Four Most Incredible Stadiums in North America
Estadio Azteca
Maybe it's not the nicest, but it is a must-visit stadium(体育馆)in Mexico. Lying in the suburbs of Santa Ursula in Mexico City, it is the stadium that hosts the national soccer game in Mexico. When the 1970 World Cup was there, it hosted 10 matches, including the semi-final, and the final between Brazil and Italy. Estadio Azteca is the largest stadium in Mexico, with a capacity (容量)of 87,523.
Olympic Stadium
Given that Canada doesn't have that many professional sports teams (at least not with the same popularity of US teams), stadiums north of the border are generally smaller and don't quite get the same investment(投资)that stadiums south of the border do. The stadium was used for the Montreal Expos, and now is carefully used for soccer games. In fact, it's set to host some World Cup games in 2026, but anybody who's been inside can tell you it's not a stadium fit to host such a big event.
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden is one of the best stadiums in North America, and not just for sports, but for concerts and other events as well. If you are traveling into New York City by train, you will see the stadium right as you enter the city, above the train station. Before you get to your seats, the outskirts of the stadium actually look like a high-end hotel. It won't disappoint(使失望)you.
Michigan Stadium
Would you be surprised to know that the second largest stadium in the world is a college football stadium? That's right. Michigan Stadium, home of the University of Michigan Wolverines, is the largest stadium in the United States and the second-largest stadium in the world. It has a capacity of 107,601.When you see Michigan Stadium, you know you're talking about college football.
As I walk along the sidewalk, I never think I will take part in such a relay(接力)race. A car turns up. I look up and notice the elderly couple in the car heading toward me. As the car rolls past, the driver suddenly collapses(倒下)against the wheel. He passes out, right in front of my eyes. His wife, a pale woman in her mid-eighties, is staring out the passenger side window then.
I begin to run alongside the moving car, "Roll down(摇下)the window!" I shout wildly to her. Confused, she complies. With the window down, I am able to hold the doorframe. I pull hard against the force of the moving car. Only then does the lady realize what is happening. On the far side of the car, the traffic goes by in the opposite direction, one after another. Nobody even seems to notice. The whole scene is so unlikely. So impossible.
Just then, a woman appears from behind me. She runs alongside the driver side door. She opens the door and, as the car is slowing, she manages to change it out of "Drive". The car is now stopped. A joyful "We did it!" feeling sweeps over me.
The next problem: the man's not breathing.
Thoughts start running through my mind: I need to start CPR(心肺复苏术) … You can't do CPR on a person sitting in a car … There's no way I can lift this guy out … He has about five minutes until he's dead.
I can't help shaking. Over my shoulder, I notice a black SUV has pulled up behind us. A man is standing beside me and says, "I'm a doctor." I step back. He quickly unfastens the driver's seat belt, carries him to the sidewalk and begins CPR.
I walk around to the passenger window to check on the elderly lady. With tears in eyes and hands shaking, she can only manage to speak softly, "Will he be okay?"
"I hope so," I tell her.
And he is.
This summer, a $2.10 billion energy storage project called Nant de Drance opened in Valais, Switzerland. The project, which some people call a "water battery (电池)", can store more energy than 400,000 car batteries.
The system works by gravity. There are two large water reservoirs high in the Swiss mountains. One is much higher than the other. The two are connected by a system of underground passages. When there is too much electricity, Nant de Drance can use that energy to send water from the lower reservoir to the upper one. To produce power, water goes down from the upper reservoir. Gravity pulls the water down into the passages, where it rushes through six large turbines. They produce electricity.
Though the system is quite a simple one, building it took 14 years and a lot of effort. The upper reservoir had to be doubled in size. Workers had to create 10.5 miles of large underground passages connecting the two reservoirs. That meant carving out huge amounts of rock from inside the mountains. The turbines are located over a third of a mile underground.
As the world turns more and more to renewable energy sources, being able to store energy is very important. Unlike oil, gas, or coal, many renewable energy sources only work some of the time and can not be burned to create energy any time. Solar panels only work when the sun is shining, for example. Wind turbines only create energy when the wind is blowing. Renewable energy must be stored if it's going to be ready to use at any time.
Using water to store and create energy isn't a new idea. But in the past, many water storage projects seriously changed or damaged rivers. Because Nant de Drance is almost completely underground, it's caused little damage to the local environment.
Researchers have discovered many recent Marsquakes on the Red Planet. Those shakes are likely signs that magma (岩浆) move deep under the Martian surface.
Since touching down on Mars four years ago, NASA's InSight lander has found more than 1,000 Marsquakes. One of its tools records quake waves. Those waves show information about a quake's size and location.
Earlier this year, scientists showed that several Marsquakes came from a particular part of Mars. It's known as Cerberus Fossae. Those quakes were a type pretty familiar to quake experts, states Anna Mittelholz, a planetary scientist at Harvard University. Their low-frequency waves "look much more like what we see for an earthquake," she says.
Mittelholz was part of a team that has studied many more Marsquakes. These include more than 1,000 high-frequency small quakes. The signals (信号) are fairly weak. To find out their origins, her team added the signals together. These quakes, too, seemed to come from the direction of Cerberus Fossae.
Scientists were surprised to find that different types of quakes all came from the same region on Mars. Previous research had suggested Marsquakes might be caused by the slow cooling and shrinking (收缩) of the planet's surface. That process, which also occurs on the moon, should produce quakes spread equally across the planet. As such, Mitteiholz says, "The expectation was that Marsquakes would come from all over the place."
Her team also compared the weak waves that InSight measured with those produced on Earth. Marsquakes looked like earthquakes that came from volcanic regions, the researchers found. That means Mars' shakes are probably produced by magma flowing tens of kilometers below the planet's surface.
Rather than being a geologically dead planet, as some have suggested, Mars might be surprisingly active, the researchers conclude (下结论). There's still so much more to learn about Mars, says Mitteiholz. "We're only touching the surface."
New Year's resolutions(决心) usually are like some of those promises that are meant to be broken. The word "New" in the new year, puts a lot of pressure on starting over and turning a new leaf. But you must remember you cannot just become a different person overnight when the clock strikes Instead of making resolutions that cause you stress, anxiety or more pain, set out this year by. Making resolutions that will encourage self-care.
To start fresh this New Year's Day, here are a few tips setting realistic new years' resolutions in order to avoid the burden of disappointment next year.
Choose a very specific goal
Unclear plans like "lose weight" "exercise more" or "write more" are goals with no teeth.
They are unclear plans and desires, and are very easy to explain away due to how unclear they are. Such goals with a certain task, are much more doable than unclear goals.
Once you have chosen your goals, make a very detailed plan of how you will reach that goal. Having a plan and a pathway can help you imagine your progress and won't make you impatient for immediate results. That way you will have already imagined what progress would look like for you in say, 3 months, 5 months, 7 months or every day depending on your goals.
Get yourself a social group
In today's social media world, it is easy to find a group of like-minded individuals interested in sharing your goal. Get yourself a social group like this. However, just as there is this bright side to having a social group, the problem is the pressure. Don't get consumed by social media and what others are doing.
Accept failure and forgive yourself.
Accept this failure; own it and forgive yourself. Being hard on yourself will only do you more harm, so instead learn from, what went wrong and instead of quitting the resolution at the end of next year, see it through until you reach your goal.
A. Make a plan to reach that goal
B. Be patient with your progress
C. Instead, set goals like "exercise 20 minutes every day" or "lose 15 pounds"
D. Despite all your efforts, it is possible that you might fail or make a mistake.
E. Therefore, new year's resolutions usually end up in failure
F. Change is a difficult process-the key words being "difficult" and "process"
G. Remember you have this group only for support, not for comparison
When I was about 5 or 6 years old, my mother set me down on a purple banana-seat bike. She1held the back of the seat while I found my balance. Then she gave me a 2_and let me go, calling, "Pedal(踩踏板)，pedal, pedal, glide(滑行)!"as I rode across the grass.
When I was older, I 3 a soccer team and I always rode my bike to go to 4. On my bike, my5was my own. I can do what I want to. After a(n) 6 practice, I would pick an apple from a tree in the garden near the soccer 7 and eat it while I pedaled home, or 8 to the shop and go home with some of my favorite snacks.
Then I got married and had babies.9 the house for a two-hour ride was no longer a(n) 10_. When my girls got older, my mom 11 them to ride their own bikes. "Pedal, pedal, pedal, glide!" she'd 12 as she used to. But this time it was me 13 after them with my hand on the seat.
Last spring, my mother died suddenly. I was in deep 14. Every morning, I'd leave my hotel and 15 my bike to a bike path. She's never going to teach us again. I wanted to cry.
Teenage life is full of adventures and challenges. Doing voluntary work is popular among some teenagers and extra-curricular activities(prefer) by others, such as organizing debates, studying literature, dancing ballet and cleaning up the greenhouses. But more people sign up for advanced courses out of (curious). Actually, some teenagers feel confused in their youth, and their behaviors are sometimes confusing. They think there is a generation gap between (they) and adults, so experts are trying to find a suitable solution.
Johnson, outgoing freshman, is so attracted to Chinese literature that he (quit) his studies in Chicago and come to China. Obviously, with the help of his teacher, his Chinese has improved greatly and he can speak fluent Chinese campus now. As (schedule), he will graduate next year. he is concentrating on is the ancient Chinese Literature and he is fascinated with Tang poetry. The topic of his research content is "the differences between Eastern and Western literature". An editor that acts (responsible) has recommended him (read) some classical Chinese literature first. The recommendation means a lot to him.
1）活动目的；
2）活动内容；
3）个人感受。
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Social Practice in the Hope Community
Summertime is lots of fun, but when it's too hot it can instead be very uncomfortable and dangerous.
When the temperature rose to 38℃ in Fort Worth Texas several years ago it was especially difficult for those who didn't have an air conditioner (空调). 95-year-old World War I soldier Julius Hatley was one of those who have to stand the burning heat. His air conditioner had broken and he was completely burning up.
Still, even at 95, he was doing everything he could to get by without help. Julius tried spending time under the trees in his garden—but at one point, he just couldn't take it any more. So he took action. Not knowing what else to do about the extreme heat, 95-year-old Hatley called his local Fort Worth, Texas police department.
William Margolis, was the officer on duty that day. He knew this was a common 911 call. For the police, Hatley's request was not an urgent call because there were more important and bigger event waiting for them to do. Still, Margolis and his partner Christopher Weir managed to spare time for a visit.
When they got there around 8:30 am, they found his house was 38℃ to 39℃ already. And the temperature was still rising. After checking the room for a little while, Margolis and Weir quickly discovered that both Hatley's central air conditioning and window unit were broken, leaving the man to suffer alone.
The two men didn't have a solution to Hatley's problem right then, but they promised they would find it out. It didn't take long, however, for Margolis to realize that he just couldn't shake the image of the poor, old man out of his head. He requested that he and Weir make a stop at a shop, where they could buy Hatley a new air conditioner themselves.
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But the kindness didn't stop there.
……
The 95 year old was touched by all that they had done.
