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The Socratic Method, named after Socrates himself, is a form of cooperative dialogue where one asks a series of open-ended questions to guide another toward insight and understanding. For example, imagine a teacher discussing moralities with students. The teacher may not explain what is "right" or "wrong". And follow up with questions like, "Why do we consider some actions fair and others unfair?" Through this questioning, students are led to think more critically and examine their own values and assumptions rather than just accepting the predetermined answers.

When you ask yourself, for instance, "Why do you believe this?" or "What evidence supports your thinking?", you are encouraged to consider whether your beliefs are truly your own or influenced by external factors. This process of questioning leads to self-reflection, helping individuals better understand the underlying motivations behind their thoughts and actions.

Self-reflection is like hitting the pause button on life.And it also looks closely at your own thoughts, feelings, and experiences. An unexamined life, however, is one where people go through the motions without ever questioning. Living an unexamined life is similar to coasting on automatic pilot, where one simply accepts social standards without critically evaluating them. In this kind of life, you're swept along by society's expectations.It seems as if you're living someone else's script without ever writing your own.
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A. It gives you a moment to step back.

B. You are barely aware of your own desires.

C. So they can follow a "right" or "fair" action.

D. You are always stuck in your own ceaseless work.

E. The Socratic Method is a powerful tool for self-examination.

F. Instead, he or she might ask "What does it mean to act morally?"

G. This powerful declaration serves as a call to dig deeper into one's own thoughts.

Yet this promise threatens a biological treasure. Marine (海洋的) biologists reveal the CCZ shelters over 5,000 unique species in the darkness. The extensive mining of cobalt may lead to the loss of biodiversity. A company claimed to have found a solution to minimize the damage to the ecology and has already trialed a 25-ton collector robot designed to harvest these nodules. However, a 2023 study shows it can cause permanent destruction in the area.

Commercial mining is not yet permitted in international waters. The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is still determining how, and under what conditions, mining should be allowed. After 28 years of debate, its 168 member states still lack formal agreement. While companies advocate using nodule-collecting robots, 437 scientists from 44 countries demand an immediate stop.ISA studies confirm that just 10% mining of the CCZ may wipe out 50% of its species.

Nor is it certain that cobalt mining will even be all that important in car-battery technology. Many battery companies are trying to recycle cobalt from spent batteries. In March, several major European carmakers jointly stated that they would not buy any metals produced from deep-sea mining before the environmental risks are "completely understood". Meanwhile, several Chinese electric vehicle producers have already made the switch, recycling up to 95% of metals from used batteries. "Why rush to mine the ocean for metals becoming outdated?" said battery expert Gavin Harper.

On June 8, 21 marine scientists from 8 universities finished a six-week research in the CCZ and packed up seafloor samples to take back to their labs for further analysis. "An assessment of the mining's impact will take years of research," says Andrew from Edinburgh. "I'm trying to get the best environmental data. And then it's up to society to make the decision to go ahead."

I thought long and hard. Then I said, "I'm genuinely bad at crafts, but what if we try making pot holders? The kind we weave with cotton loops (圈) on a small loom (织布机). When I was 10, I made a lot of them and sold each for 5 cents in our neighborhood. They are easy to learn, but I hope I still have the skill." Keen on the idea, Kristen quickly ordered us each a loom and loop bags, naming our sessions "Patti's Pot Holders" after me.

I've always cherished family time, missing our Sunday dinners around the big table, yet wanted my kids — now young adults — to feel unfettered. "You have wings," I told them, and Kristen used hers to move 3,000 miles away. She embraced that freedom, texting me daily about new adventures: kayaking, hiking, and salsa dancing. I could barely keep up.

Our first pot holder session was spent figuring out the instructions as I jogged my memory. First, I attached loops horizontally to the 7-inch loom. Then I wove other loops over and under the attached ones with a hook, and finished with a crocheted edge. The whole process took about an hour. But by the second session, we had gotten the hang of it well enough to chat freely. We asked each other questions and shared truths, and I learned more about her than when she lived nearby.

Now, the 15 colorful pot holders I've made hung on my kitchen wall like an art installation. But the real art — listening to and sharing quality time with my daughter — floats in the airwaves between Philadelphia and San Francisco.

Theresa had always looked forward to the first day of school, but this year was different. Due to her father's recent job change, she and her family had moved across the country to a new town and a new neighborhood.

She didn't even want to get out of bed. Getting up meant going to school. She didn't know a soul. She had no friends here. Who would she talk to? Who would she hang out with? This would not be a good day, she thought to herself.

After a quick breakfast, she grabbed her things and headed down the street to the corner where the bus would pick her up.

In the distance, she could see two girls laughing about something. As Theresa got closer, the girls shot a brief look at her way and then continued on with their conversation. Finally the bus arrived. Theresa stepped on and sat alone. The ride seemed rather long until the bus pulled up in front of the school.

Theresa climbed off the bus with no idea where to go. The school was much bigger than her old one. She had made it through the whole morning. But now it's lunch time, and she was keenly aware of the fact that she had no one to sit and dine with.

She found a place alone in the corner and sat down with lunch. Just as she started to eat, she saw two girls approaching. They were the girls from the bus stop.

"Do you mind if we join you?" said the one in front.

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"Mind? Please sit with me!" Theresa thought and quickly replied,"not at all."

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For Theresa, the ride home was quite a bit different from the bus trip that morning.

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For the first time, a dim sum restaurant (award) one Michelin star in the Michelin Guide Shanghai as the 2025 guide was revealed on Tuesday at the Bellagio Shanghai.

Following its relocation to South Maoming Road, Wu You Xian, (know) for its specialty in Shanghai crab xiao long bao, earned the one Michelin star. By integrating hairy crab into the xiao long bao, the founder, Chen Lina, (gentle) separated the crab into eight parts, including the crab meat, roe and paste, (ensure) that diners experience the unique taste of each component — quality Wu You Xian takes great pride in.

"Not only do I treat my xiao long bao like my children, like works of art as well; they are my life," said Chen, a national first-class dim sum chef. She emphasized that although the xiao long bao may be small in size, they encapsulate(蕴含) a world of gourmet (flavor).

"After a thorough exploration of the city, our inspectors were glad to witness the emergence of an (increase) number of local restaurants, particularly in the fields of Shanghainese cuisine, beautifully balances history and modernity. From its beloved xiao long bao and dim sums complex court cuisine, Shanghai's dining scene has long been a symbol of cultural richness and culinary(烹饪的) innovation," said Gwendal Poullennec, international director of the Michelin Guide.

Then came the massive strokes. Goldstein lost the use of the right side of her body. Two years ago, Blumberg sold her mother's3 in favor of something smaller. While packing up, she found three unfinished knit sweaters4 for Goldstein, Blumberg and her daughter.

She brought them to a local knitting store to be finished. The employees there,5, put her in contact with Loose ends, an organization that6 people who have unfinished work from loved ones, who have either passed away or become7, with craftsmen in their area who can finish quilting, knitting and other projects, all at no charge. And they linked her up with a nearby8, Anna Minmier, to take over Goldstein's work.

"All I could do when I met Anna was give her a big hug," Blumberg says, tearing up. "It's9 how special this project is. I would have spent a10 to get this done."

Mimmier spent months finishing the sweaters, and says she's happy to have a11 in what she sees as a beautiful story that12 generations.

It's also an opportunity for her to work with patterns she never would have picked for herself,13 her skill set and keeping her mind as14 as her needles (针).

It's not just being nice. It's making sure people have these physical15 that you can hug when you're missing a person. That's a big deal.

Consider your interests. Write a list of activities that you enjoy. Ask yourself what you would want most out of a trip if you were to go on one this minute. Then go back through your list and cross out those activities that don't suit your needs at the moment.

Take fellow travellers into account. If anyone will be travelling with you, have them write their own lists of preferred pastimes. Discover which activities everyone hopes to experience so you focus on destinations that will make everybody happy.

Consult online and print publications, use tourism websites, travel blogs, and travel guides to gain an idea of what is out there. Ask friends, family, or other associates for recommendations and warnings based on their own travels.

Determine your budget. Figure out exactly how much you can afford to spend on travel, so that you aren't breaking the bank for this trip.

Decide how much time you have to travel. Use this number to better decide which activities you want to focus on and how much money you are willing to spend on them.

A. Shorten your list according to them.

B. Now figure out how long it has to last you.

C. However, you can narrow your choices down.

D. Research travel destinations.

E. Now take a step back.

F. With this information, cut your list down even further.

G. Review your travel list.

A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of failure or sadness. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and quieting us in age.

Men often discover their attachment to each other by the common love they have for a book. There is an old saying, "Love me, love my dog." But there is more wisdom in this: "Love me, love my book." The book is a truer and higher connection of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.

A good book is often the best container of a life recording the best that life could think out; for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, simply the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which, if remembered and valued, become our constant companions and comforters.

Books possess an ingredient of immortality (不朽). They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues break, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effects of time have been to filter out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good.

Cloud storage is very simple to use. Once you have registered and set up your account, you simply save your files via the Internet using your username and password. This ensures your data remains secure and inaccessible to anyone else. Should you choose, you can put certain permissions in place, which makes it easy to share your data with your colleagues or your family.

When you sign up to cloud storage, you can choose the amount of space you need. You can start with a small amount and increase the storage size later on. You can store anything digital; all your files, videos and pictures. Whether you want to use this storage solution to store your family photographs or you want to use it to store your work documentation, you will find it quite convenient.

Is it better than your computer or an external drive (硬盘)? The answer is a definite yes. Computers crash all the time. This is the most common cause of lost work and memories. External hard drives can still break, or fail. Here you also have the added risk of misplacing it or having it stolen. There are so many advantages to cloud computing, from the ability to access your data from wherever, whenever, to not needing expensive external storage devices. The only disadvantage, however, is that you need Internet to access files.

Not long into the shoot, Kim was surprised to find her engagement ring had slipped off when the photographer asked her to do a pose in which she placed her hand onto Phil's chest. Kim remembered picking up snow and throwing it in the air minutes before. The odds were that the ring broke away from her finger then hearts sinking, they tracked back along their route. It was a fruitless search. They felt their blood freeze.

Learning of it, the skiers nearby got involved. Hours passed and it seemed hopeless even with a metal detector. When told they would have to wait until spring to locate the ring, the couple were close to a mental collapse (崩溃).

But then a blinding flash in the snow caught a skier's eye. It was the diamond ring! Phil turned this wild adventure into something even more unforgettable. Accompanied by the cheers of kind strangers, he dropped to one knee, ring in hand, and proposed again. Kim was overcome with relief and joy.

A moment of heartache turns into a life-long memory. The couple will look back on their engagement photos with laughter, tears and appreciation as they tell their story.

Amish Heartland Tours

If you would like to learn about Amish life and culture while enjoying a tour of the beauty of Amish country, Amish Heartland Tours can make it happen, offering buggy rides, custom bus tours, and special "Backroad" experiences with meals in the homes of the Amish people. You will learn about the day-to-day life of the Amish from experienced tour guides and the local people themselves.

Tours last between 1 to 3 hours depending on your choice of destination and activities.

Yoder's Amish Home

If you or your school group would like to learn more about the life of the Amish, a trip to Yoder's Amish Home might be perfect for you. With guided tours of the house, property, and so on, you'll learn about the history and lifestyle of the Amish up close.

Pet the animals in the old barn, learn a little German and meet their Amish teacher in their one-room schoolhouse, take a ride in a real Amish buggy, and enjoy a sweet treat from their bakery! Tours are led by local guides and last about 40 minutes.

Troyer's Amish Tours

Experience the Amish Country with a personalized touch. Troyer's Amish Tours offers several tours including 2 and 3-hour experiences, dinner in Amish homes, as well as special events. All of the tours are tailor-made with advance notice.

For the most memorable experience, use their online contact forms to plan your visit in advance.

Amish Heritage Tours

Amish Heritage Tours offers seasonally themed tours including many of the best things to do in Amish Country, with one to multi-day experiences including pick-up from your hotel, dinner, shopping, area theatre, and museums.

Plan your visit online in advance. Their website offers possible schedules for each tour to make your stay rewarding and unforgettable.

Once, when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus (马戏团). Finally, there was only one family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me. There were eight children, all probably under the age of twelve. You could tell they didn't have a lot of money.

Their clothes were not expensive, but they were clean. The children were well-behaved, all of them standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents, holding hands. They were excitedly talking about the clowns, elephants, and other acts they would see that night with their brothers or sisters in a low voice.

One could sense they had never been to the circus before. It promised to be highlight of their young lives. The father and mother were at the head of the pack, standing proud as could be. The mother was holding her husband's hand, looking up at him as if to say, "You are my knight in shining armor."

He was smiling and responding in pride, looking back at her as if to say, "You got that right." The ticket lady asked the father how many tickets he wanted. He proudly responded, "Please let me buy eight children's tickets and two adult tickets so I can take my family to the circus."

The ticket lady gave the price. The man's wife let go of his hand, her head dropped, and his lips began to shake. The father leaned a little closer and asked, "How much did you say?"

The ticket lady again told him the price. The man didn't have enough money. How could he turn and tell his eight children that he didn't have enough money to take them to the circus?

Actually we were not wealthy in any sense. So I understand how the kids would feel. I felt sorry for them.

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Paragraph 1: Seeing what was going on, my dad put his hand in his pocket, pulled out a $20 bill and dropped (扔) it on the ground.

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Paragraph 2: That day my father and I went back to our car and drove home without any tickets.

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1. 享受免费住宿

2. 游览名胜古迹

3. 品尝特色小吃

4. 感受当地历史文化和风土人情

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Dear Jackson,

How is everything going?

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Looking forward to your early reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

 The Chinese Spring Festival (regard) as the most significant festival of the year among the Chinese. There are  number of things people usually do before the Chinese Spring Festival. One of these is cleaning the house for the Lunar New Year. Therefore, sweeping dust out of the house is a way of saying goodbye to the old things. important custom for families is to decorate their doors with red couplets. In the southern part of China, people will buy fresh flowers or orange trees (decorate) their homes. The (important) custom of the Chinese Spring Festival is the big family dinner on the eve of the Lunar New Year. This is usually a big reunion of grandparents, parents, and children. It reflects how important family is to Chinese people around the world. That is  millions of Chinese people travel long distances to get home before the eve of the Lunar New Year. (eat) fish is supposed to bring more wealth and prosperity than one needs, as the (pronounce) of "fish" in Chinese (yu) is also used for "surplus".

 Deeply (root) in the heart of the Chinese people, these (tradition) customs will be passed down generation by generation.

The weather is the most common topic in Britain.. Because in Britain the weather changes a lot. Wind, rain, sun, cloud, snow — they can all happen in Britain.

At banks, cinemas, shops, bus stops you can always see people in queues (排队). They stand and wait quietly, often for a long time. Each new person stands at the end of the queue — sometimes in rain, wind or snow. They never complain and they will get quite upset when someone jumps the queue.

Men always shake hands when they meet. They shook hands to show that they didn't have a sword (剑). Now shaking hands is a custom in most countries. In Britain you don't shake hands with your friends or family members. But you do shake hands when you meet a person for the first time.

And they always send birthday cards or presents. There are also other cards like Christmas cards, good luck cards, congratulations on your new baby cards and getting well soon cards. They have everything for every important moment.

British people are very superstitious (迷信的). They believe in all sorts of signs they see. For them black cats are lucky. The more leaves you catch, the more lucky you will be. On the contrary, never open an umbrella in the house and never break a mirror because they mean seven years of bad luck.

A. Another common thing in Britain is queuing.

B. Why do the British talk about the weather so often?

C. Hundreds of years ago, soldiers began this custom.

D. In autumn if you catch falling leaves you are lucky.

E. Shopping is another common topic in Britain.

F. They also pay attention to tiny details like your birthday.

G. Never walk under a ladder, and don't walk past somebody on the stairs.

Two teenagers from Hong Kong asked themselves the same question. Now they've developed a door handle that can kill germs on contact.

The idea is simple. Every time the door is opened, the movement creates power that starts a germ-killing reaction on the handle. In lab tests, their system killed about 99.8 percent of the germs that they spread onto lab dishes covered with their material.

Research by others has shown that door handles in public areas are often home to lots of bacteria and viruses, notes 17-year-old Sum Ming("Simon"）Wong. He and schoolmate Kin Pong ( Michael ) Li, 18, wanted to design a covering for door handles that would kill germs.

After doing some research, they learned that a mineral called titanium dioxide(二氧化钛）is known to kill bacteria. It's already used in many products, from paints to desserts. To make their covering, the teenagers made the mineral into a very fine powder.

Titanium dioxide kills bacteria best when lit by ultraviolet(紫外线的）light, says Simon. UV light is found in sunlight. But UV light does not naturally shine on indoor handles or any used at night, so the teenagers light their door handle from within.

To make sure the light reaches the coated surface, the teenagers made their door handle out of clear glass, Each end fits into a bracket (托架).Inside one of the brackets is a strong light-emitting diode(LED). From it comes UV light.

And here's the interesting part: The power that makes the UV light shine comes from opening and closing the door. The power from the door is then carried by wire to the LED inside the door handle.

The door handle system, Michael and Simon say, might cost no more than about $13 (about 81 yuan) to build.

This isn't a sign of malfunctioning though, researchers think, and may actually be evidence that the brain is operating healthily. Unusual heat signatures could potentially be used in the future to look for signs of brain damage or disorder.

"To me, the most surprising finding from our study is that the healthy human brain can reach temperatures that would be diagnosed as fever anywhere else in the body," says biologist John O'Neill from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the UK. "Such high temperatures have been measured in people with brain injuries in the past, but had been assumed to result from the injury."

Previously, those measurements taken from people with brain injuries had been the primary insight scientists had into brain temperatures which isn't the same as capturing the state of the brain during everyday life.

Here, the team used a technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)-measuring chemical patterns through magnetic fields to measure brain temperature in 40healthy volunteers, aged from 20 to 40 years old. What's more, they combined this information with data on circadian rhythms (生理节奏) and time of day.

The average brain temperature was38. 5℃ (101.3F) the researchers found, more than2degrees higher than under the tongue. The highest brain temperature recorded was40. 9℃(105. 6℃). Daily variations averaged around1℃(1.8F), with the outer parts of the brain generally cooler.

"We found that brain temperature drops at night before you go to sleep and rises during the day, "says O'Neill. "There is good reason to believe this daily variation is associated with long-term brain health—something we hope to investigate next."

There's something else that's always been in her life: a type of skin lupus (狼疮) . "All of my life, I tried to find ways to make it better," Guarddon said. "And that led to my trying to help others feel better about their skin." The attempt took her to the U.S. in 1994, where she studied science and piano. And then she began a career in skin care. " To me, skin is a form of art," she said. " I love making women feel beautiful."

" I wanted to create something of my own," Guarddon said. " I wanted to realize my dream." Her dream? Combining all of her passions into one.

The result is Poet's Garden Apothecary, Guarddon's own skin care line and the online business: Poet's Garden Alchemist. Guarddon teamed up with a laboratory to create her line of products, which she called "skin poetry". The products, made for every skin type, include an oil face cleanser, day cream and night cream. With each purchase, customers receive a custom poem from one of the company's contributors. And some earnings from the business go to the Poetry Foundation.

In the first few months of running business, Guarddon said, Poet's Garden Alchemist is turning into an online poet's movement. She often hosts live poetry readings on Instagram. " To me, skin care and poetry go together," she says. " I'm trying to show that beauty is not just skin deep. It's about our voice and how we express it."

Opera at Music Hall: 1243 Elm Street. The season runs June through August, with additional performances in March and September. The Opera honors Enjoy the Arts membership discounts. Phone: 241-2742.

http://www.cityopera.com.

Chamber Orchestra: The Orchestra plays at Memorial Hall at 1406 Elm Street, which offers several concerts from March through June. Call 723-1182 for more information.

http://www.chamberorch.com.

Symphony Orchestra: At Music Hall and Riverbend. For ticket sales, call 381-3300. Regular season runs September through May at Music Hall in summer at Riverbend.

http://www.symphony.org/home.asp.

College Conservatory of Music (CCM): Performances are on the main campus(校园) of the university, usually at Patricia Cobbett Theater. CCM organizes a variety of events, including performances by the well-known LaSalle Quartet, CCM's Philharmonic Orchestra, and various groups of musicians presenting Baroque through modern music. Students with I.D. cards can attend the events for free. A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183.

http://www.ccm.uc.edu/events/calendar.

Riverbend Music Theater: 6295 Kellogg Ave. Large outdoor theater with the closest seats under cover (price difference).Big name shows all summer long! Phone:232-6220.

http://www.riverbendmusic.com.

1. 支持者：了解历史，发展旅游业；

2. 反对者：破坏文物；

3. 你的观点态度。

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3. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：开发 explore 旅游业 tourism

Recently, local citizens have held a heated debate on whether we should explore the cultural relic from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which was discovered in our city.

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