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To meet the rapid development of Wal-Mart in China, we now invite people with qualification to join us.

Construction Manager

You are employed to lead and train a team of project managers and manage all stages of projects under construction throughout China.

Requirements: University graduate in Architecture with at least 6 years in Project Management. Being able to work on weekends and on the night shift is a distinct advantage.

Public Relation Manager

Your duties include publishing the news related to the company, supporting and maintaining(维护)the local public relationship all over the country.

Requirements: Bachelor degree or above, 3 + years’ managerial experience. Good command of Chinese and English. Rich media network, excellent negotiation skill, and good organization skill. Senior Market Research Manager

We are accepting applicants who are responsible for research projects design, quality control, data analysis, report preparation and presentation. You also communicate with research suppliers, manage and control the survey quality.

Requirements: Bachelor degree or above, majoring in Business Administration or Marketing. Fluent English, skillful PC operation and complete knowledge about statistics & data processing. Business Development Manager

You are responsible for finding new business sites. You’ll conduct negotiations, sign and keep good relationship with developers.

Requirements: Bachelor degree, good spoken and written English and good computer skill. 5 plus years experience with not less than 3-year experience in business development field.

Peterson Moturi journeyed to Nairobi, Kenya in 2014 to find a better life for himself. Initially, he would sell drinking water and groundnuts, as well as working as a car wash attendant before becoming a watchman for night duties. Since his goal was to join law school, he saved Kes 50, 000, which he used to pay for his admission to law school.

He applied for admission to the Kenya School of Law (KSL) in 2016 and was successful, but the biggest headache facing him was that he didn’t have enough money to pay his fees. Fortunately, he got some financial assistance from Mr. PLO Lumumba, who was then the school director and offered him a scholarship.

However, Moturi was then faced with the challenging task of working at night and attending class during the day. Unfortunately, when he sat for his final exams, he got a Pass, which could not allow him to move to the next stage, attaining a law degree. That meant he had to score at least a credit and find money to pay for his diploma courses. He decided to approach his employer, Radar Security, for help. He honestly told his boss that he failed and wondered if he could sponsor him for the diploma once again. To his surprise, his boss agreed, and in no time, he was back in class.

“Now I am a joyful man. I am graduating with a credit score. I can now go ahead, pursue a law degree and become an advocate,” he said at the graduation ceremony. Though dressed in the usual graduation regalia (礼服), Moturi somehow appeared different from his colleagues due to the security guard uiform he wore underneath. The 28-year-old man desires to help the less fortunate in society have access to justice.

Online grocery delivery has skyrocketed (飞涨) all over the world. Since COVID-19 cases have been declining, new companies such as Zapp, GoPuff, or Getir have entered the grocery delivery market with a mission to permanently change consumer habits. These rapid grocery delivery services make a novel promise: Groceries can be delivered within minutes to your door. This option sounds great to busy parents who cannot leave their children alone to pop into the store or people who have guests and urgently need a few extra beers without leaving the house. However, shoppers should watch out for the allure (诱惑) of rapid delivery whenever possible.

While a one-time rapid delivery is certainly harmless for the shopper and the whole market, repeatedly using such services will ultimately harm grocery shops and corner shops. So far, rapid delivery companies have been backed by capital fund (资金) to finance their costs，but they need to be profitable in the long run to survive. So they will push up prices and gradually cancel promotions once their capital funding has dried up. Last week, a delivery company was reported to have shut down after running out of cash, leaving its workers jobless. We should think about the serious outcome that may come up, such as much less lively cities that miss the small shops and delivery workers who face tight deadlines and little job security.

As consumers,we often think that our daily decisions are harmless. Just as one doughnut (甜甜圈) doesn’t compromise our healthy diet and one skipped workout doesn’t affect our fitness,one rapid delivery will not harm the little shops that make our neighborhood lively. Research shows that consumers who perform a behavior regularly for about six weeks have created a habit. So ordering rapid delivery every day will hurt our neighborhoods and make us poorer once prices increase.

Thus, approach the rapid delivery option as you would refuse to accept any other allure. Be careful not to create a habit that you might later come to regret.

Researchers have long known that dolphins(海豚)can identify each other with signature whistles, the specific calls they use to refer to themselves. Now, a new study shows that the sense of taste allows bottlenose dolphins to identify their friends through urine-liquid waste from their bodies.

Study leader Jason Bruck, from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas, initially wanted to test whether those signature whistles work similarly to human names. He needed a second way for dolphins to identify each other. To find out if dolphins could associate a whistle with a specific dolphin, Bruck turned to urine. A scientist had previously observed wild dolphins purposefully swimming through each other’s urine, leading Bruck to suspect they were gathering information from it.

Over evolutionary time, bottlenose dolphins have lost their sense of smell but kept a strong sense of taste. For the first part of the experiment, the team presented eight dolphins with urine samples from familiar and unknown individuals, and found that the dolphins spent about three times longer time exploring the familiar urine than the unfamiliar urine, with a few individuals collecting the familiar urine for more than 20 seconds. The dolphins paid little attention to the unfamiliar urine.

Then, for the second part, the researchers tested whether an individual’s whistle and urine were connected in their minds. They paired urine samples with recordings of characteristic screams played on underwater speakers, matched either by the same dolphin that provided the urine or by another animal. It turns out that the dolphins spent more time next to the speaker when the whistles corresponded to the urine sample. This indicates they can recognize each other in more than one way.

Using taste could be beneficial in the open ocean, as dolphins would learn from urine the recent presence of an individual. Given the recognition abilities shown in the study, the researchers think that it is possible that dolphins can also extract other information from urine, such as reproductive status or the use of pheromones(外激素)to influence the behavior of others.

With the cost of living on the rise, it’s become more important than ever to watch what we spend. If you use natural gas in your home, the bill can be quite high. Don’t worry, though!     36     . You won’t have to pay huge fuel bills.

Try to reduce energy use

The smaller the difference between the indoor and outdoor temperatures, the less energy will be used. If your thermostat(调节器)is set to a high temperature， your gas bill is bound to be expensive. Lowering your thermostat a few degrees will reduce your bill by 5-10%.     37    . Don’t keep the heat on when you’re at work or gone on the weekends. The energy saved will reduce the cost of your gas bill.

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Warm air escapes our homes easily, so adding draught excluders(密封条)or a rolled-up towel to block these leaks will help. It’s also a good idea to equip your houses with double-glass windows. If it is too costly, it might be worth using some heavy curtains to stop the heat escaping. In addition, keep your blinds open during the day and closed at night. During the day, keep your blinds or curtains open to let the sunlight in. This will help your house warm up.    39    .

Do regular maintenance(维修)

Each year, you should service any gas appliance you have, such as a stove or a heater. You should also get your air pipes sealed by a professional.    40    . Proper maintenance work can prevent breakdowns in addition to lowering your gas bill.

After retirement, I wanted to stay in good shape. I _________ a senior fitness center, “I’m looking for a senior aerobics(有氧运动)class.” Diana answered the phone _________ “Come to check out our class!” she invited. “We start at 10 a. m.”

The next morning, I pulled into the parking lot and _________ the fitness room. Diana_________ me and then the music started. Instantly, I felt at home. The moves were_________ from the aerobic dance classes I loved in the 1980s, but they were_________ to a mix of music dating back from the 1940s to modern country. I_________ some of the songs from my high school days; others were_________ before I was born. The hour-long_________ included aerobics, hand-and-ankle-weight routines, sit-ups and balance exercises. The exercise burned off the fat and__________ the muscles I didn’t use in my daily walks. I was__________ and became a regular member.

My classmates__________ in age from their late fifties to early nineties. Most gave the exercises their own__________, doing as much or as little as they were able. __________ wasn’t the only focus of the class. During breaks, people often chatted about family news. Some__________ shared their nearby bird sightings. Whenever people were__________, we asked around(到处打听). We signed get-well cards for those who were ill and sympathy cards for those who had__________ loved ones.

As I’d hoped, I’m in better __________ now than when I started. But the__________ gift of joining the aerobics class is gaining new __________ and feeling more connected to my local community.

The South China National Botanical Garden opened on July 11 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. It is the second national botanical garden in China,     61    (follow)the Beijing National Botanical Garden. With both gardens located in different climate     62     (zone), the species of plants that can be conserved in Guangzhou differ     63     (complete) from those in the Beijing garden.

With a total area of 333 hectares of exhibition and scientific research, the Guangzhou garden is the     64    (large) subtropical (亚热带的) botanical garden in the world, as well as one of China’s oldest institutions for botanical research and conservation. It is home     65     about 17,000 species of ex-situ (异地的) plants away from their natural habitats, including 643 rare and endangered plants     66     337 wild plant species on national key protection lists. So far, 36 species of rare and endangered plants, such as Camellia azalea and Dunnia sinensis,     67     (return) to the wild thanks to the garden.   

As one of the countries with the richest plant diversity in the world, China has more than 37,000 known species of land plants,     68     account for about 10 percent of the total in the globe. The     69     (found) of the national botanical garden system will enable the country     70     (protect) its plant diversity more effectively.