Bob Geldof was the lead singer and songwriter of an Irish music band named The Boomtown Rats. It was 23 October 1984, and they were not doing very well； they had not had a hit song for a while. Bob was worrying about this when he switched on the BBC news. It was a report on a famine（饥荒） in Ethiopia. Images of hungry children and crying mothers filled the screen. The reporter described the crisis as “the closest thing to hell on earth".
“There I saw something that placed my worries in ghastly new perspective,” Geldof later said in an interview. Deeply upset and saddened by the report, Geldof decided to do something about it using the language of pop music. In just over four weeks after seeing the news report, Geldof had written, with the help of his friend, another band leader Midge Ure, a song that would be a huge bestseller. In addition, he managed to convince about 40 of the most famous performers at that time in Britain and Irish pop music to come to a London music studio to record the song. Bob named this super group Band Aid.
The song was "Do They Know It's Christmas?” By the last day of 1984,3 million copies had 2 been sold in Britain. It went on to sell nearly 12 million worldwide. Some people bought extra copies, and gave them away or donated them back to resell.
Geldof's next step was to organize charity super-concerts called Live Aid in London and Philadelphia, and streamed them live on television, raising an additional US$48 million. He was made a knight by Queen Elizabeth II, recognizing him for his activism and anti-poverty work for Africa.
Shanghai residents passing through the city's eastern Huangpu district in October might have astonished at an unusual sight: a “walking” building. An 85-year-old primary school has been lifted off the ground and relocated using new technology named the “walking machine.”
In the city's latest effort to preserve historic structures, engineers attached nearly 200 mobile supports under the five-story building, according to Lan Wuji, chief technical supervisor (技术总监) of the project. The supports act like robotic legs. They're divided into two groups which alternately rise up and down, imitating the human pace. Attached sensors help control how the building moves forward, said Lan.
In recent decades, China's rapid modernization has seen many historic buildings razed to clear land for high-rise buildings. But there has been growing concern about the architectural heritage lost as a result of destruction across the country. Some cities have launched new preservation and conservation campaigns including, on occasion, the use of advanced technologies that allow old buildings to be relocated rather than destroyed.
Shanghai has possibly been China's most progressive city when it comes to heritage preservation. The survival of a number of 1930s buildings in the famous Bund district and 19th-century “Shikumen” houses in the rebuilt Xintiandi neighborhood have offered examples of how to give old buildings new life. The city also has a satisfying record of relocating old buildings. In 2018, the city relocated a 90-year-old building in Hongkou district, in what was then considered to be Shanghai's most complex relocation project to date.
The Lagena Primary School, which weighs 7,600 tons, posed a new challenge-it's T-shaped, while previously relocated structures were square or four-sided. Experts met to discuss possibilities and test a number of different technologies before deciding on the “walking machine”, Lan said. However, he couldn't share the exact cost of the project, and that relocation costs will differ case by case. “It can't be used as a reference, because we have to preserve the historical building no matter what,” he said. “But in general, it's cheaper than destroying and then rebuilding something in a new location.”
Drinking tea at least three times a week could reduce the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease(心管疾病) and is linked with a longer and healthier life, at least in China, a new study suggests. Chinese researchers found the health benefits associated with tea were more obvious for drinkers of green, rather than black tea, and for those who had been drinking tea regularly over a longer period of time. The benefits were also clearer among men, the study indicated.
Researchers looked at data from 100 902 Chinese people with no history of heart attack or cancer and divided them into two groups: habitual drinkers who drank tea three or more times a week,those who never drank tea, and those who drank it less regularly. They followed up with them after a seven-year period.
Their analysis found that regular tea drinkers had a 20%lower risk of having heart disease and stroke,and a 22%lower risk of dying from heart disease and stroke. Specifically, they found that regular tea drinkers could expect to live 1.26 years longer at age 50 than those who did not regularly enjoy a cup of tea.
“We found that the protective effects of habitual tea consumption were very obvious and robust across different outcomes for men, but only mild for women,”Dr.Dongfeng Gu from China's National Center for Cardiovascular Disease.
“One reason might be that the proportion of habitual tea consumers among men was approximately two and a half times as high as that among women,” Gu said. Some 48%of the men in the study were regular tea drinkers, compared with 20%of women.
The New Year is always a time of new beginnings, a time for a change, and a time to set goals. Here are some tips for setting career goals in a new year:
Reflect on Your Year
Take some time to consider your career in the year that just ended. If you dislike your job, try to figure out why. Is it due to the work itself, or something about the workplace? If you like what you do, and it's outside factors that you find limiting, it might make sense to make your goal to find a new position.
Engage in Career Research
Start to read about careers of interest by browsing websites or publications at your local bookstore or library. Identify two new careers to research each week, and keep a diary of your interest in each. For those fields with a genuine appeal, make a list of questions to research so that you can fully evaluate the suitability of that career for you.
Check Out What Your Friends Do
Think about the roles of colleagues, suppliers, or clients that might be a good fit for you, and interview them about the nature of their work. Share your skills list with them, and ask for help brainstorming career options that might be worth considering within their sections.
Gain New Skills
If you want to take up a new career, consider volunteering to gain additional experience, or taking classes to learn new skills.
A. Always be ready to learn and aim to be better.
B. Activate your curiosity about the work lives of people in your social network.
C. If you are totally in love with what you do, aim higher, and strive to be better.
D. Spend some time assessing what you like and dislike about your current situation.
E. Many people look forward to changing career paths and aiming for bigger dreams.
F. The more you research, the easier it will be to make decisions and set goals for yourself.
G. The same holds true if you feel positive about your field, but are ready for more significant responsibilities.
It's a beautiful day in Jáen, Southern Spain. As a father of the bridegroom 1his speech, a sea of wedding guests 2applause, some of them even rising from their chairs to show hearty admiration. This is because 66-year-old Dave just delivers his speech 3in Spanish, a language that he couldn't speak a year ago.
Dave and his wife Carol were in Southern Wales when their son Stewart called from Spain, 4his parents to meet someone so special to him. 5,the couple arrived in Spain and met the special lady, Atanea, and her extended family. 6they couldn't understand the language of each other. Atanea had to run nonstop as a (an) 7to ensure everyone was understood until eventually she felt exhausted and Dave felt 8 .He wanted to support his son and connect with his in-laws.
So the moment they 9down in the UK, Carol and Dave signed up for both day and evening Spanish lessons, the time of which 10four hours per week. To study Spanish at any other time moreover, the pair 11a Spanish-learning app. The couple would set aside time every day, complete the exercises on their app and then 12 each other over a cup of tea in their kitchen. Just as they were making 13 progress and beginning to enjoy their Spanish and tea 14, they received another 15 from Stewart, telling them that Atanea had agreed to marry him and asking his father if he would make the father-of-the-groom 16. Having said “yes” to his son, Dave knew he had more work to do for the big day.
On the wedding day, the newlyweds hold hands and smile with 17. While the words get 18 in his throat several times during the speech, yet Dave's months of determination and hard work come together in one beautiful expression of 19 for his son and his daughter-in-law, and of 20 for the culture of his new in-laws.
It doesn't impress like George Washington's plantation on the Potomac, but Lincoln's home in downtown Springfield, Illinois, （prove）irresistible to visitors since it opened to the public. Beautifully restored（修复）to its 1860 appearance, the house was Abraham and Mary Lincoln's home for 17 years. In 1844 they bought it $1,200 and some land from Charles Dresser, who performed their （marry）ceremony in 1842.
When the house was built, it was much （small）than it is today. Mary's niece wrote, "The little home （paint）white. It was sweet and fresh. Mary loved it. She was extremely pretty, and her house was a reflection of （she）, everything in good taste and in perfect order.
Although Mary loved flowers, she nor her husband was known as a gardener. A long- time neighbor said they never planted trees and only kept a garden for one year. Mary's sister, Frances Todd Wallace, often came over （plant）flowers in the front yard.
Lincolns enlarged the house to a full two stories in 1856 to meet the needs of their growing family. Three of the four Lincoln sons were born here. After Lincoln was elected President of the US in 1861, they rented the house and （sell）most of their furniture.
假定你是李华，应美国朋友George请求，帮他购买了学习汉语的教科书，但是忘记及时寄出。请根据以下要点用英语给他写一封电子邮件：
1）表示歉意；
2）解释原因；
3）弥补措施。
注意：
1）词数80左右；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
The Wilsons were having dinner. The food was left from their Thanksgiving dinner two days before: turkey soup and turkey meat mixed with potatoes. Eleven-year-old Angelina asked, "Are we having turkey ice cream, too?" Her father replied, "Angelina, have you forgotten that I had no job for a whole year? Now I have work again. You should be very thankful." "I'm sorry I said that about the turkey! But unless I get a new dress, I will not look good for the Christmas Festival." Angelina murmured.
The Festival was the winter holiday celebration of a group she belonged to: the Avalon Girls' Service Club. They wrote cheerful cards for hospital patients. They cooked meals for the homeless. But the Christmas Festival was different. The girls wore party clothes and many people came to see them perform. Angelina had only a plain gray dress that she had worn to the event last year. And now it was a little too short. Angelina appealed to her parents to buy one for her, a beautiful red dress in Forbes' Store. Her mother sighed, “Well, we cannot buy it. We have to be careful. You never know when I might lose my job.”
All hope was not gone. There was a sign in the Forbes store window that said "layaway (分期付款)" . Angelina pulled ten worn dollar bills from her coat pocket. She ran to the store and begged the salesperson, Mrs. Harding, to hold 'her' dress for her. "Ok. But you must come back in two weeks to pay the rest." Angelina felt like jumping into the air. She was so happy that she told Mrs. Harding about the Avalon Service Club's work and its Christmas party.
Then, Angelina shook and suffered in the cold wind looking for work. Finally, Angelina got a job making new clothing for dolls. Angelina was excellent at sewing. Sure enough, the dolls' dresses turned out beautiful. She got twenty dollars. Still, she was far from having enough money for her dress. She felt helpless as the final payment date arrived.
She returned sadly to Forbes' Store, "I don't have enough money for the dress." Then she saw Mrs. Harding's eyes were red. She looked like she had been crying. She said the store was closing and she was losing her job.
注意：
1）所续写短文的词数应为 150 左右；
2）至少使用 5 个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3）续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
4）续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
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Suddenly, Mrs. Harding said she would pay the rest of the money so Angelina could have it.
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Outside, Angelina saw a man who looked like Santa Claus was asking people for money to help poor people.
