The following four famous paintings—from Jan van Eyck's portrait to Pablo Picasso's masterpiece—have stood the test of time.
The Arnolfini Portrait
Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, an oil painting on wood produced in 1434, in which a man and a woman hold hands with a window behind him and a bed behind her, is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces in the National Gallery, London. This painting is not only visually interesting but also famed. It is also an informative document on fifteenth-century society, through Jan van Eyck's heavy use of symbolism—while husbands went out to engage in business, wives concerned themselves with domestic duties.
The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night, an oil on canvas (油画布), a moderately abstract landscape painting of a night sky over a small hillside village, during his 12-month stay at the mental hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France between 1889 and 1890. When the Museum of Modern Art in New York City purchased the painting from a private collector in 1941, it was not well known, but it has since become one of Vincent van Gogh's most famous works.
The Harvesters
The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565. It depicts (描绘) the harvest time which most commonly occurred within the months of July and August. Nicolaes Jonghelinck, a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp, once held this painting. The painting has been at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1919.
Guernica
Guernica, a large oil painting, was painted by the Cubist (立体派的) Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso in 1937. The title "Guernica" refers to the city that was bombed during the war. The painting depicts the horrors of war and as a result, has come to be an antiwar symbol and a reminder of the tragedies of war. Today, the painting is housed at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.
Adventure seeker Emma broke her ankle when she fell awkwardly while climbing a rock and spent a week in hospital waiting for an operation on her foot. When she was sent home to recover under strict instructions not to bear any weight, she became so fearful of crutches (拐杖) that she didn't move for three weeks. "I tried crutches but I kept falling over and injuring myself. So I literally just stayed on the sofa all day," says Emma.
She was gutted at the thought of missing the Wolf Run—a quarterly (季度的) event that she hasn't missed since 2014. "If you complete four Wolf Runs in a year, one in each season, you can get Alpha Wolf status," explains Emma. "This year was going to be my fifth in a row as an Alpha Wolf and I was really upset that I'd lose my status." So she was willing to try anything to get through the course—even with her injured ankle.
"I was telling my friend that I was going to cancel, but he persuaded me to give it a go. Having something to aim for really kept me going." Emma completed the run wearing an iWALK2.0, which is a medically approved device and it basically functions like a hi-tech artificial leg, allowing users to walk freely. "I decided to get one and it completely changed my recovery. I could move around the house and start getting out and about again, which had a real impact on my mental well-being."
On the day of the race, Emma was nervous but the sound of people cheering her on kept her motivated. Emma made it over the finish line in just under six hours and clocked up (达到) her 23rd Wolf Run in six years. "It was an incredible day and my determination to finish combined with the support I received along the way kept me going," says Emma.
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon spent a day with Dr. Paul Gauthier, a plant physiologist specializing in vertical (垂直的) farming research and came away with several important ideas about vertical farming.
Humans have 12,000 years of experience in growing food, but only a generation's worth of experience or so in growing crops indoors. We are still progressing up the technology learning curve (曲线). What's more, traditional farming techniques are based on conditions that are not applicable to vertical farming. Therefore, without taking time to understand the science, vertical farming is not likely to be able to live up to its implied promise.
The cost of powering LED grow lights is one of the biggest problems a vertical farm must overcome. Dr. Louis Albright at Cornell has characterized vertical farms as the "pie-in-the-sky" business. He famously calculates, for instance, that the cost of a loaf of bread would be $ 24 if farmed indoors—the cost is too high. Gauthier acknowledges that energy prices are high but points out that scientific work has shown that only about 6% of available sunlight is used in crop photosynthesis (光合作用), so there may be ways of growing the same plants with less light.
Gauthier also points out that while energy costs are a bit high, vertical farming does create enormous efficiencies in other areas. Water usage may be significantly reduced because the same water can be recycled time and again. Fertilizer use can be greatly reduced and pesticides for pest control are unnecessary. It's clear that vertical farming offers real value to society.
The future is probably mixed. In some environments—the Middle East, for instance—a move to vertical farming is a no-brainer. An indoor farm in Saudi Arabia, for instance, can use solar energy to power LEDs at low cost without shading other farmland. In other environments, though, the expense of establishing a facility places a high bar on growth and profitability. A large vertical farming and equipment operation only started generating a small profit eight years into its nine-year life.
Researchers discovered a hidden continent on Earth, but it's not Atlantis. They found it while reconstructing the evolution of Mediterranean region's complex geology, which rises with mountain ranges and dips with seas.
The continent is called Greater Adria. It's the size of Greenland and it broke off from North Africa, only to be buried under Southern Europe about 140 million years ago. And chances are you've been there without even knowing it. "Forget Atlantis," said Douwe van Hinsbergen, the study author and professor at Utrecht University. "Without realizing it, vast numbers of tourists spend their holiday each year on the lost continent of Greater Adria." This area is called Adria by geologists, so the researchers for this study refer to the previously undiscovered continent as Greater Adria.
Most of Greater Adria was underwater, covered by shallow seas, coral reefs and sediments (沉淀物). The sediments formed rocks and those rocks became mountain ranges in these areas: the Alps, the Apennines, the Balkans and Greece. The researchers found that Greater Adria started to become its own continent about 240 million years ago.
This isn't the first time a lost continent has been found. In January 2017, researchers announced the discovery of a lost continent left over from the supercontinent Gondwana, which began breaking apart 200 million years ago. The leftover (剩余的) piece, which was covered in lava (岩浆), is now under Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean. And in September 2017, a different research team found the lost continent of Zealandia through ocean drilling in the South Pacific. It's two-thirds of a mile beneath the sea.
Greater Adria isn't the first lost continent to be found. But if research in past years shows anything, it likely won't be the last discovery.
Easy Ways to Give Yourself a Fresh Start
It doesn't need to be complicated or challenging to turn a fresh page on each new day.
Whenever we mark a new year—by turning the calendar, returning to school or celebrating a holiday—we are looking for a fresh start. But how? Here are some easy ways to connect with that feeling of starting fresh, whether it's a new year or simply a new day in our life.
This means you have realized what serves your life now and what can stay in your past. Or invest in a new pen and a new notebook. Having fresh supplies can simulate even the common task of creating your to-do list.
Moreover, you can learn something new by opening a book you've been expecting to read, searching a question that's been in your mind, enrolling in a class that motivates your interest. Of course you can simply ask a friend for a fresh idea about an issue.
Take a break from technology for an hour, a day, or a week. You should be able to put some space between yourself and digital devices.
One reason why we sometimes struggle to start fresh is that you get stuck with reflecting on worrisome thoughts about the past, the present or even the future. Allow these thoughts into your day only at a brief (30 minutes or less), specific time. The rest of the time, focus on what you are doing that's new and positive.
How do you give yourself that "fresh start" feeling?
A. Electronic products might not be serving you best.
B. Newness or freshness can guide us on a positive path.
C. Limit your daily "worry time" and make an appointment with yourself.
D. All of us enjoy newness, but what is it that leads to a sense of freshness?
E. Realizing your past mistakes, you should move forward with enthusiasm.
F. Increasing your knowledge on any topic means taking your mind into a fresh area.
G. First, even letting go of a single box or bag of items can give you a refreshing sense.
When our girls are brave, they are free to explore in their learning and in life. That exploration leads to the
1 of their talents and passions. On Saturday night we saw one of our students act so bravely that it took my 2 away.
One of the lead characters of our show, Blue Stockings, was played by a science teacher, Ben Walker. 3, Ben broke his nose very badly when playing football on Saturday and consequently couldn't 4. Ella Jones, a year-eleven student and part of the cast, who 5 to rest on Saturday, was 6 to play Ben's role.
Think about that. She had three hours' 7, playing a role of a 8 she had never played before, in front of the audience who paid for it. And if she couldn't 9, the impact of the whole play would be diminished (减弱). It was not the end of the world, but it would be 10 for all concerned.
I would have 11. But Ella rose to the 12. She said, "I was astonished; 13, I figured the show must go on and I wanted to 14. I wasn't scared 15 I arrived at the theatre and realized how much there was to 16. It wasn't just about lines, but it was about the stagecraft (舞台表演技巧). I was 17 about the other actors because I know how 18 it is to perform a role with someone who isn't as invested, especially if it is an emotional scene."
Asked how the show 19, Ella said, “It was amazing, and the audience seemed to love the male character I played for the first time." She added, "Just because you're scared doesn't mean you can't be 20. Anyway, I made it."
A painting with a (long) of 1014.37 meters has received a Guinness World Record title for the longest drawing by an individual artist. The record was announced at the Simatai Great Wall on Saturday, September 14th, 2019, is surrounded by the verdant (翠绿的) mountains of an early autumn, and the painter unfolded the painting with great care the presence of many viewers.
took artist Guo Feng two months to complete the black-and-white painting named Yongsheng in Chinese, meaning living forever. Clearly (inspire) by the view of the Great Wall from the sky, he wanted to call for peace and harmony in the world. In fact, Guo Feng is (familiar) to the public as a music producer than as a painter. And one of his songs, Let the World Be Filled with Love, has enjoyed great popularity all over the country for (decade).
The painting is made up of 10 subthemes, and was created (large) using marker pens. "I (draw) for more than 10 hours a day over the past months and sometimes I began working at 4 am," said Guo. "Creating the work on the Great Wall was an unprecedentedly (空前地) lonely and quiet time for me (look) into my past, today and the future," he added.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
I have been decided to become a pilot since I am a little kid. Each time I see a plane flying across sky, I feel extremely excited but want to fly it. That is why I believe it can make me happily and free. To make my dream come true, I have to be physically fit by keeping a healthy diet and work out regularly. Besides, I must work hard to make great progresses with my studies. Although it is not that easy to being a pilot, I'll never give up my dream and spare no effort to realize them.
1）劳动实践内容(如家务劳动、校园劳动、校外劳动)及其意义；
2）你最常参与的劳动实践活动，并谈谈你的感受。
注意：1）词数100左右；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
