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Dress-Up Day

Lily had been working on her bunny costume for weeks. She cut up an old gray sweater to make floppy ears, glued white cotton balls onto a belt for a tail, and even drew a mask with a pink nose. Her mom's silver-painted sunglasses completed her "mysterious moon rabbit" look. She couldn't wait to hop through school and make her classmates smile. Her school's Dress-Up Day was supposed to be the best day ever—until she woke up with a fever the night before.

"I'm sorry, sweetheart," her mom said, pressing a cool towel to Lily's forehead, "You need to rest." Shivering under blankets, she listened to the rain outside and tears welled up her eyes. Lily stared at her costume hanging on the closet door, its ears drooping (下垂) as sadly as she felt. She cried herself to sleep, imagining her classmates laughing in their superhero capes and princess gowns without her.

"Why not wear it to school today? You worked so hard." her mom said the next morning, handing her the costume, "Real magic isn't confined (局限) to a single day." Lily hesitated. Going late felt like showing up to a party after the cake was gone. But she stuffed the costume Rabbit into her backpack anyway.

Lily's heart pounded as she entered school late. The hallway felt huge and empty as Lily shuffled in, ears drooping. Whispers coiled (盘绕) around her like smoke, "Is she a sick rabbit?" "Look at those strange glasses!" Her cheeks burned hotter than her fever had. Her ears drooped as she stared at the floor, wishing she could disappear.

Suddenly, a noise came. A boy jumped out of a locker, his orange sweatshirt lumpy with foam padding, a green beanie sprouting felt leaves. Everyone turned. There stood Hugo, a shy boy from her science class, wearing a bright orange T-shirt stuffed with pillows. He had a green paper hat shaped like carrot leaves and brown boots. He looked like a carrot.

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Paragraph 1: He adjusted his crooked gold-painted glasses and smiled.

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Paragraph 2: More and more kids followed, joining the running.

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（2）课程内容与安排（时间、地点、形式等）；

（3）呼吁同学们报名参加。

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Dear fellow students,

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The English Club

Qingxu County in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, has been major production area for aged vinegar since ancient times. The aged vinegar made there (carry) by Shanxi merchants during the Ming and Qing dynasties and was known far and wide. The production process, (date) back more than 3,000 years, must go through at least five steps. The newly-made vinegar has a light colour, but as the years go by, it becomes thicker and darker. The aging process lasts at least one year, which is the name "aged vinegar" comes from.

To this day, the work is still mostly done by hand. Inside a local workshop in Qingxu, which is built in ancient style, workers (dress) in Ming Dynasty clothing are busy performing traditional vinegar brewing tasks. "They are not actors, real workers," says Mr Zhang, manager of the workshop.

In addition, to meet high standards, new (equip) and techniques have been added to the production process. "In the past, the production relied (primitive) on traditional fermentation (发酵) techniques. However, nowadays, both fermentation and smoking tasks can be achieved human help. We even use 5G technology for digital control," Mr Zhang adds, "While the vinegar is fermented by machine, it still goes through the traditional aging process, so its taste remains (change)."

As time passed, I discovered that I wasn't3; in fact, many of my friends had gone through similar experiences. We shared stories. They offered advice and I4 on them for strength.

In April, things got worse. My mother's usual lively personality had5. She took me for a long drive and told me her condition had6. The cancer had spread throughout her body. My world came7 down.

Grieving someone while they're still alive is a unique kind of8 that I wouldn't wish upon anyone. It felt like a constant battle between grasping at hope and getting ready for the9.

After a while, I began to get tired of the emotional10 I was on, so I looked for moments of joy. I focused on spending time with my mother and getting out and about. Slowly, I began to feel like my11 self again, but stronger and tougher.

It's now been more than a year since my mom first found out she had cancer, and it brings me great12 to say that she is doing incredibly well and is now almost cancer-free.

This experience has shown me just how13 life is. Now I wake up every day and14 the sunshine just a little more—now, when I say goodbye to my mom before school, I hug her for just a little15. Every moment is a gift.

Pick the right book.

We all have our preferences when it comes to contemporary reads, so why shouldn't the same be the case for pieces of classic literature?

Listen to an audiobook.

Plenty of classic books were designed specifically for this purpose. A good audiobook narrator can capture the feel of not only the story but the context and history behind it depending on their tone of voice and delivery.

Read slower.

Contemporary books can feel rapid at times, while classic works are much more of a marathon to get through. This is partly because, during their initial publishing, many classic books were serialized, Instead of trying to race through a piece of classic literature, try to "go local" and take your time with it, as the author intended.

Join online forums or book clubs — discussing Jane Eyre's feminism (女权主义) with others deepens insights. Create character maps — Russian novels like War and Peace demand tracking complex relationships. Watch film adaptations, like BBC's Sherlock, to visualize settings before revisiting the text.

​​​​​​​A. Create mind maps.

B. Build support systems.

C. meaning readers had to wait weeks to progress.

D. requiring readers to submit their interesting stories.

E. Maybe you're eager to tackle classics but don't know how to start.

F. One of the best ways to immerse in a story is hearing it read aloud.

G. Think about genres you enjoy and pick a story that suits your interests.

One way to create desirable difficulties for complex material is to explain the information back to yourself. Quite a bit of research suggests that people who routinely explain complex material to themselves learn better than those who don't.

If explaining complex material to yourself is so effective for learning, then why doesn't everyone do it? This issue was explored in a 2025 paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General by Stav Atir and Jane Risen.

Their studies exposed people to information about a complex topic, such as how GPS works. In general, they find that people who explain the material they have seen back to themselves do better on a later test of knowledge than those who just review their notes.

In several studies, participants are exposed to the material and then are asked what method they would prefer to use to study this material for a later test. They can choose to explain the information back to themselves or to review their notes. The better participants believe that they already understand the material, the more likely they are to state that they prefer to explain the information back to themselves rather than reviewing their notes.

This finding suggests that people are concerned that the explanation task will be difficult and that they will not enjoy doing it. This is particularly true when people have a feeling that they do not understand the material that well. One study in this series later randomly assigned people to the two methods. Even people who stated they did not want to explain the material back to themselves did better on the test when they did give this explanation rather than just reviewing the material.

The nearly complete bird skull is about 69 million years old. Called Vegavis iaai, it belongs to a species of waterfowl (birds that include ducks, geese, and swans) that lived at the same time as dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex. Only the duck-like species survived when all dinosaurs that were notavian died out about 66 million years ago.

The mystery of Vegavis iaai began in 1993, when researchers discovered the fossil of a bird on Vega Island in Antarctica. It did not have a skull, which made it difficult to fully identify. Julia Clarke, a paleontologist (scientist who studies fossils) at the University of Texas, Austin, was one of the scientists who found the first fossil. She thought it was related to modern waterfowl but couldn't prove that without the creature's skull.

Then, in 2011, researchers found a skull on Vega Island. They recently confirmed that it was a match for the skeleton from 1993, which provided an opportunity to determine whether Vegavis iaai was connected to today's ducks and geese.

The researchers created a digital 3D model of the Vegavis iaai skull, which showed that its brain was shaped like the brains of today's ducks and geese. However, it had a long, narrow beak and powerful jaw muscles that made it different from waterfowl and more like modern birds that dive and catch fish.

Despite the range of characteristics, the study's authors believe Vegavis iaai is related to today's waterfowl. "It's exactly the kind of thing we need to help fill in an evolutionary gap" Christopher Torres, a co-author of the new study, told The New York Times. Other scientists are not convinced, however, and argue that more fossils of the species are needed to fully confirm the findings.

Torres and his colleagues understand that there is more work to be done to support their findings and that their conclusions are controversial. "Few birds are as likely to start as many arguments among paleontologists as Vegavis." Torres told Science News.

When volunteers were requested, Daisy's hand shot up immediately. Her friend Millie joked that Daisy's eagerness surpassed her brother chasing "free money" rumors. Initially, Mrs. Curtis selected Jack Walters, but he withdrew upon learning the project required using breaktimes and lunch hours. "No way I'm missing football!" Jack declared, leaving Daisy as the final choice. Though initially overlooked, Mrs. Curtis's rejection felt like failing a math question. Daisy embraced the opportunity, confident in her ability to spot rainforest biodiversity.

Guided by keyboard arrows, Daisy navigated webcams installed 5,000 miles away by a "green conversation" charity, through which she explored rainforest layers, zoomed in（拉近镜头）on monkeys, and humorously searched for Bigfoot — a quest her father compared to "winning the lottery." Scientists estimate millions of undiscovered species inhabit rainforests, and Daisy's father encouraged her to "keep her eyes peeled." In the end, she discovered everyday items like chocolate beans, pineapples, ginger, and rubber originate from rainforests.

Mrs. Curtis assigned Daisy to document her observations in a journal. "Write as you speak," she advised, easing Daisy's nerves about her limited writing experience (her home writings included song lists and Christmas wishes). The webcam controls amazed Daisy — technology bridging her classroom to the Amazon's depths. Though she excelled in spelling tests (9/10 last week), "rhinoceros" remained a challenge, a humorous reminder of her journey's learning curve.

Before the Stomach

Firstly, as you put food in your mouth to eat it, your teeth are breaking it down into smaller pieces. Then, saliva (唾液)is mixed with it and your mouth cools it or warms it to a good temperature for you to be able to swallow and goes down a big tube to your stomach called the esophagus (食管). Muscles in the esophagus move in waves to move the food down to your stomach.

At the Stomach

When the chewed-up food arrives in the stomach, it is mixed with acid that breaks the food down even more into something that looks a bit like porridge. This substance is called ‘chyme'.

After the Stomach

The next part of the journey for your food (which doesn't look like food anymore) is through the small intestine (肠). It's here that all the goodness is taken out of the food and goes off to different places in the body for you to use.

When the small intestine has done its job of getting all the goodness out of the food, all the material that is unwanted goes into the large intestine. Finally, the unwanted material makes its way out of the body as poo at the end of the large intestine.