Have you imagined making an attractive garden which will be the reason for your neighbors’ envy?
If you have ever tried to grow some seedlings (幼苗), then you know that this can be quite challenging. Not all seeds can grow into seedlings, even though you have tried so hard. But don’t worry. Here is good news.
By burying a teabag in your garden, you will provide nutrition to the soil, offering necessary food to the plants. In this way, your plants will be healthier and grow quicker. This is because tea works as a natural fertilizer (肥料) for the soil. The teabag itself is usually made from fibres from the abaca plant, which is a type of banana plant. The bag breaks down with its contents.
If you bury a teabag close to the roots of your plants, it will help store water in the soil. If there’s one thing important for plants, it’s water! What’s more, weeds are not wanted in your garden.
A.A teabag is a great answer. |
B.It does work though it sounds strange. |
C.Making a beautiful garden requires efforts. |
D.A beautiful garden is something most people enjoy. |
E.There is one way to help your seedlings grow better. |
F.A simple teabag is likely to do wonders for your seeds. |
G.That will create a healthy environment for plants to grow in. |
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【推荐1】Amazing Benefits of Listening to Music during Meditation (冥想)
There are many benefits of listening to music during meditation. If you haven’t tried it yet, you should! It is not only relaxing but also beneficial for your mental health.
Reduce Stress
One of its benefits is a reduction in the levels of stress and anxiety.
Balance Your Emotions
Inspire You
When you listen to music while meditating, you feel inspired. This brings about a good feeling, and you can relax and enjoy yourself. You will also feel great about yourself. This is a great inspiration to someone who has lost hope in life.
Wonderful, wasn’t it? The journey through music and meditation is something we should all try. Your body, mind, and soul will connect with each other.
A.Your health will be harmed. |
B.Here are some of the benefits. |
C.Not only that, your quality of life will improve too. |
D.Meditation can help you live a life free of anxiety. |
E.Stress is one of the most common issues in today’s world. |
F.Maintaining an emotional balance is very important. |
G.You can recommend it to someone who is struggling with hopelessness. |
【推荐2】How to deal with stress
Have you ever felt stressed? Well, you are not alone, as every person in the world has to face stress at one time or another.
Besides that, taking time to relax can help you ease stress. Doing things that you like such as listening to music, taking a walk, or reading a book can take your mind off things that bother you.
Finally, do not set such high standards for yourself and others that it leads to dissatisfaction and pressure. If you aim for perfection all the time, you will end up frustrated and stressed out. Learn to slow down, let go and look at the positive side of things. If you are too uptight about something, you will not be able to think clearly and make good decisions. In addition, you could hurt the people around you. Focus on what has already been done and what is good.
A.Focus on things that are really important. |
B.Life gets better once the stress is controlled. |
C.Even doing nothing at all can be beneficial. |
D.Then, negative stressful feelings will disappear. |
E.Taking a break is not an excuse for putting off your work. |
F.Most of the time, stress is a result of feeling overwhelmed. |
G.Since stress is a part of life, it is essential to learn how to deal with it. |
【推荐3】How to Make Friends, According to Science
Friendship is one of life’s most important features, and one too often taken for granted.
The human desire for companionship may feel boundless, but research suggests that our social capital is finite—we can only handle a certain number of relationships at one time. Social scientists have used some creative approaches to measure the size of people’s social networks; these have returned estimates ranging from about 250 to about 5,500 people. Looking more specifically at friendship, a study using the exchange of Christmas cards to test closeness put the average person’s friend group at about 121 people. However vast our networks may be, our inner circle tends to be much smaller. The average American trusts only 10 to 20 people. Moreover, that number may be shrinking: From 1998 to 2017, the average number of trusted friends decreased from three to two. This is both sad and of important consequence, because people who have strong social relationships tend to live longer than those who don’t.
So what should you do if your social life is lacking? Here the research is instructive. To begin with, don’t refuse to consider the humble acquaintance(交情). Even interacting with people with whom one has weak social ties has a meaningful influence on well-being. Beyond that, building deeper friendships may be largely a matter of putting in time. A recent study out of the University of Kansas found that it takes about 50 hours of socializing to go from acquaintance to casual friend, an additional 40 hours to become a “real” friend, and a total of 200 hours to become a close friend.
If that sounds like too much effort, renewing inactive social ties can be especially rewarding. Reconnected friends can quickly recapture the trust they previously built, while offering each other a dash of novelty(新奇)drawn from whatever they’ve been up to in the meantime. And if all else fails, you could start randomly to tell secrets to people you don’t know that well. Self-disclosure makes us more likable, and as a bonus, we are more likely to favor those to whom we have revealed our soul.
Longing for closeness and connection is common and everywhere, which suggests that most of us are stumbling(跌跌撞撞)through the world, expecting companionship that could be easily provided by the lonesome stumblers all around us. So set aside this article, turn to someone nearby, and try to make a friend.
1. From Paragraph 2, we can know that .A.a strong social relationship can guarantee a long life |
B.real friendships are based on the exchange of presents |
C.people’s inner circle is decreasing despite large social networks |
D.people’s social networks depend on their desire for companionship |
A.Sharing secrets with close friends. |
B.Choosing likable people as friends. |
C.Avoiding the humble acquaintance. |
D.Spending time for deeper friendships. |
A.The tips on how to develop friendship. |
B.The reasons for seeking companionship. |
C.The benefits brought by a good social life. |
D.The relationship between friendship and happiness. |
A.using research results |
B.making comparisons |
C.giving some examples |
D.telling personal stories |
【推荐1】The Bridegroom’s Oak, a 500-year-old tree just outside of Eutin, in Germany, has its own postal address and receives around 40 letters every day. They’re sent by love seekers from around the world, in the hope that someone will read them and write back.
With so many dating apps(约会软件) and services available nowadays, sending letters to a tree hardly sounds like the best way to find love. However, there’s something charming about sending a letter and allowing fate(命运) to work its magic, so the Bridegroom’s Oak remains popular even now.
In 1890, a local girl named Minna fell in love with a young chocolate maker named Wilhelm, but her father didn’t allow her to see the boy. Instead of giving up on each other, the two started exchanging love letters secretly, by leaving them in a knothole(节孔) of an oak tree. After about one year, Minna’s father found out about their continued relationship, but instead of punishing them, he gave them permission to marry. The two lovers got married on June 2,1891, under the oak tree that helped keep their romance(罗曼史) alive.
The couple’s story spread around Eutin, and soon, people from all over the world who are unable to find love started writing romantic letters and leaving them in the tree’s knothole. However, love seekers visiting the Bridegroom’s Oak need respect only one simple rule. They can check all the letters in its knothole, and take with them the one they wish to reply to, but they have to put the others back for other people to find.
So far the Bridegroom’s Oak has been responsible for at least 100 marriages and many other romantic relationships.
1. What’s the Bridegroom’s Oak popular for?A.Its long life. | B.Its rare species |
C.Its good position. | D.Its special function. |
A.The best way to find love a century ago. |
B.What sufferings the two lovers experienced. |
C.The love story behind the Bridegroom’s Oak. |
D.How the two lovers kept their romance alive. |
A.Reply to all the letters in its knothole. | B.Read each letter in its knothole. |
C.Put their name at the top of each letter. | D.Take as many letters away as they like. |
A.Writing to the Bridegroom’s Oak is helpful. |
B.Germany needs dating and services. |
C.Germans hold a firm belief in fate. |
D.Foreigners have little idea of the Bridegroom’s Oak. |
【推荐2】I’m Andrew Siegel and this is my garden. This is where my family and I grow a lot of different vegetables and flowers. Gardening has been really important to my family because it gives us a chance to spend time outside together, away from all the electronics.
Especially for my five-year-old, it really gives her a chance to be in touch with nature-all the little animals, insects and things that come out here.
We find that a lot of the things that we plan for in the garden don’t always go the way that we’d like them to, and some of the things that we don’t plan for become what we enjoy the most that year. So it’s something that my family and I have learned: To appreciate (欣赏) all of it.
My advice for gardening beginners is to just start. Get a pot, get a little bit of dirt, get a tomato plant or whatever plant you want and just get started. I think sometimes it seems challenging. Trust me, it does not need to be perfect. You will enjoy every little thing you get out of it.
Gardening has taught me patience, something I don’t naturally have a lot of. It takes weeks, takes months for you to put into your work and the patience comes out in the end. You learn not only to be patient in that end product, but you’ve also learned that, after years of gardening, the end product is just part of it.
The journey of growing has become much more important to me than the actual product that we get in the end. Nothing has been so valuable as the time I spend out here. I’m by no means in a farmland, but I do have my own little piece of what I consider heaven, and I’ve really learned to appreciate every little moment — every insect, every plant, every flower — and when you can appreciate it in that way, there’s nothing better.
1. Who does the underlined word “five-year-old” in paragraph 2 refer to?A.The writer. |
B.The writer’s daughter. |
C.The insect. |
D.The flower. |
A.Quite easy. |
B.Comfortable. |
C.Perfect. |
D.Very difficult. |
A.Planting different vegetables and flowers. |
B.Staying at home together with her family. |
C.Enjoying the whole process of growing. |
D.Harvesting what the family planted. |
A.The pleasure of gardening. |
B.The advice on gardening. |
C.Being in touch with nature. |
D.Being perfect in life. |
【推荐3】A new BBC documentary series, The Green Planet, gives us a new look at plants. Released on Jan. 10 on Bilibili, it uncovers the wonderful and dramatic ways that plants behave.
“The Green Planet reveals the secret lives of plants in the same way The Blue Planet opened our eyes to the oceans,” editor Elle Hunt wrote in New Scientist.
Plants compete against each other to live. Each species has its own ways of defense. In tropical rainforests, different kinds of plants race for sunlight. The forest floor is described as a “battlefield” in the series as only two percent of the sunlight filters (透过) through it. Some plants like Monstera spread their big leaves to reach light. But they are caught up in a vine (藤本植物) that tries to hitch a ride (搭便车). Finally, they are both overtaken by a fast-growing balsa tree. As the balsa has slippery hairs on its leaves, the vine can’t get a hold. Similarly, some trees make poisonous sap to protect themselves.
Plants also help each other and even communicate. In deserts, the roots of Euphrates poplar are connected. If a tree finds water, it will share it with others through the roots. Studies also show that plants use fungus (真菌) in the soil as a way to “talk” to each other. It’s kind of like how Wi-Fi work. If a tomato plant gets a leaf disease, it can tell nearby plants about it.
The series not only lets us amazed at the plant world but pushes us to understand that plants are important. “Plants are the basis of all life, including ourselves. We depend upon them for every mouth of food that we eat and every lungful of air that we breathe,” said David Attenborough, presenter of the series. It’s time to look after wild plants just as carefully as our houseplants.
1. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3mean?A.The forest floor. | B.The documentary. | C.The sunlight. | D.The plant. |
A.It takes a ride on a fast-growing vine. |
B.Its big leaves can take in more sunlight. |
C.It grows fast and its slippery leaves keep vines away. |
D.It can produce poisonous sap to stop other plants growing over it. |
A.To show plants can avoid danger. | B.To show valuable water is in the wild. |
C.To show plants can interact with each other. | D.To show plants can communicate with other species. |
A.Plants are difficult to study. | B.Plants play a big role in our lives. |
C.Many wild plants are endangered. | D.Houseplants also need our attention. |