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Unlike most first-time foreign tourists to China, who head to popular destinations like Beijing and Shanghai, Zachary Iziah Smith took a different path by (explore) the historic scenic spots of Gansu Province in northwest China.

"I want to record the changes along the ancient Silk Road my camera," said the 32-year-old American travel blogger.

From the local Sanpaotai to the (unique) colorful Danxia landforms, the timeless appeal of the Hexi Corridor (走廊) made Smith's first visit to China experience filled with long-lasting impressions

Smith was among the 140 foreign guests to the 2025 Gansu Silk Road International Tourism Conference that (hold) last week. These guests, including officials from international tourism organizations, representatives from travel agencies social media influencers, explored the cultural and natural beauty of the Hexi Corridor, which continues (inspire) the development of Silk Road tourism today.

"Silk Road travel has delivered (count) surprises to me," said Malaysian travel blogger Pavithra Ramada, real-time updates on social media drew enthusiastic responses from her followers.

Thanks to (it) expanded visa-free (免签) policies, China has seen a travel hit, with more international visitors to both famous and lesser-known destinations.

Their journey began eight years ago when Brad realized how3 his grandmother's world had once been. Then he4 a trip to a national park-a simple invitation that started a travel partnership5 continents. By 2022, they had completed visits to all 63 U.S. National Parks, setting her6 as the oldest person to do so. But why stop there?

Determined to broaden their horizons (眼界) even further, they7 on a journey from Europe to Asia, Africa to South America, and8, Antarctica. Each destination made people rethink what a typical traveler is like, inspiring everyone who followed their story to9 their own unique adventures

Reaching Antarctica was not a simple matter. Traveling aboard a ship, the pair10 the cold and dangerous seas to the continent that few people get to see. Upon arriving, Grandma Joy found herself11 at the grand polar landscape (极地景观). For her, each step off the ship was a(n)12 that even life's wildest adventures are possible, no matter one's13 or background.

For Brad,14 these experiences with his grandmother was a chance to strengthen their15 and to show that dreams can be realized at any stage of life.

Over the past decades, the Internet has done some great things. It has brought people closer together. And it can be an important place for people to find support and connection.

No surprise, Generation Z is living online more than ever. But some teenagers can come across content that is harmful. For example, one 2022 survey found that nearly half of all teens have been cyberbullied (网络欺凌) online.

Am I pretty enough? Strong enough? Smart enough? Cool enough? One study of teenagers 13 to 17 years old found that almost half reported that time spent on social media made them feel worse about their bodies. Only about one in every seven said viewing social media made them feel better.

In May 2023, the U. S. Surgeon General issued a warning about kids' social-media use. But there was plenty of evidence to warn kids that they should take care when using it.

Whitlock, a research psychologist who has been studying Internet use by teenagers since the early 2000s, asks teens she works with to put together a "menu of practices" that promote good mental health. She also suggests that if kids feel anxious, they should go back to that menu again and do something from their list-instead of looking for distractions (干扰) on their phone and social media.

A. It has helped people form big communities worldwide.

B. Two-thirds of teens have seen hateful content on social media.

C. It should include things they enjoy, like reading or outdoor time.

D. Social media is also where people are comparing themselves to others.

E. In recent years, scientists have often flagged social media as one potential cause.

F. It concluded there was still not enough evidence to say social media is safe for kids.

G. She pointed out that it's hard to study the impacts of social media on mental health.

During their fall migration, birds watch the decreasing daylight-which they understand to mean food will soon be in shorter supply-for a sign that it's time to head south. They also use the sun, stars, coastlines, and large bodies of water to guide them on their journeys across the world. However, these natural signs and resources are increasingly being impacted. Rising sea levels change coastal stopover sites, while increased ocean acidity (酸化) affects the shellfish that birds rely on for food. Moreover, extreme weather events, such as storms, can also be deadly. In addition, warmer temperatures may lead birds to shorten their migration journeys or not return to their original habitats, causing conflicts over food with local animals. As a result, some species have failed to adapt and have died out.

To help migratory birds, experts recommend expanding protected areas through international effort. The United Nations Environment Program supports these efforts and suggests creating more bird-friendly environments. This year's World Migratory Bird Day, on May 10, stresses promoting coexistence between humans and birds. The key message is to encourage the creation of healthy habitats, reduce pollution, and avoid glass buildings, which bring about a significant crash risk for birds. If migratory birds disappear, it could upset agriculture and the food web. As Rilla said, "Whatever happens to them could also happen to us."

How to Apply

1. Complete an Online Application

Once you have determined that ARCC is the right program for you, you will need to fill out the Online Application. Clicking Apply Now on the top menu of the page. In the Online Application you will be able to list your trip preferences and let us know if you will be traveling with a friend, etc.

2. Secure Your Space with an $800 Deposit (保证金)

In order to confirm your interest in the program, you will need to provide payment information for an $800 deposit. This deposit will tentatively (暂时的) hold your space on the program. If you are not accepted in the program, or there is no space on your selected program, we can return your deposit.

3. We Will Contact You to Confirm Availability (可用性)

Once we receive your Online Application, a Summer Director will attempt to contact you to confirm that there are still openings on your first choice of programs.

4. Complete Forms & Personal Reference

After the program space is confirmed, you will have two weeks to complete the paperwork. This includes three online forms, one mental health form, and a personal reference.

Once your paperwork is complete, we will review the forms and follow up if necessary. When your paperwork is accepted, you are fully entered into the program!

The setting sun bathed the simple mud-walled African savanna classroom in golden afterglow. Lin Wan clutched her crumpled China return ticket, her voice soft as a breeze: "Children, I'm heading back to China next week." A hush fell — so still, she heard acacia leaves whisper outside. Amina twisted her dress hem, eyes red as ripe hibiscus. Kamal bowed his head, tracing the Chinese "ai" (love) Lin Wan taught him on his desk, jaw set tight, refusing to cry.

A faint, heavy sadness lingered afterward. The children stopped swarming with questions, moving quietly as if hiding a secret. Amina arrived early to polish Lin Wan's podium and straighten the chalk; Kamal squatted behind the classroom, scratching stone marks in the dirt, clamming up when asked. Lin Wan bought colored pencils as a gift, but Amina shook her head, tears spilling: "Teacher Lin, we don't want pencils. We want you to stay."

The afternoon before her departure, Lin Wan heard a commotion — raised voices, sniffs, and whimpers. She found the children huddled: Kamal gripped a crumpled paper, urgent: "We must show Teacher Lin our work!" Amina cried, "What if she worries we're not ready?" Spotting her, they fell silent. Amina looked up, eyes glistening: "Teacher Lin, can you come to the classroom first tomorrow? We have something for you."

Dawn still pale, Lin Wan pulled her suitcase to the classroom — door locked, a wooden plank propped against it, scrawled with lopsided Chinese: "Answer three questions to leave." Kamal peeked out, serious as an adult: "First, what does ‘persistence' mean?" Lin Wan knelt, gentle: "It means keeping going, even when it's hard."

They opened the door: desks pushed aside, a stone path lined with bright painted stones — pictures of her teaching, flying kites, braiding Amina's hair. "If you leave, will your love stay?" Amina asked. Lin Wan nodded, tears pricking her eyes: "It will grow brighter every day." Kamal held out a tattered cloth bag: "You said education ignites light, not illuminates the road. Can we be that next light?"

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Lin Wan opened the bag and saw the children's dreams and their rough teaching logs.

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Months later, Lin Wan received a photo from the children.

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When I arrived in China to teach law, I didn't expect tea to become such a significant part of my journey.   

It began as simple gifts from students—Yunnan Pu'er, Zhejiang Longjing, and Henan tea sourced by a student's grandfather—soon revealed deeper meanings. In a country where many students live far from home, tea serves as a (port) bridge to their childhood, family, and heritage. It transformed me from a tourist into a respected guest.

Some of my most memorable moments were spent with a teacup in hand. In Chengdu, students rinsed (冲洗) cups and discarded the first brew, not for hygiene (卫生), but to honor ancestral (continue). In Beijing, a professor taught me that tea ceremony emphasizes mindfulness over rigid mastery. Even in a tiny porcelain studio in Quanzhou, tea became a universal language of friendship, connecting strangers through shared stories rather than commercial transactions.

Chinese teahouses, (locate) in bustling cities, offer a rare sanctuary to slow down.Had it not been for those warm tea-sharing moments, I (miss) the chance to feel the genuine kindness of the Chinese people. the West, tea is often functional, Chinese tea is relational and ceremonial. It commands reverence, much like French wine or Scotch whisky, embodying terroir, lineage, and regional identity.

Tea (journey) from an enigma to a beloved responsibility, emerged stories that span cultures and generations . Now, it is my go-to gift for loved ones back home. These leaves are no longer just souvenirs; they are tokens of a shared journey and a profound appreciation for the history, hospitality, and human connection that Chinese tea (represent).

Her problem was the lack of1 — far from being bad, she thought she was2. But underneath that, it was a set of misunderstandings, any one of which would have been enough to make you3 to eat at her house. She thought everything could be4 by a dried apricot (杏). She was extremely experimental but ignored basic5. So when she died earlier this year, I6 many things would make me7 her, but none of the things would be edible (可食用的). The only8 thought I could have would be: "Thank God. I never have to eat that peanut soup again, which had an apricot in it."

And I have to talk about her apple tree. It's just a9 tree, but it produces enough apples to10 an army over a mountain. For three months of every year, I could never go and see her without her saying, "Please take some apples," and handing me a huge basket. I would say, "No, nobody in my 11 likes apples and I don't even like12." and she'd go, "How about just these 37 apples at the top?", and I'd go, "No."

Of course, this autumn, I've been13 by the need to finish them all. I've made a lot of things with apples, and I've eaten vast amounts of food that are apple-associated. As the14 draws to a close, I can't15 enough: eat your mother's apples while she's still alive. They're quite tasty.

The findings challenge the popular "10,000-hour rule," which posits that deliberate practice alone leads to mastery. Importantly,. Instead they show that top adult performers tend to be "late bloomers," Macnamara says.In sports, for instance, world-class athletes peak later than national-class athletes. Those that peak early achieve a level that is the best for their age.

The findings are intriguing, says Edson Filho, an associate professor of sport.Certain sports, such as gymnastics, see athletes hit peak performance far earlier in life than others, he points out, and the analysis doesn't get into other factors, such as money and coaching, that can influence who becomes the cream of the crop.

The research emphasizes that people change.To become an expert, you need to consistently perform at a high level under the most challenging of conditions, he says. "That's a long journey."

The findings matter for institutions and coaches who might be biased toward directing resources at the kids who show the most promise in a given field early on rather than those who have the most potential to reach a world-class level. The research holds a message, too, for people who want to pursue a skill or dream but who didn't win their school competition or make it to the top of their youth league: do not despair,Macnamara says."For people who didn't follow the prodigy route," she says. "Most world-class performers didn't achieve that goal immediately either."

A. know you are in good company!

B. your journey is just beginning!

C. What does it take to become the best?

D. the findings don't suggest that you don't need to put in effort to become a grandmaster or a winner

E. The research dispels the notion that early, narrow focus is essential

F. but that isn't as high as what the other group will eventually achieve at a later age

G. Children can get burned out or simply lose interest

To find out what might be going on, researchers looked at the body size and chest circumference of 770 adult polar bears captured during this monitoring between 1992 and 2019. Leaner polar bears, with less fat stores to see them through hard times, can be an early warning sign of a struggling population, so body condition can indicate how a population is faring. 

Scientists had predicted that diminishing (逐渐减少的) sea ice would leave polar bears thinner and in poorer body condition, and Jon Aars, the lead author from the Norwegian Polar Institute, who observed rapid ice loss in Svalbard, expected this trend to harm the local bears' physical state.

Their new findings revealed the opposite. The bears' body condition decreased between 1995 and 2000 before improving again, even though the region was rapidly losing sea ice after 2000. "I was a bit surprised when we found that it had actually increased instead of decreasing," says Aars. "It's good news that they have coped so well, despite nowhere else in the Arctic having sea ice disappear at this rate."

This doesn't mean the bears aren't affected by climate change. They have been forced to spend more time on land hunting less energy-rich foods, such as seabird eggs, and swim further between hunting and mating grounds. They have also lost important denning areas."The good news is that they're still in good health," Aars says.

One cause is Svalbard bears preying on more land animals like reindeer, whose numbers rebounded after overhunting, supplying summer food when bears usually fast. Reduced ice may also cluster ringed seals tightly, making them easier to hunt.

This is only a small window of hope, not long-term safety. Experts warn the ecosystem could hit a irreversible tipping point, and future conditions for the bears will grow harsher. Other Arctic subpopulations decline with less ice, and each group is shaped by its local habitat.

Although these polar bears are currently doing well, that won't continue if the ice disappears completely, says Aars: "You don't have polar bears anywhere where you don't have sea ice for part of the year."

The data comes from neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath, who has spent years reviewing standardized testing results across age groups. Horvath told the New York Post. The declines cut across attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function, and general IQ. That's not just one vulnerable spot. That's the entire dashboard blinking at once.

Horvath took the same message to Capitol Hill(国会) during a 2026 Senate hearing on screen time and children. His framing skipped the generational dunking and focused on exposure. "More than half of the time a teenager is awake, half of it is spent staring at a screen," he told lawmakers. Human learning, he argued, depends on sustained attention and interaction with other people. Endless feeds and condensed content don't offer either.

Schools leaned hard into technology during the same window. Educational software replaced textbooks, long readings, and extended problem-solving. After class, students returned to phones, tablets, and laptops, bouncing between social feeds and bite-sized explanations of material they never sat with for very long. Horvath described the outcome as students trained to skim. Skimming feels efficient, but it doesn't build depth.

"I'm not anti-tech. I'm pro-rigor," Horvath told the Post. Rigor, in his view, comes from friction. Reading full texts. Working through confusion. Spending time with material that doesn't immediately reward you. Take that friction away, and cognitive skills dull. Brains adapt to the environment they're given, and this one prizes speed over staying power.

The same decline appears outside the United States. Horvath told senators that across roughly 80 countries, academic performance drops after digital technology becomes widely embedded in classrooms. The timing alone raises serious questions about how learning environments affect cognitive development.

Horvath summed it up bluntly during his testimony. "A sad fact our generation has to face is this: Our kids are less cognitively capable than we were at their age." His recommendation focused on restraint, dialing back screens in schools, and restoring depth before the next generation is doomed.

Short wings. A falcon's (隼) short wings! That's the answer! What a fool I've been! All I need is a tiny little wing, all I need is to fold most of my wings and fly on just the tips alone! Short wings! He climbed two thousand feet above the black sea, and without a moment for thought of failure and death, he brought his forewings tightly in to his body, left only the narrow swept daggers of his wingtips extended into the wind, and fell into a vertical (垂直的) dive. Seventy miles per hour, ninety, a hundred and twenty and faster still. The wing-strain now at a hundred and forty miles per hour wasn't nearly as hard as it had been before at seventy, and with the faintest twist of his wingtips he eased out of the dive and shot above the waves, a gray cannonball under the moon.

He closed his eyes to slits against the wind and rejoiced. A hundred forty miles per hour! And under control! If I dive from five thousand feet instead of two thousand, I wonder how fast...Hisvows of a moment before were forgotten, swept away in that great swift wind. Yet he felt guiltless, breaking the promises he had made himself. Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.

By sunup, Jonathan Gull was practicing again. From five thousand feet the fishing boats were specks in the flat blue water, Breakfast Flock was a faint cloud of dust motes, circling. He was alive, trembling ever so slightly with delight, proud that his fear was under control. Then without ceremony he hugged in his forewings, extended his short, angled wingtips, and plunged directly toward the sea. By the time he passed four thousand feet he had reached terminal velocity, the wind was a solid beating wall of sound against which he could move no faster. He was flying now straight down, at two hundred fourteen miles per hour. He swallowed, knowing that if his wings unfolded at that speed he'd be blown into a million tiny shreds of seagull. But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty. This was his life. Not to scavenge (搜寻食物) and follow boats, but to fly, to learn, and to be the finest gull the sky had ever known.          

— Jonathan Livingston Seagull Adapted

The fair's highlights reflect China's foreign trade transformation, driven by policy dividends and tech innovation:

Market Diversification & Policy Empowerment

BRI countries remained the core market, contributing over 60% of the total turnover . RCEP's tariff (关税) reduction and customs facilitation policies boosted trades, with many enterprises saving over $100,000 in tariffs via origin certificates .Major growth in high-potential markets: EU buyers rose by 32.7%, Brazil by 33.2%, showing restored confidence in Chinese products .406 leading enterprises formed purchasing delegations (代表团), a 7.9% increase, focusing on high-value-added goods .

New Quality Productive Forces on Display

Over 4.6 million exhibits featured prominent innovation, with new, green, and IP products each accounting for over 23% .

Green products:880,000 low-carbon items were showcased, with 63.5% of exhibitors holding international green certifications .

Intelligent exhibits:Service robots, AI-assisted devices, and 3D-printed products gained popularity, with the first dedicated service robot zone attracting 46 enterprises .

Digital & Green Service Upgrade

The fair leveraged (利用) tech to enhance efficiency and sustainability.

Digital empowerment: "Bluetooth+5G+Beidou" booth navigation and 30-second quick accreditation were adopted, with 477,000 users of the AI-enhanced app .

Green operations: Modular booth construction cut costs by 50% and time by 75%, with over 90% recycling rate . A 3,000㎡ zone linked export products to domestic markets, facilitating dual circulation .

At 54, I4 a 14-day trek (旅行) to Nepal. I'd once been a big5 — I left Australia at the age of 23 and didn't return until I was 31, backpacking and living on the smell of an oily rag for years. It felt like time to6 with travel. That Nepal trek was the beginning of my7 for remote lands and long-distance walking.

I got fitter and stronger. I loved8 in remote countries, seeing wide open spaces, falling into a tent every night and sleeping 10 hours. The nonsense of my life was9. There was nothing to10 except putting one foot in front of the other and11 the day.

At 70, I'm still out there hiking. Over the past 10 years I have done some12 stuff: Nepal, South America, Africa and Mongolia. The more13 , the harder, the better. I work hard at creating an interesting14 for myself. I continue to think big, to15 myself, to set targets that I cannot imagine I can make.

A positive attitude benefits your physical and mental health. However, it can be difficult to maintain a positive attitude when other people are negative. The best way is to be yourself and to form a flexible mindset.

●Be in charge of your attitude. The first step is to remember that no one can make you feel bad without your permission. You should remind yourself of it frequently when you are under the influence of negative people. Moreover, taking a quick walk is a good way you can maintain your positive attitude.

If all your attention is on the negative person, you'll be more likely to be caught in their negativity. Pay attention to what you do, and you'll create a distance between yourself and the other person. After all, you hardly change them, but yourself. Your priority is to maintain your own happiness.

● Use mottos or phrases. Repeating a motto or a phrase to yourself can help you remain positive. Some people find mottos from classic literature, while others prefer well-known phrases from religious beliefs. An example of a motto might be: "Nothing is impossible to a willing heart," or the Buddhist," Om mani padme hum."

● Set social boundaries. Then, you have to learn to say no to them, or you can't have a life of your own. Even staying with negative people, try to make sure you're meeting in a group rather than just the two of you. If you're friends on social media, unfollowing the posts of the negative person is one way to minimize your contact with the person.

A. Focus on yourself.

B. Transform others' attitude.

C. It is meaningful and highly individual to each person.

D. It is important to sympathize the negative people.

E. You can use the following advice to help you do this.

F. Be aware of the things or people that threaten your positivity.

G. Avoid falling into the trap of feeling like a victim of someone's bad attitude.