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My Dad's Best Flower

I remember my first home was a small apartment on the second floor with a lovely and spacious balcony. When my mom was busy in the kitchen, she let me stay on the balcony watching the kids playing in the street. On that balcony I played sometimes with my elder sister, Maria. She was seven years old and when my mom was absent, she was like a mother to me. The balcony was a great hobby place for my father. After his work he used to grow carnations (康乃馨) in flower boxes. His carnations were red, pink and white, and everyone appreciated them for their beauty.

He took care of them with so much love and devotion. He dealt carefully with his flowers like a mother taking care of her baby. Many times I sat on the floor of the balcony for hours observing him and his lovely flowers with patience. He was always doing something on that balcony. He was watering them every day, cleaning the balcony floor, changing the potting soil and when the stems were thick, strong and high enough, he started his improvement operation attentively like a doctor.

My dad took a tiny knife and with his left hand he held the stem of the carnation and measured the height. Then he made a small mark on the stem with his finger. Afterwards he made a sharp cut with the knife, just enough to fit in again of barley (插穗的芽). Then he bandaged the stem with a small bandage. His job was then to water the plants and to take care of them. "No one should touch them," he said to Mom. Every day, when he came home from work he went straight to the balcony.

Mom used to tell us, "Do not touch Daddy's flowers." For us it was a fascinating experience to watch how the small stems were growing and making flowers. When the carnations had grown big enough, my dad enjoyed watching them every day. We the kids did too.

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One day, my elder sister, who loved Dad very much, had a great idea.

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When my dad arrived, he went as usual, straight to the balcony and saw his flowers lying on the floor like dead animals.

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There were a great variety of lamps in ancient China. The Changxin Palace Lamp is invaluable treasure, which is considered as "the first lamp of China".

The gold-plated bronze lamp takes the shape of a maid on her knees (hold) a lamp. The lamp plate is on her left hand, while the right hand, covered by her sleeve, (carry) the lampshade. The brightness of the lamp and direction of the light can be adjusted with a handle which controls two movable shades.

(amaze), the lamp makes use of the siphon principle (虹吸原理), with the ash flowing through the maid's right arm into her body the water is stored. Such design can reduce dust and prevent the lamp from polluting the indoor air. Apart from that, the six-component lamp can all be taken apart, and is easy(clean).

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Flame Lantern (inspire) by the Changxin Palace Lamp. It uses transparent double glass and a hidden channel to reduce carbon deposition (沉积物), which is a perfect (combine) of green initiative and the Olympic spirit.

The delicate Changxin Palace Lamp provided an insight China's glorious past, displaying the wisdom of ancient Chinese craftsmen, as well as China's (remark) achievements in science and technology 2, 000 years ago. The sculpture, vivid and elegant beauty work, still glitters now.

3 basic financial literacy (金融素养) meant many college students started off their adult lives with poor credit.4, they faced challenges later in life when they needed to borrow money but couldn't5 a low-interest loan.

Poor credit6 me past college and years into my teaching career. That has fueled my sense of7 to teach the next generation of students about personal finance. It's why I helped develop a personal finance course for teens and young adults.

To make the class as8 as possible, we asked the students what9 interested them. They were curious to know about buying homes and cars. Our course, intended for those aged between 14 and 21, has them10 questions: How much do I need to save to make these purchases? Which purchases do I prioritize?

We, educators, can help young people11 life after graduation, as there are many great12 and developing our course was13 than I had expected, which is why I hope more schools and youth organizations will offer financial education.

Financial literacy shouldn't be optional because it puts those without it at a significant14. And if my15 as a student and an educator have taught me anything, it's that no one should have to learn important financial lessons the hard way.

The problem is that while companies and data brokers are hovering up all the information they can, there are no laws governing what they can do with that information. Someone knowing that you ordered three extra-large pizzas for dinner last Friday night may seem harm-less enough, but there's a deeper principle at play. As cyber expert Bruce Schneier says, "Privacy is a basic human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect."

We click "I Agree" without reading the user agreements. We say we will do one of those privacy checkups one day. but we never quite get around to it. And that means your personal information could be used against you in the future in ways you can't imagine today.

So what can you do to protect yourself? If you' re worried about your personal information getting lifted, don't hand over your name, address, or phone number easily. Besides, choose a paper receipt or no receipt rather than getting one via text or e-mail. To stop your phone acting as a tracker, also turn off Location Services for all apps except maps andothers that expressly need to know where you are. You can do this in settings, under Privacy and Location.

A. Don't be so sure.

B. Yet we do little to block the spies.

C. Care about who owns and controls the data.

D. We don't want to prevent all Internet spying.

E. Privacy is not just about freedom from embarrassment.

F. You can minimize some unwanted spying by taking these measures.

G. That includes things you thought were private, such as your health data, beliefs and daily habits.

Not all mosquitoes bite people. Male mosquitoes eat nectar from plants. But female mosquitoes need animal blood. When a female mosquito bites a person, it puts its saliva into the person's blood. This saliva might have a deadly disease in it. Sometimes the bite just makes you itch, but other times it can be very serious and even cause death.

Mosquitoes bite a lot of people in their lives. They can easily spread diseases from one person to another. Every year, over 700 million people get sick from these diseases, and at least 2 million people die from them.

Some people use mosquito nets over their beds to keep mosquitoes away. Mosquitoes also have natural enemies like bats, birds, dragonflies, and some fish. If we bring more of these animals to places where mosquitoes live, it might help reduce the number of mosquitoes. But this doesn't always work well. We can also use sprays or poisons to kill mosquitoes, but these can hurt other plants or animals too.

Even though mosquitoes don't look as scary as big animals, they're actually more dangerous to people. But things are changing. Scientists are working hard, and one day they might find a way to protect everyone from mosquitoes and the diseases they carry.

In a few studies, researchers found that young people are more motivated by scientists whose success comes from hard work than those who seem naturally brilliant, even if that scientist is Albert Einstein.

Danfei Hu, a student at Pennsylvania State University, and Janet N. Ann, a professor at William Paterson University, said their findings could help explain what it takes to succeed in science. Their research was recently published in a science journal.

Many students want to study science in school, but some give up on science careers after college. To help with this problem, Hu and Ann looked at role models, who can show students what goals to aim for and how to achieve them.

The researchers did two studies, one with 176 people and the other with 162 people. In the first study, everyone read the same story about a scientist's struggles. Half were told it was about Einstein, and the other half were told it was about Thomas Edison. Even though the stories were the same, people thought Einstein's success was because he was a genius. But those who thought the story was about Edison were more motivated to solve math problems.

Hu said, "People usually see Einstein as a genius, and they think his success is because he was super talented." But Edison is known for trying over 1,000 times to make the light bulb, and his success is linked to hard work. Hu added, "If students know that hard work can lead to great things, they'll be more confident in pursuing science careers."

Even with such a powerful imagination, Liu, who is 55 years old, probably didn't expect that he would become the first Asian to win the Hugo Award in 2015. That's the top prize in science fiction. He might also have never imagined that former US President Barack Obama would read his book The Three-Body Problem, or that he would win the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society on November 9 in Washington DC. This was the first time a Chinese writer had ever won this award.

In his speech when he accepted the award, Liu said that his imagination came from Arthur C. Clarke, a famous UK sci-fi writer. He said that reading Clarke's book 2001: A Space Odyssey in the early 1980s changed his life.

"My mind opened up in a way it never had before. I felt like a small river finally seeing the ocean," Liu said. "That night, the night sky looked completely different to me. For the first time, I was amazed by how mysterious the universe is."

But even though Liu's imagination takes him to faraway places, his books always make sense. In The Three-Body Problem, for example, he tells a story about aliens coming to Earth. But instead of just focusing on the aliens, he talks about how different civilizations interact, the rules of survival, and what life means. In another book, The Wandering Earth, he thinks about what will happen when our solar system ends and humans need to find a new home. But all his ideas are based on real science. Liu's books aren't just dreams — they're grounded in facts.

History

Madrid has more than 3 million people. It has a really big palace, the biggest in Western Europe. Many people think it's the most beautiful building in Madrid. The palace has 2,800 rooms, and they're all fancy with nice furniture and art. Tourists can visit 50 of these big, pretty rooms.

Shopping

Madrid has some of the best shopping malls in Europe. People like to look for good deals in the stores. There's also a huge outdoor flea market called the Rastro. It's been around for 500 years. You can find all kinds of things there, like old stuff and CDs.

Entertainment

When you go to Madrid, you should see a flamenco show. Flamenco is a famous Spanish art. Performers sing, dance, and play guitars in small cafes and big theaters every day.

Food

Madrid has lots of different restaurants, but Spanish people usually eat dinner late, around 9 or 10 p.m.. So, it's hard to find good dinner food earlier. If you get hungry before that, you can go to a tapas bar. They serve small snacks. Make sure you try jamon, which is a special kind of ham. Spain is famous for it.

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Huishan clay figurines (泥人) are produced in the western suburb of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, and are one of China's most famous folk arts, having a history(stretch) back over a thousand years.

The craft originated in the Southern Dynasties and reached(it) peak in the Qing Dynasty. During the Qing, an artist made five clay figurines for Emperor Qianlong(1711~1799) and(reward) with high praise from the royal family.

Huishan figurines differ from those of other localities in that they are always small and always feature a big head. They divide into two types - mold-pressed and hand-crafted. The(cheap), molded figures often serve as children's toys while the hand-crafted pieces are more refined and original.

The characters depicted (描绘) come(large) from legends and Chinese opera plots. Da A Fu, a plump(微胖的) boy holding a fish, is the most popular figure in Huishan clay art. The legend(go) that long, long ago, a god, disguised as a boy, beat a fierce lion saved the children in Huishan.

(express) appreciation, local people started to make clay figures of their boy savior Da A Fu. One-third of the overall figure is taken up by Da A Fu's large head, a face round as a full moon and big ears reaching down to his shoulders. It is image implying happiness and good fortune.

"Poetry is a great tool for questioning the world," says Sam Illingworth, a poet and a geoscientist who works at the University of Western Australia. Through workshops and a new science-poetry journal, called Consilience, Illingworth is helping scientists to translate their latest results into poems that can attract appreciation from those outside of their immediate scientific field.

Stephany Mazon, a scientist from the University of Helsinki in Finland, joined one of Illingworth's workshops. In the workshop, she was grouped with other scientists and tasked with writing a haiku, a 17-syllable-long poem, which spotlighted water, a fluid that featured in all of the group members' research projects. "It was a lot of fun, and surprisingly easy to write the poem," Mazon says. She plans to continue writing. "We do a disservice (伤害) to ourselves to think that scientists can't be artistic and that art can't be used to communicate scientific ideas," Mazon says.

That viewpoint is echoed by Illingworth, who thinks science communication initiatives are too often dominated by public lectures with their hands-off PowerPoint slides. "Actually, when science communication involves writing and sharing poems, it invites a two-way dialogue between experts and nonexperts," he says. Scientist-poet Manjula Silva, an educator at Imperial College London, agrees. Poetry provides a way to translate complex scientific concepts into a language that everyone can understand, Silva says.

Scientists and poets are both trying to understand the world and communicate that understanding with others. The distinction between scientists and poets is less than people might think. We're all just people with hopefully really interesting things to say and to share.

In the study, the pigeons were presented with various visual images, including lines of different widths and angles, and different types of rings. The pigeons had to peck (啄) a button on the right or left to indicate the category to which the image belonged. If they got it correct, they received food; if they were wrong, they received nothing. Results showed that, through trial and error, the pigeons improved their accuracy in categorization tasks, increasing their correct choices from about 55% to 95%.

Researchers believed pigeons used associative learning, which is linking two phenomena with each other. For example, it is easy to understand the link between "water" and "wet". "Associative learning is frequently assumed to be far too primitive to explain complex visual categorization like what we saw the pigeons do," Turner said. But that's exactly what the researchers found.

The researchers' AI model tackled the same tasks using just the two simple mechanisms that pigeons were assumed to use: associative learning and error correction. And, like the pigeons, the AI model learned to make the right predictions to significantly increase the number of correct answers. For humans, the challenge when given tasks like those given to pigeons is that they would try to come up with rules that could make the task easier. But in this case, there were no rules, which upsets humans.

What's interesting, though, is that pigeons use this method of learning that is very similar to AI designed by humans, Turner said. "We celebrate how smart we are that we designed artificial intelligence: at the same time, we regard pigeons as not clever animals," he said.

There was a great oak tree near his home. It had stood out to his young self as a "fantastical giant — a treasure home to birds, insects and animals. There was a cave inside. We used to squeeze in through this hole." He decided to lock himself away for two months to draw it in all its glorious detail.

"While I was drawing," he said, "there came moments when it was as though the tree was drawing itself. I had spent so much time playing in it. I could feel it. It was deep inside me." His finished oak held "a real power", he said. "As you walk towards it, it just grows," Brown became a tree portraitist.

Over the next few years, he travelled across Britain and spent days with the trees selected with the help of the Ancient Tree Forum, the Tree Council and the Woodland Trust. Brown has started work on a 20-drawing series of Britain's most important ash trees. "These beautiful old ash trees are going to be lost to us," he says. "They are 350 years old and they are dying because of a disease that we've spread."

Drawing is not only an act of care and a demand for preservation, but it "gives me that interface between my passion for the natural world and my creativity," Brown says. It has also given him a different perspective on the passage of time. "I'm an old man yet I'm only 71, and some of the trees I've drawn are 1,000 years old. When I'm with them and when I draw them, I think about the end of my life and the brief nature of human life that passes momentarily beneath them."

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We sometimes take our loved ones' concern for granted and show our worst mood to the family. During my growth, an experience in senior high school stood out in my memory.

As a taxi driver, my dad drove through chaotic streets with heavy traffic. Sometimes he had to deal with rude passengers and struggle with thin income. Despite these, he never complained. Dad was devoted to our family and cared much about us. The sunflower keychain I had given him as a Father's Day gift in fifth grade had long lost its shine. Yet he had it attached to his leather belt everywhere he went. Every day, he simply headed out early in his worn-out uniform with two patches (补丁) and returned late with a tired but warm smile. When we joked about his "fashionable patches", he'd laugh and say, "These are my medals of honor!"

As I entered senior high school, my world became overwhelming. Math problems danced in my head. My grades didn't improve but even declined. School pressures skyrocketed. Even small things would set me off. Dad's daily "How's school today?" felt like another weight on my back. I was mean to his inquiries, even though I knew he meant well.

One day after a frustrating exam, I returned home, my backpack strap (肩带) cutting into my shoulder. Dad was calculating the taxi bills then. "Hey," he said, with a smile on his face, "How is …"

"STOP IT!" The words exploded out of me. "You're always in my business! Can't you just...leave me ALONE?"

He froze. The pen he was holding rolled off the table. His face fell, as if I'd thrown cold water on him. Then he stood up slowly and walked to his room. The door shut softly—not a slam (砰地关上), just a quiet click—that somehow hurt me worse.

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Walking through his neighborhood supermarket in Australia, packs of Chinese sauerkraut (酸菜) line the shelves, Huang Xiqing feels like he's shopping in his hometown of Shenyang in Liaoning province. "The sauerkraut soup tastes just like home," says the 45-year-old Chinese living in Canberra, (sound) a little homesick.

Chinese sauerkraut, a pickle which (make) of Chinese cabbage, is a traditional specialty of the northeastern region and is now sold around the country exported overseas. Chinese cabbage has gained (popular) with ordinary household, because it is cheap and can be stored for a relatively long period of time.

During the last decades, Chinese businessmen have set several sauerkraut companies. Among them, the Xinmin agricultural product company of the Heilongjiang Cuihua Group has sold its Chinese sauerkraut not only (domestic), but also to countries including Canada, Japan and the United States. When people were making purchases for Spring Festival, sales of Chinese sauerkraut on Douyin increased more than10-fold, (compare) to the previous year.

But for Huang, Chinese sauerkraut is an everlasting link to home. "Although I have tried delicacies from across globe, Chinese sauerkraut is still one of my (favourite), and reminds me of my hometown," Huang says.

One morning, cyclists2 by — dark shorts, bright shirts, laughter floating like bells. Hesitant but3, I let my finger follow the headline on newspaper: "New Riders Welcome." It is not like me to join something where I know no one, but I4 myself to attend an organizational meeting.

At the first meetup, I5 my shyness and started a conversation with two cyclists. Days later, twelve newcomers began our first eight-mile ride. We6 through quiet neighborhood paths like a wobbling centipede (摇晃的蜈蚣). Soon, we were pedaling three times a week,7 increasing our distance and speed. Stopping to8 became our routine and we soon adopted our slogan, "We bike for food." As we sat chatting over cups of9 coffee, strong friendship began to form. As time wore on, many other shared interests emerged and we began10 them together.

Now,11 with several members of the cycling club, I decided to attend a handful of their social events. There, I met more folks. Out of these gatherings grew a small dinner group and again my circle12. More opportunities for gathering13 when our club members planned a few overnight cyclings.

Adventuring beyond comfort taught me more than cycling — it was courage as the oil that keeps life's wheels rolling toward14 and joy. Belonging begins where15 ends.

TV shows, movies, and music are consumed worldwide. But is this leading to cultural homogenization (均匀化) ? Are we all starting to dress, talk, and act the same way? It's a worrying thought. But on the other hand, media can also provide a platform for diverse voices.

Language is another hot topic when it comes to globalization. English has become the lingua franca (通用语) of the world. But what does this mean for other languages? Some linguists estimate that half of the world's more than 6000 languages will have disappeared by the end of this century. That is what really needs our attention.

Education is also hugely impacted by globalization. Students are no longer limited to their local schools or universities. This leads to a more global perspective, but it also means that educational standards are becoming more uniform. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

So, what's the conclusion on globalization and its impact on culture? Well, it's complicated. There are definitely benefits—increased diversity, greater understanding, and more opportunities for cultural exchange. But there are also disadvantages—cultural homogenization, loss of traditional practices, and the threat of a global monoculture. Globalization isn't a one-way street. It's a process of giving and taking, of integrating and borrowing. And it's up to us to shape it in a way that preserves the best of our cultures and also accepts the new.

A. The key is to accept the complexity.

B. They are influenced by globalization.

C. They can study anywhere in the world.

D. Small, local cultures might feel threatened.

E. Media plays a huge role in cultural globalization.

F. It's the language of business, science, and the internet.

G. However, the spread of English can also contribute to global issues.