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Dark rain clouds were gathering in the sky. I was cycling as fast as I could to get home before the downpour. When I felt a few big drops on my head, I decided to dash for a bus stop, about a hundred meters away. As I was nearing the bus stop, I saw a lady rushing towards it from the opposite direction, a little boy following her. The little boy was finding it hard to keep up with her, so, finally, she just picked him up and carried him.

Suddenly, a motorcycle roared past me, almost knocking me down. He turned to look at me, and for a split second, I saw his face - cruel, glaring eyes. A flood of fear crept over me. However, courage from nowhere got me to shout "Hey! Are you mad!" My voice trembled a bit. He just sped on. Then, I realized that he was rushing right toward the woman and the little boy!

"Watch out! Watch out!" I shouted. I saw the lady turn to look at the motorcyclist, with worry on her face. In an instant, the motorcyclist reached the lady. He stretched out an arm and grabbed hold of her handbag, hitting her on the back at the same time. The impact sent the lady hurtling (猛冲) forward. The mother and child fell on the road, landing right in the path of a van.

"Stop! Stop!" I screamed at the van driver, waving my arms wildly in the air. Thankfully, the van stopped a few meters from the spot where the mother and child lay. I saw the lady crawling on the road towards the crying child. Throwing my bicycle to the side of the road, I ran to help them.

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By the time I got there, the van driver had reached them.                                                                             

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I realized that, by this time, the motorcyclist must have gone far from that spot, with the lady's handbag.             

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1. 介绍该美食；

2. 喜欢的原因。

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Hello, everyone!

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Thank you.

The suanpan is an abacus (a tool for counting) of Chinese origin first described in a book of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Usually, a suanpan is about 20 cm tall and differs in(wide) depending on the application.

The abacus is a   (wood) frame. Inside the frame, there are usually at least seven vertical sticks and a horizontal beam(梁). After setting a number, operator can move beads(带孔的珠子) up or down towards the beam(do) the calculation.

The Chinese abacus had a beam,(divide) beads into two parts: two beads above the beam(each represents five) and five it (each represents one). This type of abacus(use) in China now.

Abacus calculation is also called bead counting. One must recite a law by the calculations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division can all be simplified into the acts of moving the beads.

In the past, in addition to the ability to write elegant characters with a brush pen, another(require) skill for businessmen was to use an abacus(skillful). Whenever there was a calculation, there was an abacus.

I was5 and good at school, for which6 liked me but other kids did not. I felt I was a7 . I thought nobody would like me but I tried not to be8

Then one day, a9 , strong boy in the English class walked right over to me. He10 that he was on the school basketball team and asked me to help them with their English. From that moment on, life at school11 for me. I taught the basketball players about commas and subject-verb agreement while they taught me how to play basketball. And they also taught me that being smart could be a real12, which I could use to help others.

Nobody gave me any13 about being smart anymore. And though I was only five feet tall, I walked the halls feeling as tall as those towering basketball players who helped me to14 a new state, new city and new school. They gave me15 and courage to be myself—and to be a short girl who really knew how to play basketball!

Beyond issues related to a person's appearance, feedback is also vital for learning and growth.In workplaces, feedback from managers can improve performance. We also give feedback in our personal lives, like telling our partners the dish they cooked was too hot.We might feel embarrassed or cautious that the feedback could upset the person receiving it, or even harm our relationship with them. Besides, some researchers assume that another reason why we may be unwilling to give feedback is that we don't realize how valuable it is to the person receiving it. They did an experiment in which they found while less than half of the feedback givers wanted to provide feedback when given a choice, 86% of people wanted to receive feedback, showing there is a gap between giving and wanting. Particularly, the receivers thought the feedback was highly valuable.

Finally, we should still be careful about immediately or eagerly telling anyone and everyone how they can improve.In many cases, asking someone if they would like your feedback can be a good start.

A. So what are proper ways to provide feedbacks?

B. There's no doubt many of us avoid giving feedback.

C. Students need feedback so they can improve their grades.

D. So why are we sometimes unwilling to provide feedback elsewhere?

E. Constant and eager feedbacks have a significant impact on the receivers.

F. Constructive feedback should be specific, actionable and delivered in a timely fashion.

G. Therefore, we can see that many people are unwilling to provide feedback on account of their failing to appreciate its value.

Over two years, the documentary crew traveled to South Africa, Ghana, Central African Republic and Gabon in search of the four unique species of pangolin, which has never been achieved before. Filmmakers Bruce Young and Johan Vermeulen say that they went into the shoot knowing relatively little about pangolins, but grew to respect and appreciate the animals. Getting close to the creatures over two years was a crash course in these secretive creatures. Johan Vermeulen said, "One thing however that might seem unimportant is that they are actually quitefussy eaters. You would think they would eat any type of ant, but they all prefer a specific type ant."

Pangolins are hunted illegally across Africa for their scales, which are used for traditional medicine, and their meat. In April 2019, Singaporean Customs officials conducted two separate seizures of 24 tons of pangolin scales, which equals to the death of 69,000 pangolins.

Though the documentary focuses less on the trafficking of pangolins, and more on the animals in their natural habitat, the aim of the documentary is to inspire viewers around the world to call for action to end trafficking and protecting these unique creatures.

Filmed on location in South Africa, Ghana, Central African Republic, and Gabon, this powerful documentary is the story of two men on a mission to get all four species of African pangolin on camera for the very first time.

Young people are particularly prone to (易于) risky listening habits. Around half of those between the ages of 12 and 35, or 1.1 billion people, are at risk due to "prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds, including music they listen to through personal audio devices." the UN health agency said.

Currently, about five percent of the global population, or some 375 million people, including 34 million children, suffer from disabling hearing loss, WHO considers a volume above 85 decibels (分贝) for eight hours or 100 decibels for 15 minutes as unsafe. WHO is calling for parental as well as automatic volume controls on audio devices to prevent dangerous use.

While some smartphones and other audio devices already offer some of these features, the UN would like to see a uniform standard used to help protect against disabling hearing loss. "Think of it like driving on a highway, but without a speedometer in your car or a speed limit," Shelly Chadha of the WHO told reporters in Geneva. "What we've proposed is that your smartphones come fitted with a speedometer, with a measurement system which tells you how much sound you're getting and tells you if you are going over the limit."

The workers and employees are anxious, seemingly because they might find themselves out of a job or they would say that they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or interest in life. In fact, they live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.

Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty. They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness(顺从)and independence. From the moment on they are tested again and again by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one's fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.

Am I suggesting that we should return to the pre-industrial mode of production or to nineteenth-century "free enterprise" capitalism? Certainly not. Problems are never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system from a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities are the aims of social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man.

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