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When I was in middle school, my family moved to Seattle, where my parents started their new business — a small grocery store downstairs my house. As a girl of shy and reserved nature, I had to take a fresh start to fit into the sophisticated city life.

One sunny day, my school announced an exciting event, a talent show for the local food bank. Students were encouraged to showcase their unique talents in front of the public in the city hall on National Day. A buzz of excitement fed the school as everyone began preparing for the big day. Deep down, I felt a spark of curiosity and a desire to participate. However, my self-doubt held me back, "I don't have any special skills to share."

Days turned into weeks, and the talent show drew closer. I couldn't shake the upsetting feeling until one day, Emma, one of the most popular girls in my class, came to me while I was helping in the grocery store after class. "How about singing together in the talent show?" She grinned, "I heard you singing a tune, along the way back home. I can't help following you here." Gosh, I couldn't believe my ears. Emma, with personality and popularity, acknowledged my little talent. Since Emma had the world's prettiest voice, I felt like being favoured by fortune.

"You two? The talent show for the food bank?" My mum bent towards us and her face lit up. "A big occasion." Then a light bulb seemed to go in her head. "Why not practise right now upstairs? I bet you'll be a perfect match." Winking at us, she seemed to know we were thinking alike.

Emma and I embarked on rehearsing almost every single day after school. We brainstormed, exchanged ideas and rehearsed the scene. As the days rolled by, I was feeling pretty good about our act. But the day before the performance, Emma called that she had an acute stomachache and was not in any shape to perform.

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I was completely knocked out by the news.

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Finally came the big moment.

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Dear Sir/ Madam,

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Yours,

Li Hua

When it comes to foods that are more than worthy of being posted all over social media, Chinese sugar painting, a traditional Chinese form of folk art, deserves some time in the spotlight. Hot liquid sugar is used (create) two-dimensional figures like small animals. Sugar art is pretty popular children, but it's beautiful enough to interest anyone.

Hot sugar is poured from a small spoon onto a flat surface where the outline of the figure (draw) with a thick stream of sugar. Then (relative) thinner sugar is added to support the outline and fill in the figure of the body in a (combine) of zig-zags or other patterns, supported by a wooden stick. "Painting" artistic pieces from melted sugar (differ) from regular painting. Because the hot sugar cools down very quickly, the painter has to work quickly, (make) sure he gets every shape just right.

Customers traditionally spin arrow on a wheel. It lands on a certain figure is inspired by nature or wildlife in forms of a dragon, fish, monkey, bird or flower basket. This ancient Sichuan art form might not be as common` as it once was, but it still has the power to amaze (tourist) who come across talented street artists that make these amazing creations.

It wasn't insecurity that2 me to madness but the fact that this was my third time being the new kid. But this time dad's company3 my starting and finishing high school in the same place.

I emerged proudly in a patterned dress after riding (扫荡) my closet. I felt just as4 as I stepped off the bus. But my jaw5 to the floor when I found Mrs. Hutfilz, my English teacher, wearing the same dress as I did. I kept my head down and tiptoed to my seat, but the first day meant6 in front of the class, and7 it was my turn. I made it through my minute speech, until Hutfilz stood up,8 adding she liked my style. All the anxiety that had accumulated surprisingly9. My smile10 as I giggled with my peers. After class, I shared with Mrs. Hutfilz my previous understanding about coming into a new school and state. I was relieved to make a humorous and genuine11 with my teacher in the coming days.

This incident12 me that these are the times to have fun, and make memories, not stress about the unimportant details. Looking back, the ten minutes I spent13 my speech were really not worth it.14 my first period of high school may not have gone exactly the way I thought it would, Mrs. Hutfilz's great sense of15 certainly made the day unforgettable in the best way.

Whether you're communicating in person or on the phone, being a good listener is an important part of any healthy relationship. If you've wondered whether you could be a better listener, the answer is almost certainly "yes". Making sure the people in your life feel truly heard is something that you can improve upon.

You appear more interested when you invite the speaker to give explanations, by asking them things that need more than a "yes" or "no" answer. "An open-ended question is an invitation for the other person to say more, and continue going deeper into their train of thought, versus (与……相对比) a close-ended question that invites a factual answer," Dr. Bobby explains.

What you're expressing through your body language is as important as what you say. It's about looking in someone's eyes, smiling and nodding. Showing with your face that you're following what someone is saying is really important. Remember that looking into your laptop camera is like making eye contact, while breaking it to look downward makes it appear that you're doing something else.

"People can be considered as poor listeners when they don't understand what the conversation is actually about on a high level." Dr. Bobby says.   Maybe they're really just wanting to express their bad feelings, or talk about their day. So don't try to give suggestions; just listen instead.

A. Listening requires looking at problems from other's view.

B. In fact, people only want to get to know more about others.

C. This is equally key in virtual conversations on a video chat.

D. Sometimes, people simply want to talk about an unhappy situation.

E. This is something you can do to show that you're really listening.

F. Being a bad listener can break that person's trust in your relationship.

G. Listening doesn't always require offering solutions — quite the opposite, in fact.

Dr. Russo first noticed bat buzzing a few years ago. The noise struck him as similar to the sound of some bees. He wondered whether bat buzzing was a form of mimicry which helped to scare off would-be predators.

To test this idea, he and his colleagues first recorded the buzzing that captured bats made. Then, with protective clothing, they began the more dangerous task of recording the buzzing made by different bees. Computer analysis revealed that bees' and bats' buzzing were, indeed, similar.

Then the researchers recruited several owls. They put the owls, one at a time, in an enclosure with branches for them to stay on, and two boxes with holes in them. They placed a loudspeaker alongside one of the boxes and, after the birds had settled in, broadcast through it five seconds of uninterrupted bat buzzing and a similar amount of insect buzzing three times in a row for each noise. As a control, they broadcast in like manner several non-buzzing sounds made by bats.

During the broadcasts and for five minutes thereafter, they videoed the owls. After analysis, the results were unequivocal. When they heard both the bat buzzing and the bee buzzing, the owls moved as far from the speakers as they could. In contrast, when the non-buzzing bat sounds were played, they crept closer.

Dr. Russo believes this is the first reported case of a mammal using auditory mimicry to scare away a predator. They strongly suspect, however, that it is not unique. Anecdotes suggest several birds also make buzzing noises when their nests are disturbed. And with the result of the experiment, he therefore predicts that auditory mimicry is far more widespread than currently realized.

Society pushes us to specialize, to become experts. This requires commitment to a particular occupation, branch of study or research. The drawback to being specialists     is we often come to know more and more about less and less. There is a great deal of pressure to master one's field. You may pursue training, degrees, or increasing levels of responsibility at work. Then you discover the pressure of having to keep up.

Some people seem willing to work around the clock in their narrow specialty. But such commitment can also weaken a sense of freedom. These specialists could work at the office until ten each night, then look back and realize they would have loved to have gone home and enjoyed the sweetness of their family and friends, or traveled to exciting places, meeting interesting people. Mastering one thing to the exclusion of others can hold back your true spirit.

Generalists, on the other hand, know a lot about a wide range of subjects and view the whole with all its connections. They are people of ability, talent, and enthusiasm who can bring their broad perspective into specific fields of expertise. The doctor who is also a poet and philosopher is a superior doctor, one who can give so much more to his patients than just good medical skills.

Things are connected. Let your expertise in one field fuel your passions in all related areas. Some of your interests may not appear to be connected but, once you explore their depths, you discover that they are. My editor Toni, who is also a writer, has edited several history books. She has decided to study Chinese history. Fascinated by the structural beauty of the Forbidden City as a painter, she is equally interested to learn more about Chinese philosophy. "I don't know where it will lead, but I'm excited I'm on this pursuit."

These expansions into new worlds help us by giving us new perspectives. We begin to see the interconnectedness of one thing to another in all aspects of our life, of ourselves and the universe. Develop broad, general knowledge and experience. The universe is all yours to explore and enjoy.

Wild edible (可食用的) plants are common in kitchens here. Hule's weed is juicy, which is found in mangrove forests. Harvesting some of the plant is helping conserve the mangroves, a globally endangered ecosystem of salt-tolerant trees that stop coastal erosion (侵蚀) and absorb storm damage.

Hule is head of Swamini, a self-help group set up by nine women from a fishing community in Vengurla who started Mandavi Eco Tourism in 2017. Vengurla is known for its beautiful beaches and seafood, but the climate crisis has made fishing for a living unsustainable, so people are trying to find other sources of income. They came up with the idea of running mangrove safaris (观光游) for tourists in Vengurla's Mandavi River.

The safaris offer visitors a unique hour-long tour of the mangroves. Food has also become a key attraction: local spicy coconut curries, with homegrown or wild vegetables. Tourists are encouraged to go crabbing, and their catch is cooked and served.

Hule only discovered recently that the weed was edible when she met tourists from another coastal city. She researched these leaves and learned that the salty plant is rich in vitamins. She made her own version of the fritters, with chickpea flour, and presented it at the wild vegetable festival. "It was an instant hit. This boosted the confidence to include these fritters in our restaurant menu," says Hule.

Swamini's lodging house also serves vegetarian meals and plates of fish and crab sourced from the river. "The satisfaction after the visitors enjoy our meal is the real currency. We had guests from London who were so happy with our food that they took down the recipe. Such people help our business grow. What more can we want?" says Hule.

We work with volunteers of all ages and backgrounds. Most of our volunteers are aged 17-24. Now we need volunteer managers aged 25-75. They are extremely important in the safe and effective running of our programmes. We have such roles as project managers, mountain leaders, and communication officers.

Depending on which role you choose, you could help to increase a community's access to safe drinking water, or help to protect valuable local cultures. You might also design an adventure challenge to train young volunteers.

Not only will you help our young volunteers to develop personally, you'll also learn new skills and increase your cultural awareness. You may have chances to meet new people who'll become your lifelong friends.

This summer we have both 4-week and 7-week programmes:

GDA ensures that volunteers work with community members and local project partners where our help is needed. All our projects aim to promote the development of poor and remote communities.

There is no other chance like a GDA programme. Join us as a volunteer manager to develop your own skills while bringing benefits to the communities.

Find out more about joining a GDA programme:

Website:www.glodeve.org

Email:humanresources@glodeve.org

Monty Roberts owns a horse ranch in San Francisco. He is willing to help the young who want to pursue their dreams. We were always curious about the reason behind and one day he told us his story.

When Monty was young, he was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from stable to stable, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training horses. As a result, his high school career was continually interrupted. When he was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.

That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing the goal of owning a horse ranch some day. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the tracks. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.

He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to the teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front was a large red F with a note that read, "See me after class." The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, "Why did I receive an F?"

The teacher said, "This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you'll have to pay large stud (马群) fees. There's no way you could ever do it." Then the teacher added, "If you rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade."

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The boy went home and thought about it long and hard.

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Twenty years later, the teacher brought 30 students to camp out on a ranch for a week.

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With the world's population (grow), the only way to reduce the enormous greenhouse gas emissions(排放)from farming is to make food production ever more efficient. (unfortunate), efficiency gains have stalled(停滞)since 2010, meaning farming emissions and deforestation could rise sharply as demand for food continues to grow.

"Lin Ma at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shijiazhuang and his colleagues analysed existing data to estimate greenhouse gas emissions per unit of protein produced between 1961 and 2019 reached this (conclude). They chose protein rather than calories because it is a (good) measure of food quality, says Ma.

Between 1961 and around 2010, emissions per unit of protein (fall)by two-thirds, the team found. But since then, there have been no further improvements and there are even some signs of increase. Farming is responsible around a third of all greenhouse gas emissions and demand for food is projected to rise by up to 50 per cent by 2050. If the climate efficiency of farming is no longer improving, this means that emissions from farming will rise by 50 per cent too, the researchers warn.

What's more, the efficiency of farming isn't improving, the only way to increase production is to clear more land for farms, they say, (lead)to yet more deforestation and loss of biodiversity.

Her father, Mike Sellers, died of cancer in 2013, just a few months before her 17th birthday. But her dad made sure he could still2 her special day, even in death. Before his death he prepaid a flower shop to3 flowers and a card to her every year on her birthday. The last flowers and4 came last week, for her 21st birthday.

In the card that came with this year's flowers, Mike Sellers told his daughter, "This is my last letter to you until we meet again. You are and will always be the most precious5 I was given. I will still be with you through every milestone. Just look around and there I will be."

6 by her late father's gesture, Sellers posted a photo of the flowers, the card and an old7 of her dad raising her up on his shoulders during a long ago trip to the beach.   

"Miss you so much daddy," the post8, with a little purple heart. The post moved thousands of people, who not only shared it but also told their own stories of how they9 the pain of losing a parent, Sellers10 that pain; she said she became11 after her father's death. So now she's studying psychology (心理学), hoping to be able to one day help people get out of the kind of12 that once enveloped her.   

"He would be so13 that he pulled off such a beautiful gesture, which offers an important14 for all of us. He made people happy. He made people realise that they shouldn't take the people who15 them for granted."

One is flight data recorder. This box records information about directions, heights, speeds, etc. for about 25 hours. This box can stand a temperature of about 11,000℃ for one hour and a temperature of 260℃ for 10 hours. The other is cockpit (座舱) voice recorder. It records the sound of engines, emergency alarms, etc., which people use to predict the conditions of the plane before any accident happens.

The black box can work for 30 days without electricity. When this box is lost anywhere, it keeps on sending out the waves along with a beep sound for about 30 days. It can also send out waves from the depth of 14,000 feet in the sea.

A black box does not show a clear picture of plane accidents even if it can be found. However, it can help find out the facts about plane accidents if it is found.

A. It is placed in a titanium box.

B. In some cases it could be hardly found.

C. The black box has two separate recorders.

D. Black boxes also store conversations about the plane.

E. Only black boxes that can pass safety tests are used in planes.

F. This sound can be recognized from as far as about 2-3 kilometers.

G. This box records the sound of the airplane during the last two hours.

They provide a new viewpoint on how technology can assist humans and bring up an old debate: whether robots will replace humans in the workplace or whether they will work alongside us in a cooperative way. The current fascination with robotics originates from the creative work of a team of researchers at a leading technology institute.

When Dr. Smith joined the institute to work on artificial intelligence, he was also involved in robotics projects. But he noticed something interesting: different industries had different expectations from robots. Dr. Smith had been trained in traditional robotic programming, where each command represented a specific action. At the time, many people thought robotics was just a tool for repetitive tasks. But Dr. Smith believed that robots could be much more. He wondered: Could robots actually have the ability to adapt and learn like humans? And could they change the way we work and live? It was 2020. Dr. Smith's idea was considered revolutionary.

Now, a few years later, Dr. Smith is presenting his research at a conference and explaining how he is pushing the boundaries of robotics. For a long time, many people feared that robots would take away jobs. They thought technology must be controlled to protect human employment. But Dr. Smith argues that robots are not a threat but an opportunity. Robots are based on algorithms and data, the manipulation of information. "What I say," Dr. Smith explains, "is that robotics is not about replacing humans— it's about strengthening our abilities."