College is an exciting time and place for young adults, but it can also be unsettling. Thankfully, there are plenty of books to help your child make a smooth transition to living independently and exploring the world of higher education. Here are some fantastic stories and resources to help your teen get ready for college.
Every Body Looking
Going to college means that Ada will be living away from her family for the first time in her life. The distance gives her anxiety, but breathing room, too. She has the opportunity to reflect on her upbringing, her family’s expectations, and what she wants for herself.
Paying for College
College is expensive, but there are ways to ease the financial burden. This essential guidebook will help you identify ways to increase your financial aid, find scholarships, and minimize college costs.
The College Wellness Guide
Your child’s first year of college will be exciting but stressful, too. Stress can have negative impacts on their emotional, physical, and mental well-being. This wellness guide will help your child identify their stressors, find ways to stay healthy at college, and get help if they need it.
College Admissions During COVID
We’re living in unusual times, and it has affected the college admissions process. This guidebook contains the latest information about applying to college during the pandemic(流行病). Whether you’re applying to test-optional schools or considering taking a gap year, this book has answers to your most pressing questions.
1. Who are the books designed for?A.College teens. | B.College teachers. |
C.Parents. | D.Medical majors. |
A.Every Body Looking | B.Paying for College |
C.The College Wellness Guide | D.College Admissions During COVID |
A.Recommendation of books. |
B.Introduction to college life. |
C.Guide for problems to meet in college. |
D.An advertisement of a bookstore. |
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Learning Activity | Details (详情) |
Storytelling | Children listen to stories being told. Then they help write the ending of the story. |
Telling Time | Children learn counting skills by using clocks. They count hours and minutes. |
Hide and Seek | Children must find toys hidden in our outdoor play areas. |
Puppet (木偶) Show | Children use hand puppets to act out stories. They work in pairs. |
1. When does the Shining Light Day Center have classes?
A.9 to 11 a.m. on Saturdays. | B.9 to 11 a.m. on Mondays. |
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【推荐3】Many people travel to enjoy and enrich themselves. As poet Jalaluddin said,“Travel brings power and love back to your life.”However, their travel methods may be different every year. Lonely planet listed three top trends of 2019. Let’s take a look.
Solo travel
Traditionally, travel seems to be a group activity to have fun together and avoid loneliness. But that changed in 2019. Traveling on your own means that you are the boss of everything, choosing wherever you want to go. For some people, it also shows a better, more confident person, ready to solve anything. Traveling alone in a totally foreign land can be challenging. “It opens up your mind to new things and pushes you out of your comfort zone,” Said Kristina, a traveler from the US.
Augmented(增广的) attractions
World travel can be expensive. But virtual reality and augmented reality, or VR and AR, are giving more possibilities to “travel” for little cost. With ever-improving headsets, smart-phones and Wi-Fi connections, technologies have changed the way we travel, bringing the 360-degree experience of museums, theme parks and historical sites to our homes.
In 2019, NASA provided a VR experience of Mars, allowing people to “walk” its surface with just a headset. Paris’ famous museums, meanwhile, provided more applications with AR technology. This gives visitors more context and information about exhibits. With that, visitors can view a sea cow growing flesh before their eyes. These trends will help you beat the crowds and experience new kinds of travel.
Getting off the beaten path
In order to avoid the crowds, many liked to visit less famous places after searching online or following local agencies in 2019. With less transportation and fewer things to do, hitting upon small towns lets people slow down and notice the little things. Take a walk, ride a bike, drink coffee, take a deep breath and explore.
1. The author’s main purpose of writing this passage is .A.to introduce the travel trends of 2019 | B.to encourage more people to travel |
C.to recommend travel hot spots | D.to explain what makes a good trip |
A.Solo travelers are free to make their own decisions. |
B.Travelling alone benefits people a lot. |
C.NASA provided a real experience to Mars for people. |
D.VR and AR make it cheaper for people to “travel”. |
A.Famous places are still popular with many travelers. |
B.Many people begin to explore new ways of travelling. |
C.Many people like to search for places online. |
D.Less transportation of small towns causes inconvenience. |
【推荐1】Born in 1916, Ms. Cleary grew up and became a librarian. One day in the library, a boy leaned across the counter and asked her, “Where are the books about kids like us?” She realized there weren’t many books about ordinary kids. So she set out to write them.
Ms. Cleary’s first book, Henry Huggins, came out in 1950. It told the story of a boy and the dog that he takes in. Henry Huggins was an ordinary third-grader whose hair looked “like a scrubbing brush”. But the book, with its funny, lovable characters, was a hit. Soon Ms. Cleary wrote more books about Henry Huggins and the other children in his neighborhood. One of those children became an even bigger star than Henry Huggins. Ramona Quimby, also known as “Ramona the Pest”, became Ms. Cleary’s best known character. Ramona is curious and stubborn, and is always getting into trouble.
Ms. Cleary worked hard to get kids addicted to reading. When her son didn’t show much interest in books, she wrote The Mouse and the Motorcycle. The book tells the exciting story of a motorcycle-riding mouse and his friendship with a young boy. The book was a hit, and led to two more books starring Ralph S. Mouse.
But that sort of fantasy was unusual for Ms. Cleary, who usually focused on real life, even when it involved serious problems. In several of the Ramona books, the parents have money trouble or are unhappy with their jobs. Dear Mr. Henshaw tells the story of a boy dealing with his parents’ divorce. Ms. Cleary deals with these situations with a gentle humor and a deep understanding.
Ms. Cleary kept writing until she was 83, creating over 40 books in all. She won almost every award for children’s books, including the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award.
More than 91 million copies of her books have been sold, and her stories have been translated into nearly 30 different languages.
1. What made Ms. Cleary write her first book?A.Her curiosity. | B.A boy’s puzzle. |
C.Her passion for children. | D.Rich knowledge. |
A.To inspire her son to read. | B.To help her son to kill time. |
C.To show her imagination. | D.To keep track of children. |
A.Romantic. | B.Outgoing. | C.Humorous. | D.Strong-willed. |
A.Henry Huggins. | B.Ramona the Pest. |
C.Dear Mr. Henshaw. | D.The Mouse and the Motorcycle. |
【推荐2】Nearly two decades ago when the Google Books Project digitized and freely distributed more than 25 million works, book publishers argued that free digital distribution weakens the market for physical books. However, new research from Imke Reimers and Abhishek Nagaraj reveals that the opposite — increased demand for physical books, through online discovery — could be true.
The two researchers focused on a particular part of Google Books’ digitized works: those from Harvard University’s Widener Library, which helped seed the project in its early days. The condition that enabled their experiment: Harvard’s digitization effort only included out-of-copyright works, published before 1923 , which were made available to consumers in their entirety. The works from 1923 and later were still copyrighted and not digitized.
The researchers analyzed a total of 37,743 books scanned (扫描) between 2005 and2009. They looked at sales for the two years before this digitization period and the two years after , and found clear differences in the increased sales between digitized and non-digitized books. Approximately 40% of digitized titles saw a sales increase from 2003-2004 to 2010-2011, compared to less than 20% of titles that were not digitized. The increase in sales was also found to be stronger for less popular books.
“If a book is readily available online, people may decide that it’s a useful book and want to buy it,” Reimers said. “The ‘discovery effect’, which even increased the sales of a digitized author’s non-digitized works, is a strong driver of increased sales. It’s not a huge jump in sales , but it’s still good news for publishers.”
“And book lovers,” Reimers said, “are known for their preference for physical books, as opposed to digital versions, which could also play a role.” She added ,“Whenever I talk to people about my research on books, at some point they all say,’ I just love the feel of a digitized author’s non-digitized works, is a strong driver of increased sales. It’s not a huge jump in sales , but it’s still good news for publishers.”
“And book lovers,” Reimers said, “are known for their preference for physical books , as opposed to digital versions, which could also play a role.” She added, “Whenever I talk to people about my research on books, at some point they all say, ‘I just love the feel of a book in my hand.’”
1. Why did the researchers choose the publications before 1923 for their research?A.They were all masterpieces. | B.They were mostly searchable. |
C.They were not protected by copyright. | D.They were only partly downloaded for free. |
A.By interviewing book users. | B.By comparing the sales data. |
C.By classifying the book titles. | D.By referring to historical records. |
A.To point out the limitations of the study. | B.To stress people’s different reading tastes. |
C.To tell another contributor to the sales rise. | D.To show a growing trend in reading books. |
A.Consumers Are Enthusiastic About E-books. |
B.Book Publishers Object to Digitizing Books. |
C.Physical Bookstores Are Declining in Importance. |
D.Digitizing Books Promotes Demand for Physical Copies. |
【推荐3】Relationship skills and social skills are referred to as “skills” for a reason — they require learning, practice, and improvement. Here are the best relationship books on the market, according to a licensed mental health counselor.
Best for Communication: 4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work — Anywhere!
In this day and age, we could all use a refresher in terms of basic communication skills. This award-winning book — filled with how-to guides and exercise challenges — is a great place to start. Written with all kinds of relationships in mind, including family, dating, friendships, and even work relationships, it’s designed to help you improve empathy, listening skills, and communication skills.
Best for Socializing: How to Become a People Magnet
Social anxiety is a common issue in our modern-day world among all age groups. This book, written by award-winning author Marc Reklau, provides 62 simple strategies (策略) to help you improve your social skills in everything from first impressions to deeper relationships. With a variety of strategies available, you can choose the ones that are best suited for your needs. This book is also beneficial for those working in sales or customer service — industries that frequently handle complaints or require making connections.
Best for Problem-Solving: I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
In this bestselling book, author Michael Sorensen put relationship problem-solving skills into a three-hour read. It reads more like a conversation to help users understand the value of listening and validation in relationships.
Best for Personality Types: The Enneagram for Relationships: Transform Your Connections with Friends, Family, Colleagues, and in Love
The Enneagram is one of the fastest-growing personality assessments and concepts in the world right now, and rightfully so. There are nine different personality types with up to 27 subtypes to help you understand yourself — aiding in connection with those closest to you.
1. What is the purpose of the text?A.To point out the importance of relationships. | B.To encourage people to improve social skills. |
C.To call for the understanding between people. | D.To introduce 4 relationship books to readers. |
A.It focuses on problem-solving skills. | B.It offers various strategies about social skills. |
C.It deals with all kinds of relationships. | D.It’s an award-winning book. |
A.4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work — Anywhere! |
B.How to Become a People Magnet. |
C.I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships. |
D.The Enneagram for Relationships: Transform Your Connections with Friends, Family, Colleagues, and in Love. |
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During this summer, our campers will explore all of the art-filled adventures that they can dream of. Each week a new adventure theme will stimulate their creativity and imaginations.
ScheduleWeek One: Magical creatures (June 13-17)
Unicorns(独角兽), dragons and any creature you can imagine will come alive this week as campers make 2D and 3D mixed media artworks. Students will leave with drawing and sculpting skills they can use to make any creature they want!
Week Two: Game on (June 20-24)Campers will be leveling up this week as they make video game art! They will create and design their own artwork based on popular games for kids.
Week Three: Out in the wild (June 27-July 1)Journey deep into the wild this week as campers create portraits of themselves in the wild, explore printmaking with animal prints, and more!
Week Four: Under the sea (July 4-8)Students will swim and wade(蹚水)their way through everything in the water by painting, drawing, printing, sculpting and more!
Week Five: Worldwide adventures (July 11-15)Pack your bags and get ready for a fast-paced adventure across the world!
Week Six: Enchanted kingdom(魔法王国)(July 18-22)From castles to princesses, our campers will spend a journey making 2D and 3D kingdom-inspired creations.
Registration• It begins on March 1. Sessions for kids run from Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
• Per 5-day weekly session: $190 members / $215 non-members and $160 members / $185 non-members for June 20-24.
• Register early for a $10-a-week discount between March 1 and April 1.
• Receive a $10-a-week discount for registering multiple children or a $10-a-week discount for multiple weeks.
1. On which day may campers make 3D animals?
A.June 15. | B.June 23. | C.July 13. | D.July 25. |
A.Magical creatures. | B.Worldwide adventures. |
C.Water-themed art projects. | D.Kingdom-inspired creations. |
A.$150. | B.$175. | C.$180. | D.$205. |
【推荐3】Four Interesting Science Museums
Polytechnic Museum, Russia
A variety of technical fields here are presented in 65 halls -Mining, Space, Energy, and Transportation, etc. And the exposition (博览会) is the only museum project in Russia about the history of the bike. In addition to self-experimentation, for personal requests, the museum’s experts will show many entertaining experiments.
Eureka, England
The Eureka educational center is a huge complex where modern science and technology are becoming clear, even to kids. The main exhibition is devoted to the human body, the laws of physics and natural things.Visitors can obtain energy or create paper with their own hands. In the area of the Eureka educational park, there is a botanical garden and a collection of minerals from the rock types of Finland is presented there.
Deutsches Museum, Germany
In this museum you can see more than 1000 thousand different items from windmills (风车) to medical equipment. All aspects of industrial production appear before the eyes. Several museum rooms are arranged especially for children.
NEMO, the Netherlands
The largest Dutch research centre stands ready to share its secrets with everyone. Getting involved in the world of science and technology will not be dull. All information is presented in the form of exciting games. All exhibits are interactive; visitors are allowed to touch, pull and press on anything. The museum is for children from 6 to 16, as well as for their parents.
1. What can visitors do at Polytechnic Museum?A.Create paper. | B.Touch all of the exhibits. |
C.Enjoy lots of plants. | D.Learn how the bike developed. |
A.Polytechnic Museum. | B.Eureka. |
C.Deutsches Museum. | D.NEMO. |
A.It is specially designed for children. |
B.It is the largest museum in the world. |
C.It shows information of exhibits in games. |
D.It allows children to do experiments with experts. |