Notice
Date:February 8, 2019
To:All community members
From:Steven Bay,director of the community committee
Subject:Paving project in Hyde Parking Lot next to Building F
We would like to remind you that the work is about to begin on the repair of Hyde Parking Lot, to be completed by late September. The paving project will occur in stage. The first stage of the project will begin in mid-March. Please move your car from the parking lot by February 28. The restricted area will be marked and cars parked in the closed area will be pulled away.
The second stage is expected to begin as early as June with the aim of spreading asphalt (沥青)and repairing damaged parking lot areas next to Building F. During this time, it is probable that . the repair will - cause a certain degree of disruption(混乱) to our community. There will be more traffic jams for the next coming 4 months as several streets and entrances will be temporarily closed as paving progresses.
However, every effort will be made to minimize this disruption. Plans have been made to provide traffic advice during the repair. For more information, please contact Kevin Johnson ((ext. 5894, kevinjohnson@community. com))).
Should these time lines change in any way as this work progresses, we will keep the community informed. Your cooperation, and patience is appreciated during this time.
By day a Cairo dentist and by night a novelist, he spent years struggling to get published. Today, Alaa Al Aswany is a best-selling writer across the globe.
Aswany was born in Cairo in 1957. His father was also a novelist, who won the state award for literature in 1972. "He was my first professor of literature. He told me what to read and what not to read," said Aswany, who had a traditional French education and then went to Chicago to study for his dentistry degree.
In 2002, his novel The Yacoubian Building, was quietly accepted by a small, independ-ent publisher in Cairo. Its first, edition sold out in four weeks and it was the Arab world's best-seller for five successive years, selling 250,000 copies in a region where print runs seldom go beyond 3,000. Word spread quickly, people talked about it. It was made into a hit film and a TV serial, and has since been translated into 27 languages.
Aswany said, "Society is a living organism and you must keep up. That's why I still practise, though for only two days a week. I will never close the clinic (诊所). The clinic is my window. I open it to see what is happening in the street. You can't get disconnected from the street, as a writer; that's a common mistake. You can be too easily welcomed every night by the richest people and the most influential. It is very dangerous because it is that relationship with the street that made you successful in the first place."
In the age of Amazon and the Internet, the idea of going to a public library to borrow a book may seem ever more unusual and old-fashioned in many parts of the world, but one country, at least, is holding on it tightly:the Czech Republic? There are libraries everywhere you look in the country. There is one library for every 1,971 Czech citizens—four times as many, relative to population, as the average European country, and 10 times as many as the United States, which has one for every 19,583 people.
Why so many Czech libraries? Well, for decades they were mandatory—every community, from a big city down to a tiny village, was required by law to have one. The law was enacted in 1919, soon after Czechoslovakia emerged as an independent country. The library law survived the German occupation and the breakup with Slovakia in the early 1990s. What it couldn't survive was budget pressure. To save money, the requirement was dropped in 2001, when there were about 6,019 libraries in the country;since then, about 11 percent have been combined or closed.
Now, the surviving Czech libraries are doing what they can to stay vibrant (生气勃勃的) and relevant. They serve as local meeting places, They organize reading clubs and art exhibits and offer computer literacy (读写)courses, and they welcome groups of schoolchildren and retirtees during the day. But mostly, they do what 92 percent of Czechs still want them to go on doing: They lend books.
I totally relate to the need many parents have in wanting their children to be special, unique, talented, and amazing. I think my child is all of those things too. Of course I do. But do we really need to be measuring and comparing the academic achievements of kids as young as 3, 4, and 5 years old?
These days, I often find it difficult to have a casual conservation with other parents of children who are only in preschool without being told. about how their kid is phenomenally (显著地)"advanced" in writing or that they're already reading at a 2nd-grade level.
I mean, obviously that's great news if you've been led to believe your child possesses a remarkable talent because they're catching on well in preschool. However. I can't help but notice that the height of parental bragging (夸耀)has reached too high both in real life and on social media.
I realize I'm probably pessimistic, but I'm afraid that we're placing our children on a ridiculously steep pedestal (基座)at too young of an age and we're really just giving our children a higher place to eventually fall from.
The ever increasing loads of homework being sent home in preschool and kindergarten seem like overkill as well. The most important skill young kids in preschool and kindergarten should be learning are social skills, in my opinion.
So, while I think it's great that your child may be very "advanced" for their age, I sincerely hope your child is happy, well-adjusted, surrounded by kind friends, and praised for so much more than how quickly they can read or write.
Reasons you should make time for the sunset
Here's why you should consider making time to watch the sunset
⒈It can slow down time.
Seriously. By witnessing the beauty of the sunset, you can slow down your perception (感知)of time. Amazingly, by taking the time to look at the vast sky, we're actually empowering ourselves to regain control of the clock.
⒉It can provide energy for you.
Even if you have to go back to the office after you watch that last sliver disappear below the skyline, taking a few minutes out of your day to experience some of the golden hour will be worth it. Often when we feel exhausted we reach for a cup of coffee, but research suggests a better way to get energized (给予能量)is to connect with nature.
⒊It will force you to put your phone down.
When we regard the experience of sunsets as special occasions, we feel the urge to document and save them—as if keeping photos of their beauty will help us remember that wonder ful feeling. .
⒋It will inspire you.
There's a reason sunsets are a timeless and constant inspiration to poets, writers and romantics.
⒌.
All of us are drawn to sunsets, but people in a few special places really regard the sunset as a daily opportunity to give thanks;, Crowds gather to cheer and applaud it, reinforcing (加强)the idea that we should celebrate and be thankful for each day.
A. Nature is fuel for the soul.
B. It will help you appreciate life's gifts.
C. Do you draw inspiration from the sunset?
D. It will allow you to exercise in a healthy way.
E. Do you feel like there aren't enough hours in the day?
F. But if you experience the sunset more regularly, you'll no longer see it through a screen.
G. In places like Santorini, Greece, and Maui, Hawaii, the sunset is regarded as a nightly celebration.
While volunteering in Tanzania, my wife and I got the idea of what we call a "street library" because children in our neighbourhood were able to read but had no 1at all.
We had an idea to make books 2to local children who wanted to read. We 3a famous international charity for collecting money. We 4 books in three book stores of the capital city. My wife Sue 5 all , 180 books with sticky-backed paper to keep them clean. A local man made some 6 to store the books. I made some a "library cards" and 7with a tailor called Saddiqi, who agreed to keep the boxes in his 8and to run the library. The library was 9to open!
Anyone could 10 with their name and their parent's mobile phone number, Saddiqi gave them a 11 with a number, with which they could read the books only in his shop. I decided it was better to do that than let readers 12 the books. There is no 13 to join the library. Within five days we had over 100 14 and more were joining each day! Even though the books are 15 for children in different, grades of difficulty, 16 were using the library for free, too.
This side-project was, I think, one of the most 17 things we did in Tanzania. It was in some way a thank-you gift to our18 for welcoming us so warmly into their lives，. The whole19worked together on the street library and that's surely part of the reason it is still 20 after we left.
There is good news- for those who enjoy (run) - around in rain and don't want to get their clothes dirtied or those who play soccer but don't want their shirts to get soiled or wet with sweat. British scientists have created a fabric (织物)that never gets dirty or wet! The cloth (treat) with a special non-sticky chemical that resists oil and water. This ensures that the clothes made it remain clean. But the scientists are not yet ready to make public the (detail) information of this "miracle" chemical.
A well-known French company recently launched new range of jackets that have Teflon in them. Teflon is the plastic coating on non-stick cooking pans, has a special characteristic: No reaction to anything. As a result, dirt and water slip away from the Teflon fabric, as (easy) as oil slips out of a Teflon-coated pan.
American scientists have gone a step (far). They have added insecticide (杀虫剂) to the fabric that kills mosquitoes on contact. This new anti-mosquito fabric (find) immediate buyers shortly after its invention. According to reports, several mosquito net producers are planning . (compete) with each other in the bid (投标)to "net" the company for the use of this new technology.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(Λ ),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：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：⒈每处错误及其修改均仅限一词.
⒉只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
My grandparents had a small farm, that they grew crops and vegetables. They also raised dozen of hens and cocks, which were kept, in an area surrounded by a fence for protect. However, there were always several chickens escaped through the fence, wandering freely in the fields.
Last spring, I visited to my grandparents' farm and play near the wheat field. Suddenly I caught amazing sight: a hen was walking past, following by five chicks! No one knew where and when the hen hatched his little kids. My grandma was happy and hurried prepared a new home for the mother and the children.
⒈向他表示祝贺;
⒉感谢他对你的帮助;
⒊建议他实现旅行和写书的计划。
注意：
⒈词数100左右;
⒉可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯;
⒊开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mr. Terry,
Congratulations on your retirement!
Best wishes. We will miss you very much.
Yours,
Li Hua
