Peking Opera into Campus

I’d just returned from a beautiful fall early-morning walk with my dog. At the front door, I dug around in my pockets for the keys. When I discovered I didn’t have them, I decided to return to the paths we’d taken. I would surely spot them in plain sight. My little dog ran in circles of excitement that we would do a repeat of our just-finished outing. I spent an hour looking, brushing aside tall grasses, but the keys remained lost. I was beginning to get upset as I thought of the results of losing them, so I continued to look for them but failed.

Back home again, I pulled the backup key from its hiding place, let myself in the house, and fell on the chair in tiredness. The house key wasn’t that important as I had an extra. The mail key was a big deal because getting a new one takes a lot of time. I had a spare car key, but there was often something wrong with it, and the key would be expensive to replace. But the iron heart made by my grandson was precious beyond measure. For some reason, thinking of it being gone forever made tears come to my eyes.

That night, it turned colder and we had a snow. I enjoyed a comfort-food dinner, played soft music, and settled into a peaceful evening until I heard the noise of my car alarm from the garage (车库). I rushed to the car, put the extra key into the door and finally opened it, and then I hurriedly tried my best to stop the alarm. I felt red-faced as I imagined my next-door neighbors being disturbed and annoyed.

I went back in the house but the alarm started again. I turned it off, went back inside, and the alarm sounded again. I repeated the process. Back in the house, I waited, but the next sound was the front doorbell. Thinking it was a neighbor ready to shout at me, I opened the door slowly and turned on the light with apologies ready.

In the light snow stood three neighbors from several streets away.

What a clever idea with which the neighbors found my home!

Cindy and Tracy were former alumnae （校友）and best friends. Cindy lived alone in Los Angeles far away from her home in Paris, France. Though she was far away from home, Cindy was happy to have friends like Tracy and she also enjoyed the company of her pet dog, Ted, which she had adopted （收养）from the animal shelter. The two friends visited each other regularly. I racy was not much of a pet lover, but as she was well aware of pet owners' "Love me, love my deg” attitude, she was friendly to Ted and played with him on her visits.

Tracy never thought of keeping a pet in her own house until one day. Cindy invited her io dinner, during which Cindy expressed her intention to commit （托付）Ted to her care for a year. She told Tracy as her father's health was failing, she would have to go back to Paris to take care of family business before her brother could graduate from college. Cindy was unwilling to send Ted back to the animal shelter or leave it to the hands of a complete stranger.

Knowing that Ted meant a lot to Cindy, Tracy gladly promised to help out. Soon, the day came when Cindy would leave for Paris. She took Ted to Tracy's home, taking Ted's food. bowl, bathing basin and toys etc. with her. She asked 1'racy to remember Ted's food preference and habits. She hugged Ted tightly in her arms for a while and asked Tracy to take Ted to the garden and play Ted's favorite ball game. Cindy left Tracy's house quietly, managing to avoid being seen by Ted. When she was out, tears filled her eyes.

After Cindy had left, Tracy tried her very best to take good care of Ted. She kept messaging Cindy asking for puppy-care advice. At first Ted was obviously not comfortable in Tracy's house but as time went by , he began to accept her and Tracy got used to his existence.

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I, together with my friend James, go to the cinema the other day. The film Never Say No left a deeply impression on me, from which I have learned a lot. No matter what great difficulties we meet with in our life, we shouldn’t lose heart. Instead, you should face up to the problems and manage to overcome them. At the present, I have some difficulties in adapting to my new study life. I’m determined to try harder and more optimistic. And I’m convincing that I can make it with the guidance of my teachers and friends. The film is well worth see once again. Which I suggest doing, my dear friends, is that you should watch it.

7 . I didn’t understand the power of forgiveness until I caused a serious car crash.

It was a clear night, oven-warm, full moon hanging low over the desert. On the way back from a party, Hannah and I decided to go for a   ________ . Hannah was my best friend, younger but much taller. “Hannah is a real ________ ,” My mom used to say. And   ________ enough, that summer she   ________ with a modeling agency（模特公司）.

Taking a turn too fast, I ________ a block of rock and,   ________ the car. We were seriously injured I cracked my cheekbone on the steering wheel; Hannah’s forehead was ________wide open on the dash. There is a(n) ________   amount of blood on Hannah’s ________ , a piece of skin hanging into her eyes. In the emergency room, my parents spoke _________; Best plastic, surgeon（整容医生）in the city. ________ of her modeling career.

What would I ________   to her? It is all my fault.

What her mother, Sharon, came into my hospital room, I started to cry, ready for her ________. She sat beside me and took my hand. “I nearly killed my best friend when I was your age, she said with a soft, ________ voice.

“I’m so sorry,” I said.

“You’re both ________,” she said. “The rest is window dressing. I ________ you. Hannah will too.”

Sharon’s forgiveness ________ Hannah and me to get back in the ________ together that summer. And we were able to ________ friends throughout high school, college and the rest of our lives. I think of Sharon’s gift of forgiveness every time I feel like ________ someone for his wrong doing.

8 . After opening the world’s first commercial Direct Air Capture plant（直接空气捕集工厂）designed to pull CO₂ out of the air, Swiss company Climeworks is now trying to create the world’s first “negative emission（负排放）” power plant.

An international team of scientists has been working on a way to turn captured CO₂ into minerals. The project is called CarFix. Experts capture the gas, put it into water and send it to more than 700 meters underground. There the CO₂ on contact with a special kind of rock forms into a mineral.

“Our results show that between 95 and 98 percent of the CO₂, sent underground was mineralized over the period of less than two years, which is amazingly fast,” says lead author of the CarFix project, Dr. Juerg Matter. Before this discovery it was thought that this mineralization could take hundreds to thousands of years.

The DAC technology can collect CO₂ from the atmosphere and then store it underground or sell it to business needing the gas. For example, customers can use it in drinks. And the first plant in Zurich is supplying the captured CO₂ to a nearby greenhouse to “feed” vegetables. By using the company’s CO₂ the customers can reduce their carbon mission as well as lower their dependence on energy.

A 2015 study suggested that before the CarFix project, experts could collect CO₂, but they didn’t have a large-scale（大规模的）method to safely treat it.

Combining Climeworks’ DAC technology with the CarFix mineralization process they will be able to create a system. This system doesn’t put additional carbon back into the atmosphere. Actually it is carbon negative.

“The economic cost of applying this kind of carbon capture technology on a large-scale is not particularly practical now, but for the first time we are seeing a realistic and effective system,” says Christoph Gebald CEO of Climeworks.

9 . According to most people, after a long period of studying or working, we need to have a rest to refresh ourselves. However, that may not be the case. According to a recent report, you don’t need the break as much as you may think that makes you feel less tired.

Scientists have long assumed that willpower is a limited resource, which is why you feel the need to have a rest, have a snack and then get back to task when you are feeling better. They argue that the only way it restores willpower is by rest, food or entertainment.

But psychologists have challenged this theory, saying weak willpower is all in your head. They have found that people’s belief in willpower determines how long and how well they’ll be able to work on tough mental exercise. “If you think of willpower are something that is not really used up, you can go on and on.” said Professor Veronika Job.

The researchers designed four experiments to test students’ belief in willpower. After a tiring task, those who believed, or were led to believe that willpower is a limited resource, performed worse on standard concentration tests than those who thought of willpower as something they had more control over. They also found that leading up to the final exam week, students who believed the limited resource theory ate junk food 24 percent more often than those who believed they had more control in resisting the temptation.

Mr. Job said, “The theory that willpower is a limited resource is interesting. Belief in willpower as a non-limited resource makes people stronger in their ability to work through challenges.”

The findings can help people who are battling against temptation. Willpower isn’t driven by a biologically-based process as much as we used to think. The belief in it is what influences your behaviors.

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