【推荐1】Could a quick browse through a museum’s website actually improve your mental health? Researchers in Vienna say cultural institutions quickly had to ________ to an online format during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. Digital museums and online art galleries ________ a popular outlet (发泄途径) for the public during quarantine. Moreover, study authors say this had two other effects: People could ________ cultural exhibits around the world from their couch and art galleries had a chance to ________ a much larger audience. Previous studies have found that a visit to a gallery or a museum can greatly ________ a person’s mood and well-being. So, researchers wanted to see if the same was ________ for people viewing the same exhibits on the Internet.

Psychologists MacKenzie Trupp, Matthew Pelowski, and their team asked volunteers to visit art exhibitions online, using their smartphones, tablets, and other digital ________ during the study. Before and after the visits, the team ________ each person’s psychological state and well-being. Results showed that even a(n) ________ visit online can produce a significant improvement in someone’s mental ________. After just one to two minutes spent looking at an online art gallery, participants reported lower levels of negative mood, anxiety, and loneliness, as well as higher subjective well-being. The results were also ________ to other mental health interventions including trips into nature or green spaces and visits to physical museums.

On a subjective level, the team found that people who found the digital art to be more meaningful or ________ also reported more positive feelings after the ________. Researchers ________ that using the Internet for as little as three minutes to visit an online art exhibit can still ________ a potential tool which boosts well-being.

【推荐3】What if we could study people from the time that they were teenagers all the way in to old age to see what really keeps people _______ and fit?

Luckily for us, for many years now, we’ve conducted a study to answer this very question. The Harvard Study of Adult Development may be the longest study of adult life that has ever been done. For nearly 80 years, we’ve _______the lives of 724 men, asking about their work, their home life and their health. About 60 of our _______ are still participating in the study, most of whom are now in their 90s.

And I’m the fourth director of the study. So what have we learned from the tens of thousands of pages of information that we’ve _______ on these lives? Well, the lessons aren’t about _______ or fame or hard work. The clearest message that we have gotten from this study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.

We’ve learned three big lessons about relationships. Firstly, social connections are really good for us, and _______kills. People who are more closely connected to their family, friends and community are happier, physically healthier, and live longer lives than those who are less _______. The sad fact is that at any given time, more than one in five Americans will report that they’re lonely.

And we know that you can be lonely in a crowd, so the second big lesson is that it’s not just the number of friends you have, but it’s the _______ of your close relationships that matters. High-conflict marriages without much affection, _______ , prove to be very bad for our health, perhaps even worse than divorces.

________ protecting our bodies, good relationships help our memories stay sharper for a longer time. And those good relationships don’t have to be ________ all the time. Some couples could argue with each other day in and day out in their 80s, but as long as they felt that they could really ________ the other when the going got tough, those arguments wouldn’t end up doing harm to their memories.

So what about you? What might “leaning into relationships” even look like? Well, the ________ are practically endless. It might be something as simple as replacing screen time with people time, or ________ a stale (腻烦的) relationship by doing something new together, or reaching out to that family member to whom you haven’t spoken in years.

________ the good life is built with good relationships.

【推荐1】In 1995, two years before Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash in Paris, she said in a TV interview that she’d like to be a queen. She wanted to be a queen in people’s hearts.

In the 24 years since her _________ on August 31, 1997, it’s become _________ how well she fulfilled that hope. Every August, tributes (颂词) _________ to celebrate her life and legacy. She used her celebrity to raise awareness for a number of _________, from leprosy (麻风病) to mental health.

She made _________ in 1987 when she _________ shook hands with an AIDS _________, challenging the previously _________ idea that HIV/AIDS could be spread through _________. At the time, Princess Dianna was opening the UK’s first unit that __________ cared for HIV/AIDS patients at London Middlesex Hospital. She was famously the first member of the __________ family to shake hands with someone with AIDS.

She was, in the words of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, “the people’s __________”. When Blair used that phrase in a speech following Dianna’s death, he was __________ words to help a nation feel sorry for and sad about a shockingly sudden __________. “People felt so emotional about Dianna because she had a(n) __________ connection with everybody,” says Anji Hunter, Blair’s former adviser. “People felt so close to her. It was like your own beloved friend, mother and sister had died.”

The following was Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ’s __________:

Ahead of Dianna’s funeral, Queen Elizabeth Ⅱ gave a speech, __________ Dianna as an “exceptional and __________ human being”. And at the funeral, the Queen took an additional __________ to pay tribute.

“The Queen bows to nobody—ever,” says historian Jane Ridley in the CNN series. And yet, as the funeral procession (队列) __________ past Buckingham Palace, the Queen was seen making a bow to her daughter-in-law.

【推荐2】Paige Winter stood in waist-deep water when a shark suddenly appeared and pounced (猛扑) on her just three feet from her _________ Charlie Winter, a firefighter and former Marine. The 17-year-old suffered severe injuries from the _________ earlier this month at North Carolina’s Fort Macon State Park.

“I _________ where Paige was and there was no Paige,” Charlie recalled in an interview by a local newspaper. “Paige was underwater, but there was pink on the water. I went straight to where the pink was and I _________ and I grabbed her. When I pulled her up, a shark _________ with her—it was a big one and I _________ started to hit it. I hit it with everything I could and _________ it let go.”

But Paige was the real _________ .

Both her hands were badly injured while trying to force open the shark’s _________ and her left leg had to be amputated (截肢), thigh-high. Unprovoked (无端的) shark attacks like this are   __________ . There were 66 of them worldwide last year, causing four deaths. But even more rare is Paige’s __________ : no screaming, no crying and no self-pity.

“I’m still Paige” she said. “Just a little __________ . I want people to see I’m doing alright and I’m still going to do the stuff they can do. I think I can __________ this into something good for me, good for sharks and good for the environment too,” she said.

Charlie told the reporter that he couldn’t be __________. He said, “The shark took my daughter’s __________. It did not take her spirit.”

【推荐3】Alicia never thought her mother, Jiamin would operate a big business. Jiamin worked her whole life as a housewife and had never _______ a business before, but she wanted to do something _______. As the owner of the Oakland Fortune Factory, Jiamin delights in _______ how much people enjoy the unique flavors and designs of their cookies.

Jiamin moved with her family from Guangdong, China, to Oakland in 1999. She _______ Alicia in Chinatown, not far from the bakery, which they did not yet own. When the bakery was on the edge of shutting down in 2016, Jiamin decided to _______ it.

Running the bakery posed a number of _______. Much of the equipment had to be _______ and the facility needed improvement. Besides, Jiamin had no _______ of operating a business and couldn’t speak English _______. Working by herself, she kept calling her daughter day after day, asking her for help. With their intense efforts, the bakery ________. After Alicia graduated from college, she moved back to ________ her mom.

Today, the business is boosting and the fortune cookies are becoming culture carriers. For example, some cookies feature traditional Chinese culture, ________ how amazing the Chinese nation is. To ________ the Year of the Tiger—Jiamin’s birth-year animal—the bakery is making some of its cookies with the Chinese character for tiger.

“The tiger represents ________ and strength,” Alicia explained. “It really reminds me of my mom because she’s a ________ and fearless woman who is protective of her family.”