The year 2013 marked a turning point in my life. In June, my husband was offered a new Job in Ghana. Feeling that I had hit a career bottleneck as a photographer and copywriter (广告文字撰写人), I, without any hesitation, made the decision to relocate with him.
While my husband engaged in work, my visa didn’t grant me the same privilege. But that’s okay. I didn’t know what to do anyway. I was left isolated, homesick and lacking purpose. Our new home was a bungalow near a river that cut across expansive grasslands. With few people around our home, I turned to nature, which had been a fondness of mine since childhood. Every day, I would take my camera and wander around, photographing aimlessly.
It wasn’t long before September arrived, bringing the full flow of the rainy season. After one particularly bad thunderstorm, I found a finch (雀) — a poor little thing barely a month old with one wing broken — on the ground. Evidently, he had been abandoned by his flock, his nest blown from a tree. The sight was heartbreaking. He was the size of my lite finger. His eyes were tightly shut and he was shuddering, too young to survive alone. I somehow felt a connection with it. Immediately I scooped him up and cautiously placed him in a cardboard box with towels, mimicking a nest, and stayed up all night researching how to care for him.
The next day, he seemed to regain some energy. He woke with his mouth open, though still too weak to let out a call. I fed him some food and chirped (叽喳) at him. To my amusement, he chirped back and even climbed into my hand. I affectionately gazed at this adorable creature, who was now boldly pecking (啄) my fingers now and then. A surge of warmth ran through me. Tenderly stroking his feathers, I chirped a lullaby, singing him to sleep. Gradually, his eyes drooped and he drifted off. I couldn’t help but chuckle at the scene — as far as he was concerned, I was his mother.
Para 1. “I will take care of you.” I murmured, making my promise to him.
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________“Oh my God, buy it!” I believe that you are very familiar with Li Jiaqi’s phrase. Livestreaming marketing is a method of selling products on live video streaming platforms, which are now mainly Taobao, Kuaishou and Douyin. On April 1st, 2020, Luo Yonghao finished his first livestreaming marketing on Douyin. Data showed that the total amount of payments reached 110 million yuan in 3 hours, which set the record of livestreaming marketing on Douyin.
One of the most popular functions of livestreaming is the “real-time connection”. Although traditional television shopping channels also allow viewers to instantly buy recommended items, they don’t allow hosts to respond to real-time comments, nor can television sales data be readily collected to analyze customers’ purchasing behaviors or performance indicators. With this feature, potential customers can get answers to pressing questions and gain a more comprehensive impression of the products, making promotional activities more convincing and effective.
Under the influence of the current epidemic, online shopping reduces direct contact between folks, having a certain guarantee for the health of residents. At the same time, many industries are hit by the epidemic. In this situation, many businessmen walked into the studio with the aim of recovering some of the damage for the business as much as possible.
Meanwhile, the expanding of 5G has created a favorable environment for livestreaming marketing. Supported by the technology of 5G, the image quality of the live stream is clearer, so more details can be showed to customers, which helps to provide them an entirely different experience. “With the arrival of the 5G era, livestreaming will be faster, allowing users to zoom in and out of videos to see more details of products,” said the general manager for e-commerce content at Taobao.
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| A．as; since | B．where; that | C．as; that | D．where; since |
It was Christmas Eve morning, and I awoke with a purpose: to find my lost cat, Baby-Girl. As I got ready, I could hear icy rain beating against the window. Baby-Girl was out there somewhere in the storm; I could just feel her. Sure, it had been six months since she went missing, but I still had faith. This was the season for miracles(奇迹),after all.
Earlier this summer, my sweet pet disappeared from my parents’ house in Indiana. Baby-Girl had been staying with them while I was between apartments. At the time, I lived and worked in Washington, D.C. I was staying with friends until I signed my lease(租约)on a new place. Baby-Girl had gotten out of my parents’ house three days before I was set to fly back home to pick her up.
My dad and I had spent that entire visit searching for her. Dad was the family’s resident “realist,” which meant he spent a whole lot of time trying to prepare me for the worst. “She’ s either been hit by a car or been taken in by someone who found her,” he said. However, I believed I’d see Baby-Girl again. Even after I returned to D.C. without her and the weeks stretched into months, deep down I had. this undeniable feeling that we would be reunited one day.
Now, home again in Indiana for the holidays, I was determined to pick up my search right where I’ d left off. I grabbed Baby-Girl’ s cat carrier, loaded it into the car, and then asked my dad to drive me to the shelter.
“Sharon, you have to be realistic,” Dad said as we headed to the garage (车库).“She’ s been gone too long. You’ re not going to find her.“
”Well, I disagree. Don’ t you believe in miracles?“ I asked.
Dad said nothing more but climbed into the driver’ s seat. At the shelter, a woman at the front desk greeted my dad warmly.”Good to see you again, Mr. Dillon! Still looking for your cat?“ Ah, I thought,maybe he’ s not such a pessimist after all.
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Then the woman took us to the rows of cages with cats of all colors and sizes inside.
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I pointed out that this cat was my Baby-Girl, but they both doubted it.
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6 . The latest research suggests a more prosaic, democratic, even puritanical view of the world. The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark.
If you wanted to picture how a typical genius might develop, you’d take a girl who possessed a slightly above average verbal ability, a talent just enough so that she might gain some sense of distinction. Then you would want her to meet, say, a novelist, who coincidentally shared some similar biographical traits. Maybe the writer was from the same town, had the same ethnic background, or, shared the same birthday.
Then she would practice writing. Her practice would be slow, painstaking and error-focused. By practicing in this way, she delays the automatizing process. Her mind wants to turn conscious, newly learned skills into unconscious, automatically performed skills. Then she would find an adviser who would provide a constant stream of feedback, viewing her performance from the outside, correcting the smallest errors, pushing her to take on tougher challenges.
The primary trait she possesses is not some mysterious genius. It’s the ability to develop a purposeful, laborious and boring practice routine. The latest research takes some of the magic out of great achievement.
| A．Whether she was blessed with a good sense of language, the practice would motivate her. |
| B．By now she is redoing problems — how do I get characters into a room — dozens and dozens of times. |
| C．But it underlines a fact that is often neglected: public discussion is affected by genetics and what we’re “hard-wired” to do. |
| D．It’s not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. |
| E．This contact would give the girl a vision of her future self. |
| F．Researchers can safely draw the conclusion that she has internalized the skill of writing stories. |
FOR SOME, putting up Christmas lights is yet another holiday activity. But in the Pascucci household, it was always a big day of celebration and it was a family affair. Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, Anthony Pascucci and his older sister, Connie Pascucci, would visit local stores to check out new decorations. Anthony’s son, Anthony Jr., and daughter, Sara, shared the home, and helped with the decoration every year.
In 2020, as in every year, Anthony Sr. Strung(悬挂) colorful lights all around their roof until it looked as if sparkles(火花) were dripping(滴). The whole house twinkled with lights, and gifts were piled under the tree.
Anthony Sr., 60, had outdone himself, as if the brightness of the lights could counter(抵消) some of the darkness of the past year with COVID-19. On Christmas Eve, everyone was looking forward to enjoying another Christmas together as a family.
Then Connie got a call: Someone she worked with had tested positive. Though Connie didn’t have any symptoms, she decided to get tested right away. Her rapid test came back positive.
Anthony Sr., Anthony Jr., and Sara decided they should all get tested too. When their results came back, they all learned that they also had COVID-19. Sadly, everyone agreed their Christmas celebration would have to be canceled.
Right after the new year, Anthony Sr. started having trouble breathing and was admitted to the hospital. Five days later, Connie began feeling weak and wouldn’t eat. She died before getting to the hospital. Less than a week later, Anthony Sr. passed away.
It was the worst of Sara’s life. She felt as if she was in a fog. Grief left her doubled over in pain. Every day she went back after a long day, the twinkling Christmas lights brought her a spark of joy. “It made us happy to see them,” she says. “I couldn’t bring myself to put them away.” Taking the lights down felt like a final act of closure(结束), but she and her brother weren’t ready to take. So they just kept them up.
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One day in February, Sara received an annoying envelope in the mail.
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Days later she found her inbox quickly filled with messages showing support as well as criticizing the mean mail.
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I was really nervous about English class this year because I was an eleventh grader taking a twelfth grade class. I knew that I wouldn’t know anyone in the class, and that scared me a little. But since I didn’t know anyone, I had the chance to do something I love almost as much as socializing-people watching.
One of the most interesting girls in the class sat directly behind me. She was always laughing and talking, and she just seemed so happy. She was friendly, too — she was one of the very few people in the class who made any attempt to acknowledge me. She was one of those people you just liked, even if you didn’t really know her.
At the end of the year, we were assigned a big project. It was a very open-ended project, where the instructions were basically to read something, then read or watch something else that related to it, and then come up with a class presentation based on what you learned. The presentations were spread out over the last month of school, and because everyone had chosen such different topics and different ways to present those topics, we had some of the most interesting and varied presentations I’ve ever watched.
The girl behind me presented on one of the last days. She got up in front of the class, and told everyone how she had read about eating disorders, because she herself had struggled with one. Since it would have been too difficult for her to talk to us about it directly, she and a friend had made a movie, where they interviewed each other about their eating disorders, how they had felt while they were struggling with them, and how they had overcome them.
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By the end of the presentation, almost everyone was in tears.
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When she returned to her seat, I could tell she was really relieved and happy.
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1. How many aspects of the United Kingdom does the man refer to?
| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. |
| A．Windsor Castle. |
| B．The Tower of London. |
| C．The National Gallery. |
| A．James Bond. | B．Star Wars. | C．Harry Potter. |
| A．Badminton. | B．Basketball. | C．Golf. |
