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During the lockdown, my husband, Bob, and I were offered a pingpong table. I am a non-athlete but Bob does well in pingpong.

"What are we going to do with that pingpong table?" Bob asked me.

"The two of us will 1 ," I replied. Bob looked doubtful.

I lost every game and I told myself that it didn't 2 that I always lost. I was playing for 3 and to provide a positive experience in a difficult time. But there were days when I 4 losing. Once I threw my paddle(球拍) across the yard angrily. Then Bob 5 I play with a handicap(让分) of 12 points. That 6 a lot—I sometimes won! I'd never been interested in any kind of sport. But pingpong became the 7 of my day. I began to get better and won more games. My handicap 8 to 8.

My husband and I 9 the worst of the lockdowns through pingpong. It 10 me that even a self-described bookworm can learn a new sport. The 11 was my husband's suggestion that I play with a handicap so I'd have an equal 12 to win. He doesn't like to lose either, but it's more fun for him if I actually want to participate and 13 it. It takes two willing partners to play table tennis, after all, and two people with an equal chance in each other's 14 to make a marriage. Simply put, when it comes to table tennis—or any other 15 —there is no ping without a pong.

The Benefits of After-school Activities

Your kid is asking for piano lessons, joining a soccer team or taking ballet classes, but you're not so sure that your money will be well spent. , read these next benefits of participating in hobbies outside the home. It might just convince you to book the first class.

Build confidence through creative hobbies

From arts and poem writing to music and crafts, there are lots of creative after-school activities available out there for kids of all ages. Not only do these classes stimulate your little one's imagination, but they also encourage curiosity.. Interacting with others, sharing, cooperating and solving conflicts are all added bonuses and they are all extremely helpful tools in building self-confidence.

These days, the fast-paced world we live in causes stress to us all, including children — and providing fun environments and spaces where they can feel safe and creative is an excellent idea to help your child reduce the stress.. You have to aim to eliminate the stressors in your child's life, regardless of the type of stress your child is dealing with, be it the case of shyness, social anxiety or pressure from school or home life.

Gain physical and psychological strength with sports

Avoiding childhood obesity has become a real issue in a world where kids spend more and more time indoors, glued to screens. But if your child shows any interest in a sport (even if just by watching it on their iPad), grab the opportunity and introduce after-school activities that focus on said physical activity. In these activities, your kids can also learn important lessons like respecting others and teamwork..

A. Reduce stress with after-school activities

B. Boost children's enthusiasm and participation in class

C. When your kids spend 80 percent of their hours at school

D. Besides, they make your child more confident in the process

E. If you can't decide about sending your kids to after-school activities

F. Choosing activities that don't put extra pressure on your kids is also essential

G. Most importantly, your children can develop their mental strength while doing sports

With an abundance of sun and wind Spain is positioning itself as Europe's future leader in green hydrogen (氢气) production to clean up heavy industries. But some energy experts express caution because this process relies on massive availability of zero-carbon electricity.

Green hydrogen is created when renewable energy sources power an electrical current that runs through water, separating its hydrogen and oxygen molecules (分子). The process doesn't produce planet-warming carbon dioxide, but less than 0.1% of global hydrogen production is currently created in this way.

The separated hydrogen can be used in the production of steel, ammonia (氨) and chemical products, all of which require industrial processes that are harder to stop fossil fuels. Hydrogen also can be used as a transportation fuel, which could one day transform the highly polluting shipping and aviation sectors.

Spain's large, windswept and thinly populated territory receives more than 2,500 hours of sunshine on average per year, providing ideal conditions for wind and solar energy, and therefore green hydrogen production.

"If you look at where hydrogen is going to be produced in Europe in the next million years, it's in two countries, Spain and Portugal," said Thierry Lepercq, the founder and president of HyDeal Ambition, an industry platform bringing together 30 companies. "Hydrogen is the new oil."

Lepercq is working with companies like Spanish gas pipeline corporation Enagas and global steel giant ArcelorMittal to design an end-to-end model for hydrogen production, distribution and supply at a competitive price. Criticism has centered on green hydrogen's higher cost compared with highly-polluting "gray hydrogen" drawn from natural gas. Lepercq argues that solar energy produced in Spain is priced low enough to compete.

Globally, Lepercq said, "Electricity, power, is 20% of energy consumption. What about the 80% that is not electrified? ... You need to replace those fossil fuels. Not in 50 years' time. You need to replace them now."

Stories of immigrants attract me a lot, especially the life stories of Italians who have come to America since the 1700s. In each of these stories I see elements of my own story, that of leaving my birthplace and family and creating a new life in a different culture and in a different language.

The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, in the book My Two Italies Joseph Luzzi struggled to create or find his own identity from an early age. Even more problematic for him was "which" Italy to "choose," the one he inherited(继承) from his family, poor and linked to old traditions and customs he finds rude and somewhat cruel, or the one he finds in literature and art books that show him a country with a modern literary culture.

The choice becomes even sadder as in his professional life he becomes a scholar of Italian literature and culture. He describes episodes of his youth that show the clash between the first and the second generation immigrants that are both funny and tragicomic(悲喜剧式的). These episodes highlight the daily customs his parents brought from their hometown that are in conflict with Joseph's desire to "fit in" the American culture. Joseph's visits to Italy as a student and then as a scholar deepen the divide between his two Italies and highlight his quest for identity.

The author's personal changes are full of quotes and comments on the cultural and political landscape of Italy. I find that his insights on contemporary Italian cultural and political phenomena are particularly interesting. In this book, Joseph touches or comments in depth about several issues concerning Italian life, such as the relationship between dialects(方言) and the official "Italian" language, and the Southern "question" or the uneasy interaction between Northern and Southern Italians.

I enjoyed reading this book. It is personal, moving, educational and entertaining. I hope you will enioy it too!

I was in a new state at a new school and needed something solid to stand on: a place to feel grounded. I also needed to do laundry, so I walked to a nearby self-service laundry and stuffed a machine with my clothes. As I struggled to close the washer door, the woman working behind the counter told me to give it a good hit with my hand. The washer did its job, yet even after an hour, the dryer seemed to have barely warmed my clothes. I left, having decided to air-dry them on my car in the August heat.

A month later, I learned her name was Sandy, which she told me after I'd helped her stop a washing machine from moving across the floor. I was grading poems at a table when one of the washers broke loose and skipped an inch into the air. I jumped to the machine and held on while she unplugged it. The next week, Sandy told me dryer No.8 was the fastest.

It went on like this. I'd do laundry once a week, usually Thursday or Friday. Sandy worked Tuesday through Saturday and we'd talk small while I folded clothes. She told me about her son and his grades, the new dog they'd just adopted. She was fascinated that I was studying poetry. She teased (开玩笑) that it was harder making a living as a poet than as a laundry attendant. Even then I knew she was probably right.

I began to recognize others there: workers taking breaks by the door, a mother and her baby, and even some delivery drivers. But Sandy was the center of my community. For nearly three years and almost every week, I'd do laundry and talk with her. We checked on each other and expected the other to be there. We asked where the other had gone when we missed a week. There was a note of concern for the other's absence, a note of joy at their return.

I'd found a place to stand on solid ground.

NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam

NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam is a stimulating scene. Children of different ages have fun with huge soap bubbles and experiments in the chemistry lab. Grown-ups, with or without children of their own, have fun at NEMO too. It's hard to hold back when you are presented with all the devices and experiments.

Visiting NEMO

Amsterdam NEMO houses loads of hands-on science and technology exhibitions inside its large

boat-shaped building. No matter what your background is, you will learn something new and have fun in exciting games. Attractions change regularly, so check the homepage to get the latest word.

Rooftop square: the roof is freely accessible for everyone. You can find the open-air exhibition Energetica and a restaurant on the roof, with beautiful views of the city of Amsterdam.

NEMO tickets

The museum can be crowded, so you can buy your NEMO tickets in advance.

Facilities in NEMO

There are several cafés and if you prefer to bring your own food, snacking on it is allowed in assigned places. On a sunny day you should picnic out on the large roof.

Opening hours

NEMO is open from Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 a.m.~17:30 p.m.

Accessibility

NEMO is easily accessible by public transport. The museum's eye-catching copper-green building is easy to spot from Amsterdam Central Station.

●By bus: Take Bus 22 and get off at Kadijksplein.

●On foot: Weather conditions allowing, a 15-minute walk to NEMO from the Central Station is a nice option. It's worth the trip just to view the spectacular architecture and the surrounding piers (码头) and ships.

●By car: NEMO is accessible by car. However, parking in the centre of Amsterdam is expensive. NEMO does not have any parking facilities of its own.

注意：
1. 标题自拟；
2. 词数100左右；
3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian went to Canada to visit their cousins in Halifax on the Atlantic coast. Before starting out, they spent a couple of days in Vancouver, seeing the (sight). On the morning of departure, the two girls arose early (take) the train to Lake Louise, (pass) through the Canadian Rockies. They spent the night, and then took coach bound north through the Canadian Rockies to Jasper. From Jasper, they caught the train towards Toronto. One of the train's first stops (be) in Edmonton. From Edmonton, the train headed southeast across the great Canadian Prairie. They went through two wheat-growing provinces, they saw a bunch of farms that covered a very large area. After another day on the train, (eventual) they were back in the city of Winnipeg. From there, they travelled through the night, and woke up in Ontario.

The train  (thunder) on, through the rolling hills. Night came again, and the train turned south towards Toronto. When they woke up the next morning, they could see the wide stretch of Lake Huron. It was not until 9:30 a. m  they finally reached the capital of Ontario, Toronto. All in all,  (they) trip from Vancouver to Toronto had taken a duration of four days.

I like it because although it is hard work, every day is different! It all depends on what is wrong with the animals that come in.

At my clinic (诊所), I work long days on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and short days on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Sunday is my day off so I can spend some time with my family.

My clerk opens the door, turns on some music, and makes everyone a cup of tea or coffee. My assistant cleans and feeds the animals. The phones start to ring and people make appointments. This is a very busy time of day!

At 9 am, pet owners start to arrive with their sick pets. Appointments take up the whole morning.I don't examine (检查) any new sick animals. I use these two hours to have lunch and do all my paperwork.

At 2 pm, I start to see sick animals again. At 5 pm, three students from a local school l who love animals arrive to help out.I am always happy to see their smiling faces!

From 5 pm to 7pm, I continue to see sick animals. Then, at 7 pm, we close our doors and the clean-up begins! We tidy the clinic, and feed and clean the animals. Of course, we also stroke (轻抚) them and give them hugs! Then, we turn off the lights and go home.I'm very happy being a vet, though unexpected things sometimes happen!

A．Do you like pets?

B．It is fun being a vet.

C．At midday, I stop for two hours.

D．Animals are not easy to deal with.

E．My day at my clinic begins at 7 am.

F．This is the type of the day I want to have.

G．They are very kind and warm-hearted.

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Sex: female

Requirements: personal in-home assistance experience with the ability and patience to get along with the senior population, a valid driver's license and a PPD test & a physical exam.

A kitchen helper

Sex: male

Requirements: only 1-year experience with the ability to lift up to 50 pounds, stand for long periods while filling bags or cartons with portions of food, serving meals, transferring supplies, and performing other duties: the ability to multitask, follow basic kitchen duty directions and have an up-to-date driver's license.

An overnight cook

Sex: male

Requirements: minimum of 2-year cooking experience with the ability, to interpret documents and safety rules, multitask in busy kitchens, lift 50 pounds and have an up-to-date driver's license &own transportation.

A kitchen manager

Sex: male and female

Requirements: minimum of 3-year cooking experience with the ability to interpret documents and safety rules, multitask in busy kitchens and lift up to 30 pounds frequently and experience with inventory and ordering.

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