Best Subscription（订阅）Boxes for Families to Enjoy Together
When we're all busy with school, work, this, that and the other, we all desire more family time. We've got some of the best subscription boxes that can bring family fun for all age groups and gather the whole family together for screen-free fun.
Reading Bug Box
Price: Starts at $18.00/month
Designed for newborns on up to 13 years old, the mix of 3-4 children' books has been personalized to every child's age, reading level, and interests. Allow some of the finest book-loving experts to fill your home library with colorful tales.
Craft（手工）+ Boogie Box
Price: Starts at $24.95/month
Designed for kids aged 3-8, every box brings a mini party in the mail, sending themed boxes packed with holiday fun for the whole family. Celebrate popular and less-known holidays with a mix of stress-free DIY craft projects, a Boogie music playlist, snack recipes, party supplies and a game for everyone to enjoy.
We Craft Box
Price: Starts at $25.00/month
As one of the best subscription boxes of the year, each box is designed for kids aged 3-9 and centers around a children's storybook. No need to spend your time planning and hopping! Just open craft boxes filled with high quality materials and supplies, and get straight down to making memories.
Terra Create Craft
Price: Starts at $34.00/month
The Terra Create Craft can help you get hands-on experience with your teens for a little creative crafting. Every month brings all you'll need to make a fashionable, gender-neutral（中性的）project, ncludingmaterials, llustrated（图解） tepsandhigh quality tools.
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Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1850. Stevenson liked to regard his childhood as a golden age; in reality it was also, as he later admitted, full of unpleasant dreams，sleeplessness and feverish colds, which resulted from a lung condition.
In September 1857, Stevenson went to Mr. Henderson's School, but because of physical weakness he stayed only a few weeks and didn't return until October 1859. In October 1864, he was sent to Robert Thomson's private school. Stevenson became a student at the
University of Edinburgh from November 1867 and began half-heartedly to prepare himself for the engineering profession. In April 1871, he finally told his father he had no interest in engineering and cared for nothing but literature. His father was naturally disappointed, but he agreed that as a compromise his son should read law first. In fact, Stevenson published a historical essay in 1866 at his fathers' expense.
All through his university years, when he was looked upon as a lazy student ignoring his formal education, Stevenson was in fact reading widely and conscientiously（勤勉认真地）learning how to write by composing descriptions of what he saw and, above all, by setting himself to imitate（模仿）the way authors wrote. In this way, he learned from a wide range of authors.
A turning point in Stevenson's life came in the summer of 1873 when he met Professor Sidney Colvin and his friend Mrs. Frances Sitwell, who recognized his potential and did all they could to support him. Colvin became Stevenson's literary adviser and closest friend. In1875. he became a lawyer, but he soon gave up the profession and devoted himself to literary work. Under Colvin's influence, Stevenson's essays began to appear in magazines. From 1876, he began to write a series of essays containing light-hearted observation son life, and they became very popular.
My father loves his garden. He planted some seeds in it. But at that time, I didn't understand why working in the dirt excited him so much.
Unfortunately, in early May, my father was seriously injured in an accident. He had to stay in bed for a while. My mother had several business trips, so she couldn't take care of the garden. I didn't want my father to worry, so I said that I would take care of his garden until he recovered. I assumed that the little plants would continue to grow as long as they had water, and luckily it rained fairly often, so I didn't think much about the garden.
One Saturday morning, my father said to me, "Christine, the vegetables should be about ready to be picked. Let's have a salad today!" I went out to the garden and was upset to see that many of the lettuce leaves and carrots had been half eaten by bugs. There were hundreds of bugs all over them!
I panicked for a moment but then I quietly went to the nearest store to buy some vegetables.
When I gave the salad to him, he said, "Oh, Christine, what a beautiful salad! I can't believe the carrots are this big already. You must be taking very good care of my garden." I felt a little bit guilty.
Coming home, my mother saw the bag from the supermarket in the kitchen. I was embarrassed and I admitted, "Dad wanted a salad, but the garden was a disaster. I didn't want to disappoint him, so I went to the store." She laughed but promised to help me in the garden and weeks later I was finally able to pick some.
I carefully made a salad and took it to my father. He looked at it with a hint of a smile. "Christine, the carrots are smaller in this salad, but they taste better." Now, I better understand how putting a lot of effort into caring for something can help you appreciate the results more, however small they may be. Perhaps this was one of the reasons for my father's love of gardening.
In 1916, two girls of wealthy families, best friends from Auburn, N. Y. — Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood — traveled to a settlement in the Rocky Mountains to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. The girls had gone to Smith College. They wore expensive clothes. So for them to move to Elkhead, Colo. to instruct the children whose shoes were held together with string was a surprise. Their stay in Elkhead is the subject of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden, who is a magazine editor and Dorothy Woodruff's granddaughter. Why did they go then? Well, they wanted to do something useful. Soon, however, they realized what they had undertaken.
They moved in with a local family, the Harrisons, and, like them, had little privacy, rare baths, and a blanket of snow on their quilt when they woke up in the morning. Some mornings, Rosamond and Dorothy would arrive at the schoolhouse to find the children weeping from the cold. In spring, the snow was replaced by mud over ice.
In Wickenden's book, she expanded on the history of the West and also on feminism, which of course influenced the girls' decision to go to Elkhead. A hair-raising section concerns the building of the railroads, which entailed(牵涉) drilling through the Rockies, often in blinding snowstorms. The book ends with Rosamond and Dorothy's return to Auburn.
Wickenden is a very good storyteller. The sweep of the land and the stoicism (坚忍)of the people move her to some beautiful writing. Here is a picture of Dorothy Woodruff, on her horse, looking down from a hill top: "When the sun slipped behind the mountains, it shed a rosy glow all around them. Then a full moon rose. The snow was marked only by small animals: foxes, coyotes, mice, and varying hares, which turned white in the winter."
Friendship needs care and attention to keep it in good health. Here are five ways to sustain (保持) long-distance friendships.
·Set a regular date
Long-lasting friendships share the characteristic that both sides equally contact (联系) and share with one another. With busy schedules, squeezing in phone calls can be a challenge. .
·More isn't always merrier
Make sure you have communicated with your friend about how frequently each of you wants to be contacted and what method works best for you both. . There are alternatives to constant written communication, such as leaving voice messages or having a group chat. ·Practise empathy (共情). The friend who is remaining needs to be sensitive to all the additional time demands placed on the friend who has moved. The one in the new environment should be sympathetic to the fact that your friend may feel abandoned.
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Anniversaries and birthdays carry even more weight in long-distance friendships. Although technology might make day-to-day communication possible, extra effort goes a long way on special days. Simply keeping a diary that keeps track of friends' birthdays and other important dates will make sure nothing slips by you.
·Don't rely on technology alone
, but long-distance friendships — even close ones — may require more conscious effort to sustain. Try to seek out chances to renew friendships. How to do it? Just spend face-to-face time together whenever possible.
A. Remember important dates
B. Compensate by writing letters
C. It is also helpful for you to be a friendship keeper
D. Try to find a time that works for both of you and stick to it
E. Friends need to talk about their preferred methods of communication
F. It is easy to have a sense of connectedness through social media
G. You may be the friend who left or the one who was left behind
Due to the pandemic（流行病）, family members couldn't meet each other easily. It was particularly 1 for 99-year-old Mary O'Neill, who has been living 2 because all of her relatives live out of the state. She had to stay at 3, watching television all day. Benjamin Olson, a two-year-old boy then, was her 4. Unable to play with kids of his age, he was also 5 at home.
The unusual friendship developed 6. At first, Mary would 7 at Benjamin from her window whenever she saw the young boy in the 8. Then, she began walking slowly outside to 9 him in person. The routine eventually expanded to 10gatherings by the fence that separated the two homes. The unlikely pair even invented a socially distanced 11that Mary calls "cane (手杖) ball".
Mary came out of the house one morning, and Benjamin threw his 12toward the fence. She got her cane, reached over the 13and hit the ball toward him, and he would throw it back. That's how it 14.
When the 15changed, the two couldn't meet in the yard as regularly. But
Benjamin's mother, Sarah, kept the 16alive by frequently stopping by Mary's house with the bundled-up (包裹严实的) baby. This spring, Mary gifted Benjamin with a colorful toy truck collection that had once 17her son. The young boy returned the favor with his own 18—a pile of dirt that he carefully carried in his small hands and 19at her door.
You wouldn't 20that a 99-year-old and a 2-year-old would be friends, but they can be. And they both get a lot out of it.
Distinguished scientist Lu Yuanju（陆元九）, 101, has urged China's scientists, researchers, engineers and technicians （make）full use of their talents to contribute to the motherland and her people. "People in my generation （study）under enemy bombing and built our country from ruins," he said at his home in Beijing （late）. "My comrades（同事）and I spent our （young）in sending our country's rockets and satellites into space. Our successors have managed to place spacecraft on the moon and Mars, （accomplish）our country's thousand-year dreams of exploring the universe. I am very （hope）that our younger scientists, researchers, engineers and technicians can see their work a long-distance race, stay true to their missions, and use all their passion and energy to advance the nation's science and technology."
One of the founders of China's space industry, Lu played important role in the design and construction of the country's first satellite was lifted into orbit in April 1970.
In recognition of his service and contribution to China, Lu （award）the July 1 Medal.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出改加的词。
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限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
The new school term has just been started. I need some things for my classes. First, I have to buy six textbooks. They are such expensive that I want to buy them online if possibly. I also need a good dictionary to help me improved my writing. For my math or physics classes, I need a counter. On addition, I have to buy several notebooks to organize our homework. Finally, I will buy some color pens to mark some important point in my textbooks. If my textbooks are in good condition at an end of the term, I might able to give them to new students.
要点：1）活动的意义；2）活动的具体安排（时间、地点、人物、流程等）。
注意： 1）词数100左右；2）开头已为你写好。
Dear Wang Lei,
I am Li Hua,
Yours，
Li Hua.
