【推荐3】Have you ever looked in the mirror and felt upset because you don’t like your own look? If your answer is yes, you may have appearance anxiety (外貌焦虑). Appearance anxiety is not good for our body and mind.     1    

1. Realize that your anxiety isn’t just about appearance.

Have you ever thought, “I’m a terrible person for worrying about something superficial (肤浅的).”? The truth is, though, your appearance is not just a superficial thing. It has something to do with your deeper sense of self-worth.     2    

2. No more comparing.

Do you always compare yourself to the beautiful people in magazines and on TV?     3     When you pay too much attention to your disadvantages instead of your advantages, you’re focusing on the wrong things. Remember, you are beautiful in your own way!

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Another step is learning about everything your body does for you. Just take a minute and think right now. Your heart is beating strongly. Your bones are holding you up. You can do exercise and your body would listen to you.     5     You should be proud of your body and love everything it can do.

【推荐1】People who have spent time in other cultures often talk about “reverse（反向的）culture shock”. If you leave your country for more than a short tourist trip and then go back home, you may feel it.

What is “reverse culture shock”? Well, imagine the following: You have just adapted（适应）to a new culture and have come to enjoy life in it. You have made new friends and have had a great variety（多种多样）of new experiences. Then, sadly enough, it’s time to leave, but you are also very excited about going home. Arriving home is wonderful—seeing all the friends and relatives you haven’t seen, eating all the special foods, reading the newspapers and hearing music you haven’t heard in such a long time. But then after a few weeks, perhaps, things may not seem so “wonderful”. You may become critical of your home country where you have grown up. You may not like certain things or ideas. In your eyes, either you or your home country has changed so much that you begin to worry.

So some experts explain it like this: When a person lives in a different cultural environment for a period of time, experiences cultural shock and adapts to the foreign culture, when he returns to his motherland, he appears symptoms（症状）of not adapting to his own culture. It’s a difficult period, and many people experience it after the excitement of coming home has worn off. Luckily, it doesn’t usually last as long as adjustment（调整）to a new culture does.

【推荐3】Chocolate is made from the seeds (种子) of cocoa trees (可可树). The seeds come in football-shaped pods (豆荚). A pod is about 15 to 30 centimeters long, 8 to 10 centimeters wide. When you break a pod, you’ll find 20 to 60 seeds.

You take out these seeds, cover them up in banana leaves and leave them for about a week. This process is called fermentation (发酵). It is similar to the process of making yogurt. After the fermentation, you dry them, clean them, heat them and break them. Then you get something with a smell of chocolate. It is heated and separated into cocoa butter. When you mix it with milk or sometimes vegetable oil, and sugar, you get different kinds of chocolate.

Chocolate is not a good choice if you want to lose weight, but it is a good source (来源) of vitamins and minerals (矿物质). You should be careful not to eat too much because it may cause some people to have a headache. It can also cause skin problems in some people.

But recent surveys have found that chocolate helps people improve the ability to understand or remember things. It is also said that chocolate helps many people sleep better. We might have to wait for more research, but we all know that we love chocolate!

Nothing sounds better than a swim on a hot summer day. However, many teens, including some who are good swimmers drown each year. When someone is drowning, it’s often silent and happens very quickly.     1    . Here are some tips on how to prevent drowning when you go for a swim.

Never swim alone—even for a moment. You should go swimming with adults and make sure that they are able to keep you safe.     2    .

Enter the water carefully and feet first. Go in feet first so that you can know how deep the water is. Diving into unsafe water can lead to serious injuries.

    3    . Take some time to stretch your body before you enter the water. Get your body prepared and safety will surely follow.

Learn lifesaving skills.     4    . CPR is one of the lifesaving skills that can help others who are near drowning.

Choose swimming areas carefully.     5    . Choose the areas with safety facilities and lifeguards.

Remember: in case of emergency, it’s always important to call for help first! All in all, keep swimming safety in mind when you are in and around the water.

【推荐2】China’s Shenzhou XIII crewed spacecraft docked with the Tiangong space station on Saturday morning, with astronauts ready to enter the station to start a six-month journey.

The three-member crew — mission commander Major General Zhai Zhigang, Senior Colonel Wang Yaping and Senior Colonel Ye Guangfu — will then float into the core module（舱）. They will install equipment and verify technologies and plans for the next steps in the Tiangong space station program. Their Shenzhou XIII spacecraft was lifted by a Long March 2F carrier rocket that blasted off at 12:23 am at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China’s Gobi Desert.

The mission is expected to become the longest crewed spaceflight by China, doubling the time spent in the Shenzhou XII mission. It will also see the first spacewalk by a Chinese woman.

【推荐3】Flying is a fast way of getting from one place to another. But since COVID-19 broke out, international travel has been put on hold. Some people have been daydreaming not only about faraway destinations (目的地) but also about flying experience itself. They miss the excitement of taking off and seeing the Earth from above.

That’s where “flights to nowhere” come in. Qantas, an Australian airline (航空公司), offered such a “sightseeing trip” in October, 2020. The plane took off and landed at the same airport. The flight took seven hours and covered a large area. The passengers could see many Australian attractions, like Sydney Harbor, from a height of 30,000 feet. Qantas used a Boeing 787 Dream line for the flight. The plane has large windows. They are great for sightseeing.

The flight was very popular. The 134 tickets sold out in ten minutes! When the plane took off, every passenger cheered and clapped excitedly. “All I want is to be in a window seat and see clouds go by. I miss that sight so much!” said one passenger. “You know, the last time I flew was when I took my family to Japan in 2018.”

In the rest of the world, many airlines said their customers had been asking about flights to nowhere. Researchers point out that for many travelers, the destination is not always the most important thing, while who you go with can be more important than where you go.

Do you miss the excitement of flying? Do you want to board a flight to nowhere?