【推荐2】Chicken is the number one food that causes food poisoning (中毒). So it makes sense that people want to know how to tell if chicken is bad.     1    

Check the date. Checking the date is the first step to see if raw (生的) chicken is safe to eat. If the printed date passed, the quality of the meat isn’t that great, although it’s still usable.     2    . The advice differs for each type of meat, so be careful how long these meats last in the fridge.

    3    . Check with your eyes, nose, and fingers before buying chicken that might be bad. Raw, fresh chicken that isn’t bad does have a very faint, mild smell. Bad chicken, however, has a clear terrible or sour (酸的) smell. And when it goes bad, the color of the chicken changes from pink to gray. And rather than having a wet, smooth feel, bad chicken is covered with a thick layer of what seems like sticky matter.     4    , the package should feel cold to the touch as it should be kept below freezing.

Cooked chicken lasts three to four days in the refrigerator. If you’re unsure, use your senses again to check if cooked chicken is bad. Meat whose color has changed is one of the things that food poisoning experts never eat.

Remember, how to tell if chicken is bad comes down to color, touch, and smell.     5    , it’s wise to throw it out. If your chicken passes all these tests, make sure you also know how to cook chicken breast the right way.

【推荐3】We all have problems and barriers (障碍) that prevent us from moving into new areas. When someone meets the problem which he can’t get over, he usually turns away and starts walking along a different path. Unluckily, soon he may get into another similar one. In this way, his life stays inside the same old cycles, in which he is unlikely to make progress or keep learning.

While others deal with problems by loving them instead of hating them. The word “love” means accepting your problems. The more we deny (否定) a problem, the stronger it seems to become. Only when we accept the fact can we find the useful ways to deal with it.

Suppose one of your barriers is taking a final exam. You fear that you will forget everything that you have remembered. One way of dealing with it is to pretend (假装) that you are not afraid—tell yourself “I’m not going to be scared ”and then try to force a smile on your face.

But compared with that, loving your fear actually works better. You just need to say to yourself, “I’m scared. But I’m going to take it easy. It is not only a problem, but also a chance for me to make progress.” By doing that, you allow yourself to be afraid and you can have a right understanding to your problem. You welcome your problem and face it in an active way. So there’s no doubt that you are more likely to overcome it completely.

It is impossible to live a life without problems. Loving them doesn’t mean hiding them. Instead, it means admitting the truth about them. This helps us take effective (有效的) actions, which can free us from the problems once and for all.

【推荐2】Twin sisters Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi won the women’s double free title to take China’s third gold in artistic swimming at the 19th FINA World Championships on Thursday.

The 25-year-old twins, who also won the women’s technical double and the women’s team technical, beat the Ukrainian and Austrian teams with a score of 95.5667 points. The Ukrainian Aleksiiva sisters, Maryna and Vladyslava, got the silver medal with 94.1667, while Anna-Maria and Eirini Alexandria of Austria came third on 92.8000.

“I feel very happy and excited to win the third gold medal for the Chinese artistic swimming team,” older sister Wang Liuyi told Xinhua. “The help of the coach and the encouragement of teammates have given us a lot of motivation. We have overcome tiredness and various difficulties. I did very well today and I’m satisfied with my performance.”

Wang Qianyi said: “This is the first time for us to compete in both the double and the team events, so I felt a little bit of pressure.”“In spite of tiredness, we were able to withstand (承受) this pressure. I feel very happy,” she added.

Since the start of the FINA Worlds, the sisters have delivered seven performances in the preliminaries and the finals.

According to Qianyi, a key to success was the winter training plan by the coach, which has laid a very good foundation for them. “In terms of physical fitness, both of us have greatly improved. The coach gave us a solid training and gave us a lot of trust. We are encouraging each other too,” she said.

On Friday, the sisters will compete in the team free final, which is their last event in the Championships. Wang Liuyi said: “We hope to be able to work together with our teammates in the final tomorrow, to have a better performance and achieve better results.” “The World Championships is a big test for us. We hope to play steadily, step by step, and do a good job. I believe that no matter what kind of difficulties we meet, we can overcome them,” Qianyi added.