Ordinarylooking Bill Cunningham is one of the most important American (photographer) of the last 50 years. He thought that fashion belonged the people，not just to high society and big brands. His (devote) to photography also made him great. He hardly ever took a day off and not once stayed home sick. (he) devotion and hard work makes his pictures so special. His life was so (complicated) that he lived in a small apartment with a shared washroom. Cunningham never accepted the benefits offered to him for (be) a fashion photographer. He valued his integrity and would not (buy)by anyone. Cunningham's passion for photography lasted throughout his life. He was 87 when he passed away，and had been working right up his last illness. His hard work made him fashion photographer as well as a "cultural anthropologist”．Bill Cunningham was an observer，and not one of the (observe)，a worker not a star.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, painter, social activist and bookstore owner, has been San Francisco's honored poet. He turns 100 this month, and the city is making preparations to celebrate him in style. Readings and performances and an open house will take place at City Lights, the sacred bookstore he cofounded in 1953.
On March 24, 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York. After spending his early childhood in France, he received his BA from the University of North Carolina, an MA from Columbia University, and a PhD from the Sorbonne.
He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, including Poetry as Insurgent Art; A Coney Island of the Mind. He has translated the works of a number of poets, including Nicanor Parra, Jacques Prevert, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. In addition to poetry, he is also the author of more than eight plays and three novels, including Little Boy: A Novel, Love in the Days of Rage and Her.
In 1953, Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin opened the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, California. It became a nerve center for the Beats and other writers. Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other writers from that era were Easterners who dropped into San Francisco for a spell. In 2001 it was made an official historic landmark. Now City Lights is almost certainly the best bookstore in the United States. It's filled with serious world literature of all kinds.
If City Lights is a San Francisco institution, Ferlinghetti himself is as much of one. He has loomed over the city's literary life. As a poet, he's never been a critical favorite. But his flexible and plainspoken and often powerful work—he has published more than 50 volumes—has found a wide audience. His collection "A Coney Island of the Mind” has sold more than 1 million copies, making it one of the bestselling American poetry books ever published.
We humans are a curious species. As NASA says on its website，"Humans are driven to explore the unknown, discover new worlds, push the boundaries of our scientific and technical limits，and then push further. ”
And space exploration is where we have been "pushing” our furthest curiosity.
The year 2019 began with two pieces of exciting space exploration news. On Jan. 3, China landed a spacecraft，Chang'e 4，on the moon's far side—the side we can't see from Earth—for the first time in human history. And according to a report published on Jan. 9 in Nature, scientists from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) detected repeated radio signals from a galaxy 1.5 billion light years away, possibly sent by intelligent aliens.
However, what's even more exciting than the news is the fact that whenever speaking of space exploration, we forget our political and cultural differences—the things that so obsess us.
"When you go into space, you become part of this overall collective (集体) called ‘humanity'”， Ken Liu, ChineseAmerican scifi writer and translator，told Quartz website. "You're no longer Chinese, American, Russian...Your culture is left behind. You're now just ‘humanity' with a capital ‘H'．”
This magic has worked all the way along our journey into space. When US astronaut Neil Armstrong (1930～2012)became the first human to set foot on the moon in 1969, for example，he told the world: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind，” Now, with Chang'e 4 touching down on new moon territory, China's aim is to help scientists from around the world find out more about Earth's only satellite. And with the discovery of the CHIME astronomers, we ' re one step closer to answering a common question in science: "Are humans alone in the universe？”
It's true that we are a curious species. But instead of being curious about the "unknown”， perhaps we're really more eager to "push further” our own human "boundaries” and "limits”．
Here's an imaginary question for you：would you rather leave your home country and never be allowed to return，or never leave your home country ever again?
It's a difficult one！Let's consider the beauty of being at home and the thrill of travelling. I left my home country，Germany，when I was seven to move to England with my family. Now at the age of 21，I've left my second home country，England，to work as an English language assistant in Switzerland.
·New friends
I don't know about you，but I love getting to know new people. Moving abroad is the perfect opportunity to extend your friendship circle and make it global. They'll also be able to give you a new perspective on life as they share their view of the world—which is likely to be very different from your own！Time to open your mind and see the world.
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You may learn a language in the classroom environment and learn it well，but nothing compares to fully burying yourself into a foreign language，participating in reallife conversations and picking up authentic slang and sayings from the locals.
·Food ， glorious food!
The world has so much to offer when it comes to food，so make the most of this new cultural experience and let your stomach guide you. Why not try something completely new? Tingle those taste buds. Perhaps you can surprise your friends back home you're your newfound cooking skills when you see them next.
A．The opportunity to master a new language.
B．The advantage of mastering a new language.
C．Is it always an exciting experience moving abroad?
D．Even better still，let the locals teach you how to make it.
E．You also fully experience the culture tied to the language.
F．These new friends will show you the most fun things to do in your new home.
G．What are the benefits of leaving the home country for a new adventure abroad?
