4 . Ways to Improve Participation (参与) in Your Virtual Classroom (虚拟课堂)

During remote learning this spring, students in Shai Klima’s high school class led their own discussions over Google Meet.     1     After that students shared their responses at the start of the meeting as a jumping-off point for a broader class discussion.

While students conversed（谈话） on video, Klima listened and drew lines on a sheet of paper tracking the flow of the conversation, resulting in a spider web. At the end of the discussion, Klima shared the drawing over video.     2     And they learned about who talked, who listened and who built on the ideas of others.

“It has been successful as a means to get kids to credit their peers with helping them come up with new ideas, which helps build a friendly relationship,” said kilma.

    3     After giving lessons last spring, Paul France had his third--grade students use the Google Chat feature to ask and answer questions or type in emojis, like a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, to show whether they understood a concept. To create structure around the responses, he guided his students in creating norms around using the chat feature.     4     France said the practice helped him check for student understanding and pushed students to engage more with the content.

Kindergarten teacher Ruth Calkins, meanwhile, used Zoom chat when holding live lessons with her kindergarten students. She said they enjoyed typing “T” or “F” for true and false questions while answering math problems in the chat box.     5     Typing responses also provided a lot of keyboard practice for her young students.

If you’re someone who looks in the mirror every day and focuses only on any small flaw (瑕疵), you’re not alone. For many people, struggling with image issues (形象问题) is a     1     (continue) battle.

“How hostile (恶意的) is the world to     2     ( attract) girls?” became a popular topic on Sina Weibo. Many girls shared their     3     (person) experiences. One talked about how her friends would often cut her image out of group pictures because she was too fat. What became clear     4     (be) that this feeling was all too common. Another girl     5     couldn’t accept herself said that she didn’t even answer the door without wearing makeup first.

What causes this anxiety among young people? Greater time spent online means greater exposure to advertisements     6     (show) “paper-thin waists” or “chopstick legs”, which makes young people anxious and leads to a complete     7     (misunderstand) about beauty. Girls often feel pressure to live up     8     an impossible standard, doubting whether their faces were too big or something.

The anxiety over looks and shape has pushed some people into physical and mental illness. Some people even go through surgery just     9     (achieve) what they believe society considers “beautiful”. But beauty doesn’t come from makeup or     10     thinner waist. The fact that every person is different is something to be celebrated.

7 . Park guards who watch North America’s highest mountain say inexperienced and overconfident climbers are taking more risks and endangering themselves and other climbers. The guards suggest many climbers are trying to move up the mountain too fast after having a year of.

Denali in southern Alaska is 6,190 meters above sea level. So, climbing it requires a high level of skill. Climbers also need to acclimate to high altitudes (海拔), which is not needed for most mountains in the US.

The National Park Service recently made a statement warning that many climbers in the Alaska Range are showing signs of inexperience and overconfidence. After reporting no deaths in 2018 and 2019, at least two people have already died on the mountain in 2021. Two others were seriously injured, officials said.

Earlier this month, a skier from the state of Colorado died after falling into a very deep cut in the ice. A climber from the state of Idaho was killed by a large falling piece of ice.

The guards made their statement after a Canadian climber was seriously injured after falling nearly 305meters. He was not wearing climbing ropes. Other climbers reported the fall. People in a helicopter (直升机) studying mountain ice in the area were able to save the man,park officials said.

The Park Service statement named several reasons for the increase in injuries and deaths. They include extreme tiredness, untested body reactions to high altitudes, quickly changing weather, and not bringing the right equipment.

In recent years,guards said they have seen more climbers try to make Denali’s top by climbing the 2,134 meters from the final base camp to the top in one day. This is nearly impossible to do except for the most experienced climbers.

Experts suggest that climbers take 17 to 2l days to reach the top of Denali. That includes rest days and extra days to wait out bad weather.

8 . I am a freshman at Orange High School. In 2013, I founded an organization called Love For The Elderly. So many elderly people have no one to care for them, and no one to love them. When I say this, I am talking about pure love, unconditional love that shows kindness no matter what the situations may be.

The elderly have smoothed the pathway of success for our generation. They should be shown appreciation (感激) and kindness, but are often forgotten. I am sure all of you have someone in your hearts who has been at a nursing home. Think of them while I say this; they should get the best, nothing but the best. The elderly are such an unusual group of people, and their shining wisdom can most certainly be learned from. This idea of showing appreciation to the elderly reverberated (回响) inside my head, until finally, I decided it was time to step up and make a difference.

My love for and ability in writing led me to create an organization, where people from all across the world send nameless letters filled with kindness and joy, from Iceland, Romania, Finland, Australia, and more. I then send these letters to senior centers, and nursing homes located all across the country. To this date, I have collected over 1,000 letters, and the reaction I have received from these organizations has been truly unbelievable.

This past month, I had the opportunity to receive $100 from KindSpring through their monthly kindness competition to help my organization. This money has been of great help. We do not receive much money, and so it helped to pay for many costs, including postage and envelopes. This act of kindness has been very helpful to my organization, and I could not be more appreciative. If any of you would like to get involved in my organization, please visit lovefortheelderly. org.

China has limited gaming time for players     1     the age of 18, the industry regulator (监管机构) said on Monday.

Minors(未成年人) and students will be allowed     2    (play) games from 8 p. m. to 9 p. m. on Fridays, weekends and holidays, according to     3     National Press and Publication Administration.

Online gaming companies,     4     (include) Tencent, NetEase and Perfect World, have been told to strengthen     5    (manage). They are     6    (forbid) from providing gaming services to minors outside those hours.     7    (family) and schools are encouraged to make sure students don't get addicted(上瘾) to games.

Since 2017, Tencent, China’s biggest gaming company,     8     (use) various new technologies and functions     9     limit gameplay time for minors. And the company says that it will strictly follow and     10    (active) carry out these regulations.

“Don’t judge a book by     1     (it)cover,” the old saying goes.     2     (fortunate), as a teenager, that is often exactly what you do to yourself. Dark thoughts about your physical appearance can hang over you all the time like a rain cloud. Do I look fat in these jeans? Do others think I am too short? Is everyone laughing at my new hairstyle behind my back? These thoughts can have a negative effect on people of any shape or size, both     3     and female, and it is important to guard against the causes behind them.

Standards of beauty in the media can have a big influence on     4    you think of your physical appearance. Teens     5    try to copy the looks of their favourite stars are fighting a     6     (lose) battle---these standards are simply impossible for most of the population to live up to.

Your friends also influence the way in       7    you view your physical appearance. If you have friends who are good-looking or have a great fashion sense, it can feel like you are living in their shadow. For children of the digital age, social media makes this problem even     8    (bad). Your friends may post a never-ending series of photos online to show     9     their beautiful dresses or strong bodies, and it becomes easier for you to compare     10     (you) to them. This has proved to have a negative effect…