【推荐1】A man was driving at 70 miles in a 40-mile-zone, when a police car came behind him with the light on.     1    

As the policeman came to him, he said, "Hi, officer, I guess you caught me a little bit over the limit. I was in a rush to get home, to be with my wife and kids, you know my younger son wasn't feeling too well when I left home this morning."

The policeman said, "Well, I guess so,'' and started writing something in his notebook.     2    . A few moments later, the policeman came to his window and handed him a paper, and returned to his car without saying a single word. The man started to wonder, how much this ticket was going to be as he began to look at the paper.     3    

"I had a daughter who was killed by a speeding car at the age of six, by a speeding driver like you. He got a fine, a few months in prison, and was free, free to hug two other daughters.     4    I have tried to forgive that man a thousand times, and I thought I had. Maybe I really did forgive him, but I have to do it again, even right now.    5    "

The man was very surprised and could not move for the next few minutes. When finally he did, he drove slowly, even a few miles under the speed limit, praying for forgiveness.

【推荐3】Vehicles often come into conflict with other vehicles and pedestrians when their intended courses of travel intersect (交叉), and end up being in each other，s way. The general principle that establishes who has the right to go first is called “right of way”, or “priority”. It determines who has the right to use the conflicting part of the road and who has to wait. Signs, signals, markings and other features are often used to make priority clear.

A driver must yield (让) the right of way to other drivers:

● When approaching a YIELD sign. Slow down or stop to avoid a crash.

● Even after the light turns green when there are vehicles in the intersection.

● When approaching emergency vehicles using sounding or flashing sirens.

● After coming to a complete stop at an intersection where there is a stop sign or a flashing red signal. If there is no stop line, stop before the crosswalk.

● When making a left turn on a red light after a stop from a one-way street to another one-way street with traffic moving to the left. (See Figure A.)

● When two vehicles on different roadways arrive at a four-way stop intersection at the same time, the vehicle should yield to the vehicle on its right. (See Figure B.)

● When coming out of an alley, building, private road or driveway after coming to a complete stop. (See Figure C.)

● When crossing traffic at the end of a “T” road with no traffic control signs or signals. (See Figure D.)

【推荐1】Despite all of the motivational quotes that say getting out of comfort zone is essential for your happy life, it’s still a struggle breaking from regular routine. Your comfort zone is a space for balance, and is neither good nor bad. It's simply a natural tendency we all have, and while leaving it can cause anxiety and stress, it’s often for the best.

The benefits to leaving your comfort zone are many-sided, impacting not only your emotional health but also your your work-life balance. For instance, your work productivity will increase because you’ll no longer be stuck being content with tasks that are easy for you. Rather than pretending lo be busy. You’ll feel the impact of a deadline and make an effort to learn from new experiences. By breaking out of your comfort zone, you will be prepared lo deal with new and unexpected changes in life. Brene Brown, a research professor at University of Houston, explains this phenomenon further, where “one of the worst things we can do is pretend that fear and uncertainty don’t exist. By taking risks in a controlled fashion and challenging yourself to things you normally wouldn't do, you can experience some of that uncertainty in controlled, manageable environment. Learning to live outside your comfort zone when you choose to can prepare you for life changes that force you out of it.” You'll find a renewed sense of optimism Regarding obstacles (障碍), and brainstorm to use creativity to get yourself to your desired goal.

Getting out of your comfort zone is also a way to challenge yourself in a beneficial way, as long as you're aware of what your limitations are for just enough anxiety and stress. You can stretch your personal boundaries Co do amazing things, like climbing Kilimanjaro or meeting new people. As you break out of your comfort zone though, make sure you you take time lo recover mentally by coming back to your routine occasionally so you don't burn out. Soon, you’ll find yourself making it a habit to leave your comfort zone to pursue greater. better things.

【推荐2】To most of us, school means classes, teachers, schedules, grades and tests. But for the children at Sudbury Valley School, Massachusetts, school is very different.

Firstly, there are no lessons. All the children, aged between 4 and 19, do whatever they want to. There are no teachers —only “staff members”. The idea behind this is that you do not need to make children learn, because children want to learn anyway. “You do not need to say to a three-year-old, ‘Go to explore your environment.’ You can’t stop them!” says Daniel Greenberg, a founder of the school. “But if you make children do what you want all day, they will lose all taste for learning.”

At Sudbury Valley School, you will permit children to talk, read, paint, cook, work on computers, study French, play the piano, climb trees, or just run around. Two boys spent three years just fishing!

The other way that Sudbury Valley School is different is that the children can decide the rules. Every week, there is a school meeting where both children and staff have one vote each—even the four-year-olds. They decide the school rules, how to spend the school budget, and even which staff they want and do not want any more.

When the school first opened in 1968, people said it would never work. But today, the school has 200 students, and 80% of its students go on to college. Even the two boys who went fishing all the time have successful careers today. One of them is a musician and the other is a computer scientist.

【推荐3】How clever can a computer be? Maybe you can get the answer after reading the following passage about a newly-developed US computer program called Smarter Child.

If you ran into Smarter Child online, you would be surprised at this kid’s huge memory. It can remember many facts. For example, Smarter Child knows every baseball player in every team this season and the weather in every city across the US. He also knows every word in the dictionary. However, if you ask Smarter Child other private questions, you will get strange answers. A question about Smarter Child’s age returns, “I’ll be older than you after further study!”, and asking where he lives, you will get, “In a clean room in a high-tech building in California.”

Smarter Child uses the huge information on the World Wide Web as his memory bank. To answer questions about spelling, for example, Smarter Child goes to www.ahdictionary.com. For the weather, he visits www.intellicast.com. He turns to www.the-scientist.com for scientists and www.moviefone.com for a fantastic movie.

Some scientists believe that by joining many systems of the Internet, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the combined (结合的) knowledge of, say, Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon and Britney Spears could be born. However, Smarter Child has difficulty in discerning whether a behavior is right or wrong, which is obvious to any young child. If he wants to think and learn without any help from the programmers like boy-computer David in the movie Artificial Intelligence (AI), he must solve two problems.

The first is that computers find it difficult to read web pages because the files are sorted in different ways. That’s why programmers need to tell Smarter Child where to look for the weather. It would be a much more difficult task to let him find it by himself. Another problem is that while Smarter Child can deal with information more exactly and faster than any human, he needs programmers to make better systems that allow machines to solve problems of common sense, which is a huge challenge.