Adult Summer Reading
How to participate (参加):
Starting Saturday July1 sign at the Circulation Desk and receive a Summer Reading T-shirt! Enter a raffle ticket (彩票) for each book you read for a chance to win a weekly prize.
Read any book of your chance. The more you read, the greater your chance to win a prize! Entries must be received by Tuesday, August 22 at 9pm.
Notes：Send us a photo of yourself wearing your Summer Reading T-shit to framinghams ummerreading@ gmail. com for a chance to win a grand prize.
What you can win：
Weekly prizes will be drawn on the following days
July10- Gift card for a dozen donuts donated (捐赠) by Cael Bagel
July 17- ﹩5 gift card donated by Mad Willes
July 24- ﹩5 gift card donated by Mad Willes
July31- ﹩10 gift card to Barnes and Noble donated by the Friends of the Framingham Library
August7 ﹩10 gift card to Barnes and Noble donated by the Friends of the Framingham Library
August14- ﹩25 gift card donated by Zaftig Delicatessen
Grand prize
880 gift card to Barnes&Noble or a Kindle Paper white donated by the Friends of the Framingham Library
The Finale Concert
Wednesday. August 23 at 7pm Costin Room, Main Library
The grand prize winners will be drawn, followed by a concert by The Love Dogs. Enjoy ice cream donated by Ben & Jerry's Natick.
For more information: Call 508-532-5570 x4351 or visit www. Framingham library. org
I grew up in a house where the TV was seldom turned on and with one wall in my bedroom entirely lined with bookshelves, most of my childhood was spent on books I could get hold of. In fact, I grew up thinking of reading as natural as breathing and books unbelievably powerful in shaping perspectives (观点) by creating worlds we could step into, take part in and live in.
With this unshakable belief, I, at fourteen, decided to become a writer. Here too, reading became useful. Every writer starts off knowing that he has something to say, but being unable to find the right ways to say it. He has to find his own by reading widely and discovering which parts of the writers he agrees or disagrees with, or agrees with so strongly that it reshapes his own world. He cannot write without loving to read, because only through reading other people's writing can one discover what works, what doesn't and, in the end, together with lots of practice, what voice he has.
Now I am in college, and have come to realize how important it is to read fiction (文学作品). As a law student, my reading is in fact limited to subject matter-the volume (量)of what I have to read for classes every week means there is little time to read anything else. Such reading made it all the clearer to me that I live in a very small part in this great place called life. Reading fiction reminds me that there is life beyond my own. It allows me to travel across the high seas and along the Silk Road, all from the comfort of my own armchair, to experience, though secondhand, exciting experiences that I wouldn't necessarily be able to have in my lifetime.
Have you ever heard someone say, "breakfast is the most important meal of the day", or give you advice about why it's vital to start the day with a healthy breakfast? It seems that this meal, for many of us, is necessary for our day to start well, but is it really that important?
The word "breakfast" comes from "breaking the fast"— the idea of ending the period in which we don't eat during the night. The regeneration process that takes place while we sleep consumes some of our natural food reserves. Breakfast gives us an opportunity to replenish those reduced stores of things like protein and calcium. So, in that way, a healthy breakfast makes sense.
There are also many often-quoted studies which seem to connect a state of being overweight with not eating breakfast. In fact, it leads many health experts to advise a healthy breakfast to not only control but also lose weight. In a US study, 50,000 people were monitored over seven years, and those who ate a healthy breakfast were found to have a lower BMI (体重指数), which seems to suggest that breakfast may indeed help people maintain a healthy weight.
But it might not be as simple as that. Alexandra Johnstone, professor of appetite research at the University of Aberdeen, suggests those who do not have breakfast might be less aware of healthy diets and nutrition, and people who eat breakfast might have a healthier lifestyle overall exercising and not smoking, for example. And he also points out that with the rise in popularity of intermittent (间歇性的) fasting to lose weight, there may also be some benefits to not eating breakfast, like improving blood sugar control and lowering blood pressure.
So, while breakfast has its benefits, it might not be the most important meal. It seems that a healthy lifestyle with a balanced diet might be more important for many of us than just one single meal.
In 1969, watching the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon on TV from his parents' farm in Canada, Chris Hadfield was amazed and excited. On that day, at only nine years old, Chris made the most important decision of his life: He was going to be an astronaut.
There wasn't even a training program in Canada to become an astronaut, but Chris was determined. He spent a great deal of time studying and fixing engines. After school he joined the Canadian army where he learned to fly many different types of planes. Chris did a lot of research for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States and had special training. Finally, in 1995, he rode his first rocket into space.
Chris became the first Canadian astronaut to walk in space, and went on a number of space missions throughout his career. The most memorable was his five-month stay on the International Space Station (ISS) as commander, between December 2012 and May 2013. He posted on social media thousands of photos of Earth and videos of himself explaining how things work in zero gravity. His followers could watch him sleeping, brushing his teeth, washing his hands, or preparing "space" snacks in zero gravity, which turned him into a social media phenomenon.
Today, Chris travels the world giving talks about his work. He once said, "Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become. "
We are taught from childhood that warming up is a must in preparation for any exercise. It allows us to prepare our muscles for the strain (拉力) we are about to place on them and prevent injury. These all prepare for an effective workout.
It prevents dizziness, helps return the heart rate back to normal and prevents chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). Also known as "blood pooling", CVI occurs when the blood in blood vessels (血管) expands during prolonged exercise, making it difficult for it to return to the heart from the legs.
According to many health and fitness instructors, the total cool-down period should last 3 to 10 minutes, or until you are ready to stop. For example, if you have been working your legs, you will need to do lower body stretches or a slow walk. There are many helpful tutorials online.
The best way to measure whether you have cooled down effectively is purely based on common sense—if you feel your heart rate has reduced, that's enough. There is no research to prove stretching after a session will help reduce pain, but if you feel it helps, do so.
Cooling down methods, including foam rollers, a sports massage or dry needling, are worth investigating. If the pain is there the next day, consult your doctor, and, more importantly, warm up more thoroughly next time.
A. It is down to personal preference.
B. Fast walking is the simplest exercise.
C. If you are not flexible, lower your upper body.
D. If you experience any pain when stretching, stop.
E. But cooling down is as important as warming up.
F. Areas to target depend on which part of the body you have trained.
G. More importantly, it steadily increases the heart rate and blood flow.
Manny Remilus spent a lot of time in and out of the hospital as a child. Now he is a1. And using the healing powers of music, he is trying to make the hospital a2place for patients.
When he 3 his childhood, the thing Remilus remembers most vividly is how the nurses really 4 him when he was in the hospital, which made him feel like he was at home. It really helped him forget the troubles of being in a (n)5environment, where he was not always having his family with him. 6, as he grew up, he7that he wanted to do the same thing in8.
Now, Remilus has fortunately9 his dream. Thanks to the nurses, he still recalls that time
10. And he is determined to be a good11for the kids at New York's Cohen Children's Medical Center. So he12 music as he thought it is a very powerful tool. Even an impromptu (即兴的) mini "concert" can boost the patients'13. He sings all kinds of songs to the kids, from nursery rhymes to contemporary music. He hopes his hospital bedside14inspires other nurses to bring joy to their patients.
"We are all going through tough times, so whatever it is that you find can help15you and bring you back to 100%, find that thing and do it," said Remilus.
It's easy to take your hearing for granted until it's too late.
With the wide(popular) of digital entertainment products, it is not uncommon to see people wearing headphones and listening to musicrunning in the park or using public transport. And the volume is often so(loudness) that people around them can hear the music as well.
However, doctors warn that such behavior can potentially damagehearing. "In noisy places, people tend(turn) the volume up to get the same clarity of sound. Unfortunately, that can damage the hearing people being aware of it, " said Feng Yongfeng, chief ENT physician at Beijing Tian'an Hospital.
After Spring Festival, the hospital witnessedslight increase in the number of teenagers coming in with hearing problems, Feng attributed to them wearing headphones at home for long periods during the holiday. Feng said both in-ear and overhead headphones can harm the ears and(advise) against using them for long periods. He said if you do use headphones it is worth(invest) in the highest quality you can afford.
1）比赛目的；2）主题与内容；3）参赛方式。
注意：
1）词数80词左右；
2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
It was the first week of the summer vacation, and Parisa was already ready to be back at school. Not everyone she knew liked school, but Parisa loved learning new things. Even more than that, she loved school because she got to be with her friends all day long. Parisa was an only child, and she thought it was too. quiet. at home.
Now her two best fiends in the neighborhood were out of town for two weeks and to Parisa, it seemed like two years. What would she do? Sitting on the wide front step of her house, she looked through her favorite kid magazine. The word "competition" caught her eye. "Create Your Own Magazine! "the headline read.
Parisa loved magazines, but it had never occurred to her that she could create one herself. The article said competitors must send in an eight-page magazine with handwritten articles and hand drawn pictures——nothing was printed by computer.
Parisa returned to her room and lay down on the floor next to her cat. This was what she did whenever she-needed to think of really good ideas. She closed her eyes and imagined all sorts of magazines. She imagined magazines about bikes, skating, ballet; soccer, dessert.. But after much thought, she knew what she wanted to feature (以……为特色) in her magazine——her neighborhood, for there were always interesting things. She would call it "The Tall Pines Gazette (报纸)"and fill it with news.
She found a notebook and a pen and left her room. Then she found her grandmother at the door and told her about the competition. "Granny, I'm going to be a reporter for a while, "Parisa said. "I'm going to see if there's any news. "Her grandmother smiled, "Well, good luck, honey. You do like asking questions, so I bet you won't have too much trouble finding news. "Two hours later, Parisa ran into the house. "Granny, I've got so much news that I can't fit it into eight pages! "
注意：
1）续写词数应为150左右；2）请按如下格式作答。
Parisa got down to working on her magazine.
A few weeks later, Parisa receive a package from the kid magazine.
