How Our Living Space Influences Our Mental (精神的) Health
Home sweet home—this expression makes us think of all kinds of pictures and feelings. But did you know that the condition of our living place can have an influence on our feelings and even on our mental health? By controlling some of these conditions, we can help to achieve a more peaceful life.
| 56.____________ It goes without saying that the lighting in our house can influence our feelings. If the lighting is too dark, it can have a bad influence on our feelings. Artificial(人工的) light may not work, however. It is better to let natural sunlight make our whole day brighter. |
| 57.____________ We have to do more than just remove something harmful from our home. To get good mental health, make ourselves stay with nature. A lot of studies have shown that the presence of plants in our home can improve our feelings. |
| 58.____________ We have trouble keeping our space clean. It doesn’t just look terrible; it makes you feel terrible. A room which is in a mess shows stress and causes stress. Disorder can show that we’re too busy to put things away, but then looking at a mess can lead to more stress. Putting away the things doesn’t have to take all day—just take 10 or 15 minutes. We’ll be surprised how much better we’ll feel. |
| Just remember: The things around us can make our “home sweet home” even sweeter. |
A. Tidy up B. Go green C. Add light properly D. Choose colors wisely
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第二节:请结合第一节内容,回答下面一个问题。(约20词)
4. What other good ways do you know to keep good mental health at home? Why?
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【推荐1】After releasing (发布) a short video on April 27 about planting and cooking peas (豌豆), Chinese food blogger Li Ziqi witnessed (见证) over 10 million followers on YouTube.
“It’s really surprising. I didn’t expect such a wide response (反应),” Li told Xinhua in an interview, noting she was surprised by how foreign netizens liked her works.
“What I present is just a lifestyle I’ve long followed and appreciated,” she said. “Maybe it’s also what many other people have valued?”
Li’s YouTube videos center on her life with her grandmother in the rural (乡村的) parts of Sichuan Province. In the videos, Li, often dressed in graceful traditional clothes, rises at sunrise, rests at sunset, plants seeds and harvests flowers, cooks Chinese dishes and makes bamboo furniture.
Unlike many other food bloggers, Li’s videos set China’s countryside as the stage and start with how the foods are planted and harvested on the farm. She rarely speaks in the process.
Li’s overseas followers have praised her videos for showing the amazingly picturesque, simple and elegant side of China’s rural life, but back home, there have long been debates (争论) on whether her presentation is unrealistically (不切实际地) poetic.
In response, Li, who was raised in the countryside, said she never needs a script (副本) or special arrangements (安排) when shooting a video about rural life as “everything is in my mind”.
“In the countryside, planting flowers, vegetables and trees is not difficult. There are tough elements of rural life of course, but I didn’t put them in my videos,” the blogger said. “Most people today are facing great stress in work and life, so I hope they can feel relaxed when watching my videos.”
1. How many followers did Li Ziqi have on YouTube after she released a short video on April 27?2. How did Li Ziqi feel when she found that so many people foreign netizens liked her works?
3. Where do Li Ziqi and her grandmother live?
4. Does Li ziqi often speak in her videos?
5. What do you think of Li Ziqi’s rural life in her videos?
根据短文内容回答下列问题：
1. Is the article about school rules or family rules?
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2. What can’t Wang Mei do when she is eating?
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3. What time does Wang Mei go to bed?
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4. Can Wang Mei watch TV after he does his homework?
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65 What does Wang Mei think of the rules?
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Dear grandfather，
I am writing to tell you about what I am doing in China.I am learning in an international(国际的)school in Beijing.We are having Chinese lessons at school.And I'm doing a lot of homework in the evening.I make many new friends and I visit interesting places at weekends.Dad is working today and Mum is doing some shopping in town.It is a fine day today.I hope you and grandma are having a nice day，too.
Write back soon.
Love，
Betty
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【推荐1】Earth is our home. It has air that we can breathe(呼吸). It has water for us to drink. It has plants and animals that we can eat. Earth is not too hot or too cold for us. It has everything we need to live.
We are on earth, but we can see things that are not on earth. Early in the morning, we can see the sun comes up. All day, the sun seems to move across the sky. Later in the day, we can see the sun goes down.
But the sun is not really moving around us. We are the ones who are moving. Every morning, we turn towards the sun. Every night, we turn away from it. Every year, we go around it. Earth is our spaceship. All of us in the spaceship are riding around the sun.
At night, we can often see the moon and stars. From earth, stars look like little points of light because they are so far away. But stars are really big. A star is a great mass(一团) of burning gas. It gives off light and heat. Our sun is a star.
There are eight planets moving around our sun. Earth is the third planet around the sun. Some of the planets have moons. A moon goes around a planet just as a planet goes around a star. Earth has only one moon. Some planets have more.
Answer the questions according to the passage.
1. Why is earth our home?
2. Is the sun really moving around us?
3. Why do stars look small?
4. How many planets move around our sun?
5. Some planets have more moons, don’t they?
What is the best-selling book in the world? Is it the Harry Potter series or Secret Garden? According to the Guinness World Records, the Xinhua Dictionary is the most popular book and sells best in the world.
In 1950, Chinese language experts, Wei Jiangong and Ye Shengtao, started to edit (编辑) the Xinhua Dictionary. After three years, with the hard work of all, the first Xinhua Dictionary appeared. Today, more than 600 million copies of the dictionary have been sold around the world. However, revisions (修订) to the dictionary go on to be made. So far, it has been revised 12 times. The 11th edition was in June, 2011. And the 12th edition came out on August 10th, 2020, with over 10,000 words and expressions in it.
In order to keep up with the times, popular and widely-used Internet words were added to the dictionary. For example, in the 11th edition, the expressions “shaigongzi (show off salary)” and “shaizhaopian (showoff pictures)” were included. In the latest edition of the dictionary, more than 100 Chinese Internet buzzwords (热词), such as ‘‘chuxin (original aspiration)”, “fensi (fans)”, “jieping (screenshots)”, “erweima (QR code)” and “dianzan (click the ‘like’ button)”, had been added. Besides, the 12th edition has a QR code on each page, allowing readers to learn how to correctly write a character and hear how it is pronounced simply by scanning the code. This is the first time that the Xinhua Dictionary has had an app.
Last year, the Xinhua Dictionary Chinese-English version was released on March 31. Ma Haolan, director of the English Editorial Office of the Commercial Press, said, “What we need to do is to change the most standard Chinese into the most standard English, so that foreign friends can have a direct and correct understanding of our Chinese language and culture through the dictionary.”
All these efforts have made the Xinhua Dictionary “the National Dictionary” of China. It is so popular that it has become a useful tool not only for Chinese people but also for foreigners.
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| Fact | With over 10,000 words and expressions in it, the Xinhua Dictionary is the best-selling book in the world. | ||
| History and development | In 1950 In 1953 In 2011 In 2020 In 2021 |  | It was started by Chinese language experts Wei Jiangong and Ye Shengtao. Its The 11th edition was finished. Popular and widely-used Internet words were added, The 12th edition came out, with more than 100 Chinese Internet buzzwords included, such as “chuxin”, “fensi”, “jieping”, “erweima” and “dianzan”. Each page also has a QR code, which helps users learn how to write a character and hear its The Xinhua Dictionary Chinese-English version was released, helping foreigners |
| Conclusion (总结) | Regarded as “the National dictionary” of China, it has become a useful tool both at home and | ||
Under the influence of the Silk Road, China is often an exporter (输出国). However, throughout the history of these routes, many things were introduced to China through them. Here are three of them.
The Central Asian area introduced many products to China. For example, during the Han and Jin dynasties, nomadic people from the North introduced crops (作物) like carrots to China through the Northern Silk Road. One of the foods made from those crops is Hubing, a type of bread popular in the western areas of China. It was introduced to Chang’an by people from Central Asia during the Tang Dynasty.
Besides, many of these people from western areas opened cake shops in Chang’an. One of the most popular products these shops sold was Biluo, a type of cake that looked like a pillow. People could see the color of the filling inside from the outside because the surface of this dessert was quite thin.
Another food is a large number of spices (香料), such as pepper. They were introduced to China through areas such as the Indian Subcontinent. Pepper was first used for medical purposes, but later, during the Tang Dynasty it was used for cooking. After the Tang Dynasty, China began to grow pepper in its southern areas. However, the production was not enough to meet the needs and pepper continued to be imported (进口) from abroad.
During the Song Dynasty, thanks to the development of sea transportation, pepper was imported in large numbers and it was no longer as valuable as before. But for most people, pepper remained an expensive spice that was only saved for special events, such as when cooking for guests. During the Ming Dynasty, the Sea Silk Road greatly increased the import of pepper to China.
The food introduced to China through the Silk Road not only enriched the diet of the Chinese people, but also encouraged cultural exchanges.
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