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Marty Dunn first saw Alexandra soon after she arrived in the United States and was put in an

orphans' home. She was four years old but21 no more than three. She was only half the usual

weight22 her age. Her upper jaw developed23 but the lower one froze her mouth

shut.

Three months later, Alex was given an24 on her jaw in a big hospital by Marty Dunn himself. The operation was quite a success. After nine hours Alex had a functioning jaw. The next day the little girl was able to open her25 .It was really a wonder! For the first time ever, Alex26 It lit up the room.

She had never27 a word before. Now she began to learn to speak. She already knew Spanish. Before long.28 words came out freely.

One day in late November 1986, more than two years29 Alex had arrived at the Dunns',the family went to a nearby30 After their meal, Mrs Dun turned to the little girl "Alex," she said, "you know we all31 you. We'd like you to become our32 and to be called Alexandra Dun. Would you like that?"

Alex smiled happily. "Oh, yes, I want that!" Then she was33 lawfully and became Alexandra Dun, The day that Alex had been34 for several years finally arrived in June the year before last For the first time in her young life, Ales had a full set of teeth She looked at her parents and said, "Tm the35 girl in the world!"

Asking anyone who has worked in their yard, you will always be told that yard work is quite the workout Whether spreading soil, raking ( 用耙子拢) leaves, or pulling undergrowth, you're guaranteed to break a sweat . Even something as simple as planting flowers involves squatting(蹲), which engages your legs for your core muscles for balance and your arms for digging..Moreover, heavy yard work is a great way to add variation to your regular exercise program. If you do yard work as a way to bum calories, take full advantage of what the great outdoors has to offer.

If you are raking up leaves, change the movement and direction to make full use of your muscles.Rake in front of your body to target your shoulders. Rake both right to left and left to right to work both arms evenly.

If you're using a cart to pull yard waste soil or fertilizer, take an extra circle or two around your garden before you set your goods down.

. pull the heavy rubber tube around the yard with you, You'll also have to use muscles to put it away and wind it up when you're done.

Enjoy the outdoors. Fresh air is always uplifting, especially in the spring time. Plus, sunshine helps boost Vitamin D production, which aids in the absorption of calcium. Weed, dig and rake. Try all of these activities, get your hands in the dirt, and include yard work as a part of your healthy lifestyle.

A.Instead of using a small water container

B. In addition to raising heart rate and burning calories

C. That's because gardening works all your major muscle groups

D. There are ways to prevent aching muscles after working outside

E. That's just one example of how yard work can give you a workout

F.The yard can benefit you in a way that a regular gym can never provide

G. This way, you'll help prevent injuries by avoiding repetitive movements too

A joint research team recently have developed a new electronic skin that is similar to human skin in strength durability (耐久性) and sensitivity. The skin or e-skin may play an important role in next-generation personalized medicine, soft robotics and artificial intelligence.

"The ideal e-skin will mimic (模仿) the many natural functions of human skim such as sensing temperature and touch, accurately and in real time' 'says leading researcher Yichen Cai However,making suitably flexible electronics that can perform such delicate tasks while also used repeatedly is challenging, and each material involved must be carefully engineered.

Most e-skins are made by putting an active sensor on the surface that attaches to human skin.However, the connection between them is often too weak, which reduces the durability and sensitivity of the material; otherwise, if it is too strong, it won't be flexible enough, making it more likely to break the circuit.

"The landscape of skin electronics keeps shifting at a remarkable pace," says Cai. "The discovery of 2D sensors has accelerated efforts to turn these quite thin but strong materials into functional durable artificial skins."

The new man-made skin built by the researchers could sense objects from 20 centimeters away. It could further make a quick response when touched in less than one tenth of a second"It is a striking achievement for an e-skin to maintain toughness after repeated use," said Shen,"which mimics the softness and rapid recovery of human skin."

This type of e-skin could monitor a range of biological information such as changes in blood pressure, which can be detected from movements of arms and legs. This data can then be shared and stored on the cloud via WiFi.

"One remaining problem to the widespread use of c-skins lies in mass production of high-resolution (分辨率) sensors," adds group leader Vincent Tung, "however, the latest technology offers new promise."

Every woman dreams of receiving a huge sparkling and priceless diamond. Now. scientists have discovered the largest diamond in the universe,

But it's well beyond the reach of the most lovestruck men-- 50 light years to be precise. Space scientists revealed that they had diseovered a ten billion trillion trillion carat gem. Measuring 2,500 miles across and weighing five million trillion trillion pounds, the rock was found on Valentine's Day buried in the core of a white dwarf star(白矮星) in the constellation Centaurus(人马座)"

It's the mother of all diamonds," said Travis Metcalfe, who led the team of researchers at the

Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in America!"

You would need a jewelry's loupe《小型放大镜) the size of the Sun to grade this diamond." Named Lucy, after the Beatles' song Lucy in the sky with Diamonds, the rock has sent a ripple of excitement through the scientific world.

The largest diamond found on earth was the 3106-carat(克拉) Cullinan. It was cut into nine major stones, including the 530-carat Star of Africa now a part of the Crown Jewels. Diamonds were first discovered in India more than 2800 years ago. The Ancient Romans believed that the stones were thin and sharp pieces of stars that had fallen downward to earth.

In Ancient Egypt diamonds were symbols of eternity (承恒) and were used in funeral ceremonies.In the Middle Ages men wore them to symbolize their courage, strength and energy. The tradition of giving them as love tokens dates from 1477, when Archduke Maximilian of Austria gave a diamond ring 1o Mary of Burgundy.

Dressed in a shiny metallic suit, Katia Krafft's small frame is overshadowed by the red curtain of molten rock that bursts from the ground before her The dramatic moment was captured in a photo taken atop Iceland's Krafla volcano in 1984, during the final breathing of a multi-year-long eruption. Looking at the image, one can almost feel the volcano's heat, hear its roar, and sense Kraff's heart pounding as the volcanologist does what she loves most: bearing witness to our planet's strong anger.

Katia Krafft was a fearless pioneer in volcanology, studying the explosive peaks at a time when there were few women in the field. She was born in the Rhine valley of northeast France in 1942. The chaotic human world drove both Katia and her husband, Maurice Krafft, also a volcanologist, to seek comfort in nature The moment a volcano exploded, they dropped everything to analyze and capture the beauty and mystery of each event.

The Kraffts used their videos of explosive eruptions to explain the complex risks and uncertainties of these disasters. It changed the ability to communicate volcano science. Their videos are credited as one of the primary reasons that officials in the Philippines took the warning signs of Mount Pinatubo's eruption in 1991 seriously. Yet the Kraffs didn't live to see that eruption. The couple died less than two weeks earlier in Japan during a monstrous eruption, which claimed 41 other lives.

Katia's impact on volcanology has reached far beyond her death and has encouraged many young women to study our restless planet "Katia Krafft is definitely the reason why I'm doing this job," says Carla Tiraboschi, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minster, Germany. Tiraboschi first saw Katia in a documentary when she was just six or seven years old and has been crazy about volcanoes ever since. She now studies the processes at work deep below the volcanic peaks.

Here is your best chance to travel around the UK in 2023: More than 200 B&Bs (bed &breakfast)across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are selected to offer you amazing services for your stay at their lowest pricest. Don't miss it. Just collect the vouchers (活动券) in our B&B Daily printed from 01/04/2023 to 07/04/2023 and book the stays for your travel following the terms and conditions below:

·The offer includes a room for the night and a breakfast the next morning

·The offer is of two kinds; £20 per room. valid during stay period of 02/04/2023-31/05/2023 and then again 01/09/2023-31/10/2023. £35 per room, per night, valid during stay period of 01/06/2023-31/08/2023.

·The offer s valid for a basic twin or double room only.

·The stay must be booked directly with the chosen B&Bs before 28/04/2023.

·Each voucher can only be used by the holder to book one room for one night.

·If voucher holders book either the £20 or £35 per room per night, any additional services such as lunch, evening meal or activities may require an extra charge. But these are not required in order to take up the offer Please check directly with your chosen B.&Bs to see what extra services are available.

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·Vouchers may not be used together with any other offer.

·The voucher holders must pay for the stay in full a the time of booking. Additional £10 may be paid to confirm the booking and will be returned om arrival.

The B.&Bs reserve the right to refuse voucher holders' booking for people under the age of 18.

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A lecturer was giving a lecture to his students stress management. He raised a glass of water and asked the audience, "How heavy do you think this glass of water is?" The students' answers (range) from20g to 500g.

"It does not matter on the absolute (weigh). It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you will have to call an ambulance. It is the exact same weight, the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

"If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, we will not be able to carry on, the burden becoming (increase) heavier. What you have to remember is (put) the glass down. Rest for a while before holding it up again." We have to put down the burden periodically, so that we can be (refresh) and are able to carry on. So before you return home from work tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry back home. burdens you are having now on your shoulders, let it down for moment if you can. Life is short, so enjoy it.

It's common to post on social media to keep a record of the fun things you do. Although social media has its positive aspects, it can also have some serious 1 results. For example, have you ever been bored and decided to check social 2 , only to find out that your best friend is at the Great Wall, one of your classmates is eating delicious noodles at your 3 restaurant, and one of your basketball teammates is visiting the giant pandas in Sichuan? Oh! You're really 4 ! At least that's what you might think.

Have you ever had that feeling that others are experiencing things and enjoying life 5 than you are? Researchers call that feeling the fear of missing out or FOMO. 

FOMO is a real 6 that over 75% of young people experience from time to time. Social media is the cause, because it's so easy today to 7 through to see what your friends are doing, eating, buying and talking about. 8 , it would be impossible to enjoy all the same activities we see others take part in on social media. Rather than 9 this basic truth, though, we often let FOMO lead us to compare our lives to those of others on social media. This 10 leaves us feeling dissatisfied. Why? We know all the aspects of our lives—both good and bad. But all we see on social media are the 11 moments others share. FOMO makes us check social media more frequently, leading to a negative cycle that can be hard to 12 . Researchers have found that social media and FOMO can cause feelings of 13 , loneliness and boredom. Researchers advise that we stop looking for 14 on social media. If we let FOMO 15 us, the only thing we'll really be missing out on is our own life. And life's too short for that!

How to Be a Good Listener

Whether you're communicating in person or on the phone, being a good listener is an important part of any healthy relationship. If you've wondered whether you could be a better listener, the answer is almost certainly "yes". Making sure the people in your life feel truly heard is something that you can improve upon.

You appear more interested when you invite the speaker to give explanations, by asking them things that need more than a "yes" or "no" answer. "An open-ended question is an invitation for the other person to say more, and continue going deeper into their train of thought, versus (与……相对比) a close-ended question that invites a factual answer," Dr. Bobby explains.

What you're expressing through your body language is as important as what you say. It's about looking in someone's eyes, smiling and nodding. Showing with your face that you're following what someone is saying is really important. Remember that looking into your laptop camera is like making eye contact, while breaking it to look downward makes it appear that you're doing something else.

"People can be considered as poor listeners when they don't understand what the conversation is actually about on a high level." Dr. Bobby says. Maybe they're really just wanting to express their bad feelings, or talk about their day. So don't try to give suggestions; just listen instead.

A. Listening requires looking at problems from other's view.

B. In fact, people only want to get to know more about others.

C. This is equally key in virtual conversations on a video chat.

D. Sometimes, people simply want to talk about an unhappy situation.

E. This is something you can do to show that you're really listening.

F. Being a bad listener can break that person's trust in your relationship.

G. Listening doesn't always require offering solutions — quite the opposite, in fact.

There is something to be said for being a generalist, even if you are a specialist. Knowing a little about a lot of things that interest you can add to the richness of a whole, well-lived life.

Society pushes us to specialize, to become experts. This requires commitment to a particular occupation, branch of study or research. The drawback to being specialists is we often come to know more and more about less and less. There is a great deal of pressure to master one's field. You may pursue training, degrees, or increasing levels of responsibility at work. Then you discover the pressure of having to keep up.

Some people seem willing to work around the clock in their narrow specialty. But such commitment can also weaken a sense of freedom. These specialists could work at the office until ten each night, then look back and realize they would have loved to have gone home and enjoyed the sweetness of their family and friends, or traveled to exciting places, meeting interesting people. Mastering one thing to the exclusion (排除) of others can hold back your true spirit.

Generalists, on the other hand, know a lot about a wide range of subjects and view the whole with all its connections. They are people of ability, talent, and enthusiasm who can bring their broad perspective into specific fields of expertise (专长). The doctor who is also a poet and philosopher is a superior doctor, one who can give so much more to his patients than just good medical skills.

Things are connected. Let your expertise in one field fuel your passions in all related areas. Some of your interests may not appear to be connected but, once you explore their depths, you discover that they are. My editor Toni, who is also a writer, has edited several history books. She has decided to study Chinese history. Fascinated by the structural beauty of the Forbidden City as a painter, she is equally interested to learn more about Chinese philosophy. "I don't know where it will lead, but I'm excited I'm on this pursuit."

These expansions into new worlds help us by giving us new perspectives. We begin to see the interconnectedness of one thing to another in all aspects of our life, of ourselves and the universe. Develop broad, general knowledge and experience. The universe is all yours to explore and enjoy.

As people are becoming more socially conscious about where their food comes from and how it impacts the planet, they are choosing animal-free plant-based options. Cow-free meat has been around for quite some time and the popularity of brands of the cultivated (培育的) meat is rising. While there are a large number of plant-based milk substitutes (替代品), none of them have the same taste of cow's milk. Now, a food-tech company created real dairy products (奶制品) without harming a single cow or the planet.

The company stresses that their product produced in the lab is not a milk substitute but rather is the real deal. And it is very healthy. The company also says that the lab-produced milk tastes the same as the real thing and they hope to eventually replace cows by creating every dairy product sold. They expect to roll out plant-based cheese and yogurt in addition to milk. "Our company was founded with the mission to stop using animals to produce our food because, as dairy lovers, we realize that giving up on milk is not a choice," John said. "But today's milk comes with an unreasonable price tag. The dairy industry is destroying our planet, our health, and our animals, and is simply not sustainable (可持续的) anymore."

The environmental price tag of dairy farming is too high. According to the World Wildlife Fund, dairy cows add a huge amount of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and contribute to global warming and climate change as well as pollute the air around them. Dairy operations consume large amounts of water and run-off of manure (粪肥) and fertilizers from these farms get into local waterways. The production uses only 5 percent of the resources and produces only 1 percent of the waste of producing cow's milk according to the company. And they accomplish this by being 100 percent cruelty-free unlike dairy farms.

Ida Nelson was relaxing herself in her sister's sauna (桑拿室) when she heard the sound of a small airplane circling the nearby airport.

It was 11: 30 at night in a remote village with a population of 70, and, as she told the newspaper reporter, "Any time a plane flies over that late, you know something is wrong." Nelson and her sister leaped out of the sauna, ran to the window, and saw the problem — the airports runway lights were out. Nelson threw on some clothes, jumped into her jeep, and floored it to the airport, where she found a local pilot trying to turn on the lights manually.

"Normally, if you push the button 10 or 15 times, the lights will just light up," Nelson told the reporter. Not this time. Meanwhile, she and the pilot learned of the plane's urgentmission — it was a helicopter, there to transport a seriously ill local girl to the nearest hospital, 280 miles away in another city.

Nelson had a plan. Driving her jeep to the end of the runway, she shone her headlights on the road for the plane to follow. Great idea, but it wasn't enough. More light was needed, so a neighbor called nearly every home in the village — 32 of them.

Within 20 minutes, 20 vehicles arrived at the airport, many of the drivers still in pajamas. Following directions from the helicopter pilot, the cars lined up on one side of the runway. The helicopter made its final approach and, guided by the headlights, landed safely. The young patient was loaded onto the aircraft, and the plane immediately took off again. Her illness was never publicly known, but she has since been recovered. 

Without them, the girl might not have made it. However, for Nelson, it was only a small deed.

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I have a 6-year-old boy, Sam. He is autistic(患自闭症的). Thus, dining out can be terrible. Though he loves to eat out, he dislikes the loud noise in a restaurant. He has a method to solve it: overpower(压倒) all noise with a much louder noise of his own.

This begins what I think of as fighting tables: neighboring parties raise their voice followed by Sam raising his until the loudest point of the noise is reached, making us quite unpopular with other dinners.

Faced with a possible long-time dining alone, I decided to teach my son table manners with his favourite chocolate cake at a new modern cake shop early one Tuesday night.

To my joy, we arrived at an empty cake shop. Everything went well until women entered. Neatly dressed in a simple way, they were two tables away from us. I felt a sense of bad luck coming.

The women began to chat, paying little attention to us. Sam happily took this as his start to talk loudly and overpower them. I asked Sam for a quiet voice, but unluckily Sam had left that voice at home. I looked at the neighboring table, knowing we wouldn't go noticed much longer. I planned to ask Sam to eat quickly and leave. Sam, who usually has food unhurriedly, refused to accept the sudden idea of fast dining, and he kept talking endlessly.

"SHUSH!" I said, a little angry. Sam laughed loudly as his reply. "Be quiet!" I could see that the two women were now watching us.

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Paragraph 1： Finally, the older of the two women came over.

Paragraph 2：It turned out to be a perfect night.