新疆乌鲁木齐市第61中学2022-2023学年高二下学期3月...

For Canaan Elementary's second grade in Patchogue, N.Y., today is speech day, and right now it's Chris Palaez's turn. The 8-year-old is the joker of the class. With shining dark eyes, he seems like the kind of kid who would enjoy public speaking.

But he's nervous. "I'm here to tell you today why you should … should…" Chris trips on the "-ld," a pronunciation difficulty for many non-native English speakers. His teacher, Thomas Whaley, is next to him, whispering support. "…Vote for …me …" Except for some stumbles, Chris is doing amazingly well. When he brings his speech to a nice conclusion, Whaley invites the rest of the class to praise him.

A son of immigrants, Chris stared learning English a little over three years ago. Whaley recalls (回想起) how at the beginning of the year, when called upon to read, Chris would excuse himself to go to the bathroom.

Learning English as a second language can be a painful experience. What you need is a great teacher who lets you make mistakes. "It takes a lot for any student," Whaley explains, "especially for a student who is learning English as their new language, to feel confident enough to say, 'I don't know, but I want to know.'"

Whaley got the idea of this second-grade presidential campaign project when he asked the children one day to raise their hands if they thought they could never be a president. The answer broke his heart. Whaley says the project is about more than just learning to read and speak in public. He wants these kids to learn to boast (夸耀) about themselves.

"Boasting about yourself, and your best qualities," Whaley says, "is very difficult for a child who came into the classroom not feeling confident."

    Want to explore new cultures, meet new people and do something worthwhile at the same time? You can do all the three with Global Development Association (GDA). Whatever stage of life you're at, wherever you go and whatever project you do in GDA, you'll create positive changes in a poor and remote community(社区).

    We work with volunteers of all ages and backgrounds. Most of our volunteers are aged 17-24. Now we need volunteer managers aged 25-75. They are extremely important in the safe and effective running of our programmes. We have such roles as project managers, mountain leaders, and communication officers.

    Depending on which role you choose, you could help to increase a community's access to safe drinking water, or help to protect valuable local cultures. You might also design an adventure challenge to train young volunteers.

    Not only will you help our young volunteers to develop personally, you'll also learn new skills and increase your cultural awareness. You may have chances to meet new people who'll become your lifelong friends.

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    GDA ensures that volunteers work with community members and local project partners where our help is needed. All our projects aim to promote the development of poor and remote communities.

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    There is more of a connection between food and culture than you may think. On an individual level, we grow up eating the food of our culture. It becomes a part of who we are. Many associate food from our childhood with warm feelings and good memories and it ties us to our families, holding a special and personal value for us. Food from our family often becomes the comfort food we seek as adults in times of frustration and stress.

    On a large scale, traditional food is an important part of culture. It also operates as an expression of culture identity. Immigrants bring it wherever they go, and it is a symbol of pride for their culture and means of coping with homesickness.

    Many immigrants open their own restaurants and serve traditional dishes. However, the food does not remain exactly the same. Some materials needed to make traditional dishes may not be readily available, so the taste and flavor can be different from what they would prepare in their home countries. Additionally, immigrants do not only sell dishes to people from the same countries as them, but to people from different countries. Therefore, they have to make small changes about the original dishes to cater to a wider range of customers. Those changes can create new flavors that still keep the cultural significance of the dishes.

    We should embrace our heritage（传统）through our culture's food but also become more informed about other cultures by trying their food. It is important to remember that each dish has a special place in the culture to which it belongs, and is special to those who prepare it. Food is a window into culture, and it should be treated as such.

"Wow, this carrot is shaped like a spaceship!"

As a child, I'd always been drawn to strangely shaped vegetables in the produce aisle: horseshoe eggplants, flat bell peppers, three-legged carrots...but as time passed, TV ads and perfect supermarket displays taught me that tomatoes should always be perfectly round, carrots straight and apples bright red. I was taught that what looked nice must taste nice.

Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) acts much like Vogue and Cosmopolitan, setting unrealistic beauty expectations on how produce ought to look, down to the exact color, shape and size. But appearance is a poor indicator of flavor, nutritional value and even freshness. Food stylists in TV ads have conditioned us to see pretty as delicious and nutritious. However, Linda Hagen, a professor of consumer behavior from the University of Southem Califomia, denies the connection between beauty and nutrition, explaining that it is just another marketing strategy used by food companies to increase sales.

In the United States alone, an estimated six billion pounds of ugly produce is left unharvested, unsold and uneaten every year. That's enough food to feed three million people for a whole year!

The discarding of imperfect produce is not just wasteful; it also contributes significantly to climate change. Rotting produce creates large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas 28 times more effective than carbon dioxide. When supermarkets toss away an ill-shaped tomato, they are also tossing away all of the fertilizer, water and energy that went into growing, storing and transporting that tomato.

I've decided to take this issue into my own hands. Working with local farms, markets, meal centers and food banks, I have rescued over 4, 500 pounds of edible, nutritious, often organic, ugly produce in my city. However, helping can be a lot easier than driving from farm to farm every weekend.

Does Drinking Alcohol Make You Gain Weight?

If you are trying to maintain a healthy weight, the first step is to look at what you're eating regularly and assess whether it helps you meet your nutritional goals. What you drink is a big factor as well, so there are a few things you may want to know about alcohol intake and body composition.

Alcohol's high in calories.

In general, alcohol is high in calories. When you look at mixers like juices, soda, cream, whipped cream? or coconut milk, the calories in an alcoholic beverage can be really high.

Hormones (荷尔蒙) play a crucial role in the healthy functioning of all the body's tissues and organs. Drinking alcohol can impair the functions of the brain parts that release hormones and the functions of the tissues targeted by those hormones, which can result in a range of health issues.

Alcohol makes it harder to get quality sleep.

  However, consumption of alcohol—especially in excess—has been linked to poor sleep quality and duration. In fact, individuals who are dependent on alcohol commonly experience insomnia (失眠)symptoms.

It can make you feel hungry.

After a couple of drinks, you're more likely to grab whatever quick and easy snack without really thinking about it. First of all, alcohol can cause blood sugar levels to dip. Also, it's found that alcohol affects an area of the brain that controls appetite and this can cause intense hunger after drinking.

There's also evidence that excessive alcohol consumption has been linked to an increased risk of cancer, heart disease, mental illness, and other problems.

A. It's not unusual for people to use alcohol as a sleep aid.

B. Protein and carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram but alcohol has 7.

C. Those hunger pangs are caused by a couple of different things.

D. But it's not just about food.

E. Alcohol keeps your body from burning fat.

F. Those intense hunger cues can make you reach for high-calorie foods.

G. It messes with your hormones.

TikTok, a social media app dedicated to short-form videos, has emerged as a major firer of food trends — from mushroom coffee and pancake cereal to cloud bread and feta pasta. But another trend, the #whatieatinaday trend, is dominating TikTok, which is nearing 9 billion 1.

Even though #whatieatinaday posts may be 2 to serve as healthy inspiration for others, there's a growing feeling that these video diaries of daily eats will likely do more harm than good — especially among young girls or people with a history of disordered eating.

The 3 message these posts send is that if you eat like them, then you can eventually look like them. Yet what someone else eats in a day doesn't mean it's right for you, since these "4" videos are not a completely accurate representation of what someone typically eats.

Often the overly stylized (程式化) meals do not 5 a nutritionally adequate diet. The posts are 6 the illusion (幻想) of an ideal day of eating, along with an ideal body size.

Younger audiences, especially girls and young women, internalize the message that they must eat like these creators to achieve and maintain not only health, but also social 7. The biggest harm with this trend is that it normalizes disordered or 8 eating behaviors. This could prevent someone struggling with an eating disorder from 9 support or treatment.

Even if the #whatieatinaday posts are displaying a 10 day of eating, the subtext message of "eat like me, and you will look like me" is harmful because people will not necessarily achieve the same body size as the 11 even if they copied their day of eating bite for bite.

12, what might be a healthy, adequate day of satisfying meals for one person may be inadequate and unsatisfying to another. Even worse, someone looking at these posts may conclude that they need to be eating half as much to 13.

People making these videos are overwhelmingly thin, young, able-bodied and white. There is a complete lack of body 14. And this encourages harmful comparisons to unrealistic body standards that are 15 to the vast majority of people. Therefore, those of us from marginalized communities are once again unable to see positive representations of our varying bodies, foods and cultural representation in these harmful posts."

A Mammoth ProjectA US company called Colossal has raised 11 million dollars to bring mammoths (猛犸象) back from extinction. Mammoths died out about 3,700 years ago but their bodies are sometimes in ice. This allows scientists to their DNA, which could hold the key to bringing mammoths back to life.

A team of scientists at Colossal plan to use information from mammoth to edit the DNA of Asian elephants — their closest living relatives. The team will focus on DNA that is linked to bushy hair and other for cold weather. These were what helped mammoths survive on the Arctic steppe — ancient chilly grasslands. By adding this DNA to egg cells from Asian elephants, they hope to create an elephant-mammoth mix, which could develop into a baby either inside a living Indian elephant or in a(n) organ.

Colossal hopes that the first set of calves could be born this way in six years. "We want something that is equivalent to the mammoth, that will enjoy its time at - 40℃ and do all the things that elephants and mammoths do, in particular knocking down trees," said Church, the founder of Colossal. It's hoped that the destructive habits of the hybrids (杂交种) could help restore areas of Arctic steppe that have been by trees since mammoths became extinct. That can help keep the world cooler.

Arctic grasslands more heat from the Sun than forests and can absorb more of the gases released by human activity. However, not everyone agrees with the . Professor Adrian says the extinction of mammoths had little to do with the of steppe grasslands. He points out that it would take thousands of mammoths to have an effect on the environment.

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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仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Liu Fang,

Today the weather was wonderful, so I went out to the local park with some friends to fly kites. It seemed that half the city joined in us, so we had trouble find a good place to stand. But I felt so relaxing when we were done.

Over lunch, I was told that kites were invented by a man naming Mozi, who was something of a philosopher and worked hardly to bring peace between warring countries. He also created many clever inventions from wood. I think it is so wonderful that Mozi could invent something would bring relaxation and happiness to such many people. I never thought to yourself that something like kites needed a inventor.

Anyway, I have to do my homeworks. Talk to you later!

Love,

Peter

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注意：

1）词数100左右；

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。