When Faith Wan jiku graduated from the Technical University of Kenya last year, she immediately enrolled (注册) at the Confucius Institute in Kenyatta University. She wanted to learn Chinese, as she believed that it would help her land a good job.
She has just completed the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) 3 exam. HSK is a test of Chinese language level for non-native speakers, organized by the Confucius Institute Headquarters.
However, this level isn't enough for Wanjiku, who plans to pass HSK 6. She wanted to increase her level or Chinese and improve her spoken Chinese. And Wanjiku isn't alone. The number of people taking the HSK reached 6. 8 million in 2018 and went up 4. 6 percent from a year earlier, the Ministry of Education said on May 31.
Chinese is becoming an increasingly popular choice of language to study around the world. Currently, middle school students in Russia can take Chinese as an elective languages test in the country's national college entrance exam, Sputnik News reported.
In May, Zambia became the fourth country in Africa- after Kenya, Uganda and South Africa – to introduce Chinese languages to its schools.
Behind the growing popularity of Chinese language leaning is the international community's positive attitude toward China's future developments, as well as the peoples longing to learn about Chinese civilization and culture.
Indeed, it's as the former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela put it, "if you talk to a man in a langrage he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his in language, that goes to his heart. "
I earned about the zero waste movement in 2010 after reading a book about it in the library. It was eye-opening and encouraged me to remove as much single-use package as possible.
But as I followed the advice，I met many challenges. It turns out that small town Ontario isn't nearly as progressive as San Francisco when it comes to allowing reusable containers in grocery stores.
That's when I wished I still live in downtown Toronto which would give me access to many health food store that allowed reusable containers. It took a while, but finally I realized that my location give me one key advantage over city's people. I now live at the center of food production, which means I can go directly to producers to get ingredients that are not only package-free but the freshest and most delicious.
"Zero waste should be thought as more of an ideal than an hard-and-fast rule. It's so geographically independent on what is in your area, so I think it is about doing your best to make use of the resources you have. " said Celia Ristow, founder of a website. It is refreshing to see that fact accepted by others. It's true that the best-known zero waste supporters are city's people, who have access to many stores and restaurants that are willing to work with them.
However, wherever you are, it is impossible to find a places that meets all the ideals criteria. But that doesn't mean we should stop trying. The food scene in my small town has changed greatly in the past six years and far more reusable choices have been available than before. We have a food co-op that allows for online ordering and home delivering, many locations for dropping off milk bottles, a growing summer farmer's market and large pick-your own fruit farm.
I tell people and remind myself to remove what you can. Maybe the farmer's market share are only seasonal, and you have to be perfect, in fact, as the saying goes, "Perfection is the enemy of progress. "
The 2016 Rio Olympic Games have come to an end. Without doubt, many Chinese sports fans sat in front of the TV and cheered our athletes on, hoping that they would get as many gold medals as possible.
But sometimes our desire for gold medals can result in the sadness of failure. When Liu Xiang, China's track hero, pulled out of the Beijing Olympics due to injury, he greatly disappointed many Chinese sports fans.
But things are different now. In the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, we saw a healthier Chinese attitude towards the sports people, fully in line with the Olympic spirit.
China didn't win any gold medals on the first day. But, instead of criticizing(批评) the athletes who failed to win, most of the fans were happy with their efforts. "Looking at the results in the right way when an athlete misses out on gold shows the maturity(成熟) of a person, and is also a challenge for a country to face up to in the process of development, " commented CRI.
Swimmer Fu Yuanhui won fans' hearts, even if she only won the third place in the 100m backstroke final. Her fans on her Sina Weibo have increased 100, 000 to over 6 million. Many sports fans appreciated her straightforward character and attitude towards competitions.
"The warm support from Internet users shows that public attitude towards competitive sports and the Olympics has gotten to a higher level", said an article in the People's Daily.
The CoVID-19 and flu are both respiratory infectious diseases, with similar symptoms including fever and cough, but they aren't the same.
Both the CoVID-19 and flu are diseases caused by a virus. In the case of flu the pathogens (病原体) are flu viruses, and for COVID-19, it is a novel coronavirus (新型冠状病毒).
Common symptoms for flu and novel coronavirus are nearly identical-fever, cough and tiredness sometimes sore throat and diarrhea. In several cases they result in pneumonia（肺炎）and even death in the worst cases. Flu has seasonal ups and downs. Although it can exist all year round, the virus infects more people in winter and spring. As for the novel coronavirus, the median age for the infected is 51. But the novel coronavirus is a brand new virus no one has total immunity no matter their age.
Both the flu and the novel coronavirus are transmitted in the similar ways, by direct contact with infected patients or small droplets from the nose or mouth when a person with virus coughs or breathes.
FIu can be spread by an infected person for several days before their symptoms appear. As for the novel coronavirus, spread might be possible before people show symptoms, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.
For the novel coronavirus, there is also a risk for aerosol transmission (气溶胶传播) In health facilities, people may catch the virus if they breathed in aerosol, the suspension of find solid or liquid particles in the air, which have been contaminated by the virus. The novel coronavirus has also been found in patients' fecal (排泄物) samples, but fecal-oral transmission does not appear to be a major transmission route.
There are some children who love to fly and then there are the kids who are afraid of the unknown. The following tips may help you if you want to travel with your children by plane.
● If you tell the child he will soon be flying on an airplane and leave it at that, his imagination can turn to fear. Instead, tell him how wonderful it is to fly.
● Don't tell children about the dangers of flying. And you can promise him that the plane will not crash.
● Read a book to your children. Reading may also make your children fall asleep.
● Bring a comfort thing that your child enjoys. Be sure to bring that blanket along as it will provide a safety net for the child. Having this blanket along may also help him fall asleep. Bring a safe electronic device that shows movies or supports video games, and offers children puzzles.
● Bring snacks. Children are picky eaters and may not like the food being offered. Three to five hours can be a long time on an airplane without food. When they are upset, it is easier to let fear of the unknown take control.
A. Children may get upset when they are hungry.
B. Tell your children how much fun it is to fly before the trip.
C. Most kids have a stuffed animal or a blanket that they love.
D. If a child brings them up, tell him that flying is perfectly safe.
E. Leave a little extra time so you can make your children walk.
F. Bring a favorite book and a new book your kids have never read.
G. Your phone is another favorite tool for keeping them happy on a flight.
A friend of mine is a musician. He always seems to be learning new tunes, new 1, and new ways of making music in cool ways. At the weekends, he 2 to go into Central Park in the center of Nagoya during the daytime where lots of bands 3 . Some of these bands are really good, but some of them are quite 4. One of the reasons why my friend likes watching all the bands is that they are free! And as he says to me, "5 expensive things don't necessarily mean that they're good, free things don't necessarily mean they have no 6. You have to listen and look yourself and7what is valuable for you. And 8, as you listen and look, you may learn different things. "
So my friend goes to the park every week when the weather is fine, and he says he learns9 from every single band! When he watches and listens to the really good bands, he learns new concertos from the 10 and cool rhythms from the drummers. I guess that it's not 11that you can learn a lot by watching 12performs. But what impress me are my friend's words—You can learn by watching and listening to the bad performers, too. When I watch a bad performer, I think to myself — wow, that's another thing that I'm going to 13 . "
So my friend makes 14 by leaning from both good and bad performers. And he says he also finds 15and pleasure in learning and improving in ways that he never even imagined!
When the winter approaches, tanghulu, a traditional Chinese snack can be found on the street corner in northern China. Since the ancient times, it (be) very popular with natives, especially children.
Tanghulu is (common) made of haws (山楂), which are rich in vitamin C and are known (have) traditional Chinese medicine properties. According to a legend, 800 years ago, one of the emperor's (wife) was sick and had poor appetite. The doctor suggested that she eat 10 haws (boil) with sugar before dinner. She recovered within two weeks. Later, the prescription was passed on ordinary people. People put haws on a stick, dipped them in hot sugar syrup (糖浆) and dried. The syrup finally turned into a solid coating, like crystal on the surface of haws. That is they are also called bingtanghulu. origin story says that the very first tanghulu only had two haws: a small one on the top and a big one below, making it resemble a hulu, a bringer of good luck.
With sour haws and sweet sugar, the taste of tanghulu is a combination of flavors, which often (remind) people of their happy childhoods.
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Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
Although it was autumn，the snow was already beginning to fall in Tibet. Our legs were so heavy and cold that they felt like blocks of ice. Have you ever seen snowmen ride bicycles？That's what we looked like！Along the way children dressed in long wool coats stopped to look at us. In the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our water bottles froze. However，the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked wonderful. Wang Wei rode in front of me as usual. She is very reliable and I knew I didn't need to encourage her. To climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked around us，we were surprised by the view. We seemed to be able to see for miles. At one point we were so high that we found ourselves cycling through clouds. Then we began going down the hills. It was great fun especially as it gradually became much warmer. In the valleys colorful butterflies flew around us and we saw many yaks and sheep eating green grass. At this point we had to change our caps, coats, gloves and trousers for T-shirts and shorts.
In the early evening we always stop make camp. We put up tent and then we eat. After supper Wang Wei put her head down on her pillow and went to sleep but I stayed awake. At midnight the sky became clearer and the stars grew brighter. It was so quiet. There was almost no wind-only the flames of our fire for company.
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As I lay beneath the stars I thought about how far we had already traveled.
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We will reach Dali in Yunnan Province soon, where our cousins Dao Wei and Yu Hang will join us. We can hardly wait to see them!
