,000 videos of 19 species of animals reacting to their recordings. They found that wildlife except lions ran around in response to human voices more than to any other sounds, and were also 40 percent quicker to escape.

The findings highlight the damaging impact that our presence could potentially be having significant ecological (生态的) results. Even so, the findings could lead to positive outcomes as well. Human voices might prevent wildlife from entering crop fields or farms.

It's not the case that we only desire things we already know. Some studies suggest when invited to share our preferences, we sometimes see less familiar choices as more desirable. But when acting on that preference, we fall back to what we know. This might explain why sometimes the things we want and the things we do don't quite match up. We might even return to companies that treated us poorly in the past or stay in bad relationships.

It's easy to paint the familiarity principle as an enemy or something to battle as if it is something that holds us back from living our dreams. But this attitude might be overwhelming because it tends to encourage us toward big-picture thinking. Where we imagine that change requires a substantial dramatic (巨大而突然的) swing that we don't feel ready for. Some articles suggest the solution to familiarity frustration is complete exposure to novelty (新奇的事物). While this can appear effective in the short run, we may only end up replacing one problem with another. It also risks overwhelm and burnout.

So what if we can work with the familiarity principle instead? Familiarity is something we can learn to play with and enjoy. It is a setting for creativity and a pathway to expansion. We can broaden the zone of familiarity bit by bit. If we think of familiarity as something that can expand, we can consider changing the conditions in and around our lies to make more space for our preferences to take root and grow gently. From here, we will start to make decisions, drawing from an ever-deepening pool of valuable alternatives.

My family's daily routine of collecting bottles and cans had always been a hidden part of my life, something I kept secret from my friends and peers. The recycling center in Bushwick was like a second home to me, a place where my mother and I would bring our collected items in a shopping cart, going through the streets with a mixture of pride and embarrassment.

My family collected bottles from sunup to sundown all year long. My mother left at dawn to collect cans, and when she returned 12 hours later, I helped her pull the shopping cart among the six long blocks to the recycling center through the streets of Bushwick. Although this center had been like my second home for the past years, I had kept it mostly a secret. I couldn't bear the idea of my friends knowing that my family relied on collecting cans and bottles for survival. I felt guilty for being embarrassed, but I couldn't help it. Even though I had a lot of friends and was a social butterfly, I was not ready to trust someone else.

Then in the summer before my senior year I took a college essay course. We were asked to tell a time when we faced a challenge, setback, or failure and how it affected us, and what we learned from the experience. I chose to write about the impact my neighborhood's gentrification(社区改造) had on me, and how that led me to volunteer with officials in my community who were trying to fight it. At the end of my essay, only the last sentence mentioned can collecting.

One day after class, my teacher asked me to discuss my essay draft. "Your story has potential; however it is not about personal growth. How about telling me more about the can collecting?" So I was faced with sharing my secret. But he was my teacher and I trusted him, so I rewrote the essay. This time, I poured my heart into it, detailing the struggles, the pride, and the lessons I had learned from my family's daily routine.

Two days later, unexpectedly my teacher asked some students including me to share our essays in class.

注意：1.续写词数应该为150个左右；

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

The day of sharing our essays in class came.

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As I finished reading, I looked up to see my classmates' faces.

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1.体重超重的现象和影响；

2.科学管理身材的建议；

3.发出呼吁。

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2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：obesity过度肥胖

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There is a unique regional food in northwest China's Xinjiang. This dish is (incredible) fragrant and has been fresh and popular for millennia. That food is nang.

The word "nang" ( originate) from Persian and means bread. Archaeologists have discovered that nang was already a stable food for (local) more than 2, 000 years ago. Along the ancient Silk Road, due its non-perishable nature and high-calorie content, nang became famous "hunger killer" for travelers.

Today, the people of Xinjiang consume around 2. 75 million nangs daily with over 10, 000 nang pits (坑) throughout the region. When (visit) a Xinjiang home, you will (serve) nang. This is not only a warm hospitality tradition, but a continuation of Xinjiang's culinary culture has been practiced for thousands of years.

In the minds of Xinjiang people, nang is meant to be shared, it tastes even better when enjoyed together. Xinjiang's nang has now evolved into over 300 varieties. Each has its own unique flavor profile. From simply baking nang in a pit to various production methods (use) today, nang has remained a vibrant and cherished part of Xinjiang's culinary tradition for thousands of years.

Rufus could4 being teased by everyone. What he couldn't tolerate was that his bark kept him from living with Janie, who never5 him. Rufus wanted to be her6. He wanted to play catch in her yard and sleep at the foot of her bed.

But Janic's father, Mr. Johnson, wouldn't accept Rufus. "What? A dog that barks like that? No, Janic. It's out of the7. We'd be the8 of Kumquat Street!"

One day, Rufus heard Mr. Johnson saying, "It's almost supper time. Is Janie still roller-skating? She has never been late before."

Rufus set off for Janie and started barking as9 as he could. Soon all in the neighborhood was his bark. Suddenly, Janie10 up to Rufus. "Oh, Rufus, I knew I heard you!" cried Janie.

At the11 of Janie and Rufus, Mr. Johnson ran up. "Janie," he said. "Where on earth have you been?" Janie explained, "I took wrong turn and got lost, Daddy! Suddenly, I heard ‘Wob-wow, fra-fra.' It was Rufus! I knew if I12 the sound of his bark, I'd find my way back home." Mr. Johnson was touched deeply. Mr. Johnson knelt in front of Rufus and13 out his hand to Rufus. "Rufus, I14 you an apology," he said. "I'd like to invite you to come and live with us." Rufus happily gave Mr. Johnson his pa w and licked his cheek. Indeed, the very thing that makes us different becomes the15 to someone's heart.

●Eat food that fuels you.

The food you put into your bodies is what makes you feel good and drives you. However, you should be mindful of the intake amount. Consuming too much can lead to discomfort or digestive issues.

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You can't expect to sit around all the time and have energy. If you want to feel more awake, try not to have a zero day, even if it's a 10-minute walk after dinner or just doing some stretching— that daily movement is just so good for your bodies.

●Seek out habits and experiences you enjoy.

If you're doing things you love, it's not work, it's a call, and it does energize you. However, if you're doing something miserable or you're in a place where you're not happy, it's an energy drain. Make sure you carve out time to do whatever it is that excites you each week.

●Get your stress under control.

If you're stressed, you probably won't be sleeping well and you might even skip your workouts. You need to look at ways to make sure that you're having that balance where the body has time to rest and recover.

A. Move every day.

B. Prioritize physical exercises.

C. Take time to consider what you enjoy.

D. But it's not an unsolvable problem.

E. It's advisable not to eat processed food.

F. This could mean taking time to vacation or spending time in nature.

G. This is why people fuel up with carbohydrates like potatoes and bread before a marathon.

CRISPR is like an editor that can rewrite DNA letter by letter or gene by gene, to remove harmful mutations (突变) or add protective ones. This summer will see clinical trials on pig organs edited for transplanting into humans. Last year the first new therapy went on the market. It seemingly cures sickle-cell disease and beta-thalassemia, two blood disorders that bother millions. If ongoing clinical trials succeed, a one-off therapy could provide life-long protection against heart attacks. Farming will benefit, too: CRISPR could raise yields or create climate-resistant crops. Consumers could soon get fibre-rich bread or tastier varieties of healthy but unpopular foods, such as mustard greens.

CRISPR, discovered in 2012, holds great promise but still faces challenges. While it can potentially replace older technologies like expensive gene therapy and controversial GM crops, strict regulations hinder the progress of CRISPR. The rules for rare disease drugs make development costly and slow. Many CRISPR companies find it hard to succeed, even with government support. Although CRISPR's programmable nature allows one drug to target multiple mutations, strict safety and manufacturing standards limit its use. For patients with urgent needs, loosening some rules might be worth the risk. The Food and Drug Administration has started to ease regulations, but CRISPR still needs real-world successes to prove its potential.

For patients and farmers, CRISPR's promise is urgent. Balancing innovation with safety, updating regulations, and maintaining public trust will determine its success. With wise decisions, this technology could save millions of lives and reshape humanity's future.