Asleep on a plane: a case for window seats

I love tosleep on planes, and I have an unusual ability to sleep well on them. There have even been one or two occasions     1     I have fallen asleep before takeoff and awakened upon the impact of landing, not having realized we had even left the ground. So when     2     (book) my flights, I always choose the window seat whenever possible. This allows me to lean my sleepy headagainst the wall of the plane for a bit     3     (much) comfort.

Some     4     argue that the aisle（走廊）seat is superior for the leg space and the ability to get off swiftly and eye the snack cart. But in reality, we’re all getting our drinks and snacks     5     few seconds. Also, I find that if a person knows he’s in a window seat, he’ll choose to use the bathroom before boarding so that he     6     (not need) to disturb his neighbor, which is just considerate. And he’ll seize the opportunity to get up when another seatmate gets up so that the seatmate needn’t     7    (bother) more than once.

As a photographer and visually oriented person, the window seat gives me the best views of cottony clouds, or a great sunset, or golden sunrise, etc. Most of all,     8     I’ve been flying for years, I still get pleasure of seeing my departing city or country     9     (shrink) into the distance,and the butterflies in my stomach when I see the horizon of my destination come into view. And those feelings of adventure and excitement are     10    keep me coming back , flight after flight, to my window seat.

Beyond Mobile Money: The Future of Asia’s FinTech

Mobilemoney has been the hottest part in financial technology for the last few years.But FinTech is more than just how people store money and transact（交易）--the space is much more horizontal, short cutting how we create, share, and protect value.

The latest product of FinTech companies to     11     in Asia Pacific illustrates the many ways the space can help consumers beyond just their mobile wallet. It is important for all businesspersons to be aware of these trends, as their success opens up all sorts of possibilities for companies to     12     with them. And, on a much deeper level, new FinTechs may     13     consumer expectations in even other tech industries.

The Smart-phone Emerges a Credit -Scoring Standard

With close to half a billion     14     consumers in Southeast Asia alone, there is an entire industry of FinTechs devoted to finding ways to accurately determine their credit - worthiness to give them     15     to finance. Unfortunately, since they don’t have bank accounts, such FinTechs cannot rely on     16     financial information or credit card payments.

Onecredit scoring source emerging as a new standard in the field is smart-phone-based credit scoring. It has     17     broad global support, including from the likes of the World-Bank. In one of its reports, the Asian Development Bank even stated that mobile data was a key to financial     18    , as it could improve customer recording, and, in turn, get an access to credit.

AI Combines with the Wisdom of the Crowd

The most common slogan in today’s tech headlines is the “artificial intelligence.”Readers are fascinated with how AI has the     19     to transform every consumer and enterprise（企业）industry. While such focus is appropriate that AI will     20     change the world, it leaves out a crucialelement that will go hand - in - hand with its rise: the wisdom of the crowd.

Endangered languages can be found throughout the world. Many languages now have fewer than 100 or even fewer than 10 speakers. The crisis is not limited to remote regions of the world. When Europeans first arrived in North America, 312 different languages were _______, of which 123 are now known to be extinct. Of the _______ languages, most speakers are grandparents and great -grandparents.

Different researchers offer different definitions of “endangered”. The system of _______used by the Catalogue of Endangered Languages evaluates languages in four areas: the _______ of all the speakers, how often the language is conveyed to the next _______, the rate at which it is losing speakers and the _______ in which it is used. Based on this data, languages are ranked on a six - pointscale from “safe” to “severely endangered.” The midpoint, “endangered” refersto language with between 100 and 1,000 speakers who represent about half of the language’s community or ethnic group. The language is spoken only by some parents, of whom very few teach it to their children. It is _______ used at home and is not taught in schools or used for government business.

Languages become endangered due to a number of _______ factors including globalization,economics, technology, education policy, and changes in _______ attitudes. Asthe forces of globalization make the world more interconnected, previously______________ language communities come under pressure to participate in a larger economy, which means learning the area’s majority language. ______________, local schools often begin to teach the majority language instead of the local tongue.Local languages also ______________ as communities adopt mobile phones and computers most of which run on software that has been translated into only a handful oflanguages. This trend ______________ as these devices connect users to the Internet. At this point, many communities undergo a cultural ______________ in which parents no longer value the language enough to teach it to their children.

Initiatives to ______________ endangered languages have become more numerous inrecent years. These efforts tend to focus on two main areas: the documentation of endangered languages, and efforts to increase the use of endangered languages among younger speakers and in the community at large.

Many of China’s ancient architectural treasures smashed to dust before Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng began documenting them in the 1930s. The husband and wife team were among the first preservationists to operate in China, and by far the bestknown. Their efforts have since inspired generations of people to speak out for architecture threatened by the rush toward development.

Becoming China’s best architectural historians was no easy accomplishment. The buildings they wanted to save were centuries old located in distant parts of the country.In many cases, they had to journey through dangerous conditions in the Chinese countryside to reach them. Exploring China’s remote areas during the 1930s meant traveling muddy, poorly maintained roads by mule（骡子）or on foot. Inns were often dirty food could be polluted, and there was always risk or violence from rebels, soldiers and robbers.

Their greatest discovery was the Temple of Buddha’s Light, in Wutai County, Shanxi Province. The breathtaking wooden temple was built in 857 A. D., making it the oldest building known in China at the time.

Liang and Lin crawled into the temple’s most forbidding, forgotten areas to determine itsage, including one hideaway inhibited by thousands or bats and millions of bedbugs, covered in dust and littered with dead bats. “In complete darkness andamong the awful smell, hardly breathing, with thick masks covering our nosesand mouths, we measured, drew, and photographed with flashlights for several hours. When at last we came out to take a breath of fresh air, we foundhundreds of bedbugs in our bag. We ourselves had been badly bitten. Yet the importance and unexpectedness of our find made those the happiest hours of myyears hunting for ancient architecture.” Liand wrote of the experience in anaccount included in “Liang and Lin; Partners in Exploring China’s ArchitectualPast.”

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