【推荐1】About 1 million adult New Yorkers are obese(肥胖的), but nearly two-thirds of them don’t think they are, according to a study released on Tuesday by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene(卫生).

Among the obese, who account for about one in five New Yorkers, only 39% described themselves as “very overweight”, according to the report. 2% said they were very underweight, 1% said they were slightly underweight, 16% said they were just right and 42% said they were slightly over weight.

Some 2 million more New Yorkers are overweight, the report said, and one in five children in kindergarten is obese.

Only 44% of the city’s adults are at a healthy weight, and nearly 75% say they do not participate in(参加) any regular physical activity.

New York City’s adult obesity rate was 20% in 2003 compared with 23% nationwide in 2004.The national average has nearly doubled from 12% in 1993, the report said.

Overweight and obese are defined by body mass index, or BMI (=" kg/m)" , which is based on a person’s weight , adjusted(调整) for height, the department said.

Being obese means having a BMI of 30 or greater, while being overweight means a BMI of more than 25 but less than 30.

A 5-foot, 10-inch (1.78-meter) man weighing 175 pounds(79kg) would have a BMI of 25.1 and be considered overweight according to the department . If he weighed 210 pounds (95kg), he would have a BMI of 30.1 and be obese.

The report came from results of the department’s 2002 and 2003 yearly telephone surveys of some 10,000 adults.

【推荐2】Six months ago, Jack came to China to study. He has heard that Yangzhou is famous for its gardens.   And he plans to visit some gardens in July, so he has collected information about them online as follows:

【推荐3】What's your earliest childhood memory? Can you remember the first time you heard thunder or watched a television program? Adults seldom recall events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, just as children younger than three or four rarely retain any memory of specific, personal experiences.

A variety of explanations have been proposed by psychologists for this "childhood amnesia"( 记忆缺失,健忘).One argues that the hippocampus, the region of the brain which is responsible for forming memories, does not mature（成熟）until about the age of two. But the most popular theory maintains (主张）that, since adults do not think like children, they cannot access childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories. But when they search through their mental files for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don't find any that fit the pattern. It's like trying to find a Chinese word in an English dictionary.

Now psychologist Annette Simms offers a new explanation for childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply aren't any early childhood memories to recall. According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use someone else's spoken description of their personal experiences in order to turn their own short-term, quickly forgotten impressions of these experiences into long-term memories. In other words, children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about them - Mother talking about the afternoon spent looking for crabs(蟹) at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park. Without this verbal reinforcement, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form permanent memories of their personal experiences.

【推荐1】Summer Courses for Students in 2024

Welcome to the UK’s Top-Ranked Multi-Campus. Summer School, we will provide an outstanding summer experience in a multi-national fun and secure setting. As students, you will have the opportunity to study a wide range of stimulating courses with like-minded people in famous academic environments.

Time: June 11 to July 2

Instructor: Leah Roesch

Our creative and student-centered lessons will help you improve your all-round ability in English. By engaging in interesting and stimulating tasks, projects and activities, you are challenged to activate your language knowledge and further develop your social skills.

Time: July 19 to August 1

Instructor: Christina DePasquale

We explore the foundations and qualities that will make each of you become effective leaders. During this exciting two-week programme, we do research on well-known historical leadership figures and the characteristics that made them successful.

Time: June 21 to July 3

Instructor: Edith Freni

What could be better than building your English while arousing your passion for science, technology, engineering and mathematics? Students who study STEM have the unique chance to study at a school that is frequently shortlisted as the best public school in the United Kingdom.

Time: June 15 to June 28

Instructor: Marshall Duke

Are you passionate about science, mathematics and physics? Do you want to learn how to bring them together to solve real world challenges? With the course, your theoretical knowledge will be stretched and enhanced, creating the groundwork for a fantastic career in engineering.

【推荐2】The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a novel that can be considered autobiography as it is based on the experiences of Mark Twain. Tom Sawyer stands out for his intelligent, wild and humorous nature. He is a person who can overcome any problem, and nothing is impossible for him. He looks at the difficulties as a challenge and tries to solve them. He is powered by great optimism despite everything bad that has happened to him.

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde

The Happy Prince is a tale with multiple lessons. From one side it is the critic of the society that can be cruel and heartless and on the other side, it is about the sympathy for humans’ troubles. Oscar Wilde tried to state in a simple way the virtues and weaknesses of a person in all of his fairy tales and criticize the society which is insensible.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea is a novel which was published in 1952 for the first time in the magazine Life. The theme is the relationship between man and nature. Even though at the beginning Santiago is represented like a man who is defeated in life and has no strength, with time going by, we find out that he is the real hero characterized by strength and faith.

Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Beauty and the Beast is a heartfelt story about the birth of love and the capability of love to transform the way you look at people you love. The moral of this fairy tale is that person’s beauty comes from a heart in love and when the beauty realizes the inner beauty of the beast and the feelings it has, the outer appearance means nothing to her anymore.

【推荐3】Oyster

What is an Oyster card?

Oyster is the easiest way to pay for journeys on the bus Tube, tram, Docklands light Railway (DLR), London Overground and National Rail journeys in London. You can store your travel cards, Bus & Tram pass, season tickets and credit to pay for journeys as you go.

Where to get an Oyster card?

There are a number of ways for you to get an Oyster card:

●At over 3,900 Oyster Ticket stops

●At Tube and London Overground station ticket offices

●At London Travel information Centres

●Online at tfl.gov.uk/oyster

How to use an Oyster card?

To pay the correct fare on the Tube, DLR, London Overground and National Rail services, you must always touch in on the yellow Oyster card reader at the start of your journey, and touch out at the end. If you don’t, a maximum cash Oyster fare will be charged when using the bus or tram. You must only touch in at the start, but not at the end of your journey.

What happens if I don’t visist London very often?

Don't worry. Any pay as you go credit on your card will not expire(过期), so you can keep it for your next visit or lend it to a friend.

Fares

Travelling by Tube from Central London (Zone 1) to Heathrow (Zone 6)

Adult Oyster single fare

￡4.20 Monday to Friday 06:30 – 09:30 and 16:00- 19:00

￡2.70 at all other times including public holidays

Adult single cash fare ￡5.00

For further information, visit tfl.gov.uk/fares.