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The snowstorm was supposed to hit the evening of Monday, Jan.31. I was working from home but I had to leave that afternoon and go to my office to sign an emergency financial aid check for a student. The route to the office took about 30 minutes along the highway. When I got there, my colleague came to my office to co-sign the check, and left. As I was packing up, I noticed he had left his laptop bag in my office.

"I can bring it to you," I assured him. It was just past 4:30 p. m. The snow wasn't supposed to start until later. On the way to his place, I picked up a new cellphone charger, and filled up my SUV with gas.

It took me about 15 minutes to get to my colleague's house, where I dropped off the laptop case and got back on the road. Then the snow started, and it was coming down fast. Within minutes, the windows were fogging up and getting covered with snow, so I rolled down my driver's side window, thinking I could better follow the edge of the road and keep to a straight line. But really, I didn't have a clue where I was or even which side of the road I was on.

I called 911, but the dispatcher（调度员） told me that nobody was coming to get me until morning at the earliest. The storm would continue for longer than predicted and I worried I'd freeze to death.

Breathe ,I told myself. Panicking won't help.

I stopped the car, pinning my location on Google Maps, figuring out that I was on a road called Bouvier Lane, in between two farms. I posted this new information to my Facebook community group, pleading for anyone who knew who lived on the farms to help me get rescued.

At 8 p. m., my cellphone rang. It was the son of the farmer, André Bouvier, who owned the land beside the road I was stuck in. He told me that his dad had just helped two other cars get to his house, a father and his two kids, and a couple with their daughter. He comforted me that his dad was coming to get me.

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Then, about 45 minutes later, I saw a tall figure, pacing toward me in the dark, carrying a flashlight.

We reached the house at last, I driving slowly behind Andre Bouvier.

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Harbin is the capital of Heilongjiang province. Harbin is now a large and open city,(influence) deeply by Russia, Europe, and Japan in (it) culture, architecture, and lifestyle. Harbin is one of the most popular destinations for winter tours,(host) the world's biggest ice and snow festival.

Harbin(become) world-famous for having the largest ice and snow festival. The opening ceremony is held January 5 every year. Lasting for more than two months, Harbin Ice and Snow international festival is also longest snow festival in the world.(near) all the ice for the festival is cut from the Songhua River in Harbin.

The most popular place is the Harbin Ice and Snow World, is like a frozen Disneyland, and you can see the big ice and snow castles, carto on sculptures, and enjoy the biggest (vary) of snow sports and activities in the world.

There are also ice and snow sculptures exhibitions on Sun Island and an ice lantern show in Zhaolin Park.

Harbin has long been a popular winter destination for snow tourism and skiing experiences. If you are skiing lovers, Yabuli Ski Resort and Jihua Ski Resort (recommend).

Dawn Loggins didn't have a typical senior year. Back in 2012, Loggins was waking up early to get to school to put in a before-school 1 as a janitor（清洁工）.

Before the rest of her peers 2 school, Loggins was cleaning bathrooms, scrubbing floors, and 3 down the very desks she would 4 later in the day as a student. After 7 hours at school, Loggins didn't get to 5 home to enjoy an after-school snack or downtime either.6 , she clocked back in for another two-hour time on janitorial duty.

"I don't mind cleaning, " Loggins said. "If you have to walk through trash to get to your desk, you're not going to have an environment that 7 learning."

While the teen was clearly hardworking, it wasn't immediately obvious to school officials how badly Loggins 8 the financial support her job provided, until she asked her boss for 9 one day. The reason? Without electricity at home.

Even more shocking, while Loggins was at summer school, she 10 calling home, only to find out the phones had been 11 and her parents had moved away-without her. And she became 12 . When the school realized the extent of the neglect Loggins had been living with, they surrounded her with 13 . The community took her in, providing her with housing and food and clothing and helping her to apply for college.

And the efforts 14 : Loggins was accepted into Harvard University. Today she works as a motivational speaker, speaking to 15 that include education, homelessness, and women and youth empowerment.

Loneliness can cause health problems. Around the globe, about 1 in 4 adults says they're lonely. How to deal with this kind of problem? Here are some tips to get going.

1. Be curious

It's easier to connect with people if you have shared interests or experiences, so start paying attention to what's on your mind. What are you thinking about? What motivates you? What excites you? Knowing yourself can be a first step to bonding with others. If you know what's meaningful or fun for you, it may lead you to an activity or creative outlet.

2. Make something

The opportunities for creative expression are endless. You can also do a dance move, resurrect your grandma's pie recipe, plant an herb garden, or try a textile art. Make something that puts your thoughts and feelings and vision about who you are and what matters into a tangible artifact that then can express those thoughts and feelings to others.

3. Take a risk by having conversations

Share something about yourself. It can just be something you think other people might find interesting and compelling, and see where it goes. Even if you're nervous about being judged or dismissed, putting yourself out there requires a bit of a risk, and it's the first step to authentic connection.

4.

Whether it's volunteering for a cause you believe in or playing frisbee or Scrabble, try to find others who share your interests. And if you follow your natural curiosities, you may find something new. Share your thoughts and feelings in creative ways with other people who have that interest. And, hopefully, in those interactions you can begin to reveal yourself and share the unique things that matter to you. Then, other people recognize that, share their story in return, and it's like an electric circuit is connected.

5. Other people's loneliness matters too

Loneliness can spiral. If the pangs of loneliness go unaddressed, people can end up in a world of hurt. If you see someone who's experiencing loneliness, tolerate the risk of asking them how they're doing. Be kind. Other people's loneliness makes us lonely too.

In July 1915, sick James Murray, one of the early editors of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), defined one final word. He had devoted 36 years to the dictionary. Knowing he would not see the project complete, he wrote his last entry: for "twilight".

The story of Murray's final days is one of many memorable tales in "The Dictionary People". Conceived（构思） in 1857, the OED was a huge crowdsourcing project comprising 3,000 people. The idea was to create a "descriptive" dictionary that tracked words' use and meaning over time. Volunteers read widely, mailing in examples of how "rare, old-fashioned, new" words were used. What is surprising about this random method is that it worked, achieving order through the large number of contributors.

The origin story of Sarah Ogilvie's book is almost as improbable as that of the dictionary itself. Ms Ogilvie, an editor for the OED, went into the archives（档案馆） of Oxford University Press and came across an old notebook. It had belonged to Murray and contained the names and details of the dictionary volunteers, most of whom had previously been unknown. "The Dictionary People" is her work of detective scholarship, presenting the lives behind the names.

The dictionary's contributors are an engaging cast, including one of Karl Marx's daughters and J. R. R. Tolkien. For some, the dictionary was something addictive: one contributor supplied 165,061 quotations. Murray, too, was assiduous. He once wrote to George Eliot to ask about a word choice in "Romola", published 17 years earlier.

Ms Ogilvie's book is full of strange but interesting tales. Many dictionary lovers engaged in another crowdsourcing fashion: collecting and measuring rainwater. The presentation of the book is irregular, too, taking its structure from the work it describes. For example, in her first chapter, "A for Archaeologist（考古学家）," she relates the early life of Margaret A. Murray, a pioneering Egyptologist. There are 26 alphabetical （按字母顺序排列的） chapters, each celebrating a group of contributors. This is a clever concept.

Jackdaws（寒鸦） are the smallest member of the crow family. They often live in a crowd. Indeed, when cold weather comes, they gather in the hundreds (and sometimes thousands) every evening so that they can sleep in the same place. If you've ever heard jackdaws during their evening gatherings and morning departures, you'll know they are not quiet birds. Despite being fairly low-volume during the day, they are really loud on either side of their night-time get-togethers. Why might this be?

A team of the Cornish Jackdaw Project set out to determine why jackdaws are so noisy before they depart from their sleeping spot. The team's theory was that the morning calls might be a jackdaw version of "voting". The researchers suspected that each individual's call might count as an "I'm in!". When a certain amount of "I'm in!" s are called —and so a certain volume of noise is reached -the group might then depart as a unit.

To test this idea, the researchers artificially increased the level of calls during the jackdaws' natural morning calls. Their expectation was that, if jackdaws really are "voting with their voice" to decide when to depart the sleeping site, artificially adding calls would make them leave earlier than they naturally would have done. Subsequent experiments confirmed their expectation. The team therefore showed that jackdaws use their calls as a sort of voting system.

You might wonder why this happens. The researchers suggest that individual jackdaws benefit from the voting system because they are less at risk of being killed and they can get more access to social information — such as where to find food.

So the loud calls of jackdaws in the morning are therefore not the pure chaos it sounds like. If you are ever being driven mad by the sound in the morning, you can find comfort in the fact that the louder they get, the sooner they will leave you in peace.

Nick Rose-Stamey is a lot like Jack Black's character in School of Rock- a guitarist who discovers a passion for making music accessible to children. Working in the nonprofit arts education sector over the last 10 years raised his awareness of the lack of music program s in public schools, and later inspired his nonprofit, Band in a Bus. "The original idea was to take an old school bus and turn it into the best band class on wheels, " he says.

In fact, activities of Band in a Bus don't actually happen on a bus. It provides instruments, courses, and staffing to students. Kids 18 and under can also participate in enriching summer programs through Band in a Bus, such as Bucket Brigade, five weekly classes where grades K-4 learn rhythm（节奏） and STEAM(science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) principles through contemporary music. There are also teen bands for grades 7-12 where kids learn to play pop music and develop social and team work skills.

When schools went virtual during the COVID-19 period, Rose-Stamey thought it was a shame that instruments were left sitting on shelves instead of in the hands of kids. So he created and distributed more than 1,000 "Band in a Box" DIY kits. Each kit contains small noise makers like kazoos, drumsticks, and shakers, with the intention of introducing a modernized music class experience that meets kids where they are.

"It is reported that if a kid has 30 minutes of a performing arts or creative elective every singleday, then that'll help them develop their social, emotional and leadership skills, because there's a lot of team work when it comes to making music. You have to learn how to work well with others," Rose-Stamey says.

In the last year, Band in a Bus has worked directly with more than 500 students. "Music is a win-win for everybody," Rose-Stamey says. "I just hope that someday we can stop making it the first kid out in the dodge ball（躲避球） game."

Kangaroo Kids Fall Jump Rope Workshop

Invited: All skill levels, kids ages 6 and up

Skills Taught: Single /Long Rope, Speed, and Double Dutch（交互花式跳绳）

Learn new skills with nationally recognized jumpers!

Jumpers must be willing to learn and have fun!

Saturday, November 9,9:00-16:00

North Laure l Community Center

9411 Whiskey Bottom Rd·Laurel, MD 20723

Participant Fee:$55 by 10/21 ($65 after 10/21)

Judge's Clinic Fee:$25 by 10/21($35 after 10/21)

How to Register (register by 10/30)

Use our online registration system for all event registrations, T-shirt orders, and lunch orders. Please register and pay at http://registration.kangarookids.org/FallWorkshop.First-timeuserswillcreateauseraccounttoregisterfortheFallWorkshopasaparticipant.Pleasecreateonlyoneuseraccountperhousehold.Allmembersofafamilywillbepartofoneaccount.

NOTE: PLEASE REGISTER AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE, AS SPACE IS LIMITED.

T-shirt Order

Workshop T-shirts:$18, order by 10/18. Shirt Size(please circle during order):YSYM YL ASAM AL

Jump ropes, T-shirts, shorts, tennis shoes, and water bottles will be available for sale at the event on November 9. There will be instructors helping adjust the length of your jump ropes.

Lunch Order

Subway lunch (sandwich or salad, fruit drinks and cookies):$8, order by 10/30.

Workshop Hours:9:00-12:00 and 1:30-4:00

Lunch: 12:00-1:30

I was a volunteer for an organization at the beginning of this year. The organization is aimed at helping children who suffer from cancer. One day, we were asked to raise money for cancer research and programme funding at an event. 

Since my friend Lisa was also a volunteer for the organization, I went to the event with her. There were many people at the event. After seeing our poster, some people came to us and talked with us. But few people donated money. It was a bit hot that day. Both Lisa and I got really upset. 

Half an hour later, Lisa started complaining, "I don't think we can raise much money today. "

"Don't worry. The event lasts for three hours. There is still a lot of time left，" I said, though I also thought poorly of our plan to raise much money that day.

While Lisa and I were talking, a little boy of about eight years old came to us. He stood in front of our poster and started reading. 

After a while, he asked, "What is cancer？"

I explained what cancer is. Then I said, "Many people around the world are suffering from cancer. It can be really dangerous. More research is needed to learn about it so that people with it can suffer less. That's why we're collecting money for it. "

"Do children suffer from cancer, too？" asked the boy.

"Yes. Many children suffer from cancer. Some of them may die. They need help. " Lisa said and I nodded.

Hearing that, the boy became sad. Then the boy asked, "How much money have you collected？"

Both Lisa and I were embarrassed to tell him that we didn't raise much money. At last, we said, "Not much. "

The boy looked into our donation container and only saw a few one dollar and five dollar bills. The boy said nothing after seeing that and left. Then some girls came to us and we started talking with them. Neither Lisa nor I thought the boy would return. However, about twenty minutes later, the boy did return. 

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The boy happily ran to us and asked, "Would you take a donation from children？

Both Lisa and I were deeply touched. 

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Dear Lily,

I'm sorry to hear that

Yours,

Li Hua

Many of the earth's plants and animals have already(die) out, and a hundred species become (endanger) every day. If nothing is done, we may find ourselves(lonely) on the earth.

Wild animals live in the (forest) which are being destroyed by people. As  result, the animals are  (lose) their habitats. Without the trees, the animals are short of food. And many animals are dying out because of pollution.

I suggest that measures should be taken (protect) wildlife. The government should keep people  destroying forests and shut down the factories  pollute rivers and air, I think more wildlife reserves should also be  (build)

"Do you need a vase for your purple carnations (康乃馨)?" a gentle voice1 me in my hospital bed. It was one of those few2 moments when no one else was in the room with me and I had slipped into sleep. Usually the room was full of3 and their families.

"Yes, these are from a special friend," I4 to sit up in spite of my weak body. She was a cleaner and while clearing the desk beside my bed, she5 the flowers. But why would she care? And she said "purple carnations"6 .

I asked her if she likes flowers. Her eyes lit up and she spoke in an excited7 . She loves flowers so much that every flower in her garden each day gets a special hug and8 from her before she leaves for work. My God! I can't believe it!

I told her that I've been9 a lot of flowers from my relatives and usually I had them delivered to the nurse station. And I decided to give her the purple carnations just because of her10 about flowers.

She was in great 11 . But being the nice person she is, she still tried to 12 me to have half of them and she would happily take the rest home. I asked her if she could 13 them with others instead. She was doubly happy.

She left, came back and said, "I will be thinking of you whenever I see purple." I14 . Such goodwill for something so15 ? I was really amazed and impressed by this cleaner!

The Way to Lift Up Your Mood

Everyone has periods in their lives when everything seems very hard, there's nobody to talk to and the mood (情绪) is just getting worse and worse.

The first thing you should try is socializing and thinking positively. It's very hard, because usually when we feel sad, we lock ourselves at home and try to think about all the bad things we have. But if you try to force yourself and call a friend for a cup of coffee, the chances are that you may change your mood into better. Just try to avoid bad thoughts.. 

It could be something you wanted for a long time—a short trip, a coat, a ring or anything that could lift up your mood. It doesn't have to be costly, but it has to be good to yourself.

Not only giving gifts to yourself can lift up your mood. Think of your friends, family, relatives or even local charities (慈善机构), choose one person and give him a gift. It doesn't have to be something expensive or big. It may be just a little toy for your poor neighbour's child. Making another person feel happy will make you feel good in your heart and mind.

Take control of your feelings. Don't let them control you. Just follow the advice above, and start doing something.

A. Cry aloud if you feel it is necessary.

B. Here are some things that may help you lift up your mood.

C. Making yourself feel better isn't that hard.

D. Buying things to others may be a perfect way to feel happy.

E. Do your best to find someone to talk to.

F. Instead, try to think about the bright side of your life.

G.You should also try doing something only for yourself, something totally selfish.

Having a teenager at home can be a real headache. Many teenagers smoke, drink and even fight. They often do something dangerous. 

Earlier studies have shown that teenagers are more likely to make irrational decisions than people from any other age group, including children and adults. Is it that teenagers are too young to tell right from wrong? Not really. So what's the reason?

According to Laurence, a teacher from a US university, the reason is that teenagers care a lot about how their peers (同龄人) view them—that is "peer influence".

As children enter their teenage years, they spend more time with their friends and classmates, and also they care more about what they think of them. This makes teenagers make decisions without thinking about the costs. 

In a test, a group of teenagers were asked to play a video driving game. When they played with their friends watching around them, they took more chances and drove more carelessly because that would increase their possibility of winning. But when they played alone, they drove more safely. 

Why do peers have such a big influence on teens' behavior?

As Laurence sees it, a teenager's brain is like a car with a good accelerator (油门) but a weak brake (刹车). The "accelerator" is fully developed by teenage years while the "brake" is still not fully developed. When teenagers are watched by their peers, they usually push hard on the accelerator. With their weak brake, it is likely that they are going to end up in an accident.

But the good news is that a violent (暴力) teenager doesn't necessarily become a violent adult. About two-third to three-quarters of violent youth grow out of it. "They get more self-controlled. "

　　After my husband died suddenly from a heart attack, my world crashed around me. My six children were all under 10, and I was burdened with the responsibilities of earning a living, and caring for the children. I was fortunate to find a wonderful housekeeper to care for the children during the week, but from Friday nights to Monday mornings, the children and I were alone.

　　One Friday evening I came home from work to find a big pretty German Shepherd（牧羊犬）on our doorstep. This dog seemed to intend to enter the house. The children liked"German"immediately and begged me to let him in. I agreed to let him sleep in the basement. That night I slept peacefully for the first time in many weeks.

　　The following morning we made phone calls and checked lost-and-found ads for German's owner, but with no results.

　  On Sunday I had planned to take the children on a picnic. Since I thought it best to leave German behind in case his owner came by, we drove off without him. When we stopped to get gas, we were amazed to see German racing to the gas station after us. No way was he going to be left behind.

Monday morning I let him out for a run. He didn't come back and we were all disappointed. We were convinced that we would never see him again. We were wrong. The next Friday evening, German was back on our doorstep. Again he stayed until Monday morning, when our housekeeper arrived.

This pattern repeated itself every weekend for almost 10 months. We grew more and more fond of German. We took comfort in his strong, warm presence, and we felt safe with him near us. As German became part of the family, he considered it his duty to check every bedroom to be sure each child was cozy in bed.

　　Each week, between German's visits, I grew a little stronger, a little braver and more able to handle; every weekend we were no longer alone and enjoyed his company. Then one Monday morning we patted him on the head and let him out for what turned out to be the last time. We never saw German again.

The pupils of Grangetown High have been busy getting to know their newest and tallest classmate—a 7-meter-tall giraffe outside their school. 

The giraffe is a huge sculpture (雕塑) made by a local artist. The school's headmaster noticed the sculpture in the artist's garden as he drove past one day, and thought it would be perfect for his school. "I knew everyone would love it," he said, "because our basketball team is known as the Grangetown Giraffes, and they wear giraffes on their shirts. So I asked them to write a letter to the artist, asking how much it would cost to buy the giraffe. He was very kind and got it ready to deliver (递送) in six weeks—all for nothing! It was expected to arrive one Sunday morning, so that the pupils would see it when they got to school on Monday—at that time they had no idea that we were getting it."

The artist, Tom Bennett, was a university professor of chemistry before he left that job in 2006 and only took up metalwork a couple of years ago. "I've always drawn pictures, " he said. "I can even remember doing it on my first day at school—I drew a horse. I wanted it to be the best horse picture ever, but I don't think I succeeded." Tom's first metalwork (金属制品) was a bicycle for two that he and his wife could go cycling together. "It was the most uncomfortable bike ever created," he said, "so I gave up making bicycles and went into sculpture instead. "

Meanwhile the pupils at Grangetown High are very happy with their new classmate. "We're going to hold a competition to give it a proper name," said one girl. "Everyone likes the expression on its face, so perhaps that will give us some ideas. "