Doing a bit of research before you sort your trash can make all the difference. Recycling rules differ from one city to another. Here are a few ways to help you do it better.
■Don't put your recyclables in a plastic bag.
It's not that we don't have the technology to recycle plastic bags, but it is risky to recycle them because the bags are so lightweight and flexible that they end up getting caught in the recycling equipment!
Your best option is to bring your plastic bags to a drop-off recycling center where it has the right equipment to recycle them.
■You can recycle plastic caps together with bottles.
In the past, we were told to separate the cap from the bottle when recycling. Bottles are made from #1 plastic while their caps #5 plastic. They are at different melting temperatures and need to be processed separately. But now, advanced machines have made it easier to separate bottles and caps.
At present, what you need to do is leave the plastic bottle cap on the bottle and ensure the bottle is free of all liquids before throwing it into the bin.
■You can't recycle a pizza box.
Although cardboard itself is recyclable, pizza boxes are not. Why? It all comes down to the oil. When you place oily cardboard into a recycling bin, you run the risk of polluting clean, recyclable things. And an entire pack of polluted recyclables can cost more.
But if only a small part of your box is oily, pull that piece off the box and throw just that piece away while the rest of the box can then be recycled.
I know what you're thinking: pizza? For breakfast? But the truth is that you can have last night's leftovers in the a.m. if you want to.
I know lots of women who skip breakfast, and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it. Some say they don't have time, others think they're "saving" calories, still others just don't like breakfast food.
But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you're trying to lose weight. "Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all," says Katherine Brooking, R. D., who developed the supereasy eating plan for this year's "SELF CHALLENGE". And even pizza can be healthy if it's loaded with vegetables, and you stick to one small piece.
Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating later in the day. Researchers at the University of Southern California found that breakfast skippers have a bigger chance of gaining weight than those who regularly have a morning meal.
So eat something in the morning, anything. I know plenty of friends who end up having no breakfast altogether, and have just coffee or orange juice. I say, try heating up last night's leftovers—it may sound crazy, but if it works for you, do it! I find if I tell myself, "You can always eat it tomorrow," I put away the leftovers instead of eating more that night. Try it…you may save yourself some prebedtime calories. And watch your body gain the fatburning effects.
A potato farmer, Cliff Young took part in a Sydney to Melbourne ultramarathon (超级马拉松) race in1983. Coached by his mother who was 81 at the time, Cliff Young started the marathon with work shoes and work clothes.
Competing against world-class marathon runners who were backed up by big sports companies and spent hundreds of hours preparing for the race, Cliff Young's training method was just running after his sheep. He told the organizers he could run after his sheep for a few days and that he could surely compete with other runners.
The ultramarathon generally took 5 days to compete and this potato farmer's decision seemed suicidal. In fact, some tried to stop him from running the super-difficult race because they thought Cliff Young could die because of the heat and fatigue(疲劳). After all, he was 61 years old!
To cut the story short, Cliff Young managed to finish the race. While the young racers slept, he continued to race throughout the night. The young athletes left him far behind until the very last night where he finally led the marathon. Not only did Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, survive the race, but he even managed to win the marathon and actually broke the race record by 9 hours! He even gave away his prize money to the rest of the runners after him.
After the win, he continued to run in many ultramarathon races and even set standards in the world of endurance racing. His running style, named "The Young Shuffle" is a famous running technique used by many runners in the world today.
Cliff Young showed that being old is not a problem, and being a champion doesn't mean you need to have super-human strength, just super-human will!
In many places, a moonless night sky is no longer totally black. Artificial lighting can give the night a lasting light. This so-called light pollution can affect animals. Even moderate light pollution, a new study finds, can roughly double how long a house sparrow infected with West Nile Virus (WNV) remains at high risk of spreading disease. If bitten by a mosquito, that virus can now spread to other animals, including people.
"In the United States, house sparrows are about as widespread as artificial lighting. So they made a useful test species in a new first-of-its-kind study," says Meredith Kernbach. Her team used these birds to test whether light at night might affect the spread of the West Nile Virus.
Kernbach based much of her lab test on real-world conditions. In the study, some house sparrows in the lab spent the night in an area that was dimly (昏暗地) lit. These birds were slower in fighting off West Nile Virus infections than those that spent the night in full darkness.
WNV needs a mosquito to spread from bird to bird, or from bird to human. If a mosquito doesn't pick up enough viruses from the blood of an infected animal, its new victim might be able to avoid getting sick. House sparrows kept under a dim night light typically had enough viruses in their blood to be a source of virus for at least four days, Kernbach reports. House sparrows in full darkness had enough viruses to spread the disease only for two days.
What light does to the birds is only part of the story, points out Davide Dominon, a physiologist at the Nether-lands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen. "Researchers will need to look for effects on the virus itself," he says. "And, of course, on the mosquitoes."
Who Writes the President's Speeches?
The president of the United States must be an orator. The president gives an annual address on the State of the Union and speaks at the inauguration and other special events. In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln spoke fewer than 300 words, but those words have become memorable. Franklin D. Roosevelt set the standard for later presidents in his 30 "fireside chats", which aired on the radio and dealt with the Great Depression and World War Ⅱ.
Beginning with George Washington, American presidents often sought assistance with the content and wording of their speeches, although they may have done the writing themselves.
The first President to assign the task of speech-writing to an assistant, however, was Calvin Coolidge(1923-1929), the laconic president whose nickname was "Silent Cal". The assistant's name was Judson Welliver. (Today, there is a bipartisan organization for former presidential speech - writers, the Judson Welliver Society. ) Since the middle of the twentieth century, the role of such speech-writers has expanded; the Executive branch now includes an Office of Speech-writing as part of its Department of Communications, Speech-writing and Media Affairs.
In his inaugural speech, John F. Kennedy urged Americans "Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country". George H. W. Bush, in his inaugural speech, imagined community volunteers and organizations as "a thousand points of light".
The process of drafting a presidential speech is long and complicated, and different presidents make different contributions. Some write large parts of the text and invite criticism from assistants and advisers; others ask speech-writers to draft a speech in its entirety, and then they edit it to their own satisfaction. The final product, whatever the process, must "sound" like the person who speaks the words. As one speech writer recently said, "Our concern was not to writer a good speech, but to write a good speech that is also his speech."
A. Presidential speeches are a part of American history.
B. Excellent writing skills are as available in business as they are in government.
C. As time went on, the particular expertise of professional writers became more and more important.
D. When people hear a president speak, they rarely think about others helping to shape the presentation.
E. It is the writer, moreover, who often drafts the memorable words by which the public identifies a modern president.
F. In any case, speech-writing is a back-and-forth process involving specialists in the subject area addressed, the president's personal advisers, and (of course) the president.
G. Both of these phrases originate with the gifted men and women who worked as the president's speech-writers.
Many people seem to agree that great things happen the minute we step outside of our comfort zone. For me, one of the most important things we should always remember is that growth and 1 can't coexist.
Personal development expert Napoleon Hill once said, "Whatever the mind can believe, it can achieve 2 how many times you may have 3 in the past or how great your aims and hopes may be." This statement is 4 because it reminds us that we're the only ones who can be 5 for how far we'll go. To reach any 6, we're usually required to 7 the way we do things.
However, stepping outside of our comfort zone is probably the most important step toward 8 real changes. But persistence (坚持) and continuing to move forward are 9 important, as it's extremely easy to slide back into old 10 without realizing it.
For long, I wanted to live in Argentina, so halfway through my bachelor's degree, I bought a one-way ticket there. While I was there, I was able to 11 the last two years of my degree online before flying home for graduation. I still live in Argentina now, and I can proudly say that taking the 12 steps to make it a 13 was one of the most important things I ever did. Certainly, I'm not suggesting we should all buy one-way tickets to foreign countries and just see what 14. But it's important for us to 15 what we want and try to bring our 16 to life.
Living in a comfort zone can trick us into 17 we have enough time, when years can fly by without us having accomplished what we really wanted to. We won't 18 have tomorrow to do what we could have done today. So, accept the discomfort and allow it to 19 you to try new things. You never know what you could be missing out on by remaining 20.
The University of Birmingham, UK, announces that it will accept the Gaokao exam for high-flying Chinese students (wish) to join its undergraduate courses in 2020. High school students complete the National Higher Education Entrance Examination, or Gaokao, top grades can apply for direct entry into Birmingham degree programs without first completing a foundation year.
Gaokao, usually (hold) across China in early June, is (increasing) accepted by universities in Australia, the USA, Canada and mainland Europe. Birmingham will only be considering high quality students who achieve a minimum 80% Gaokao score and meet additional academic and English language (require).
Professor Jon Frampton, Director of the University of Birmingham's China Institute said, "I am(delight) that the University is now accepting the Gaokao. This gives the (bright) and best Chinese students opportunity to move straight into the first year of our undergraduate programs and experience the benefits of studying at a (globe) Top 100 university.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（╲）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
The fastest train in the world, the Transrapid Maglev, run between Shanghai's Pudong Airport or Longyang Station in downtown Shanghai. Travelling at a speed of over 400 kilometre per hour, the train can complete the 30-kilometre journey for eight minutes. Maglev means "magnetically levitated". The Transrapid Maglev is a high-speed train use magnetic levitation technology. Magnetically levitated trains travel in a vacuum between two magnets. There are no rails and no noise. They travel very fastly and more importantly, it use less energy. On November 12, 2003, the Maglev has reached a speed of 501 kilometres per hour on the track between Longyang Station and Pudong, new world record speed for a train at that time. But the experiment carry out on 1st September last year broke the record.
1）助残的必要性;
2）自己所做的事;
3）感悟与期望。
注意：1）词数100左右;
2）可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
