4 . It was 8:00 pm. I reached the railway station waiting for my train to arrive. One of the staff told me that the train would arrive at 9:00 pm, which meant I _______ to wait for an hour. Since it was a small station, there were very _______ passengers. I just saw some adults playing their cellphones and a group of boys _______ with round stones. The boys were all _______ dressed as their clothes were dirty and torn. But they were happy with the stones and _______ themselves. Suddenly I developed an _______ to drink tea. But to my _______, I couldn’t find a tea house at the station. The only one sat outside, but 1 couldn’t take the _______ of leaving my luggage there just to drink tea.

So I asked one of the boys to buy me a cup of tea, _______ him 5 dollars. He ________ and rushed out. After half an hour, I heard the ________ saying that the train would arrive soon. Then I was sure that the boy took ________ with the money. As the train arrived, I asked my-self, “How could I trust a ________ boy?”

I was just about to enter the railway ________ when I heard a voice, “Sir, your tea.” ________ at the voice, I said, “I didn’t think you could bring the tea to me!” I asked him why he was so ________. He told me that he ________ the 5 dollars, so he offered to clean the utensils(器皿) to earn the money for the tea! I felt ________ that 1 misunderstood him. We often ________   people too early in our lives. Try to look at things in a positive perspective and wait for a while before you actually ________

5 . The brain is an important organ of the human body. So what can we do to to keep our brains healthy both physically and functionally?

·Turn ordinary activities into brain-stimulating ones

    1     while out for a walk in your neighborhood. Use detailed and expressive language to describe your surroundings, as well as what you can see and hear when talking on the phone to a friend or a family member.

·Go out as much as possible

Going outside to take exercise every day, like running slowly, even for a short period of time, can build up the body, increase heart rate and improve mood. A little sunshine outside is great for vitamin D production.     2    

·Think about returning to a previous hobby

The best activities for brain health are the ones that challenge your brain to be quick and accurate. Do you have a musical instrument sitting in the closet?     3    ,dust it off and try it. Or use one of the previous adult coloring books that are so popular now, which can help you relieve stress and focus.

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You can adopt a brain exercise program at home to keep your brain fit. The exercise is based on the principles of brain plasticity, the way the brain reorganizes through learning and exercising.

·Eat a healthy diet and be sure to get adequate sleep

As we know, food provides nutrition for the brain.     5    . Getting adequate and quality sleep also will do wonders when it comes to improving your mental health.

6 . A research team led by Professors Ki-Hun Jeong and Doheon Lee from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Department of Bio and Brain Engineering reported the development of a technique for facial expression detection by mixing light-field camera techniques with artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Unlike a conventional camera, the light-field camera contains sets of micro-lens (微透镜) in front of the image sensor, which makes the camera small enough to fit into a smart phone while allowing it to acquire the spatial and directional information of the light with a single shot. The technique has received attention as it can reconstruct images in a variety of ways including multi-views, refocusing and 3D image acquisition, giving rise to many potential applications.

However, the optical (光学的) crosstalk between shadows caused by external light sources in the environment and the micro-lens has limited existing light-field cameras from being able to provide accurate image contrast and 3D reconstruction.

The research team applied a laser in the near-infrared (NIR) range to stabilize the accuracy of 3D image reconstruction that previously depended on environmental light. When an external light source is shone on a face at 0-30, and 60-degree angles, the light-field camera reduces 54% of the image reconstruction errors. Additionally, by inserting a light-absorbing layer for visible and NIR wavelengths between the sets of micro-lens, the team could minimize optical crosstalk while increasing the image contrast by 2.1 times.

Through this technique, the team could overcome the limitations of existing light-field cameras and develop a more advanced NIR-based light-field camera (NIR-LFC) improved for the 3D image reconstruction of facial expressions. Using the NIR-LFC, the team acquired high-quality 3D reconstruction images of facial expressions expressing various emotions regardless of the lighting conditions of the surrounding environment.

The facial expressions in the acquired 3D images were distinguished through machine learning with an average of 85% accuracy-a statistically significant figure compared to when 2D images were used. Furthermore, by calculating the inter-dependency of distance information that varies with facial expression in 3D images, the team could identify the information alight-field camera uses to distinguish human expressions.

7 . Dogs are born to socialise with people because we raise them that way. Two-month-old dogs can already recognise when people are pointing at objects and will stare at our faces when they’re spoken to—both signs that dogs have an innate capacity to interact with us through body language.

“Although individual relationships with people might influence that behaviour, at least 40percent of this ability comes from genetics alone, “says Emily Bray at the University of Arizona. “Over the course of keeping dogs, there has been a clear selection for these social skills,” she says. “It’s something that’s deep in them and that comes out at a really young age even before they have much experience with humans.”

Bray and her colleagues tested these types of skills in 375 eight-week-old dogs that were chosen to become service dogs. Bray says, “It was the earliest age when the dogs could carryout such experiments because they were only just old enough to be motivated by food rewards.”

The researchers found that pointing at food hidden under a cup helped the dogs to find it nearly 70 percent of the time. The success rate was high from the start, meaning they weren’t learning to follow pointing, but had already known to do so. In a control test, the randomly selected dogs couldn’t find food hidden under one of the two cups at a higher rate, indicating that they weren’t simply smelling it. Much of the variation in different dogs’ abilities to follow finger-pointing is explained by genetics. Using statistical analyses based on the dogs’ parents and other relatives, the researchers found that genetic factors were responsible for much of these variations.

The team also ran another experiment in which the researchers spoke “baby talk” to the dogs and found that the dogs fixed their eyes on the person for more than 6 seconds on aver-age, representing an understanding that the researchers were communicating with them.

8 . It is a simple warehouse with no heat, and Flora Smith, a stylish girl in the United States, is buried herself in a bin full of apples. This isn’t exactly how I pictured meeting the famous girl, who grew up in the spotlight. But it is completely true. Dressed in skinny jeans,a soft cotton T-shirt and a simple coat for a day of hard work and heavy lifting, Flora shows no signs of being a fashion girl here. She’s too busy focusing her famously intelligent mind on the more significant goal of actually improving the world she lives in. And there’s no better way than to jump in and do it herself.

“Volunteer service is equally an opportunity for young women to really give themselves power, particularly when there are so many ways women are told they can’t do things,“ she tells me. After she and her team have bagged up more than 16,000 pounds of apples for local food rescue organizations, we sit down to chat. She adds, “If I can make as much difference as a man can, if I can even pack more apples than the man standing next to me, why shouldn’t I be able to do whatever I want to do? Volunteer service is a great way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but also what the world can expect from you. ”

In her mind, she is someone who is still trying to figure out if she can make a difference in the areas she really cares about. Flora jumps up to join a group photo of volunteers, kneeling on the concrete floor so the staff can squeeze into the shot.

Surrounded by people who would like to follow her to a freezing warehouse in New York City to make a positive impact, she seems to be exactly that person-a charming political lead-er with big dreams, like her father. After all, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

9 . Welcome to the InspireMyKids (IMK) Community

You can learn more about the InspireMyKids (IMK) community here.

Introduction to the programme

You are joined by thousands of educators each month in over 100 countries around the world who use IMK to provide teaching materials, including inspiring stories, quotations and activities. Some educators use the site every day in their class, while others use it on occasion.Whether you use it to add reading and writing activities or a regular character education activity to your class. IMK provides a wealth of contents that can meet your needs and goals.

Ways to use the programme

To get started using IMK with your children in your classroom, we suggest you click the People &. Stories link in the main navigation. Here you can select site contents based on school subjects, character values, topics and age ranges. Next, look through the Sayings tab of our main navigation to find great sayings, especially prepared for kids.

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