Exciting Adventure Options to Choose From!
BIRD WALK(Any time of year)-Join us for a private bird walk through our sanctuary(保护区）. The Bent's grasslands, trees and woods provide great habitat(栖息地）for birds moving from one place to another, such as Warblers, Vireos, Indigo Buntings, Thrushes, Orioles, and more. This walk will be made to the members in your party.
Suitable for ages 5 and up
Program Fee:$150
NATURE HIKE(Any time of year)-Take a private hike with Bent of the River! Your personal guide will show you notable habitats and wildlife around the center trails. Nature is exciting and always changing, so you never know what we will find along the way! This program is ideal for people who want to enjoy beautiful scenery while hiking.
Suitable for ages 8 and up
Program Fee:$150
POMPERAUG RIVER EXPLORATION(June and July only)-Many fascinating creatures live in and around the Pomperaug River! During this recreational(休闲的） program, an Audubon naturalist will share the human and natural history of the river and teach you how to catch fish and animals. The Bent will supply you with necessary tools, such as nets, containers, and field guides. Once the animals are caught, we will observe and identify(确定身份） them and learn how they can help show the health of the river before we put them back to the wild.
Suitable for ages 8 and up
Program Fee:$150
OWL PROWL(January and February only)-Enjoy a special guided adventure in search of one of the most beloved groups of birds-owls(猫头鹰）！We will be prowling for owls on a walk through the grassland and forests in hopes of seeing one of the three owl species known to live in Connecticut: the Great-horned Owl, Barred Owl, or Eastern Screech-Owl.
Evening event
Suitable for ages 10 and up
Program Fee:$225
A Virginia teen is doing his part to make sure frontline health care workers are getting the meals they need to help them take care of themselves and others.
Arul Nigam, 17, of Tyson's Corner, Va., has had to make several adjustments since his school year ended abruptly in mid-March due to the coronavirus pandemic(新冠疫情）. "We didn't have any classes for like over a month and then after that there were a lot of technical difficulties. So I started to have a lot more free time," he tells Yahoo Life. "It was really saddening, but it was also something that really surprised me, that our health care workers are facing something like that," Nigam says. "So I wanted to see what I could do to help them because obviously, they're sacrificing so much and giving so much for all of us. "
In late March, the teen started fundraising efforts with the help of friends and family to help these health care workers receive much-needed meals. He also began doing research about what hospitals had the most amount of coronavirus cases, so he could prioritize those places first. He was also arranging for the orders to be fulfilled at local family-owned restaurants impacted by shutdown orders. So far, Nigam has delivered over 1,000 meals to 22 hospitals in 13 states, including New York, Massachusetts and Maryland.
Nigam's efforts have not only helped health care workers, but restaurants as well. With quarantine restrictions taking a toll on the food industry, places like Best Coast Burrito in Oakland, Calif., have lost business over the last few weeks. Best Coast's owner, Alvin Shen, tells Yahoo Life that being able to partner with Arul and others in efforts to feed those on the frontline has been a big help.
In May this year, as part of our 150th anniversary, we asked readers aged between 18 and 25 to enter an essay competition. The task was to tell us, in no more than 1,000 words, what scientific advance they would most like to see in their lifetimes, and why it mattered to them.
The response was phenomenal: we received 661 entries. Some entrants hoped that science would make their lifetimes much longer than they can currently expect. Many looked forward to work that will end climate change. Others wanted to see advances in our understanding of human history, crop growth, space exploration, and medical technologies. The ideas were inspiring.
The winner is a compelling essay by Yasmin Ali, a PhD student at the University of Nottingham, UK. Ali submitted a piece on Beethoven, her brother's hearing loss and the science which she hoped would one day cure it. It stood out to the judges as a reminder of why many scientists do research: to make the world better tomorrow than it is today.
All essays were judged by a group of Nature editors. The top ten submissions were then ranked by three members of a separate judging group: Magdalena Skipper, editor-in-chief of Nature; Faith Osier, a researcher; and Jess Wade, a physicist. All submissions were kept anonymous throughout the process.
We also selected two runners-up(非冠军的获奖者).Physicist Robert Schittko at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, proposes that nuclear fusion(核聚变) could offer a solution to the climate crisis, in a piece that effortlessly mixes grand ambition with gentle humour. And chemist Matthew Zajac at the University of Chicago in Illinois wrote a powerful personal account of why he wants to see advances in the field of same-sex reproduction.
The results show that today's young scientists have a wealth of ideas, talent and conviction that research can transform their world. We look forward to seeing what they do next.
As artificial intelligence(AI) systems become more advanced, we can expect them to be used more often in the world of human medicine and healthcare. AI is designed to imitate(模仿） the human brain in decision making and learning, so with the computing power to learn tasks in days or even hours, it is possible to create medical AIs that rapidly outperform doctors in certain tasks.
Data plays a hugely important role in helping AI systems learn about human medicine. AI systems are trained on large data sets gathered from real-life cases. Providing detailed patient information in quantities is a crucial factor for their success.
One of the most important areas for influencing global health is in the field of epidemiology(流行病学Predicting disease outbreaks can save millions of lives by having resources ready should the worst happen. Startup AIME has successfully combined public health data with machine learning and AI to create a prediction engine capable of anticipating epidemics months in advance with great accuracy.
Another field where medical AIs are making rapid advances is in diagnostics(诊断学）. Doctors base a lot of decisions on information from X-ray, CT and MRI images. Speeding up diagnoses from patient scans can rapidly improve patient care and outcomes. Computer vision AIs use pattern recognition to work through these images with incredible speed and accuracy. They have been able to outperform junior doctors and even senior specialists in some tests.
Cardiologist(心脏科医生）Rima Arnaout developed an AI that beat human experts at correctly interpreting echocardiograms(超声心动图）by 92 percent to 79 percent. She said that despite the result there is no prospect of AI replacing human doctors any time soon. "As cardiologists, we read the images and then go to see the patient," she said. "So we're both reading images and practicing medicine. I don't think that the second piece will be taken over so quickly. "
The acceptance of AI in medicine will continue to gather pace in the future as it becomes more widespread.
Columbus Day is on the second Monday of October, in the United States. .That means most federal offices are closed.
The holiday honors the first visit to America by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. Columbus thought he could reach the Far East by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe. He was right, but he was also wrong. He thought the world was much smaller than it is. .
Columbus and his crew arrived in October 1492 on an island they called San Salvador, in today's Bahamas. They explored that island and nearby islands now known as Cuba and Hispaniola. . That is why he called the people who lived on the islands "Indians".
, even though local plants where he explored were unknown in Europe or Asia, and native people did not understand any languages spoken in the East.
Columbus made several other trips to what was called the New World. He saw the coast of South America and the island of Jamaica.
During his trips, Columbus explored islands and waterways, searching for a passage to the Indies. He never found it. . Yet, he always believed he had found the Indies.
A. It is a federal holiday
B. Columbus treated native people badly
C. He refused to accept he was wrong about the geography
D. Nor did he find spices or great amounts of gold as he had hoped
E. Other European explorers did land in what is now the United States
F. He did not imagine that another continent lay between Europe and East Asia
G. Columbus believed these were the coastal islands of East Asia, then called the Indies
It was the only time in four decades of nursing that I'd had such a terrible problem with a colleague-Rita. She1to look down on me and I had no idea why. Every kindness I showed produced an unexpected 2. Our relationship was so impossibly bad.
Now it was eight years later and I retired from 3, and was certainly tired from ever thinking about that troublesome 4. The flu had hit us and my town had sold out of protective 5. I searched for a box of hospital-grade masks I had 6; I just knew those masks were in the box by my desk. However, I didn't find the masks, but I found some old, 7 mail-a Christmas card a year ago. That kind of thing is always a treat to 8, but the return address said Florida and I couldn't figure out who I knew there.
I opened the envelope and read the card in astonishment-it was from Rita. "Please 9 me for being such a person," she wrote. A wave of 10 and forgiveness washed over me. I'm not really a11 because of a problem with my hands, but there at 11:30 p. m., I typed out an emotional, of-the-moment message ensuring her that there was no cause for12 ， no need for forgiveness because there is only love and gratitude for the 13.
In a matter of seconds, I received a text 14. Honestly speaking, Rita was absolutely 15. We became friends again.
Although the history of kites has been debated, there is evidence of kite flying in China from more than 2000 years ago! There is one Chinese legend that suggests that a peasant's straw hat flew off his head, but followed him in the air (attach) to a thread from his clothing-perhaps the first (inspire) for kites?
It is also said General Han Hsin flew a kite for the walls of a city he was attacking, to measure the tunnel his troops needed to build. Kite flying spread by traders from China to Korea and then to India. Monks used bamboo and silk kites for (religion) and ceremonial purposes, sending messages and prayers to the spirit world.
In 1295, Marco Polo （document) their construction and how to fly kites, and interest spread for hundreds of years. During the (eighteen) century, kites started to be used in field of science.
Nowadays, kite flying festivals (hold) around the world. In Asia, there are often "kite fights", participants attempt to cut their competitor's kites down. In Indonesia, India, Vietnam and China, kite flying is sport and recreation. In other countries, kite flying is children's play like during the New Year holidays.
1）给与安慰；
2）分析现状；
3）提出建议。
注意：
1）词数80左右；
2）开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Alice,
I am so sorry to hear from you that you have some trouble in your new life.
Wish you happy every day!
Yours,
Li Hua
Last night, my partner John and I went to the levees (堤岸) where I was relearning how to run. He supported on his bike and I went as fast or as slow as my old legs wanted to take me. Ahead of us was a very old man with a plastic bag who seemed to be unable to walk a straight line. John said, "You keep running, and I will check on him."
John was holding his hand. John told the man, "We are going to come back this way. If you are still here, we will check on you." The man said he was fine but he was going to stay down for a bit. He was on the ground at the bottom of the levee and off a walkway that backed up into other people's homes. We ran on for 10-15 minutes or so and turned around.
John rode ahead to see if he was still there. When I got to the spot, there was John and the man. The man didn't look fine — he was stumbling (蹒跚而行) around and seemed lost.
The man in the meantime tried to climb up the levee and fell again and as he sat there, I walked down. I said, "Hi, my name is Mia, what's your name?" He laughed and looked at me. I said light-heartedly, "I am relearning how to run. I didn't realize it was so difficult." He said, "Oh my son and I run too — yeah it's not always easy."
It was starting to get dark. Turns out the man's name was John also. I said, "Shall we walk together, John?" He said, "Okay." He didn't want me to grab his hand or arm to help him, so I said, "I'll just stand by you if that is okay." "That's okay," he said.
We walked down the levee together with John riding behind. Through our walk he swerved (急转弯) from either side of the levee — I stayed calm and moved to either side casually trying not to look like I was blocking.
注意：
1)续写词数应为150左右；
2)请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1:
I said to our new friend John, "Do you know why we are concerned?"
Paragraph 2:
He waved goodbye to us and practically ran into the dark.
