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A memorial service(bid) farewell to "father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping (hold) in Changsha, Central China's Hunan province on Monday.

Despite it (be) a busy work day, thousands of people wearing black came to the Mingyangshan Mortuary House in the city, the memorial service was held at 10 am, to present bouquets(花束) and bunches of rice and pay tribute(颂词) to Yuan.

The top rice scientist, who developed the first high-yield hybrid rice strain in 1973, died of organ (fail) at age 91 on Saturday would give each of his children﹩20. This was the 1970s, and﹩20 was quite a bit of money.

The agronomist(农学家)spent over five decades (research) and improving hybrid rice, which has reached its third generation, helping China workgreat wonder -- feeding nearly one-fifth of  the world's population with less than 9 percent of the world's total arable(适合耕种的) land.

People from all walks of life in China and abroad expressed their condolences after Yuan's death, which indicated that his contribution to the hybrid rice industry has been(wide) recognized and highly praised, Zhao Lijian, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a news conference in Beijing on Monday.

"His death is a great loss to China and the world, and he (remember) by people", Zhao said.

He added that academician Yuan not only belongs to China, but also to the world. His lifelong dream was to see hybrid rice to be planted around the world,no one will be left hungry.

Christmas was near a season that we took seriously in our house. But a week or so before the 25th, my  father would give each of his children﹩20. This was the 1970s, and﹩20 was quite a bit of money.

But I saw it1 ．My father trusted me to have the2 to spend money wisely. Even better, he gave me the3 to get it. On a very basic level, my father was giving me a shopping spree（狂欢）every year. But he was also giving me charge over my own fun, trusting my ability to manage money and making me feel like a/an4 . He didn't buy me Sherlock Holmes, but he gave me the means to walk into the bookstore and choose it for myself, so it felt like a gift from him.

My mother had a/an5 for giving me what I needed, usually right at the moment I needed it most. This was when I was 25, I6 at being an adult on my very first try. I had quitted my7 job but had no new one. But when my mother paid me a visit, I8 a good show, telling her I had started my own company.

My mother knew that I was trying hard and failing at that time. It wasn't until9  she left that I noticed at the foot of my bed an envelope thick with10 ．She knew how11 I needed it. She knew  that had  she  just  shown  up  with  groceries,  or  offer  to  pay  my  rent,  she  would  have  made  me  feel  much12 ．The cold，hard cash meant she was helping me. And, funnily enough, the13 with which she gave the gift felt like she was giving me space to14 my life and preserve my dignity. My mother and father both did the same thing. One was giving me the means to take my own decisions, and the other was giving me a second15  when those decisions had cost me dearly.

Facial recognition is a technology that uses distinguishable facial features to identify a person. It may allow you to unlock your phone, go through security at the airport, and purchase products at stores.

The first of these, obviously a strong passion with Hemingway, is the sense of place. "Unless you haveThe police use the technology to uncover criminals or to find missing children or seniors geography, background," he once told George Antheil, "you have nothing." You have, that is to say, a dramatic vacuum. Few writers have been more place-conscious. Few have so carefully charted out the geographical ground work of their novels while managing to keep background so unnoticeable. Few, accordingly, have been able to record more economically and graphically the way it is when you watch the bulls running through the streets of Pamplona, Spain towards the bull-ring.

"When I woke it was the sound of the rocket exploding that announced the release of the bulls. Down below the narrow street was empty. All the balconies were crowded with people. Suddenly a crowd came down the street.

Airports are increasingly adding facial recognition technology to security checkpoints. When people know they are being watched, they are less likely to commit crimes. So using facial recognition technology could prevent crime.

Another advantage is that, since there is no contact required for facial recognition like there is with fingerprinting or other security measures, facial recognition offers a quick, automatic, and seamless contact experience.

The biggest drawback for facial recognition technology in most people's opinions is the threat to an individual's privacy. In fact, several cities have considered or will ban real-time facial recognition observation used by law enforcement agencies.It's just not allowing the government bodies to use live facial recognition software.

In addition, there are issues that need to be resolved when a person changes appearance or the camera angle isn't quite right. However, it's dramatically improving now, according to independent tests by a U. S. research institute.

In order to benefit from the positive aspects of facial recognition, our society is going to have to work through some significant challenges to our privacy and civil liberties.

A. Today, it is widely used in various aspects of life.

B. But sales organizations can still use it at certain times.

C. It has got 20 times better at finding a match in a database.

D. So, no other security measures give you a similar experience.

E. There is nothing such as a key or ID that can be lost or stolen.

F. But police can still use devices such as Nest cameras to find criminals.

G. One of the major advantages of facial recognition is safety and security.

"A writer's job is to tell the truth," said Hemingway in 1942. No other writer of our time had so fiercely stated, or so consistently ( 一 贯 地 ) illustrated the writer's duty to speak truly. His standard of truth-telling remained, moreover, so high and so strict that he was ordinarily unwilling to admit secondary evidence, whether literary evidence or evidence picked up from other sources than his own experience. "I only know what I have seen", was a statement which came often to his lips and pen. What he had personally done, or what he knew unforgettably by having gone through one version of it, was what he was interested in telling about.

The primary intention of his writing, from first to last, was to seize and project for the reader what he often called "the way it was". This is a characteristically simple phrase for a concept of extraordinary complexity, and Hemingway's concept of its meaning subtly (微妙地) changed several times in the course of his career - always in the direction of greater complexity. At the core of the concept, however, one can invariably recognize the operation of three instruments of beauty appreciation: the sense of place, the sense of fact, and the sense of scene. The first of these, obviously a strong passion with Hemingway, is the sense of place. "Unless you have geography, background," he once told George Antheil, "you have nothing." You have, that is to say, a dramatic vacuum. Few writers have been more place-conscious. Few have so carefully charted out the geographical ground work of their novels while managing to keep background so unnoticeable. Few, accordingly, have been able to record more economically and graphically the way it is when you watch the bulls running through the streets of Pamplona, Spain towards the bull-ring.
"When I woke it was the sound of the rocket exploding that announced the release of the bulls. Down below the narrow street was empty. All the balconies were crowded with people. Suddenly a crowd came down the street.

They were all running, packed close together. They passed along and up the street toward the bull-ring and behind them came more men running faster, and then some stragglers ( 落后者) who were really running. Behind them was a little bare space, and then the bulls tossing their heads up and down. It all went out of sight around the corner. One man fell, rolled to the gutter (排水沟), and lay quiet. But the bulls went right on and did not notice him. They were all running together."

Constant notifications（ 通知） on your phone. TV news specials in place of your favourite sports show. WhatsApp and Messenger full of COVID-19 articles your out-of-touch aunt just "had to share". Sound familiar? If our daily news intake was counted in calories, many of us would have put on even more weight in recent months.

While audience numbers for network television news shows remain much higher than usual in many countries, ratings are, in some places, starting to decrease. In the UK, news shows have recorded their lowest audience figures since the country went into lockdown. The Nieman Journalism Lab, part of Harvard University, recently reported that "news traffic to news sites, both in the US and around the world, is pretty much back to pre-coronavirus levels".

There are also many people who are finding themselves consumed by the news cycle more than usual. Journalists, communications professionals, doctors, scientist and, most recently, disinfectant （消毒剂） producers are among those having to stay on top of daily comments and data in a way they've never previously experience.

For many, this is happening while they are working from home and managing blurred（ 模糊的） boundaries between their work and private lives.

So how should we balance news fatigue and anxiety with the need to remain informed on the latest news during the crisis? John-Paul Davies, a London-based expert, argues that for most of us, checking the headlines once a day is a sensible goal. This could be reduced to once a week for those with high levels of anxiety. He says it is also important to select "a trusted news site" or radio station with a focus on "facts rather than guesses".

For those whose work is connected to the coronavirus crisis, experts accept it may be much harder to reduce news consumption. But John-Paul Davies says it's still important to make an effort to "put boundaries" around how much information you watch or read. Liz Martin, a therapist based in London, recommends regular digital check-ins with workmates doing similar roles. "It's really important to be a support to one another." she argues.

Chinese traditional painting and dance are two vital parts of the art world. But what about when they meet each other?

This year, a dance drama titled Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting was staged on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala and went viral.

According to CCTV, this poetic dance program was inspired by the 900-year-old Chinese painting A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains. Created by Song Dynasty (960-1279) painter Wang Ximeng at about 18, the painting is "stunning in its sweeping scale, rich coloration and the expressive details", reported CCTV. It shows a Chinese blue-green landscape: "mountains and groupings of infinite rise and fall between cloudless sky and rippling water".

To show the Chinese traditional aesthetics ( 美 学 ) of the painting, the dance performance  conceptualized dancers as the mountains. They each had a different hairstyle, which resembled a mountain rock. The clothes they wore were shades of green and blue, which is also a poetic interpretation of the mountains and rivers.

When the dancers swayed elegantly, audiences seemed to be looking at the moving mountains and rivers.

"It brings me a pure experience of beauty. It is not only a drama but also an ‘exhibition'. Vast mountains and rivers are coming to life!" internet user Mo Weisha wrote in a review. "More than a thousand years later, green mountains and rivers still wow people as they did long ago."

Some people even decided to watch the dance again when it was staged in the theaters later.

In fact, in recent years, more and more modern shows highlight Chinese traditional culture and have received warm welcome. As for why, it is attributed to people's great love for traditional culture.

"The younger generations have grown up with a more open mindset. They embrace Chinese culture and are proud of it," Yao Wei, director of Henan TV station's Innovation Center, told China Daily.

We've dug deep to find 4 of the most exciting documentary films coming to a screen near you in 2022.

Last Exit: Space

Last Exit: Space, narrated by Werner Herzog, explores the human potential for settling in space and sending people where they've never been before. Since planet Earth is possibly going to hell (地狱) in a handbasket, the film promises to ask the question: where else might we call home? Directed by his son Rudolph Herzog, Last Exit: Space will be available from March 10 on Discovery.

Gorbachev. Heaven

As leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev was once one of the most powerful people on the planet who governed a landmass so big that it covered 11 time zones. Gorbachev's legacy is a complex one — he oversaw the end of the Cold War but many Russians blame him for the Soviet Union's collapse. The BBC says this potentially fascinating look at one of the most significant figures from inside his own home will be airing in the very near future.

We Met In Virtual Reality

This film from director Joe Hunting beats fresh ground in that it is filmed entirely in virtual reality. Less about the technology itself, it is more an exploration of human connections and how these can develop in the 3D virtual world. Early reviews have been positive following its showing at Sundance. Expect a streaming release in late May this year.

2nd Chance

Hold your popcorn tightly when watching this. If the trailer (预告片) is anything to go by, there are going to be lots of near-death moments. 2nd Chance from Oscar-nominated director Ramin Bahrani tells the story of Richard Davis, the wild and odd inventor of the modern bullet-proof vest. "All will be revealed as soon as a release date is confirmed." Ramin Bahrani promised on April 5th.

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Dear Jim,

Yours,

Li Hua

From the cheeky sound of a whoopee cushion to a spring-loaded spider rocketing from a glass, pranks (恶作剧) are a popular way of making fun of others and getting a laugh. While some experts point out potential negatives, pranking can also decrease stress, raise a smile, and strengthen relationships.

It's little wonder that best-selling children's author Matt Stanton has shaped his latest book around pranks for young jokesters. Part of his Funny Kid book series, Prank Aliens, is about a boy named Max who is searching for the greatest prank of all time. Stanton said that pranking in the home can build strong relationships between parents and kids.

"Some of the best relationship-building moments I have with my own kids are when I enter into their space," Stanton said. "An adult joining in their games can be surprising for kids and bring wonderful moments of joy. It's a great way to demonstrate to our kids that we can laugh at ourselves and still feel loved and secure," he added.

But playing tricks can come with unintended consequences, said psychiatrist Mark Cross. Pranks that are intended to harm or embarrass can anger the target and even ruin a relationship. However, Cross also added "Pranking can be good when the outcome is laughter for everyone, including the pranked person. It can be a great release of stress. When you laugh, you breathe deeper, which helps ease anxiety."

So why not try some pranks? Wrapping vegetables and shoes up as presents for kids on their birthdays always gets a great reaction. Putting plastic spiders in guests' drinks or placing a whoopee cushion on an unsuspecting person's chair is sure to cause a belly laugh. All these might just be good for you and everyone involved.

How to Turn Your Goals into Habits

First we make our habits, then our habits make us. It's such a simple concept, yet it's something we don't always do.

I believe that having ONE goal to focus on is much more powerful than having many goals. By putting the belief into practice, I have achieved a lot of personal goals over time. My answer takes a little explaining. I try to turn my goals into habits, and in doing so, I put my goals on autopilot. Turning a goal into a habit means really focusing on it for at least a month. The more you can focus, the more it'll be on autopilot. You'll still do it, but you only have to use minimal force to maintain it, and you can focus on your next goal or habit.

Take my marathon goal as an example. I was just starting running and had the brilliant idea to run a marathon within a year. So that was my goal. First, I had to make running a daily habit. Second, I had to report to people in order to have accountability (负责) so that I could not quit easily. I focused on the daily running habit for about a month, and didn't have any other goals or habits. When the running habit stuck, I started reporting to people I knew and blogging about my running every day.

I could focus on new goals without having to worry about the marathon. I still had to do the running, of course, but it didn't require constant focus. I was able to achieve this because, all year long, I had daily running and accountability habits. I put my marathon goal into autopilot, so instead of struggling with it daily for an entire year, I focused on it for one month and was able to accomplish it while focusing on new habits and goals.

A. And eventually, I ran the first marathon in my life.

B. At the beginning, it was very difficult for me to achieve this goal.

C. But in order to achieve it I broke it down into two habits.

D. With this accountability, there's no way I could stop running.

E. Once you put it on autopilot, you don't have to focus on it much.

F. My readers asked me how I was able to achieve them while working on different projects.

G. Once those two habits were established, my marathon goal was pretty much on autopilot.

Casting blame is natural: it is tempting to fault someone else for a mistake rather than taking responsibility yourself. But blame is also harmful. It makes it less likely that people will admit mistakes, and thus less likely that organizations can learn from them. Research published in 2015 suggests that firms whose managers pointed to external factors to explain their failings underperformed companies that blamed themselves.

Blame culture asks, "who dropped the ball?" instead of "where did our systems and processes fail?" The focus is on the individuals, not the processes. It's much easier to point fingers at a person or department instead of doing the harder, but the more beneficial, exercise of fixing the root cause, so the problem does not happen again.

The No Blame Culture was introduced to make sure errors and deficiencies(缺陷)were highlighted by employees as early as possible. It originated in organizations like-hospitals, submarines and airlines. Because errors can be so disastrous in these organizations, it's dangerous to operate in an environment where employees don't feel able to report errors that have been made or raise concerns that deficiencies may turn into future errors. The No Blame Culture maximizes responsibility because all contributions to the event occurring are identified and reviewed for possible change and improvement.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which supervises air traffic across the United States, makes it clear that its role is not to assign blame or legal responsibility but to find out what went wrong and to issue recommendations to avoid a repeat. The proud record of the airline industry in reducing accidents partly reflects no-blame processes for investigating crashes and close calls. The motive to learn from errors also exists when the risks are lower. That is why software engineers and developers routinely investigate what went wrong if a website crashes or a server goes down.

There is an obvious worry about embracing blamelessness. What if the website keeps crashing and the same person is at fault? Sometimes, after all, blame is deserved. The "just culture" developed by James Reason, addresses the concern that the incompetent and the malevolent(恶意的)will be let off the hook. The line that Britain's aviation regulator draws between honest errors and the other sort is a good starting-point. It promises a culture in which people "are not punished for actions or decisions taken by them that go with their experience and training". That narrows room for blame but does not remove it entirely.

Children often learn new languages more easily than adults do, but it's unclear why. Some theorize that grasping a language requires absorbing subtle patterns unconsciously and that adults'superior conscious reasoning is to blame. New research suggests that, indeed, grown-ups might just be too smart for their own good.

For a recent study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, a group of Belgian adults at the same time read and heard strings of four made-up words(such as "kieng nief siet hiem"). Specific consonants (辅音) always appeared at the beginning or end of a word if the word contained a certain vowel (元音). Participants next read the sequences aloud quickly. Their ability to avoid mistakes doing so indicated how well they absorbed the consonant-vowel patterns.

But before exposure to the new words, the participants had carried out a separate test: pressing keys to react to letters and numbers. Some got a much faster, more mentally draining version of this test. Those who did the difficult version claimed greater mental exhaustion afterward—but performed better on the following language task. The researchers assume that tired learners used less conscious analysis on the word rules: they were free to learn like a child.

For a related paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, the research team had English-speaking adults listen to streams of syllables (音节) secretly grouped into three-syllable "words." Later, they played pairs of three-syllable units; one word in the pair came from the stream, and one was a new combination. The participants guessed which word was familiar, then rated their confidence.

In one participant group, some had first done the original mentally draining test. In another, some had received magnetic pulses to interrupt activity in a brain area that previous research has linked to executive control. In both groups, these measures improved participants' performance on the syllable task when they were unsure about their answers, indicating unconscious analysis of speech.

Neuroscientist Michael Ullman, who was not involved in either paper, likes that both the studies added to mental burden differently and measured different skills. That's really good in science because you've got evidences pointing to the same direction," he says, adding that he would like to see higher language skills such as grammar studied this way.

My morning routine varies little from day to day. I walk the dog, eat breakfast at the kitchen counter with Katie and Matt, and then settle in for a day at the computer. And because I work mostly from home, I have learned that little walks into the outside world are important for psychological well-being. So before I begin attempting to put sentences together, I walk over to a little coffee shop in my neighborhood, and chat with the folks behind the counter.

The coffee shop is on the other side of the historic Chesapeaker & Ohio Canal from my house. Whenever in season, tourists line up to take a slow boat, if not to India, at least into the 19th century.

One warm day last fall, I turned the corner to see one of the boatmen sitting alone on the boat, bathed in early-morning light. He was playing the violin. The scene stopped me in my tracks. What I witnessed could only be described as a perfect moment. Ten seconds at most. But months later I still remember just standıng there, watching, listening, and taking it all in.

We all have such moments put before us. Little surprises. Whether we're wise enough to see them is another thing.

I thought of the violin man one Sunday afternoon while reading the biographies of those killed in the Columbia incident. The specialist Laurel Clark, talking from the shuttle a few days before it was to land, said it was blissful to see the simple unexpected wonders of space like a sunset. "There's a flash; the whole payload bay turns this rosy pink," she said. "It only lasts about 15 seconds, and then it's gone."

I once had a friend who had a strange habit that never stopped to amuse me, maybe because I never quite knew when she was going to spring it on me. It could come in the middle of a particularly lively dinner with old friends. Out of the blue, she'd say, "Stop! I want to remember this moment." I realize now, after her death, what wise advice that is.

More than just visual feast, an appealing opening ceremony wowed the world on Saturday September 23rd, as President Xi Jinping declared the 19th Asian Games open. With the giant floor screen lighting the way, the athletes'parade proceeded to the melody of Our Asia, was played to the pounding beat of drums built in the shape of osmanthus, the city flower of Hangzhou. During the parade, images of iconic scenic spots at Hangzhou's famous West Lake (project) onto the oval-shaped floor screen, allowing marching athletes and spectators to enjoy the city's picturesque scenery in an immersive way.

White Fang spent the first month of his life (stay)in the warmth of his mother. Never moving far from her side his whole world was the shadowy (safe)of the cave. Then one day, he noticed that one wall of the cave was different. This was the cave entrance that let in a little light. As time passed, he longed (go)towards that wall of light. But when he tried, his mother gave him a sharp whack on his nose. She knew he was too young to go outside. This was his first lesson—that taking risks can be painful.

It was the final sprint of a cyclo-cross race in Spain. Esteban, in third place, was just ahead of his competitor, Navarro,  only 300 meters to the end. Suddenly Esteban got a puncture, so he threw his bike over his shoulders and raced towards the finishing line. Just a few seconds later, fourth-placed Navarro (catch) up with him. Surely, he could simply overtake Esteban and come third. But Navarro slowed down and let Esteban run ahead of him. The two cyclists reached the end with Esteban ahead on foot in third place,  Navarro came fourth. The audience was (amaze) at his show of sportsmanship and cheered and clapped.

One Bite at a Time

Stephen was on campus to register when I first met him.

One summer day when I was heading for the administration building, I heard someone call my name. I 1 around and saw Philip, one of my colleagues standing with another young man. As Philip introduced me to the young man, named Stephen, he reminded him that he would be taking one of my classes, Introduction to Literature. With a somewhat 2 expression, Stephen asked if my class was going to be "hard". Would he be able to pass? I 3 he was concerned about failing before the opening day of classes. We talked about what the class would 4 and I saw Stephen's eyes getting big with fear.

Then I remembered a bit of classical dialog:

Question: "How do you eat an elephant?"

Answer: "One bite at a time."

I told him to 5  his work that way. To do his assignment, all of them, and to get them in on time. I added that most successful students I knew made a timetable of all the assignment so they could plan their workload.

As time went on, I learned more of Stephen's story. He had 6 in middle school. It had taken him longer to finish than most young people. Family members, including his mother, kept reminding him that he was a failure. Now, in the face of their negative-saying he had been admitted into college. He told me that before coming to our campus no one had believed he had much 7 .

Stephen didn't become an "A" student. He didn't make any honor rolls. Still, he managed to pass most of his courses by being in class every day, turning in all of his assignment on time and breaking down his studying into 8 digestible parts. By passing course after course he began to gain a measure of self-respect. He was a great singer and he was on the school's cross-country team.

Every time I saw him on campus, he would brighten up and say, "One bite at a time." Whenever he introduced me to his friends, he would tell them that he was 9 when he was supposed to be failing. His secret, he said, was that he was 10 what I taught him before classes ever started: "Take it one bite at a time."