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1. What time is it now probably?

Grandma Rosie was the heart of our family. Her little two-bedroom home was truly where all her children and grandchildren gathered. She was also an amazing cook and her specialty was fried pork steak. Most of my nephews and nieces were fans of her specialty. She lived alone after my grandpa passed away but was cared by many relatives and friends. When she was in her late 60s, we began to witness a significant memory impairment (受损) in her. Everyone started checking up on her. A frequent question that people would ask her, "What did you have for dinner?", almost always brought the same answer — fried pork steak. Every day she would report making fried pork steak. One day a group of us went to her house secretly, and found she was making fried pork steak!

After some lengthy consideration, our family were concerned for her condition and ultimately decided to place Rosie in a group home in Brookfield. A year later, Rosie caught heart disease and her condition required her to be moved to a nursing home in Oconomowoc. Her memory also declined sharply and she no longer remembered our names. It was heartbreaking for our family to know that.

By that time, I was in high school and thinking about plans for college. My first visit to the nursing home left me a great impression. Seeing the cold, sterile (呆板的) long hallways and unfriendly surroundings in the nursing home, I was determined to become a professional architect concentrating on senior care and health care design. I wanted to design living space where seniors can not only live but benefit from lovely environments.

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Bearing this goal in mind, I worked extremely hard.

Finally, Grandma Rosie moved into a senior living community I designed.

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Dear Ryan,

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

When night falls, the hustle and bustle of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou turns to the banks of the Pearl River in Liwan district. Hundreds of people and cars  (decorate) with colorful lights and eye-catching shop signs swarm (挤满) a local car boot sale bazaar (集市).

Liang Jinsheng, a local youth, sells lemon tea at the bazaar,  was opened to the public on July 15 last year. The almost one-square-meter car trunk is his space for tea making.

"I used (work) in the catering industry. I saw on the Internet many people doing business at car boot sale bazaars. So I decided to give it try, as doing business is low-cost and low-risk," Liang says.

"Although my ‘shop' is small, I have obtained the necessary business licenses will stick with hygienic (卫生的) standards to ensure food (safe)," Liang adds.

While  (make) the lemon tea, Liang also livestreams on short-video platforms to drive traffic.

"Recently, a lot of residents (come) to my tea booth after watching my livestream. I make around 1,000 yuan ($148) at the bazaar every night," he says.

most cases, Guangzhou will support these new types of business activities, says the city's commerce department, noting that many commercial plazas (露天广场) have offered  (much) space for car boot sales and introduced night-themed activities to stimulate consumption.

DeJuan Strickland now is a middle school student. He remembers what it was like to be 1 as a fourth grader at McCurdy Elementary. Though happening only once, that made Strickland determined to 2 no one at his former school would feel that way.

Strickland helped3 his former elementary school's unpaid student lunch debts through his GoFundMe fundraiser with the aim of raising $200. The result4 that, with $400 raised for McCurdy Elementary. "Some school workers told me several kids once able to have lunch very5 are stuffed every day now. It motivates me to go further because I'm able to see the6 ." says Strickland.

From there, Strickland7 the initiative to remove lunch debts in all schools of the Hazelwood School District. The campaign has8 over $4,000, $2,500 of which Strickland plans to give to the Hazelwood School District. He also searches for another district for the9 of the funds. Strickland recalled being10 when he learned the debts of a nearby district were over $50,000. "I'd11 the problem was not common. This really opened my eyes to the fact that there was no12 of food. "

Strickland owed his13 spirit to his mother. Her practice of creating "blessing bags" for those in need14 his sympathetic outlook. Strickland also works on his books on Tech Boy. The teen says his future plans include becoming a computer programmer, and combining his love for15 with giving back to the community.

Cultural intelligence, or cultural quotient (CQ) is the ability to manage cultural diversity.  It also involves understanding and appreciating cultural differences and being able to adapt to those differences.

 For one thing, it can help you avoid misunderstandings and communication breakdowns with people from other cultures. For another, it enables you to build strong relationships with them. Want to improve your CQ? Try the following tips.

If you're unfamiliar with the culture, chances are you're not going to adapt well to it. So the first practical aspect of CQ you need to improve is your CQ drive. This drive is the first step towards higher CQ that may help you be open to new possibilities. All you have to do is explore the new situation you find yourself in.

After you've motivated yourself to get a bit more familiar with the culture, it's time to go one step further. Of course, this doesn't mean you need to become an expert in the said culture. Simply, you should try to get to know the ways in which that culture forms and influences its people's values and behavior.

Lastly, you need to use what you have learned and come up with a strategy that will help you improve your CQ. You can expose yourself to various media. This is a useful and easily accessible way to learn about how culture affects behavior. Again, it helps if you learn the language of the culture. This may open a whole new world for you. 

A. You should broaden your CQ knowledge.

B. There are many benefits of having high CQ.

C. To be culturally intelligent is no easy matter.

D. This means your motivation to learn about a different culture.

E. Seek out opportunities to interact with people from other cultures.

F. This ability is not limited to your cultural sensitivity and awareness.

G. It can help you better understand people from other cultures as well.