【推荐1】How to Keep a Diary

In an age of blogs and social media postings, diaries still have a huge following. Here you can be completely honest, and protect your privacy. What’s more, you can keep your writings forever.     1     Diaries have also been shown to help regular (调节) moods and emotions. If you are the interested in keeping a diary, you can refer to the following rules.

Be honest. Diaries can be very beneficial. A study at the University of California showed that writing about feelings honestly helps the brain regulate emotions.    2     This is good for your emotional well-being.

Decide what do write about. There are many different types of diaries. Some people use diaries to record daily events.    3     If you’re working towards a goal, like losing weight or completing a creative project, a diary can be a great means to discuss your feeling and progress.

    4     Many people struggle to find the time to write a diary entry (记录) each day. If you’re interested in keeping a diary, try to stick to a   schedule Write your diaries around the same time each day. In this way, it will become as much a part of your   schedule as brushing your teeth at night or showering in the morning.

Write short entries when you’re pressed for time.    5     If you’re in a rush, just write a shorter entry. Write down the bare minimum of your feeling and though quickly. You can always record more about an event later in the week when you have time. Simply try to write down the basic details before you forget.

A．Keep a schedule.

B．Form a habit of keeping a diary.

C．Others use them to record dreams.

D．Everyone gets busy from time to time.

E．You had better write down the detailed information every day.

F．As you write diaries, try to be as honest as possible in your entries.

G．Diaries are great ways to keep track of your past and think about your future.

【推荐2】Do you like writing a few paragraphs every day about your experiences, hopes, memories or feelings? If you don't, it's time to make a change now. Here is why.

You will gradually become better at expressing yourself. When I am forced to write every day because of a book deadline(最后期限), I am always amazed at how quickly my writing and verbal(口头的) communication skills improve. When we become lazy with words, it is more difficult to describe feelings, share experiences and make ourselves understood.

You will remember things long forgotten. As you write about memories, it is like opening an old photo album. Your pen begins to explore feelings and details you have forgotten, and dreams you have left behind. You suddenly remember people you would like to contact again. Writing is an activity that avoids distractions(分心) long enough for you to explore those wonderful moments of the past. Sometimes they are frightening. Sometimes they are wonderful and almost always they are helpful.

Writing about daily experiences and feelings provides a recorded history that will influence how you make future decisions. There's a reason that the greatest leaders in history were students of history. They learned from what had happened before. Your history is important. Don't let it be forgotten.

Writing reminds you of your dreams and keeps you moving toward them. It is a means of keeping track of your purpose and the goals that will lead you to achieve them. Reviewing what you have written is a perfect way to see your progress and to show when you have been distracted and may need to give all your attention again to your writing.

Writing a little every day could provide the material that someday becomes a published book. When I wrote about my four-year-old granddaughter who had lost in the mountains, I never dreamed it would be in a book.

1. What did the author want to show by giving the example in Paragraph 2?

A．We shouldn't be lazy with words.

B．A deadline encourages us to work hard.

C．Writing helps us better express ourselves.

D．There're good ways to improve our writing skills,

2. According to Paragraph 3, what does writing help us do?

A．Improve our memory quickly.	B．Think of our past experiences.
C．Successfully achieve our dreams.	D．Explore happy moments in others' lives.

3. What does Paragraph 5 mainly tell about writing?

A．It can be encouraging.	B．It can be distracting.
C．It can be disappointing.	D．It can be interesting.

4. What is the purpose of the author in writing the passage?

A．To tell how to publish books one day.

B．To explain why the author loves writing.

C．To tell how to improve our writing skills.

D．To encourage us to write about our lives every day.

【推荐3】So you want to be a citizen scientist? The National Science Foundation (NSF) has got you covered. NSF supports citizen science across all areas of science, whether your passion is to scan the night sky, or explore your own backyard.

Join a flock of birders

eBird is an online platform that allows bird-watchers to go online and record their sightings to a database. With more than 100,000 active users, eBird's system is a treasure of information on bird population, distribution and habitat, which users can explore in real time.

Count every drop

The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) is the largest provider of daily precipitation observations in the United States. Volunteers set up rain gauges and record data every time a rain, snow or hail storm passes over. Data is organized and shared on the CoCoRaHS website, and used by scientists, farmers and more.

Search for stars with your computer

Einstein@Home uses your computer's idle time to search for space signals. The project has already had major successes: Volunteers discovered about 50 stars, using data from Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory and Australia's Parkes Observatory. Einstein@Home also searches for gravitational-wave signals using data from NSF's Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.

Be part of a supercomputer

To link all those home computers, Einstien@Home uses software called the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, better known as BOINC. The software choreographs(安排，筹划) the technical aspect of volunteer computing and helps you use radio telescope signals to search for alien life.

Join the plankton party

Without plankton, life in the ocean would not exist. These tiny organisms form the base of the food chain, and play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Plankton Portal enlists citizen scientists to identify images of plankton, snapped by the In Situ Icthyoplankton Imaging System (ISIIS), an underwater robot engineered at the University of Miami. ISIIS has taken millions of images in oceans around the world and upload them into a database; classifying the images helps researchers understand plankton diversity, habitat and behavior.

1. On the website of eBird, a bird-watcher can ________.

A．make contact with other active users

B．explore the world of birds in real time

C．observe all the existing bird species

D．provide and share birds’ information

2. The program “________” is not based on the Internet database.

A．Join the plankton party

B．Be part of a supercomputer

C．Count every drop

D．Search for stars with your computer

3. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A．Become a Citizen Scientist

B．Make a Contribution to NSF

C．Be part of Space Exploration

D．Follow the Steps to be a Citizen Scientist