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Cultural Legacy Highlights China-France Tourism Year

A brief meeting about the China-France Year of Culture and Tourism in 2024 was held at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Thursday. The meeting has released variety of upcoming activities covering fields such as cultural legacy and arts.

The meeting place, was in the Palace Museum, was chosen for a reason. Starting from April 1, an art show co-planned by the museum the Palace of Versailles in Paris, will debut (首次亮相) on site. A pocket watch that witnessed the "friendship" between France's King Louis XIV and the Emperor Kangxi(1654-1722) of China's Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) will (display) among 181 other (item).

The rare objects will introduce visitors the cultural interactions that took place between the two countries (date) back to the second half of the 17th century through the 18^th century.

Compared to fields such as paintings, music and films, "cultural legacy" is a rather novel field in China-France exchanges. The two (country) cooperation in areas like legacy conservation will inspire the world (see) how the growth of humanity is independent from different cultural contexts.

Besides shows (hold) in China, more than 10 programs will be launched in France to bring Chinese culture to locals in 2024. More than 20 Tang Dynasty(618-907) treasures will be selected and then exhibited at the Guimet Museum in France in November.

My first goal: try not to look so scared. It took quite a few tries before I could 1 from the mouth open, eyes wide 2 that being on roller skates(溜冰鞋) gave me.

I took up roller skating at the end of 2021, as a way to 3 a difficult year spent in my house. In online skate class, they 4 me to wear protective equipment, to encourage and 5 when someone falls because falling means you're trying. Everyone can 6 in skating, but having a positive 7 helps.

I learned how to move on wheels and danced alone at home, but the rink(滑冰场) was incredibly 8 , Everything moves so fast, 9 in unpredictable directions. What 10 me about the rink is how people create their own sense of11 inside the circular movement, so that two awkward dancers might 12 past each other to avoid knocking into each other, all while on rhythm.

Now I've made much progress. The other day I skated past an older woman moving 13 in her knee pads(护膝) . "My goal is to skate like you," she said, almost under her breath. I tried to 14 my pride. "Keep at it!" I yelled over my shoulder. Soon, I tripped, fell, quickly 15 myself up, and then kept at it.

How to Exercise in a New Way

Get healthy with these bite-sized amounts of exercises

What should people do when they can't find the time or desire to do a long workout?

Exercise snacks ("零食式"运动) are a popular and inventive new way for people to stay fit. Instead of requiring hours at the gym, this concept instructs you to keep it short. Then you can take a break that lasts 30 minutes to four hours before another snack. It has been reported that exercise snacks can be as effective as traditional exercise methods.

Of course, the more of these brief exercises you complete in a day, the better. Just three exercise snacks a day that gets your heart pumping can be good for your health. Your concentration and creativity improve, and you can become more productive. Also, "snacking" throughout the day prevents you from sitting too long — something that's always positive.

Another great thing about exercise snacks is that there are so many to choose from. The goal is to spend a short time doing something that raises your heart rate. Acceptable activities range from sit ups to jumping rope to running up and down some stairs.

●Exercises that are strength-based such as lifting weights will fit the bill. Since most people don't keep weights at their office, lift full water bottles.

●Squats involve moving your hips as if to sit down while keeping your back straight. This exercise helps strengthen your lower body and improve your movement. Five to ten of these should make a good snack.

●For those who don't like traditional exercises, simply turn up the music. Pick a lively song and start dancing; it'll make for a fun workout.

A. It doesn't take up too much your time.

B. They should break that "large meal" into exercise "snacks."

C And there are plenty of other benefits beyond improved fitness.

D. These exercises can last anywhere from 20 seconds to two minutes.

E. Consider giving exercise snacks a try, and see if they are to your taste.

F. They should constantly remind themselves of the importance of exercises.

G. But for those who don't know where to start, here are some helpful exercise options.

The iPhone has become a usability nightmare (噩梦). A new one comes with 38 preinstalled (提前装好的) apps, of which you can delete 27. Once you've downloaded your favorite apps, you're now sitting at 46 or more.

Like many companies, Apple has decided that there's no need to build an easy-to-use product when it can use artificial intelligence. If you want to find something in their garbage dump of apps and options, you must use Spotlight, Apple's AI-powered search engine that can find almost everything there.

This "innovation" of artificial intelligence is not the creation of something new but simply companies selling you back basic usability after decades of messy design choices. And these tech firms are charging us more to fix their mistakes and slapping an AI label as a solution.

Alexa and Siri have become replacements for intentional computing. They give commands into voice interfaces (接口) easily but sacrifice "what we can do" to "what Amazon or Apple allows us to do." We have been trained to keep apps and files, while tech companies have failed to provide any easy way to organize them. They have decided that disorganized chaos is fine as long as they can provide an automated search product to sift (筛查) through the mess, something more tech, even if tech created the problem in the first place.

Artificial intelligence-based user interfaces rob the user of choice and empower tech giants to control their decision-making. When one searches for something in Siri or Alexa, Apple and Amazon control the results. Google already provides vastly different search results based on your location, and has redesigned search itself multiple times to trick users into clicking links that benefit Google in some way.

Depressingly, our future is becoming one where we must choose between asking an artificial intelligence for help, or fighting through an ever-increasing amount of poorly designed menus in the hope we might be able to help ourselves. We, as consumers, should demand more from the companies that have turned our digital lives into trillion-dollar enterprises.

Whenever I order food for delivery, I play a little game to guess how many sets of tableware(餐具)the restaurant will provide with my meal. Sometimes restaurants will throw in two, three or four sets for just one order. But I rarely need any tableware at all, and the waste goes into the trash or collects dust in a kitchen drawer.

Researchers working with Chinese technology group Alibaba tried a simple approach to this problem. Instead of just wastefully doling out tableware, the company required food-delivery customers in some cities in China to pick how many sets of tableware they wanted to receive.The default (默认设置)was set at zero. The result, published today in the journal Science, was a 638% increase in the share of no-tableware orders. If applied across China, researchers found, the approach would save nearly 22 billion sets of plastic tableware. The study doesn't cover carbon emissions, but it's safe to say that the impact would be significant. It struck me as a useful reminder of the many low-hanging fruits across the economy that can cut waste, and emissions.

Nudging its customers cost Alibaba nothing more than a few hours of software engineering time and the impact it brought was immense. The concept of nudging comes from the field of behavioral economics known as nudge theory. It suggests that a slight action can encourage good human behavior without the need for policies that limit choice or economic punishment that raises the cost of bad behavior. To nudge customers to eat better, for example, a restaurant might organize its menu by listing healthy options first and bury unhealthy ones at the bottom. More recently, some big companies like Google have also begun to use nudges to advance climate objectives.

Behavioral economics broadly, and nudges more specifically, aren't without controversy. Some might think it assigns consumers responsibility for addressing environmental challenges. But there is another way to look at it. In the absence of necessary policy—and policy is needed一companies can help encourage a widespread shift of consumer behavior.

And all of that behavioral change can add up. The International Energy Agency found in 2021 that small behavioral changes in energy consumption such as walking instead of driving and adjusting the thermostat could in total shave off 4% of global emissions. The more that companies can do to facilitate such changes, the better.

All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Bringley's memoir (回忆录) about his 10 years working as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), brings new meaning to the term "art appreciation". During 8-12 hour shifts spent among the galleries, he takes advantage of the gift of time to study the masterpieces he's been hired to protect and to think about the role of art throughout history.

Bringley is not the only Met staffer to write about the institution. But Bringley's "guard's-eye view" is unique, and he presents his personal story with sincerity. After his brother Tom's death from cancer in 2008, Bringley gave up his job as a journalist for a job in which "I was happy to be going nowhere". He explains, "I had lost someone. I did not wish to move on from that. In a sense, I didn't wish to move at all." Bringley doesn't say when he decided to channel his experience of finding peace into art, but this story about jumping off the career ladder in order to find the space for quiet reflection is surprisingly suited to our times.

All the Beauty in the World offers well-chosen facts about the museum to support Bringley's personal tale. As interesting as these facts are, it's Bringley's reflections on dozens of individual paintings, photographs, sculptures and ancient artifacts that turn this book into a tribute (致敬) to the power of art. Discussing Alfred Stieglitz's photographs of his wife, he writes, "I think that sometimes we need permission to stop and adore things, and a work of art gives us that." In a Vermeer port rait of a dozing maidservant, he is moved to see that the artist caught "that feeling we sometimes have that a private setting possesses a holiness (神圣) of its own. It was my constant feeling in Tom's hospital room".

As rich in moving insights as the Met is in treasures, All the Beauty in the World reminds us of the importance of learning not about art, but from it. This is art appreciation at a high level.

Have you ever been really hungry, but there wasn't much to eat in your kitchen? Did you throw together a bunch of stuff you had on hand and were pleasantly surprised when it tasted good? You aren't alone. Some of our favorite foods were created by accident. Here's a sample menu of some familiar foods that would never have happened if someone hadn't created them by mistake.

POTATO CHIPS

One of the world's favorite snacks is the result of a complaint. In 1853, a man was eating dinner at Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York. He ordered fried potatoes, a popular side dish. But when they came out of the kitchen, he didn't think they were crispy enough. He sent them back to the kitchen, where Chef George Crum was so angry at having his cooking criticized that he sliced the potatoes really thin, put lots of salt on them, and fried them. Not only did the diner love them, but everyone else did, too. They soon became a specialty of the restaurant.

TOFU

Tofu, or bean curd, is made by curdling (使凝结) fresh soya milk, pressing it into a solid block, and then cooling it. Tofu was accidentally invented in China 2,000 years ago, when a cook added seaweed to soya milk, which made it curdle. This is the same process that is used for making cheese. Like cheese, tofu is a great example of how really messing up a recipe can create something unexpectedly good.

CHEESE PUFFS

Did you ever wonder who thought up cheese puffs? The company that invented them wasn't even trying to make food for people. It was trying to make animal feed. In the 1930s, the Flakall Company of Wisconsin made animal food from small, flaked pieces of grain. One day, an employee, Edward Wilson, watched workers pouring cornmeal (谷粉) into the flaking machine, wetting it to keep it from clogging (堵塞). Because the machine was very hot, the wet cornmeal came out of it in puffy ribbons that hardened when they hit the air. Wilson took some of the ribbons home, added oil and flavoring to them, and voila! Cheese puffs!

On a Saturday afternoon, my friend's eleven-year-old daughter Jenny and I wound our way through the crowd at the State Fair of Texas. Her dad, along with my husband, followed behind. Seconds later, we arrived at the section of the fair that I dreaded (畏惧) more than searching for a place to park: the midway rides. As the loudspeakers shouted "I Will Survive", potential victims passed us like a tornado.

Jenny looked up at the windsurf ride with her eyes wide open. I was confident that she, like my children when they were her age, would bypass the twisting, terrifying, multi-story mechanical arms and continue walking elsewhere.

I was wrong.

"Will you go on this ride with me? "she asked.

"Um, sure, "I answered while glancing up at the people who were suspended upside down.

"How bad could it be? "I asked.

"Not bad if rides don't make you sick, "Jenny said.

I could have made up an excuse for not to risk my life. Or I could have admitted my possibility of motion sickness. But, earlier that morning, I had challenged myself to try something new each week. I was ready to push myself out of my comfort zone. Jenny stared at the ride, eager to experience the same thrill as the brave group of riders in front of us, I couldn't say no.

We bought two tickets. After climbing into our seats, an attendant reached up, pulled down the bar, and locked it in place .The ride lifted us slowly and then turned us over like the blueberry pancakes. Staring at the ground directly below us, I wondered why I had decided to wear flip-flops (人字拖) . I wondered when my new health insurance would kick in. My stomach upset. The ride touched down finally. Her dad and my husband were waiting for us at the exit. "How was it? "they asked.

"Fine. No big deal, "I said, even though my head was dizzy. Jenny walked ahead of us and convinced me to keep taking chances and sample more rides.

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"Oh, look at the pirate ship! " she said.

On the way to the car, I sent my son a video of me on the first ride filmed by my husband.

Dear Tracy,

Sincerely yours, 

Li Hua

Dunhuang, located in Northwest China's Gansu Province, is an important stop on the ancient Silk Road. What does Dunhuang look like today? 

From Dec. 5th to 8th, the micro-variety show,  (title) "The Dunhuang You Don't Know", was released on social media platforms. Since the show released, the video series  (receive) millions of views online.

The show,  was produced by the art program center of the China Media Group, focused  the modern way of lives in Dunhuang, showcasing the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese culture. Dunhuang is renowned for  (it) numerous natural and cultural heritages. From the renowned Mogao Grottoes to the Crescent Spring, Chinese people are familiar with Dunhuang's magnificent beauty. Yet, the micro series takes the audience on a journey  (discover) the uncovered, vivid and energetic modern lives of Dunhuang. The show guided viewers through the Mogao Grottoes and related exhibitions,  (provide) insights into the historical and cultural significance behind fine pictures on the walls.

In recent years, with the rise in the  (popular) of the guochao trends, contemporary artists have transformed Dunhuang's age-old art into creative cultural products. In this video series, the distinctive beauty of Dunhuang has  (real) captured people's attention.

Two new residents in Aarwangen, a small village in Swiss, filed complaints with the village council about the constant ringing of cowbells. They asked for the cows' bells to be 1 at night so they could sleep.

Long-term residents, and the village's remaining farmers were 2 . They thought it was a(n) 3 on their traditional culture. "We want to 4 and maintain our lived traditions in the future," they say.

Cowbells have been used in rural Switzerland for centuries. They were once useful for 5  cows on the hill side in summer. Farmers say they can 6  each individual cow by the sound of its own bell. 7 , in modern times, many farmers have switched to using electronic chips 8  bells.

Over the past few decades, many new 9  have arrived here from large cities. They are less 10  to the agricultural way of life.

This year's battle is not the first time residents have 11 cowbells. In 2015, a Zurich appeals court 12 a farmer to remove the bells from his 27 cows from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., since they were safe in a small farm and keeping the neighbors 13 .

Next month, Aarwangen's villagers will gather for a public meeting to vote on the 14 of their bells. They will decide how the sound of the bells can 15 without breaking noise pollution laws.

Steller or Northern Sea Lions are sometimes confused with California Sea Lions but are much larger and lighter in color. Males may grow to 11 feet in length and weigh almost 2,500 pounds.  Steller Sea Lions are light brown to reddish-brown in color. They have a boxy, bear-like head and a very thick neck.

Stellers are not often seen in bays or rivers. Steller pups are born on offshore islands from mid-May to mid-July and weigh 35—50 pounds.  Then they spend roughly equal amounts of time hunting and nursing pups on land. Pups usually nurse for a year, but some in Alaska continue to nurse for up to three years. During the breeding season, males do not leave their territories.

 They hunt schooling fish, squid, rockfish, and occasionally salmon. In turn, they are hunted by killer whales, white sharks, and sea elephants.

The current population of Steller Sea Lions is about 40,000 along the entire Pacific coast. There is great concern about this species. The western Aleutian stock has dropped by 80 percent in the last 30 years. In 1997, the western stock in Alaska was listed as endangered.  However, researchers believe possibilities include a decline in specific species of fish they eat, competition with commercial fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska, and possible hunting by killer whales. Drowning, being caught in nets, and gunshots are other reasons for the Stellers' decline. Stellers are protected under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. 

A. Steller Sea Lions cat a variety of fishes.
B. Reasons for this decline are not known.
C. The male has a thick neck and looks like a lion.
D. They spend about half their time on land and half in water.
E. Mothers stay with pups for one to two weeks before hunting at sea.
F. They forbid the killing, harming or disturbance of any sea mammal.
G. Females are much smaller, growing to 9 feet in length and weighing up to 1,000 pounds.

Time is running short to address climate change, but there are possible and effective solutions on the table, according to a new UN climate report released in March.

Only swift, dramatic, and sustained emission (排放) cuts will be enough to meet the world's climate goals, according to the new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , a body of climate experts that regularly summarize the state of this issue.

"We are walking when we should be running fast, "said Hoesung Lee, IPCC chair, in a press conference announcing the report in March. To limit warming to 1.5℃ above preindustrial levels, the target set by international climate agreements, annual greenhouse-gas emission will need to be cut by nearly half between now and 2030, according to the report. It calculates that the results from actions taken now will be clear in global temperature trends within two decades

"We already have the technology and the know-how to get the job done, "said Inger Andersen, executive director of UN Environment Programme, during the press conference. "Stopping climate change will still be complicated, and long-term emission cuts may largely rely on technologies, like carbon dioxide removal, that are still unproven at scale. In addition to technological advances, cutting emission in industries that are difficult to transform will involve many factors. " 

But in the near term, there's a clear path forward for the emission cuts needed to put the planet on the right track. There are some of the tasks with the lowest cost and highest potential to address climate change during this decade, such as developing wind and solar power, cutting methane (甲烷) emission from fossil-fuel production and waste, protecting natural ecosystems that trap carbon, and using energy efficiently in vehicles, homes, and industries.

On November 8th, a tornado, the most powerful in the past 70 years, hit Jersey, causing great damages to the area and leaving the residents in great panic.

"Suddenly, the windows of the waiting room exploded in and dragged everything inside. My cars have been completely destroyed by branches and fences, and my garden is completely gone. There's no furniture, no fence; everything has been thrown everywhere. At first there was lightning but then a strange noise and strange darkness came over the whole house. It was like being in a scary scene in the movie The Wizard of Oz." Ashleigh Quail-Charleston, a Jersey resident, told the Bailiwick Express after the tornado that struck overnight on November 1-2 during Storm Ciaran.

The consequence looked like a bomb had gone off: cars hit, roofs with holes, windows broken. "A huge tree leans drunkenly against a block of flats. Piles of branches are piled optionally and pavements are covered with pieces," said Chris Stone at BBC Radio Jersey. The tornado was powerful and exceptionally rare, caused by a severe thunderstorm that had sent out intense lightning and huge hailstones described as "ice bombs". The Tornado and Storm Research Organization (Torro) and Jersey Met Office revealed the tornado left a trail of damages 8 km long across the island, and rated its intensity as T6 on an international scale of tornado power.

According to Torro records, this was the most powerful tornado to strike anywhere in the British Isles or Channel Islands since December 7th, 1954 when a tornado struck west London, leaving tremendous devastation, with Gunnersbury railway station torn apart, roofs torn off houses and one car even thrown through the air.

Tornados during Storm Ciaran also hit Sompting in West Sussex and Loders in Dorset. One resident in Loders, Sophie van Hensbergen, described the moment, saying, "The tornado struck with a very, very powerful whistling sound and the windows looked as though we were in a car wash."

A year ago, I started working out with a personal trainer and the results were obvious. The reflection in the mirror was fit and strong, with a narrow waist. This month I'll be celebrating my 74th birthday, but I feel more like I'm about to turn 40.In fact, I'm in the best shape of my life. And I'm here to tell you that it's never too late to make changes. If I can do it in my early 70s, then you can do it too.

I haven't always felt so body confident. As a busy working mum I had the same hang-ups as so many other women. In my forties I fell into the trap of trying to do it all. I raised my daughter Laura, now 43, while working as a NHS clinical leader, which left me feeling stressed and exhausted. By 50 I'd reached breaking point. I ended up breaking down in the doctor's surgery. And I was signed off work with stress-related depression.

I began to do a lot of soul searching. My burnout had set me on a completely different path. Around this time, my approach to my health was also shifting. So many women hit 50 thinking that's it and they're done, but for me it felt like a new beginning.

I enrolled in a gym and learned how to use the equipments. Over the next few years, I went to the gym roughly twice a week. Sometimes I didn't want to go-but at the end of every session I always felt better.

I wrote and self-published a book called Journey to Chocolate about my seeking for a more balanced and satisfying life. I started eating "clean" with lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, avoiding processed food and not drinking alcohol from Monday to Thursday. The changes to my diet made me feel more energetic and alert. I slept better, and managing my weight was much easier.

Harvest Days

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Harvest Days has returned bigger and better than ever. This family-fun event falls on 7th 8th, October from 10:00 a.m.to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday and 11:00 a.m.to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. This year's event includes a two-day silent auction (拍卖) , staged in the Firehouse. Bid (投标) on a variety of heritage pieces inspired by objects preserved in the museum's collection. Also, up for bid are a variety of museum passes, experiences, art, wine, beer, and more. All the money will benefit the museum through the work of the Landis Valley Associates.

Tickets will be available at the front gate.

Used to celebrate the harvest of a year's hard work, Harvest Days is Landis Valley's oldest and largest family event. Come for demonstrations, exhibits, live music, and children's activities. Taste varieties of apples and watch them become apple butter and drink. Witness wool go from sheep to clothes. Pick a pumpkin of your very own and then decorate it. All of these and more are packed into two fun-filled days.

This year's event offers food demonstrations, such as apple butter, processing pork, bake oven and heart h cooking; craft demonstrations, such as coopering, blacksmith, leather, brooms, millinery, weaving, woodwork; craft sales, such as jams jellies, potteries, soap, candles.

Food will be available for purchase on site. Free parking.

LOCATION: Landis Valley Village Far m Museum 

ADDRESS: 2451 Kissel Hill Road, Lancaster, PA 17601

CONTACT: 717-569-0401

The wind howled (呼啸) with the terrible storm at night. The stars were stuck to the black sheet of the sky. The next morning, when I woke up, the winter's icy wind caused me to shake

My friends and I agreed to take up the skiing contest. I took a seat near the heater, warming my hand and trying to calm myself before the skiing contest. I was encouraging myself by shouting, "I can win this contest. "As soon as I reached the white mountain top, I began wearing my safety guards for the climb down. We rhythmically recited "Ready-set-go" and the race began. At every moment my speed started to increase. Finally, winning was only one step away. As a wise man had once said, "With a determined heart, a mouse can also lift an elephant. So willpower and courage can help conquer (战胜) a hard task. " My hope helped me to conquer this challenging race. I was on top of the world by winning the skiing contest. Skiing has now become my hobby.

The next morning, it was snowing heavily. Watching this wonderful sight along with tasting the delicious hot chocolate, we friends were planning to go for an overnight climb to the top of the mountain. We came out of the hotel room and stepped into the deep snow which buried half our legs into the soft snowy ground. The best moment till now was looking up at the grand mountain. Also the view was clear. I was eager to start my climb. We climbed towards the top and all of a sudden I lost my balance and fell from the mountain. Fortunately I did not end up giving up my life but got a severe fracture (骨折) on my leg.

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This put me into complete disappointment in the first few days of my recovery.

One fine evening, I saw a joyful hawker (饲鹰者) with a disabled eagle.

1.表示祝贺；

2.回顾他的付出和努力；

3.期待他为弘扬中国文化做出贡献。

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Dear Peter,

Yours,

Li Hua

Falling around December 22nd, the winter solstice (冬至) is one of the traditional Chinese festivals also one of the 24 solar terms (节气).

The winter solstice festival originated from the Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 AD) and (develop) well in the Tang and Song dynasties (618-1279). People in the old times attached great (important) to the festival. In the Han Dynasty, the festival was regarded as the Winter Festival and people had one day off for the holiday. Officials organized the ceremonies (celebrate) the day and people visited each other with delicious food.

Traditions and customs for the day vary different areas of China. In the northern part of China, people usually eat dumplings, and mutton to celebrate the day. In the southern part, tang yuan and noodles are the festival food. The dumpling is the (essence) food for people in northern China. After the winter solstice, it will become colder and colder. By eating dumplings, people think they can avoid (they) ears from being frozen as the dumplings look like people's ear.

Tangyuan, is popular in southern China, is a kind of glutinous rice (糯米) ball with different fillings. It can (boil) or fried. People think after (eat) it, they will age one. People also use it to present to relatives and friends.

Jim Quick grew up on a farm in Orchard Hill, Georgia. There he learned how 1 bees are to the food we eat. When he was 11, his grandfather asked him to start a beehive to keep the 2 growing strong.

"Forty-two years later, and I'm still3 ,"Quick said in a recent interview. Before his retirement, the master beekeeper taught entomology (the study of insects) at the University of Georgia in Athens.

Quick is still learning about bees on the farm where he grew up. But he is worried: The bee4 is in danger. Nearly 40% of beehives in the United States were 5 in 2021 alone. This6 Quick and other scientists because bees are essential to food7 .They pollinate (授粉) flowering crops and plants,8 the production of seeds and fruits.

The declining bee population can be9 by several factors, including parasites (寄生物) that kill or weaken the hives. Habitat loss, 10 , and climate change are also to blame. Pesticides get into the nectar (花蜜) of plants, which is essential to a bee's11 . Poisonous substances in the nectar harm the bees' memory.

Scientists are searching for 12 to help the bee population. But Quick already has a(n)13 ."Set up a beehive at school," he said, "and learn more about pollinators." Kids aren't too young to 14 . After all, just at the age of 11 Quick 15 his first beehive. "We could grow more bees," he said, "if we had more people to do it."