Angela had a serious disease about her nervous system (神经系统). She was unable to walk and her 1 was affected in other ways. The doctors did not 2 much hope of her recovering from this illness. They forecast she would spend the rest of her life in a 3 and said that few were able to come back to normal after 4 this disease. However, the little girl was 5. She would tell others she was 6 going to be walking again someday.
She was sent to a rehabilitation hospital (康复医院) in San Francisco. Whatever treatments could be 7 to her disease were used. The doctors were 8 by her optimistic spirit. They taught her about 9 seeing herself walking. If it did nothing else, it would 10 give her hope and something positive to do in the long waking hours in her bed. Angela would work as hard as possible in physical treatment. She worked just as hard 11 there imagining herself moving, moving, moving!
One day, as she was trying hard to imagine her 12 moving again, it seemed 13 a miracle (奇迹) happened: The bed moved! It began to move around the room! She shouted out in14, “Look what I'm doing! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved, I moved!”
In fact, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. At that 15 moment, everyone else in the hospital was shouting out, too, and running for 16. People were shouting, equipment was falling and glass was breaking. It was an earthquake. 17 they had no time to tell that to Angela. She was 18 that she did it.
Only a few years later, she was back in school! You see, anyone who can 19 San Francisco can 20 a disease, can't they?
Growing up, I understood one thing about my dad: he knew everything. This was our relationship: I asked him questions and he told me the answers. Is there really a man in the moon? How do sailboats work? In my teen years, he taught me things I'd need to know to survive in the real world. How to check your car. The correct knife to bring along.
When I moved out, I called him at least once a week, usually when something broke in my apartment. After I got married, I needed him less because I had my husband and Google. When I called our conversations changed into six words. Me: "Hi, Dad." Him: "Hi, sweets. Here's Mom." (Because I still needed her - How do I cook chicken? Do I need to call the doctor for my daughter's fever?) I loved my dad, of course, but I wondered at times if maybe he had already shared everything I needed to know. Maybe I'd heard all his stories. Maybe, after knowing a man for 30 years, there's nothing left to say.
Then, this past summer, my husband and I moved in with my parents for three weeks while our house was being repaired. They own a lake house, and Dad asked me to help him repair the walls. I didn't balk— it was the least I could do for free rent(房租) — but I felt anxious. It was difficult. We got wet and sandy. But as we rebuilt the walls, my dad knowing exactly what went . I looked at him, "How do you know how to build walls?"
"I spent a summer in college building them." "You did?" I thought I knew everything about my dad, but I never knew this. "Yep. Now let me teach you how to use this saw(锯子)." As he explained the skills, I realized that maybe it's not that there's nothing left to say. Maybe it's just that I've spent my life asking him the wrong questions.
A few weeks later, after my family moved back into our own house, I called my parents. Dad answered. "Hi, sweets," he said. "Here's Mom." "Wait, Dad," I said. "How are you?" We ended up talking about work he was doing. Nothing life-changing. To anyone else, it would sound like a normal conversation between a dad and his daughter. But to me, it was a new beginning. I spent the first part of my life needing to talk to my dad. Now I talk to him because I want to.
First introduced in 1927, The Hardy Boys Stories are a series (系列) of books about the stories of brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, teenaged detectives who solve one mystery (神秘) after another. The cover of The Hardy Boys says that the author of the series is Franklin. Over the years, though, many fans of the books have been surprised to find out that Franklin is not a real person. If Franklin never existed, then who wrote The Hardy Boys Stories?
The Hardy Boys are written through a process called ghostwriting (鬼手写作). A ghostwriter writes a book according to a fixed formula (公式). Although ghostwriters are paid for writing the books, their names do not appear on the published books. Ghostwriters can write books for children or adults, the content of which is various.
The idea for The Hardy Boys series was developed by a publisher named Stratemeyer. He noticed the increasing popularity of mysteries among adults, and thought that children would enjoy reading mysteries about younger detectives of their age. He first developed each book with an outline (提纲). Once having completed the outline, he then hired a ghostwriter to turn it into a book of over 200 pages. After finishing a draft (草稿) of a book, he or she would send it back to Stratemeyer, who would make a list of corrections and mail it back to the ghostwriter. The ghostwriter would improve the book according to Stratemeyer's suggestions and then return it to him. Once Stratemeyer approved the book, it was ready to be published.
The Hardy Boys had a number of different ghostwriters producing books. However, the first ghostwriter, Leslie, proved to be the most influential. Although he was using prepared outlines as guides, Leslie developed the characters through his imagination. He was also responsible for the details in the story. For example, Leslie created Bayport, the Hardy Boys' hometown, based on where he grew up.
Although The Hardy Boys were very popular with children, not everyone approved of them. Critics thought their stories were not real, since most teenagers did not have the same experience as Frank and Joe Hardy. Besides, many teachers and librarians are against the ghostwriting process, saying it was designed to produce books quickly, but not to create quality literature. Some libraries even refuse to include the books in their children's collections.
In recent years, experiments examining exercise and weight loss have found that people lose far much less weight than expected, considering how many additional calories(卡路里) they are burning with their workouts.
Scientists have guessed that exercisers are likely to become hungrier and eat more after working out. They also may sit longer when not doing exercise. Together or separately, these changes could make up for the extra energy used during exercise.
To prove that possibility, scientists came up with the idea of using infrared light(红外线) to track mice's movements in their cages. Then software can use that information to analyse their daily physical activity.
So the researchers prepared special cages, putting inside some locked running wheels, and let mice roam(闲逛) and explore for four days in the cages. This provided the researchers with information about how many calories each mouse burned every day.
Then the wheels were unlocked and for nine days, the mice could run at will, and they could decide how much to eat and when to get off the wheels, walking around. The mice, which enjoyed running, jumped readily on the wheels and started to run. On and off the wheels, they could run for hours. They showed a following height in their daily energy expenditure(支出) since they had added exercise to their lives.
But they did not change their eating habits. Although they were burning more calories, they did not eat more. They did, however, change how they moved. They now usually jogged on their wheels for a few minutes, jumped off, rested or roamed in a while, and then climbed back on the wheels, ran, rested, briefly roamed, and it repeated. These changes in how they spent their time almost counteracted(抵消) the extra calorie costs from running, says Daniel Lark, who led the new study.
What caused the running mice to run less is still uncertain. ''But it does not seem to have been tiredness or lack of time; wheel running is not arduous for mice, and does not fill their waking hours.'' Dr. Lark says.
Instead, he says, it is likely that the animals' bodies and brains sensed the increasing energy expenditure when the mice began to run and sent out biological signals that somehow advised the animals to slow down, save energy and lose weight.
Mice will never be people, of course, so we cannot say whether the results of this would directly apply to us, Dr. Lark says. But the results do indicate that if we hope to lose more weight through, we should watch what we eat and try not to move less while we work out more.
Camping is a great way to enjoy nature. You can breathe fresh air, cook over a campfire and sleep under the stars. However, camping also means various troubles, including dealing with bugs, bad weather and few, if any, toilets. But there is a way to enjoy the natural world without giving up the comforts at home. It's called glamping, and interest in it has been growing since 2007!
Glamping, made up by joining the words glamorous(有魅力的) and camping, is a new word. Since around 600 B.C. Nomadic Mongolians have enjoyed the benefits of glamping. Their tents were so comfortable that they inspired the design of modern glamping tents!
There are many reasons why you should consider glamping for your next vacation. One of them is that glamping gives you access to some beautiful places. Nowadays, glamping can be less expensive than staying in a hotel, but you can still enjoy the modern comforts of a hotel!
Glampsites often use eco-friendly materials and avoid using much plastic. So, there is less waste, and the area stays beautiful.
No matter what kind of experience you're looking for, a glampsite exists for you. From Three Camel Lodge in Mongolia to Clayoquot Wilderness Resort in Canada, adventure is waiting for you. Sites can include a spa, a swimming pool and dinner under the stars. Activities can include exploring on horseback or camel and sightings of elephants, mountain sheep or tigers.
A. Every year a large number of people go camping.
B. You don't have to give up beauty for comfort!
C. A wide variety of glamping experiences are available all over the world.
D. These troubles can discourage people from ever trying camping.
E. But it describes an activity that people have been doing for ages.
F. You can also help other campers.
G. Another reason to go glamping is that it's good for the environment.
A king offered a prize to the artist would paint the most impressive picture of peace. The (compete) was heated as many artists tried. The king looked at all the pictures, of which only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them. One picture was of a calm lake (perfect) reflecting towering mountains all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with white clouds.
What the king (see) in the other picture were bare mountains, and above was an angry sky, from which rain fell (constant). Down the side of the mountain tumbled(翻滚) a huge waterfall, which did not look (peace) at all. Looking closely, the king saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a rock. In the bush bird had built her nest. There, in the middle of the rush of angry water, sat the bird on her nest - in perfect peace.
All who saw this picture thought that the first picture was better, the king preferred the second one. "Because," explained the king, "peace does not mean a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means (be) in the middle of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real (significant) of peace."
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Despite being asked to stay safe during the outbreak(爆发) of the novel coronavirus(新型冠状病毒), students and teachers across the country can keep themselves busy with classes online. A student used a mobile phone to attend an online class at home in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in April. His home was recently connected to the Internet. |
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| DingTalk, a virtual workplace developed by Alibaba Group, held online classes for about 50 million students nationwide, from primary to high school level. Physics teacher Zhao Chuanliang gave an online class to his students at Henan Experimental Middle School in Zhengzhou on Sunday. | |
【写作内容】假设你是李华，按照要求，用英语给英语老师写一封信，汇报今年寒假期间的网络课程学习情况，内容包括:
1）你和同学在网络课程期间的真实表现，包括上课与平时作息等；
2）寒假网络课程期间父母如何关心你的学习；
3）这次网络课程给你的感受。
【写作要求】1）词数为120左右，写三段；
2）书信开头和结尾已经写好，不计入总词数；
3)不能直接引用原文语句，作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
【评分标准 内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
Dear Sir,
I am writing to report my online lessons.
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Yours Sincerely,
Li Hua
