2 . How to communicate complex information?

Did you ever have to read a presentation where you felt like you’re lost in confusing terms, data and concepts? Are you giving others this same experience?     1     But there are ways you can simplify your presentation and reengage your audience. Here’s how you can get complex information across.

Use interactive content. It gets the readers more involved in your presentation by letting them play an active part.     2     Beyond that, questionnaires and chatbots provide personalized and specific answers to readers as part of your presentation. Making your presentation interactive used to be hard, but now you can just use Storydoc. Go make your first interactive presentation. It’s easy as pie.

    3     No one will read a presentation with a thousand words. Do everyone a favor and use images. Images can be super effective at communicating complex information and save you a lot of needless text. In fact, visual representation of data and concepts can often convey what words cannot. Use diagrams and images to illustrate your points and simplify the complex.

Narrate your content.     4     Whether it’s through text to speech Al or video bubbles, centering your presentation around a story can help guide your audience through the complexity, making it more digestible, engaging, and memorable.

Use examples and fables. They can help explain clearly the complexity of ideas for they are what we’ve already known and understood.     5     More importantly, the real secret lies in selecting examples that are not just familiar but also deeply relevant-those are the ones that will truly ring with your listeners

3 . Does the happiness of parents play a role in shaping the overall happiness of their children? Scientific studies have shed light on the far-reaching connection between parental happiness and the positive development of kids. It seems that parental happiness has an important influence on the emotional, social, and cognitive (认知的) development of children.     1     If they know their mental and emotional happiness has an impact on their children, perhaps it can motivate them to view it as part of being a good parent.

    2     For example, they can join in activities that bring them joy and satisfaction. This could include hobbies, exercise, pursuing personal goals, or taking time for relaxation. When parents improve their own happiness, they can better support their children’s happiness.

Another great idea is sharing experiences and creating many memories together. The idea is twofold.     3     At the same time, the shared experiences and showing their children how happy they are to do something they love can be incredibly valuable as well.

One of the main aspects of being happy parents is feeling comfortable, confident and able to be themselves, despite their new status and huge responsibility. Honestly, when parents prioritize their own happiness, it has positive effects on the overall happiness of the family.     4    

When parents put their own happiness first, they become role models for their kids. They see the importance of self-care, pursuing passions and maintaining healthy relationships.     5     So, parents should accept their uniqueness, enjoying life!

In every culture around the world, friendship has been considered as the greatest thing a person can have. Everyone needs a close friendship    1    can give us support for both the good and the bad times in life. Friends keep us from feeling lonely, provide us    2    a sense of being safe and help whenever things may not end up    3    (go) the way we want it to.    4    (unlucky), sometimes friendship can be a source of pain as well as joy. Like any relationship, friendship can make us feel sad if the trust at the foundation of the relationship    5    (break) by either of the friends. For example, if you have ever told a close friend your secret, but he has that secret known by others, you might have    6    first feeling of losing trust in a friendship.

When experiencing the    7    (sad) or loneliness of losing a friendship, you can get out and be active, which helps you keep your mind off the lost friendship, or you can pay much attention to    8    (your). If you pay attention to doing things you enjoy, you will have less time to think of your lost friendship.

Always remember a strong friendship    9    (require) honesty and trust. Even if you are hurt by your friends, it is wise of you    10    (forget) it and start your new life again.

6 . It was the early 1980’s. I was a boy then, and my best_________wasn’t another little boy or girl but an 80-year-old man, Frankie. We lived four miles from town. My brothers were much_________ than me. They had no time to have fun with their younger brother. So I spent most of my time_________alone near our home. Finally, I was_________to Little Frankie’s house. Every one called him Little Frankie because he was_________and bent from a lifetime of hard work.

Little Frankie’s house was over 100 years old and was slowly_________. He lived in the only room that was still safe. Although he had saved enough money, he_________to live there. His house had no _________or running water. So he cooked his meals and _________his house with a wood-burning stove (炉子), and got water from a mountain______________

He was busy gardening, cooking and cleaning. He actually lived a(n) ______________ but rich life. We soon became good friends. I asked my brothers to clear a room for him. In return, he would fry potatoes and ______________them with us. He even cooked eggs in a pan on his stove for the homeless. He worked hard, worried little, gave______________and smiled sweetly. He said, “We should live easily and joyously because simplicity and______________are a kind of life attitude.” I think he is a man in a______________, and to this day, I try to be as special as him.

7 . Not everyone is a people person, and making other people feel comfortable in your company doesn’t come naturally to all of us. Still, a good atmosphere is more than desirable not only on social occasions but also at the workplace. Perfecting cross-cultural communication at the workplace is easier than you think.     1    

Maintain etiquette (礼节). When preparing for a business meeting with international colleagues, find out something about their business etiquette, so you could follow its rules and avoid misunderstandings and embarrassing situations. For example, if you’re doing business with Italians, do your best to look presentable, since dressing well in their culture is a sign of success.     2     This number is considered to bring bad luck.

Speak slowly and clearly. Even if your international colleagues are fluent in the language you’re using, try to express your words more carefully.     3     In the same fashion, avoid using long sentences and give your colleagues a chance to digest what you’ve said by making short breaks.

Avoid closed questions. When interacting with your international colleagues, avoid asking them the Yes/No questions.     4     So you’ll probably always get a “Yes” as an answer, even if your conversational partner doesn’t mean it. In contrast, by asking open-ended questions, you’re encouraging your colleagues to be more creative and offer solutions you might not have predicted.

    5     For intercultural communication to be effective, all team members need to feel comfortable. So, treat your colleagues with respect, communicate clearly, and encourage them when needed. Especially in a remote work environment, it’s important that your team feels connected.

9 . Every person is unique. Although you can find a common interest, there will always be individual differences in the way each of you was raised. To maintain harmony in a relationship with another person, you should try to understand these differences. It will be full of obstacles (障碍), but don’t worry.     1    .

When you deal with a person who is different from you, try to learn more about him by spending some of your time talking to him.     2    . If you are dealing with a small group of people within a formal situation, you can run a questionnaire so that you can collect information regarding these people.

Show respect to the differences of a person.     3    . If both of you have different opinions about something, be honest about these things. And remember to learn how to move past it. Look at those differences as just a difference of viewpoints and not a subject of good and wrong.

    4    . As a person or a group of people share information about their culture and beliefs, you must respond with details—sharing by giving information concerning your life. In that way, you can let the person see that you’re willing to build a relationship with him.

Make connections with the person who is different from you.     5    . When you do those things, you will probably see that you and that person are actually more similar than you thought before.