【推荐1】While travelling somewhere in our hearts, we wish we could stay for a few more days, but, we don’t. Why don’t we? Mainly because of work demands, last-minute arrangements at home, etc.

However, this is only our mindset and concerns; we can enlarge the vacation for a few more days.     1    

For better mental health. Your daily routine is stressful, and you are tied to a lot of personal and professional commitments. You can’t get rid of them permanently (永久地), but you do need a break from all the stress and mental sufferings.     2     This is because you may not be making trips regularly, so the one trip you take should be satisfying.

    3     As discussed in the first point, vacationing lowers stress and improves mental health. When one’s mental health is in good shape, one’s physical health follows suit. This is because both psychological (心理的) and physical health is firmly connected. Reduced stress lowers the risk of heart problems. So, lengthen your stay to gain mental harmony and avoid physical health risks.

Since the weather changed. You eagerly planned your trip and arrived at your destination only to discover that it was pouring severely. If this happened, you might have only enjoyed some things and spent the rest of your time in your hotel room.     4     And the days turn sunnier, ideal for touring and exploring the place. So, it’s better to stay longer to avoid missing out on the vacation.

Still not satisfied. Assuming that you live on monthly paychecks, vacations are a once-a-year occurrence.     5     If you are not pleased and find it difficult to wave farewell to the place, then satisfy your inner wants. Trust me, you won’t be sorry afterward about blowing a once-in-a-lifetime chance.

【推荐1】At the present time, the Internet is a major part of our lives. It’s always in our hands or pockets. Whatever we are doing is somehow linked(连接) to the Internet. We start finding our connections online as well, which is quite impressive. We find a person on a social media platform (社交媒体平台),see we have a shared interest and start chatting!

Online friendships in the past were doubted and not considered reliable because you didn’t know who was behind the screen. But now, when we can go shopping online, clear bills in online banks, and virtually attend schools, why can’t we find some real friends online?

With online friends, there are several advantages. When we find something catchy in someone — the very first quality of our online friend, we only then encourage ourselves to find ways to talk to them. We can share with them our everyday things, and what’s better than texting our friends our secrets? We can be present together with them on interested forums(论坛). We can share looks just through a click. And the best part is that we can shoot them a real quick message whenever we need their expert advice.

With all these strengths of an online friend, also come some weak points which make some people afraid to find their friends online. Some people believe that the person they are talking to on the screen is not real or trying to get information about their private life. They feel uncomfortable sharing and chatting with a person who they’ve never met in real life. Another problem that comes in the way of online friends is hanging out. People can’t really hang out with their online friends. The other problem is miscommunication, which sometimes leads to the end of a friendship.

Despite all these problems, online company is a perfect form of relationship between two or more. After all, we would notice these problems in any other kind of relationship or friendship. Miscommunication or a trust issue is always present even in face-to-face communication.

【推荐2】New York City delivery workers have to deal with an array of threats: speeding cars, changeable weather, and armed robbers. Lately, workers have added another to the list–their electric bikes bursting into flames.

The powerful lithium ion batteries(锂电池) used in small electric vehicles are responsible for a growing epidemic of fires. This year, there have been about 200 fires and six deaths, according to the New York City fire department. This month, an e-bike fire inside a Manhattan high-rise apartment became an inferno(火海) that injured nearly 40 people and forced firefighters to evacuate residents using ropes.

That’s also become a daily concern for delivery workers such as Delores Solomon, a 64-year-old Brooklyn resident who has been working for Uber Eats for about two years. Solomon said she “lives in fear” that her vehicle might catch fire while it’s charging or even while she’s riding it. Last year, while delivering food on her e-bike, Solomon hit a pothole(凹坑), causing the battery to fly out and hit the pavement, where it burst into flames. “It was like a big popping sound,” she told the Guardian. “It scared me—like, ‘if that would’ve happened on the bike, I would’ve been blown up.’”

On Monday, the city council held a hearing where legislators put forward bills to combat the battery fires, including a proposal to outlaw the sale of secondhand electric vehicle batteries, and another to ban all batteries that haven t been approved by a nationally recognized testing lab. If passed, that measure would force riders to use batteries such as those certified by the Illinois-based Underwriters Laboratory (UL). An Uber spokesperson in support of the new proposals provided a statement, saying “No one should have to choose between their safety and their livelihood.”

【推荐3】Maybe you've seen the “startling” numbers, said Billy Baker in The Boston Globe. A recent survey by the American Psychological Association suggests that 42 percent of Americans put on undesired weight in the past year. Among those ages 25 to 40, an even higher 48 percent claimed an unwanted weight increase. Some of the possible causes are obvious, such as the more sedentary lifestyle that can come from unemployment or working from home. Prolonged stress, and the drinking or overeating that people use to cope with it, are surely major contributors. Obesity creates serious health threats at all times, but the pandemic has showed the seriousness of the problem, said Jane Brody in The New York Times. After old age, obesity is the second leading risk factor for death among people critically ill with Covid-19. A recent CDC study shows that even mild obesity increases the risks of hospitalization and death, while severe obesity potentially triples it. Even before the pandemic, 69 percent of Americans were overweight.

“If you fall into that category, it's not time to guilt yourself,” said Ada Wood and Naomi Thomas in CNN.com. If snacking got you through 2020, be happy it did. Also understand that stress, genetics, and other factors beyond your control affect how your body stores weight. But you can adopt healthy habits that will contribute to sustainable weight loss. Always have three meals a day, for starters, and at each meal, “aim to include at least 3 ounces of protein.” Good sleep habits and modest weightlifting—to preserve muscle mass — help, too. If you desire ice cream when stressed, seek alternatives: “A hot bath or a walk around the block can be equally stress-relieving.”

As a country, we're going to have to change how we regard obesity, said Leana Wen in the Washington Post. When more than 2 in 5 Americans are obese, it implies a societal issue that requires major change at the policy level. “There's no silver bullet,” says Tufts University cardiologist Dariush Mozaffarian, “but a range of policy solutions”.

【推荐1】Three scientists jointly won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for proving that tiny particles (粒子) could keep a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon once doubted but now being explored for potential real-world applications such as encoding information. Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger were quoted by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for experiments proving the “totally crazy” field of quantum entanglements (量子纠缠) to be all too real. They demonstrated that unseen particles, such as photons (光子) , can be linked, or “entangled”, with each other even when they are separated by large distances.

In quantum entanglement, establishing common information between two photons not near each other “allows us to do things like secret communication, in ways which weren’t possible to do before”, said David Haviland, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics. Quantum information “has broad and potential effects in areas such as secure information transmission, quantum computing and sensing technology”. The kind of secure communication used by China’s Micius satellite, as well as by some banks, is a “success story of quantum entanglement”, said Harun Siljak of Trinity College Dublin.

The Nobel Committee said Clauser developed quantum theories first put forward in the 1960s into a practical experiment. Aspect was able to correct an error in those theories, while Zeilinger demonstrated a phenomenon called quantum teleportation that effectively allows information to be sent over distances. “Using entanglement you can send all the information which is carried by an object over to some other place where the object is.” Zeilinger said. He added that this only works for tiny particles. “It is not like in the Star Trek films transporting something, certainly not the person, over some distance,” he said.

【推荐3】Just a few hours ago, the Italian ship Andrea Doria was sailing through thick fog toward the city of New York. Captain Piero Calamai kept watch. He knew that many other ships were nearby. He should have slowed down because of the fog but he decided not to. He wanted to arrive on time the next morning.

At about 11:00 P.M., another ship, the Stockholm, suddenly hit the Andrea Doria. It made a huge hole in the Italian ship. Some people were badly hurt. Others fell into the sea. But one girl was saved by the Stockholm.

Linda Morgan was fourteen. She lived in Spain with her mother and her little sister. She was going to visit her father in New York. She was excited about seeing her father.

Linda had loved the trip. She wanted to have dinner with the captain on the last night at sea.The captain did not sit at his table that night, though. He was busy guiding the ship through the fog. Linda did not get to talk to him.

When Linda went to bed, everything seemed fine. Her mother turned off the lights. Linda talked to her little sister. She thought about seeing her father the next morning.

What happened next was a terrible surprise. Linda woke up not knowing where she was. She was not in her bed. When she called to her family, no one answered. Both her knees were broken.

Linda had been saved by an amazing accident. When the Stockholm made a hole in the side of the Andrea Doria, it lifted Linda out of her bed. She landed on the deck (甲板) of the Stockholm instead of falling into the ocean. A sailor heard her cries and found her.

Right now, the girl is in the hospital. She is expected to get better. Her father is at her side, glad that his little girl was saved. The Andrea Doria lies under the waves at the bottom of the sea.