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Yesterday I had a taste of being stuck in a desperate situation where my only hope of help would have to come from a total stranger.

I was in a busy shopping mall buying a large piece of luggage. After the purchase in one of the large and expensive shops, I picked up my phone from my pocket to call my driver waiting in the parking lot and my phone was dead.

I then requested the shop assistant selling me the luggage, which was not cheap at all, if she could ring the number of my driver for me. She replied, still all smiles, "I'm sorry, sir, but it is the shop policy that we cannot use mobile phones while working in the shop."

As I was wondering what kind of policy that was, I saw a nice-looking teenage boy coming toward me. Remember my wife's interesting theory that beautiful people are more likely to give you a hand when you're in trouble, I thought I might have a chance. But before I could say a word, he walked past me. It turned out he simply didn't see me.

I waited in the mall but it seemed nobody bothered to look at me. Disappointed and tired, I got out of the shop on to the busy street in front. I stood there with people rushing by, looking at their faces to see if they will show kindness to me. I began wondering how many times I had reacted to strangers like the shop girl and the teenager.

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That was when I saw a young mother with her two kids.

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Finally, I was about to give up when a man wearing a cheap T-shirt seemed to notice me.

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The Wandering Earth II caught people's great attention several years ago. Even now many of the movie audiences consider it to be one of the most (strike) movies in 2013 due to the science and technology in it, (particular) the space elevators (电梯) that send people to space.

The key approach building space elevators is to find a super strong material (材料) can be used as the elevator cable (缆绳). It might be many years the dream of building space elevators come true. But many people (inspire) by advanced technologies in the movie. The discussions of this technology show the (eager) of humans in the development of material science. Meanwhile number of scientists and researchers devote (奉献) themselves to getting this technology (update).

Discussions on the movie not only show support for Chinese movies but give (we) the chance to get to know related knowledge behind the movie.

After passing him, I realized I had been so focused on competing against him that I had8 my turn. I had gone nearly six blocks past it. I had to9 and go back. Isn't it what happens in our life when we focus on competing with classmates, co-workers, neighbors, friends, trying to leave them behind or trying to prove that we are more important or more10?

In fact, we spend our time and11 running after other people and we miss out on our own paths to our destination. The12 with blind competition is that it's a never ending cycle. There will always be somebody13 you, someone with better grades or a more satisfying job, etc. But be14 that we can be the best that we can be. We are competing with no one. Take what we have been15, such as the height, weight and personality. We should feel lucky with them, stay focused and live a happy life.

Nobody would like to experience failure. We all want to succeed. For those who have tried and failed, success seems difficult to understand.

·Know your values.

Finding your values is in line with creating motivation. Pick a handful of things and write them down. Remind yourself of your values every day and reflect on whether you are honoring those values through your work.

·Pick a goal and focus on it.

Choose one goal to start something large enough that will give you a sense of achievement, while adjusting well to your values. If you want to achieve your goal, focus is the key here. If you perform many tasks at a time, you might never finish your projects because they will take far too long.

·Set a time for success.

Set a date for success. Know when you hope to realize your goal. By setting a time limit, you are making the process realistic.

Failure can't be avoided when you take risks. By its very definition, the desire to succeed means you are risking failure. Many people tend to give up far too early. Don't fall into this trap! Use failure. Treat it as a good thing, and go on.

A. Make the right decision.

B. The more focused you are on one goal, the higher chance you have of success.

C. Here are some habits that can help you set goals and realize them.

D. Keep it realistic, while not giving yourself too much time.

E. Don't give up because of failure.

F. Sit and reflect on what you value most.

G. Push yourself to be courageous, and take that next step.

Low and middle-skilled jobs are most at risk, including construction, farming, fishing, forestry and, to a lesser extent, production and transportation. High-skilled jobs, despite being more exposed to recent progress in AI, face the least risk of automation.

While the adoption of AI is still relatively low, rapid progress, falling technology costs and the increasing availability of workers with AI skills suggest that the world may be on the edge of an AI revolution (革命). So far there is little evidence of a negative employment impact on companies that adopt AI. Workers and employers say that AI can reduce boring and dangerous tasks, leading to greater employee engagement and physical safety.

However, a recent survey showed that three in five workers are worried about losing their job to AI within the next decade. Additionally, a similar number of workers worry that wages would decrease due to AI. More than half of workers are concerned about privacy and three in four say that AI has increased work pace.

In my opinion, for the better protection of the labour market and workers in the coming years, governments should encourage employers to provide more training, integrate (融入) AI skills into education and support diversity in the AI workforce. Besides, longer-term policy frameworks for the use of AI in the workplace should be considered and closer international cooperation should be seen to maximize the benefits while properly managing the risks.

"Originally, we all had brown eyes," said Professor Hans Eiberg. "But a genetic mutation affecting the OCA2 gene (基因) in our body resulted in the creation of a switch, which could turn off the ability to produce brown eyes." The OCA2 gene codes for the so-called P protein (蛋白质), which is involved in the production of melanin (黑色素). It gives colour to our hair, eyes and skin.

The switch does not, however, turn off the gene entirely, but rather limits its action to reducing the production of melanin in the eyeball—effectively turning brown eyes to blue. The effect of the switch on OCA2 is very specific therefore. If the OCA2 gene had been completely destroyed or turned off, human beings would be without melanin in their hair, eyes or skin colour.

Change in the colour of the eyes from brown to green can all be explained by the amount of melanin in the eyeball, but blue-eyed individuals only have a small degree of change in the amount of melanin in their eyes. "From this we can conclude that all blue-eyed individuals are linked to the same ancestor," said Professor Eiberg. "They have all inherited (继承) the same switch at exactly the same spot in their DNA." Brown-eyed individuals, by contrast, have considerable individual change in the area of their DNA that controls melanin production.

The mutation of brown eyes to blue represents neither a positive nor a negative mutation. It is one of several mutations such as hair colour, baldness, and beauty spots, which neither increases nor reduces a human's chance of survival. As Professor Eiberg says, "it simply shows that nature is constantly affecting the human gene and trying out different changes as it does so."

Songkran — Thailand

Dates: 13th-15th, April

In Thailand, people celebrate a festival called Songkran, when people head out to the streets with water guns to spray everyone who walks past. It's a very important traditional celebration in the country.

Naghol — Vanuatu

Dates: Every Saturday from April to May

Every year, villagers come together to celebrate the harvest of yams, an important part in the people's diet in Vanuatu. The festival is most famous for its "land diving ceremony". During the ceremony men and boys dive to the ground from high wooden towers with only two thin vines tied to their feet.

Cherry Blossom Viewing — Japan

Dates: The cherry blossom season is different from year to year depending on the weather.

The festival is well-known. The Japanese celebrate the days when the flowers finally blossom. Only a few days later, the petals (花瓣) fall to the ground, like pink snowflakes. That means the traditional festival only lasts for several days. In Japan, almost everyone has picnics in the parks to view the flowers.

Sinhalese New Year — Sri Lanka

Dates: 13th or 14th, April

Just like in many other countries in South East Asia, this is the time when people celebrate the traditional New Year, an ancient celebration which marks the end of the harvest season and is one of two times of the year when the sun is straight above Sri Lanka. There are a lot of delicious foods during the celebration.

If you want to know more about them, please click here or visit http://www.buddhanet.net/festival.htm.

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Studies show teaching children how to cook at an early age helps with reading comprehension and fine motor ability, in addition to learning about nutrition and food safety. In 2015 Stephanie Drewry was looking for a cooking summer camp for her three children. To her dismay, she quickly realized such a camp didn't exist.

"I have my degree in education, but I had been staying home with my kids, " Drewry says. "I love working with kids, so I just decided to take a spare bedroom and turn it into a one-room cooking school called Sprouts Cooking School. "

The school grew in popularity so quickly that Drewry realized she would need more space outside her home for the classes. In 2017 she moved Sprouts into a 1,400-square-foot storefront (临街店面) in Carmel, Indiana. As demand grew, Drewry opened another Sprouts in the same area in 2022.

"Our classrooms are built with kids in mind. The worktops (操作台) in the classrooms are slightly lower than normal to fit in with their height," Drewry says. "All of the cooking facilities are domestic ones. I wanted to have them feel like cooking in their own home."

The school offers activities targeted at kids aged 3 to 13. Younger kids might make cookies while older ones are cooking soup and meatballs. There are birthday parties and summer camps as well. The fun part of the activities is that the kids can eat or take home whatever they make. They can also enjoy themselves in the themed classes like Harry Potter or Winter Wonder-land Baking. With all these activities, the school is extremely popular.

Teaching kids, especially those picky eaters, to cook helps a lot because they're more willing to eat something made by themselves. More importantly, it is also about releasing children into the world with a life skill they'll need as an adult when they're no longer in their parents' care.

Awake from a short sleep in her chair, my grandmother ran her fingers through her wavy white hair, looked out her window at the blue sky, and asked me what I would wish for if I had just one wish.

She often asks this, and I always answer the same way—"To have Granddad back" —which usually gets her reminiscing about him. Memories of their 67-year life together would always make her smile.

My grandmother was born in Ireland. In her teens, she moved to a poor village in England. At 28, my grandmother walked herself through the snow to birth her first child. When she was 50, she survived an emergency surgery. In her 60s, she suffered from arthritis(关节炎)but still managed to climb Snowdon, Wales's tallest peak.

About a decade ago, I noticed that she began to lose her hearing. If I asked what she had for lunch, she might say, "Oh, the weather has been lovely today. " She seemed to recycle the same handful of answers to my questions.

In recent years, I've been trying to show up for her more, in person. One day after I made us coffee, I asked her: "What's the secret to being successful in your 90s? "

"Oh Richard, so many people are old at 60. They just want to sit all day. You won't make it to 90 like that. You have to try. "

"Try what? "

"Try walking, " she said. "Try gardening. Try cooking. Trying doesn't require a lot of trying. Just try a little . Like, with this coffee you've made us. I know you tried . "

Even at 93, my grandmother still knits blankets for the local hospital's babies and buys books to continue with her French. "Age is just another bot- her attempting to convince you of the impossible in the world, but actually the world is filled with possibilities," she once said.

You might think these lakes would be expanding, not disappearing. As climate change warms the region — melting（融化）surface snow and ice as well as the permafrost（永冻层）— there should be more surface water, forming larger lakes and even new ones. Recently, however, scientists have observed not just shrinking（缩小的） lakes but lakes that have completely gone away.

Many scientists shared the commonsense expectation that as permafrost melted, lakes would at first expand with meltwater flowing into them. Eventually, researchers made a prediction that progressive warming during the 21st and 22nd centuries would dry out the Arctic, and lakes would begin to shrink. But now it looks as if Arctic lakes are disappearing a century sooner than predicted. A case in point is that some large, age-old lakes shrank dramatically in what appears to have been a matter of months. Scientists have labeled this phenomenon "disastrous lake loss"

What caused this? The frozen solid ground actually contains bits of rock, mineral and organic matter, leaving spaces in between. And because these spaces are filled with solid ice, liquid water cannot readily get inside, but it can when the permafrost melts, allowing more water to get through. Soon after that, around 192 lakes in northwestern Alaska are gone from sight.

Why did scientists miss this? One probable reason is that most climate models assume that the melting of permafrost is driven only by warming air.

New evidence suggests, however, that rainfall — particularly increasing autumn rain — is now contributing significantly to permafrost loss. The rainfall carries heat into the ground. Yet none of the existing models includes such processes.

That is a good example of why — no matter how complex our models are or may one day be — we need direct observation of the natural world.