1 . About a decade ago, my grandpa who was suffering from Alzheimer’s (阿尔茨海默病) got into my car and drove off Angel and I ________ the police, but before they could find him, two ________ kids pulled into our driveway with my grandpa.

They said they overheard him crying about being ________ at an empty gas station 10 miles away. My grandpa couldn’t remember our address, but gave the kids his first and last name. They looked him up online, found our address, and ________ him home

I was ________ on that incident today while sitting near the edge of a beautiful ocean side cliff I was suddenly ________ of footsteps behind me. I ________ around to see a young lady who was almost in ________ slowly walking to where I was sitting. I walked up to her and ________, “What’s wrong?” She told me she was ________ afraid of heights, but was worried about my safety and wanted to get over her fear. Her braveness and kindness truly warmed my heart.

I’ve spent the rest of the day thinking about what an extraordinary person she is, and about those amazing college kids who helped my ________, and about what it means to be a kind and ________ person. Sometimes you have to go the extra mile, or face your biggest _________, or stand up against your own negative tendencies to make a (n) ________ difference in someone else ‘s life. It’s ________ to start doing the hard things-the right things-for others.

2 . Fishing trips to Canada are a tradition for Jeffrey Hardy and his three friends from America. This summer in 2023, the forest air polluted with wildfire smoke forced the men to give up their mid-June fishing plan. Canada’s wildfire season put its tourism industry at a crucial time.

Except some days of poor air quality, major Canadian cities remain unaffected by wildfires. The fires are in the country’s northern areas that have drawn travelers interested in outdoor experiences in years past.

In a recent report by Destination Canada, a marketing organization, half of the total spent by international visitors is in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. But other Canadian destinations attractive to visitors have been affected by the wildfires.

In preparation for increasing visitor sizes and ongoing wildfires, some businesses are thinking about changing their operations, which see outdoor recreation (娱乐) as a tourism opportunity. A nonprofit travel agency is considering creating a questionnaire (调查问卷) for customers to show when they would cancel a booking because of road closes from the wildfires, poor air quality and a lack of visibility.

Tourism in British Columbia contributes greatly to its economy. The province has various recreational offerings, from the major ski destinations to hiking along the coast. Blackcomb, a helicopter tour company, has canceled its sightseeing offerings, using most of its helicopters on the firefighting effort until at least early August. “It’s the question of flying our customers around on sightseeing tours or putting out fire s within 10 kilometers of our bases and the communities that we live in,” said Jordy Norris, the company’s tourism director. “We made it clear to both our staff and our customers that we have a duty to protect the backyard.”

Darrin Rigo, a photographer, recently saw a photo of a beautiful waterfall engulfed in fire on a media page. “I’m sure that’s not going to last long, and everything will turn to normal.” he said.

3 . Rushing over to take a picture with Mickey Mouse, Emma Sinclair, from Australia, smiled at the camera and said, “I can’t ______ to tell Grandpa about this.” In 2015, she came to the US to fulfill her dream of visiting Disney World in Florida. Her grandfather, Spike, and she shared a ______ of Disney and he wanted her to come there.

There was another ______ for her trip. At three years old, she was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis (神经纤维瘤病), which caused tumours (肿瘤) to ______ in the brain and nerves. After age 15, she required many surgeries to receive treatment for the disease, but she ______ life and entered university.

She loved children, but she decided not to have children,______ of passing on the disease to them. ______, she became a part-time worker and cared for 40 kids, giving her such______. She wanted to make each moment ______ , which was why she went travelling.

In 2 020, a______ tumour was found in her brain. She ______ the use of her right hand from the surgery. She had to learn to get around with the assistance of a wheelie walker as her ______ was affected, and teach herself to do basic tasks with her left hand.

Though her treatment for the tumour remains ongoing, she has lots to______. She has welcomed a Cavoodle into her life, training it to be her service dog in case her condition______. She hopes her story can remind others that no matter how hard life is, we have to face it ______.

To act with honesty was a habit with Susan who always follows the Golden Rule: “Do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you.” But when she thought over her past conduct, a blush of shame appeared on her cheeks, as many little acts of selfishness and unkindness came back to her memory. She was determined that for the future, both in great things and small, she would remember and follow the Golden Rule.

It was not long after this that an opportunity occurred, which tried Susan’s principles. One Saturday evening she went, as usual, to Mr. Thompson’s store, to receive the money of her mother’s washing for him, which amounted to five dollars. When she arrived, she found Mr. Thompson extremely busy. As Susan made her request for the money, he simply pressed a bill into her hand.

With the bill in hand, Susan happily went out of the gate. Pausing to put the money safely in her purse, she discovered that he had given her two bills instead of one. She looked around; nobody was near and her first reaction was joy at the unexpected prize.

“It is all mine,” said she to herself. “I will buy my mother a new coat with it, and she can give her old one to my sister Mary, and then Mary can go to school with me next winter. I wonder if I can buy a pair of shoes for my brother Tom, too.”

At that moment she remembered that he must have given it to her by mistake. But again the voice of the tempter whispered, ‘‘He gave it, and how do you know that he did not intend to make you a present of it? Keep it! He will never know it.”

This conflict was going on in her mind between good and evil.

“Sir, you paid me two bills instead of one,” she handed him the extra note.

6 . Have you ever taken photos by using mobile phones with selfie sticks (自拍杆)?    1    

However, a pair of US artists from New Mexico, Aric Snee and Jutin Crowe believe they have invented a better one and they call it “selfie arm”.     2     It makes those people in the pictures to be holding hands with a loved one.

The pair say it offers a far better experience than using a straight stick. The selfie arm makes people feel they are not alone when they take photos.     3     They think their invention solve the main problem that the selfie stick has— people look alone while they are taking pictures of themselves with great interests. The product, at present, just an art project and a model, conveniently provides you a welcoming arm.     4     The pair say they are fascinated by these new ideas.

The “selfie arm” is made of fiberglass.     5    

The project that they work on show the growing selfie stick phenomenon (现象) directly and the increasing need for narcissism (自恋) and Internet agreement.

7 . “Humans can develop certain abilities we aren’t born with by practicing animals’ movements,” the traditional Chinese Wushu lovers believed in the past — and still do today.

Chinese Five-Animal Exercises, also known as Wuqinxi, are the first complete set of qigong exercises following the movements of animals: monkeys, deer (鹿), birds, bears and tigers. They were created by one of the greatest doctors in Chinese history, Hua Tuo, more than 1,800 years ago.

The Five-Animal Exercises are well-designed to help blood circulation (循环), and let the energy go smoothly in the body so as to improve the health.

“The bear movements are good for the stomach. The tiger movements can reduce the pain in the back. The deer movements help reduce the fat around the waist (腰). The bird movements can help keep our knees healthy and the monkey movements can be good for the heart.” said Hua Yi, the 59th inheritor (继承人) of Wuqinxi.

For those new learners, the first few exercises might not go well. You may find it hard to focus. Wear comfortable clothes, keep peaceful in your mind, try to move slowly... Little by little, you’ll feel more and more harmonious with nature. You may even feel you become a tiger or a deer, walking in the forest freely.

These exercises need no tools. You can search online for the videos and practice them at any time when you feel like relaxing your body and mind. Because it’s fun to practice and good for health, Five-Animal Exercises are becoming more and more popular in recent years, not only in China, but also in many other places of the world.

8 . Four Animation Studios(动画工作室)

Logo (图标)
Name	Pixar Animation Studios	Walt Disney Animation Studios	Dream Works Animation	Studio Ghib li
Location	California, USA	California, USA	California, USA	Tokyo, Japan
Introduction	Pixar was bought by Steve Jobs in 1986. Later in 2006 it was bought by Disney.	Walt and Roy founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923. After years, Disney Animation has become the most famous one in the world.	In 1994, Steven, Jeffrey and David founded Dream Works. It belongs to Universal Pictures now.	Ghibli is one top animation studio in Japan. Many top animated films in Japan are produced by Ghibli. These works make it famous all over the world.
Famous movies	Toy Story Finding Nemo	The Lion King Big Hero 6	Shrek Kung Fu Panda	Castle in the Sky My Neighbor Totoro

10 . Tsunamis are one of the most terrifying natural phenomena that the world suffers. The series of waves generated by the displacement (位移) of a large volume of water can be caused by several events, including earthquakes, underwater explosions and landslides. Once triggered (引发), a tsunami can hit the coast within minutes and its destructive power can be enormous.

At present, early warning systems rely on measuring the movement of dart buoys (浮标), which record changes in the sea level, or assessing the bottom water pressure of the developing tsunami. But they require the tsunami to physically reach the measurement location. The buoys could be fixed in the deep ocean, but this requires an unrealistically big number of buoys. Or people can fix the buoys along the shoreline, but due to the high speed of the tsunami, this method may leave no warning time for people on the land.

Instead, there is a new system — using sound waves to predict tsunamis. Sound waves caused by an earthquake can travel much faster than the tsunami that has been triggered. Using standard underwater microphones, we can record these sound waves long before the tsunami arrives regardless of the direction in which the tsunami will travel. The sound signals come from changes in pressure, so what we actually analyze is a series of data on how the pressure is changing over time. Though buoys also show changes in pressure, the tsunami front must actually reach the buoys to inform us that there is an increase in the water surface. By using underwater microphones, however, we only need to catch the sound signals.

Though the idea of using sound waves to predict tsunamis has been put forward previously, the key to our idea is a new mathematical method that can be used to analyze these recorded sound signals in near real-time. Once this is worked out, we can not only warn people of a tsunami but also more accurately estimate its size long before it reaches the shoreline.