In 2010, researchers at Princeton University decided
The researchers found that money does increase one’s emotional wellbeing, but only up to a certain point. Up to $75, 000 per year, more money leads to more happiness. The lower someone’s income below $75, 000, the
This number actually isn’t all that surprising. Based on data from GOBankingRates, the median ( 中间的) amount you’d need to make to live
There are plenty of good points on both
But money is a tool. And when it
2 . When Yang Fan was taking a walk around the Yuliang Island, she saw a black swan (天鹅) in the grass. Yang Fan knew that swans could be fierce (凶猛的). But as she got close to this one, it didn’t move.
She was sure that the swan needed help. So Yang covered the bird’s head with her jacket to keep its cool, picked it up carefully, and held it in her arms. She decided to send it to the Animal Care Center, but the center was across the Han River, far from the park. She didn’t know how to carry the swan there. Luckily, some strangers driving by gave her and the swan a lift to a nearby bus stop.
On the bus, no one seemed surprised by “the unusual passenger”. Instead they were worried. Someone helped Yang Fan call the center on the way. And Li Tao, an animal-care manager, picked her up at the bus stop and drove them to the center. There, the animal doctors found that the swan was poisoned, caused by eating something used to kill mice. The swan was well looked after at the center. She even made a friend—a little dog. Thanks to people’s love and care, luckily, she was cured (治愈) two months later.
“It’s a moving story. Yang Fan travelled about two hours and it was really a long way.” Says Li Tao. “And all the strangers wanted to give her and the swan a hand.” He adds, “I am happy to see that more and more people have realized the importance of protecting the wild life since Xiangyang began to build the civilized (文明) city.”
1. Which is the correct order of the things that happened to the swan?①She was found by Yang Fan.
②She ate something wrong.
③She was cured.
④She made friends with a dog.
⑤She was sent to the Animal Care Center.
A.①②⑤③④ | B.①⑤②④③ |
C.②①⑤④③ | D.⑤②①③④ |
A.困住 | B.中毒 | C.射伤 | D.掉队 |
A.Yang Fan didn’t try her best to save the swan. |
B.The swan could be helped in a much better way. |
C.Li Tao cared more about the swan than Yang Fan. |
D.People went out of their way to protect the wild life. |
A.Ways to Protect the Animals |
B.More Animal Care Centers Are Needed |
C.A Swan Meets a City Full of Love |
D.Efforts the Animal Doctors Have Made |
1. Why does John go to the gym?
A.To lose weight. | B.To gain muscle. | C.To work as a trainer. |
A.Visit his grandma. |
B.Do muscle training (肌肉训练). |
C.Work overtime (加班). |
A.On Monday. | B.On Thursday. | C.On Saturday. |
The clock read 11 p.m. and I was still in the lab but I couldn’t focus. But going home wasn’t an option. My adviser had required me and the rest of my lab mates to stay in the lab until she had time to read all of our reports. She had decided she wanted to meet early with each of us to discuss the single-paragraph descriptions of our work. We waited dutifully as each lab member took their turn. None of us dared to leave or to challenge our boss. I didn’t get home until 1:30 a.m.
It was one more reminder that I should have been more careful when selecting a graduate adviser. Unfortunately, I was foolish enough not to give the directing style a second thought. I was simply happy to have received an offer.
Part of the problem was that I had limited options. I moved to the United States with my husband, who had a good job in a particular city. It had only one university, with only one department that really interested me. So I started to volunteer in a research lab there.
I was a regular attendee at departmental discussion groups, and that was where I met my future adviser. After she presented a meeting, I approached her and we set up a time to chat. We had a productive discussion about her research. Later, I went to dinner with her lab group.
I didn’t pick up any signs of trouble, although one person who worked in a lab that shared space with hers did tell me about coming across one of her lab members crying in the break room. I ignored that warning sign. Within a few weeks, the staff member offered me a position in her lab as a master’s student. The opportunity seemed too good to pass up. I hoped it would work out.
It wasn’t long before reality set in. Group meetings were terrible. Our adviser was often angry.
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The situation disappointed me.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________A year later, I finally had the opportunity to change my adviser with a different lab.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers is a well-known ancient Chinese painting. It was created by Wang Ximeng of the Song Dynasty (960—1279), and it has inspired many
The drama’s directors are Zhou Liya and Han Zhen,
When the famous painting
“As it lacks dramatic conflicts, it is difficult
Their team made every effort to bring the beauty of the painting and
“We are proud that dance dramas can also carry on our traditional culture,” Zhou said.
From Aug 20 to 22,
6 . How to Help Your Child Overcome Their Fear of Water
Your kids love bath time and seem excited about your family’s upcoming trip to the beach. But when you get to the beach, they scream, and won’t even dip their toes into the water.
Talk It Out
It can be helpful to understand the reason behind your child’s fear. Some kids may be affected by a scary movie where they saw a monster living in the bottom of a lake or a pool.
Fun Equipment
Some kids will feel more comfortable when going in with some equipment. For example, colorful goggles (护目镜), water wings with their favorite cartoon images on them, a life-jacket.
However, parents should never allow floating aids devices to give your children a false sense of security or use them as substitutes for hands-on supervision (监督).
One-On-One Swim Lessons
Get in With Them
Some kids are only comfortable if you get in the water with them. You can either carry them or hold their hands, and then gently ease yourself away. But even when you back away, never go too far.
A.If you know what they fear |
B.If these sorts of scenes sound familiar to you |
C.Meeting with a child psychologist can work wonders |
D.These items can make them feel safer and more secure |
E.Letting your child get used to the water gradually can be really helpful |
F.You should stay within arm’s length of your inexperienced kids all the time |
G.Some children will be more likely to listen to an adult other than their parents |
7 . Have you ever seen an “ugly” oyster(牡蛎)? That is the term oyster farmers use for the sea animals whose shells get too large to sell to seafood restaurants. Each year, farmers grow oysters to just the right size so people at restaurants will enjoy eating them. If they get too big, restaurants no longer want to buy them.
So last year, when many seafood restaurants in the U.S. closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic(流行病), oyster farmers lost the chance to sell their products. Eventually, they had a lot of “uglies” and didn’t know what to do with them.
That was a big problem until a conservation program came to the rescue. The program is called Supporting Oyster Aquaculture and Restoration, or SOAR. It is buying more than 5 million oysters at the cost of about $2 million from farmers on the east coast of the U.S. and in Washington State.
Farmers take living oysters that are too big to sell and send them to places like the Great Bay in the northeastern state of New Hampshire. Oysters are placed in special locations called reefs(暗礁). Once they attach to the structures in the water, they can live for a number of years. They help create a good environment for other sea life. The hope is that the oysters will help clean the water and also have babies.
Lisa Calvo runs Sweet Amalia Oyster Farm in southern New Jersey. She said the program helped her business get through the pandemic and “stay afloat”.
Calvo started her farm about 20 years ago. She sells her oysters to restaurants close to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and those in the towns along the ocean in New Jersey. Oysters are ready to sell when they are about two years old. When all the restaurants started closing, she said she was “in a panic”.
She was able to earn about half the usual amount of money by selling her oysters to the program. That was better than nothing.
1. What is the problem with an “ugly” oyster?A.It is too small. | B.It looks strange. |
C.It is overgrown. | D.It is too large to catch. |
A.To save their lives. | B.To attract other sea life. |
C.To produce more oysters. | D.To create a belter eco-environment. |
A.Take off. | B.Keep up. |
C.Break up. | D.Fall down. |
A.All roads lead to Rome. | B.There are two sidles to everything. |
C.Half a loaf is better than no bread. | D.Where there is a will, there is a way. |
8 . Robots can deliver food on a college campus and hit the ball on the golf course, but even the most advanced robot can’t perform basic social interactions (交流) that are vital to everyday human life.
MIT researchers have now incorporated (使加入) certain social interactions into robotic framework, enabling machines to understand how to help or stop one another, and to learn to perform the social behavior on their own. In a simulated (模拟的) environment, a robot watches its companion, guesses what task it wants to accomplish, and then helps or stops it based on its own task. When the researchers show the interaction videos of the robots to the human viewers, they think their model creates realistic and predictable social interactions.
Enabling robots to exhibit social skills could lead to smoother and more positive human-robot interactions. For instance, a robot in an assisted living facility could use these capabilities to help create a more caring environment for elderly individuals. The new model may also enable scientists to measure social interactions quantitatively, and can help psychologists study autism (自闭症) or analyze the effects of antidepressants(抗抑郁药).
“Robots will live in our world soon and they really need to learn the way we communicate. They need to understand when it is time for them to help and when it is time for them to take action to prevent something from happening. This is very early work and we are barely scratching the surface, but I think this is the first very serious attempt to understand the meaning of human and machine interactions,” says Boris Katz, head of the InfoLab Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
1. What can robots do today?A.Talk with humans freely. | B.Measure social interactions. |
C.Perform basic social skills. | D.Finish basic instructed tasks. |
A.The ways of developing robots’ social skills. |
B.The popularization of robots using social skills. |
C.The significance of developing robots’ social skills. |
D.The future of robots which have social skills. |
A.Simple but urgent. | B.Shallow and meaningless. |
C.Successful but old-fashioned. | D.Challenging but promising. |
A.Future Robots on Campus | B.Giving Robots Social Skills |
C.Connecting Robots with Medicine | D.New Research about Artificial Intelligence |
1. What is the weather like in the southeast of the country?
A.Rainy. | B.Sunny. | C.Dry. |
A.26℃. | B.23℃. | C.20℃. |
A.The north. | B.The south. | C.The southeast. |
A.Sunny. | B.Rainy. | C.Foggy. |
1. How many meals can one have each day on Meal Plan 1?
A.3. | B.2. | C.1. |
A.He wants to cook by himself. |
B.He will move to another school. |
C.He doesn’t want to waste money. |
A.In the first week of the semester. |
B.In the middle of the semester. |
C.At the end of the semester. |
A.Give the refund to Mark. |
B.Ask for Mark’s parents’ opinion. |
C.Give part of the money back to Mark’s parents. |