Every year, the biggest and the best garden designers get together to create the Chelsea Flower Show, providing inspiration, trendsetting ideas and a glimpse of how our gardens might look next year.
On Trend: Green garden
Sustainable gardens have become a big trend in our towns and cities. Joe Swift inspired gardeners with his gold-winning design for the Homebase Teenage Cancer Trust that featured drought-buster (治理) architectural planting.
It could cope with even the driest conditions typically found in places where water is precious. His large pools of water had a cooling effect on people and plants.
On Trend: Space-saving Herbs
The Brewin Dolphin garden designed by Cleve West and Steve Swatton followed the Arts and Craft tradition，showing the beautiful strong lines of neatly beech (山毛榉) among its soft herbs planting. It proved to be a style that has never gone out of fashion.
You don't need a large garden to have a piece of topiary (树木造型). These evergreens, which can be boxed or grown in pots, are easy to cut into shapes, such as balls, cubes and pyramids.
On Trend: Rhododendrons (杜鹃花) Woodland
Chris Beardshaw's gold-winning design was packed with rhododendrons woodland bushes. It paid tribute (致敬) to Furzey Gardens in Hampshire, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year．
Rhododendrons might not be the trendiest choice but they deserve a comeback.
On Trend: Drought Buster
The Herbert Smith garden for Water Aid was inspired by the work of the charity and the transforming power of clean water.
Using water wisely is today's issue, so invest in water butts (积水桶) to collect rainwater and gather waste water from baths, sinks and washing machines.
One of the greatest contributors to the first Oxford English Dictionary was also one of its most unusual. In 1879, Oxford University in England asked Prof. James Murray to serve as editor for what was to be the most ambitious dictionary in the history of the English language. It would include every English word possible and would give not only the definition but also the history of the word and quotations showing how it was used.
This was a huge task, so Murray had to find volunteers from Britain, the United States, and the British colonies to search every newspaper, magazine, and book ever written in English. Hundreds of volunteers responded, including William Chester Minor. Dr. Minor was an American surgeon who had served in the Civil War and was now living in England. He gave his address as "Broadmoor, Crowthorne, Berkshire, "50 miles from Oxford.
Minor joined the army of volunteers sending words and quotations to Murray. Over the next 17 years, he became one of the staff's most valued contributors.
But he was also a mystery. In spite of many invitations, he would always decline to visit Oxford. So in 1897, Murray finally decided to travel to Crowthorne himself. When he arrived, he found Minor locked in a book-lined cell at the Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
Murray and Minor became friends, sharing their love of words. Minor continued contributing to the dictionary, sending in more than 10, 000 submissions in 20 years. Murray continued to visit Minor regularly, sometimes taking walks with him around the asylum grounds. In 1910, Minor left Broadmoor for an asylum in his native America. Murray was at the port to wave goodbye to his remarkable friend.
Minor died in 1920, seven years before the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was completed. The 12 volumes defined 414, 825 words, and thousands of them were contributions from a very scholarly and devoted asylum patient.
Kids always have many doubts like: why do people have to die? Are mistakes always bad? Can you be happy and sad at the same time? Children often say that they lie awake at night thinking about things like why the world has the colors as it does, the nature of time and whether dreams are real. These are not the kinds of questions that can be answered by googling them or asking Siri.
When children raise these questions, adults tend to respond with explanations that try to resolve the issue, at least temporarily. It's natural to attempt to comfort a kid who is feeling puzzled by the world. But simple explanations may not be what the child wants. Sometimes, kids simply want to talk about their questions and thoughts.
Most kids start wondering about big questions almost as soon as they learn to speak, and they continue to think about them throughout childhood. Being full of curiosity about things that most adults take for granted, children all over the world are wide open to the mysteries in human life. But as they get older, kids ask questions less and less.
While children do need adults' help and guidance, parents don't always have to be in position of the experts providing the answers. Thinking with children about their bigger questions can make way for a more mutual kind of interactions. Because these kinds of questions tend not to have settled and final answers, discussions about them allow parents and children to wonder together. In this way, adults feel less pressure to be the experts.
Most of children have few long-held assumptions about bigger questions. Kids often suggest original and creative ways of looking at them. Talking with kids about what they are thinking without always feeling compelled to offer answers can help them explore their own concerns and ideas.
Coaches have always taken into account the condition of players when scheduling training sessions. Now with the help of artificial intelligence, they can calculate more precisely the probability that individual athletes will get injured during the next match, the next week or the next month. "We follow a team for an entire season, recording GPS data during training and matches, "Rossi explains. He then uses machine learning to try to detect patterns. "This gives us the probability that a player will get injured in the next days or next weeks."
These data reveal an athlete's workload-how often they train and how intensely. Just enough training can pave the way to medals, but too much puts pressure on the body and can lead to injuries.
Sport is gradually entering a new era, in which artificial intelligence might act as an assistant coach. Algorithms (算法) could enable a teenager to train smarter and avoid a career-ending injury, or help a professional athlete to compete for a few years longer. But the technology's success depends, in part, on the ability of scientists to convince coaches to include data in their decision process.
The teams that McHugh has worked with have seen a reduction in injuries of between 5% and 40%. Yet not every coach is happy to join forces with AI. "Coaches sometimes don't feel good, because it seems like trying to substitute the human element," Rossi says. But in reality, data is only a tool. "The interpretation of the results, the change of the training load, is done by coaches," he says.
McHugh agrees that people have to make the final call. "Once the injury probability for an athlete on a given day is output from an injury model, the athlete or coach must then decide whether the predicted risk is acceptable or not, usually depending on the context, " he says. There might be a big game that day, and the layer might be especially important to the learn. "Even though the predicted injury probability be as high as 70%, the coco may be willing to take that chance," he says.
The Best Sleeping Positions for Improving Your Health
Most of us spend between 6 and 8 hours asleep every night, so it makes sense that the position we lie in during this period can have a big effect on our health. , and which ones should we try to avoid?
Lie on the stomach
Believe it or not, this is the worst position to sleep in. Lying this way night after night can cause aches and pains as your spine (脊柱) is not in a natural position. It is also not good for possible wrinkles. The only good factor for sleeping on your stomach is that it can decrease snoring (打鼾).
Sleeping on your side is overall a pretty good position health-wise. It keeps your spine in a natural position which is great for preventing neck and back pain. It can improve heart circulation and blood flow, and it can also reduce acid reflux (逆流). So this position is specially recommended to pregnant women, particularly if they lie on their left sides.
Sleep on your back
. It allows your head, neck and spine to be kept in a more natural position, reducing any potential pains and aches. Wrinkles aren't a worry with this position as your face is not pressed into your pillow all night. People think it is the best position to sleep in although it may cause loud snoring and heavy breathing.
A. Be a side sleeper
B. Sleep like a little baby
C. What time do you sleep every night
D. This is because of your pillow being against your face all night
E. However, it won't do ageing skin or breasts any favours
F. This is by far the best position for most people to sleep in
G. So which is the best to sleep in
What's the difference between having a dream and making the dream come true? Hard work and perseverance. Wanda Smith always wanted to be a1, but sometimes meeting life's demanding realities can mean a dream2.
Smith, a mother of three, had to care for her mom, 3her family responsibilities, she took jobs as a bus monitor and gatekeeper for Brenham Independent School District in Texas. The time was4for her. But rather than let her dream die, at the age of 37, with the5of her husband, she added night classes to her6. Nine years on, she7graduated with a bachelor's degree from Sam Houston State University.
Smith's story came full circle when she was8as a first-grade teacher back at Brenham Elementary School. 9, her mom and beloved sisters didn't live to see her accomplishment, but she knows they would have been10of her. "When I stand in the front of my classroom, I know I am 11my dream finally, " Smith said during a show celebrating Teachers' Day.
During the pandemic, as some of her students12to take up distance learning, Smith stepped up to help them. She risked her life to deliver schoolwork to students to ensure that the learning could be13as smoothly as possible, which really14her students and their parents.
It's no wonder Smith's kids15her. In a special surprise ceremony, they shouted their16and held up big colorful signs17their love. Smith's life is an example as well as a (n)18for us. With great determination and19, she graduated from cleaning classrooms to20classrooms.
With exotic Silk-Road themed music performed by musicians from the China National Traditional Orchestra, a grand art exhibition titled Silk Road: Artists' Rendezvous kicked off the afternoon of Aug 15 at the National Art Museum of China.
(attract)about 40 foreign diplomats and representatives from several international organizations, the exhibit presents over 190 works by artists from 112 countries in the Belt and Road Initiative. The exibit also (include) an interactive, immersive unit where visitors may click a mouse or use (they) ingers on a touch screen to change digital versions of the artwork.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism (invite) influential artists from Europe, Africa, America, Oceania and Asia for field trips, residency programs and workshops across China over the last decade. Drawing inspiration from their China experiences, these artists have created a wide (various) of works, including oil paintings, traditional Chinese ink paintings, sculptures and mixed media.
"The Silk Road was important over the centuries. It carried not only silk but also knowledge and cultures, " said Shahbaz Khan, is the director of UNESCO Beijing, at the opening ceremony.
The Silk Road is invaluable world heritage to be celebrated for reminding the world of the importance of cultural diversity and cross-cultural communication, Khan said, adding "cultural and artistic creations, no matter their specific (form), are all conducive to innovation and sustainable development in a country".
Khan suggested that the exhibit (bring) to countries in the Belt and Road Initiative.
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。
There is an extremely annoyed phenomenon that much students litter in our school. Not only is it bad for our healthy but it also makes our school less and less beautiful. Therefore, our school is going to hold an activity calls "Stop Littering in Our School". The activity will sure leave an unforgettable impression on those who take part in. In the activity, we will first to walk around the school to see what serious the littering problem is. After that, we will be divided into groups to pick up rubbishes. Through this activity, we are expected to realize the importance of protecting the living environment in our school but stop littering in our school.
中学生做家务情况统计图
1）描述中学生做家务的状况；
2）造成此状况的原因；
3）你的观点。
注意：1）词数100左右（短文的题目和首句已给出，但不计入总词数）；
2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
The Importance of Doing Housework
It's widely known that Labor Education will be included in the education of middle schools in China.
