September is the month for fashion, with four international cities hosting the fashion week. All eyes will turn to New York, London, Milan and Paris this month to see which city puts on the best show.
New York
New York Fashion Week （NYFW） Spring 2020 kicked off on September 4th, 2019 and ran for approximately eight days. NYFW is considered the most commercial and casual of the four. It is also the only event to allow some fashion school students to participate, bringing a fresh look to the runway.
London
London Fashion Week （LFW） Spring 2020 came on the heels of NYFW Spring 2020, starting on September 12th, 2019 and running through September 17th, 2019. Once considered a minor player among the "Big Four", LFW can now command a list of big names as well as promising new designers. London fashion houses have a reputation for being very experimental and open to new ideas.
Milan
Fashion Week Spring 2020 moved to Milan on September 17th, 2019. This beautiful Italian city is home to some of the biggest fashion houses and designers in the fashion world, including Armani and Prada. Milan's fashion houses arc known for offering glamorous （富有魅力的）yet practical options.
Paris
The month of fashion made its way to France as Paris Fashion Week Spring 2020 began on September 23rd, 2019. Saving the best for last, Paris never fails to offer some of the most exciting shows of the season. World-famous brands like Chanel and Dior try to outdo one another with their latest designs. The word that best describes Paris Fashion Week is "elegant".
Check out the facts about the tsunami (海啸)and learn some interesting information related to these great walls of water that can cause so much destruction. Find out what causes tsunamis and read about some recent examples of tsunamis that have occurred around the globe.
Tsunamis are huge waves of water that are usually caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions (喷发). As a tsunami approaches the shore, water may move back from the coast. If it is shallow enough, water may be pulled back hundreds of metres. If you are on the shore and observe this phenomenon, you'll know that a tsunami is on the way.
Regions in tsunami danger zones often have warning systems in place to give people as much time to evacuate (撤出)as possible. When tsunamis hit shallow water (often near the coast), they slow down but increase in height.
An earthquake in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia in December 2004 caused a tsunami that killed over 200,000 people in 14 countries. In March 2011, the Tohoku earthquake off the eastern coast of Japan caused a tsunami that was a major factor in the death of over 15,000 people. The tsunami waves created by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake reached heights of over 40 metres in northern Japan, destroying coastal towns and causing a number of nuclear accidents.
The Japanese word "tsunami'' literally means "harbour wave''. Tsunamis are sometimes referred to as tidal waves but this term has fallen out of favour because tsunamis are not related to tides.
A traditional Chinese cough syrup (糖浆), called Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa (念慈庵川贝枇杷膏), is flying off the shelves in New York stores this flu season, following a US news report.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal last week, Mr. Alex Schweder, a professor of design at Pratt Institute suffering a cough for about 10 days, felt better 15 minutes after he drank a bottle of Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa. It had been recommended by his girlfriend, who first learnt about the cough syrup 30 years ago when she was living in Hong Kong.
Mr. Schweder was shocked by the magical effects of the cough syrup, and recommended it to many people. This, together with other factors, soon made the Chinese medicine popular in New York City.
A 300ml bottle is now sold at US$13. 29 on Walmart's website. This is more than double the former price in some pharmacies (药店) in Manhattan's Chinatown, selling at about US$6 per bottle. "The number of Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa we sold over the past few days was much more than usual," said Winnie, a sales staff member of Buy-rite pharmacy in Chinatown. "More and more Westerners are accepting this medicine because it is effective," she said.
According to the Kingworld Medicines Group's official website, Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa is made of "valuable Chinese herbs and honey, and has surprising effects in treating coughs. " However, experts warn that taking the cough syrup can carry health risks, including when it is used with other medicines, used too much or taken instead of prescription medication (处方药).
Dr. Keith Brenner, a specialist in pulmonary medicine at Columbia University Medical Centre New York Presbyterian Hospital, said, "I think people who use these things may not even tell the doctor about them, and it's a problem. "
There is a popular saying in the English language: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. " Well, that is not true. Unlike words, name-calling or even the so-called "the silent treatment" can hurt children as much as being physically hit, sometimes even more so.
A recent study of middle school children showed that verbal (言语的) abuse by other children can harm development in the brain. The study was a project of researchers at Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts. Researcher Martin Teicher and his team studied young adults, aged 18 to 25. These young men and women had not ever been treated in a cruel or violent way by their parents. The researchers asked the young people to rate their childhood exposure to verbal abuse from both parents and other children. Then the researchers performed imaging tests on the brains of the subjects (实验对象).
The images showed that the people who reported suffering verbal abuse from peers (同龄人) in middle school had underdeveloped connections between the left and right side of the brain. The two sides of the brain are connected by connecting fibers (纤维) called the corpus callosum (胼胝体). This was the area that was underdeveloped.
The middle school years are a time when these brain connections are developing. So, unkind, hurtful comments from children or adults during this period have the greatest effect. The researchers tested the mental and emotional condition of all the young people in the study. The tests showed that this same group of people had higher levels of fear, depression, anger and drug abuse than others in the study.
The researchers published their findings online on the American Journal of Psychiatry's website.
Parents cannot control what other people say to their children, but they can prepare their children.
Every day has just 24 hours -- and this applies to all people. Some people are constantly pushed for time. This article is about how we can learn to manage our valuable time more effectively.
In reality, we cannot manage time. We can only manage ourselves and our relationship with time. And habits are not that easy to change.
Below here are tips that can help you manage your time better.
*Organize your goals.
Organize your goals based on two criteria: degree of urgency and importance: a. Should be done today, tomorrow, etc. b. Should be done at "that date". c. Can be put off for so many days. d. Can ask someone else to do it.
*Clean up your list.
Make a list of everything you think that is not helping or benefiting you and do not do them!
*Focus on one goal.
Concentrate only on one goal at a time. Otherwise, if while dealing with something you think about everything you can do later, most likely you will get bored and disappointed. The boredom is guaranteed with this way of thinking.
*Identify your deadlines.
Divide the activities per day/week and long-term goals to get a clear picture of what you have to do and when.
*Find suitable work environment.
*Be realistic.
Make sure that your goals are realistic and do not try for the impossible.
*Say "NO".
Learn to say "no" to other activities, requests and people who eat your time (unless indeed at that very moment it is necessary for you to help them).
A. Allow time to adjust your list if necessary.
B. After all, how we use our time is largely a matter of habit.
C. Create a suitable environment to work, one that fits your style.
D. Check the list of what you should do and when it must be completed.
E. After organizing your goals, start with the most important and urgent.
F. It is like every time you eat you think all the meals you must eat in your life.
G. Do not let boredom discourage you if what you have to complete is boring.
About five years ago，I found myself working in a terrible middle school. The hours were long and the work was boring. 1 , the pay was low. Every day the job seemed a physical 2 for me. My neck would burn with pain from the 3 bending. My feet would ache from 4 the entire day. The skin around my fingernails would 5 because of the work my hands were doing. I tried to keep my 6 up while I worked there, but day by day I felt myself 7 down. Every morning I would press sticking-plaster on my neck, place Band-Aid around my fingers and 8 my worn-out shoes. And every night I would 9 myself home and fall onto the couch.
One evening I felt like I could10 it no more. As I drove home alone, I said to myself. "Why am I working myself here just to 11 ? Why couldn't I find a better job than this? Why do I have to 12 this right now?"
I wasn't really expecting a(n) 13 , but life always loves to surprise us. As I 14 up the steps to my front door, I found my wife and my son waiting for me 15 smiling faces. "Daddy, Daddy!" my son yelled. I smiled and picked him up with my 16 arms. Then after hugging and kissing him, I laughed for the first time in days and sat down 17 . At that time, I found the answer which would give me the 18 I needed to go on.
Eventually I moved on to a better school, but I19 forgot that answer, which had gently reminded me of the simple truth. We may have to work to live, but we live to 20 . May you always fill your days with love and joy.
Some adults spend a lot of time trying to stop children playing. They are usually people who think of play as being the1 of work and therefore a waste of time. For humans, work is a way of getting food to eat, and like humans,2 must spend time doing the3 things. Regardless of this, children4 playing, and so do other young animals. It is quite5 to keep both a small child and a young cat6 for hours with a piece of paper.
Hunting may be the most obvious skill7 in play, but it is far from being the only one. Lambs and goat kids play8 , although they will never 9 anything other than some grass. But for these young animals too, 10 is an important part of learning. Sheep and goats are11 hill and mountain animals. Running and skipping exercise young legs and develop a strong sense of 12 that will keep them safe on the steepest rocks. 13 animals play, play is not so different for humans. 14 trees and catching flies are not the most obvious training for the adult world, but the flexibility 15 in these activities is similar to that required of a bus driver or businessman.
What we know about animals shows us that playing is a very good way of 16 , so maybe one of the best ways for 17 to learn is also by playing. Children find playing is fun, but 18 notice that they are also learning at the same time. Most people continue to play games long after they have become 19 , and perhaps that is because we rely so much on our20 to learn.
Keeping a diary in English is one of the effective ways(improve) our English writing ability.
Compared with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takes(little) time. It can help us to develop the habit of thinking in English. If we persist (坚持) in this practice, gradually we'll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, we certainly run up against many (difficult). In the first place, it often happens that we have trouble(find) appropriate words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there(be) many idiomatic ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard for us to put them into English(proper).
As far as I am(concern), my suggestion is we should always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. Whenever something beats us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then consult our dictionary. We can also ask our English teacher help, if necessary. In short, I believe that it is of great use to keep a diary in English fordevelopment of our writing skills.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
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。
I went to the Summer Palace on last week. At the gate I happened to meet some American tourists. I greeted him in English and then we began to chat. I got to know that they were college students travel in China. I proud introduced some famous places to them. They were busy taking picture and were impressed with the amazed changes of China in the past few years. After that, we go boating on a lake and had good time. We exchanged our email addresses so that we could write to each other in the future. They thanked me again and again and said they would never forget the time when we spent together. I was very glad to have a chance to practising my oral English.
要点：
1. 参加中文学习班；
2. 看中文书刊，电视；
3. 学唱中文歌曲；
4. 交中国朋友。
词数100。可根据情节增减细节使文章连贯通顺。
