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Jack is a 10-year-old who has development issues in his leg muscles, causing him to walk on the balls of his feet, which makes him unbalanced. He also has a speech delay, so he speaks slowly and can be hard to understand. However, it was this boy that totally changed my attitude toward life.

Three years ago, when I was unbelievably self-centered, my dad arranged for me to watch a video after I got back home from school.

I will never forget that movie. My eyes filled with tears as images of mentally and physically challenged children playing baseball flashed across the screen. I learned about Challenger, a program that gives these children the chance to play baseball on a team with the help of "buddies (伙伴)". Some buddies act as eyes for those who have vision problems, legs for those who can't walk, and a friend to the mentally challenged. Challenger not only gives the children a team to play on, but a sense of belonging that they may lack in their difficult life.

After the short film ended, my dad explained he was going to add this program to our town's baseball league, since he was president of the league, and he told me that he expected me to participate. I suddenly became interested in volunteering as a buddy for children with special needs.

So when Sunday came, I sat with my dad and other volunteers waiting for the players to arrive. A few cars pulled up, and some players were introduced to their buddies. Then, I saw another car pull up. A cute little boy called Jack got off the car with his mother.

"This is my daughter, Amy. She's going to be your buddy for the season. Is that okay, Jack?" my dad said with a smile. But Jack just hid behind his mother, looking unhappy.

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Apparently, Jack didn't like to play with me.

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To my great joy, my efforts paid off and Jack was beginning to accept me.

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(1)你们的计划；

(2)演奏的乐曲：《梁祝》(Butterfly Lovers)；

(3)邀请Jane参加演出；

(4)排练的时间和地点。

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Dear Jane,

I hope everything goes well with you.

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Looking forward to your reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

Tasting China

In 2020, I visited my sister Stephanie in China, who was working in China. We started the trip in Beijing, where I saw the major sites, (include) a part of the Great Wall. I enjoyed (take) around as Stephanie pointed out this or that building, place or monument and explained to me the bargaining process in the markets and showed me where (eat) a full meal for only a few dollars.

We ate and drank our way through the capital city before eating and drinking our way through Jinan, a city of about 8 million people, some 250 miles south of Beijing, Stephanie was teaching English at a university.

We ate on the streets and in sit-down restaurants. (interesting), I learned that it was customary to refill your friends' glasses with beer before filling your own, a sign of respect for your dining companions.

We went out for hotpot and Hunan cuisine so hot that my eyes (water) for hours afterward, and we ate pork dumplings in could have easily been mistaken for someone's home but I guess it was a type of very low-key restaurant. Later we took a day trip from Jinan to Qingdao, a city by the sea. We ate fish presented on a table outside on the street. Freshly (catch), it was one of the best things I've ever tasted.

On my last night in Beijing at the tale end of my journey, I found (I) with an appetite for duck.

My lifelong love Peking duck was born that night.

Her heart raced as she stepped to an imaginary tomb (坟墓). "Hi, Mom," she said3. "It's me ... your daughter." Her voice grew quieter as her mood shifted from nervous to4. "I'm sorry I didn't visit." She bit her lip. "Does this seem5, though? Coming here to6 you, waiting for answers that never come." Tears filled her eyes. "You were supposed to say "I love you', but you7 too soon."

"On lonely nights," she continued, "I find myself singing the song Dad wrote in your8. It always stays in my heart. I know how brave you were to give up your life for me. I keep feeling9, thinking I caused everything wrong. This10 makes me hate myself. Anyway, I love you, Mom," she said,11 her heartfelt monologue, with her last words hanging in the quiet air.

Her classmates began to clap, but the girl said something12, "That monologue was written for my mother," and then stepped off the13. Everyone gave her a look of respect.

That girl was me. That day marked the moment I allowed others in —14 my true self. It was the day I discovered courage, learned to15 myself, and, above all, hopefully made my mother proud.

I've encountered students who talk about volunteering like it's a competition. They declare involvement with charity organizations proudly, only to reveal astonishing gaps when questioned further. "I did 100 hours," one might say, yet struggles to explain the missions of the organizations. When did helping others become about counting hours instead of making a difference?

True service isn't measured in hours or reduced to strategic career moves. Imagine helping build a wheelchair ramp (坡道) for an elderly neighbor so they can leave their house. Or teaching math to kids who can't afford tutors because you noticed they were struggling. At its core, meaningful service demands emotional investment — the willingness to center others' wellbeing above personal gain.

Reforming this system requires fundamentally rethinking how we evaluate commitment. Colleges and employers must shift from quantitative checkboxes to qualitative assessments. Instead of asking "How many hours did you serve?", applications might inquire: "What social challenge moved you to act?" or ""

Volunteer because it is the right thing to do as a human being. If we care more about why we help instead of how much we help, community service can become what it's meant to be — people working together to make the world a little kinder, one small act at a time.

A. It's definitely about caring.

B. This makes me really upset.

C. Don't volunteer because you have to.

D. It is determined by who we offer help to.

E. How did your service meet the needs of your community?

F. How many times a year did you volunteer for charity work?

G. When we treat kindness like an assignment, are we really being kind?

How do books pull off their magic trick of transporting us into another person's mind? Taking a look at the brain — specifically, the multiple regions which relate to reading — gives us a clue.

In a study, literature students read Jane Austen's novels inside an fMRI machine, rather than sitting on chairs. The researcher, Natalie Phillips, originally believed that the blood flow in the brain areas responsible for language processing would increase during reading. However, unexpectedly, the students experienced a comprehensive increase in blood flow, including areas unrelated to language processing.

For example, when reading a passage about traveling through a forest, the left temporal lobe area responsible for language processing would become active, but the motor cortex (运动皮层) would also light up, as if they were actually running. This kind of activity does not occur in fact-based non-fiction literature, such as political news or movie reviews.

Does greater brain connectivity have practical uses? In another study, half of the participants read a 3,000-word piece from Saffron Dreams, a novel from the point of view of a Muslim-American woman, and the other half read a 500-word summary of the piece. The summary contained all the facts but none of the character's rich inner life or sensory details that make a book come alive. Afterwards, participants were shown photos of "Arab or Caucasian (白种人) faces", some of which appeared angry. Those who read the summary often identified angry faces as Arab, a bias (偏见) not seen in those who read the piece from the novel.

These findings make me think of students who are struggling over whether to choose to be an English major because they want to be successful. If by "success", they mean the highest average salary, perhaps I should lead them from the English building towards the Business Administration building. But if success means helping to create a more harmonious world, pull up a chair.

So don't read because it's good for you. Read because it's good. Go lose yourself in a book. And, while you're at it, find the rest of us, too.

Take the world's best soccer player named Mellionix. For all his brilliance, though, he's famously anxious. For years, he habitually vomited (呕吐) on the field before big games.

But Mellionix hasn't allowed his anxiety to overshadow his brilliance because he's mastered a coping mechanism that also doubles as the secret behind his tactical (战术的) brilliance.

A soccer game lasts 90 minutes, with players active from the start. Mellionix is known for not engaging in the game initially, often walking near the field's center and not interacting with teammates. While others run, Mellionix mostly walks, seldom accelerating beyond a slow jog.

Mellionix does two things during these first few minutes. First, he calms himself. Easing into the match is Mellionix's way of ensuring he's fully engaged for the remainder of the match. His on-field vomiting has resolved itself, in part perhaps because he's found a more effective way to calm his nerves. Second, he spends this time scoping out the opposition. His legs move slowly, but his eyes jump from player to player, assessing his opponents' strengths, weaknesses and tactics.

In football matches, Mellionix relies more on the preparation phase. In the classic match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, Mellionix only ran for four minutes, while for over eighty minutes he was walking. However, when he engaged in the game, he was active, creating nine opportunities, scoring a goal, and assisting his teammate to score another goal.

That pattern isn't unusual for Mellionix, and it's often in big games that he lays great stress on his in-game preparation. That preparation also explains his ability to find himself in the right place at the right time, over and over. Though his positional play appears supernatural, it's actually that he's learned, minute by minute, that a particular defender leaves a particular square of pitch (球场) uncovered or that two midfielders leave a small corner of the pitch open when they run to the middle of the field.

The lesson for us is clear: When you're anxious, whether in athletics or in life more broadly, pause, and prepare.

Daniel Chalk developed the computer model to understand the potential for bees to crosspollinate (异花传粉) between GM (转基因的) and non-GM crops.

The first of its kind in the world, the study focuses on the foraging (觅食) behaviour of bees over a large area. It suggests that the potential for bees to affect crops through crosspollination is very limited. There has been concern over cross-pollination from GM crops and because there is very little evidence of how bees move between fields, policy-makers have not been able to properly address the issue.

A PhD student in the School of Biosciences and School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Daniel hopes his research will help shape future policies around GM crops in the UK and Europe. He also believes his model could help with bee conservation, which is becoming an increasingly important issue because of bee decline.

We now have a good understanding of the ways in which bees move between plants but researching the movement of bees between fields has proved very difficult. This is the first study to successfully simulate (模拟) the foraging behaviour of bees across a large area.

Daniel Chalk said: "By creating a kind of ‘virtual bee', I have been able to show for the first time how bees move over large areas, across and between fields. My research has shown that bees are very efficient foragers and so will travel long distances only if they really need to."

He continued: "While the purpose of this study was to look at the potential for crosspollination from GM crops, the findings may also help with the massive bee conservation effort now underway. The model I use can help identify areas that promote bee activity."

Daniel calls his model HARVEST, which is based on the principle that bees learn from trial and error and quickly learn which areas are worth returning to and which are not.

National Short Film Day takes place next month. What better way to celebrate than with a Short Film Competition?

So, if you like being creative and have a love for film, this contest is for you! Show off your skills — we will be focusing on production and creativity, so make it good! You can tell a story, report an event, or just show something that you think will be interesting.

Deadline: December 13th, 2025

Rules and requirements:

You must be a teen (aged 13-19) with a Teen Ink account to enter.

No inappropriate content.

Submissions must relate to the topic (Short Films).

You must have permission from all individuals participating in the film to be published online and in Teen Ink magazine. You must also credit those in the film when submitting your video.

Details:

Film Time: Your film must be between one and five minutes.

There is no limit to the number of pieces you can submit.

● All entries submitted to Teen Ink are automatically considered for the contest.

How to submit:

● Submit entries through our website. Include the words "Short Film" in your submission's tags (标签). You can do this by using the "additional tags" field in your submission form.

● Submit your reviews to the "Video" category on our site. Select the review type that is relevant to your short film; if you do not see an appropriate category type, select "Other".

Prize:

The winner and honorable mentions will have their films published in Teen Ink magazine.

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2. 活动概况；

3. 活动意义。

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An Exciting Tug of War

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we learn to exist in harmony nature can we stop being a threat to wildlife and to our planet.

listening to the scientists had studied the problem, the government turned to the UN help.

I (have) breakfast with my children water started filling my home.

Instead of the foods I enjoyed, I added healthy foods my meals.

is not unusual for teenagers of your generation be attracted computer games.