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Written Chinese, a picture-based language at the beginning,  several thousand years to the use of longgu.

Today, tourists from  visit Dunhuang to see the caves.

Losing games taught him to practise harder and never .

, people who don't smoke are much healthier than people who do.

I have decided to  evening classes this term.

The Chinese New Year is now widely known as the Spring Festival because it starts the beginning of Spring. (it) origin (起源) is too old to be known. Several explanations are hanging around. But all agree that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese means "year", was (original) the name of a monster beast started to eat people the night before the beginning of a new year.

One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very (frighten). One day, old man came to help them, offering to subdue Nian. He told people (put) up red paper decorations on their windows and (door) at each year's end to scare away Nian in case it came back again, because red was the color the beast feared the most.

Today, the custom of putting up red paper and setting off fire-crackers  (be) still around. However, people have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the  (excite) of the celebration.

One day, my son Ryan said, "I'm going to keep working until everyone in Africa has clean water." I thought, oh, boy! But I'd heard about encouraging children to be 1 and dream big dreams. So I didn't want to say that he couldn't make a 2 .

At first, he planned to make money to build a 3 in Africa. But when he 4 his first $70 made by doing chores in neighborhood to a charity (慈善机构), he was told that it actually 5 $2000 to build a well. It was a lot of money, but Ryan didn't 6 . He persuaded his classmates and neighbors to give money. And I wrote to the local newspaper to make his story go 7 . After several months, Ryan had 8 the $2000, with which a well was built near a primary school in Uganda. The children at the school 9 needed to walk for hours to get water. They were 10 to him and invited him to visit.

In Uganda, Ryan saw the well with his own eyes and hundreds of students who had turned out to 11  him. Seeing that he really had 12  these children, he broke into a 13  smile. 

Now there is a Ryan's Well Foundation. His dream has 14 the lives of so many people, though most of whom we will never meet. Ryan has shown me what the 15 of dreams can do.

Public Speaking

It can be stressful to deliver a speech in front of people. What do you say? How do you catch people's attention? What do you do if you mess up? You can use the following basics about the art of public speaking to help you overcome these challenges and be a good speaker.

Point everything back to the central idea

Before you begin your speech, figure out your core message. It makes it easier to decide what to say and it helps you make every other decision, from the structure to the specific stories and concrete images that you include.

To make your presentation memorable, you can try using "sticky stories" in your speeches — honest, vivid anecdotes (逸闻) with details that engage the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. People remember stories and images.

Practice in front of people

Practicing your speech can ease feelings of nervousness and help you adjust your presentation. Ask a friend or a family member to listen to you as you practice. You can also take a voice memo with your phone and play it back to yourself.

Slow down and start again

If something unexpected happens in the moment — say you stumble (结巴) or lose your place — pause or slow down. Take a deep breath and go back to the beginning of a sentence or restate the word you stumbled on. And don't worry people don't notice those pauses as much as you think they do. The point is to set yourself up for success, not perfection.

A. Use vivid imagery and storytelling.

B. These problems will drive you mad.

C. Avoid big words and long sentences.

D. Even if someone does notice, that's OK, too.

E. Then make sure all the ideas in your speech point back to it.

F. There's also a chance to practice short speeches on important topics.

G. By doing so, you can get supportive feedback to improve your speech.

Japan has started releasing wastewater into the ocean. But this isn't the kind of wastewater that flows from city streets into stormwater drains. It's treated nuclear wastewater used to cool damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, stricken by an earthquake over a decade ago.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has approved the plan by Japan to release more than a million tons of treated nuclear waste water from the destroyed Fukushima power plant into the ocean, believing Japan's claims that the wastewater would be safe. However, Neighboring countries and other experts say it remains environmentally harmful that will last generations and may affect ecosystems all the way to North America.

Local fishermen, who heavily depend on the ocean's resources, fear a huge decrease in their marketability. "Japan's self-interest should not harm the well-being of humanity in the long run." They said.

The release of the wastewater into the sea is a threat to the ocean environment and will damage Japan's international image. The amount of money Japan would need to spend in restoring (恢复) its international image will far exceed that required to solve the problem in an eco-friendly way.