Music
Opera at Music Hall: 1243 Elm Street. The season runs June through August, with additional performances in March and September. The Opera honors Enjoy the Arts membership discounts. Phone: 241-2742.
//www.cityopera.com.
Chamber Orchestra: The Orchestra plays at Memorial Hall at 1406 Elm Street, which offers several concerts from March through June. Call 723-1182 for more information.
//www.chamberorch.com.
Symphony Orchestra: At Music Hall and Riverbend. For ticket sales, call 381-3300. Regular season runs September through May at Music Hall in summer at Riverbend.
//www.symphony.org/home.asp.
College Conservatory of Music (CCM): Performances are on the main campus(校园) of the university, usually at Patricia Cobbett Theater. CCM organizes a variety of events, including performances by the well-known LaSalle Quartet, CCM's Philharmonic Orchestra, and various groups of musicians presenting Baroque through modern music. Students with I.D. cards can attend the events for free. A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183.
//www.ccm.uc.edu/events/calendar.
Riverbend Music Theater: 6295 Kellogg Ave. Large outdoor theater with the closest seats under cover (price difference).Big name shows all summer long! Phone:232-6220.
//www.riverbendmusic.com.
Many people have difficulty in getting up in the morning. This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.
During the hours when you work, you may say that you're "hot". That's true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak (顶峰). For some people the peak comes during the morning. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar words as: "Get up, John! You'll be late for work again!" The possible explanation for the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.
You can't change your energy cycle
but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you're sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. If so, staying up later than you want to may counteract your cycle in some way. If our energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won't change your cycle, but you'll get up steam and work better at your low point.
Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a comfortable yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed for a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before.
When I teach yoga (瑜伽), I usually announce "Phones off and at the back of the room" at the beginning of class. Recently, I forgot and had to whisper to a student texting during class to turn off her phone. She looked displeased but did so. But two days later, in another class, I was met with resistance from a young woman who completely refused.
"But I'm on call. I might have to jump up and run out of class."
"Then maybe this isn't the best place for you to be tonight."
That response got me an angry and unfriendly look. But when she came back the next week, there was no phone and she was much more present.
Present is what I'm asking my students to be. Present to themselves and their yoga experience. You cannot be present to yoga if you are texting or emailing or anxiously awaiting a call. And neither can anyone around you. Definitely, if one phone is out, many pairs of eyes are drawn to it. And then other phones start to appear. Forget the fact that you're missing the class you paid for; you're at risk of losing your balance and hurting yourself or someone else due to inattention, or disturbing someone else's moment of peace and stillness with the clicking of your keys.
So please, do yourself and everyone around you, this teacher included, a favor and turn your phone off and put it away before you unroll your yoga mat. If you truly are on call, think hard before you come to class.
Be present for yourself, wherever you need to be.
Every man wants his son to be somewhat of a clone, not in features but in footsteps. As he grows you also age, and your dreams become more unachievable. You begin to realize that your boy, in your footsteps, could probably finish what you hoped for. But footsteps can be muddied and they can go off in different directions.
My son Jody has hated school since day one in kindergarten. Science projects waited until the last moment. Book reports weren't written until the deadline.
I've been a newspaperman all my adult life. My daughter is a university graduate working toward her master's degree (硕士学位) in English. But Jody? When he entered the tenth grade he became a "vo-tech" student (技校学生). They're called "motorheads" by the rest of the student body.
When a secretary in my office first called him "motorhead" I was shocked. "Hey, he's a good kid," I wanted to say. "And smart, really."
I learned later that motorheads are, indeed, different. They usually have dirty hands and wear dirty work clothes. And they don't often make school honor rolls (光荣榜).
But being the parent of a motorhead is itself an experience in education. We who work in clean shirts in offices don't have the abilities that motorheads have. I began to learn this when I had my car crashed. The cost to repair it was about $ 800. "Hey, I can fix it," said Jody. I doubted it, but let him go ahead, for I had nothing to lose.
My son, with other motorheads, fixed the car. They got parts from a junk yard, and ability from vo-tech classes. The cost was $ 25 instead of $ 800.
Since that first repair job, a broken air-conditioner, a non-functioning washer and a non-toasting toaster have been fixed. Neighbors and co-workers trust their car repairs to him.
These kids are happiest when doing repairs. They joke and laugh and are living in their own relaxed world. And their minds are bright despite their dirty hands and clothes.
I have learned a lot from my motorhead: publishers need printers, engineers need mechanics, and architects need builders. Most important, I have learned that fathers don't need clones in footsteps or anywhere else.
My son may never make the school honor roll. But he made mine.
After entering high school, you must wonder how to study well. Here are some good skills for you.
Go to class.
If you want to do well at school. going to class is the first step in studying well. If you miss classes, you will miss what the teacher thinks is important. As a result, you'll miss what is the most likely to appear on the test.
Take good notes.
Try not to write down everything. Write down unfamiliar terms. After class, review your notes as soon as possible. You can fill in details that you missed and review the material while it is still fresh on your mind.
If you are struggling(努力挣扎) in class, talk to your teacher. He or she may be able to give you more help or tutor you before or after class. Most teachers have little sympathy(同情) for students who just become worried about failing during the last few weeks of the grading period.
Take part in class discussions
In order to learn more in class, it is helpful to take part in class discussions. Asking questions and having eye contact with your teachers and classmates can increase your participation(参与) and your focus during the class discussion. This helps you make your point clear in class.
Form study groups
Make sure that everyone is familiar with the material because you do not want to spend time re-teaching material to people who do not understand it. Be careful! Sometimes group sessions can become chatting sessions.
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A. Don't be late for your class. B. Talk to your teacher if you need help. C. You should write down all the new terms. D. So if you want to study well, go to every class. E. Get students together who want to do well in class. F. All you need is to put the main points in your own words. G. If the material is difficult, you'd better read it before class. |
A Race against Death
It was a cold January in 1925 in North Alaska. The town was cut off from the rest of the world because of the heavy snow.
On the 20th of that month, Dr. Welch1a sick boy, Billy, and knew he had diphtheria, a deadly infectious (传染的) disease mainly affecting children. The children of Nome would be 2if it struck the town. Dr. Welch needed medicine as soon as possible to stop other kids from getting sick.3, the closest supply was over 1,000 miles away, in Anchorage.
How could the medicine get to Nome? The town's4was already full of ice, so it couldn't come by ship. Cars and horses couldn't travel on the5roads. Jet airplanes and big trucks didn't exist yet.
6January 26, Billy and three other children had died. Twenty more were7. Nome's town officials came up with a(n)8. They would have the medicine sent by9from Anchorage to Nenana. From there, dogsled (狗拉雪橇) drivers — known as "mushers"—would10it to Nome in a relay.
The race began on January 27. The first musher, Shannon, picked up the medicine from the train at Nenana and rode all night.11he handed the medicine to the next musher, Shannon's face was black from the extreme cold.
On January 31, a musher named Seppala had to12a frozen body of water called Norton Sound. It was the most13part of the journey. Norton Sound was covered with ice, which could sometimes break up without warning. If that happened, Seppala might fall into the icy water below. He would14, and so would the sick children of Nome. But Seppala made it across.
A huge snowstorm hit on February 1. A musher named Kaasen had to brave this storm. At one point, huge piles of snow blocked his15. He had to leave the trail (雪橇痕迹) to get around them. Conditions were so bad that it was impossible for him to16the trail again. The only hope was Balto, Kaasen's lead dog. Balto put his nose to the ground,17to find the smell of other dogs that had traveled on the trail. If Balto failed, it would mean disaster for Nome. The minutes passed by. Suddenly, Balto began to18. He had found the trail.
At 5:30 am on February 2, Kaasen and his dog19in Nome. Within minutes, Dr. Welch had the medicine. He quickly gave it to the sick children. All of them recovered.
Nome had been20.
— Sure, we have the __________ smartphones on sale.
—Exactly, we ______ a lot of trees in the past few years.
— Oh, she's my friend Maria. She dances ______ than before.
—______, madam. What's the trouble?
During the summer vacation, I took part in 16th Natural English Contest (竞赛), in which I was listed in the top 10 and (get) valuable experience.
I never expected (go) that far. And I had never thought about standing that high on the stage
but that moment, I set out for the long ride. All I had to do was try.
Preparing for the contest, practicing a 3-minute speech, and overcoming stage fright (怯场), I spared no effort to take part in the competition.
One of my (teammate), my good friend in my school, gave me lots of encouragement and advice during the contest. Her ideas were new and (power) and she stayed quite calm when she was fighting against her competitors. She was like my instructor, showed me how to search for related materials online and how to express my own view (clear).
Thanks to the contest and the help of (I) friend, I now feel (relax) on stage when talking.
1）表示感谢；
2）回顾Alex对你的帮助；
3）临别祝愿。
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