When my friend offered me a spider plant sprout, I decided to try something I'd never done before: commit to becoming a plant person. After doing research and changing my perspective, I can proudly say I am succeeding.
Start with Easy Plants
Research
It might seem like a pain but doing a little research can be the difference between your plant surviving and thriving. Looking up how much sunlight the plant needs, how often to water it,
Too much water can drown the plant. Not watering your plant enough can cause it to dry out and die very quickly. You'd better make a watering schedule to make sure you don't over or under water your plants.
Cater to the Plant
Just after a few weeks, I noticed the plant leaves were losing their green color. I found spider plants don't do well with intense afternoon sunlight. So I completely rearranged all my plants in my living room to cater to their specific sunlight needs.
| A．Do It with Love |
| B．Plants Need Watering Every Day |
| C．Create a Watering Schedule |
| D．what temperature it does best in |
| E．Now my plants are thriving more than ever |
| F．Like taking on any major project, it's best to start simply |
| G．Here are some tips to take on house plants when you do not have a green thumb |
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【推荐1】How to Get Rid of a Cold Naturally Fast
Although a cold usually goes away on its own within 4 -7 days, you can ease your symptoms to feel better faster. You can get rid of a cold both naturally and fast by clearing your nasal passages( ~ ~1E7ii~) with non-medical options.
1. Clear Your Nasal Passages
Blow your nose correctly. While it's important to blow your nose while you have a cold, don' t blow too explosively. The pressure from blowing hard can impact your ears, giving you an earache on top of your cold. Be sure to blow gently, and only as often as necessary.
2. Help Your Body Feel Better Faster
Drinking plenty of warm fluids makes you feel better faster and relieves cold symptoms such as a runny nose, cough, sneezing, and sore throat.
Consume vitamin C, which can help strengthen your immune system. Citrus fruits, red and green peppers, kiwifruit, spinach, and other raw fruits and vegetables are good sources of vitamin C.
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See your doctor immediately if you have shortness of breath or wheezing. Any time you' re having trouble breathing, it' s an emergency situation.
Visit your doctor for a fever above 101.3 oF (38.5 oC) or lasting 5 days.
If your symptoms don't seem to be going away in 7 days, then your infection could be worsening. It's best to see your doctor to make sure you' re getting the proper treatment.
| A．When to Seek Medical Treatment |
| B．Wash Your Hands Each Time You Blow Your Nose |
| C．And your body needs rest in order to heal faster, so go ahead and call in sick |
| D．For children under the age of 12, see a doctor if their fever lasts longer than 2 days |
| E．Getting plenty of rest, fluids, and nutrition will also allow your body to recover faster |
| F．Medicine may present side effects for pregnant women and people with low blood pressure |
| G．Doctors recommend that you blow by holding a finger over one nostril and gently blowing the other into a tissue |
【推荐2】Why is a compliment so impactful? One of the most important things to humans is to feel valued and respected by others, says Vanessa Bohns, a social psychologist, who has researched compliments. According to her research, people feel “significantly better” after both giving and receiving a compliment.
“You handled that situation so well.”
Bohns recently used her favorite compliment when she saw a server address a difficult situation with a customer at the bar. “I like it so much because you use it in anxious moments where the other person is often unsure of whether they handled a situation OK,” she says. In situations that call for a compliment, don’t second-guess yourself. Give your compliments generously.
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This compliment — one of Bohns’ favorites — works well among romantic partners and close family members. “It’s a beautiful way to highlight how their presence turns life into something meaningful, despite boring routines of our everyday lives,” she says. If you’re afraid that giving a compliment like this will feel strange, you’re not alone.
“Hey, great dress!”
Feel free to compliment strangers. In Bohns’ research, students on a college campus were told to approach a stranger of the same gender and compliment them-about, for example, their nice shirt. Before heading out, the study participants tended to underestimate their positive effect while overestimating how annoying it would be. Across all contexts, strangers are more likely to be pleased than confused. Plus, who knows?
| A．I love the way you bring out the best in people. |
| B．Respect is essential when you deliver compliments. |
| C．One way to overcome this fear is to do a practice run. |
| D．You make even ordinary moments feel extraordinary. |
| E．You might make a new friend in addition to making someone’s day. |
| F．With that in mind, we asked her to share some of her favorite compliments. |
| G．People sometimes worry that they’re going over and will start to sound insincere. |
【推荐3】I recently received an e-mail from a wise speaker. In his e-mail, he pointed out some obstacles that lie ahead on the way to success.
Laziness. Even with a right goal and the courage to pursue it, your efforts will be in vain unless you're willing to take actions.
Doubt.
Dishonesty. As you begin to be successful, you'll tend to lie, exaggerate（夸大）, and cheat in order to move your agenda forward. However, taking the easy way of dishonesty will make you become the person you hate.
| A．Only the brave can overcome this first obstacle. |
| B．His thoughts were so deep and insightful that I edited them. |
| C．Write down your goals and the action steps you'll take to pursue those goals. |
| D．In the end, it causes far more problems than taking the risk of telling the truth. |
| E．Adjust it as needed along the way, but always know that success will ultimately be yours. |
| F．Once you've made a decision, doubt is a worm that eats away at your ability to succeed. |
| G．If you can't experience gratitude, you might as well have stayed exactly where you started. |
【推荐1】Seagrass meadows(海草床)are wonder plants growing beneath the sea. They feed and shelter sea life and are masterful at storing carbon.
Seagrass has usually been detected by Earth-orbiting satellites that identify darker patches in the blue water. In this study, tiger sharks were selected as research tools due to their highly consistent associations with seagrass ecosystems. They spend 70% of their time in seagrass meadows. The team equipped eight tiger sharks with satellite tags and used a 360-degree camera on them for the first time ever.
The data researchers collected was astonishing. The world’s largest seagrass ecosystem, measuring at least 66,900 square kilometers, has been discovered. This reflects a 41% increase from previous estimates of global seagrass. Seagrass can capture(捕获)huge quantities of carbon by photosynthesis and stores it on the seafloor. In terms of climate change, this is excellent news; seagrass is 35 times faster at removing carbon than tropical rainforests. When referred to global seagrass carbon stock estimates, the study indicates that seagrass in the Bahamas may contain 19.2% to 26.3% of all the carbon stored in seagrass meadows on Earth.
Yet seagrass meadows are rapidly disappearing, with over 92% of meadows in the UK gone, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Scientists are collecting seeds and trying to grow new seagrass meadows through restoration projects.
The sharks led us to the seagrass ecosystem in the Bahamas, which we now know is likely the most significant blue carbon sink on the planet. What this discovery shows us is that ocean exploration and research are essential for a healthy future. The untapped potential of the ocean is limitless, offering hope for climate change around the globe.
1. Why were tiger sharks chosen as research tools?| A．hey are more flexible than other sea animals. |
| B．They can quickly adjust themselves to the deep sea. |
| C．They can be easily equipped with experimental devices. |
| D．They have a strong connection with seagrass-ecosystems. |
| A．The decline of global seagrass meadows. |
| B．The impact of climate change on sea life. |
| C．The rapid increase in the amount of carbon on Earth. |
| D．The potential value of the world’s largest seagrass ecosystem. |
| A．Planting more seagrass meadows. |
| B．Developing new technology to collect seeds. |
| C．Mapping the distribution of seagrass meadows. |
| D．Encouraging people to join in restoration projects. |
| A．The New Way of Removing Carbon |
| B．The Significance of Ocean Exploration. |
| C．A New Discovery: World’s Largest Seagrass Meadow |
| D．Tiger Sharks: Scientists’ Essential Helper to Study Climate |
【推荐2】Four houseplants that anyone can grow
Filling your home with greenery is something that can improve the quality of your indoor air, and help you to relax. So turn your brown thumb green by picking some of these houseplants.
Snake Plant
Snake plants have thicker leaves for keeping water even in drought conditions. They can also tolerate (经受) medium to bright light so you should keep them near a window. But one of the best things about snake plants is that they are great for cleaning indoor air.
Christmas Cactus
The Christmas cactus is one of the most beautiful plants of the holiday season and it seems to be able to do best even if you ignore it. The cactus can tolerate low light but will produce more pink or red flowers in bright light. Getting the plant to produce flowers for the season is a bit harder because it will have to be kept cool beginning in November. Just leave the cactus beside a window at home with the heat off.
Jade Plant
Jade plants can make your home more beautiful with its bright egg-shaped leaves. The plant does well in any lighting and doesn’t need to be watered very often because it stores water in its leaves. This plant is also simple to propagate (繁殖) so you can have one in every room of your home.
Aloe Vera
Aloe vera needs very little water, indirect sunlight, and can live in the same pot for years. But you may not know that aloe vera is a plant that can help heal(治愈) minor cuts and burns like sunburns so it is a great addition for your home. When you are cutting leaves to use, don’t cut off more than a third of the plant at one time.
1. What is the author’s advice on making Christmas cactus flower in winter?| A．Paying no much attention to it. | B．Keeping it growing in low light. |
| C．Putting it somewhere cool. | D．Planting it during the holiday season. |
| A．They do well in any lighting. | B．They are easy to produce new plants. |
| C．They can grow better in drought conditions. | D．They can store water in their leaves. |
| A．It can adapt to any environment. | B．It can be used as medicine. |
| C．It is difficult to propagate. | D．It protects people from the sun. |
【推荐3】Mushrooms on a log may each seem like quiet, separate organisms, but they are actually the above-ground fruit belonging to a fungus (真菌)，connected to the large organism by a root network called mycelium (菌丝). Although mushrooms may not seem very talkative either, a new study shows electrical signals travelling through their mycelium network could help the organism communicate.
According to the research, some mushrooms can use electrical impulse (脉冲) to share and process information in their body. When signal activity increases, it creates complicated patterns that may function like words in human speech.
Previous research has found that mushrooms can send electrical signals underground through long, thread-like structures, which expand to form a network of mycelium. It works like nerve cells that send signals to other parts of the human body. Some studies have shown that electrical activity will increase when the mycelium of wood-digesting mushrooms touches blocks, which may indicate that mushrooms can use these impulses to share information about food or injury.
In the new study, four species were analyzed. Researchers listened to the mushrooms’ chat using tiny electrodes (电极) connected to mycelium to measure the power in signal activity. Each result in the activity was organized into several groups and given a linguistic (语言的) and information complexity analysis. The power varied in duration and length, with some lasting up to 21 hours. The electrical points resembled a human vocabulary of up to 50 words. However, only 15 to 20 mushrooms’ words are used frequently.
Mushrooms’ words are also similar in length to human words. The mushroom’s word length averaged over the four species is 5.97, which is of the same range as an average word length in some human languages. For instance, it is 4.8 in English and 6 in Russian.
While the research shows mushrooms can produce patterns of electrical signals, there’s no way to tell what they are talking about, if they are at all. Though comparing the mushroom’s electrical signals to human speech is interesting and notable, some researchers are doubtful. “Though interesting, the interpretation as language seems somewhat overenthusiastic and requires more research,” says Dan Bebber from the University of Exeter.
1. How do mushrooms communicate according to the research?| A．Through their mycelium. |
| B．Through their nerve cells. |
| C．Through electrical signals. |
| D．Through the root network. |
| A．It is similar to human speech in several aspects. |
| B．It is far too complicated to understand anything. |
| C．It is not impulses that they use to communicate. |
| D．It is easy to tell the exact information they share. |
| A．It is simply unquestionable. |
| B．It is definitely contradictory. |
| C．It is absolutely groundless. |
| D．It is not convincing enough. |
| A．Health Guide. | B．Science World. |
| C．Travel Journal. | D．Business Week. |
