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We are planning to hold a dragon boat race Qu Yuan, an ancient poet.

All of us the beautiful scenery of Jiuzhaigou and are unwilling to leave.

Now, poetry competitions have been revived. This year 120,000 high school students competed in the first Poetry Out Loud national recitation competition,2 poems from memory for $100,000 in prize money.

The first competitions were held in classrooms. The winners went on to school wide contests, and then they competed in city and state competitions.3, the 50 state champions, along with the4 of the District of Columbia came to Washington D.C. last week for the last showdown. After the 51 champions competed5 another, 12 went on to the6. Then the field was narrowed to five. The final five had one last chance to "perform" a poem. The overall champ, Jackson Hille, a high school senior from Ohio,7 a $20,000 scholarship. The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation8 Poetry Out Loud, because they realized that hearing a poem performed is a different experience from9 it on a page.

It's not just a matter of saying the words in the right order. It's the tone of10, the pauses, the gestures and the attitude of the person performing that bring the11 to life. "Each time we hear somebody recite a poem, we understand again what we found12 and interesting about it," said National Public Radio Broadcaster Scott Simon, master of ceremonies for the finals. Hearing it in a new voice offers something new to the listeners.

Not only do the people hearing poems have a(n)13 experience, but14 and presenting poems helps the participants understand those poems in a new way. Another15 of a competition such as Poetry Out Loud is that the participants learn public speaking skills that can help them for life.

Travel local

If a vacation is what you need, try choosing nearby destinations and staying local. This way, you get to save on time and money and avoid air travel, which helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Shop and eat local

Avoid eating at multinational chain restaurants or shopping in large supermarkets and brand stores. This way, you're helping keep people employed and preventing transportation across far distances.

Choose green accommodation

To ensure this, you may need to find answers to questions like if the hotel is certified, or if they have a sustainability report, or what their waste management protocol (方案) and plastic policy looks like, or if their products and menus are locally sourced, and so on.

Use sustainable transport

Flying can seem easy and attractive, but it's especially harmful to the environment. If your destination can be reached by train, consider opting for it. It's also advisable to use public transport instead of cars which burn through double the amount of fuel. If you have no option but to fly, consider booking non-stop flights instead of having layovers (转机).

Go paperless

This prevents travellers from printing boarding passes, hotel reservations, and entry tickets. By going paperless, you not only help the environment but also avoid losing tickets and enjoy easy access to them at the same time.

A. A lot of attractions accept mobile tickets.

B. Always switch of lights before leaving your room.

C. Slow travel is a smart and responsible way to travel.

D. Surprise yourself by discovering the close-by attractions.

E. While exploring cities, cycling and walking are recommended.

F. On vacations, choose sustainable hotels that employ green practices

G. Instead, choose small businesses to help stimulate the local economy.

To figure out the reason, social psychologists John Darley and Bibb Latané conducted two classic experiments. Their first experiment showed that the more bystanders there were, the more an individual's sense of responsibility diffused — 85% of participants helped in a one-on-one situation, while only 31%did so in a group of six. In their second smoke experiment, 75% of people alone sought help when smoke filled the room, but just 10% did so with passive bystanders around.

They pointed out that the bystander effect mainly springs from people's failure to interpret a situation as an emergency due to others' inaction. The second reason for the bystander effect is that when multiple bystanders are present, each person feels less personal commitment to act, as they assume others (especially those with professional skills like doctors or police) will intervene.This phenomenon is more common in urban areas with many strangers, unlike in small communities where people feel a clear sense of responsibility to help others they know.

Recent research has cast doubt on the universality of Darley and Latané's classic bystander effect theory. Using real-world CCTV footage from three pairs of culturally diverse cities — Lancaster, Amsterdam, and Cape Town — Dr, Richard Philpot of Lancaster University and his team analyzed 212 violent incidents.

Their findings showed that bystanders intervened in 91% of cases, and in direct contradiction to the original theory, the presence of more bystanders actually increased the likelihood of intervention, with multiple people often stepping in together. The consistent types of intervention across different cities suggest we are born with the wish to help others, driven by social conventions and a desire to understand, protect, and assist others.

On my 13th birthday, I bought a poster of Harvard to hang in my room. Being at Harvard became what I dreamt about. Even if my electricity was cut off, I still woke up at 5:30, because I knew that my poster of Harvard was still hanging only two feet away from me.

Reminding myself of my goal each day made it easy to say no to the same choices I saw my peers making, because those paths couldn't bring me closer to my goal. Being poor could not take away my power to decide what I chose to do with my day. The poster gave me the courage to send emails to about 50 Harvard students to ask for feedback on my application essays; it gave me the energy to study just one more hour on my SAT when my friends were asleep; and it gave me the determination to submit just one more scholarship application when 180 others had already turned me down.

Every day, I could feel myself getting closer and closer to my goal as my writing got better, my SAT score increased, and my scholarship checks started coming in. Finally, an email arrived from Harvard. The first word was "Congratulations!" A month later, Harvard flew me up to visit the campus where for the first time I stepped onto my dreaming land.

Who you are today is the result of the decisions you made yesterday, and who you will be tomorrow will be the result of the choices you make today. Who do you want to be tomorrow?

1．介绍这项运动；例如Tai chi太极拳；Rope Skipping跳绳；或者其他。

2．说明推荐理由。

注意：写作词数应为120个左右；请注意行文连贯。

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