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In April, the lockdown in Morris Township was coming to an end. Matthew Sullivan watched his1 neighbor gazing out their windows. Returning to the workplace, they would have little time to 2 their lawn.

Sullivan, an enterprising 14-year-old, saw the 3  of lawn care. He had a brilliant idea in his mind. To meet the 4 , Sullivan started his own business, and named it Leaf-It To-Us, in which he 5 a group of kids to do lawns work involving weeding, leaf-blowing, planting and fence-painting.

Last Saturday, Sulliven and his parents 6 the local charity Help Morris Now a $ 1,000 check that they had earned. "What the kids had done 7 me." Nestor, the founder of Help Morris Now, said. "When they came up to me and said ‘we are presenting you with this 8 , I couldn't have 9 those kids at their age, doing what they are doing, with the purpose of helping others. "

Though the company had 10 given its earnings to St. Jude Children's research Hospital, this season it 11 its causes. "Now we've gone 12 , so we are helping out people in our community," Sullivan said.

Sullivan 13 that they have more than $5,000 in total since this April. Last year, they completed around two to three jobs a week. This year, they've 14 to two jobs a day. They plan to keep the landscaping business running so that they can maintain their 15 giving.

Reading is essential, but how can one choose the right books to read and where can one find them? A few famous people may give you some helpful tips.

● Read books from past eras.

Otherwise, you'd be "completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of your times," just as Albert Einstein put it. "Somebody who reads only newspapers and books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who dislikes eyeglasses," he said.

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Reading too wide a variety in too short a time would keep the teachings from leaving a lasting impression on you. Seneca the Younger, a first-century Roman philosopher, suggested that "you must linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would obtain ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind."

● Shop at secondhand bookstores.

Virginia Woolf believed the works in secondhand bookstores have an attraction which the usual volumes of the library lack. Browsing through these books gives you the chance to run into something that wouldn't have risen to the attention of librarians and booksellers.

● Check out authors' reading lists.

In his 1940 guide How to Read a Book, American philosopher Mortimer J. Adler talked about how to choose books. He attached importance to those that other authors consider worth reading. Mortimer wrote that "one way to understand them is to read the books they read."

● Make the final decision by yourself.

It's you yourself who should choose what, how and when to read. Theodore Roosevelt recommended choosing books on subjects that interest you and letting your mood guide you to your next great read.

A. Interest is the best teacher.

B. Great authors are great readers.

C. Leave some room for older works.

D. Learn more about those great authors.

E. Don't jump too quickly from book to book.

F. There's no "best books" list that everyone should follow.

G. Usually they are much more selective in organizing their collections.

Catherine Garland, a physics professor, started seeing "the problem" in 2019. She'd laid out the assignment clearly during an engineering course, but student after student was calling her over for help. They were all getting the same error message: The program couldn't find their files.

Garland thought it would be an easy fix. She asked each student where they had saved their project. "Could they be on the desktop? Perhaps in the Documents folder?" But over and over, she was met with confusion. "What are you talking about?" multiple students inquired. Gradually, Garland came to the realization: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations, understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.

Garland's mental model is commonly known as "directory structure", the hierarchical system (层级体系) of folders used to arrange files. What have caused the mental model to change? It is possible that many students spent their high school years storing documents in the cloud storage like OneDrive and Dropbox rather than in physical spaces. It could also have to do with the other apps they're accustomed to. "When I want to scroll (滚屏) over to Snapchat, Twitter, they're not in any particular order, but I know exactly where they are," says Vogel, who is a devoted iPhone user. Some of it boils down to muscle memory.

It may also be that in an age where every user interface includes a search function, young people have never needed folders or directories. The first internet search engines were used around 1990, but features like Windows Search are products of the early 2000s. While many of today's professors grew up without search functions, today's students increasingly don't remember a world without them.

Some may blame the generational incompetence. An international study claimed that only 2 percent of Generation Z (born from 1997 onwards) had achieved the "digital native" level of computer literacy. But the issue is likely not that modern students are learning fewer digital skills, but rather that they're learning different ones. Garland, for all her knowledge of directory structure, doesn't understand Instagram nearly as well as her students do. "They use computers one way, and we use computers another way," Garland emphasizes. "That's where the problem lies."

Microsoft says it has used the natural language Al ChatGPT to control robots with simple text commands. The approach means people with no engineering experience will be able to instruct robots to carry out tasks.

Microsoft said the research was intended "to see if ChatGPT can think beyond text, and reason about the physical world to help with robotics tasks". Robots are typically controlled by software that has been written by humans and sets out precise instructions, or else by some form of network Al that can learn to carry out tasks based on large numbers of examples.

Neither Microsoft nor Open Al responded to a request for comment on this, but Microsoft said ChatGPT allows a user to monitor the process. ChatGPT isn't in direct, real-time control of the robot, but simply creates the code that controls it. Microsoft said ChatGPT output shouldn't be used directly to control a robot without "careful analysis", but experts warn that it is risky to even begin thinking about placing Al in control of physical machines.

Mark Coeckelbergh at the University of Vienna, Austria, says that regulations may be needed in order to set out where Al can be used and who is responsible should things go wrong. "It's a very dangerous thing to just say ‘let's give control of these computers to AI'," says Coeckelbergh. "The problem with contemporary artificial intelligence is that it's not transparent(透明的) to the user. That's a huge problem."

Others were doubtful about the ability of language models to program robots for complex tasks. Kathleen Richardson at De Montfort University Leicester, UK, says that Al language models are convincing mimics (模仿者), but that their real ability — including their adaptability to control robots — is often overblown. "I think Microsoft, and most people who design robots,overstate what they can and can't do," she says.

With an abundance of sun and wind, Spain is positioning itself as Europe's future leader in green hydrogen 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 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."

Two days before Christmas, I received a Facebook message from a stranger. "Hi, Peter," it began, "my name is Al Sodaro and I'm a former patient of your Dad."

My father was a doctor, and Al wanted to share holiday greetings and a childhood story involving a talk he'd had with Dad. Over the years I've received many such messages, or had people ask me if I was related to Dr. Zheutlin, or Dr. Z as he was well known in my New Jersey hometown. A story of grace or kindness would always follow.

When he was diagnosed (诊断) with lung cancer in 1997 and realized he was going to have to close his practice of more than 40 years, Dad asked me to help him draft(草拟) a letter to his patients. He was heartbroken. "I think I need my patients more than they need me," he told me.

We had the letters copied and mailed them out the old-fashioned way. He was completely unprepared for the outpouring of love and appreciation that followed. He was just doing his job, he said. 

The cards and letters-hundreds of them-came from near and far. Young children sent drawings, many recalling their past with my father, or enclosed a lollipop (棒棒糖). Some came from parents who had been his patients when they were young. Some were several pages long, filled with stories about the doctor who, above all, showed kindness, answering their calls in the middle of the night or meeting them in the office before sunrise. 

Sometimes his greatest gift was his ability to simply reduce their anxiety. At other times, he recognized rare but serious symptoms (due to his clinical excellence) where quick thinking avoided disaster. Many of the cards and letters contained stories like Al Sodaro's. There was one, however, that is still fresh in my mind, which I shared at his standing-room-only memorial service.

When he was quite young, a little boy named Chris Eckershard came to the office, proud of a new pair of sneakers he was wearing. 

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Dad asked Chris if he could have one, just one, of Chris's sneakers（运动鞋）.

……

The box came from a woman, who was Chris's mother.

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参考以下词汇：
1.every two years 每两年一次 ； 
2. participated in参加
3. devote... to... 致力于 ； 
4. applaud称赞；
5. win a hard-fought victory 赢得了来之不易的胜利
6.bring...to all of us 给我们所有人带来了……

The living heritage, Kunqu Opera, is harmonious, elegant and emotional. These romantic features make Kunqu Opera one of the most loved art forms in China. 

Born in Suzhou, Kunqu Opera showed  (it) by its rhythmic patterns. It became  (wide) popular during the Ming Dynasty. During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Ming and Qing dynasties, opera players often  (gather) in Suzhou, staging dramatic works in ancient China. Combining tunes performed in the Suzhou dialect, graceful body movements, martial arts and dance, Kunqu Opera uses a variety of movements to express specific  (emotion). It also pays attention to each difference. Graceful movements animate (使具有活力) the fingertips and unique tunes make  rich and poetic world. 

Kunqu Opera had an important influence on many forms of operas in China, (include) Peking Opera, which is about200 years old. It is therefore known as the mother of all Chinese operas. As a  (tradition) representation of Chinese culture, stories (perform) in Kunqu Opera have gone beyond time and space. The Peony Pavilion, written by playwright Tang Xianzu, who  (compare) to Shakespeare, is still loved by fans from around the world. 

A living heritage is an endless dialogue between the present  the past, and Kunqu Opera is a carrier to pass that legacy on.

It was 7:15 a.m. and Gary Messina was on his morning run along New York City's East River. Suddenly something caught his eye — a man screamed for help 1 the current pulled him away from the seawall.

David Blauzvern and John Green 2 their phones and keys on land and jumped in. Messina, a police officer, also joined them in the river. Just as the man was 3 , they stabilized him, with Blauzvern 4 his back and Messina and Green holding him 5 from either side. After ten minutes, they managed to get to the river's 6 and stayed as close to the seawall as they could.

Fifteen minutes later, a rescue boat turned7 . As they approached the boat, there came a new 8 : The wave created by the current was sucking them under the boat.

Blauzvern remembers being pulled down just as someone in the boat 9 on to the man, 10  Blauzvern to let go. Somehow, he grasped a pole attached to the boat deck and dragged himself 11 . The men in the water pushed the drowning guy while the men in the boat pulled him up and, finally, to 12 . The man they had saved was taken to the hospital for medical aid. Details on his 13  have not been released.

As for the rescuers, each of them was at work by 10:30 a.m. "I was a bit late," 14 Blauzvern, smiling. "But I had a good 15 ."

As much as 80 percent of premature heart disease is preventable by making specific lifestyle choices. Some strategies, such as exercising and managing weight, are well known. "A small change in your everyday routine can potentially have a big impact in the long run," says preventive cardiologist (心脏病学家) Dr. Beth Abramson, a spokesperson for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Get eight hours of sleep. "When you're not rested, everything that happens in your life is a lot more stressful," says Dr.Arya Sharma, founder of the Canadian Obesity Network. If we're short of sleep, our bodies also have more difficulty controlling blood pressure, inflammation (炎症) and blood sugar levels.

Engage in volunteer work. Research published in Psychosomatic Medicine in 2016 showed that a feeling of purpose in 1ife is linked to a lower likelihood of heart attack and stroke. "We know that loneliness is a risk factor for heart health," adds Sharma. "Volunteering gets you out of the house and creates a social network."

A recent study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that healthy people who skipped breakfast were almost three times more likely to have heart disease six years later than those who had a substantial morning meal. One possible reason: "If you're eating a proper breakfast, you're less likely to be hungry later and make poor food choices," says Abramson. "We need to eat a balanced diet as part of a healthy lifestyle."

A. Eat breakfast.

B. But others may not have crossed your mind.

C. Volunteering might even increase your physical activity.

D. These factors can all have an impact on heart and blood health.

E. Choose whole-grain, low-fat breakfast foods and include fruit.

F. Eat healthy food rich in protein and fiber but low in fat and sugar

G. Doing good for others helps your self-esteem and relieves stress.