Here are some interesting online classes that you can take to learn something interesting.
Premiere Pro CC
Whether you want to become the next big YouTube star or the most popular TikTok creator, you'll need to learn how to edit (编辑)videos. Premiere Pro CC will bring all your ideas to life. You can master how to use all it offers with this course for ＄29. 99. It'll cover various topics including adding videos, adding titles, correcting and grading the color, and more.
Udemy's Mindfulness Practitioner Course
Udemy's Mindfulness Practitioner Course lasts 6-8 weeks but can end up changing your life forever. For just ＄15. 99，you'll receive the tools and techniques that are necessary in order to apply mindful principles to your everyday life. With the help of videos, articles, and more, you'll be taught how to be more self-aware, make better decisions, and take control of your emotions.
Master Class
If you can't practice your jump shot in the park, why not practice it with Golden State Warrior star Stephen Curry? That's the kind of mind-blowing experience Master Class offers. Within 12 video lessons, Curry will show you all he knows about ball handling, screens, and more. Individual (单独的) classes cost ＄90，but now you can get two year-long subscriptions for ＄180.
Skillshare
You don't necessarily need a professional camera to take professional-looking pictures. Skillshare is a platform made for creative people. Their photo-taking course will teach you the ins and outs of exposure control, shot composition, and more. You can make the cardboard of orange juice in your fridge look like the next cover of Vogue. Sign up now for ＄19 per month. Get started now!
One summer day as I was heading to the teaching building I heard someone call my name. I turned around and saw Philip, a counselor (顾问) at our admissions office (招生办公室)，standing with another young man. Philip introduced me to him, Stephen, and reminded me that Stephen would be taking one of my classes.
Stephen looked at me. With a somewhat painful expression, he asked if my class was going to be hard and if he would be able to pass. I introduced all the things that he would be expected to learn. As we talked, I saw Stephen's eyes getting big with fear.
I told him to do all of his assignments, and to hand them in on time. Rather than being overwhelmed (压倒) by all of the work, I told him the most successful students made a master calendar of all the assignments so they could plan their workload.
As the fall semester went on, I learned more of Stephen's story. It had taken him longer to finish the assignments than most young people. Family members, including his mother, kept reminding him that he was a failure. But he kept at it and didn't take them to heart. He told me that before coming to our college, no one believed he could manage it.
Stephen didn't become an A student. Still, he managed to pass most of his courses by being in class every day, turning in all of his assignments on time and breaking down his studying into bitesized parts. By passing course after course, he began to gain a measure of selfesteem.
On his graduation day, he walked up to me, and said, "Thank you."
Can dogs and cats get along well in the same home? People who are thinking about getting a dog as a friend for their cat are worried that they will fight. A recent research has found that if the cat is taken back home before the dog, and if they are introduced when still young（less than 6 months for cats, a year for dogs），it is highly probable that the two pets will get along swimmingly. In two-thirds of the homes cats and dogs have a good relationship.
However, it wasn't all sweetness and light. There was a reported coldness between the cat and dog in 25% of the homes, while aggression (侵略，好斗)and fighting were found in 10% of the homes. One reason for this is probably that some of their body languages are just different. For example, when a cat turns its head away it means aggression, while a dog doing the same means submission (顺从).
In homes with cats and dogs living peacefully, researchers found a surprising behavior. They are learning how to talk each other's language. It is a surprise that cats can learn how to talk "Dog"，and dogs can learn how to talk "Cat".
What's interesting is that both cats and dogs have appeared to become smarter. They can learn to read each other's body languages, suggesting that the two may have more in common than was expected. Once familiar with each other's body language, cats and dogs can play together, and enjoy sleeping together on the sofa.
The importance of this research on cats and dogs may go beyond pets — to people who don't get along well, including neighbors, colleagues at work, and even countries. If cats and dogs can learn to get along, surely people have a good chance.
In Britain you're allowed to drive a car when you're seventeen. You have to get a special two-year driving licence before you can start. When you are learning, someone with a full licence always has to be in the car with you because you are not allowed to drive the car on the road alone. You don't have to go to a driving school—a friend can teach you. The person with you isn't allowed to take money for the lesson unless he's got a teacher's licence.
Before you're allowed to have a full licence, you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your own car, but it has to be fit for the road. In the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then answer a few questions. If you don't pass the test, you're allowed to take it again a few weeks later if you want to. In 1970 a woman passed her fortieth test after 212 driving lessons! When you've passed your test, you don't have to take it again, and you're allowed to go on driving as long as you like, if you are healthy. Britain's oldest driver was a man who drove in 1974 at the age of 100.
Before 1904 everyone was allowed to drive, even children. Then from 1940 car drivers had to have a licence. But they didn't have to take a test until 1935. In the early days of car driving, before 1878，cars weren't allowed to go faster than four miles an hour, and someone had to lead the car with a red flag.
There is an old Spanish proverb which states, "Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week."Too many. But our dreams should not and cannot wait.
Tomorrow is not promised.
Nobody likes to talk about death, but the reality is that everybody will die someday. None of us know the day. Don't go to your grave with unfinished dreams. Make the decision to go after every dream, big or small, right now.
The world is waiting for your gift.
The world is waiting for you. Sure, other people may be able to sing, but they'll never be able to sing exactly like you. Sure, other people can write, but they'll never be able to write from the same point of view in which you write.
You can dream about writing a great novel, but it's never going to happen unless you actually put pen to paper. You can dream about finding a cure for cancer, but it will never happen unless you actually go to school to become equipped with the necessary tools to find that cure.
You can't let fear win.
One of the biggest dream killers is fear. There are so many people who could have achieved amazing things if they weren't afraid. Just think about all the things you've wanted to do, but allowed fear to convince you that you weren't capable or good enough. You can choose not to let fear stop you from achieving your dreams.
A. Therefore, today is all we have.
B. Dreams don't work unless you do.
C. Remember that fear is just a choice.
D. You were born into the world with a unique gift.
E. You will be much happier if you go for your dreams.
F. There are so many opportunities and people waiting for you.
G. How many times have we put off our dreams until tomorrow?
In January, a few days after a heavy snowfall, I walked my dog through Toronto's Don Valley as usual. I found a ring with a Cartier logo in the white1. I tried to find who had2 it but in vain (白费力气)，so I went home and posted it online. I waited and waited but nobody3.
When my daughter came back from Europe, I showed her the ring. My daughter's4 was far better than my own, and she soon noticed two5 on it, "Omar and Yoshi " Right away, I knew the owners' names and I decided to do whatever I could to find the6.
I found hundreds of such names, but never the two7. I began to give up hope. I then had one8 thought：Why not call Cartier stores in the city? I dialed. A gentleman listened to my story and went9 for a moment. He then told me nearly a year earlier, a couple had10 losing one of their rings. He gave me Omar's11 and I called right away. Omar was12 ， and asked if he and Yoshi could13 me immediately. I said yes.
I explained how I found the ring, and only because of my daughter had I discovered their names. They shared how they14 it. I now have a great15 of the three of us, their hands raised to show off the rings. We stay in touch now.
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School mornings were always busy. The first sentence I usually heard was, "It's time to rise!" It was Mom's loudest voice and there was no way I could pretend not to hear it or hide from it.
"Okay, Mum. I'm getting up and dressed!" I would manage to call back.
Mum spoke loudly again as she announced, "Breakfast is ready!"
By then, I couldn't get to the kitchen fast enough. In fact, it was a race between my sister, my brother, and me. We usually seated ourselves at the same time, sometimes knocking each other out of our places. After breakfast, we all rushed out to the bus stop as we took our lunch bags that contained a sandwich, fruit and dessert.
Then, one day, much to my surprise, there was no dessert in my lunch! What could have happened to it? Did Mom forget to make or buy it? " Oh, well," I thought." It's only one time, so it's no big deal." But, for the next few days, my lunch contained no dessert! So one day, after school, as soon as I got home, I asked, "Mum! Why haven't you been putting a dessert in my school lunches? "
Mum answered," Why, Eugene, I have been including a dessert in your lunch. If you're not getting them, then who is?"
So then we thought of my activities and what I did with my lunch each day. As soon as I arrived at school, I always put my lunch in the classroom closet (储物间) along with all of the other lunches. And that brought us to Carl, the bad boy of the third-grade classroom. The teacher didn't like him in class and would send him to the closet, where he would spend most of each day.
Carl lived in a group of foster home (集体寄养之家). He, was loud and somewhat of a thief, and he would take almost anything that wasn't fastened down, so he wasn't welcome at school. Mom and I concluded that with nothing else to do Carl was probably going through the lunches and eating what he liked.
注意：1. 所续写短文的词数应为130左右；2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
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My mother and I talked about ways to solve the problem.
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Another day, Carl asked me if he could come to my house and meet my mother.
