你是否认同下列说法:Playing a game is fun only when you win. 请结合生活中的实例来说明你的观点。
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What We Should Know about Honey
The process that produces honey may have helped form humans too. Scientists believe that wild hives full of honey provided the calories that early humans such as Homo erectus (直立人), walking in Africa , needed to develop their brains into those of modern humans. That puts honey in a class with fire, tool use, and hunting as a key ingredient in the evolution of human beings.
With time, those evolved brains learned to domesticate bees to produce honey in a farmed setting. Today’s beekeepers support large-scale industrial farms, which would be unable to grow their crops without hiring traveling groups of bees to come pollinate (授粉) their vast, single-species fields. The bees will endlessly fill the towers of combs put onto their hives by the beekeeper, who then collects the extra honey for human consumption while still leaving the bees all they need to eat.
Today, the average American consumes nearly a pound and a half of honey every year, in tea, on toast, and beyond. Honey is a timeless treasure. Literally—it never goes bad. Samples nearly 3,000 years old found in the Egyptian pyramids are as eatable as the day they were entombed. Its anti-microbial nature also makes honey an excellent cure for wounds, keeping infection out while holding in the moisture that skin needs to heal.
However, bees’ good health is not guaranteed. U.S. beekeepers lose about 40 percent of their hives annually to colony collapse disorder. The problem lies in the growth of industrial agriculture and pesticide use, as well as changes in weather patterns, all of which reduce the number of flowers bees have to visit. If bees continue to die, apples and peaches (along with any crop that relies on their pollination) will become scarcer and pricier. As will honey.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Get outdoors with us this summer and experience the excitement and peace within our unique programs. Research suggests that being physically active within green spaces helps reduce stress, anxiety and anger, and improves moods and overall health and wellbeing. Our Department combines experiential activities for your enjoyment.
All fitness levels are welcome; we can accommodate most accessible needs. Please contact Laurie Wright at wright@utsc.utoronto.ca with any questions. Trips are offered to registered U of T students first and then if there is space to staff, non-registered students and guests of the participants. Register at recreg.utoronto.ca or in person at the TPASC Registration Desk.
Please check our website for all updated trip dates, prices, registration details and more!Refunds are only available up to 5 business days prior to the trip.
Upcoming Adventures
TBD: Treetop Trekking and Mountain Biking
Participants will travel by bus up to the Horseshoe Valley Resort. You may choose between a 3-hour Treetop Trekking adventure or 2 hours of x-country mountain biking through the region’s forest trails. Treetop Trekking involves zip-lining (moving quickly with the rider suspended from a cable) and climbing through obstacle courses in a peaceful forest setting. Both adventures will be instructor-led and all equipment will be provided. No experience necessary. Beginner to advanced courses will be available.
Tuesday, June 13th : Outdoor Rock Climbing or Hiking TrailsA bus will transport students to Milton to either hike the area or rock climb. The rock climbing will take place at Rattlesnake Point and there is an opportunity for students to challenge themselves by climbing up to 80ft on some of the best rocks in Southern Ontario. All instructors are fully certified and all equipment will be provided. A custom course will be set up to meet the needs of climbers. The hike will take place through some of the Bruce Peninsula trails and Halton Parks. Participants will have over 20kms of trails to choose from. You may hike with a group or follow the map trails with some friends.
Friday, June 30th (indefinite date): Warsaw CavesThe Warsaw Caves Conservation Area and Campground takes its name from a series of seven caves found in the park. Join us as we explore the multiple courses through the caves have a picnic lunch. Come enjoy this natural underground jungle gym.
1. John, a U of T teaching staff member, would like to take part in some of these programs, what problem may he encounter?A.He can’t get his fees for a Tuesday trip back if he cancels it the previous Monday. |
B.These outdoor adventures will exhaust him and leave him in low spirits. |
C.There may be no space for him because registered students enjoy priority. |
D.The program that explores the Warsaw Caves underground is sure to change its date. |
A.bird watching | B.zip-lining | C.hiking | D.cave exploring |
A.Money can be refunded within five business days after the trip starts. |
B.Adventurers should have some basic trekking and biking skills. |
C.Students must bring some climbing equipment required by the programs. |
D.The name Warsaw Caves originated from the seven caves found in the park. |
8 . The last few months had brought to my attention an important incompatibility between us — one that I’d never noticed before. Despite being a pair of lifelong travelers, Felipe and I seldom travel in a similar way. The reality about Felipe is that he’s both the best traveler I’ve ever met and by far the worst. He hates strange bathrooms and dirty restaurants and uncomfortable trains and foreign beds. Given a choice, he will always select a lifestyle of routine, familiarity, and reassuringly boring everyday practices. All of which might make you assume that the man is not fit to be a traveler at all. But you would be wrong to assume that, for here is Felipe’s traveling gift, his superpower, the secret weapon that makes him peerless. He can create a familiar habitat of boring everyday practices for himself anyplace, if you just let him stay in one spot. He can assimilate absolutely anywhere on the planet in about three days, and then he’s capable of staying put in that place for the next decade or so without complaint. This is why Felipe has been able to live all over the world. Not merely travel, but live. Over the year he has folded himself into societies from South America to Europe, from the Middle East to the South Pacific. He arrives somewhere totally new, decides he likes the place, moves right in, learns the language, and instantly becomes a local.
While Felipe can find a corner anywhere in the world and settle down for good, I can’t. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with minor disasters, which makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is I just can’t live anywhere on the planet. I’d realized this only a few weeks earlier, back in northern Laos, when Felipe had woken up one lovely morning in Luang Prabang and said, “Darling, let’s stay here.”
“Sure,” I’d said. “We can stay here for a few more days if you want.”
“No, I mean let’s move here. Let’s forget about me immigrating to America. It’s too much trouble. This is a wonderful town. I like the feeling of it. It reminds me of Brazil thirty years ago. It wouldn’t take much money or effort for us to run a little hotel or shop here, rent an apartment, settle in ….” He was serious. He would just do that. But I can’t.
1. The word “incompatibility” (paragraph 1) is closest in meaning to “_____”.A.harmony | B.negotiation | C.difference | D.tension |
A.He can speak dozens of languages. |
B.He can make himself at home anywhere. |
C.He can decide at first sight if he likes the place. |
D.He can find interesting activities in boring places. |
A.She is much more restless than he is. |
B.She can travel for a longer time than he can. |
C.She is more curious about local life than he is. |
D.She can live better in poor places than he can. |
A.remember the trip to Brazil | B.move to Luang Prabang |
C.immigrate to America as planned | D.run a little hotel or shop well |
9 . A Neurologist’s Tips to Protect Your Memory
As we age, our memory declines. This is a fixed
Ultimately, “we are what we can remember,” he said. Here are some of Dr. Restak’s tips for developing and
Some memory lapses are actually attention problems, not memory problems.
One way to pay attention when you learn new information is to
There are many memory exercises that you can
Once in a while, get in the car without turning on your GPS, and try to
Dr. Restak’s “favorite working memory game” is 20 Questions — in which a group thinks of a person, place or object, and the other person, the questioner, asks 20 questions with a yes-or-no answer. Because to succeed, he said, the questioner must hold all of the
The point is to
One early indicator of memory issues, according to Dr. Restak, is
Storing everything on your phone means that “you don’t know it,” Dr. Restak said, which can
A.accomplishment | B.assumption | C.regulation | D.observation |
A.inevitable | B.dispensable | C.reverse | D.doubtful |
A.striking | B.enduring | C.arousing | D.maintaining |
A.Nevertheless | B.Moreover | C.For instance | D.Instead |
A.demonstrate | B.trace | C.discover | D.visualize |
A.recall | B.sight | C.target | D.instinct |
A.enclose | B.integrate | C.evolve | D.impose |
A.steadily | B.actively | C.gradually | D.automatically |
A.adjust | B.rush | C.gesture | D.navigate |
A.performance | B.decline | C.awareness | D.increase |
A.modest | B.original | C.previous | D.personal |
A.engage | B.drain | C.insert | D.fulfill |
A.devoting to | B.concentrating on | C.giving in to | D.giving up on |
A.Beware of | B.Stick to | C.Long for | D.Differ from |
A.counter | B.stock | C.erode | D.strengthen |
A. evidenced B. outlined C. span D. confirmed E. generalizable F. walking G. charges H. clearly I. well-protected J. originally K. caution |
A man deliberately got 217 Covid shots. Here’s what happened
One German man has redefined “man on a mission.” A 62-year-old from Magdeburg deliberately got 217 Covid-19 vaccine shots in the
The man, who is not named in the correspondence in compliance with German privacy rules, reported receiving 217 Covid shots between June 2021 and November 2023. Of those, 134 were
“This is a really unusual case of someone receiving that many Covid vaccines,
The man did not report any vaccine-related side effects and has not had a Covid infection to date, as
“Perhaps he didn’t get Covid because he was
The researchers also say they do not endorse hypervaccination as a strategy to enhance immunity. “The benefit is not much bigger if you get vaccinated three times or 200 times,” Schober said.
The public prosecutor in Magdeburg opened an investigation into the man for the unauthorized issuing of vaccination cards and forgery of documents but did not end up filing criminal