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As they sat watching their favorite TV show, Mark's dad's trademark cough echoed from the other room. Each time he heard that sound, Mark's heart sank. He shifted uncomfortably, trying to focus on the screen, but his mind kept returning to the damage the cigarettes were doing to his father's lungs.

Mark couldn't understand it. His dad was brilliant and spent quality time with him — why would he risk his health? What if it led to an early death? Had he ever considered how heartbroken it would make him and his mom?

Mark's mind wandered back to a conversation he had overheard between his parents. His mom had been pleading (恳求) with his dad, her voice full of worry. "You need to think about your health, for Mark's sake if not for your own," she had said. But his dad just brushed her off, saying he was too stressed to quit.

One evening, Mark approached his mom to discuss the issue. "I've tried to persuade him to quit," Mark's mom expressed with a sigh. "But he always gets annoyed whenever I bring up the subject." She looked tired and defeated. "At least your dad is considerate with his smoking; he never does it indoors or around others. He even changes his clothes to prevent us from smelling the smoke. Despite that, it's still so hard on him, on us..."

The next day at school, Mark was playing basketball with his classmate Tim on the court. "Hey, does either of your parents smoke?" he asked. "Yeah, my dad smokes, but he's cut down in the past year," replied Tim. "Oh, how did he do that?" Mark asked curiously. "I don't really know what happened. I guess he just realized it was time for a change," said Tim, as he threw the ball back to Mark. The reply gave Mark a ray of hope — and an idea.

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Mark decided to take action.

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The next day, Mark found a note from his dad on his bed.

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Many of us try to change bad ( habit ) quickly, and if we are not successful straight away, we often become pessimistic and give up. In fact, the most successful way (change) is not suddenly, over a period of time. the Chinese philosopher Laozi wrote, "A journey of a thousand miles ( begin ) with a single step." One step seems small, but it is essential. ( reach ) the goal of change, a person must show some discipline and (repeat ) take many small steps. After all, it is not easy to break bad habits.

For young people, there is plenty of time to change bad habits. However, there is no "magic pill" or delete button will help you; you have to think about your bad habits and decide some changes. You have the power to build happy and healthy life full of good habits!

Skyscrapers(摩天大楼) are the ultimate symbol of urban life. By 2050, almost 80 percent of the earth's population could live in cities. The human population could increase to 9.1 billion people yet the amount of land available for farming will be the same.

Vertical farms, where farmers could grow crops in environmentally friendly skyscrapers, could be the solution. In spite of concerns over high costs, experts want to make these urban farms a reality and use these skyscrapers to grow crops.

Vertical farms would have many advantages, experts say. The food would be grown with minimal effects on the environment. Unlike traditional farming, vertical farming would not force animals out of their habitats by taking over large areas of land, nor would it pollute the air with the use of heavy farming equipment. These have been well recognized.

Growing prosperity has led to many people demanding that all foods are available all year round. Indoor farming could produce crops constantly and crops would not suffer from weather-related problems like drought or flooding. In addition, the use of agricultural chemicals for controlling insects would be minimal.

They point out that although crops growing in a tall glass building would get natural sunlight during the day, it wouldn't be enough. The plants closest to the windows would grow much more quickly than the plants further inside. The plants growing away from the windows may not produce as many or as high quality vegetables. They would need additional light sources.

Experts agree that the new farming practices are needed to support the planet's need for more and more food at affordable costs, both to the farmer and to the consumer. Vertical farms may be a small-scale answer, but the best ideas could be yet to come.

A. Still, there are some people who are critical of vertical farms.

B. That is where vertical farms are often needed for year-round crops.

C. So how to meet the increasing food needs of our planet could be a big problem.

D. For these reasons, natural light cannot be a workable solution for vertical farms.

E. Vertically grown food is grown in environmentally controlled conditions in big cities.

F. Those farms would also reduce the cost and negative effects of transporting food over distances.

G. They believe that we can increase the food production by changing our thinking from out to up.

Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

"We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said. "Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and overlook the mouth."

According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted (厌恶的), angry, or neutral (中性的). They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than Westerners did. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said. "Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."

In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified (多样化) these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

Yet such depression is misplaced. The fossil record shows that many species have existed for millions of years — so why shouldn't we? Take a look at our species in the universe, and it becomes clear we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens of thousands of years. Look up "Homo sapiens" (智人) in the "Red List" of threatened species of the International Union for the Conversation of Nature (IUCN), and you will read: "Listed as Least Concern because the species is widely distributed, adaptable, currently increasing, and there are no major threats resulting in an overall population decline."

So what does our deep future hold? Many researchers and organizations are now thinking seriously about the question. The potential evolution of today's technology is complicated, so it's perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the possibilities of the bright future.

Our future is quiterosy because it shows many promising possibilities of achievement. Besides, we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans and to improve those to come. Take a longer view and we can say with considerable assurance that the past holds the key to the future: by analysing the past, we can make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants (后代) will find themselves.

Based in Chengdu, Liu's career covers four decades and more than 30 projects. He founded Jiakun Architects in 1999 and has built a diverse body of work, ranging from small, beautifully designed museums and monuments to large commercial buildings and master plans for cities.

Rather than following a distinct style, Liu's projects include local elements and rely on "low-tech" simplicity to achieve beauty, The Spaces reported. "He has developed a strategy that never relies on a fixed method but rather on evaluating the specific characteristics and requirements of each project differently," the jury (评审团) said in its citation announcing the award.

One of Liu's most well-known projects was the so-called "rebirth bricks" he created after the terrible Wenchuan earthquake in 2008. To aid in reconstruction, Liu made bricks using local wheat fiber, cement (水泥) and rubble (瓦砾) from collapsed buildings. More than just recycling, these bricks were "a poetic metaphor" for the rebirth of the material and "the spiritual rebirth of the community at a time of national mourning", reported The Guardian. These bricks were later used in several of his projects, including the Shuijingfang Museum in Chengdu and the Novartis pharmaceutical (制药) company in Shanghai.

Liu's design also focuses on ordinary people. This is reflected in his largest project, West Village, a five-story urban complex completed in 2015 in Chengdu. The complex includes a soccer field, a market, and pathways (通道) for cyclists and pedestrians (行人). With grass growing through holes in the bricks, the project celebrates "the vitality of ‘everydayness'," wrote critic Austin Williams in 2017. It has become a popular destination for city residents to spend their leisure time.

"The purpose of architecture is to create a beautiful, just and dignified (有尊严的) living environment. People's real lives, happiness and dignity are what we pursue," Liu told China Daily.

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Dear Mr. Evans,

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Yours,

Li Hua