National Pet Week (May 3–9, 2020) celebrates the pets that enrich our lives and encourages responsible pet care every day of the year. It is celebrated during the first full week of May each year and it was created almost forty years ago by the American Veterinary Medical Association. During this week, retailers (零售商) get in the game with discounts on all sorts of pet products, from CBD products to pet clothes. Here are some websites where you can buy something you want with discounts during the National Pet Week.
Crown and Paw:
This fun service will turn a photo of your pet into a work of art inspired by authentic 19th-century portraits and Renaissance-era (文艺复兴时期) paintings. Select a costume from their online catalog, like the Dutchess or the Admiral, upload a photo and they do the rest! During National Pet Week, save 20 percent off with code PETS30.
Dr. Marty Pets:
This website offers pet foods that are made with freeze-dried fresh ingredients, as well as healthy pet medicine. Till June 1, save 25 percent off all regularly priced products with code PETS25.
Mutts & Meows Pet Accessories:
This brand offers over 100 different styles of hand-sewn pet handkerchiefs, bow ties, neckties and hair bands. From May 1 to 10, save 10 percent off site wide with code PETWEEK10.
Petmate:
Petmate carries a wide variety of pet products including food, portable kennels, and toys, like the Chuck it! From May 3 to 9, save 20 percent off any order of $35 or more with code PETS20.
Today in the UK teenagers are allowed to work from the age of 13, and many do take up part-time jobs. It's a taste of independence and sometimes a useful thing to put on their CV(简历). Teenagers agree that it teaches valuable lessons about working with adults and also about managing their money.
Some research has shown that not taking part-time job could be detrimental to a person later on. A 2015 study by the UK Commission on Employment and Skills found that not taking part-time work at school age had been blamed by employers' organizations for young adults being ill-prepared for full-time employment. However, recent studies have still shown that the number of schoolchildren in the UK with a part-time job has fallen by a fifth in the past five years.
So, does this mean that British teenagers are now more afraid of hard work? Probably not. Young people feel that going out to work will affect their performance at school, and they are under more pressure now to study hard and get good exam results — and a good job in the long term. However, Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, told BBC News that ''Properly regulated part-time work is a good way of helping young people learn skills that they will need in their working lives.'' In reality, it's all about getting the right balance between doing part-time work and having enough time to study and rest.
Who is Li Ziqi? For 7 million watchers on YouTube and 20 million micro bloggers on Sina Weibo, that's an easy question to answer. She holds an account on each of the two platforms, and uploads her videos about the detailed cooking processes of various kinds of traditional Chinese food.
Li is a craftsperson in a rural area of Southwest China's Sichuan province. Different from others, she is fond of showing the whole process from the field to the table. For example, in her video about spicy tofu, she starts with harvesting the soy beans, grinding them into powder and making tofu, and then cooks it. Her works also include building a homemade oven to bake bread.
Like the rest of us, Li was probably not born with skills to create the things we see in her videos, but she uses everything and everybody around her as a teacher. Li never attended college, but she shows us how useful self-learning can be in an age of plenty of learning resources.
Li lets the world see one of the most important aspects of the Chinese people, how they live their daily lives. She lets the world know that Chinese people love good food and are good at making art out of even simple raw materials, which have caught the hearts of her global audience.
Moreover, Li's charming videos show the simple joys of country living, which she can improve by using her head, heart and hands. While others become the product of their environment, she turns her surroundings into her product. Others see problems and feel frustrated, while Li goes and fixes them. We, therefore, can choose to be inspired by her, to seek the artistic solution and enjoy the creativity, joy and relaxation that "doing" life could offer.
We know it's good to learn another language. It opens doors, makes you more employable, helps you make new friends, and it's fun, too. But to improve our linguistic (语言) skills, many of us have to stand hours of school lessons or evening classes, with our heads buried in textbooks. It's no wonder that technology appears to be providing a better and more accessible way of learning.
There is certainly a huge demand for language learning, and having a smart phone means you can have a virtual teacher with you wherever you go. Many app developers are keen to cash in on the demand, and there are numerous learning apps available— including our own, free, BBC Learning English app!
Some educational apps offer languages not popular enough to be taught at evening classes, or at most universities. And others offer "invented" language courses in Esperanto, Elvish and Star Trek's Klingon— lessons you might not find in a traditional classroom.
Whatever you want to learn, apps allow you to go at your own pace and fit learning around other commitments. But they're not perfect— you might not get your head round the grammar and will lack the peer support you get in a classroom environment.
So, does technology take the place of the end of traditional classrooms and teachers? Guy Baron, head of modern languages at Aberystwyth University, thinks not. He told the BBC that apps should be used alongside classroom methods, not to remove traditional teaching. And he adds: "The apps are not designed for degrees, but they could be additional resources."
Certainly technology is going to help in and outside the classroom. But attending a real lesson, facing a real teacher, probably forces you to be more involved.
Battling another cough or cold? You may feel better if you take a daily walk or follow a simple exercise routine a few times a week. Exercise helps decrease your chances of developing heart disease. It also helps keep your bones healthy and strong.
We do not know exactly if or how exercise increases your immunity (免疫) to certain illnesses. There are several theories. Some of these theories are as follows:
Physical activity may help move bacteria (细菌) out of the lungs and airways.
The brief rise in body temperature during and right after exercise may prevent bacteria from growing. This temperature rise may help the body fight against infection (传染) better.
Some stress increases the chance of illness. Lower stress hormones（荷尔蒙）may protect against illnesses.
Exercise is good for you. Studies have shown that people who follow a moderately (适度地) energetic lifestyle, benefit most from starting and sticking to an exercise program. So go ahead, take an aerobics class or go for a walk. You will feel better and healthier for it.
A. Feeling tired all the time?
B. Have you taken a walk today?
C. However, you should not overdo it.
D. However, none of them have been proven.
E. Exercise slows down the release of stress hormones.
F. People should not exercise more just to increase immunity.
G. This may reduce your chance of getting a cold or other illnesses.
A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know whether she was going to make it and want to 1. She was tired of fighting and2. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one 3.
Her father, a cook, took her to the 4. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. In one he placed carrots, in the second 5, and in the last ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil, without saying a word.
The daughter sucked (吸吮) her teeth and 6 waited, wondering what he was doing. In twenty minutes, he pulled the carrots and eggs out and 7 them in two different bowls, and the coffee in a mug. He brought her closer and asked her to 8 the carrots. She did and noted they were 9. Then he asked her to take an egg and break it. After 10 off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. 11, he asked her to sip the coffee. She 12, as she tasted its rich aroma (芳香).
"What does it mean, Father?" she curiously asked.
He explained that each of them had faced the 13 adversity (逆境), boiling water, but each 14 differently. The carrot went in strong and hard but after being subjected to the boiling water, it became soft and 15. The egg had been fragile. Its 16 outer shell had protected its liquid inside. But after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were 17, however, after they were in the boiling water, they had 18 the water .
"Which are you?" he asked his daughter.
Life will necessarily meet adversity, if so, do not be 19 . Always remember: The real success can be 20 only after the hard struggle.
Da Mao and Er Shun, two pandas which (send) to Calgary Zoo in Canada in 2014, are being sent back to China two years ahead schedule. Two cubs born to them will also be sent back.
The animals feed on fresh bamboo, which is (especial) flown in for them from China. But with the novel coronavirus outbreak affecting flights, fresh supplies have been delayed so far. According to the zoo staff, pandas are fussy eaters and will refuse bamboo that has spent a lot of time in transport. They have tried to find a new bamboo supplier to feed (they), but met many problems. "We believe the (safe) place for Er Shun and Da Mao now is China in bamboo is rich and easy to access," Calgary Zoo President and CEO Clement Lanthier said.
People all say that Da Mao and Er Shun are fortunate enough (have) a hometown to return to when faced with (difficulty) because China controlled the novel coronavirus outbreak successfully so that it can consider (get) the pandas back and provide them with fresh bamboos.
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：在错的词下划一横线，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。
Dear Mr. Green, thank you for lending me the CD what is really amazing and worth listened to. Unfortunately, I can't show up at your apartment and return back it this afternoon as I promise that day I would. Last weekend I showed my grandparent the CD you lent me. But, I got a sudden call and left their house. I was in so a hurry that I completely forgot take the CD with me. I'm really sorry about that. I promise to bring them back this Sunday and give it to you. I sincerely hope that you won't be angrily with me.
1）表示欢迎；
2）介绍学习安排（包括学习中文，体验传统文化等）；
3）邀请他住在你家并表达期待。
Dear Eric,
How's it going?
Yours,
Li Hua
