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A 92-year-old hunter getting lost in the woods

Bill McDonnell was going hunting. Deer season had begun, but it was colder than usual. Up until his late 80s, Bill hadn't minded hunting in sub-zero temperatures, but he had slowed in the past few years. The snow-dusted mountains of the Shenandoah Valley were no place for a 92-year-old.He knew it. But he had made up his mind to get outside. His wife, Joanna McDonnell, knew what he was up to. But this particular day, Joanna didn't even try to talk sense into her husband.

The next morning, Bill woke up at four, grabbed his gun, and drove his Jeep toward Shenandoah Mountain, a place where he hadn't hunted for a long time. At the end of the old Laurel Run logging road, he hit the trail on foot.

It was about 7：30 a.m. when the sun peeked (微微露出) through the trees. Bill had strict instructions from Joanna to be out of the woods by 2 p.m. and home by 3 p.m.—plenty of time before sunset, in case he missed the deadline, which he often did. Not long into the hike, he came upon a path he didn't remember. Maybe this was a secret route. He took it.

Then, around 11a.m., he emerged into a clearing along a valley. It seemed that his path up the mountain had meandered (蜿蜒) quite a bit. When thoughts of short-cuts came to mind, Bill couldn't help himself. "I'll just be extra careful," he reasoned, and began cutting his own path. Before long, the canyon(峡谷) narrowed to a deadend. The next thing he knew was that he was lost.

He pulled out his phone, only to find it had died. He dug into his pants for the GPS device he always brought in case of emergency and pushed the "on" button. Nothing. He had forgotten to charge it. He hadn't brought a flashlight either. During this period, he could hear the sound of a helicopter flying over his head. He yelled and waved, but in vain. He couldn't make himself heard.注意：1.续写词数应为150左右；2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

It was about 9:45 p.m. and the sound of the helicopter gradually softened in the distance.

The next morning, Bill had woken before dawn.

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Over the last 100 years, many dinosaur egg fossils(化石)(find), but finding one with a well-preserved embryo(胚胎) inside is extremely rare. A dinosaur embryo(date) back to 66 million years ago was recently discovered in Gan zhou, Jiangxi Province. The (perfect) preserved fossil is helping researchers understand the link between modern birds and their dinosaur ancestors.

The egg,was named "Baby Yingliang", is placed in the Yingliang Stone Nature History Museum in Fujian Province. The creature(measure) 27 centimeters from head to tail, and it lies inside a 17-centimeter-long egg. Its position within the egg indicates that these dinosaurs developedbirdlike position close to hatching, according to the study published in the journal iScience in 2021.

Paleontologists believe it belongs to a toothless dinosaur (call) Oviraptor. They had varied beaks(喙) and body sizes,they can adopt a wide range of diets. Team member Steve Brusatte from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, told China Daily that this little dinosaur looks just like a baby bird in its egg, providing more evidence that many features of today's birds first evolved in their ancestors.

Dinosaur embryos are some of the rarest fossils and most of them are incomplete with the bones dislocated. The embryo is preserved great condition and helps us answer many questions about dinosaurs'(grow) .

Standing in front of the bike shop, Dave stared at the shiny red bicycle in the window. He could1 himself riding the bike in Saturday's race and winning the first-place medal and prize money. "With that bike, I could even beat Adam," Dave thought.

He rode on and stopped at Peck's clothing store. The coat he planned to buy his mother for her birthday was still on sale. Dave knew she would2 buy it for herself. She worked hard just to make3 meet. But the prize money would be enough for him to buy that coat and surprise her. 

Dave looked at his old bike. Two years ago, he found some old bicycles at the4 and used the parts to make one bike. He called it his recycled bike. "I'll never5 the race on this old bike," Dave sighed.

As Dave passed the junkyard, he noticed a newer-looking bike tire. He started6 the huge junk pile. Finally, he found what he was looking for. "These two tires and the handgrips(手把) are just7 for my bike.

Arriving home, Dave put the used tires and the handgrips on his8 bike, and oiled the chain. He stood back and admired the 9 he had made. "I might win that race after all," he said to himself.

The next morning, when Dave and his mom got to the park, about thirty kids had already10 . Dave headed for the start line11 Mom found a seat at the finish line.

Bang! The riders rushed off. Dave12 Adam, who was in the lead. He 13 to pass one rider after another and was approaching Adam. Leaning forward, Dave pedaled harder and faster.14 he sped by Adam and crossed the finish line.

As the announcer awarded Dave the medal and the check for fifty dollars, he asked, "What are you going to do with the prize money, Dave?"

"It's a15 ," Dave said and waved to his mom.

You want to beloved, respected, and live a happy life. And so do I.However, we aren't taught how to get this. There is no happiness class at school and everyone's definition of happiness is different. However, there are several key habits that you can develop to be happy people.

If happy people are with their kids, they are fully enjoying that moment in time. They aren't thinking about what they will make for dinner or how they will pay for their children's schooling.

They hang out with other happy people. It's true that happiness is contagious(会传染的).If you hang out with people that are sad and angry, you're likely to become those people as well. Make sure you surround yourself with happy, positive people.

They exercise regularly. Exercise is good for health, both physical and mental health. You don't need to spend two hours in the gym. Just a thirty-minute walk can be enough. To get the most out of a workout, simply pick an activity you enjoy. They don't seek happiness in things. They know a pair of new shoes or a new car isn't what's going to make them happier.A weekend at the beach with good friends means more to them than a new cellphone.

A. We all want the same thing.

B. They live in the moment.

C. They stay with their kids.

D. But sadness and anger are contagious too. 

E. They choose to look at the bright side of things.

F. Most of the time, happiness isn't something we just walk into.

G. Instead, happy people value experiences and people above things.

Art museums are filled with centuries-old paintings with details of plants that today give us clues about evolution and breeding practices. 

Exhibited at an art museum in New York City, The Harvesters created by Pieter Bruegel in 1565shows farmers cutting wheat nearly as tall as they are. "Nowadays, if you walkthrough a wheat field, you basically see that wheat is about knee-height. The short wheat is essentially a consequence of breeding from the second half of the 20th century." said biologist Ive De Smet.

According to DeSmet, wheat is just one example of how historical artwork can allow us to track the transformation of food crops over time. He teamed up with art historian David Vergauwen to seek similar kinds of artwork around the world.

Friends since childhood, their interest in plants in artwork began with a visit to a museum in Russia, where they noticed an odd-looking watermelon in a nearly-17th-century painting. A watermelon usually is believed to be dark red on the inside. But that one appeared to be pale and white. DeSmet assumed the painter had done a poor job. But Vergauwen had a different idea. He says, "This is one of the best painters ever from that era. So, if he painted t like that, that's the way it must have looked like."

Other paintings revealed that there were both red and white watermelons grown during the 17th century. The color is determined by a gene that controls the lycopene(番茄红素). "There must have been some sort of genetic change preventing the accumulation of that color. Now, with all the genetic knowledge that we have from various plant species， we can look in more details how something comes about."

The team hopes to create an online research database of historical plant artwork. They call for contributions of art enthusiasts around the world via the social media. But they caution, the source paintings need to be realistic. "If you're going to use, for example, Picasso's paintings to try and understand how a pear looked like in the early 20th century, you might be misled." Indeed, such an attempt could be fruitless.

During a waste collection session in May at the base of Mount Qomolangma, in the Tibet Autonomous Region, participants put garbage (mostly plastics) into bags and prepared to transport them downhill.

Dressed in camouflage(迷彩服) and a blue vest, Sam drub dragged a sack to a blue truck parked a few hundred meters away. Scores of similar sacks were piled up along the roadside, waiting to be loaded on to the vehicle. Not far away, a couple of sheep roamed the deserted land looking for grass. "Loads of it here. Loads of it. This is the fifth continuous time we have come here and we still haven't finished the clean-up," said Sam drub, 64, who, like many Tibetans only uses one name. Sam drub and her companions are members of a regular clean-up campaign organized by the Lhasa Ban-White Association, an environmental advocacy group that taps the volunteer spirit to control abandoned plastic trash, also known as "white pollution". The volunteers are of all ages and come from different walks of life. Now retired and with time to kill, Sam drub and her friends have taken to the city's ravines and riverbanks to battle the pollution. "In recent years, I've read reports that livestock(家畜) choked and died after eating plastic. I was born and raised in rural Shigatse, and I know how big a financial loss that is for herders." Samdrub said.

Tersing Dorji, 62, a member of the Lhasa Ban-White Association, said the worst pollution results from rural farmers' markets and the common use of plastic bags, which are super-thin and relatively expensive to recycle. "They are of various colors and very light, and when the wind blows they fly everywhere." she said.

A rule was then implemented(实施) by authorities in Lhasa that banned the production of super-thin plastics and ordered retailers to charge customers a fee if they wanted a regular plastic bag. The ban was later extended to the entire region. It has worked well generally, especially in supermarkets and other large operations, where additional charges for plastic bags have prompted many shoppers to opt for reusable items, such as cloth bags.

My memories of my father are divided into parts and shares. Alive, and then dead. Healthy, and then helpless. And further back in time, the first and most division: Present and then absent; loving, and then in different(漠不关心的).

He used to be a good writer and loving father. When I was a 16-year-old girl, he was fired from his company, a public, gossip-based dismissal that he would spend decades refusing responsibility for. This was the first crack that divided my relationship with him into poles of before and after. To escape his shame, he pushed away those who reminded him of it, first divorcing my mother, then alienating(疏远) my sister and I.

As an adult, my relationship with my father was one of low expectations and high boundaries. He spent most of his time travelling. But when he died of heart failure in August, I was knocked off balance by the weight of the blow. I thought, after years of setting up delicate fences around our relationship, that I had already begun letting go. His death delivered a realization：despite years of analyzing his complicated love for me, there were pieces of my father In ever understood—until I found my father's notebooks in his cupboard.

In the notebooks, he often collected documentation: train tickets from Rome or a photograph of San Francisco's Prescott Hotel. But what he was also doing was offering fatherly guidance, the kind I could only receive after he died. His life, in which what he had was never quite enough, was eventually exposed. In his final decade, he realized he had built a castle for himself upon sand and regret. Now in his entries, I hear his voice. "Debaleh," I hear him say, using his pet name for me, "learn from my mistakes."

I read these pages among my dad's clothes, and wept. I hadn't known that my father, too, lived with that familiar ache for new horizons in his heart, the one that can only be comforted by travelling.

Gift Guide

Chocolates

The weather outside maybe frightful but the smiles and smells inside are abundant! For all those special people on our Christmas girl list, send the sweat treats to help spread the joyous holiday cheer. What is the perfect gift for any occasion? Chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate! 

La    Place Collection 

Location：Suite 3, 41Xinyuanjie, near Beijing Chateau 

Tel：010-64668090

Comptoirs de France Bakery 

Location：Rm 102, 1/F, Building 15, China Central Place, 89 Jianguolu.

Tel：010-65305480

Awfully Chocolate 

Location ： 108， Building 2， Beijing Wanda Plaza， 87Jianguolu.

Tel：010-58205826

Recipe books

A recipe book from a different culture provides a chance to change up a Christmas dinner. Think about sitting down to a table of Mexican wedding cookies, Norwegian lefse, Chilean salmon, cream cheese l art and Chinese dishes. If you can't find the right one in time, search online, print the page and bind them into a book yourself. Nothing says, "I really care!" more than making an effort.

Wine

Get to the nearest Carrefour, and seize a bottle of good wine from among the 600 choices available there from Italy, Spain, the United States, Argentina, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Switzerland.150-3, 000 yuan a bottle.

Location：Wine section on 2/F, Carrefour Shuangjing Branch, 31Guangqu Lu, Chaoyang District.

Opening hours：9 a.m.-10 p.m.

Tel：010-51909508/09

Pearls

The top level of Hongqiao Market has strand upon strand of pearls in every shape and color imaginable. Pearls never go out of style and make for a good gift for women with classic tastes. 

Hongqiao Market

Location：Tian Tian East Road, east of the Temple of Heaven 

Opening hours：8：30 a.m.-9 p.m., open daily

Tel：010-67133354

I met the Man of the Trees in summer ten years ago, when I was visiting Uncle Jita.

Those were difficult times. People were cutting down our forest, and there was often flooding. Sometimes our water supply was dirty. When our pump(水泵)did have clean water, we had to wait in line for ages. When the pump wasn't working, we had to walk five kilometres to the closest stream.

But I was happy. I was going to see my favorite uncle. When the day finally arrived, Dad drove me to Uncle Jita's house and left. Once he saw me, Uncle Jita announced, "Tomorrow we're going to explore a magical place. Here is my camera, Amy. You can take photos of what you see."

The following day, we woke up and left early on a boat. The trip was exciting. But when we got off, there was ... nothing in front of us. "I don't want to take pictures of this," I complained.

Uncle laughed,"Start walking, Amy. I promise you'll be surprised." After some time, I could see the outline of a forest in the distance. A little closer, there was a man waving to us.

"That's Kabir. The forest you see is his. He planted every single tree." As we walked towards Kabir, Uncle explained that thirty years ago, the whole area was a wasteland. But one day Kabir decided to change all that and started planting trees. Thanks to him, part of the wasteland is now a paradise(天堂).

Uncle introduced me to Kabir, who had gray hair and a determined face. "Jita told me you like animals. Are you ready to see some?" he asked. "Of course!" I replied. We continued walking and soon were under the trees. I turned my head and was amazed at the difference between the two places. All because of the efforts of one man.

Like Uncle said, Kabir's forest was magical. We saw deer, rhinos, and even tigers. During lunchtime, Kabir explained how, by planting trees, it was possible to stop the land from eroding(侵蚀).

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Hearing this, I turned to my uncle, "I think we can plant trees too. "

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In the years that followed, people in our village worked hard to carry out our plan.