1 . Nothing in life is more exciting than the sudden insight that leaves one a changed person - not only changed, but changed for the _______. Such moments are not many, but they come to all of us. Sometimes from a valuable book, and sometimes from a (n) _______ friend.

One cold afternoon I was in a restaurant feeling extremely _______. Because of several _______, the research of great significance in my life had failed.

Then my neighbor, an old psychiatrist (精神科医生), _______ in the restaurant. “What’s troubling you?” he asked. I told him what had happened and _______ blamed myself for the failure. Hearing my words, he said nothing but _______ me to his office, where he took a tape out. “On this tape,” he said, “there are short _______ made by three of my patients. Listen and pick out the two - word phrase that appears _______ in all the three cases.”

The three voices all ________ themselves, and the phrase “if only” was said out loud at least six times.

“That is poisonous,” the old man ________. “The trouble with ‘if only’ is that it doesn’t ________anything. But if you let it become a habit, it can become a real ________ so that you won’t want to try more.”

“What should I do?” I inquired.

“Change ‘if only’ to ‘next time’,” he smiled. “This phrase will help you to ________ the past, learn a lesson from a failure, move forward, and take ________.”

2 . In the shallow waters near the ocean shore, kelp (海藻) grows thickly absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. It grows at a rate of nearly 60 cm daily and if moved to a more nutrient rich depth of 80 m, it even grows faster. It’s this rapid growth that allows kelp to lock large amounts of carbon away — similar to a tree. Kelp and other species of seaweed could remove 61-268 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere every year.

Kelp can also be turned into biofuel. “This biofuel from kelp can use all the existing refining (精炼) systems of the petrochemical industry,” says Brian Wilcox, the chief engineer at California-based company Marine BioEnergy. “It in many cases looks like crude oil (原油) and it goes through the same processes.”

Researchers are developing what they hope could be a solution that would allow large kelp farming to be used for biofuel. Diane Kim, an ecologist at the University of Southern California, and her teammates collected two sets of kelp from their underwater habitat off the coast of Santa Catalina Island, California. Forty of the kelp chains were attached to a long line at a depth of 10 m near the kelp’s original habitat. Another 40 were fixed to a pole that could move to varying depths like a lift. For 100 days, the second set was put at a depth of 80 m during the night. During the daytime, researchers lifted it close to the ocean surface to absorb sunlight.

After the experiment, the depth-cycled kelp produced almost four times as much biomass as the set kept at the shallower depth. In addition, the depth-cycled kelp grew far faster — at 5% per day against 3.5% for the other set. Kim and her teammates believe this depth-cycling represents a promising option for biofuel generation as it allows kelp to take advantage of both the sunlight closer to the surface and the higher nutrients further down in the water column. Using methods like this could allow kelp to be farmed for biofuel.

5 . I’ve always been attracted by scars (疤痕). I find it ______ when people are ashamed of the scars they have on their bodies. To me, scars ______ a light on who a person truly is.

I was born in the year 2000. My parents ______ before I was born that I’d be a sick man because I was diagnosed with a variety of medical issues while still in the womb (子宫). Then days after I was born, I had my first surgery, ______ my first of many scars. I ______myself to be quite different because it is ______. Then, after several more months of going in and out of the hospital, I received my biggest and most meaningful scar from a six-hour open-heart surgery. This one______all the way down my chest. Typically, the heart is a symbol of ______, so I view this scar as representative of my ability to be a strong-willed person. Today, I am ______healthy. Although I still go to the hospital for yearly check-ups, my heart condition does not cut off my abilities in any way. I’m able to take part in any physical activity that I ______without worry. I love my scars. I______them as badges (徽章) of courage and survival. They are conversation starters. I often feel annoyed when people ______ their scars and I wonder why they would want to ______ their best stories. I wonder why they call their survival an______. If you have a scar, big or small, be______ of it. It’s part of who you are.

7 . Nature is like the mechanism in an enormous clock. Everything is neatly arranged and inter connected. Every individual has its place and its function. Take the wolf for example. As meat-eaters, wolves regulate the number of plant eaters so that they do not multiply too rapidly. All animals and plants are held in a delicate balance.

The wolves remind me of a story from my childhood when my grandfather gave me an old clock. The first thing I did was take the clock apart to find out how it worked. Even though I was convinced that I knew how to put it back together in working order, I couldn’t do it. After I rebuilt it, there were a few cogs (轮齿) left over and a grandfather who was not in the best of moods. In the wild, wolves play the role of such cogs. If we remove them, not only do the enemies of sheep and cattle disappear, but the mechanism of nature also begins to run differently, so differently that rivers change course and many local bird species die out.

And things can also go wrong when a species is added. For example, the introduction of a nonnative fish leads to a massive reduction in the local deer population. Because of a fish? The earth’s ecosystems, it seems, are a bit too complex for us to draw up simple rules of cause and effect. Even conservation measures can have unexpected results. Who knew, for example, that recovering crane (鹤) populations in Europe would affect the production of Iberian ham?

So it’s high time we took a good look at the interconnections between species both large and small. It’s important for us to realize that even small interventions(介入)can have huge consequences, and we’d do better to keep our hands off everything in nature that we do not absolutely have to touch.

9 . Screenwriting Camp for Teens

At New York Film Academy’s 4-week screenwriting camp for teens, students learn how to write their own screenplays.

This hands-on camp is structured to benefit students of any experience level. Students spend an average of 24 hours per week in class, and 8 to 16 hours per week in writing labs. In all locations, students have the opportunity to write and shoot a group project. Students are required to do a significant amount of writing in the evenings and on weekends to complete the written assignments of this camp.

Screenwriting Summer Camp Classes

To get a sense of what students will learn in the screenwriting camp, here are some screenwriting courses they will take.

● Story Generation: This is a first-week class in which students present a variety of film ideas and choose one to write for the rest of the course.

● Screenplay Analysis: This class looks at the complexities of feature-length screenwriting.

● Film Craft(技术) : In this course students learn about the elements of the feature film.

● Production Workshop: Students expand their understanding of the visual components of a screen story by shooting their own short scene.

Camp Information

Classes are held at the Film Academy’s New York City (NYC), Los Angeles(LA), and South Beach campuses.

Tuition Fees: $4,525

Start Dates for Our Locations: Jun 25, 2023-Jul 22, 2023

If you need assistance, please contact us immediately at summerprograms@nyfa.edu or call us at 212-674-4300 (NYC), 818-333-3558(LA), or 305-534-6009(South Beach) so we can assist you. For more information about all other camp locations, please contact 212-966-3488.

10 . Len Collingwood, a clinical nurse specialist, retired on his 65th birthday. He told his wife,Sally, he would“start out as an adventure cyclist.”

Four months later, he set off on a 13,000 km cycle ride from Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia to Edinburgh, much of it roughly shadowing Marco Polo’s Silk Road. No sooner had he started out than a snowstorm hit. He hid in his tent, wearing every item of clothing he had packed. At -18℃ it was too cold to go outside to cook. He survived the next 48 hours by eating a massive bag of chocolates.

So it is a surprise to hear Collingwood say that he has never feared for his life. “Never. There’s always something to be curious about,” he says.

In 2018, he rode from Edinburgh to Istanbul to earn a place in Guinness World Records. “There are very few records a man over 60 can break,” he says. During the trip, he got a dozen flat tyres. But he fixed each one. “I’ve always been serious about purpose. If something is to be done, it is to be done properly. People go forwards and people go backwards.The difficult bit is managing the times when people go backwards,” he says. “Don’t let the moment ruin the whole thing.”

He turns 71 this year. He is about to begin the 1,407 km trip to John O’ Groats. It sounds tough but he insists “it’s just a matter of spinning (转) the wheels.” Still, they don’t spin on their own. His daughter — a yoga teacher — has suggested weights to maintain muscle mass. His son, a cyclist, keeps him up to speed on the latest technology.

Collingwood is planning new rides in France next year, and beyond that hopes “to spread my wings further. There is peace on a bicycle,” he says. “The joy is the actual doing of the activity. Going further means you’re just doing more of something you enjoy.”