If you are planning a trip, you may be wondering what might be in your line of travel when it comes to unique buildings. There are some unusual, unique buildings you should put on your travel bucket list.
Capital Gate—Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Capital Gate is one of the tallest buildings in Abu Dhabi. According to the Guinness World Records, Capital Gate is the world's farthest leaning, man-made tower. The structure leans at an 18 degree angle, and intentionally so. This is a lean about 5 times greater than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault—Longyearbyen, Norway
Nothing grand or stunning(令人震惊的) about this structure, from a visual perspective. But, in some ways, the future of civilization may depend on the work done at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is designed to store millions of different types of seeds for the replanting of various crops in the event of any number of major global disasters. The building comes complete with blast-proof doors, airlocks, and motion sensors.
Palace of the Parliament—Bucharest, Romania
The Palace of the Parliament is the second largest administrative building on the planet. Indeed, it is so big that it can be seen from space. The structure was commissioned by the last communist dictator to rule in Romania. A fraction of the building is in use today, most of it sitting idle.
Lotus Temple—Delhi, India
If in India, a visitor interested in building and architecture should also check out the Lotus Temple in Delhi. The Lotus Temple is indeed designed to mimic the appearance of the flower. The Lotus Temple is a Bahai House of Worship completed in 1986.
Born in New York in 1918, scientist Gertrude B. Elion had an impressive career, during which she developed medicines to cure many major diseases. Elion spent her early youth in Manhattan. She attended senior high school and had, in her words, an unbelievable thirst for knowledge.
Influenced by the death of her grandfather, who died of cancer, Elion entered Hunter College at the age of 15 and graduated in chemistry at the age of 19. She had difficulty finding employment after graduation because many laboratories refused to hire women chemists. She found a part-time job as a lab assistant and went back to school at New York University. Elion worked as a high school teacher for a few years after finishing work on her master's degree.
The start of World War II created more opportunities for women. At the age of 26, Elion was able to get a job at Burroughs Welcome, where she began a 40-year partnership with Dr. George H. Hitchings. Her thirst for knowledge impressed Dr. Hitchings, and he permitted her to take on more responsibility.
Elion and Hitchings set out on a course of creating medicines by studying the chemical composition of diseased cells. Rather than relying on old trial-and-error methods, they used the differences in biochemistry between normal human cells and pathogens(病原体) to design medicines. In all, Elion obtained 45 patents on medicine and was awarded 23 honorary degrees.
In 1988, Elion received the Nobel Prize for Medicine, together with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black. She received other awards for her work, including the National Medal of Science in 1991, and that same year, she became the first woman to be absorbed into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In 1997, she was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award.
It is a tough time to be a tree. Earth has lost a third of its forests over the past 10,000 years—half of that just since 1900. We logged them for wood. We cut them to make way for farms and cattle. We cleared land to build homes and roads. Although deforestation has decreased globally from its peak in the 1980s, trends vary by region. In Indonesia, which had been cutting down forests for oil palm plantations(棕榈种植园), primary forest loss has declined since 2016. From August 2020 to July 2021, the Brazilian Amazon lost 5,000 square miles of rainforest, a 22 percent increase over the previous year. Since 1990, we've cut down more forest globally than there is forest in the United States.
Trees are growing faster as they absorb extra CO2. That "greening" of the planet has so far helped slow climate change. But climate change is killing trees. And what has made forest scientists increasingly uneasy is the quickening pace of extreme events—fire, more powerful storms, and, most notably, severe heat and drought, which can worsen the effects of all the rest, shifting forests that have been around since the last ice age to entirely new states.
Climate change still poses less of a threat to forests than logging and land clearing, but the threat is growing fast. Satellite data show that Earth's tree-covered area actually expanded from 1982 to 2016 by 7 percent, an area larger than Mexico. But that doesn't mean forests are doing fine. The data don't distinguish between natural forests and industrial tree farms, such as the millions of palm, eucalyptus(桉树), and pine trees planted as crops while rainforest is cleared. Also, the data don't show which forests were lost to chain saws and which were killed by climate-related events.
Your child is unique, but what all children have in common is natural curiosity and an ability to learn they are born with. Our brains are active all the time, and a baby's brain is the busiest of all. Research has shown that babies begin to understand language about twice as fast as they actually speak it. By showing children other languages at an early age, you are giving them the opportunity to make use of their natural ability to hear and recognize between the sounds of other languages, and their ability to make sense of what they are hearing.
Communication is something that children do to help them achieve something else, and they are unaware of the large amount of learning taking place. They take everything in through their senses, making connections between what they hear, see, smell, taste and touch. As long as we provide the right conditions, their learning and development will take place in a natural way.
In your child's early years, the emotional environment is just as important as the physical environment. Children learn when they feel safe, happy, valued and listened to. This is central to any learning experience in a child's early years, including learning an additional language. Your child has a trial-and-error approach to its development, and making mistakes is a valuable part of the learning process. When children learn an additional language at an early age, they get the benefits of experimenting with that language as a natural part of their development. Their progress isn't prevented by a fear of getting it wrong, and very young children are simply working their way towards getting it right.
The long-term benefits of learning another language go beyond being able to communicate with others. Studies suggest that children learning an additional language tend to score better on standardized tests because learning languages develops listening, observation, problem-solving and critical(批判性的) thinking skills. These are skills that are of life-long benefit, both personally and professionally. Encouraging in children a love of language at an early age prepares them well for school and for life.
"Teamworking" is found everywhere within just about every organization. You can't get away from "teams" that may probably create something greater than the sum of its parts. Or so the theory goes.
Every team needs a common goal. There must be a clear reason for the team to exist. What they are hoping to achieve should be something achievable but tough and inspiring enough to attract the members and keep their motivation alive. What's more, they should also be well prepared for the possible difficulties they may have in the process.
Team members must be able to express their opinions freely and believe their suggestions will be taken seriously. This is important because the team may need to solve some complex issues. For example, it may discuss a sensitive topic. Should they keep their conclusion within the team or share it with other employees? This is an issue that all the members should agree on and honest discussion is needed.
Conflict solving is also very important. Disagreements are natural and, in fact, debate and discussion should be encouraged. A team made up only of "yes men" can make disastrous decisions that few people honestly agreed with in the first place. For example, team meetings may not be a good place for a pair discussion, so "under-the-table" method may be better.
It requires much more, but motivating people is most essential. Successful teamworking is not marked by how much progress the team makes toward its goals, but by how confidently its members complete their tasks with a sense of achievement and pride.
A. Building a strong team is not difficult.
B. He must be skilled in coaching them to reach goals.
C. There are some ways to help get the most out of a team.
D. Team building isn't just throwing a few people together.
E. So there should be rules on how to handle disagreements.
F. Besides, good teamwork is built on open communication.
G. And all the members should realize the value of what they are going to do.
Have you experienced a condition when listening to a very loud music makes your heartbeat so fast that you can actually feel the heavy beating? From this experience, we can conclude that loud and fast music 1 the heart rate. Therefore, we have a feeling of high 2 and stress when we listen to loud and fast music. On the contrary, soft music is 3 to a slower heart rate. People who listen to relaxing music have a slower heart rate, 4 to those listening to loud and fast music, or those not listening to music at all.
But why does this happen? Experiments found that the 5 of music on the heart is based on the functioning of the brain. When we hear music, the sound waves are translated into electrical impulses(神经冲动) by the 6 . As it is related to the increasing and decreasing of the heart rate, the related effect is produced. Now, is it that only 7 music brings out this effect? Well, listening to soft or relaxing music is surely more 8 . However, listening to any type of music you like can be 9 , rather than not listening to any music at all.
It is believed that people who have a slower heart rate have a longer life. 10 , people having a faster heart rate are at a greater 11 of suffering from cardiovascular(心血管的) diseases. Therefore, having a slower heart rate makes you live a longer and healthier life. When 12 slows down the heart rate, it brings about a feeling of 13 . Therefore, it is used as a 14 technique. We can conclude by saying that the phrase "Music heals(治疗) the heart" is not just a saying, but a(n) 15 !
Nowadays, our classrooms, neighborhoods and communities become (much) diverse(多样化的) than ever before. People from different (country) and cultures continue to spread out around the world. Different skin colors, languages, physical abilities and clothing (be) some of the types of diversity that we experience every day.
How we respond to this diversity will decide not only our future as a person but also our future as a society. As Maya Angelou said, "In diversity there is beauty and (strong)". Tolerance(宽容) means openness to the differences that exist among us all. It means respecting and learning from others, (value) our differences and discovering what we have common.
The opposite of tolerance is closed-mindedness. Arguments, fights and wars (cause) by closed-mindedness from time to time. In contrast, humans are open to differences will create a more peaceful world and have better opportunities in life whether through education, work or friendships. So having tolerance will change our life for the better, and make the world better place. Difference is of the spirit of humans and we should learn (respect) it.
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Miss Lee was an English teacher in an international school. She had many years of over-seas teaching experience. She had a weekly English music broadcast where she played different English songs. She found it a very good way to benefit her students in English study. What's more, it did improve the relationship between her and her students.
In order to carry it forward, Miss Lee tried to get her students to recommend English songs to her for the broadcast. The students were very enthusiastic about it, and they were actively involved in it. They tried their best to find good English songs for her. The activity was becoming more and more popular among students and teachers. The time for English song recommendation became the moment everyone was looking forward to.
When broadcasting, she usually announced who recommended the song and then played it during lunch time. Of course, if a song was chosen to be played, the person who recommended it also felt very proud.
Miss Lee tried to give every student a chance to share themselves through their music, including one disagreeable student, Chris. He chose to sit in the back of the classroom alone and constantly couldn't concentrate on study. Most of the other teachers and students found it difficult to communicate with him. However, Miss Lee knew that he just needed a friend, or at least someone he could connect with.
One day, Miss Lee called him into her office and said, "Chris, please think of a song you like that has some beautiful English words, and I'll play it on the broadcast for you." Chris agreed happily because he felt being valued.
Chris eventually recommended a song. Miss Lee couldn't like the song too much. She put it in on the broadcast as scheduled and made sure to announce Chris's name, so everyone knew that he recommended such a great song. As the song rang, Chris cheered loudly, "It's my song." Then he sang along with it, and he sang amazingly well. From then on, Miss Lee would ask Chris to lead the other classmates to sing an English song before class. She exactly felt him warming up to her.
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Playing the song Chris recommended completely changed his life.
Miss Lee even recommended Chris to participate in the annual school song contest.
