Eyes not only let you see shapes and millions of colors, but also help manage the light signals that keep your body’s internal clock running properly. Your eyes are among your most important organs, but you shouldn’t take your eyes for granted.
Protect against eye strain. Sometimes you pose the greatest danger to your eyes.
Wear sunglasses with UV (紫外线) Protection. The right pair of shades will help protect your eyes from the sun’s UV rays. Too much UV exposure boosts your chances of cataracts and macular degeneration. Choose a pair of sunglasses that blocks 99% to 100% of UVA and UVB rays. Wraparound lenses help protect your eyes from the side. And Polarized lenses reduce glare while you drive. If you wear contact lenses (隐形眼镜), some offer UV protection.
Use safety eyewear. If you use dangerous materials that can be transported by air on the job or at home, wear safety glasses or protective goggles (护目镜).
Be smart! Visit your eye doctor periodically and take care of your eyes to keep them healthy.
A.Take in enough vitamins. |
B.Eat well for good eye health. |
C.Take these easy steps to keep your eyes healthy. |
D.Sports like ice hockey can also lead to eye injury. |
E.But it’s still a good idea to wear sunglasses for an extra layer. |
F.Overworked eyes lead to short-term and long-term eye and vision problems. |
G.So wear sunglasses when you’re outside or driving to protect your eyes from UV rays. |
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【推荐1】4 Tips to Be an Expert at Managing Your Time
Do you have too much to do and too little time? Of course! Actually it’s the biggest problem facing most people today. The key to becoming more efficient(高效的) is the ability to set priorities and focus on one task at a time.
Learn from the experts.
If you want to be a big success in any area, find out what other successful people in that area are doing.
Be open to new ideas.
The most foolish person of all is either the person who feels he has no time to learn about time management or, the person, who feels that she already knows all that’s needed to know on the subject.
Develop a plan.
Successful men and women are both effective and efficient(高效的).
Start with your top tasks. Focusing on your highest-value tasks is the starting point of getting your time under control .Although small things are easier and are often more fun than the big, important things .
A.Here are several ways to get organized and get started. |
B.And do the same things until you get the same results. |
C.However, the truth is that we have much to learn. |
D.But never forget to learn from their failures. |
E.They do the right things in the right way. |
F.Start from small things. |
G.Focus on the key tasks. |
【推荐2】Just as team members today have assigned doing roles, there should also be thinking roles. By knowing how other members of your team and organization think — and by others knowing how you think — everyone can be more productive. So how should you evaluate how you and your team think? After a lot of trial-and-error, we developed a three-step method that delivers practical and meaningful results.
Focus. Do you tend to pay the most attention to ideas, process, action, or relationships? For example, in the morning do you think about the problems you need to solve, the plans you need to make, the actions you need to take, or the people you need to see? This isn’t about picking one to the exclusion(排除) of the other. It’s about where your focus naturally lands.
Orientation(方向). A good way to identify your orientation is thinking about what tends to bother you in meetings. Are you more likely to complain about getting dragged into the weeds or about things being too general and not specific enough? These dimensions are complementary(补充的) to personality, skills, and traditional roles.
Combination. By combing these two dimensions you can know about the thinking style at work in whatever context or setting you chose. When you know your thinking style, you know what naturally energizes you, why certain type of problems are challenging or boring, and what you can do to improve in areas that are important to reaching your goals. Once you know your style, it helps to share it with others, and have others share theirs with you. In this way, your thinking style becomes a useful tool — a kind of social currency — for the team. Imaging you put together a team to work on a new initiative(行动). Wouldn’t you like to know who is energized by big-picture strategy discussions and who finds them frustrating? Who likes to work on the details of the execution? And who is energized by managing the team dynamics?
The landscape of business is changing rapidly, and we have to find new and better ways to connect and communicate. We all want to work better together, the challenge is actually making it happen. Understanding collaboration(合作)through the way of thinking rather than doing is a practical and powerful step forward.
What Kind of Thinker Are You? | |
Introduction | ● Both assigned doing roles and thinking roles are ● Team members knowing how each other think can |
Three steps in | ● The first step is to identify the focus of your ● It is not about making an either-or |
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【推荐3】Are you a happy person or an unhappy person?
If you’re an unhappy person, please remember that happiness is a choice.
Unhappy people are more likely to believe that life is hard. They see themselves as victims of life when something bad happens to them. Yes, as is known to all, life can be hard.
Unhappy people are more likely to believe that most people can't be trusted. They don't think strangers can be trusted. Unfortunately, this thought slowly starts to prevent them from meeting new people.
Unhappy people like comparing themselves with others and feel jealous.
Unhappy people consider their future with worry and fear.
Everyone will probably swim in negative waters once in a while, but what matters is how long you stay there. Follow the ways mentioned above and then you will be much happier.
A.You can choose to be happy. |
B.Unhappiness is also a choice. |
C.There is only so much space between your ears. |
D.They believe that someone else’s luck is stolen from their own. |
E.You should try to be kind to others in order to make more friends. |
F.But you should have a positive attitude towards life instead of complaining all the time. |
G.Instead, you should believe in the good in people and stay open and friendly towards those you meet. |
【推荐1】One of the most firmly established idea of manliness(男子汉) is that a real man doesn’t cry. Although he might cry a bit at a funeral, he is expected to quickly regain control. Crying openly is for girls. One study found that women cry significantly more than men do—five times as often, on average, and almost twice as long per period.
Historically, however, men usually cried, and no one saw it as shameful. For example, in the Middle Ages, knights(骑士) cried only because they missed their girlfriends. In The Knight of the Cart, no less a hero than Lancelot cries at a brief separation from Guinevere. There’s no mention of the men in these stories trying to hold back or hide their tears. They cry in a crowded hall with their heads held high. Nor do other people make fun of this public crying; it’s universally regarded as an expression of feeling to show love.
So where did all the male tears go? The most obvious possibility is that this is the result of changes as we moved from an agricultural(农业的) society to one that was urban(城市的)and industrial(工业的). In the Middle Ages, most people spent their lives among those they had known since birth. If men cried, they did so with people who would sympathize(同情). But from the 18th to 20th centuries, the population became increasingly urbanize, and people were living in the midst of thousands of strangers. Furthermore, changes in the economy required men to work together in factories and offices where expressions of feelings and even personal conversations were discouraged as time wasting.
Yet human beings weren’t designed to hide their feelings, and there’s reason to believe that restraining tears can be harmful to your well-being. Research from the 1980s has suggested a relationship between stress-related illnesses and not enough crying. Crying is also, somewhat related with happiness and wealth. Countries where people cry the most tend to be richer and more confident.
1. In history, people considered it ________ for men to cry in public.A.manly | B.shameful | C.acceptable | D.funny |
A.By offering descriptions. | B.By asking questions. |
C.By comparing facts. | D.By listing numbers. |
A.Tony who lives alone and never expresses himself. |
B.Peter who is outgoing but sometimes cries in public. |
C.Arthur who is under great stress but never shed a tear. |
D.Adam who sometimes cries but quickly regain control. |
A.Men Don’t Cry. Why? | B.Crying Is for Women |
C.Who Cry More? Men or Women? | D.Crying Makes a Weak Man |
【推荐2】A Common Habit Leads to Shocking Harm
Crossing your legs is an extremely common habit; most people don’t even notice that they’re doing it when they sit down. While you may find it comfortable to sit with one knee crossed over the other, it might be causing health problems that you are not aware of.
A study published in Blood Pressure Monitoring stated that sitting with your legs crossed can increase your blood pressure. The reason this happens is because the blood in your legs has to work against gravity to be pumped back to your heart, crossing one leg over the other increases resistance, making it even harder for the blood to circulate. This causes your body to increase your blood pressure to push the blood back to the heart. You won’t feel any immediate effects, but if you sit for long periods of time it’s important that you take note of how long you have your legs crossed for. You shouldn’t have your legs crossed for more than 15 minutes, and it’s important that you get up and walk around at least once every hour.
Crossing your legs can also lead to neck and back pain. Ideally, it’s best for our bodies to sit with our feet planted flat, hip width apart, on the floor, but it’s not easy to maintain perfect posture all day at the office. When you sit with your legs crossed your hips are in a twisted position, which can cause one of your pelvic bones to rotate. Since your pelvic bone supports your neck and spine, this can cause pressure on your lower and middle back and neck.
You also might notice that when you sit with your legs crossed for long periods of time your feet and legs get tingly or have the feeling of being asleep. This is because when one leg sits on top of the other it causes pressure on the veins and nerves in your legs and feet. It can cause numbness or temporary paralysis in the legs, ankles, or feet. While the feeling of discomfort may only last a minute or two, repeatedly crossing your legs until they feel numb can cause permanent nerve damage.
So next time you sit down, try to get yourself in the habit of sitting with both of your feet on the floor. Not only will it help your posture and stability, but it will also save your health in the long run.
1. According to the passage, which is not the problem caused by sitting with your legs crossed?A.Increase blood pressure |
B.Cause neck and back pain |
C.Lead to numbness or temporary paralysis |
D.Keep in a twisted position |
A.Go straight |
B.Move around |
C.Fall down |
D.Work against gravity |
A.Once you cross your legs while sitting, you’ll feel immediate effects. |
B.The numbness in the legs ,ankles or feet won’t cause permanent nerve damage. |
C.The perfect posture for sitting is to sit with your feet planted flat and hip width apart. |
D.As long as you cross your legs for less than 15 minutes, it won’t do harm to your health. |
【推荐3】It is reported that the sense of smell plays a dominant role in the social interactions of all land animals except humans. Then the question arises: Is this because humans don’t use their noses in social settings the way all other land animals do? Or is this behavior covert (隐蔽的), rather than overt, in humans?
In fact, this is exactly what Inbal Ravreby, a graduate student in Prof. Noam Sobel’s laboratory in Weizmann’s Brain Sciences Department, tried to answer. And as several lines of evidence suggest that humans are constantly, although mostly subconsciously, sniffing themselves and others, Ravreby supposed that the latter is the case.
To test her hypothesis, Ravreby conducted the study with pairs of click friends: same-sex nonromantic friends whose friendships had originally formed very rapidly. Because such friendships emerge prior to an in-depth acquaintance, they may be particularly influenced by physiological characteristics such as body smell. She then collected body smell samples from these click friends and conducted two sets of experiments to compare the samples with those collected from random pairs of individuals. In one set of experiments, she performed the comparison with a device known as an electronic nose, or eNose, which assessed the chemical signatures of the smells. In the other, she asked volunteers to smell the two groups of body smell samples in order to assess similarities measured by human perception. In both types of experiments, click friends were found to smell significantly more like each other than the individuals in the random pairs.
Next, to rule out the possibility that body smell similarity was a consequence of click friendships, rather than a contributing cause, Ravreby performed an additional set of experiments, in which she used the eNose to “smell” a number of volunteers who were complete strangers to one another, and then asked them to engage in nonverbal (非言语的) social interactions in pairs. After each such structured interaction, the participants rated the other individual in terms of how much they liked that person. Subsequent analysis revealed that the individuals who had more positive interactions indeed smelled more like each other, as determined by the eNose.
“These results imply that, as the saying goes, there is chemistry in social chemistry,” Ravreby concludes. However, Sobel offers words of caution, “This is not to say that we act like dogs or goats — humans likely rely on other, far more dominant signals in their social decision-making. Nevertheless, our study’s results do suggest that our nose plays a bigger role than previously thought in our choice of friends.”
1. What did Inbal Ravreby want to figure out?A.Whether humans have a sharp sense of smell. |
B.Whether humans’ noses can detect all types of smells. |
C.Whether it is necessary for humans to sniff other people. |
D.Whether the sense of smell plays a role in humans’ interaction. |
A.The way to make comparisons. | B.The participation of random pairs. |
C.The way volunteers used the eNose. | D.The number of pairs of click friends. |
A.To determine the reliability of the finding. |
B.To avoid interactions between click friends. |
C.To make the experiments much more interesting. |
D.To test the accuracy of the eNose in smell analysis. |
A.Disapproving. | B.Doubtful. |
C.Positive. | D.Indifferent. |