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Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns recently said, "As we got to know him… he was among the highest individuals in America; I'm talking about the level of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Jefferson — people who have had a transformational effect on who we are."

So where is the quote from? Well, John Muir was a productive writer. Whether he was writing poetry or simply letters to his family, John Muir was always putting pen to paper. The quote is from within one of his many letters written to his sister:

Lily had always been cheerful, but lately she found herself (不知所措). The pressure of school, with its demanding assignments, looming (临近的) exams, and the need to maintain good grades, made her feel that      (消极思想笼罩着她) constantly.    (她太焦虑了以致于，用倒装句) she couldn't stay focused in class. After class, Lily (正准备离开教室时) she was stopped by her teacher, who expressed disappointment over her lack ofconcentration. (感觉血液涌向她的脸), Lily lowered her head and apologized to her teacher. Lying in bed at night, she (感到一阵悲伤) and texted her friend Sarah for help.

(应Lily的要求), Sarah decided to come to her aid. One afternoon, Sarah knocked on the door. When Lily finally (拖着脚去开门), she was met with the sight of her smiling friend. "What's going on?" Sarah asked gently, (将 Lily揽在她温暖的怀里).

As they sat together, Lily felt a wave of relief washed over her. "I've been feeling so depressed," she said, (眼含泪水).

In AD 79, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, in southern Italy, (destroy) by a volcanic eruption that buried many of (it) buildings. Archaeologists (考古学家) have been observing it for almost 300 years but now they have a new tool for (understand) how Pompeii might once have looked — virtual reality (VR).

Researchers Danilo Campanaro and Giacomo Landeschi, from Lund University in Sweden, used data collected by drones (无人机) flying over the ruined Roman city to create a 3D computer reconstruction (重建) of one of its most (impress) buildings. They then fed the reconstruction into a video game system called Unity (make) a VR model. The idea is not just to recreate the buildings to understand a bit more about how Roman people might have experienced them. Campanaro and Landeschi asked (volunteer) to take a virtual tour of the house in both summer and winter light. The researchers used special eye-tracking technology to record (exact) which areas people looked at and for how long. From this, the team concluded that the building used clever design to draw attention objects that showed off the wealth and status of its owner — perhaps a man called LuciusValenius Flaccus, ring was found in the ruins.

Whenever Sajan and I come home, my mom starts3 our meals weeks before we arrive. She researches new4 dishes and stocks up on beans and yogurt though she5 both. So often, even though we're all6 at the table together, we're eating7 meals. I've never really8 with my mom about the food tension in our relationship. But earlier this summer, I9 asked her about it.

"It is sometimes a(n)10 to cook your food," she answered. "But it is important for us to11 your and Sajan's Indian vegetarian diet."

She also had her question, "You don't miss the12 you grew up with?"

I do. And I don't.

My mom still makes my favorite cookies. But because I've been away from home for so long, I've13 lots of new foods, and Indian food has become my food. I always assumed she felt hurt by that, but talking to her, I14 I was wrong.

Love can be shown through food in different ways. Just make a little room for what our loved ones choose to15.

We conducted a study online and reached more than 200 people from all walks of life. After asking them about the hardships they faced and how often they experienced compassion, we offered them the chance to donate some of the money they were about to be paid for taking part in the study to help people in need. The result showed that those who had faced serious adversities in life feel more compassion for suffering people. And as a result, they donated more money.

Now, if experiencing any type of hardship can make a person more compassionate, you might assume that the compassion would be reached when someone has experienced the exact misfortune that another person is facing. Interestingly, this turns out to be dead wrong.

In an article recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Kellogg School of Management professor Loran Nordgren and his team found that the human mind refuses to work as usual when it comes to remembering its own past hardships: it regularly makes them appear to be less painful than they actually were. Therefore, recalling a bad experience in your own past may make you underestimate (低估) the difficulty of others' challenges. You overcame it, you think; so should he. The result? You lack compassion.

Our findings, taken together with those of Professor Nordgren and his team, are that living through hardships doesn't either warm hearts or harden them; it does both. Knowing suffering in life usually enhances the compassion we feel for others, except when the suffering involves specific painful events that we know all too well.