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Come to work with us and experience the rural Ghanaian way of life! We are looking for those who'd like to help out in schools to help with the teaching and understanding of the English language. Volunteers will be placed in primary or junior high schools which are located together.

Typical day

       7:30 am - Volunteer transport leaves the volunteer house to project sites

       8:00 am - School starts

       12:30 pm - 13:00 pm - Lunch break

       15:00 pm - School closes

       15:30 pm - Return to volunteer house

Please note this is an example of a schedule. Schedules change in different schools.

Free - time activities

       Swimming

       Visiting museums

       Shopping in malls or going to the cinema (showing latest films)

       Wandering at beautiful beaches

Requirements

       Age: 18 years and above

       Language Skills: English (fluently)

       Nationality: No limits

       Time Commitment: Monday - Friday from 8:00 - 15:00

Program Salary

       4 weeks: €265

       12 weeks: €795

       50 weeks: €2,689

Because the roads were too2 for travel, Mr. Lacey couldn't take the dog to the pound (走失猫狗收容所) right away. He3 to let it sleep in the basement.

Four days passed and the dog did not4. It never cried in the night. It didn't5 anything in the basement. It wouldn't follow Doris up the basement steps unless it was6. It was a good dog.

A week had gone by, but Doris didn't7 the dog. She knew her parents made so little money that8 a pet was out of the question, and that the dog would9 go to the pound when the snow stopped.

Nine days after the dog had arrived, the weather10, and Mr. Lacey drove the dog to the11.Doris cried herself to sleep, feeling a deep sense of12. When she woke up, her parents were drinking coffee.13, Doris entered the kitchen. Mr. Lacey looked at her and said, "You'd better feed that dog before it dies of14."

Overjoyed, Doris threw her arms around her father, and then15 to her little dog.

Find a location where you're surrounded by trees.

But if you live far away from one or don't have the means to get there, any place that has a lot of trees and quiet spaces will do.

Set aside a good amount of time.

To gain the ultimate rewards of forest bathing, plan to spend two to six hours in the woods, says Qing Li, a researcher on forest bathing. Another study found that participants who walked in the forest for two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon saw an increase in anti-cancer proteins and immune (免疫的) cells.

Your forest bathing session is not the time to squeeze (挤) in your hard exercise. Instead, it is about calming down your nervous system and reducing your heart rate and blood pressure. If you exert yourself too much physically, your tiredness will reduce the effect of forest bathing.

Breathe in the scents of the forest

Many of the benefits of forest bathing come when we breathe in the chemicals that trees release into the air, called phytoncides. They can reduce our stress hormones and increase our levels of white-blood cells known as natural killer cells. What if you can't make it to a forest?

A. Aim to reduce heart rate.

B. Engage in gentle exercise on a regular basis.

C. Forest bathing is a magical way to explore nature.

D. The ideal place to forest bathe is, well, in a forest.

E. The scent of fallen leaves and ancient soil fills the air.

F. Dr. Li says you could try spreading tree-based essential oils at home.

G. His research showed forest bathing for that amount of time helped boost immunity.

A wide range of research suggests that the better option would be to let him or her know you are interested. In short, we tend to like people who we know like us. But, interestingly, according to a recent research published in Psychological Science, an even better choice might be to not let the other person know one way or the other.

In this study, participants viewed Facebook profiles (简介) of several people. Participants were told that the people in the profiles were either interested in them, not interested in them, or that it was unsure if they were interested in them.

Results found that people were more interested in the person in the Facebook profile if they thought the person was interested in them, than if they thought they were not. But, the Facebook profiles that were considered most attractive were the ones in which the profile's owner may or may not have been interested in the participant.

We have all heard that playing hard to get can work, but we also know that this could backfire. And we all have heard that we tend to like people who like us, but we also know that a little mystery is appealing.

I imagine some readers at this point thinking, "God, this sounds like playing games. And, I hate that! " I am thinking the same thing, but I think it is important to realize these are first impressions and very early stages of attraction. At some point (dates later), not knowing where the other person stands could be incredibly frustrating. It would be interesting to see the effects of uncertainty on attraction in more long-term relationships.

There's no special reason why tornadoes seem to miss big cities. It just comes down to chance. "Cities are small targets compared to vast stretches of forests, mountains or otherwise rural regions," said Victor Gensini, a climatologist at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. "It's very rare for a downtown metro business district to get hit." But, as cities grow and developments spill beyond city limits, these areas become part of an "expanding bull's-eye" effect.

Though rare, tornadoes have hit big cities. In 1999, a strong tornado blew through Salt Lake City, causing one death and at least 81 injuries. In 2000,a tornado struck downtown Fort Worth, Texas, killing two people. And in 2008, a powerful tornado struck downtown Atlanta, killing one person and becoming the first on record to strike that city center.

"These are very low probability events, but if and when they occur, they will likely be devastating." Gensini said. Part of the danger of a tornado hitting an urban area is the huge amount of debris（残骸）such a storm would generate. "The big thing that you need to worry about is flying glass. There's a lot more glass in New York City than in Shawnee, Oklahoma, where I live," said Patrick Marsh, a meteorologist.

In big cities like Chicago or New York City, there's also a lot of tightly packed buildings, which could result in power cuts that affect a greater percentage of the local population, he added. But these increased risks don't necessarily mean urban tornadoes will be more deadly. "In big cities, most of the structures are concrete or metal, so you have a lot of structures that the vast majority of tornadoes are not going to be able to break through," Marsh said.

●Honor Roll for Undergraduates

An Honor's List for undergraduates will be calculated and generated twice a year. Undergraduate students with a grade point average (GPA) of 3.75 or higher in each quarter will be recognized as follows:

Honor's list:3.75-4.00

A minimum of 10 GPA quarter credits must be taken at Walden in each of the two quarters.

●Undergraduate Honor Society

Undergraduate students have the opportunity to join Walden's chapter of Alpha Sigma Lambda, a national honor society for adult learners. Honor society invitations are extended to eligible (符合条件的) students twice a year. Students are not required to join. Once students join the chapter, no further academic reviews are required to maintain their membership.

To qualify for an invitation, undergraduate students must meet the following requirements:

◇A minimum of 45 institutional quarter credits earned at Walden

◇A minimum GPA of 3.75

●Undergraduate Latin Honors

Latin Honors are awarded to graduating seniors with a GPA of 3.5 or higher:

◇Cum laude:3.500-3.749

◇Magna cum laude:3.750-3.899

◇Summa cum laude:3.900 and above

The Latin Honors type will appear on a student's Walden transcripts (成绩单). Undergraduate students must complete a minimum of 45 credit hours at Walden University to qualify.

●Presidential Commendation for Undergraduate Academic Achievement

Walden University recognizes the significant accomplishment of undergraduate students who achieve a perfect grade point average in their undergraduate work. Students with a perfect (4.0) GPA at the time of graduation will receive a Presidential Commendation for Academic Achievement.

Wilma was a lively child who always wanted to play outside. The only problem was, she got sick — a lot! Ever since she was born, she was either feverish, coughing, sneezing or covered in spots. . . or at least, that was how she remembered it! Poor Wilma caught lots of diseases with long names and spent a lot of time in the hospital. "If being ill were a sport, I'd be a champion!"

When she was five, Wilma caught something called polio, and it looked as if she might never get to play outside again. Wilma recovered from catching polio, but her left leg and foot were badly weakened by the disease. This made it difficult for her to walk.

That meant she couldn't go to nursery school or her first years of primary school like everyone else. It made her upset to see the other kids having fun outside. While the doctors treated her weak leg and she learned how to walk again, she had lessons at home.

Wilma also had to take a fifty-mile bus ride with her mum twice a week to go to Meharry Medical College. The kind doctors and nurses at the college gave her exercises to strengthen her muscles. She had to wear a metal brace (支架) that supported her left leg. Using this, she could finally walk by herself and go to school with other kids. That sounded good, but the little girl really hated wearing it. She had to wear it with heavy shoes that made her stand out.

"What will the other kids say? " she asked her mum. "I don't want to look different!" Her mother tried to cheer her up. "You won't have to wear it forever, dear. Just keep exercising and make your leg strong!" That's what Wilma did! She made sure to do all the exercises the doctors gave her to make her leg better. It wasn't easy, but she kept imagining how wonderful it would be to walk to school without the brace.

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When Wilma was twelve, the doctors decided that her leg was strong enough.

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Then, she was invited to join her school's track team.

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（1）你制作的美食；

（2）你的感想。

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Dear Linda,

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Yours,

Li Hua

The world's largest three-dimensional LEGO model of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" was displayed in Hong Kong last week.

Covering 47 square meters, the exhibit became a popular attraction, artfully (piece) together a wonderful world where the old and the new met.

"We rolled out this exhibit mainly (promote) traditional Chinese culture through creative events appealing to young people, " said a deputy general manager of Bank of China.

As people walked along the 26-meter-long and three-dimensional model made of up to 3 million lego bricks, they could picture themselves in lively ancient streets, sellers were offering goods and kids were playing hide and seek.

Pointing at two-storey building with a front door decorated with colorful ribbons, Li Chun-tung, a (lecture) at the University of Hong Kong, said, "This was one of the (busy) restaurants then, with decorations that were typical inns and bars in Northern Song Dynasty. "

The lego model recreated many details of life over centuries ago, much the same as those presented in the painting. It combined two (entire) different cultural representatives from the East and the West, (offer) viewers a glimpse into the past and inspired them to explore the (rich) of Chinese heritage.

Silver Spring, a Washington, D. C. , suburb of about 80, 000, is a5 community bringing together families, young professionals, retirees like Vera, and a large community of immigrants and refugees (难民)6 to make this place home.

Vera tunes (调整) up the donated bikes and7 them to parks, food banks, and apartment complexes. He camps out with his Free Bikes sign and waits for people to wander over. Then he8 people with the perfect new ride and watches them ride away happy. His initial9 saw six bikes go in under 30 minutes.

In addition to the adults and kids he10 at his Free Bikes events, customers come from local resettlement agencies and other nonprofits. The groups11 information including the height, gender and age of a12 , and Vera delivers a fitting bicycle to their door. He's happy to make the13 .

Now neighbors know him as the Bike Dude, and they keep him busy with a14 supply of bikes, helmets and locks. So far, more than 700 Silver Springers have new wheels to take them anywhere their feet can15 , thanks to the big-hearted Bike Dude.

In the old days, Samoans greeted each other by touching foreheads and noses together. The practice was widely discontinued after the Spanish influenza pandemic (流行病) wiped out around 20 percent of our population.

Now, what about the language that Samoans use to greet people?

Talofa is the official word for hello in Samoan. That is Si-o'u-alofa, which literally means: my love, but the unspoken understanding behind it is that I'm offering my love to the person I'm addressing. So basically, Talofa means my love is for you.

Another greeting expression is Ua'e sau, which confused me when I first heard it. But I soon learned that it's so common and so very Samoan. When you show up somewhere, it's perfectly natural for a Samoan to ask, "Ua'e sau? " Anyone outside our culture might think, "Uhh, can you not see that I am here, and I have arrived?" Actually, it's just a way for the greeter to acknowledge you are now in their presence. Also I've noticed that if your arrival is unexpected, this question is a beautifully subtle (微妙的) way of asking why you are here.

A. It means, "Have you arrived? "

B. But they use a few other greetings as well.

C. Remember it next time a Samoan asks you, "Ua'e sau? "

D. They might wonder why you bother to ask such a question.

E. It comes from an older greeting packed with beautiful meaning.

F. So we should practice some of Samoa's most common greeting words.

G. These days, Samoans like to greet each other with a single kiss on the cheek.

"Interpersonal conflict is on the rise, driving increases in anger, anxiety, and general stress, " says Angus Fletcher, a researcher at the Ohio State University. "We wanted to look into those misunderstandings and see how they could be reduced. "

In the study, the team surveyed 1, 261 Americans online. All the participants read an article about an imaginary school with water shortage. Group one read an article that only gave reasons for merging (合并) with another school that has better water. Group two read an article that only gave reasons for the schools staying separate and hoping for other solutions to the problem. Group three was the control group that read both sets of the arguments.

They found the majority of the first two groups believed they had enough information to decide what to do. They said they would follow the recommendations in the article they read and thought others would make the same decision. About 55 percent of the control group recommended the schools merge.

The team calls this belief IOIA. Fletcher describes it as, "The less our brain knows, the more confident it is that it knows all it needs to know. This makes us leap to confident conclusions and decisive judgments, when we miss necessary information. "

The team also found some were willing to change their minds — once they had all the facts. Timing also plays a role. The people in the study changed their opinions that were recently formed, not long-held beliefs.

According to Fletcher, one of the best ways to reduce IOIA when disagreeing with someone is to stop and ask, "Is there something I'm missing that would help me understand their position better? " This can help reduce unnecessary interpersonal conflict.

"Children are born with skepticismc (质疑) and they can adapt their level of skepticism according to the quality of information they've seen before in a digital context," Orticio said. "They can use their expectations of how this digital environment works to make reasonable adjustments to how much they trust or distrust information. "

Minors encounter health misinformation within minutes of creating a TikTok account. Even platforms intended for young audiences like YouTube Kids have become spaces for misinformation. That's a particular problem because parents may have the impression that these are safe places their kids can explore. That may give a false sense of security and allow falsehoods and problematic content to go unchecked and be taken as true and acceptable. So encountering misinformation when children surf online is unavoidable.

If children have some experience working in controlled but imperfect environments where they are constantly encountering things that aren't quite right, and we show them the process for figuring out what is actually true and not, that will set them up with the expectation to be more critical. Orticio said, "Rather than trying tosanitize their online environments, parents should have discussions with their children about how to check claims and talk about what they're seeing. " It's not that we need to enhance their skepticism. It's that we need to give them the ability to use that skepticism to their advantage.

"In much of the world, women and girls are responsible for household duties," said McGriff, "It's seen that girls won't ever be putting their education to use." Additionally, many poor families can't afford girls' tuition fees, school supplies and uniforms (校服). Yet, studies have shown that providing free uniforms can reduce dropout rates by 16% and absenteeism by more than 35%. This simple solution took root in McGriff's mind and started her journey helping girls transform their lives.

As she took an entrepreneurship (创业) class, she was tasked with creating a business or nonprofit for a class project, which reminded her of the idea of the school uniform. Soon she developed an idea. After conducting field research, McGriff returned home, presented her education project at entrepreneurship competitions and won $35, 000 in startup fund. Eventually she established her nonprofit, Style Her Empowered (SHE), to bring her vision to life.

That first year, the group hired local tailors and provided uniforms and school fees for65 girls. But they soon ran into a problem — the students were outgrowing quickly. To address this, McGriff's team, together with local tailors and students, designed an innovative "growing uniform" which could be adjusted to fit a girl for up to three years, accommodating six different sizes.

Today, SHE serves girls in 20 rural villages in southern Togo, providing 1, 500 girls a year with free uniforms, school fees, supplies, tutoring, and much more. Once enrolled, students receive weekly tutoring. As a result, SHE's students consistently pass their exams at higher rates than the national average. "Our students have increased their performance in school dramatically," McGriff said. "If given the opportunity, they shine."

Officially known as the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, this conference held at Dartmouth College is widely considered to be the birthplace of AI as a field. A small team of scientists coined the term artificial intelligence for the event and set the course for future thinking and research on the technology.

1997: Deep Blue

IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer system to defeat a world chess champion in a standard tournament match. Deep Blue's underlying technology advanced the ability of supercomputers to tackle complex calculations (运算).

2019: GPT-2

While many major tech companies are involved in the development of AI, it was the publication of then-little-known OpenAI's Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 that showed the power of natural language processing. Able to work out the next item in a sequence, it could perform tasks such as summarizing and translating text.

2022: ChatGPT

The chatbot ChatGPT, released in late 2022, was built on a large language model — and introduced generative AI proper to the wider world. Its release sparked a new phase of rapid development, and generative AI quickly began to transform every aspect of business and our lives.

What's next for AI? Experts say we should expect interactive AI that can instruct other software to carry out tasks for you, AI making new scientific discoveries, and models that understand the physical world, remember, reason and plan.

1. 感谢指导；

2. 比赛经历；

3. 成员表现。

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2. 请按如下格式在答题纸的相应位置作答。

Dear Peter,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

Scientists have discovered the remains of appears to be an ancient sheep-drawn chariot (战车) near the famous Terracotta Army in the western tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. The main structure of the chariot has likely rotted (腐烂) away after (spend) more than 2,000 years in the ground but researchers did find a row of six sheep skeletons (骨架) wearing attachments used for pulling a chariot, so they (infer) this was a sheep-drawn chariot.

Horse-drawn chariots were common in ancient China, but a sheep-drawn chariot is extremely rare find. The founder of the Western Jin Dynasty, Emperor Wu, or Sima Yan, who ruled from 266 to 290CE, is said (ride) in a sheep-drawn carriage around his palace complex every night and would sleep wherever the sheep stopped. Researchers hope laboratory (analyze) on the western tomb's burial chamber, which is currently underway, will help them determine who was buried there.

In addition to the six-sheep chariot, scientists unearthed a four-wheeled (wood) chariot, probably drawn by horses, (equip) with a fancy umbrella. It is the oldest of (it) type ever found. They also found a wealth of iron tools and weapons, providing new insight into the period iron tools first began to appear.

Our guide is Céline, a Frenchwoman. "The prediction is clouds tonight," she tells us. "But you never know, so we will still be3."

After about 20 minutes, the bus4 at Aurora (极光) Village, a collection of small buildings beside a frozen lake. Getting off the bus, I couldn't help5 from foot to foot.

Minutes after, the clouds6. "Is that it?" someone asks, pointing at a small dome (圆顶) of brightness on the horizon. The aurora is a beautiful, though hard to7, phenomenon, occurring year-round and tourism runs on expectations stimulated by travel websites. However, thousands of enhanced photos of emerald-green and ruby-red arcs (弧线) make false8. So I've tried to keep my own expectations9.

Over about 20 minutes, however, a cloud10 into a fine white are stretching across the sky, brightening until it is a river of pearl. Céline and I lie back on a pile of11, watching the glowing track cross the sky like a painter's12.

I don't generally do this kind of thing: travel in13, with guides. I'm always too shy for groups. But viewing the aurora is a peculiar undertaking, something best done in very cold places at night,14 cities, in an environment that doesn't15 the solo traveler.

As the educational achievement gap between children from the richest and poorest backgrounds has grown post-COVID, the role that libraries can play in improving the ability to read and stimulating a love of reading couldn't be more vital. The Children's Laureate (荣誉获得者), Frank Cottrell Boyce, stressed their importance for "human contact". His mother used the library as an escape from their limited Liverpool home. For others, it is a shelter from bullying, as one reader told the Guardian.

The activities offer desperately needed company to isolated parents, as well as inspirations for children. What's more, if you don't have access to the Internet or a printer, if you struggle with English or can't keep warm in winter, libraries are not simply somewhere to borrow books. Above all, homelessness, loneliness, mental health, childcare costs, illiteracy and health education are also some of the challenges that libraries help to deal with as other basic public services have disappeared.

Despite all these benefits, funding for libraries is never a priority, defeated by the more urgent demands of healthcare and schools. Campaigners are trying to put emphasis on that message before it is too late. One thing libraries don't need is more words. They need on-going and considerable funding.

A. What can you do to help to reopen the libraries?

B. But concerns about their long-term future remain.

C. But it is not just books that make them magical places.

D. Meanwhile, funding for libraries has halved since 2010.

E. You can even spend a whole day there without buying a cup of tea.

F. However, properly resourced, they can help relieve the pressures on both.

G. Where else can you find craft workshops, Lego, and author events, all for free?