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Julia Whelan climbed into the double-walled, foam-insulated booth in her home office near Palm Springs, Calif. In preparation, she had stopped drinking alcohol the night before, had avoided dairy since waking at 6 a. m. and had run through the humming and vocalizing of her warm-up exercises. Her glass jar filled with water, her Vaseline lip therapy at hand, she was ready to work. 

Whelan, 38, the comforting, confident female voice behind more than 400 audio-books, is so sought-after that six months' notice is required. Once she has taken on a project, she reads through the book once or twice, deciding on themes to highlight when she gets into the recording booth by using different tones and accents, and emphasizing certain words. "Narrating a book really is a performance, "she said, "and it can be harder to do than acting, because I can't use my eyes or facial expression to communicate something to the audience. "

Her narrating voice, slightly different from her regular speech, is crisp and low-pitched. There is no singsong, no up speak, "I have an absolute affection on her voice, with a detached but not uninterested tone that makes her a very persuasive storyteller. When I listen to Julia read my stories, it sounds like she is calling you over to tell you a great story. "said Olivia Nuzzi, NewYork magazine's Washington correspondent.

Flynn, an American writer and film maker, decided against rereading the book Gone Girl, opting instead to listen to the narration when preparing to write the screenplay for the film adaptation. "Julia gave me the benefit of listening to Amy and seeing the world through her eyes, "Flynn said. Just before the pandemic, Whelan began her writing Thank You for Listening. She learned about her writing when she experienced it as a narrator. "There is something about it that changes when you're performing it, "Whelan said, "I read the book out loud during every stage of its revisions but it's different when you sit down and have the microphone in front of you. When I finally am inhabiting all the characters, the story comes to life. "

The Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition

The Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneur Competition is the largest and most well-known virtual business competition for high school students in the world. It was founded in Maryland in 2014 by a young budding(萌芽的)high school entrepreneur. 

The competition gives high school students the chance to present their innovative business ideas, get real entrepreneurial experience, earn cash prizes, and build resumes that stand out from the crowd when applying for college. Participation is 100%free for all students, which levels the playing field and provides equal access to opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs regardless of their socioeconomic background or nationality. 

The competition attracts the very best high school student entrepreneurs from all comers of the globe, making the competition truly global. 

Participating is Easy

⒈Register for the competition individually or team up with up to four friends to compete together. 

⒉Recognize a pressing problem the world faces, then create something new and build a business idea to address it. 

⒊Check out the scoring criteria to make sure your idea qualifies as a blue ocean business. 

⒋Reference the blue ocean pitch template(模版)to record your 5-minute video, upload on YouTube, and submit a link and the video file. 

When Marco was a boy, he tried everything to get his father's love and attention. He worked hard to earn exceptional marks and always tried to behave well. But he was so sensitive and shy that he always hid behind his hair, which he wore long around his face. To make it worse, Marco was naturally shorter than the other kids. This added to his already low self-confidence.

At 14, he and his younger sister Sandra moved in with their dad and his new wife. His father was busy and their communication was nonexistent. The only time his dad ever spoke to him was to be demanding or critical. He began to fear coming home from school every day, feeling desperately alone and isolated. 

One day his father, tripped over Marco's bike in the garage. The angry reaction left Marco in despair, thus crying out, "That's it! I'm going to kill myself. "

"You don't even have the guts!" replied his father.

For two days, all Marco could think of was wanting to die, but he didn't want to prove his father was right. Angry and sad, Marco was stuck.

Two days later, his aunt called him. This seemed like a miracle. Aunt Ginette usually only called on his birthday. She said she had just seen some young teenagers participate in a public speaking contest and she thought about him. She told him she firmly believed he could perform on stage like those kids, since she had seen him do skits（幽默短剧）for the family at Christmas. 

Marco was shocked. Him? In a public speaking contest, which was contrary to his shy personality? But Aunt Ginette was sure it was something he could do. Feeling her strong belief, Marco agreed. 

All that winter, twice a week after dinner, he took three different buses in each direction for the three-hour round-trip to practice in the place where the competition would take place. Marco was taken by a feeling he never felt before. The hours and the obstacles no longer counted. The criticism from his father around his absence for after-dinner chores didn't matter.

注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右 ；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

参考词汇：手工创意大赛 handicraft competition

注意：1. 词数80左右；2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

China has many famed explorers. There was Zhang Qian,  traveled into Central Asia, （open）corridors of trade that became the Silk Road. Zheng He was a great mariner in the th century. Yet these voyages （undertake） under the direction of governments. Xu Xiake was different. 

Born in 1587, Xu Xiake grew up in a rich family. Yet he rejected the （comfort）life to、travel the lost、world of imperial China. As one of the greatest land explorers, Xu Xiake is said （travel）thousands of miles of Chinese mountains and rivers on foot in his lifetime. The written work of Xu Xiake's travel records and diaries contains some 404, 000 Chinese characters, enormous work for a single author of his time. It mixes （detail）of geography, botany and local history with the ratings of the Ming Dynasty lodgings（住宿）.

"On the surface, Xu's travel can neither be classified as great affairs of state great undertakings that changed the course of history. " writes the cultural historian Zheng Peikai. "Xu traveled to satisfy his own （curious）—he traveled for the sake of traveling. "

Xu Xiake traveled across China for 34 years. Perhaps his （great）journey was his last. At age 50, he traveled to the tropical frontiers of Yunnan. Hundreds of years later, we follow. Naturally, he is the father of Chinese backpacking. 

In the summer of 2018, I decided to do a solo expedition across Antarctica. To get some 1 , I did a two-week training course. I learned all the 2 : how to camp in the snow, how to pull as led and what clothing to wear. In October, I flew to Antarctica from Punta Arenas. I'd allowed 70 days, which would make it the longest 3 one-way expedition across Antarctica.

I only took 4 . I didn't even take a hairbrush. The first few days were 5 . The winds were about 60 mph, and my sled weighed 120 kg. Even if the visibility is good, you can't 6 much—it's a white horizon. I was on the move for 13 to 15 hours a day.

Then, I found the conditions to be much worse. There was more sastrugi（雪脊）and it felt colder. The last 40 hours were really hard. I7  about 14 times every two hours. As a result, I fell behind 8 . In the end, I9  922 miles and fell more than 100 miles short of my goal. Towards the end of my trip, a helicopter flew to pick me up. The 10  I felt when I saw the dot in the distance was unbelievable. 

It took me a while to be 11 of what I'd achieved, because I had failed to reach my 12 goal, but I've learned it's 13 to move the goalposts. I don't agree with the idea of conquering somewhere. You treat places with 14 and hope they'll allow you a 15 passage.

How to master tricky conversations at work

Many of us struggle to say what we need to at work. Whether it's asking for a pay rise or facing a co-worker over his behaviour, these conversations can be difficult to have without the other person getting angry. Here are my tips on how to tackle your next difficult conversation.

Plan

First, you need to plan what you're going to say. . Write down what you want out of the conversation and be clear on what you want to happen as a result. For example, you may decide: "I want to get an agreement on deadlines for this project and a clear outline of who will be responsible for each task. "

Prepare

The second thing you need to do is write down the key messages you want to get across in the conversation. . Remember to speak slowly; breathe. If you are particularly nervous, rehearse（排练）what you plan to say in front of a friend so you know you are coming across as you wish to. 

Be empathetic

Finally, put yourself in the other person's shoes—however annoying that person might be. The useless boss who never gives you feedback is simply struggling with his own workload. the more we can plan how to work with them towards a successful outcome.

When you have the conversation, don't get blind-sided by fast talkers. If the person you're speaking to starts to avoid blame or your questioning, ask him what his part is in all of this and what he can take responsibility for. . And finally, if you feel under pressure, remember to respond slowly rather than react quickly.

A. Practise saying them out loud

B. Start with the end result in mind

C. The language you use is also important

D. The more careful you're with the language you use

E. The more we can understand the other person's world view

F. To manage your emotions during a difficult conversation, breathe deeply

G. But not being able to have "that conversation" can hold you back in your career

Mary Dickins had been a member of the audience at poetry nights before and knew "the poetry clap". She made a polite tapping of fingers. But when she made her debut (首次演出) as a performer at the age of 62 at the legendary Bang Suid the Gun night in south London, she said, "It was so wild—like nothing I had ever seen before. " The audience stamped their feet and shook shakers. "It felt trans formative. I thought, ‘I've got to have more of this, '" Dickins said. Becoming a performance poet has given her a place on a stage of her own making.

All her life she has written, mostly without being seen or heard. Her mother died when she was nine, and, after she went into a care home at 13, Dickins' writing stayed in notebooks. Really, she says, a lot of her adult life has been about getting over childhood shyness. At university—she studied education—she met her husband of 40 years, but in three years of seminars she did not say a word. Some of this results from her years at the children's home. She says, "It gave me a sense of what it's like to be excluded. I never fitted in anywhere. "

After she graduated, she discovered that she loved working with people with learning disabilities. She became an expert in inclusive education. "That was my niche（称心的职业）, " she says. She published books and returned to the University of North London as a senior lecturer in early childhood studies.

Dickins now sees that in adulthood she has been giving herself permission to be silly. "The sillier I allow myself to be, the better the writing is, " she says. Her observations are humorous. "Putting things into words and giving shape to your emotions is an important part of coming to terms with the things that happen in life, " she says.

Does she still feel like an outsider?

"I think I've made it into a virtue. I celebrate the fact that I don't fit into a box. Finally! You have to wait till you're 62 to feel confident!" she says. "But I have a sense of who I am and I'm proud of it. I wouldn't be anyone else now—and it took me a long time to say that. "

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