When you are about to go to a boarding school in England, there are many different questions that may come to mind. But once you look at them with some perspective(视角), you will certainly feel easy. Here is a normal boarding day.
Early Morning:
Usually boarders get up around 7: 00 am and have around an hour to take a shower and put on their uniform before breakfast.
Lessons:
Classes start at 9: 00 am and every lesson lasts for 50 minutes. After two lessons, at 10: 40 am, you'll have a short break. The next period of classes will include two more lessons.
Lunch:
Lunch is usually held around 12: 30 pm at the dining hall, where you'll join your friends to enjoy a hot dish. After an hour of lunch, you'll have three or four more lessons to attend.
Dinner:
At 5: 00 pm you will have finished your school lessons for the day. Most boarding schools in the UK offer their full boarders different kinds of hot meals to choose from.
Activities/ Sports:
All boarding schools in the UK provide many different kinds of activities for their boarders, such as football, swimming, golf or art.
Prep:
An important part of boarding school life is the supervised homework session known as "prep". Although prep might sound stressful, it's a great way for you to keep up with your studies.
Free time:
Once you have done all your classes and activities, it's time to relax.
Bedtime:
In most boarding schools, the lights go out around 10: 30 pm.
Being nervous just before you go to a boarding school is completely normal and understandable. Hopefully, being aware of the usual routine you'll be following can help you. Once you are there, you will also see how exciting life in a boarding school in England can be.
As the oldest of three children, I never had any hand-me-downs to wear like other poor kids. Instead, Mom got my wardrobe (行头) from neighborhood mothers. Imagine the fun other kids had when they saw me wearing their used clothing.
Perhaps my biggest challenge came from Charlie. As far as I was concerned, Charlie's main fun was to make fun of me. During those years, I slowly learned to hate. I hated Charlie, but I also hated myself for not being able to change my situation.
But situations do change. That chance came after high school when I joined the Navy. The Navy made me a social equal for the first time in my life, and the GI Bill gave me a college education. Hard work and a few lucky career (职业) choices finally lifted me into the middle class. I found myself living the American Dream.
One beautiful summer afternoon, my friend and I celebrated Friday in Jackson's Steak House. For the first time in almost twenty years, I saw Charlie. Not only did I see him, but he spoke to me. I could tell he didn't recognize me, but I surely recognized my childhood tormentor (摧残者). His words were short, but I'll never forget them. He said, "Sir, what kind of dressing would you like with your salad?"
The tables had turned. Charlie was calling me "Sir." While hundreds of improper ideas raced through my mind, I could only give a two-word reply: "Blue cheese." As much as I wanted to taste the sweet taste of revenge (复仇), I refused to do it. I wouldn't put another person through what I had gone through as a child. It was time to put childish things behind me and make use of the new opportunity that life had given me. I left him a good tip and I didn't say one word about recognizing him.
It is like a scene from a horror film: a spider web is several meters wide, which is home to thousands of spiders. And that was what Jason G. Goldman, an animal behavior researcher, found along a muddy path in the Peruvian Amazon jungle—the web arched from tree to tree, a structure containing too many spiders to count. They appeared to function as a society, just like ants or bees.
Anelosimus eximius, the species Goldman met in the rainforest, is not the only kind of social spiders in the world, but it does construct the biggest webs. Some can reach more than 7.6m long and 1.5m wide. A web of that size could contain as many as 50,000 individual spiders.
Anelosimus eximius was first discovered more than a century ago by a French scientist named Eugene Simon. More social spiders have been discovered since. One was found as recently as 2006.
An Anelosimus eximius colony(群体) contains adult males and females as well as youngsters, but the majority of spiders on the web are females. Males account for only between 5% and 22% of any colony's population. Social spiders work together to build, maintain and clean their webs. They work together to catch prey(猎物), and dine together when they trap a large feast. The females work together to care for the young in the colony. They feed their youngsters by vomiting(吐出) up food for them, just like mother birds.
Why did these spiders become social? Researchers have discovered three ecological(生态的) elements that often lead to cooperative(合作的) living among spiders.
Social spiders tend to feed on bigger prey, for one thing. Spiders living in places where it is difficult to hunt large or more profitable prey alone may eventually figure out that it is in their interest to work together.
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"Regardless of social class, race and age, men say they hate to shop," says Zukin, City University of New York sociology professor. "Yet when you ask them deeper questions, it turns out that they like to shop. Men generally like to shop for books, music and hardware. But if you ask them about the shopping they do for books or music, they'll say, ‘Well, that's not shopping. That's research.'"
In other words, what men and women call "buying things" and how they approach that task are different.
Women will wander through several 1,000squaremetre stores in search of the perfect party dress. Men will wander through 100 Internet sites in search of the perfect digital camcorder. Women see shopping as a social event. Men see it as a special task or a game to be won.
"Men are frequently shopping to win," says Ann, a marketing professor at Loyola University of Chicago. "They want to get the best deal. They want to get the best and latest one and if they do that, it makes them happy. When women shop, they're doing it in a way that they want everybody to be very happy," says Ann. "They're kind of shopping for love."
"Teenage girls learn to shop from their mums and elder sisters, and they also learn to shop by examining articles in magazines like Seventeen," Zukin says. "And although men's magazines such as GQ and Esquire have long had shopping articles, it's TV that has the eye of young male shoppers," say Ann and Zukin.
"Television shows are used by young men in the same way Seventeen or Lucky is used by girls," says Zukin, "to help make clothing and toiletry choices."
"Of course, there are men who love to shop and are proud of it," Ann says. And that is important no matter whether you buy a car or a frying pan. All men love to buy but don't want to get cheated. Ann adds, "There actually are men who are interested, for example, in cooking or shopping or chinaware or things around the home—they become kind of girl magnets. Women like it."
Training for a marathon (马拉松) requires careful preparation and steady, gradual increases in the length of the runs.
, buy the best-fitting running shoes you can find. No one can say which brand (牌子)will work best for you or feel best on your feet, so you have to rely on your experience and on the feel of each pair as you shop. When you have found shoes that seem right, walk in them for a few days to double-check the fit. . As always, you should stretch(伸展) at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.
During the first week, do not think about distance, but run five minutes longer each day. , it is wise to take a day off to rest. But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run. . After two weeks, start timing yourself. . Depending on the kind of race you plan to enter, you can set up a timetable for the remaining weeks before the race.
A. After six days,
B. For a good marathon runner,
C. Before you begin your training,
D. With each day, increase the distance by a half mile.
E. If they still feel good, you can begin running in them.
F. Time spent for preparation raises the quality (质量) of training.
G. Now you are ready out a goal of improving distance and time.
My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would go sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at 1. As for me, I 2both before twelve because of living close to Lake Ontario.
The last time Dad and I set sail together is really 3. It was a perfect weekend after I graduated from university. I came home and 4 Dad to go sailing. Out we set soon on the calm lake. Dad hadn't sailed for years, but everything 5 well with the tiller (舵柄) in his hands.
When we were in the middle of the lake, a 6 wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit violently. Dad was always at his best in any 7, but at this moment he 8 .
"John! 9!" he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.
In my memory he could fix any 10. He was the one I always turned to for strength and security. Before I could respond, a wave of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller 11 it was too late. Another huge wall of water turned over the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt extremely 12 of him.
I swam to Dad 13 and assisted him in climbing onto the hull (船壳) of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, Dad was a little embarrassed about his flash of 14. "It's all right, Dad. We are safe now," I comforted him.
That was the first time Dad had counted on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it was my turn to start 15 for my father.
—I don' t know I can do it if not now.
— Oh, I have never enjoyed a ______one before.
She used to sleep on the sidewalk of the Fifth Street Post Office. I could smell her before I came close. She (wear) dirty clothes and her mouth was nearly toothless. If she was not asleep, she talked to (she). What a poor old lady!
On Thanksgiving, we had lots of food (leave) over. I thought about the old lady. She might be still hungry. So I packed the food up and rode over to the Fifth Street. It was a cold night. There was hardly anyone out. But I knew she would stay at the same place and I would find her (easy). There she was, sitting against a tree near the post office. She (dress) as she always was. I went to her and said, "I've brought you some food. Would you like some turkey and apple pie? "
However, the old woman didn't seem to be very (excite) about this. She looked at me and said, "Oh, thank you very much, but someone (give) me food earlier and I'm quite full now. Why don't you take it to someone else who (need) it?"
Her manners were gracious (亲切的). I was the person who didn't know what (say). An old lady whose life was (bad) than most of us still thought about others. Why don't more of us do that?
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How to Make Our Weekends More Meaningful
Life on weekends is an important part of our daily life. How can we make our weekends more meaningful?
