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Arch View House

Located next to the Wembley Stadium, it is home to 687 students. It has a range of private and shared studios, which come with their own kitchen, bathroom and living facilities. Away from your room, you’ll have access to public areas where you can relax. A fully equipped gym is available for you to use in your spare time. Prices start from £160 per week.

The Cube Ealing

It is a student accommodation located in Zone 3. It is only a 3 minute walk from the University of West London and a 25-minute tube ride to the city center as well as the University of Westminster. Prices start from £150 per week.

Sunlight Apartments

With Sunlight Apartment’s perfect location, it’s not just studying that’s convenient to enjoy shops and restaurants in London. It is a small and friendly community situated in the heart of Bethnal Green, which is a desirable location for students looking to live on the surrounding districts of Brick Lane and Whitechapel. Prices start from £110 per week.

Helen Graham House

Located in the center of Bloomsbury, it is perfect for students on a tight budget (预算) but want to be at the heart of the city. An eight minute walk to Birbeck and seven minutes from University of Law London, it’s not only the wonderful west of the city on your doorstep. Prices start from £130 per week.

Purnota Dutta, an MBA from India, took a break from her career in 2010, spending time with her newborn daughter. This life-changing time led her to found Cuddles Foundation — a nonprofit organization focused on providing food and nutrition (营养) to poor children battling cancer in government cancer hospitals.

At the hospital, she saw so many children with cancer, and a baby who was around the same age as her child. Moved by what she saw, Purnota spoke to the social worker about how she could extend support to these children. While they had enough financial resources for treatment, they needed money for nutrition.

The couple did their best to meet their essential requirements. However, it soon surpassed what they could afford, and they started tapping into their networks to raise money. At first, Cuddles Foundation joined hands with Dr Brijesh Arora, who was leading the program for nutrition for children with cancer in India. “Then came Unlimited India, which got me on board as an investee (被投资者),” she adds..

At present, Cuddles Foundation’s FoodHeals programme bridges the nutrition gap in children with cancer in 35 government and charity hospitals in 20 cities across India. Over the past year, it provided nutrition guidance to over 6,000 patients.

Swara is among many children supported by the foundation. The five-year-old from Baramati was diagnosed with cancer. Her father had spent all of his savings on her medical tests and travel. After a year of regular guidance and nutrition support, Swara has entered the recovery stage of treatment and is back home in Baramati.

She hopes, with the support of more partners, Cuddle Foundation will be able to reach its great aims.

A culture guide named Persephone welcomes travelers to Greece and takes them through a famous cave in the north. The guide moves smoothly around the underground area and can talk about it in 33 languages. It can also answer 33 questions, but only in the Greek language.

Persephone is intelligent and it is a human-sized robot. The robot has been in operation for about a month at the Alistrati Cave. Persephone guides visitors through the first 150 meters of the cave that is open to the public. For the remaining 750 meters, a human guide takes over.

The idea of creating the robot guide was come up with by Nikos Kartalis, who is the scientific director at the Alistrati site. He had this idea when he saw one on television guiding visitors at an art show. Persephone was built by the National Technology and Research Foundation and cost about 139,000 dollars. “People who once visited are coming back to see the robot guide,” said Nikos, “Many foreign visitors couldn’t believe Greece had the ability to build a robot and use it as a guide in the cave.”

The robot, with a white body, black head, and two bright eyes, moves on wheels. It guides visitors to the first three of eight stops along the walkway. It can do two more stops, but it is too slow for the tour. Persephone’s creators are considering ways to increase her speed. The robot begins the tour by saying: “My name is Persephone. I am the daughter of the goddess Demeter and the wife of Pluto. I welcome you to the Alistrati Cave.”

Evdokia Karafera is a human guide who partners with Persephone. “It is helpful, because it speaks many languages,” she said. “There’s just a little delay in the touring. Most find it fascinating, especially the children, and find it interesting that it speaks many languages. Robots, at some point in the future, will take over many jobs. But I believe they cannot take the place of humans everywhere.”

The lettuce grown on board the International Space Station (ISS) was just as safe and nutritious as crops grown on Earth, scientists have found. Study of the lettuce grown on the ISS showed it was comparable to the plants grown on Earth. Its nutritional value was largely the same. They also found that none of the types of bacteria (细菌) were those known to cause disease in humans.

Most of the food eaten by astronauts on the ISS is processed and pre-packaged. Over time, however, this stored food starts to lose quality and nutrition. While this is not a problem for astronauts on board, as food from Earth is supplied regularly, for long space flights — like those to the moon and Mars — it could really become a problem.

“Right now we cannot make sure that we will have a diet to meet the needs of astronauts for these longer space missions, so one possible solution will be to supply the packaged diet with fresh produce,” said NASA’s Christina Khodadad and Gioia Massa. “This space-grown lettuce will provide additional nutrients to the packaged diet. Growing plants may also provide psychological (心理的) comfort when astronauts are far from home. In addition to providing food, plants generate oxygen as well as remove carbon dioxide, which is important in closed systems like the ISS or future moon/ Mars facilities,” they added.

The biggest problem for growing crops in space, the researchers said, is delivering water, oxygen and nutrients to the roots (根). However, they said that with the right plant growth systems, crops can be grown anywhere. “We are continuing to test other crops, with the addition of small fruiting crops like peppers and tomatoes in the next couple of years... We hope soon to get to the point where astronauts will be able to choose the crops that they want to grow,” the researchers said.

How to Support Someone Who is Sad

When a friend is sad, it’s easy to feel helpless. Being a good friend means staying by their side as they experience a loss.     16    , you need some tips to help them get rid of their sadness completely. The following ways may work.

Be a good listener. Sadness often shows itself in the most inconvenient times, especially when you’re not expecting it.     17    . If this happens, being available and a good listener is always the best policy. Be sure to tell him that you’re available for listening to whatever he wants to say.

Buy them gifts.     18    , another good way to express your support is by buying a heart-warming gift. There are several ideas for this. Memory boxes, flowers, gift cards for food, and artworks, are all good choices.

    19    . Sometimes the best thing people can do for their friends’ sadness is to step up and meet what they really need, such as making a trip to the grocery store, bringing meals, picking up the children. Don’t be afraid to ask how you can help or even just offering is better, because sometimes those who are sad don’t know what they need.

Encourage them to join a support group. Sometimes you truly don’t understand the depth of your friend’s sadness. However, there are support groups that exist to help people with various losses, such as family member’s death, job loss, or other misfortunes. And those who lead these groups are equipped to walk people through their sadness.     20    .

5-year-old Maggie is truly a magical dog. It can be called a Strong Dog, like the famous Strong Pig (Zhujianqiang) in China, which _______ the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008, and lived until 2021.

It all started in Lebanon when Maggie was found _______ treated, with one ear cut off and a broken jaw (下颌). With a baby in its body, Maggie was beaten and then shot 17 times with a gun, _______ the total loss of her sight.

A person in Lebanon discovered the _______ dog and wrote a post asking for _______. A woman in London saw the _______ and got help from The Wild At Heart Foundation. Maggie was _______. However, she had to receive _______ and other treatments before she was placed for adoption and before finding her _______ home in Brighton, England.

25-year-old Kasey Carlin, working at a dog-care center, is the owner of Maggie, who is now a(n) ________ on the Internet, with over 248,000 ________ on her Instagram. Her success was so great, so Kasey ________ her job and devoted her time to ________ Maggie’s Instagram account full-time.

“She has taught me and others so many lessons. Everyday she ________ me to try to be better and do better” — Kasey told Bored Panda.

Maggie has recently become a therapy (治疗) dog, ________ hospitals, nursing homes and universities where everyone can feel the ________ and joy in her.

“Happily, I’m ________ everyday that so many people are interested in her ________. For so long, no one cared about her, when I agreed to ________ her it was because no one else wanted to! I’m glad she can ________ such a positive message with the world” — finishes Kasey.

China is a distant and     41     (mystery) country for most people in Uruguay.     42     for Uruguayan writer Pablo Rovetta, he has learned a lot about Chinese culture     43     childhood. Speaking fluent Chinese with a Beijing accent, Rovetta likes to be called Lao Luo meaning “old Luo”, which is     44     traditional Chinese call for seniors or longtime friends.

Coming to China in 1975, Pablo Rovetta studied for seven years in Beijing. He soon     45     (fall) in love with the country, getting on well with his Chinese classmates and making many friends. After     46     (graduate) from Tsinghua University, Rovetta worked at the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, allowing him     47     (have) more opportunities to observe China from different angles. Over the past 40 years of China’s reform and opening-up, Rovetta has seen the fast development of China, rising from a poor country to the world’s second     48     (large) economy.

Up to now Rovetta has translated many works of Chinese literature and has written a book about his life in China in the 1970s. And a couple of years ago a personal website     49     (establish) to publish his original     50     (article) in Spanish about Chinese history, culture and other fields.