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He told me that he   the music festival the next day.

She was the first person of using the Internet to promote traditional music.

We have to explore the town's musical traditions.

We should learn to ourselves online dangers.

I saw him a video of himself the guitar online.

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Despite its breathtaking natural beauty, Vancouver is a place where making friends often feels no less4 than finding an affordable apartment. As immigrants from sun-heavy places, we were all5 to adapt to the city's grey weather and even "greyer"6 climate. In this environment, dragon boating served as a breakthrough, for it is a sport that brings people back to their7. In a boat, no one cares about your background; you simply move as one. This spirit soon8 our lives off the water, and our weekly gatherings after practice naturally became our9.

We bonded over shared10 — the impossible rental market and the "polite" social scene where plans for hiking always11. Yet, when we were together, these12 mattered less. We weren't just surviving the city's coldness; we were13 a micro-community of our own.

One summer night, after a major festival, we danced by the waterfront. In that golden moment, we realized we had14 what we came for. We were four strangers from different continents, but dragon boating gave us a place to15, a reason to stay and a rhythm to move forward by — together.

To understand why this upset me so much, you need to know what my life was like as a university senior. Homework assignments, projects and tests competed for my attention and time. I caged myself in a prison of my own ambitions and expectations, cut off from many aspects of the world.

So when I first started washing dishes, I felt annoyed. I was in a rush to be done with them, eager to get back to my endless list of tasks. For about 15 minutes every day, I realized that I could slow down time and forget everything in the world. As my mind, eyes and hands focused on a simple task that would always result in success, I found peace.

Though the new dishwasher arrived eventually, I continued to wash dishes by hand. This task became more relaxing and educational than I could have imagined. From my kitchen window, I watched the seasons change: the tomato plant grew in summer, gave its fruit in fall, and died back in winter. Then new green was showing in spring. I kept these sights in mind, thinking on time itself.

Washing dishes taught me to think of the completion of a task as the ultimate reward, not praise or a prize. I learned to be more relaxed about deadlines.

A. It definitely allowed me to recover.

B. Now I can enjoy whatever task I'm doing.

C. I was running around stressed most of the day.

D. It took a while for the model we ordered to arrive.

E. But a new dishwasher was out of our consideration.

F. I should have accomplished them with even greater efforts.

G. Washing dishes, though, caused an admirable transformation in me.

Dictionaries enable us to write not with fail-safe convenience but with originality and a point of view. While AI assistants produce phrases and statements so writers don't have to think them up, dictionaries provide us with the knowledge to use language ourselves in expressive and potentially infinite (无穷的) ways. They place choice and authority literally in human hands, forcing us to discover how we want to explain ourselves and our ideas to the world.

The abundance of digital writing assistants gives greater urgency to debates about what a dictionary should be. In 1946, George Orwell described good writing as "picking out words for the sake of their meaning," a practice that dictionaries facilitate while digital writing programs stifle. Writers consulting a dictionary make a choice, while writers guided by an app have their choices made for them. The digital-native approach delivers hands-off, derivative (衍生的) communication. The other requires leafing through pages without knowing exactly where you'll end up. Without dictionaries to provide us with a guide to English's potential, writing that way is nearly impossible.

Our ability to express ourselves is critical — it helps us define who we are. Dictionaries aid us in achieving this: They categorize our unique ways of thinking through language. I'm a Canadian; my feeling of pride in my native land is enhanced by small verbal Canadianisms like "eaves trough" or "serviette", which are well-documented in dictionaries but rarely used by AI chatbots, for the most part.

As digital writing extends deeper into our lives and minds, we need dictionaries more than ever. Abandoning dictionaries and embracing mechanized writing would weaken our capacity for collective identity quite as much as the ability to express ourselves.

King Tut was only about nine years old when he became ruler of Egypt more than 3, 300 years ago. The young king died when he was just 19, His body was buried in a tomb filled with objects that people believed he would need in the afterlife.

In 1922, Howard Carter discovered Tut's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Up to now, it was the best preserved ancient Egyptian tomb ever found. In 1925, Carter found the dagger which has a gold handle and an iron blade (刀片).The blade had confused experts because iron was hardly used at that time in ancient Egypt. In fact, it was so rare that it was considered more valuable than gold. Where did the iron for the blade come from?

Around the time of King Tut, ancient Egyptians started using a new word for iron that translates as "iron from the sky". This led some experts to believe that the iron for the blade came from a meteorite (陨石).But studies of the dagger carried out in the 1970s and 1990s didn't support that idea.

That's where modern technology comes in. Researchers used a new technique to examine the blade. They discovered that it was made up of iron and other materials found in meteorites. After comparing it to several meteorites, they even found its possible match — a meteorite that landed in northern Egypt thousands of years ago.

Scientists hope the new study will lead to more discoveries about other ancient Egyptian relics, "It would be very interesting to analyze more Pre-iron Age objects and we could gain precious discoveries." Daniela Comelli, who is a professor, said.