【推荐1】Travel should be enjoyable. It makes you take a break somewhere different, away from all the usual worries of life. However, your travel is often stressful.     1     Here are some ways to make our travel more enjoyable!

Book well.

    2     Don’t all these amazing hotels look the same? How about looking for a home where you get far more space using that money? Camping trips are also a good way of spending you vacations. So determining where to live can make your travel more pleasant.

Find fun in your air travel.

We know that sometimes air travel can be annoying. In fact, airports are amusing places. There’s so much to explore.     3     From watching people to enjoying wonderful advertisements, you can gain great pleasure at the airport if you travel with the right state of mind.

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The best things in life are simple and free. Make simple travel plans that make your travel more interesting! You learn about the culture and engage with (互动) the locals as well. Most of the time, you wouldn’t just walk with the tour guides who make you go through some places that just aren’t to your liking.

Stay fit

There’s little fun in travelling if you don’t feel well. If you wish to make your travel more enjoyable, take good care of your health before you mean to travel.     5     Get all the medicines you’d possibly need.

A．See a doctor and get yourself checked if it is necessary.

B．Mix with the crowd.

C．You need to keep an eye open.

D．There’s so much to do to make your trip a successful one.

E．Keep it simple

F．The places you book will surely determine the kind of trip you’ll end up with.

G．Also, you can get a fair idea about the advantages and disadvantages of the place.

【推荐3】Interviews are becoming an increasingly common part of the application process for US universities. Since many Chinese applicants are unable to meet admissions officers in person, some rely on phone or video interviews to connect with recruiters. Software like Skype and FaceTime helps students to bridge the distance.     1    

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Before the interview, review your experiences fully and be prepared to explain them in vivid detail. In particular, think about what you’ve done outside of academia. Remind yourself why you would be a strong candidate. To improve your storytelling skills, New Oriental Education recommends you remember the “STARS”. It refers to “situation, tasks, actions, result and self”.     3     What situations did you find yourself in? What tasks were you faced with? How did you react, and what was the outcome?

● Master the art of interviewing electronically.

    4     The right clothes can help put you in the mindset of a professional conversation. Also, remember to smile while you are speaking. Experts from Villanova University say it can help improve the tone of your voice. Still, remember to look into your webcam-not at your monitor during the Skype video interviews, as this will stimulate direct eye contact.

● Be thankful and send a thank-you e-mail.

Make sure to write a thank-you e-mail after you finish the interview and address it specifically to the admissions representative.     5     If there is something about the interview that was helpful to you, let your interviewer know. If you share an interest with your interviewer over a book or a band, make sure you mention it in the e-mail. Send it within 24 hours after the interview while it’s still fresh in your mind and your interviewer’s.

A．Be a good storyteller.

B．Think carefully before the interview.

C．Dress professionally, even for phone interviews.

D．Here are some tips while doing long - distance interviews.

E．Most importantly, the e-mail should be kept short and right to the point.

F．These words can help you highlight the most important parts of your resume.

G．Express your interest in the school and thank your interviewer for meeting with you.

【推荐1】A recent study by University of Delaware researchers suggests exercise can help kids to learn and remember vocabulary. The article, published in the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, details one of the first studies on the effect of exercise on vocabulary learning in children.

Children ages 6 to 12 were taught new words before doing one of three things- swimming , taking part in CrossFit exercises or completing a coloring sheet. The children who swam were 13% more accurate in follow-up tests of the vocabulary words.

It makes sense to the lead researcher, Maddy Pruitt, herself a former college swimmer. “Motor movement helps in learning new words,” she said, explaining that exercise is known to increase levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor(脑衍生神经营养因子).Then why did swimming make a difference while CrossFit did not? Pruitt attributes(归因) it to the amount of energy each exercise demands of the brain. Swimming is an activity the kids could complete without much thought or instruction. It was more automatic, while the CrossFit exercises were new to them. The children needed to learn the moves, which required mental energy.

Pruitt conducted the research as part of her Master s Capstone Project and graduated in 2020. She now works as a speech-language pathologist (病理学家) at a primary school in South Carolina, where she puts her findings into practice.

“My sessions are very rarely at a table,” she said. “I’ll take my kids out to the playground or we’ll take a walk around the school.”

Pruitt’s adviser and coauthor Giovanna Morini is building on the findings in her lab. Morini said most research into exercise examined it from the angle of a healthy lifestyle, not much entering the area of language acquisition.

“We are so excited about this study because it applies to clinicians, caregivers and educators who can put it into practice, Morini said.” It’s simple stuff, nothing out of the ordinary. But it could help boost the outcomes.

1. What were all the children asked to do in the study?

A．Complete vocabulary tests.	B．Teach others new words.
C．Identify different colors.	D．Share swimming skills.

2. What does the author mainly talk about in paragraph 3?

A．The way of the study.	B．The subject of the study.
C．The applications of the findings.	D．The reasons for the study result.

3. How does Pruitt put her findings into practice?

A．By setting up clinics with other researchers.

B．By training the students to swim regularly.

C．By adding physical exercise to her sessions.

D．By asking the students to learn complex words.

4. What can be a suitable title for the text?

A．Kids Are Supposed to Exercise Before Studying

B．Exercise Contributes to Kids’ Vocabulary Growth

C．Swimming Does Good to People’s Physical Health

D．Research Should Be Done on Language Acquisition

【推荐2】We all know that exercise is great for you. But let's be honest.    1     Here I am going to share my top reasons for working out.

Exercise can completely change your feeling. When you work out, your body produces endorphins（内啡肽）.    2    You will feel better after a workout than you did before it. Next time you're having a bad day, try going for a fast-paced run or taking a spinning class（单车课 程），and the day won't seem so bad after all.

    3     Whenever I move to a new city or work, I look for exercise classes, where you can always meet like-minded people. You can support each other during a difficult workout. And you all share a collective feeling of happiness when the hard class finishes!

Exercise makes you feel confident. We all know the physical effects of exercise on our bodies but we don't always talk about the mental effects.    4    This new feeling might even help in your work or social life.

Exercise makes you feel strong and fit. Running 30 minutes every day helps you keep healthy and makes you feel a sense of achievement. It's a great feeling doing something you couldn't do before and knowing it's a result of your hard work.

So, next time you're feeling down, put your trainers on and get sweating. It might not be easy in the beginning for most people.     5    

A．Exercise helps you become sociable.

B．Exercise helps you reduce stress and anxiety.

C．That will give you a rush of happiness.

D．You can get to know each other well and make close friends.

E．But I promise you will feel much better once you've finished.

F．Sometimes finding that motivation to work out can be a little difficult.

G．Exercise might give you belief in yourself from being comfortable with your body and appearance.

【推荐3】If a great philosopher, and one of the bestselling authors of all time credited the same secret for their success, would you try to follow it too? Here’s what Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” And Charles Dickens made his point: “If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.”

Are you still sitting there reading this? Get walking! It’s not just these two great minds who made a case for it as a prime creativity booster.    1    A Stanford University study found that participants were 81 percent more creative when walking as opposed to sitting. Another famous-person example: As part of his daily writing routine, Kurt Vonnegut would take amid-morning break from his office to walk and then swim before eventually returning to work.

The movement aspect of walking is obviously key. You’ve probably heard the phrase Exercise Your Creativity, which refers to the brain as muscle.    2    .This is exactly why walking—with your dog, a friend, or alone—feeds creative thinking.

    3    A survey reveals that Americans spent 87 percent of their time indoors, making it hard to wonder or create. A walk can help. Just by going outside, you are stepping out of your habitual surroundings and your comfort zone, which is necessary if you want to open your mind to new possibilities. You can walk through a tree-filled neighborhood. You can walk through a park and observe people wandering or birds singing.    4    

    5    Turn off your phone and give yourself the chance to be present in the world, to hear conversations and natural sounds, to notice the way people move, the way the sun reflects in a puddle. Walk not just for exercise. Walk for wonder.

A．However, we are easily addicted to phones.

B．Walking helps us build our muscles and keep fit.

C．But the scenery is almost as important as the sweat.

D．Our creative mindset comes out of physical movement.

E．So why not set a creativity goal that starts with walking?

F．Researchers have traced numerous connections between walking and generating ideas.

G．Even when you walk down a street, you can’t help but get distracted by the child pointing to a dog.