Best houses on the market
Sorrento, Maine
It was built in 1989 on a hillside on Treasure Island. The three-bedroom house has a chef's kitchen; a great room with dining area; a room with private deck(平台)， walk-in closet, and spa bathroom; two guest bedrooms with shared deck; and a glass-walled tower with ocean and island views. Acadia National Park are minutes away. $888, 500. LandVest International Company, (207)
299-8732
Santa Fe
This 1981 five-bedroom house features wooden ceilings, several fireplaces, hardwood floors, and carved-wood details. The 20-acre house has courtyards, a spa, a two-bedroom guesthouse, an art studio; the community offers tennis, allows horses, and is 20 minutes from the supermarket. $2, 195, 000. Sotheby's International Company, (505)988-2533
San Anselmo, Calif
Set on a hill above the Mount Tamalpais, this 1988 home offers city, mountain, and water views from wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling windows. The five-bedroom house also has high ceilings, a step-down living room with fireplace, a dining room, an eat-in kitchen, a wet bar, a room with fireplace and walk-in closet. $3, 495, 000. Sotheby's International Company, (415)717-1056
Portland, Ore zksg
This three-bedroom home was built in 1988. The house features large windows, skylights, French doors, and includes a chef's kitchen; a main bedroom with fireplace, walk-in closet, and bathroom; a separate live-and-work space with kitchen. The house sits on a hill in Kings Heights overlooking the city and the mountains, minutes away from hiking trails and the Alphabet District. $1, 525, 000. Windermere International Company, (503)706-238521.
"I've always been quite confident myself," Leah Williamson tells The Week Junior, "but more shy than people realise."
Williamson is the captain of the England women's football team, the Lionesses, who won the Euro 2022 tournament (联赛). However, reaching such heights hasn't always been easy and she's had to learn how to believe in herself. Using her own experiences, she has written a book with journalist Susan, called You Have the Power: Find Your Strength and Believe You Can, to encourage young people.
Football has always been a big part of Williamson's life, ever since she started playing at the age of six. She says, "It's probably the one thing in my life that I've been truly passionate about the whole time." Her family loved it too, and were divided between supporting Hotspur and Arsenal—rival (竞争对手) clubs in north London. When she was a child, her family encouraged Williamson not to be scared, even if it felt intimidating to take part in a sport that was mostly played by boys. By teaching her important lessons, such as how to have faith in herself, her family helped her to grow.
She hopes she can encourage readers to achieve their dreams—football-related or not. "I'm not trying to make everybody that reads this book the next best footballer in the world," she says. "I'm just trying to give them a sense of how amazing it feels to look at yourself and be proud."
You Have the Power: Find Your Strength and Believe You Can is out in bookshops now.
NatureScot, an organisation that looks after Scotland's natural world, has agreed to release(放出) Scottish wildcats into the UK's largest national park.
About 60 wildcats have been raised at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig. They will be released in June into an area of the Cairngorms National Park in the Scotish Highlands. Researchers will monitor the cats through GPS, tracking their movements as they live in their new home.
Wildcats already live in the Cairngorms, but researchers say they are under threat from extinction because of habitat loss and disease. Wildcats look a bit like pet cats but they are about twice the size and have thicker fur. They have longer legs and their ears are more sticked out to the side.
Wildcats were once found in England and Wales too, but they were hunted for their fur and lost a lot of their natural habitat because of human activity. They haven't been seen in the wild outside Scotland for more than 100 years. However, another protection programme is planning to release around 40 of the animals into secret countryside locations in Cornwall, in southern England. Wildcats hunt small animals, so wildlife experts are hoping that the cats will keepdown the numbers of rabbits and mice, which damage young trees and crops such as corn, fruit and wheat.
The Scottish wildcats will be released in a part of the park called Caimgorms, where experts are working to restore(恢复) woodland areas. The plan is for as many as 20 cats to be set free every year, and it is hoped that other sites in Scotland will be considered too. Dr Helen from Saving Wildcats said, "The fight to restore Scotland's wildcat populations is just beginning."
Today, millions of people around the world take up knitting (编织). "It is connected with our mental health," says Janine Smith. Along with David, she co-owns a store in Sydney, Australia, that sells supplies for knitting. "I know that if I haven't knitted for a few days, I really miss it."
Research supports Smith's statement. Professor Corkhill and professor Riley were part of a team from Cardiff University in the United Kingdom that, 10 years ago, surveyed more than 3, 500 knitters and found that the more frequently people knitted, the calmer and happier they felt. Or, as David puts it, "That rhythm (节奏) of knitting is like deep breathing. It's a flow where you don't have to stress about it, you've got the rhythm happening."
"Flow" is a concept first named by expert Mihaly. As he wrote in his book, "The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times. The best moments usually occur if a person's body or mind is pulled to its limits in a voluntary effort to achieve something difficult and worthwhile."
The Cardiff research team found that even though most of the people surveyed were employed, three-quarters of those who knitted three or more times a week felt significantly more able to organize their thoughts and forget their problems.
Many respondents (调查对象) described feeling calmer and in a better mood after knitting, and the majority of respondents who suffered from stress "thought that knitting made them feel happier." For respondents who suffered from pain, almost nine out of ten said that knitting gave them a means of dealing with their pain.
Interestingly, more than half of those surveyed said that knitting pushed them to develop other skills, like building furniture. Because knitting is so accessible — at its heart it's two sticks — it enables people to have belief in their abilities. After all, if you make a mistake, you can just pull it all out and start again.
Most of us look forward to the weekend as a time to relax. But as the weekend comes to an end, many of us are experiencing a sense of anxiety and even fear. Experts have named this worry the "Sunday scaries." But even though the Sunday scaries are common, they are manageable.
Identify your anxiety sources.
Anxiety is a normal human experience, and one of the main ways to manage it is to figure out what's really causing you to fear the week. Is it a deadline, meeting or presentation? Even if there's not a single reason behind it, organizing the stress from the week ahead can help. One list for tasks that need to be completed immediately, another for tasks that are less urgent, and a final list for tasks that you'd like to complete at some point. This can help reduce the stress and fear of the week.
Create some excitement for the week ahead.
Getting rid of the Sunday scaries isn't just about reducing fear of the week ahead, either. Instead of focusing on the terrible things from the week, build excitement over a coffee or lunch date with a friend. This gives you the opportunity to shift your thoughts to something fun and will help improve your mood.
Instead of sitting on the couch and watching the clock, go do something that you enjoy. Such as planning some favorite foods to enjoy while watching football. Do your best to honor this time and make Sunday night all about you—leave the work emails for Monday morning.
A. Arrange your Sunday.
B. Try to create to-do lists.
C. Don't forget to check your emails.
D. So it can be experienced in both body and mind.
E. Here's how experts say you can ease your end-of-weekend anxiety.
F. Seeing these can help learn what's important and what you can let go of for now.
G. Having something to look forward to gives you something to think about that's exciting.
I'm grateful to have a roof over my head, food in my belly, and the ability to take care of my family. This is why I try to help those 1 whenever possible.
Here are some words from unlucky souls that 2 my mind about what's really important in life.
One hot day, I was sitting on my front door 3 a cold drink when a homeless young man wandered by my house.
"Hi, there. Would you like something to drink?" I asked.
"No, thank you," he 4 . "What I'd really like more than anything is a clean pair of 5 "
His response really 6 me right in my heart. I have a whole drawer of clean socks and he just wanted one pair.
Another time, I was coming home from work on payday (发薪日). I was 7 in the rush hour when I saw a man holding a cardboard that 8 "Need work or food. Anything helps."
I 9 my window, and gave him a 100-dollar bill.
"Thank you so much," he said 10 and then added, "Seriously, really need a job." I shared with him some 11 on possible employment opportunities and went on my way, hoping his luck would change for the 12 .
Most homeless people are like us. They're just 13 a hard time. They should win our respect in dealing with their everyday 14 . They're just people who might need a helping hand from their neighbors. Now I'm 15 for all things that I have.
Yoga(瑜伽) is (high) recognized for improving balance and bringing calm. But when it comes to weight loss, many people think that other kinds of exercise, like running, will be more (help). But studies show that yoga, is an exercise that uses your large muscle groups raises your heart rate, is beneficial for you to lose weight. Just how many calories(卡路里) you burn differs, depending how long your exercise is, as well as other (factor), such as your weight and age. Practicing yoga can help you burn more calories long after exercise.
Better yet, recently several studies (prove) that yoga has an effect on the body's stress response and reduces production of chemicals linked to weight gain. And someone experiencing a more positive mood by (practise) yoga is less likely to overeat when experiencing negative emotions.
Remember (choose) the best kind of yoga that fits for you. There are now many styles of yoga that meet you no matter what your size, age, or physical challenge is. Everybody can benefit from a yoga practice.
1. 比赛的时间、地点;
2. 比赛的要求;
3. 呼吁同学们积极参加。
注意：
1. 写作词数应为80左右;
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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The English Club
Ryan picked up a snowball and began to polish it so that soon it was hard as a cricket ball. He smiled to himself. Now, all that he needed was a target. He walked down the High Street.
Paul was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was a skinny boy whose legs were so thin that they looked as if you could break them. He was so skinny that the other kids used to joke about him getting blown away when it was windy. He was helping old Mrs McTell by sweeping the snow off the path and putting salt down to melt the ice. He liked Mrs McTell.
Paul had his head down and was sweeping a piece of ice when the snowball struck him full in the face. He staggered(踉跄) back, put his hand to his lip and wiped off the dirt. He heard Ryan laughing and shouting names. But Paul ignored it. He had had problems with Ryan at school and did not want to stir up more trouble. He ducked down and made his way round to the back of Mrs McTell's to see if she wanted any shopping.
Bored by the silence, Ryan soon gave up and walked down to the park. It was a short-cut to home and by now his fingers were aching with the cold. The park pond was frozen over and Ryan laughed at a couple of ducks, waddling(摇摆着走) on the ice. They were finding it hard to keep balance. Quickly, Ryan picked up a stick and without thinking made his way onto the ice. In his mind's eye, he could see the feathers flying as he hit one of the ducks.
Ryan was a few yards out when the ice cracked. It sounded like gun shot across the frozen park. The ice broke into pieces before his eyes. Screaming, he fell straight down into the icy water. The ducks flew off.
1. 所续写短文的词数应为100左右。
2. 续写部分为一段，开头语已为你写好。
Paul heard Ryan's voice as he entered the park.
