【推荐2】Face Blindness

When encountering new people, the first thing we notice about is their faces. The next time we see these people, we remember them because we remember their faces. This seems like a simple _________ . It turns out, however, that when scientists investigated the brain, they found that face recognition is rather complicated. The _________ of the brain that is responsible for face recognition seems to work differently for different people. Some people have great difficulty remembering and recognizing faces, while others almost never forget a face.

Normal babies are born with a _________ ability to recognize faces. In fact, their face recognition abilities are much better than their parents. For example, most adults can easily recognize faces that _________ their own. However, they cannot easily recognize faces of people of different races. At six months, babies are highly _________ at face recognition. But by nine months, their face-recognition skills are about the same as an adult’s.

_________ , some people are not born with this ability to recognize faces. The part of the brain that is responsible for face recognition doesn’t work for them. This _________ is called prosopagnosia, or “face blindness”. People with very serious face blindness cannot even recognize their own faces. In fact, people with this status can sometimes be frightened when they look in the mirror. They don’t recognize their own face, so for a second they are startled when they see this _________ face.

Face blindness is not always _________ . Some people only have difficulty recognizing faces of people they don’t know very well. Scientists believe up to 10 percent of the population may be affected by face blindness to some degree, __________ many people with mild face blindness might not even know they have it. They have no reason to know that they are different from anyone else __________ someone points it out.

Scientists became aware of another face-recognition case in the process of researching face blindness. They found that there are also “super recognizers” who remember every face they have ever seen. For these people, it is not __________ to forget faces. Super recognizer Jennifer Jarrett says, “It’s as if their faces are __________ in my brain.” Many super recognizers don’t just recognize faces they have seen before. They know exactly where they last saw that person.

Super recognizers don’t usually feel that they have a problem. Most people with __________ to serious face blindness, on the other hand, do. There is no cure for face blindness, therefore, for the time being, people with face blindness need to find simple techniques to __________ for their problem. They can try to recognize people by their hairstyle, their voice, or their glasses. Hopefully, in the future as scientists learn more about this situation, they will find a cure.

【推荐3】Do you have continuous feelings of hopelessness or emptiness? _______ of interest or pleasure in normal activities? Insomnia (失眠) or oversleeping?

If you or people around you are experiencing these challenges, don’t _______to seek help as these are _______symptoms of depression.

Wang Yang, a freelancer (自由职业者), has _______her little cousin undergo these emotional and behavioral changes. Her cousin, only 13, was later diagnosed with depression. Before that, her cousin was very outgoing and _______about sports. The family wonders what could have _______such a dramatic change.

There are many reasons that a teenager might become depressed, such as poor school _______, intense competition with peers or _______family life. In Zhou Yongsheng’s view, a psychological therapist (治疗专家), parents’ overcontrol and excessive criticism over their children could cause a heavy mental damage and lead to low self-esteem (自尊) and a lack of _______. In the long term, this may set off a bigger problem: depression. He also points out that academic stress is another worsening factor, __________for Senior 3 students who are busy preparing for the gaokao.

To improve the prevention and __________ of depression, the National Health Commission __________a plan on Sept 11. It asks high schools and colleges to include screening (筛查) for depression in their students’ physical checkups and evaluate their psychological health.

__________ the government’s efforts, families and teenagers need to be active. If parents are concerned about their child’s depression, Zhou __________seeing a doctor or therapist and possibly taking medication.

Fortunately, things got __________for Wang’s cousin after he was convinced to receive medical treatment. “He talks with us and sleeps well now,” she said. “I hope he will get rid of depression one day.”

【推荐2】Aged 47, I found I have Type 2 Diabetes（糖尿病）.

Six months after starting the 800-calorie ________, I went back to the diabetes support group. I’d lost so much weight—no one ________ me!

For five years before that I’d been a comfort ________, existing only on high-fast ready meals, white bread and butter. I knew my BMI was 52. 9, which is off the scale（范围）.But I didn’t ________ because I didn’t realize that I was ________ overweight.

I can’t say it was a shock to have diabetes, but it was a sudden moment. Not only did I have to take diabetes ________ every day, but my friend said I had a much higher risk of heart attacks, as well as blindness. I ________ then that I wasn’t just overweight—I was putting my life at ________.

So I ________ my calories to 800 a day— ________ my plate with vegetables and salads. My ________ started to drop.

It was ________ because I didn’t feel hungry though I ate less. I filled up on homemade vegetable soup and drank lots of ________. Breakfast was yoghurt, lunch was a piece of fruit and a salad and I ate healthy dinner.

________, my back had hurt too much and friends had to walk my dog. I also started walking her five miles a day.

I stayed on 800 calories a day for six months, ________ 5 stones（英石）. But I was most ________ about my blood sugar coming down to normal. I no longer need medicine. ________, it could start again if I put on weight, so I can’t say I’ve ________ diabetes, but I’m determined not to let that ________.

I have joined a running club. I’m still overweight, so I want to lose another ________.

【推荐3】UK safety advisers have dismissed concerns that highly processed food, also known as ultra-processed food(UPF), is automatically unhealthy because of the way it is made or its artificial ingredients.

The current way that the UK and most other countries _______ the nutritional value of foods—which is generally by how much fat, salt, sugar and calories they contain— remains the best approach to achieving a healthy diet, said a team of scientists. They also _______ that people who cut out all ultra-processed foods could make their diets more unhealthy, for instance, if they avoid foods such as yogurts, low-fat spreads, wholemeal bread and food made of grains.“We need to be driven by the _______ and not have this knee-jerk reaction that treats all UPF the same,”said Robin May, chief scientific adviser at the UK’s Food Standards Agency.

_______about processed foods have been growing, but it is unclear if there is something uniquely bad about them or if they just tend to be higher in things like fat and sugar. The issue has _______ this year since Chris vanTulleken, a doctor and TV presenter, published a book called Ultra-Processed People: Why do we all eat stuff that isn’t food... and why can’t we stop? Chris van Tulleken has called for more countries to adopt dietary guidelines pioneered in Brazil, where people are _______ to prioritise eating whole foods and homemade meals, and avoid eating factory-made foods.

On 27 September, researchers from nutrition organisations _______ the proposed system. “We_______need foods to be processed so that we can feed the world,”said May at the University of Leeds, UK, who is a member of the British Nutrition Foundation. May also said UPF_______ products that are both healthy and unhealthy. “It’s important we don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater here. There are many components that have a very important role to play in ________ and in safety,” he said.

Benefits of food processing include the use of preservatives that make food last longest and artificial sweeteners that help people________their sugar intake, said May. Other examples of processed foods that can be________ include baby food, infant formula milk and breads with added vitamins and minerals, said the panel.

But Van Tulleken says that the evidence ________UPF is strong. “There is an increasing amount of science describing the many ways in which UPF affects the human body,” he says. “The ________of the food structure by industrial processing means that UPF is, in general, soft. This means you eat it fast, which means you eat far more calories per minute and don’t feel________until long after you’ve finished.

【推荐1】A young man was walking by the lakeside when he suddenly saw a piece of gold glittering in the lake. He was so happy that he jumped into the _________ to look for it. But he couldn’t _________ it however hard he tried. Being wet, dirty and tired, he had to go ashore (上岸) for a _________.

Unexpectedly, after the water became _________, the gold appeared again.

He jumped into it again,_________ once again the gold disappeared. So he had to go ashore again to sit beside the _________. He thought, “Where on earth is the gold coin in the water? I have seen it _________, but how come it is that all the attempts were made without any success?” Driven by the _________ to get the gold, he searched the water again and again, but _________, which made him really unwilling to ______________.

At that moment, his father came to ______________ him. Seeing his son wet and dirty, he asked, “What ______________? Why do you look so ______________?”

His son answered, “I see a piece of gold coin in the water clearly, but I can't get it ______________!”

His father looked into the water and it seemed that a gold coin was on the peaceful water. Then he looked up at the tree nearby and said to his son, “You are ______________. Look! It's not a gold coin but the reflection of the metal ______________ on the tree.”

Ordinary people are always busy ______________ illusory (虚幻的) things and all these just result from hoping for ______________, which weakens our ability to ______________ right from wrong. So we should choose the right ______________ of life and learn to understand and thank everything, which will help us live a happy life.

【推荐2】It was already half past seven and I was running late again for the dinner appointment with my wife, Eleanor. We had _________ to meet at the restaurant at seven o’clock. I felt a little uneasy, but to my _________, I had a good excuse: A business meeting had _________ and I’d wasted no time getting to the dinner.

When I arrived at the _________, I apologized and told Eleanor I didn’t mean to be late. However, my _________ seemed to make things worse, which finally made her _________.

Several weeks later, when I _________ the situation to my friend Ken Hardy, he smiled, “You didn’t _________ to be late. But that’s not the point. What is _________ in your communication is how your lateness affected Eleanor.” He pointed out that I focused on the intention while Eleanor focused on the result.

Thinking more about Ken’s words, I __________ realized why Eleanor was angry. It’s the result of the action that really __________. I should have started the conversation by expressing __________ my actions affected Eleanor and __________ the discussions about my intention for later, much later and even never.

Later on, after talking to Eleanor and really __________ her experience of the results of my lateness, I’ve managed to be __________ a lot more frequently.

【推荐1】I was picking through coat pockets and madly shaking all my old purses and wallets. I was looking for pennies, quarters—anything that would help me _________ it to the end of the week. It sure was feeling _________.

A hopeless girl in her twenties, I was a _________ parent, with a one-year-old son and a five-year-old daughter.

Life consisted of ups and downs. I’ll never forget the _________ of finding one penny during my hunt, then two, then fifteen, and then twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six. Every time I _________ one, I felt excited. _________ now, I see that it was somewhat ironic (讽刺的) _________ I had looked down on pennies at one point in my life.

I sat in my bedroom that night and sorted all the _________ from my hour-long quest. I smiled and made _________ with my daughter while we packed our pennies. Her brother joyfully bounced up and down in his bouncer. They had no __________ how many nights I would __________ with my face buried in the pillows, __________ how I would keep a roof over their heads, lights on in the house, and food on the table.

I remember those days like they were yesterday, but I don’t remember them with __________. I remember them intentionally because I promised myself that if I were ever to escape the __________ of poverty, I would never forget the __________ of a penny. I’ve kept that promise, too.

【推荐2】When my sisters and I were little, we were _________ to take naps. The summer I was seven, I asked to take my _________ in a tree in the orchard (果园), the place I went to when I wanted to be alone and _________. In the tree, I had a(n) _________ view of the orchard, our house, fields, barns and fences. My sisters once forgot me so completely that they stood under the tree _________ secrets. 

One afternoon I climbed the tree _________, grabbing branches and _________ my feet carefully until I was as high as I could go. _________, a flying noise attracted my attention. An owl _________ on a thick branch and gripped it with her talons. She pressed her wings to her side and settled down. So natural did I move myself that the owl would not __________ at my being there. She flew __________ among branches until she noticed me. The owl hesitated for one second before she __________ her wings and flew away into space. I gasped and watched her go, __________ she would return. She had been gone so long that I had __________ seeing her again. Unexpectedly, the owl reappeared in January, accompanied by her mate. 

The __________ of the owl gave me a sense of assurance I had not felt before and I would treasure it forever.