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That's when I3 a secret: Washington, D. C., the city where I live, is full of hidden fossils (化石). In my busy, overstimulated life, I began to4 fossils. Many of these sites lie within 80 miles south of the capital along the Potomac River, so fossil hunting5 takes me away from the city. It's a pursuit that requires6 and focus. Finding different shapes in the earth feels like piecing together a broken7 in the sediment (沉淀物). Is it a tooth, a bone, or a shell? I'm looking for the8 end pieces. Thankfully, my9 phone signal in these areas helps me disconnect from the distractions of the modern world, allowing me to fully immerse myself in the search for fossils. Unlike the rush of daily life, fossils don't demand my constant10 because they've waited millions of years, and they can wait a little longer.

Once, I brought a bottle-cap-sized trilobite (三叶虫) fossil into the newsroom and kept it within my sight, since it was something I wanted to11 throughout the day. Turning over that piece of rock is a12 to remind me of a time long before humans13 and built cities on these lands.

Thinking about geological time makes me feel small but significant, like the tiny trilobite. As my worried mind14 , I realize that many of the stressful details don't really matter. My perspective shifts. Maybe, in this moment, I don't need to rush or worry about that phone call at all.15 , I can savor the quiet, gentle pace of the world around me, just like the fossils waiting to be discovered.

Many people are skeptical about reducing meat consumption, but there are many benefits of adopting plant-based diet. Besides, it produces significantly fewer greenhouse gases and requires less land and water than animals. This helps keep ecological balance and promotes better life quality.

This kind of diet is not usually preferred by people who enjoy the taste of animal meat. Just like the resistance some people have towards eating insects, the shift to plant-based diet also requires great changes in how people perceive and enjoy food.

The future of our food supply will depend heavily on our willingness to accept more sustainable eating habits. Options like lab-grown meats are promising. Yet will these food choices become common in our supermarkets?

How we choose to eat in the coming years will contribute to ensuring a sustainable future for you and me. Hopefully, we can balance our nutritional needs with the planet's ability to support us, building a harmonious relationship with our environment.

A. Such diet has been tried by many people.

B. It remains to be seen whether we can make it happen.

C. It is more nutritious compared with animal-based food.

D. Much depends on how such restaurants treat customers.

E. However, adapting to plant-based diet can be challenging.

F. Our choices directly impact the ecosystem and social welfare.

G. A practical solution is plant-based diet including fruits, vegetables and nuts.

Research on classroom-based group work reveals a paradox (悖论): while cooperative learning can be highly effective, merely placing children in groups often proves unproductive. The solution lies in teaching children how to cooperate effectively. Teachers play a crucial role in this process through their interaction with students.

To ensure effective group work, teachers must first raise students' awareness of the purpose and value of group activities. More importantly, they need to teach students how to engage in reasoned discussions, known as Exploratory Talk. This involves considering everyone's viewpoints, justifying arguments with reasons, and seeking evidence to support arguments. It also involves expressing critically but constructively, such as other ideas, ideas, contributions, and seeking further explanation.

Successful cooperation requires a reasoned discussion, which can be facilitated by establishing a set of "Ground Rules for Exploratory Talk". These rules guide behaviors such as asking for information, seeking and providing reasons, and evaluating proposals. Ground Rules help children ask questions, contribute, reason, and develop ideas. For instance, children learn to ask "What do you think? Why?" and listen attentively to each other's responses, reaching reasoned conclusions.

Exploratory Talk enhances group activities as a powerful learning tool. Certain activities, like Talking Points, are particularly effective in stimulating such discussions. Talking Points are inspiring statements designed to encourage children to share knowledge and ideas on a specific topic. Research indicates that children's Talking Points about more imaginative and extensive responses to traditional questions. They help children focus on the topic and compare their viewpoints with others. As they discuss children realize that their ideas can develop with new evidence and that alternative or valuable sources are new thinking. With proper guidance, the students will soon begin to see their ideas flowing. And gradually they will learn to participate fully not only in discussions but also in life as well.

I like my close friends a lot, and yet, on an almost daily basis, they shocked me. I have a friend who thinks voting is a waste of time; I have another friend who never takes any arrangement to meet at a given time and place seriously.

It's generally held that friends are people with whom we choose to develop relationships because we find their personalities agreeable, or similar to our own, and yet experience regularly contradicts this. What is a friend, really? All that one can safely say is that a friend is someone one likes and wishes to see again.

The truth is that we don't know our friends. Numerous studies show that we tend to assume our friends agree with us more than they really do. The striking part is that the problem doesn't appear to lessen as a friendship deepens. When the researchers Michael Gill and Bill Swann questioned students sharing rooms, they found that, as time passed,people became even more confident in the accuracy of their judgments about the other, and yet, in reality, the judgments grew no more accurate. Two people might become dear friends, yet remain ignorant about vast areas of each other's inner lives.

This seems strange, until you consider, that many-of the benefits that friendship provides don't necessarily depend on perfect familiarity; they come from something closer to reliability. Friendahip may be less about being drawn to someone's personality than about finding someone willing to keep you company, or lend an ear. A friend provides the "social-identity support" we desire. You needn't be a close match with someone, nor deeply familiar with their mind. And once a friendship has begun, you want to like it, if only to confirm that you made the right decision. We don't want to know everything about our friends. We don't base friendships on what we learn about people; we decide what to learn about people, and what to ignore, based on having decided to be friends.

Perhaps there's something moving about viewing friendship as an agreement to keep each other company, ignore each other's faults and not probe (刨根问底) too deeply in ways that might weaken the friendship. Perhaps a true friend is someone who doesn't ask many awkward questions.

He arrived early and sat in the back row, his backbone very straight, his ankles crossed precisely under the desk and his hands folded on the center of its top, and while the other children were filling in, he received a long, expressionless stare from each of them.

"We have a new classmate this morning," Miss Price said, "His name is Vincent Sabella, and he comes from New York City. I know we'll all do our best to make him feel at home."

This time they all swung around to stare at once, which caused him to duck his head slightly and shift his weight from one side to the other. Ordinarily, the fact of someone's coming from New York might have held a certain status, for to most of the children the city was a frightening, adult place that swallowed up their fathers every day. But anyone could see at a glance that Vincent Sabella had nothing to do with it. Even if you could ignore his twisted black hair and gray skin, his clothes would have given him away: ridiculously new pants, ridiculously old sports shoes and a yellow sweatshirt, much too small, with the faded remains of a Mickey Mouse design stamped on its chest.

The girls decided that he wasn't very nice and turned away, but the boys remained in their inspection, looking him up and down with faint smiles. This was the kind of kid they were accustomed to thinking of as "tough," the kind whose stare has made all of them uncomfortable at one time or another in unfamiliar neighborhoods; here was a unique chance for revenge.

summer session (June 12-July 26)

Morning sessions:

Section A: 8: 10-9: 10        Section B: 9: 20-10: 20

Section C: 10: 40-11: 40        Section D: 11: 50-12: 50

Afternoon sports: 2: 00-3: 30

American Sign Language(ASL)

It is thrilling to introduce ASL to our Lexington community with the arrival of our instructor, Mr. Wilson. In this course, students will learn the eșsential signs of alphabet(字母表) fingerspelling and various categories of vocabulary including family signs, WH-Questions and directional signs. Additionally, students will gain insights into the distinctions between the hearing and the deaf communities.

Grades: 9-10          Section C          Cost: $260

Baseball Camp

The camp is designed to instruct campers in the fundamental skills of ball pitching, batting, catching, striking in a group setting. Campers will also have the opportunity to engage in competitive yet entertaining games that will improve skills and strategies.

It will be scheduled for four Sundays: June 23, July 7, July 14, and July 21.

Grades: 9-11          Section A          Cost: $160

English Skills for High School

This class is designed to enhance high school students' English proficiency with flexible instruction and different schedules. In this class, we will read Madeleine L'Engle' s fantastic novel A Wrinkle in Time, we will craft our own imaginative narratives, and we will strengthen the core English skills that are crucial for high school students.

Grades: 10-12          Section B          Cost: $230          Book fee: $20

Computer Skills Training

This course is an expansive exploration into the field of computer science, covering a variety of subjects including problem-solving, programming, physical computing, user-centered design and data analysis. Students will be motivated to create their own websites, apps, animations, games, and so on. Prior experience of block coding (编码) is suggested for students enrolling in this course.

Grades: 11-12          Section D          Cost: $240          Book fee: $30

When Sam was two years and two months old, he began to shut the world away. The once-happy little boy, who was already starting to pick up words of both English and Spanish, suddenly stopped speaking; stopped looking his family in the eye; stopped communicating altogether. Most of the time, all Sam did was lie on the sofa touching his ears.

He started to display certain behavioral changes. He began to have this funny thing with straight lines where he would pick up a toy and look at it sideways, or lie on his front for hours on end, rolling a car in front of his eyes.

Within two years, his mother Jo visited one expert after another with Sam and tried various treatment methods; however, nothing seemed to work. What was worse, in about three weeks Sam's grandfather died of cancer, his parents divorced and his family were robbed — and all the while, Sam was becoming more and more withdrawn. His eyes were dead.

And it was then that Sam was eventually diagnosed (诊断) with autism (自闭症).

As a single mother, Jo had no choice but to go straight to work herself to earn a living while researching the condition and try her best to help Sam to come back out of himself. For Jo, the following eight years was a terrifying time, watching her son disappearing just in front of her eyes. All methods tried, money running out, Jo had no choice but to take Sam, by now completely non-verbal (不使用言语交际的), from the hustle and bustle (喧嚣) of the city to the calm of the Devon countryside.

Once on a local farm, they came across Chester, a mini pig belonging to a farmer. It was so small that they didn't even see it at first sight. As they walked down the grassland, the only little pig was hiding in the corner. He looked sad and lonely, like Sam often did.

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When Sam saw Chester, he went over to the little pig immediately.

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The farmer agreed and Jo took Chester home.

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Tai chi, an ancient Chinese martial art, (celebrate) worldwide for its lasting popularity, despite the fact formal statistics on the number of practitioners are absent. Recognized by UNESCO on December 17, 2020 an Intangible Cultural Heritage, tai chi's global appeal has only grown.

Guillaume Large, a 44-year-old from Bordeaux, France, turned to tai chi for (recover) after a sports injury over 20 years ago. His passion for the art (lead) him to establish an association in 2007, devoted to (promote) Chinese culture in France through tai chi and language instruction.

In 2013, Large began studying under Chen Ziqiang, the head coach of Chenjiangou Tai Chi School in Henan, China. Since then, he has annually brought French students to Chenjiangou (deepen) their understanding of tai chi. Large's efforts reflect a broader trend: a growing French fascination with Chinese culture, he hopes will continue to strengthen.

Tai chi's philosophy is rooted in the Tao Te Ching, classic Chinese text. It emphasizes the balance of yin and yang, illustrating opposites that can transform into one another, challenging conventional (belief) of strength and weakness. Large's journey and the art of tai chi itself demonstrate this profound interaction of forces.

Alfred Nobel was born in 1833 to a family of engineers in Sweden. In 1850, he met Ascanio Sobrero, the inventor of nitroglycerin (硝酸甘油) in Paris. Interested in its irregular2 of exploding under pressure or heat, Nobel started to find a way to control it and make a3 explosive. After years of4, in 1867, at the age of 34, Nobel invented dynamite (炸药), which is much easier and safer to control than nitroglycerin.

During his lifetime, Nobel invented and patented various explosives. He5 his wealth from his 355 inventions, among which dynamite was the most important.

When Alfred's brother Ludwig died in 1888, a French newspaper6 published Alfred's obituary (讣告). Reading his own obituary, Nobel was7 to find out his public image. The newspaper strongly8 Nobel for inventing dynamite, giving him the nickname of "the merchant of death" and saying "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became9 by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday."

To Alfred, this obituary was a(n)10. He spent his lifetime alone11 things and was deeply concerned with how he would be remembered. This unfortunate event inspired him to make changes in his will, so as to12 his public image, and to be remembered for a good cause. In 1895, one year before his death, Nobel made the last13, saying clearly that his wealth would be used to create a series of prizes for those who have made great14 to mankind in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. To widespread astonishment, Dr. Alfred Nobel15 94% of his total wealth to found the five Nobel Prizes.