The lights go down, music plays, and a young woman on a bike at the front of the class encourages students to spin faster and harder. When the lights go back on, the students on the bikes pull out their notebooks, and it's clear that this is not Soul Cycle. Instead, it's a first-of-its-kind business school course at Fordham University that is taught on spin bikes in a university.
“It's the first class that I mention to anybody when anybody asks me what classes I'm taking,” said Amanda Vopat, 22, a business administration major. “I think people are really excited about it.”
The 75-minute, twice-weekly course is the brainchild of Julita Haber, a business school professor at Fordham. “I have been introducing movement and fitness in my classes for the past seven years,” she said. “I found the spin class would really allow students to exercise while a professor lectures at the same time.”
The course the students are taking while cycling is no joke. Managing Professional Relationships is an upper-level business school course taken primarily by juniors and seniors. The students are fully instrumental in each class, selecting the music, leading stretches before and after class and leading the intervals during the class.
Haber stops her lecture every 20 minutes throughout the class. While one student turns off the lights, another student turns up the music and a third student goes to a bike in the front of the class to lead their classmates in high-intensity interval that lasts two to three minutes, just enough to re-energize the students. “It's a wonderful way of engaging students and as a professor, as a teacher, that's really gratifying,” she said. “They don't have their smart phones, and they don't have laptops so they are physically engaged and also mentally engaged in what is being said.”
The course is the first of its kind at Fordham, and Haber believes it is also a first across the United States. She has authored research on the unique classroom approach, which she calls fitness integrated(综合的)learning.
Donna Rapaccioli, the head of Fordham's Gabelli School of Business, described how students were “energized” by the class and said Fordham was open to expanding it to other courses. “Definitely,” Rapaccioli answered when asked if Haber's course represents the future of learning.
1. What might Soul Cycle be?A.A health club | B.A repair shop. |
C.A bicycle store. | D.A music studio. |
A.It lasts seventy-five minutes without breaks. |
B.It was originally thought up by Julita. |
C.It was taught in a university gym once every 2 weeks. |
D.It is open to all students at Fordham University. |
A.Haber has introduced the spin class seven years before. |
B.Students pull out their notebooks while riding the spin bikes. |
C.Haber is satisfied with her course. |
D.The course has become popular in the US. |
A.Humorous and clever. | B.Hopeful and cheerful. |
C.Serious and friendly. | D.Proud and confident. |
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During an inspection tour in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality from Dec.21 to 22, Wen visited a number of local factories, communities, villages and worksites.
In a visit to the reservoir worksite, Wen was told that Chongqing plans to invest 40 billion yuan ($5.88 billion) in water conservation projects in the coming five years as part of its efforts to increase domestic demands and improve the quality of life. “We must make good use of every coin of the people,” he said.
At a workshop of the Chang’an Group, the premier showed great concerns over the negative impacts of the global financial crisis on the city’s automobile industry.
The company’s car sales have been declining since November. It is expected to further decrease in the first quarter of next year, said the company’s president Xu Liuping.
Wen said that the difficulties in the country’s automobile industry are temporary, because “China has a huge market.”
Wen urged the company to depend on innovation and reform while improving quality and decreasing the cost. “Company leaders must be bold to shoulder responsibilities and the staff should unite as one, to get over the difficulties together,” he said.
On Monday morning, the premier paid a visit to a communal social security center to learn about the life of low-income families. “The more financially challenged we are, the greater attention we should pay to those in need,” he stressed.
At the home of 76-year-old Ren Gouqing, the premier said the government had decided to continue increasing the pension of retirees, as well as the subsidies for low-income families and other families who receive government subsidies.
During his tour in the city, Wen paid an unplanned visit to Chongqing University, where he met thousands of students and encouraged them to be confident in the difficult times.
1. The most important job, according to premier Wen Jiabao, is ________.A.getting over the current financial difficulties |
B.speeding up reform and development in China |
C.increasing the pension of retirees |
D.maintaining a stable and relatively fast economic development |
A.Chongqing has invested 40 billion yuan in water conservation projects |
B.Automobile industry in Chongqing is expected to further increase in the next year |
C.The financial crises has influenced the automobile industry in Chongqing |
D.It is the government that is responsible for overcoming the financial difficulties |
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A.Premier Wen Jiabao visited Chongqing | B.Wen: maintaining economic stability a priority |
C.Unite to fight against financial crisis | D.Be confident in the difficult times |
【推荐2】EAST ORANGE, N.J. (CBS New York) — A third grader who knew what to do in an emergency and took action is being credited with saving a life at school.
Kori Scott, 9, was honored Thursday by the mayor of East Orange, New Jersey for her quick-thinking and bravery when a friend began choking in the lunchroom about two weeks ago.
“I could just tell, because when I saw her starting to swallow, she stopped and started pounding on the table,” she told CBS2’s Clark Fouraker. Scott said her friend was eating a burrito and left the cafeteria at Bowser Elementary looking for water. “I started following her and when I came out, she was holding onto a rail,” she said.
It would be an urgent situation for anyone, but Scott remembered something important as she left the lunchroom — her friend would not be able to take a drink of water, because she was choking. “I knew if she was holding onto the railing and she went to lean her head over, she would have hit her head and she would have passed out,” she said. “So I pulled her over, did the Heimlich maneuver — one, two, three. But I did it one more time to make sure that she wasn’t choking.”
“I picked her up from school. The teacher came out near-tears and she was like ‘Kori did an exceptional job, an amazing job today.’ And I was like, ‘What?’ She said, ‘she saved a life.’” Scott’s mother, Kiana, said. Scott learned to do the Heimlich after her father performed it on her when she was three.
“Kori’s smart instincts (直觉) and quick action are the characteristics of a true hero,” said Mayor Ted Green. For her bravery, the mayor is making Scott “Mayor-For-The-Day” on Friday.
Her friend may not be alive today if the girl hadn’t known exactly what to do and sprung into action. In addition to learning the Heimlich maneuver from her father, Kori has been training classes with her mother, a security guard with the school district.
1. What do we know about Kori Scott?A.She is careful and quick-minded. |
B.She performed Heimlich maneuver before. |
C.She received first aid training from her mother. |
D.She panicked at the sight of her friend’s choking. |
A.Father’s previous performance guaranteed Scott’s success. |
B.First-aid techniques enabled Scott to escape from danger. |
C.The teacher was satisfied with Scott’s heroic deeds. |
D.Scott was honored for saving her choking friend. |
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When the necropsy (尸检) was performed, Blatchley told NPR, he was not prepared for the amount of plastic they found in the whale’s stomach. “It was full of plastic- nothing but nonstop plastic,” he said. “It was filled to the point that its stomach was as hard as a baseball.” “That means that this animal has been suffering not for days or weeks but for months or even a year or more.” Blatchley added.
Blatchley is the founder and owner of the D’ Bone Collector Museum, a natural history museum in Davao. In the coming days, the museum will display all the items found in the whale’s system.
Blatchley and his team work with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and other organizations to assist in rescue and recovery of marine animals.
“Within the last 10 years, we have recovered 61 whales and dolphins just within the Davao Gulf,” he said. “Of them, 57 have died due to man --whether they took plastic or fishing nets or other waste, or gotten caught in pollution-- and four were pregnant.”
Blatchley said he hoped that the latest incident would launch the issue of plastic pollution in the Philippines and across the globe. “If we keep going this way, it will be more uncommon to see an animal die of natural causes than it is to see an animal die of plastic.” he said.
1. What can be inferred from the second paragraph?A.The whale was starved to death. |
B.Blatchley didn’t make preparations for the necropsy. |
C.The dead whale must have swallowed a baseball. |
D.Blatchley was shocked at what he found. |
A.Uncommon. | B.Inspiring. |
C.Worrying. | D.Puzzling. |
A.Natural Death or Merciless murder. |
B.Stand Up for Protecting Whales. |
C.Plastic Threatening Our Existence. |
D.A Whale Found Dead of Plastic. |