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Assistant Wanted for Teenager Summer Camp

•An interest in camping and outdoor activities

•Well-prepared for a variety of tasks, including a good command of English, attending to teenagers and getting on with others

•Working time: July 10th-July 25th

Contact: Laura@summercamp.com

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7. 只允许修改 10 处，多者（从第 11 处起）不计分。

In response to the call of nationwide labor education, a series of hands-on courses launched last term in our school, ranging from planting vegetables to making tradition handicrafts.

Sewing is one of my favorite course where I obtained a fundamental knowledge of essential life skills such as sewing a button, knit a scarf, and making a cushion by operating the sewing machine. It was sure a rewarding and fulfilling experience, that not only enriched our extracurricular life but also helped us acquire practical basic working capabilities for livelihood and form the good habit of labouring.

The hands-on courses have won a popularity among students and had a positive effect to the personal growth of everyone involved. If possible, an exhibition could be held to demonstrate students well-designed works and displayed their creativity.

Monkeypox is a virus endemic in parts of Central and West Africa. It is a less harmful version of smallpox. It  (discover) in 1958, after outbreaks occurred in monkeys kept for research, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

How many  (case) have there been this year, and where have they been? There have been 38 cases worldwide this year till Thursday,  (include) 37 with no history of travel to endemic countries, according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Britain reported an  (addition) 11 cases on Friday.

What are the symptoms?

Monkeypox creates a rash (疹子) starts with flat red marks that become raised and filled with pus  (脓液). Infected people will also have  fever and body aches.

How infectious is it?

 (typical), it does not lead to major outbreaks-in most years there are just a handful of cases outside Africa, if any.

Should I be worried?

The likelihood of the virus  (spread) during certain contact is high.  the risk of transmission from other forms of close contact is low. ECDC said. The symptoms are normally mild. Most people recover within weeks, but the virus has had a fatality rate of about 3.3% in Nigeria, with children and young adults  (susceptible) among all.

It was the day of the big cross-country run. Students from different primary schools were warming up and walking the route through thick evergreen forest.

I looked around and finally spotted David, who was standing 1  by a fence. I walked over and asked him why he was there. He 2  and said he had decided not to run.

What for? He had 3  so hard for this event!

David had a brain disease which prevented him from walking or 4 like other children, but at school his classmates regarded him as a 5 kid. He always participated to the best of his 6 in whatever they were doing. That's why none of the children thought it 7 that David had decided to join the cross-country team. David had not missed a single 8 , and he did always finish.

Sitting down next to him, I said gently, "If you desire to 9 yourself, nothing can stop you." He sat still with a deep 10 . "You have prepared fully, which is why you 11 here", I 12 sincerely. Finally, he said with a fierce but quiet 13 , "I'm going to run."

The 14 started. The runway was extremely long for young children, not to 15 a child like David. David had only gone a few meters before he fell over. 16 , he picked himself up and 17 his mission. "Come on! You can make it!" I knew without even 18 that these voices were not just from his schoolmates. They came from parents, teachers and kids from other schools. To everyone's 19 , he crossed the finish line to wild cheers and applause.

It is a brave 20  and dogged determination that can make something unusual happen.

We're living in modern times and it seems like we never have enough time. We all get the same amount in a day, a week, and a year. It just depends on how we use it. Rather than all getting the same amount of time to spend,

? What if we could control the way we consume our time to a greater extent? Here are three unexpected ways to give ourselves more time.

Help others

This might seem strange, but people who have more time often give it away through volunteering and helping others. A study that compared the opportunities to waste time, spend time on oneself, or spend a gift of time found that giving time selflessly actually increased people's perception of time. ?

When we do the same things every day, our brains tend to take shortcuts, and our efforts don't require as much conscious thought. This makes time seem to go more quickly. In contrast, when we do things in new or unexpected ways, our brains engage more consciously. We experience time as slowing down because we're more present and putting more work into the thinking that goes into the task. We can apply this research by selecting when we choose to do things in new ways versus our typical way. . But if you want to extend your perception of time, take the winding road or a new route on the way home from the office.

Take control

. It's a problem when we have too much to do in too little time, especially when we're not the ones deciding how we spend our time. We can take back a sense of having enough time by incorporating as much control as possible, and by redesigning our days. Even the simple act of pausing for 10 minutes to think about how you want to spend your time-which project to start on, which call to return, or which email to prioritize-can reassert a greater sense of time abundance.

A. Do things in new ways 

B. Seek the experience of awe 

C. what if we could have more

D. That way, rather than being slaves to time, we can be masters of it

E. Go the same route every time if you prefer your drive to work to go quickly

F. Why not lend a hand to others if you want to control and even expand time

G. Nothing contributes to time poverty more than feeling out of control

Surfing has deep roots, but for the first time, surfers are competing for medals at the Summer Olympics. At Tsurigasaki Beach, 40 miles from Tokyo, they're also riding big waves ahead of a storm.

"The incoming tide push over the afternoon does look to provide a lot of fun waves." reports Kurt Korte, the official surf forecaster for the Tokyo Olympics. He works for Surfline, a company based in Huntington Beach, California. He says while it might rain at Tsurigasaki Beach, it should be a great day for the surfing finals at the Olympics.

While new to the Olympics, surfing has a long history. In pre-Inca Peru and wherever there's been a nearby ocean, people have long been surfing in one form or another. Ancient warriors in Tahiti and Samoa used to train by surfing. In Polynesia, surfing was also considered an art form. But modern surfing became popular near the start of the 20th century in Hawaii.

Getting surfing to the Olympics was a dream of Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku more than a century ago. Decades before Hawaii became a U.S. state, he earned five Olympic medals for swimming, starting in 1912. Kahanamoku had grown up surfing with his brothers in Waikiki. A news reporter in the 1960's once asked him, "Duke, was it more of a thrill for you to win those Olympic Games, or ride some of those big waves you used to ride?" "I think surfing is much more to me, the greatest thrill of my life," he answered.

Former professional surfer Matt Warshaw said, "Unlike most other sports in competition at the Olympics, so much of surfing depends on Mother Nature: the wind and the waves." At the moment, these surfers are hoping for some sick waves for the Olympic finals. But with the ocean, you never know.

Many birds have shrunk in size as the temperatures have increased during the past 40 years. And the reduction in body size is so common that scientists have suggested it may be a universal response to warming conditions.

However, a new study, published in Ecology Letters, indicates that not all birds are equally affected when it comes to reductions in body size. Birds with bigger brains relative to body size have not shrunk as much as those with smaller brains.

Study lead author Justin Baldwin said, "As temperatures warm, body sizes are shrinking. But larger-brained species are shrinking less strongly than small-brained species."

The researchers analyzed information on some 70,000 birds that died when they collided (碰撞) with buildings in Chicago between 1978 and 2016. They found that birds with very big brains relative to body size have shown only about one-third of the reduction in body size.

"Relative brain size is related to increased learning ability, increased memory, longer lifespans and more stable population dynamics," said Baldwin. "In this case, a bigger-brained species of bird might be able to reduce the influence of climate change by seeking out habitats with cooler temperatures, for example."

"One of the first things that jump out to me from these findings is that we can already see that climate change is having a much stronger effect on species that have poorer ability to deal with environmental change through their behavior." said Professor Botero at Washington University.

North America has lost nearly one-third of its birdlife in the last half-century. The findings of this recent study, therefore, are very important to bird management and protection.

Every summer he came to our village on his cycle. The cycle was full of coconuts and on the handle was his small red money purse and the knife that he used to cut the coconuts. He was known for his toothless smile that tended to tum into a slight laugh.

He often announced the arrival of summer by standing under our village's Gulmohar tree. During the first touch of summer, red flowers fell on the ground and welcomed him to out village; soon the red flowers turned into long sword-like fruits which hung above his head as he cut the coconuts.

He never ate anything except paan (a kind of leaf), which he always could be seen chewing, and he just sat under the tree until someone approached him. Then, he would choose the best coconut, and with expert skill, carve it so that the person could drink the satisfying liquid.

Nowadays, he doesn't do much business. Kids no longer care for coconut water; they want soft drinks. I know his weak body will fail him in the coming years. He will not visit our village, and with him, all my memories of summer will disappear. No one will miss him apart from the Gulmohar tree, his only friend.

My friends and I have stayed in the same village our whole life. Now, in our mid-thirties, we don't have time to talk about our childhood and the life beyond the chains of society.

I've made up my mind. Tomorrow I will talk with him. I will listen to him and preserve him in my memory. I will tell him how important he was for me, how he defined summer for me, and, during every summer, how he nurtured (滋养) me with the coconut water, which was filled with his love. I will take in his smile one last time—a remembrance of my childhood innocence. I will hug him until my tears mix with his.

Chinese Dual Language Immersion Program (CDLIP)

Dual language immersion provides academic instruction in two languages. The Pasadena Unified School District currently offers a Chinese-English immersion program.

Our Classrooms

The CDLIP serves primary school students, from kindergarten through second grade. Grades 3, 4 and 5 will be added in September of 2022, 2023 and 2024, respectively. The program is currently located at Luther Burbank Primary School. On any given day, you might find a classroom full of kindergarteners counting and sorting coins, first graders singing "The More We Get Together", or second graders describing physics experiments-all in Chinese!

How Does the Program Work?

CDLIP classrooms combine native and non-native speakers so that all students may succeed in both Chinese and English. We apply a Two-Way 90:10 Model. In kindergarten, 90% of the day's instruction is in Chinese and 10% is devoted to improving English oral language and the ability to read and write. As children progress through grade levels, the percentage of English instruction gradually increases, finally achieving a 50:50 split by fifth grade.

To Register Your Child

Language learning is a long-term process, so parents are asked to register their children for the full six years.

• Register online at www.pusd.us/oe between June 13 and 23.

• The program is free, supported by the Pasadena Unified School District.

• For kindergarten, no knowledge of Chinese is necessary. (Some knowledge of Chinese is expected for students entering grades 1-3.)

• Applications will be accepted after the deadline if spaces are still available.

• If you would like assistance completing your application, please contact Ms. Netty Li at Burbank Primary School（626）396-5760 or visit PUSD Welcome Center.

The Voice of Rigo

Rigo had a loud voice. People were always telling Rigo to be quiet. His mother would tell him to use his quiet voice inside the house because the baby was asleep. His father would ask him to speak quietly in the car so that he could concentrate on his driving. His teacher would tell him to talk quietly so he would not bother others who were studying.

Not only did he have a loud voice, but Rigo liked to talk a lot. Whenever he had time, he would talk with his classmates, sharing everything he considered fun. He liked to yell and shout. Sometimes he just yelled. "Hey!" for no reason. He liked the sound of his very loud voice for he thought it had more penetrating (穿透的）power than that of an actor. But not everyone felt the same way.

When Rigo shouted goodbye as he left for school, his mother shook her head, "Rigo! Be quiet!" When his father drove him to school. Rigo said, "Hey! There's Chris ! " He pointed at his friend, who was walking to school. His father shook his head."Rigo, use a quiet voice in the car." At school, his teacher talked to him three times about using his quiet voice. His classmates shook their heads, throwing an upset look at him when he talked aloud.

Later, Rigo had to sit by himself for a while. His teacher wanted him to practice being quiet. Rigo had to sit quietly for five minutes. It felt like five hours or five days. When the five minutes was up, Rigo went to his desk and sat quietly. It was not easy.

After school, Rigo was waiting for his father when he saw Chris again "Hey!'' he yelled. "Chris! Hey! The headmaster was walking by. Rigo was sure he was going to get in trouble for his loud voice. He looked quickly at the ground. Maybe the headmaster would keep walking.

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The headmaster stopped and looked at Rigo. He said goodbye to the headmaster and ran to get in his father's car cheerfully.

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I've always been really loving travelling and sharing those pictures others, ''said Namita. But as a yoga (瑜伽）teacher, it was (extreme) difficult for her to travel on her own money. She decided(join) in a travel race called "realize your dream''.

"They asked us to show our love for travel. I sent them a picture of me jumping off a waterfall in Mauritius,"she said. The (amaze) picture won her a spot and after a round of interviews, she became one of the winners entered the finals. Her prize was a 12-day dream vacation to Bolivia. "_I (attract) by Bolivia's beauty at that time," she said, " All too often, I do believe seeing springs, salt flats and lakes of different colors is unforgettable experience."

This chance encouraged her to start her blog to record some of her exciting （trip ) .Now she is living her dream life, travelling throughout the world and teaching yoga "Winning the travel race made me feel(confidence) about following what I love most," she said.

The other day a big, ugly, black bat found its way to my bathroom. I am what is known as "the man of the house", so it was my 1 , in fact my manly duty, to rid the house of the2 creature.

Being a man does not3 the fact that I am extremely 4 of bats. All men, I think, sometimes have had that feeling of being5 in some male role. Sometimes it is something as simple as having to6 that you know something about car engines when the car won't start. But sometimes the trap is a(n)7 one. Many men prefer to be something different from what society8 men should be. What these men want is the9 to be what they want to be.

As I came toward the frightening bat, I10 what would happen if I had simply told my wife that I wouldn't do it. But I couldn't do that! I 11 opened the window， carefully lifted a broom and swept the bat out of the 12 .

My wife was13 and my son thought I was14 . They rid of the bat, I started to tell them — but then15 . A man doesn't talk of such things.

How to make up riddles (谜语）

Riddles are fun to ask and solve. It is a pride to ask a riddle that no one has ever heard before. If you are looking to find such a riddle, it is better to create a riddle yourself. 

Decide on your subject.

While sitting to write a riddle, you have to think of the subject first.  .It is just the concept where your answer lies. For example, if your answer is onion, your subject is an object or a vegetable.

You would have seen riddles of three to four words along with those that are long sentences. So, you have to decide the length of your riddle beforehand. Only after this, you can form a riddle that fits in your imagination. You can keep your riddles short or long. However, the listeners should be able to follow the context without any difficulties.

 Start with the answer.

. For example, let us consider that you are about to ask a riddle whose answer is an onion. Once you know this answer, you can think of the possible ways of forming a puzzle on your own.

Analyse your answer.

Once you have chosen your answer, you have to brainstorm the possible characteristics (特征）of it..So you can collect the facts like the ability of ice to melt during heating and its freezing chillness. Once you know these facts about your answer, you can add them to your question of the riddle.

A. Read some existing riddles.

B. Find the length of your riddle.

C. The subject does not mean anything complicated(复杂的).

D. You can find these riddles online and through apps or movies.

E. For example, let us imagine that your answer for the riddle is ice.

F. In this article, let us discuss the process of creating one yourself in brief.

G. Knowing the answer before forming the question is important in riddle creation.

My school appeared on the news last week because we had made an important change in our local area. Our class had planted a large garden where there was once only a vacant lot. It was a lot of work, but it was all worth it. I got blisters (水疱）from digging, and we all got insect bites, too.

I learned a lot about gardening and teamwork, and then I learned about the media. Our teacher telephoned the TV station and informed them of what we had done. She spoke with the producer .The producer cheeked with the directors, but they said there were plenty of stories similar to ours. They wanted to know what was special about our garden, because many schools planted gardens.

The teacher explained that, after going on the Internet to learn about the prairie (大草原）,we had made a prairie garden. We had been to a prairie and gotten seeds from the plants, and then we planted them. We did not water the garden, but we did weed it. We decided to let nature water it with rain, because that was how prairies grew in the past. We sent a picture of the garden to the news station .In the picture, the grass was so high that it stood taller than the fourth grade students.

As a result, the producer sent a reporter to our school. The reporter interviewed the headmaster and asked him many questions about the garden. After that, the headmaster interviewed us, and explained to him what we had learned through this project.

That night, we watched the news, and there we were. The news reporter told our story .It was only two minutes long, but it was us. We were famous. All that work, all those blisters, it was worth it. We knew that when we saw the garden every day, but now we knew that the whole city thought so, too.

Have you ever made eye contact with a robot? It can be a very strange experience. Scientists even have a name for the feeling: the "uncanny valley"

Now, researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tccnologia (IIT) in Italy have found that it is more than just a feeling. They ran an experiment that showed how a robot's gaze (注视）can make people think they are socially interactive with a human being.

That experience can slow a person's ability to make decisions. The team asked 40 people to play a video game of "thicken". In the game, each player has to decide whether to allow a car to drive straight toward another car or to turn to avoid a crash. The people were playing against a human-like robot sitting across from them.

During breaks in the game, players had to look at the robot. Sometimes the robot would look back and other times it would look away. As the interactions happened, the scientists collected data on behavior and brain activity.

"Our results show that, actually, the human brain treats the robot gaze as a social signal, and that signal influences the way we're making decisions, on the way we use in the game and also on our reactions." Wykowska said.

The findings could be useful in helping to decide where and how human-like robots might be placed in the future.

When a person in the United States gets the COVID- 19 vaccine (疫苗）,the person receives a small piece of paper called a "COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card"

It is a piece of paper with the logo of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, and the name and date of the vaccine. Because it is so simple, it could be easy to fake.

Many people in the U.S. are still unsure about getting the vaccine .As universities, workplaces and other places are requiring proof of vaccination, some people are now buying fake vaccination cards without getting a shot.

The Associated Press reports that students and teachers at universities around the U.S. are worried about fake cards. Sellers are using social media apps like Instagram to advertise fake vaccination cards. The prices range from $25 to $200. The AP notes that many college students seem interested in buying the cards. On the site Reddit, one person wrote, "I need one, too, for college. I refuse to be a guinea pig."

It is reported that more than 700 universities and colleges require proof of vaccination. Most schools simply ask their students to take a photo of their card and send it to a school website. Benjamin Mason Meier is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC. He studies international health policy. He said, unlike some countries, the U.S. is not using a digital system to record vaccine status. He said the U.S. is depending on "a flimsy paper card", and students have told him they knew of others who had used fake vaccination cards. Rebecca Williams also works at UNC. She is a researcher at the school's Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. She said she was not surprised that people were worried about fake vaccination cards. "This is why I think the development of a reliable national digital vaccine passport app is very important" she said.

There is a law that should prevent people from making false vaccination cards. If someone uses the CDC logo without permission, they can be lined and punished by up to five years in prison. The U.S. Department of Justice recently charged a person in California with making fake vaccination cards.

College students who already have the vaccine are criticizing those who would rather spend money to buy a fake than get a free shot. Maliha Reza is an electrical engineering student at Pennsylvania State University, She called those students "dumb". "I' m angry about that，" she said. "Like, there is more anger than I could describe now."

Early in the morning, I saw my six year-old son fighting with my azalea (杜鹃花) bush. By the time I got outside, he'd broken it. "Can I take this to school today?" he asked. With a wave of my hand, 1 sent him off. I turned my back so he wouldn't see the tears gathering in my eyes. I loved that azalea bush.

I spent most of the day washing and drying clothes. As I finished hanging up the last of my husband's shirts, I hurriedly drove to the school to pick up Jonathan.

By the time I arrived, the teacher took me aside. "I want to talk to you about Jonathan" she said. I prepared myself for the worst. Nothing would have surprised me. "Did you know Jonathan brought flowers to school today?" she asked. I nodded， thinking about my favorite bush and trying to hide the hurt in my eyes.

"Let me tell you about yesterday" the teacher insisted,"See that little girl?" I watched the bright-eyed child laugh and point to a colorful picture on the wall. I nodded.

"Well, yesterday she was almost crazy. Her mother and father are going through a divorce. I watched that little girl bury her face in her hands and say loud enough for the class to hear, ‘Nobody loves me.'I did all I could to comfort her, but it only seemed to make matters worse.

"Today your son walked straight over to that child. I watched him hand her some pretty pink flowers and whisper, ‘I love you.'"

I felt my heart swell with pride for what my son had done. I smiled at the teacher.

"Thank you," I said, reaching for Jonathan's hand," you've made my day"

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Dear Sam, 

……

Yours, 

Li Hua.