—________, I do. And so do my colleagues.
—It is so encouraging that I try to read it without ________ second thought.
—How terrible! The things in my shop ________ frequently these days.
—My secretary.
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Kim Stemple was a special-education teacher In 2012, she found herself1to an IV (静脉注射) in a Boston hospital being2for one of several diseases she had been diagnosed with, including lupus (狼疮) The normally lively Stemple was3getting upset a lot. And then a friend gave her a4.
Before she got too sick to5, Stemple had been a marathon runner. The medal came from a racing6who had just finished a half marathon in Las Vegas and hoped the present would7a kind of similar pick-me-up (提神剂). It worked like a(n)8—and then some.
After Stemple9the medal from her hospital IV pole, other patients said they wanted medals too. That got Stemple10. "A medal is a simple way to give a(n)11message," she told pilotonline.com. And so was born her12, We Finish Together, which collects medals from13—runners, dancers, swimmers, singers, and even spelling bee winners—and donates them to all sorts of people in14.
Receivers have included hospital patients, people of homeless shelters, and old soldiers. Part of the process is15with the donators writing a personalized16on the ribbon (缎带). "This gives them a connection to someone," says Stemple. "If they receive a medal, they will know someone17."
Can a simple medal really make a18? Yes, says Joan Musarra, who develops pulmonary fibrosis (肺纤维). "I opened my package containing my new medal and the notes of positive, warm thoughts. I was19," she wrote to Stemple. "At that moment, I was sitting on my sofa breathing through an oxygen tube because my lungs have become so worse. It means so much to me to feel that I am not20."
What: The 2019 World Championships
Why You Should Watch: It's the best track field competition the world has to offer outside of the Olympic Games.
When: Races and field events begin on September 27 and run through October 6.
Where: On October 3, NBC Sports Network will continuously air the meet from 9:15 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. EST. All day, you can also stream (流播) every event on NBC Sports Gold(Requires: $59.99). Clicking, you can find the full broadcast plan here.
This year it's the first time a Middle Eastern city has hosted the event. It also might be one of the hottest world championships. To reduce the possibility of heat stroke or tiredness, all of the events start after 4 p. m. Doha time (9 a. m. EST), with some events much later—including the marathon, which kicks off at midnight on September 27.
To help cool athletes and audiences, air conditioning units have been set inside the stadium. Athletes competing in events 1,500 meters and longer will also be asked to take a pill that tracks their temperatures, with the hope that this data can help prepare race organizers, athletes, and coaches for the hot conditions expected at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Temperature aside, there are some fiery races to look forward to this year, minus a few noteworthy names: six-time world champion Mo Farah of Great Britain, and two-time Olympic 800 gold medalist Caster Semenya of South Africa will not be competing.
Races to Watch on Day 7:
The fastest time in the first round belongs to 10,000-meter champ Sifan Hassan. The race is at 4 p.m. EST.
The men's heats of the 1, 500 will include Craig Engels, Ben Blankenship, and 2016 Olympic gold medalist Matthew Centrowitz. The races start at 3 p.m.
The finals of the women's 400 meters includes Americans Adeline Jonathas and Phyllis Francis. The race is at 4:50 p.m.
Last Friday, Mike Babbitt was about to leave the Bremerton Yacht Club to go gas up when the engine of the boat caught fire.
"The wind was blowing from the North. It would have blown the boat into the yacht (快艇) club so I just gave it all the power I could to get it away from the yacht club," he told Komo News. However, that wasn't the end of Mike's mission (使命). Still on the boat were his two bulldogs Pearl and Hootie. He placed the dogs on a paddleboard before jumping into the water himself.
He explained to Komo News that he didn't even have time to grasp a life coat or his oxygen. Mike served in the army for five years in a special police unit in Iraq and Afghanistan. During his time in the army, he suffered a pancreatic (胰腺的) attack that forced him to rely on oxygen treatment for the rest of his life.
Still, he succeeded in doing the unthinkable. "I just slid into the water and started paddling away from the fire and I could still feel the heat from the fire," Mike told the news reporters. Mike was then rescued by some friends and later transported to a nearby hospital, where his wife Jamie met him. The fire is especially heartbreaking for Mike and his wife as the yacht was their only house. They had early sold their home and saved up in order to live a life on the water.
However, Mike is just happy to have survived. "I think it is the gift of God watching over us," Mike told Komo News. "You have to put it exactly that were still alive and we're still together." A GoFundMe has since been created to help the Babbitts following the fire.
Over the past half-century, North America has lost more than a quarter of its entire bird population, or around 3 billion birds.
"We saw this great net loss across the entire bird community," says Ken Rosenberg, a scientist in Ithaca, N.Y. "But we also knew that other bird populations were increasing. And what we didn't know is whether there was a net change."
Common birds with decreasing populations include dark-eyed juncos and red-winged blackbirds, says Rosenberg. Grassland birds have suffered a 53% decrease, and more than a third of the shorebird population has been lost. Bird populations that have increased include raptors (猛禽), like the bald eagle, and waterfowl.
"The numbers of ducks and geese are larger than they've ever been, and that's not an accident," says Rosenberg. It's because hunters who mainly want to see healthy waterfowl populations for sportful hunting have raised their voices.
"People are doing a wonderful effort to try and understand our bird populations with a lot of uncertainty, but the actual systems that we have in place to try and answer really tough questions like this are really far short of what we need," Ted Simons in North Carolina State University says.
"In all, the conclusions weren't necessarily surprising," says Kristen Ruegg, a biologist at Colorado State University. There have been hints (暗示) that the loss was this large from all kinds of sources over the past few years. But in most cases, these were species-specific records of local extinctions or models of projected losses, resulting from things like climate change. This really sort of wakes people up to the idea that this is happening.
Elise Zipkin, a quantitative ecologist at Michigan State University, says the loss can be a big problem. "Just because a species hasn't gone extinct (灭绝) or isn't even necessarily close to extinction, it might still be in trouble," she says. We need to be thinking about conservation (保护) efforts for that."
Italians are some of the fastest speakers on the planet, chatting at up to nine syllables (音节) per second. Many Germans, on the other hand, are slow ones, delivering five to six syllables during the same period. Yet in any given minute, Italians and Germans express about the same cover of information.
Scientists started with written texts from 17 languages. They calculated (计算) the information density (密度) of each language in bits. They found that Japanese, which has only 643 syllables, had an information density of about 5 bits per syllable, while English, with its 6949 syllables, had a density of just over 7 bits per syllable. Vietnamese, with its hard system of six tones, topped the charts at 8 bits per syllable.
Next, the researchers spent 3 years recording 10 speakers—five men and five women—from 14 of their 17 languages. Each read aloud 15 identical texts that had been translated into their mother tongue. After noting how long the speakers took to get through their readings, the researchers calculated an average (平均) speech rate per language, measured in syllables/second.
Some languages were clearly faster than others: no surprise there. But when the researchers took their final step to find out how much information moved per second, they were shocked by the agreement of their results. No matter how fast or slow, how simple or hard, each language moved toward an average rate of 39. 15 bits per second.
Language science has explained things so long like grammatical difficulty, so this information passing-on rate has been ignored. But the "why" is another question entirely. Some scientists doubt that the answer has everything to do with the weakness from our biology. Research in neuroscience (神经科学) supports that idea, with one recent paper suggesting an upper number to hearing processing of 9 syllables per second in U.S. English. It really seems that the bottleneck is in putting the ideas together.
He be talking with the man in of the village he was hit by a stone.
you eat the correct foods you be able to escape from illness.
It is generally believed teaching is an art a science.
Although in his time, Da Vinci had many great works of art like Mona Lisa.
I saw the book, I was quite sure it belonged to .
1）多读多写；2）合理安排时间；3）其他方式（自拟）。
注意：1）词数100左右，开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear friends,
Yours,
Li Hua
