3 . Elon Musk has offered a prize of $100m for the best carbon capture proposal. I can save his committee a lot of time. The money should go to Peter Wohlleben, whose book The Hidden Life of Trees was the most encouraging blockbuster (一鸣惊人) of 2015.Wohlleben’s idea is this: do nothing about trees. Stop fiddling (乱作为) with them, thinking that we can deal with climate change better than nature. If we fiddle, our Romes will burn.

The Hidden Life of Trees argued that trees are social. It shows that they can be our saviours. But it’s terribly hard to let ourselves be saved. We think we can be the authors of our salvation (拯救). Of course, there are things we could and should be doing, but in terms of forestry practice, often what’s billed as part of the solution is part of the problem.

Anyone who has planted a tree in their garden knows that it has a far-reaching effect — it makes your garden cooler in summer and warmer in winter. Forests cool by transpiring (蒸发). If there’s no water, there’s no cooling. Drought can kill trees fast, but trees have many ways of dealing with it, and Wohlleben sets them out. As a species, we have survived many climatic changes by changing our behaviour — and that’s how trees survive, too. Trees learn from their past harms and produce younger ones programmed with those lessons. They regulate their growth by changing the rate at which they drip (点滴)-feed them with sugar solution through root networks.

Deciduous (落叶的) forests in particular remove greenhouse gases effectively as long as they live. Cut them down and burn them and you’re releasing carbon dioxide not just from the wood, but also from the forest floor. Deciduous trees are not “harvest-ready” at 200 years: they are teenagers. We must interrogate comforting expressions such as “renewable energy”, and learn the real cost of our toilet paper.

If we don’t learn to do nothing about trees, they will eventually be alone anyway — but without us. Wohlleben brilliantly and readably shows us how urgent and how hard it is to do nothing.

Recently, the Chinese     1     (animate) film Chang’an has been a smash hit. The film is like a love letter to Chang’an and the stars in the Tang Dynasty poetry, magnificent and touching.

The story of the profound friendship between poet Gao Shi and the master of romantic poetry Li Bai offers a taste     2     the star-studded history of the Tang era,     3     is often seen as     4     golden age in Chinese history due to     5     (it) economic prosperity and cultural integration and advancement.

The Chinese language is extensive and profound, and the ancient poems are even more mysterious. The words are often extremely concise and brief,     6     they contain profound cultural background and the     7     (beautiful) of Chinese characters.

The 48 Tang poems featured in the movie     8     (present) a panorama of the most excellent poets of that time as well as their political aspirations and ideals. The movie is     9     (undoubted) a masterpiece     10     (show) the characteristics of Chinese culture to the world.

7 . Way back in Victorian times, around 1872,Christina Rossetti wrote a collection of nursery rhymes entitled Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book, and in it she composed (创作) all sorts of neat little poems that were favorably received. British author Lewis Carroll, a friend of the Rossetti family, lauded the poems, and the public was particularly pleased by the illustrations.

Some of the poems improve children’s mind and character;some are memory aids for learning about numbers, time and colors; others deal with nature, including wind, rain, growth, and death. Rossetti’s delightful poems have a kind of simplicity and effortlessness that audiences today still appreciate. They refresh our memories of being a kid.

Why is the sky blue? Will my head explode if I think too much? You used to ask such fun questions when you were a little one, right? Hey, we all did. And that’s kind of what makes being a kid so cool. In fact, kids often try their hardest to come up with the silliest questions that will inspire a little laughter from others. It’s kind of their duty as kids.

“Who has seen the wind?” It is a silly question, isn’t it? But Rossetti can break nature down for us in a way that not only makes sense but sounds nice, too. The poem reopens our days of innocent imagination.

Who has seen the wind?

Neither I nor you.

But when the leaves hang trembling,

The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?

Neither you nor I.

But when the trees bow down their heads,

The wind is passing by.

The poem opens with the title that asks, “Who has seen the wind?” The speaker informs us that neither she nor anyone else has ever seen it. But we do see the leaves “trembling,” which informs us that the wind is passing through. The speaker then repeats the same question. The answer remains the same, but when the trees “bow down their heads,” we again realize that the wind is passing by.

10 . Robert Frost is one of the most known and loved American poets. Almost everyone has heard at least one of his poems, maybe even three or four. You may wonder why people love his poems so much. If you want to find out, keep reading.

Firstly, Frost balances the fine line between poetic rhythm and conversational rhythm. A poem written with a regular form of poetic meter (音步) sounds great, but may be hard to understand. Frost wrote with excellent poetic rhythm, but at the same time made his poems sound like ordinary conversation. Frost’ s poem titled A Patch of Old Snow is a good example of this.

Also, Frost is not afraid to add humor to his poetry. Of course, he always keeps his form which can make him seem a bit traditional next to modernfree verse (自由诗) poets like Charles Bukowski or even William Carlos Williams. The truth is, Frost covers many aspects of being human including fun. He even makes himself the topic of the joke at times, like in his poem Dust of Snow.

He also shows us beauty. Experiencing beauty is something that makes us human. It’s an important part of human nature. It makes life better! Frost is great at sharing the beauty of the world around him with us through his poetry. Birches is a popular Frost poem that really shows us the beauty that Frost sees in birch trees. Even just the first few lines of the poem present us with amazing imagery.

Last but not least, he is full of wisdom. Knowing how to get through life, being able to accept mystery, understanding the ways of the world, Frost is like a wise old man sharing his wisdom in a fun, beautiful, and conversational way. In his poem A Time to Talk, Frost stresses the importance of taking a break from the day’s work to have a conversation with a friend.