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Once upon a time, there was a shepherd （牧羊人）. He 1  dozens of sheep. He tended （照料）the sheep in the daytime, and kept them in the sheepfold （羊圈）at night.

One morning, the shepherd found that one sheep was 2 . His neighbor helped him check the sheepfold. "There is a hole in the wall of your sheepfold. A wolf went in through the hole, and took the sheep away at night. You should 3 the sheepfold quickly and fill up the hole," the neighbor said.

However, the shepherd was 4 to the neighbor's advice. He replied, "I have already lost the sheep. It is no 5 repairing the sheepfold." The next morning, the shepherd found that another sheep was gone.

The neighbor said, "If you had 6 my advice, you wouldn't have made the same mistake. Aren't you going to take action right now?"

The shepherd filled up the hole 7  at once. After that, 8  of his sheep was taken away by the wolf. 

If there is a mistake, we should 9  it as soon as possible. In this way, we can avoid more 10 . 

It was July 2019 and my mum Rebecca was taking me on a 120km walking holiday from Portugal to Spain as a special treat for my 10th birthday. One day, while walking along the coastal path staring out at the Atlantic ocean, I chatted away to Mum. "When Lexi turns.10, are you going to take her on a trip like this?" I asked, referring to my seven-year-old sister. Mum said Lexi had already asked to go to Svalbard in the north of Norway because she was crazy about polar bears.

Although I was still on my first special trip, I'd been learning about ancient civilizations at school and knew I'd love to see some relics in the flesh. So I continued saying, "Why don't I go to Egypt while you're in Svalbard with Lexi?", adding that my dad, Olaf, could take me there. "Great, but I'm not paying for it." Muim replied, chuckling. "That's fine. I'll pay," I said, "I'll save up my pocket money and get a job."

So that's exactly what I did. Though I was too young to do any other paid work, I had my own solution. I started saving my $10-a-week pocket money. Also, I washed my parents'car or mowed the lawn for extra cash.

In 2020, we moved to Perth. One day, I saw a pamphlet（小册子） in the letter box advertising a job delivering catalogues. When I told Mum I wanted to do it, she tried to put me off the idea, reminding me that the work was tiring and time-consuming. But when seeing the determination in my eyes, she agreed to call them. Thankfully, my young age didn't bother them-I got the job. On a Monday, a mountain of catalogues were dropped off at our house, which shocked me a lot. I told myself to calm down and dedicated to work. It took me nine hours to sort through them. At first, I used my bike and carried the catalogues in my backpack to deliver them to 430 houses in my area.

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After several deliveries, I found it wasn't very efficient.

Three and a half years later, I saved a massive $6,500, and Dad and I flew to Cairo, Egypt.

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2.内容要求。

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Dear Chris,

How are you doing?

Yours,

Li Hua

A composting (堆肥) program at The Wesley School in Los Angeles is helping students get hands-on experience and ways  (handle) human-driven climate change. For the past year, all the leftover food waste from the school has gone into composting containers rather than a landfill  it would be buried and would produce planet-warming gases.

The school's composting program (come) into being in 2022, and this year, the school held a （celebrate) to reveal what happened inside a series of five-foot-tall containers. Steven Wynbrandt, a local farmer composting consultant who has helped the school with its program, broke the ties that held the container closed. Rich black compost spilled out from the container.

The school will use the compost on plants around campus. Some will  (offer) to families that want to use it at home, and whatever is left will be donated.

It takes two hours for the container to be emptied and prepared to receive next day's lunch leftovers. The other containers remain full of food waste that is in the process of (break) down. Decorated (poster) on the outside of each container indicate when they can be opened so that the next generation of plants on campus can benefit the rich soil.

Growing up on a farm, Tori James spent much of her early years outdoors, building shelters and playing in muddy streams. She 1  herself as an ambitious and adventurous child and owes the Duke of Edinburgh Award to her love for 2 . James says she could never have 3  that one day she might be the youngest British woman to 4  the peak of Mount Everest.

Today, James is a(n) 5 adventurer. Alongside her successful climb of the world's 6 peak in 2007, she was a member of the first all-female team to 7 a tiring 650-kilometre ski race to the Magnetic North Pole in 2005, and in 2014 she set the 8 for the longest non-stop open-sea kayak crossing in UK waters.

Yet ahead of her first exploration at the age of 18, James had 9 her ability to last a month out in the cold without the comfort of a hot bath. "It's only by 10 our comfort zone that we understand our true potential," she explains, "That's when the 11 happens."

James encourages would-be adventurers not to be 12 by the conventional image of the rugged (粗犷的), hardy explorer. "I am such a believer that, with the right support and skills, everyone can bring 13 to an exploration," she adds, "Sometimes, it's only out in the field that someone's 14 talents emerge, 15 in the process of exploration."

How to Deal with Awkward Silences

We all know what it's like when a conversation dies off and you're left to sit in silence. Thankfully, filling these silences isn't as difficult as it may seem. Read on to learn how to initiate small talk and deal with awkward silences.

• Think of topics ahead of time.

Before attending a social event, think of a few "go-to" topics to jumpstart a dead conversation. This will help you to fill the silences instead of struggling for words in the moment. Recent news, local events, popular books and television shows are all good fallback options.

• Ask open-ended questions.

Ask questions that have more than one possible answer. They help avoid resulting in short response. For example, instead of asking, "Did you like your high school?", you could ask, "What did you like about your high school?"

•

As with any good conversation, the biggest key is to listen. If they respond to your question with a short statement such as "Yes"or "No", that might indicate that they aren't comfortable talking about a particular subject. Instead, talk about something that you know they're interested in. For example, "I heard you won your football game the other night. I'd love to hear about it."

• Give a compliment (表扬).

For example, you could say, "I really like your shirt. Where did you get it?" This could move the conversation in another direction while making the other person feel good. Stick to saying nice things if you're trying to make small talk.

A．Keep the conversation flowing.

B．It also allows you to spend more time together.

C．Listen carefully and respond to their reactions.

D．There's only one word to describe it: awkward.

E．This is always a safe bet, as long as it's appropriate.

F．Such questions are likely to get the person talking more.

G．However, avoid some subjects that may cause arguments.

When people think of word innovators throughout history, male writers likely come to mind. Shakespeare is credited with inventing more than 1,700 words, including "bedroom", "courtship" and "swagger". Charles Dickens is said to have first used the words "butterfingers" and "doormat", and Dr. Seuss reportedly came up with "nerd".

But despite contributions from famous writers, historians say another group has an even greater impact on the development of language: teenage girls. Women lead up to 90 percent of linguistic (语言的) changes, as sociolinguist William Labov observed in the early 2000s. In fact, he wrote, women are often linguistically ahead of men "by a full generation".

Now women are leading the charge online. Though Oxford University Press'2023 word of the year, "rizz", meaning charm, was coined by a man, several runners-up, including "situationship" and "swiftie" were inspired or first used by women. The term "goblin mode", which refers to lazy behavior, was Oxford's 2022 word of the year and appears to have been first used by a woman on Twitter in 2009.

It's often impossible to tell who first used new words. But whether or not young girls invent new phrases, they are more likely to be early adopters of the latest lingo (术语), says University of Toronto linguist Sali Tagliamonte, "They're pushing changes forward."

There are a handful of possible reasons why girls lead lexical (词汇的) innovation. According to Gretchen McCulloch, author of Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, women tend to be more socially aware. They have larger social circles and may be exposed to more language diversity. And because women tend to be caregivers, boys usually learn language from their mothers, whereas women and girls learn words from other women.

Almost all new parents struggle to get enough sleep while caring for their newborns. For some penguin (企鹅) parents, though, periods of sleep are especially short.

Researchers recently found that Chinstrap penguins only sleep for about four seconds at a time in order to protect their eggs and newborn chicks. They do this thousands of times throughout the day. The short "microsleeps" total around 11 hours each day. The microsleeps appear to be enough to keep the parents going for many weeks.

Niels Rattenborg, a sleep researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence in Germany, said, "What's surprising is that the penguins are able to function okay and successfully raise their young."

Chinstrap penguins usually lay their eggs in November in nests made up of small rocks. Mated (交配的) pairs share parenting responsibilities. One parent usually watches the eggs and chicks alone while the other goes off fishing for family meals. Adult penguins don't face many natural enemies in the mating season. But large birds called brown skuas eat the penguin eggs and small chicks. Other adult penguins may also try to steal the small rocks from the nests, so penguin parents must always be on guard.

For the first time, scientists followed the sleeping behavior of Chinstrap penguins. They did this by attaching devices that measure brain waves. They collected data on 14 adults over 11 days on King George Island off the coast of Antarctica.

Won Young Lee, a biologist at the Korean Polar Research Institute, thought of the idea for the study when he saw mating penguins often blinking (眨) their eyes and possibly sleeping. But the team needed to record brain waves to confirm the animals were sleeping. "For these penguins, microsleeps have some restorative functions," he said. He added that they would not survive without it.

The researchers didn't collect sleep data outside the mating season. But they suspect that the penguins may sleep for longer periods at other times of the year.

The memory of one particular summer evening is still burned in my brain as if it were yesterday. There was nothing but wide-open fields for miles and miles around our rural Minnesota home. We never saw strangers not ever and here on this hot evening was a real live one walking up our driveway.

A young man, a slightly-built hitchhiker (搭便车的人) approached our door. He knew there was a storm coming, and he desperately needed shelter. Not wanting to intrude on our home and family, he asked my dad if he could sleep in our basement for the night for protection from the rain. Instead of saying yes, my dad loaded us all up in the 1959 Chevrolet: five kids, my mum, and the man.

Our family consisted of three older children whose father had died young and three more children from the union of my mother and father. Our older brother Jerry was in the Navy, on a ship somewhere overseas. Our mum and dad worried about him.

We drove him 10 miles to the next town, where Dad bought the man a room for the night along with a hot evening meal. In the car after we dropped off the stranger, I heard my dad say to my mum, "I just hope that if Jerry ever needs anything, this kindness will be returned to him."

Weeks later, Dad told my uncle about the young man. My uncle suggested that perhaps my dad shouldn't have taken the risk of having a stranger in our car. My dad replied, "You are absolutely right. I should have invited him into our home."

2024 Travel Planner: The Best Things to See in the UK

Icons of British Fashion, Oxfordshire

A fashion exhibition will open at Blenheim Palace in March. Icons of British Fashion is the largest event in the palace's 300-year history and will showcase some of Britain's most famous designers. Clothing, drawings, photographs and patterns will be on display. 23 March to 30 June. Palace entry tickets are valid for a year and cost £ 38 for adults, £ 22 for under-16s.

Toulouse-Lautrec in Bath

A new exhibition, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Masters of Montmartre, opens at Victoria Art Gallery in Bath in April. More than 30 pieces from the artist's colourful career will be shown alongside works by other artists of the day. This is the only chance to see Lautrec's complete collection of posters in the UK before it moves to a permanent home at the Musée d'Ixelles in Belgium. 26 April to 29 September, adults £ 10, children £3.50.

Back in Time at Beamish

A truly recreated 1950s picture house at Beamish will offer visitors a chance to recall the golden age of movie-going. The cinema will be the latest addition to a "1950s Town" opened last summer at the living history museum. Adults £24.95, children £ 15.45, a family of four £ 63.50, valid for a year.

National Gallery goes on tour

The National Gallery celebrates its 200th anniversary on 10 May. To mark the occasion， the gallery is lending 12 of its most iconic paintings to 12 venues across the UK. Paintings will travel to centres from Brighton to Edinburgh, and will all go on display on 10 May. Each of the 12 venues will run exhibitions and digital interventions to showcase its particular painting.

I was driving on the road on a hot day, feeling my back sweating as my air conditioner of the car was broken. A boy, looking exhausted. ran quickly towards me, eager to sell his coconuts. He looked like he was only about 12 years old and his skin was dark. Judging from his appearance, he seemed to have already known the bitterness of life. "Coconut, 20 naira each. "He said in a low voice. I felt so thirty, so I didn't bargain with him and bought one. I gave him 50 naira. He didn't have the change. so I asked him not to worry. He said thanks and passed me another, smiling and showing a row of perfect teeth. 

Another couple of weeks later, I met him again at the same place. I had learned more about the poor community where it was not that uncommon to see a little boy who should be in school standing on the comer selling fruit in the hot sun. My parents had raised me to be aware of the advantages we had been afforded and the responsibilities it brought to us. 

I stopped and rolled down the window. He had a couple of coconuts. which were so heavy to carry that he had to sit in the corner. "What's wrong? Why not go to school?" I said. "I. I haven't got enough money to get a textbook. I took out two new 500-naira bills from my pocket. "Is that going to work?" I said. He glanced nervously about before he accepted them. A thousand naira is a great deal for a boy whose family is likely to earn five thousand naira or less every year. "Thank you very much. sir, "he said, with tears rolling down his cheeks. "Many thanks!

When I was on my way home, I was thinking about whether or not my little friend was really using that money for school books. What if I was taken in? Then I thought about why I did it. Did I do it to make myself feel better? It occurred to me afterwards that I did not know his name or the least bit about him, and it never occurred to me to ask him. 

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One afternoon in September, I went to the poor community again. 

The boy led me into his house. 

（5月22日）的到来，爱护动物已成为世界十大环保工作之一。请你在学校贴吧上发布一份倡议。要点如下：

1. 当前现状；

2. 提出倡仪；

3. 其他。

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1. 词数80左右；

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At age 25, Lance Armstrong was one of the world's best cyclists. He proved it by  (win）the World Championships and multiple Tour de France stages. Lance Armstrong seemed ever-victorious and his future was bright. Then they told him he had cancer. Next to the challenge he then faced, bike racing seemed insignificant. The diagnosis was testicular cancer, the  (common）cancer in men aged 15-35. If （detect） early, it had a promising 90 percent cure rate. Like most young, healthy men, Lance ignored the warning signs, and he never imagined the  (serious） of his condition. Going untreated, the cancer （spread）to Lance's abdomen, lungs and brain. His chances dimmed. 

Then a combination of physical conditioning, a strong support system and his （compete）spirit took over. He declared himself not a cancer victim  a cancer survivor. He took an active role in educating himself about his disease and the treatment. Armed  knowledge and confidence in medicine, he underwent aggressive treatment and beat the disease. 

During his treatment, before his recovery, and before he even knew his own fate, he created the Lance Armstrong Foundation,  marked the beginning of Lance's life as  advocate for people living with cancer and a world representative for the cancer community. 

He was 11 years old and often went fishing with his father in their boat. 

On the day before the bass （鲈鱼） season 1 , he and his father were fishing early in the evening, catching sunfish and perch with worms. When his 2  doubled over, he knew something huge was on the other end. He very carefully 3  the exhausted fish from the water. It was. the largest one he had 4  seen, but it was a bass. 

The father lit a match and looked at his 5 . It would be two hours before the bass season opened. He looked at the fish and then at the boy. 

"You'll have to 6  it, son, he said. 

"Dad!" cried the boy. 

"There will be other fish, "said his father. 

"Not as big as this one, cried the boy. 

He 7  the lake. No other fishermen or boats were anywhere around in the moonlight. He looked again at his father. Even though no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time. he caught the fish, the boy could tell by his father's firm voice that the decision was not 8 . He slowly worked the hook （钩子） out of the lip of the huge bass and lowered it into the black water, and it 9  soon. 

That was 34 years ago. Today, the boy is a successful architect in New York City. He had never again caught such a 10  fish as the one he landed that night long ago. But he does see that same fish-again and again-every time he comes up against a question of 11 .

As his father taught him, morals are simple 12  of right and wrong. It is the practice of morals that is difficult. Do we do right when no one is 13 ?

We should lean to follow the 14  as the father taught the son. It is a story we will proudly tell our children and grandchildren. It is not about how we had a chance to beat the system and took advantage of it, but about how we decide and how we do the right thing. The 15  to do right will live fresh in our memory. 

Money is something you've been familiar with throughout your life. In fact, you may already consider yourself an expert on the subject. You regularly use money to measure the value of things you own. . It might surprise you to learn that there's a great deal of disagreement among economists about what money is and how to measure it. Money serves a number of functions, and any definition of money must consider all of its functions. 

A Medium of Exchange

Money rules out the need for barter （等价交换）， the direct exchange of one item for another. Barter is a very inconvenient means of trading.  . A seller with a goods or service to offer must search for a buyer who has exactly what the seller desires. 

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Money provides a unit of account. The value of an item is a measure of what a person will sacrifice to obtain it. How much is a two-week vacation in Hawaii worth to you? If you're like most people, you'll probably respond to such a question by valuing the vacation in dollars -approximately $2, 000- rather than in terms of other things like your car）. 

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A Standard of Deferred Payment（赊账）

. The unit of account for deferred payment of debts is also money. If you borrow money to buy a car, the loan contract specifies how much you must pay baek every month and the number of months required to fulfill your duty. 

A. A Standard of Value

B. An Account of Wealth

C. You're constantly valuing items in dollars

D. It requires the double coincidence of wants

E. Money can be quickly transformed into goods and services

F. You also have some of it in your pocket and in bank accounts

G. Many contracts involve promises to pay sums of money in the future

Many primitive people believed that by eating an animal they could get some of the good qualities of that animal for themselves. They thought, for example, that eating deer would make them run as fast as the deer. Some tribes （部落） even ate enemies that had shown bravery in battles. 

Among civilized people it was once thought that ginger roots could improve the memory. Eggs were thought to make the voice pretty. Tomatoes also were believed to have magical powers. They were called love apples and were supposed to make people who ate them fall in love. 

Even today there are a great many wrong ideas about food, some of which are very widespread. 

One such idea is that fish is the best brain food. Fish is good brain food just as it is good muscle food and skin food and bone food. But no scientist has been able to prove that fish is any better for the brain than many other kinds of food. 

Another such idea is that you should not drink water with meals. Scientists tell us that washing food down with water as a substitute for chewing is not a good idea, but some water with meals has been found to be helpful. It makes the digestive juices flow more freely and helps to digest the food. 

Many of the ideas that have to do with mixtures of foods have no scientific foundation. A few years ago, the belief became general that orange juice and milk should never be drunk at the same meal. The reason given was that the acid in the orange juice would make the milk curdle （结团） and become indigestible. As a matter of fact, experts confirm milk always meets in the stomach a digestive juice which curdle it; in fact, the curdling of the milk is the first step in its digestion. A similar wrong idea is that fish and ice cream when eaten at the same meal form a poisonous combination. 

Dogs are man's best friends, and they may be the heart's best friends as well. 

A group of heart disease experts from the American Heart Association (AHA） reviewed research connecting heart health with owning a dog and found that owning a dog has a likely nexus with a lower risk of heart disease for those without a history of heart problems, and with greater survival rates among heart disease patients. 

The group, chaired by Dr. Glenn Levine, a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, released a scientific statement in favor of having a dog to lower the risk of heart disease by helping people to be more physically active as well as reduce blood pressure and minimize the effects of stress. Previous studies showed that the companionship and close relationship that owners build with their dogs can boost levels of anti-stress hormones （抗应激激素） that can increase resilience （适应力） and help people to cope with stressful situations. One of the studies found, for example, that those who adopted dogs enjoyed a drop in blood pressure, while another revealed that among 5, 200 adults, those who owned dogs were 54% more likely to get recommended levels of exercise and be active than non-dog owners. That trend is supported by other studies that found people who owned dogs were less likely to be overweight. 

According to a report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention（ CDC）, dogs aren't a panacea （灵丹妙药） against heart disease, and it's likely that taking care of them requires their owners to get more exercise, which can reduce stress, weight and blood pressure and thus benefit the heart. "If someone adopts a pet, but still sits on the couch and smokes and eats whatever he wants and doesn't control his blood pressure, Levine told the Neto York Times, "that's not a wise strategy to decrease the risk". 

It all began in Everett, Washington, where my project team was in the process of conducting one of our business systems. So tough was the project that we often stayed up completing the tasks assigned. All of us were worn out. One night, as I walked through the parking lot with one of my employees. I found a cent and picked it up. Glancing at my exhausted employee. I suddenly had an idea to delight him. Playfully, I presented the cent to the employee and said, "This is an informal award for your efforts. He put the cent in his pocket. "Thank you, he said, a wave of joy sweeping across his face. 

About six months later, I was walking with the same employee, this time in Los Alamitos, California, when I again found a cent and gave it to him with the same words.  

Later, I got into his office and there, taped on a piece of paper were the two cents, which made me surprised. He said he was displaying them as his recognition for a job well done.  

Other employees noticed the cents proudly displayed and began asking why they hadn't received any. They were also longing for the "reward". It was then that I started handing out cents, explaining that they were for recognition, not for reward. Soon, so many people wanted them that I designed a cent holder. The front features a place for a cent and beside it the phrase, "Your work is recognized! The back has room for 30 more cents and the phrase, "Your achievements count!

One time, I spotted an employee, Mia, doing something right and wanted to recognize her, but I didn't have a cent, so I gave her a quarter. Later the same day she stopped by and returned 24 cents. 

That's how the "One Cent Award" was born. It's become a significant source of recognition in our organization. 

If there may be any errors when using the juicer， please confirm the following points before contacting the customer service for support. 

1. Error: Can't work

Reason: Dead battery

Solution: Charge in time

2. Error: Stop suddenly during working

Reason:         1）The fruit is too big

2）The battery is down

Solution:         1）Cut small pieces of fruit        

2）Charge in time

3. Error: Abnormal noise

Reason:         1）Parts of the machine are not installed in place

2）The machine is placed in an inclined （倾斜的） position when working

Solution:         1）Confirm whether parts of the machine are well assembled

2）Put the machine on a level surface for use

4. Error:         There is food overflow when working

Reason:         1）The fruit is too big        

2）The upper cover is not installed correctly

Solution:         1）Cut small pieces of fruit                

2）Install the upper cover correctly

5. Error:         1） The red alarm light flashes for about 10 seconds

2）The charging indicator light is not bright

Reason:         1）The battery is dead or the automatic protection is on

2）The charging cable is not connected

Solution:         1） Charge in time                

2）Connect the charging cable

Warranty（保修）exception

The product is not covered by the warranty if it breaks down or is damaged under any of the following circumstances. 

1. The products used are obtained through other channels than the company's sales channels. 

2. Products whose warranty card is lost and cannot provide relevant supporting materials. 

3. Damage caused by disassembly or repair of the product by any individual other than the special repair designated（指定） by the company. 

4. Product damage judged to be man-made. 

If any repairs occur, the relevant fees will be charged. 

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