2 . There’s nothing quite like a holiday abroad with your girls, and as we look forward to a more positive 2021, these places should beat the top of your bucket list.

When you think of France, often the famous capital Paris comes to mind. Romantic evenings at Le Mur Des Je t’aime (The Wall of Love), The Louvre or at the Eiffel Tower. However, you’re with your girls. So why not leave the city of love to the lovers and journey south to Cannes. After settling in, head straight to The Promenade del a Croisette, which stretches along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Not only does it offer a beautiful view, you will feel like celebrities as you wander around the place film stars call home during the Cannes Film Festival.

Nothing says girls’ holiday quite like a trip to Ibiza does. Whether you are looking to gleefully stumbled own the San Antonio Sunset Strip at 2: 00 am or wander the cobbled streets of the old town, Ibiza has it all. For the party lovers, you’ll find a home in San Antonio.

One of the few places on Earth that is warm all year-round, where temperatures rarely dip below 20℃. Brazil is the perfect destination for a girl’s holiday. Being the largest country in South America, it’s no surprise that it has something for everyone. For the girls’ group with the most revelers, the place for you is Rio de Janeiro.

From the crystal clear waterfalls, the elephant sanctuaries to the full moon parties, Thailand offers countless adventures for a girl’s trip.

Start with Bangkok, the city of angels. For the girls’ trip that’s all about sightseeing, a visit to Wat Pho is a must. Home to the Reclining Buddha, this incredible statue is covered in gold leaf and stands at fifteen metres tall and forty-six metres long. Whilst you’re at the temple you can stop to receive a traditional Thai massage which will get you ready for the night ahead.

3 . Picture a young Chinese woman in a field, dressed in traditional hemp clothing, as she picks flowers to create makeup for her cheeks. ________ the same person making a bamboo sofa, making soy sauce (酱油) and cooking up all sorts of delicious dishes.

It may sound hard to believe, but such a person ________ in modern China, and her name is Li Ziqi. With a fan base of ________ 21 million people on Sina Weibo and 7 million followers on video-sharing site YouTube, Li has made a name for herself in a ________ of videos that show off a pre-industrial Chinese way of life in ________ Sichuan Province. “I want to do my part to let more people know about Chinese ________, ” she said. “Much of the ________ of my videos can be owed to the ________ of Chinese culture.”

Li seems to be a master of all kinds of ________—cooking, painting, designing and farming. She ________ silkworms to sew a quilt and grows plants. Many videos show her ________ seasonal ingredients from the garden and cooking them up with her wood-fired wok (土灶). A ________ bowl of soup for the winter, a lighter plate of noodles for the summer, Li follows the seasons in her cooking, as China’s ________ 24 solar terms also do, and makes food suitable for the particular ________.

________, Li’s simple pleasures amaze people living in big cities. “She leads a life that many dream of, but they don’t dare to ________ their current life in exchange for,” iFeng. com wrote.

Her handmade lifestyle is a ________ for many. “In today’s society, many feel ________,” she said. “When they watch my videos at the end of a busy day, I want them to ________ and experience something nice, to take away some of their ________ and stress.”

4 . You won’t be able to control everything your teens do when they drive, but you can teach them about the importance of vehicle safety.

Did your teens know they should lock the doors immediately upon entering the vehicle? If your teens haven’t been taught this, then they probably won’t do so. Teach them to lock their doors, as this could guarantee their safety when they are pulling out of a dark parking lot or stopping at a red light.

    2    . They probably don’t care what you consider to be a good color, or model, but you should teach them how to buy a safe car. Top safety features include electronic stability control, a rear view camera, side impact airbags, etc. These will help them better control the vehicle and offer protection in the event of an accident.

Looking at phones or controlling the radio while driving could make your teens seriously injured or worse.     3    . Teenagers tend to think themselves unbeatable (无与伦比的), but if you gently explain the risks of not focusing on the road, they may decide to quit this dangerous habit.

You need to show that you’re confident of your teens’ driving skills, even if your teens’ speeding up too fast or hitting the brakes too hard scares you. Instead of yelling and stressing out on such occasions, try your best to speak calmly.     4    .

    5    . You might not be able to stop the occasional speeding ticket, but you can help them see the importance of following the rules and keeping themselves safe.

6 . “The moment before they called my name, I was really nervous because the other finalists’ presentations are really good and I thought they would win,” Kara Fan,14, who has won America’s Top Young Scientist, told Yahoo Finance. “When they announced my name, I was really surprised actually.”

To win that claim, Fan’s nano-particle liquid bandage had to surpass the experiments of hundreds of fifth to eighth graders as well as nine other finalists. Fan started developing her liquid bandage in April 2019 to fight the overuse of antibiotics(抗生素).

According to the CDC, roughly 2 million people every year suffer a bacterial infection in the U.S. and about 23,000 passed away as a result. If left alone, a UN study reported, drug-resistant diseases or the “superbug” could lead to 10 million deaths across the globe by 2050. When Fan’s sprayable bandage dries on a person’s skin, it creates a thin layer that protects the wounded area while breaking the cell wall and killing the bacteria on the skin. After experimenting with copper nitrate(硝酸铜) to fight bacteria, switching to the silver nitrate ended up being the major catalyst(催化剂)to seeing results for her award-winning project.

“Thousands of years ago, ancient people would use copper and silver to eat with and they would drink water from like copper bowls to kill bacteria,” Fan explained. “I found out that it didn’t work. So I used nano silver.”

Sir Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin—a type of antibiotic—is Fan’s favorite scientific discovery. That said she doesn’t think humans should rely too heavily on penicillin.

Following her years at Westview High School, Fan hopes to continue her biology track at Stanford University. Along with the $25,000 cash prize she won on October 29, becoming America’s Top Young Scientist may help get the private university’s attention.

9 . You probably know who Marie Curie was, but you may not have heard of Rachel Carson. Of the outstanding ladies listed below, who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?

Jane Addams(1860-1935)

Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank. Addams helped the poor and worked for peace. She encouraged a sense of community (社区) by creating shelters and promoting education and services for people in need. In 1931, Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rachel Carson(1907-1964)

If it weren’t for Rachel Carson, the environmental movement might not exist today. Her popular 1962 book Silent Spring raised awareness of the dangers of pollution and the harmful effects of chemicals on humans and on the world’s lakes and oceans.

Sandra Day O’Connor(1930-present)

When Sandra Day O’Connor finished third in her class at Stanford Law School, in 1952, she could not find work at a law firm because she was a woman. She became an Arizona state senator(参议员) and, in 1981, the first woman to join the U.S. Supreme Court. O’Connor gave the deciding vote in many important cases during her 24 years on the top court.

Rosa Parks(1913-2005)

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks would not give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. Her simple act landed Parks in prison. But it also set off the Montgomery bus boycott.It lasted for more than a year, and kicked off the civil-rights movement. “The only tired I was,was tired of giving in,”said Parks.

“Du Fu: China’s Greatest Poet”, a 58-minute documentary released recently on BBC, introduces Du Fu to the Western world for the first time    1     the form of documentary. In the film, Michael Wood, one of BBC’s most popular hosts, visited a number of Chinese    2     (city) to retrace Du’s steps. The documentary invited well-known British actor Ian McKellen,     3     played Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings movies,     4     (read)15 of Du’s poems that have been translated into English.

Born in 712, Du Fu lived through the violent fall of China’s brilliant Tang Dynasty. He had the desire to serve his country, but his life    5    (destroy) by the An Lushan Rebellion of 755. Of all     6     poems he wrote, 500 have been preserved over the ages. For generations he     7     (be) the guardian of the moral conscience (良知) of the nation.

The documentary compared Du to Shakespeare to help audiences     8    (well) understand the poet’s great achievements in literature. It also highlighted Chinese poetry, noting that its 3000-year-old history makes     9    the oldest living tradition in the world.

During an interview, the director even quoted a line from Du to encourage the people    10     (suffer) from pandemics (流行病).