1 . Cool Summer Camps for Teens
Whether just for the day or overnight, your kids will love spending time at any of these fun summer camps for teens.
Camp Chief Ouray
This over 100-year-old camp, located about an hour and a half from Denver, Colorado, first hosted campers in the summer of 1908. Camp Chief Ouray’s program emphasizes five core values: caring, honesty, respect, responsibility, and faith. Day camps include activities like swimming, arts, hiking, rock climbing and more.
Sur La Table 5-Day Teen Series
Teens aged 12 to 17 who are culinary masters may enjoy five-day programs held at Sur LaTable locations nationwide. Teens can choose from classes focusing on general cooking skills to more specialized options, like exploring global flavors or baking. The menus are teen-friendly and inspire confidence in cooking skills. Plus, most end with a sweet finish to look forward to.
Mountain Adventure Tours (M. A. T.)
This camp is part of Idaho Basecamp, located in Ketchum, Idaho. It teaches kids important values and life skills through the use of entertaining activities in the Idaho wilderness. M. A. T. runs several camps per summer, and each camp has a theme, along with accompanying age groups. There are themed camps like river rafting, survival skills, and rock climbing.
ID Tech Camp
ID Tech runs summer camps at over 65 college campus locations across the country. The camp has been the top tech camp for over 20 years. The program offers teens the chance to participate in hands-on STEM learning and preview college campus life. Plus, the camp equips teen campers with real-life tech skills they can add to their resume (简历).
1. Which of the following might interest a teen enthusiastic about cooking?| A．Camp Chief Ouray. | B．Sur La Table 5-Day Teen Series. |
| C．Mountain Adventure Tours (M. A. T.). | D．ID Tech Camp. |
| A．They have a long history. | B．They offer art experience. |
| C．They have themed camps. | D．They provide outdoor activities. |
| A．A travel brochure. | B．A column about lifestyle. |
| C．A textbook on education. | D．A website intended for parents. |
2 . A great poem can be there for you — just like other works of art you hold dear.
But if you haven’t flexed (活动) your poetry muscle in a while, those feelings might be a little hard to get. Here are some tips to help you meaningfully connect to a poem.
Don’t approach poetry like it’s school
The way poetry is taught in school can be a barrier (障碍) to entry. “People are taught that the way to engage with a poem is by trying to understand it, master it and write an essay about it,” says Choi. “
Read it out loud
“Poetry was an oral art form before anything else,” says Choi. “And a lot of information can be gained from reading poems out loud.” As an exercise, try reading a poem aloud a few different ways: like you’re savoring every word and every syllable or like you’re explaining something really difficult to someone else.
Visualize the poem
A poem might offer visual imagery (意象) — or may not.
| A．Would it be indoors or outdoors |
| B．What ideas float around in your mind |
| C．It can help you process sadness, anger or fear |
| D．It may help further your understanding of the poem |
| E．It is a cherished art form that appeals to our motions |
| F．If not, go ahead and fill them in with your imagination |
| G．That keeps us from developing personal relationships with poetry |
3 . Happiness is an idea that has been woven (编织) into the fabric of humanity, going back to ancient civilizations.
Although we’ve struggled with it for hundreds of years, the concept of happiness and how to attain it remains pretty complex. Some might see it as having a sense of general well-being. For others, it might be feeling a spark of pure joy. Yet others might find happiness chasing a dream and reaching it. It might be some combination of these — or something else entirely.
A challenging question is, what are the best ways to pursue happiness? Are we born with a stable, set level, or is it something we can develop, increase and strengthen? If it’s the latter, how can we successfully go about it?
Even though “the pursuit of Happiness” is built into the country’s founding, it seems that many Americans are just not that good at it. In the most recent World Happiness Report, America dropped to No. 23 (from No. 15 the previous year), marking the first time in the report’s 12-year history that the US was not in the top 20 happiest countries.
It’s not just Americans. As it turns out, humans as a species may not excel at happiness. This may surprise you, but happiness is not necessarily something that we are genetically primed to get. We have to really work at it.
“If anything, natural selection kind of doesn’t really care about our happiness that much. I mean, natural selection’s job is just to keep us alive and keep us around to reproduce. And I think it does that not by making us feel these moments of contentment but maybe just the opposite,” cognitive (认知的) scientist Dr. Laurie Santos said recently.
“It does that by building in a negativity bias (偏见). So we’re just a little bit worried that there could be a tiger around the corner. And we’re kind of constantly on the alert for that,” she said.
1. What do we learn about happiness from paragraph 2?| A．It is hard to define. | B．It is difficult to attain. |
| C．It is central to health. | D．It is a shared goal. |
| A．To prove Americans are not good at pursuing happiness. |
| B．To stress that life satisfaction is a general trend. |
| C．To show the influence of social development. |
| D．To reveal the truth of human unhappiness. |
| A．Taught. | B．Prepared. | C．Intended. | D．Encouraged. |
| A．It brings about fierce competition. | B．It strengthens our ability to feel joy. |
| C．It increases our moments of contentment. | D．It ensures our survival through negative biases. |
4 . Laurence Kemball-Cook, a 30-year-old engineer and inventor, is the creator of Pavegen, a paving tile (地砖) that turns the force of people’s footsteps into clean, renewable energy.
“My vision is for Pavegen to be to cities what ‘Intel inside’ is for PCs,” he says. “I want to cover every single city in the world with our tiles. I want to turn every bridge, road and building into a kinetic-energy (动能的) device.”
The idea first came to him while he was studying industrial design and technology at university. He was challenged to design a strict light that’s powered by solar or by wind. “But when the sun’s not shining or when the wind’s not blowing there’s no power. So I tried for a year and I failed.” he recalled.
“I was really upset. Then one day I was walking through Victoria Station in London and I thought about all the people there. I’d read that 38,000 people an hour walked through the station. What if we could use that energy as a power source?”
Laurence admits, “The idea of generating energy from footsteps isn’t new and other people have tried it. But the power is so low that you can never do anything meaningful with that energy.” Laurence took a different route. The weight of a footstep on his tile makes a horizontal flywheel inside it rotate (旋转). “The more people walk, the more this flywheel spins,” he explains. “Then we take the power from the flywheel as we need it. We can suck it out bit by bit.”
At the 2013 Paris Marathon, where Pavegen installed (安装) tiles at the finish, generating 3,141,926 joules—enough to recharge 1880 mobile phones or power an electric Nissan Leaf car for 24 km.
Laurence said, “Some people might define their aims as wealth or success, but for me it’s just, let’s get it out there and do good.”
1. What inspired Laurence’s idea for Pavegen?| A．An experiment in the lab. | B．A theory in the textbook. |
| C．A design of a street light. | D．An experience at a station. |
| A．Its significance. | B．Its limitation. |
| C．Its working mechanism. | D．Its possible application. |
| A．It gained popularity. | B．It showed great promise. |
| C．It still needed improvement. | D．It was pioneering but inefficient. |
| A．Ambitious and creative. | B．Caring and responsible. |
| C．Brave and intelligent. | D．Flexible and independent. |
1.亲近自然的重要性；
2.倡导大家亲近自然。
注意：
1.词数 100 左右;
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇: 自然缺失症 nature-deficit disorder
Embrace the magic of Nature
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