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Every year, on January 5th, the city of Harbin in northeast China changes into a winter wonderland. Tourists from all around the world come to visit wonderful ice and snow festival.
The festival started in 1963 and began as a winter party. The festival often lasts for one month. However, the weather stays cold and dry, it will go on for a few more days. Temperatures are usually very cold. They can go down to -17℃.
Ice sculptors(雕塑家) use tools to carve the hard ice and snow. These sculptors display their works two main areas. "Sun Island" has huge snow sculptures of people and animals. "Ice and Snow World" has sculptures of buildings. At night, these buildings light up with brightly-colored lights.
Visitors can do a lot of other , such as skiing and ice sliding. They can also go swimming in the icy waters of the Songhua River.
A gentleman needed a young man to help him in his office, so he put an advertisement in a newspaper. Nearly fifty people applied for the job. He in a short time 1 one and sent the rest away.
"I should like to know," said a friend, "why did you 2 that young man, who didn't bring a recommendation(推荐信) with him?"
"You are mistaken," said the gentleman. "He had a great many."
"He wiped his feet at the door and 3 the door after him, showing that he was tidy and orderly."
"He gave up his seat immediately to that old man, indicating that he was 4 and thoughtful."
"He took off his cap when he came in and answered my questions without delay(延迟), showing that he was polite and a 5 thinker."
"He lifted up the book which I had purposely laid on the floor, and 6 it on the table, while all the rest stepped over it, or kicked it aside, showing that he was careful."
"And he waited 7 for his turn instead of pushing the others aside, indicating that he was modest(谦逊的)."
"When I talked with him, I noticed that his 8 was carefully washed, his hair in nice order, and his teeth as white as milk. When he wrote his 9 , I observed that his fingernails were clean."
"Don't you call these 10 letters of recommendation? I do and what I can tell about by using my eyes for ten minutes is worth more than all the fine letters he can bring to me."
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The old lanes(巷子) of the Beijing hutongs
many were there hundreds of years ago during the Ming and Qing dynasties. They keep not only the traditional culture but also the way of life in the past. People can go shopping, eat delicious food, and watch the street life by visiting the Beijing hutongs. What's more, it's a good way to learn more about the daily life of people in Beijing.
A hutong is a lane formed by traditional courtyard compounds(筑有围墙的院子) on both sides. The compounds are called siheyuan, meaning "four joined-together courtyard."
The hutongs have interesting names, which tell their origin(起源), location, or history. They are in these gray lanes where kids talk and play.
One of China's most famous writers, Laoshe, was born in siheyuan in the west of the city. The memories of his childhood in hutongs were so important to him that even after he had been away from Beijing for more than 20 years, he still clearly remembered them and wrote them into a novel called Four Generations under One Roof.
Now, Beijing still has about 400,000 siheyuan for people to live in. However, most hutongs are in great danger because more and more new buildings have been built. So, we should try our best to protect hutongs, the treasure of traditional culture.
Could you imagine being in a car driven by a computer, not a human? Recently, China has made a big step toward self-driving technology. Since August 2022, driverless taxis can run on roads in Wuhan, Chongqing and Shenzhen.
Why do we develop self-driving cars?
Self-driving cars bring us many benefits. They use computers to sense the things around them and make better use of space. This means fewer traffic jams and better parking of cars. For disabled or blind people, self-driving cars can also help them get around more easily.
According to official statistics, each year, more than 1.35 million people are killed on roads around the world, and more are injured. It's reported that self-driving cars could reduce road accidents by 90 percent and save governments a lot of money. The main cause of car accidents is human error(错误). By using computers, self-driving cars don't make poor decisions or lose focus like humans do.
But self-driving cars aren't perfect. If something unexpected on the road happens, self-driving cars can't react(反应) as fast as a human driver could. Also, during weather events like heavy snow, self-driving cars wouldn't see the lines on the road easily. It might lead to an accident. The car's computer system would be broken by someone, causing it to crash or change its direction.
It's clear that there is still a long way to go to make self-driving cars a common and safe sight(景象) on our roads. And China is taking the lead in making this happen, said China Daily.
Do you know what your IQ is? You can find out by taking a test. But what about your EQ（情商）?
EQ is a measure of your ability to recognize（辨别）and manage your emotions, as well as the emotions of others, according to Psychology Today.
Simply put, having a high EQ means that you're a "people" person. You know yourself very well and you can easily understand others. They are the ability to recognize your own emotions; the ability to use those emotions to solve problems; and the ability to manage emotions, such as by calming yourself down when you're feeling nervous.
Does it seem obvious to you that having a high EQ can be a good thing? They show great social skills, especially when they take up jobs that need them to deal with strangers often. According to MindTools, an online resource for career skill-building, many companies are now using EQ tests when interviewing new staff.
For example, when two friends have an argument, people with a high EQ can "read" the other person's emotions and know when and how to stop the argument, perhaps by ending it in a humorous way.
If you feel like you have a low EQ, don't worry. A good way is using positive thinking to help you get out of failures. By doing so, you can improve your EQ gradually.
A. It's possible to improve it.
B. Do you know what EQ is?
C. A low EQ will make us get into trouble.
D. Many experts divide EQ into three skills.
E. People with a high EQ perform much better at work.
F. Having a high EQ can help you in everyday life as well.
WRITING SYSTEMS
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Topic overview There are two main kinds of writing systems. ·alphabets(字母表) ·pictures Basic information
Alphabet writing systems Some writing systems use alphabets. Alphabet writing systems use letters to tell you what sounds to make. Arabic and English both use an alphabet. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet and 28 letters in the Arabic alphabet. The first alphabet started in the Middle East 3,000 years ago. The English and Arabic alphabets both come from this alphabet. Picture or symbol writing systems Some writing systems use pictures or symbols to show the meaning of words. Picture writing started 5 |
Writing systems and change Languages sometimes change their writing systems. Before 1423, the Korean language used the Chinese picture system. In 1423, the Koreans invented their own alphabet system. Now Korean uses an alphabet system. Turkey also changed its writing system. Before 1928, Turkish used the Arabic alphabet. Today it uses an alphabet like English, but with some extra symbols, like "ş" and "ç". Do you use symbols? Today, in many languages, we use symbols to explain what we mean. For example, many people use symbols like See also: Ancient civilizations: Middle East, China Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Turkish writing system: the way of writing a language
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Each year, billions of pounds of garbage end up in the oceans. Sometimes people throw away water (bottle) or other plastic. They do not recycle their garbage. People may not know that wind rain can move garbage from land to sea. Plastic takes a very long time to break down. It can remain in the oceans hundreds of years. Plastic pieces are very (danger) to sea animals.
One group, Washed Ashore, came up with a new idea (tell) people about the problems in the oceans. First, they take the garbage from beach. Then, they clean and sort it. (final), they work with the plastic pieces to make huge works of art. The artwork is mostly of sea creatures (生物).
Washed Ashore has (create) more than seventy of these works of art. Some of (they) are now traveling in a show all over the world. Each piece shows the effects of trash.
In one show, people learn how plastic fools fish and other sea animals. They think the plastic (be) food, eat it, and get very sick or even die.
This would not happen if people used less plastic and did not litter. The plastic would not end up in the ocean.
000 years ago in the Middle East. Modern Chinese also uses a picture writing system today. Japanese uses some of the symbols from the Chinese picture system. For example, the Chinese word for fish is "yu" and the Japanese word is "sakana", but both languages write it in the same way. There are thousands of symbols in picture writing systems -you have to learn 4,000 symbols to read Chinese.
