Feng Boyao and Meng Shuqi, students at No. 37 Middle School in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, spent nearly a year developing a new kind of Braille (布莱叶盲文) reading device and
A large number of Braille contact dots have been set up on the device,
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5 . Office Manners
Be punctual. As a newcomer, you should arrive early, not just on the first day and don’t be the first to leave at the end of the day.
Respect other people’s privacy. Knock before you enter someone’s office and do not read any correspondence lying on somebody’s desk. If you need to discuss a private matter with a colleague, make sure nobody else can overhear you.
Be neat and clean.
Don’t disturb others. Always apologize if you interrupt a discussion, someone’s concentration or other activities. Be aware of how loudly you may be speaking. If people in other offices comment on your conversations, perhaps your voice is too loud.
In short, office manners are about being respectful and polite in the office. It is an essential part of growing professionally and becoming a more mature person in the business world.
A.Be considerate. |
B.Be polite to everyone. |
C.Don’t be late for any appointment. |
D.Show appreciation for any help offered to you. |
E.Personal issues should not be made into a public topic. |
F.You should either close your office door or lower your voice. |
G.Take a shower regularly and wear appropriate office clothes. |
6 . China is one of the countries most affected by typhoons in the world. While summer is the peak typhoon season, autumn typhoons might be more dangerous.
In September, Typhoon Conson and Chanthu formed successively in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Chanthu has become a super typhoon, bringing “gale-force winds and rainstorms to regions including Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu,” reported Xinhua on Sept14.
It’s no surprise that super typhoons occur in September. From the vernal equinox (春分), the subsolar point (太阳直射点) moves from the equator to the Tropic of Cancer (北回归线), heating the tropical ocean in the northern hemisphere(半球). The sea temperature reaches the highest from August to September, according to Weather China website.
“The warming ocean, especially the warming northern South China Sea, enhances typhoons before landfall(着陆),” said Xiao Zhixiang, a researcher of the Guangxi Institute of Meteorological Sciences, in the conference of the Japan Geoscience Union in 2020.
Autumn brings cold air, and when that cold air meets a typhoon, it could make it more destructive. “This will develop into a powerful typhoon due to the greater temperature difference between the cold continent and the hot sea,” said Woo-Sik Jung, a researcher at Inje University in South Korea, at the conference. “In other words, the larger the temperature difference, the stronger the wind, the more powerful the autumn typhoon can be compared to the summer typhoon.”
Megi, the 13th typhoon of 2010, was generated in October. Before making landfall in Taiwan, it entered the South China Sea and then headed north to land in Zhangpu, Fujian province, where Megi met cold air from the north. The typhoon led to more than 1,000millimeters of rainfall in Ilan, Taiwan, resulting in many deaths, according to Weather China.
Autumn typhoons are not only powerful but also often unpredictable. Three typhoons “with the most complicated paths in China” include Wayne in 1986, Nat in 1991 and Nari in2001. Among them, Nat and Nari were formed in autumn, according to the National Meteorological Center.
1. Which of the following contributes to the formation of super typhoons in September?A.It’s highly wet in tropical areas. |
B.The sun is heating the tropical ocean in the southern hemisphere. |
C.The weather is warm along the coast. |
D.The sea temperature is the highest. |
A.The strong wind. | B.The cold air. |
C.The unstable temperature. | D.The heat on the continent. |
A.It occurred in September 2010. |
B.It first hit Taiwan and then Fujian. |
C.It cost many people their lives in Taiwan. |
D.It formed in the South China Sea. |
A.The most powerful summer typhoons. |
B.Examples of unpredictable typhoons. |
C.Why autumn typhoons are unpredictable. |
D.How the National Meteorological Center predicts typhoons. |
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8 . This year’s Olympic Games have been closed to most spectators (观众) because of COVID-19, but the eyes of the world are still on the athletes thanks to five extra cameras—the first step in a 3D tracking system that supplies spectators with instant insights into each step of a race.
The tracking system being used in Tokyo, an Intel product called 3DAT, feeds live footage (影像) into the cloud. There, an artificial intelligence program uses deep learning to analyze an athlete’s movements and identifies key performance characteristics such as top speed and slowdown. The system shares that information with viewers by displaying the action of slow-motion, highlighting key moments. The whole process, from capturing the footage to broadcasting the analysis, takes less than 30 seconds.
“It’s like having your own personal commentator point things out to you in the race,” says Jonathan Lee, director of the Olympic technology group.
To train their Olympic AI via machine learning, Lee and his team had to capture as much footage of best athletes as they could. They needed recordings of human bodies performing specific moves, but the preexisting footage shows average people in motion, Lee says. “People aren’t usually seven feet in the air,” he notes, but world-class high jumpers reach such heights regularly.
In the footage, a team at Intel record every part of the body—eyes, nose, shoulders, and more. Once those key points were identified, the model began connecting them in three dimensions (维度) until it had a simplified performance of an athlete’s form. Lee thinks the AI could help everyone from Olympians to average gymgoers correct their form and track changes in their moves that may indicate upcoming injury. “Long-term, what this technology will do is help improve an athlete’s performance by giving them more information,” two-time Olympic champion Ashton Eaton said.
1. What does the tracking system provide for the viewers?A.Information about 3DAT. |
B.Live footage from gymgoers. |
C.Analysis of the athletes’ personalities. |
D.Highlighted key moments in slow motion. |
A.To increase the accuracy of AI. | B.To reach the world-class heights. |
C.To record moves of average people. | D.To improve athletes’ specific moves. |
A.Lower the risk of injury. | B.Train them to be Olympians. |
C.Simplify the training process. | D.Track changes in their heights. |
A.He benefited a lot from the technology. |
B.He was positive about the future of AI. |
C.He thought AI was useless for athletes. |
D.He wasn’t interested in the development of AI. |
9 . Choosing the Right Career
For many students, choosing a career is the most important life decision they must make at school. However, choosing the right career is not that easy.
Step One: Reflection
Before you decide upon a career, think about your interests and your talents. Ask yourself: What do I enjoy doing? What am I good at?
Step Two: Planning
Step Three: Selection
Consider what kind of personality you have and what your value is: What is really important to you?
A.So how can you find a satisfying one? |
B.Then think about jobs that match you. |
C.Make an overall survey about your target job. |
D.Perhaps you like working face to face with people. |
E.So don’t push yourself to make the perfect decision right now |
10 . TEDEd Hi Katherine!
This December, the TED-Ed team will host a series of 4 calls for students to learn about climate change, as part of our larger TED Countdown Initiative (方案)
Details about call series:
Each week during the month of December, we’ll meet at the same time on Zoom (an online meeting APP). Students should join in the calls on their own. We’d like students to be able to attend at least 3 of the 4 calls.
Register your students’ interest:
As we plan the time when we will meet with students, we’d love to see how many students are interested in this opportunity. Please share this interest with your students so they can register their interest. In this form we’ll ask them for their parent’s email address for permission.
Share this interest form with your students:
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More about TED Countdown:
On January 25, we’re hosting the Countdown Summit in Scotland— the firstTED conference focusing on climate solutions. In April, TED hosted an online meeting and announced our plan to help the planet. And as always,education plays an important role in this mission (使命). That’s why we have chosen talks for students to do together virtually for a deeper understanding of this global issue and solutions.
We hope your students join us!
Please note that this event is only for studenst aged 3-19, in high school and below!
1. How many call should students attend at least in December?A.3 | B.4. | C.7 | D.12 |
A.Work out plans for the team. | B.Attend online calls with their parents. |
C.Register their inerest in an onlin form. | D.Send an email to parents to ask for permisson. |
A.Education mission. | B.Virtual reality. |
C.Global climate solutions. | D.Events organizing. |