The ebike has become an essential item, and even the King has been spotted riding one. According to the market research company Mintel, sales have almost tripled over the past five years. While ebikes have become increasingly commonplace, they are still undeniably expensive. You can pick up a perfectly adequate push bike for £300, but most ebikes cost nearly £2,000.Now, Cycling Electric, designed to help consumers choose an ebike, offers the following recommendations.
Best folding bike
Carbo Model X
Price: £2,799| Weight: 13.3kg
Range: up to 34 miles
This is one of the most convenient bikes, from a little-known label. The lightweight Carbo X is the perfect example of convenience thanks to its carbon frame and belt drive, instead of a metal bike chain. This makes it lighter and less likely to get messy than an electric Brompton, with its more traditional, oily chain.
Most stylish
Temple Cycles Classic
Price: from £2,995 | Weight: 19kg
Range: up to 74 miles
This Bristol-based brand is known for its elegant pushbikes, which are hand-built in the city. This is its electric version. It's a very sleek and functional commuter option and not too heavy. Temples have fewer proprietary（品牌专卖的）parts and so are serviceable in any bike shop. Stylish as they may be, the VanMoofs and the Cowboys can be a bit more complex to get back-up and service.
The money-no-object option
Riese & Müller Nevo4 GT Vario GX
Price: £5,380|Weight: 28.4kg
Range: up to 93 miles
This is a prime example of the attention to detail delivering a high-quality experience in functionality, comfort and practicality-if you can afford it. It has the capacity to handle 25kg of luggage in a pannier, powerful road lights and a beautifully smooth motor.
Four years ago, Rome Leykin was on his way to work when he accidentally fell onto the tracks of Brooklyn's L train as a subway was approaching. The incident resulted in the loss of both of his legs.
But surprisingly, with the loss of his legs, Leykin gained a new passion for racing. Before his accident, he wasn't really that athletic. He would just occasionally play basketball. But that all changed after he was introduced to hand cycling. "When I saw it, I was like, 'Oh, this is great. You don't even need legs to use it. This is perfect.'" he said. "So, I got on it, I rode and fell in love with it right away."
Within a few months, he completed the TD Five Boro Bike Tour, a 40-mile ride through New York City. After that, he did his first marathon in 2021. He fished that race in 2 hours and 11 minutes, placing 12th out of 38.
"I'm going to attend this year's marathon and take on challenges. My hands are on the wheel, my eyes are focused, and I think my time is going to speak for itself." he said. He's made a significant commitment to training. He hand cycles at least 13.1 miles a couple times a week and spends a lot of time in the gym.
And he plans to keep pursuing his athlete goals. He wants to complete the Abbott Six-the world's six largest marathons. One day, he said, he'll maybe even make the Paralympics.
For those who might be following his journey, he hopes they will take some lessons from his story. "There will be ups and downs but the trend is what's important. Focus on the good," he said. "'And also, take your big problems and split them into small solutions. And then all of a sudden, your big problems turn into many small wins."
C Achieve success at all costs D. Stick to your dreams.
The success of many North American crops partly depends on ground beetles, small insects that eat pests and weed seeds that could otherwise damage crops. But a new study by researchers in the U. S. and Canada suggests not all of the nearly 2,000 species of ground beetles found in North America will survive climate change. Some could decline. And that could have a far-reaching impact on agriculture, forestry, and conservation.
By analyzing data on 136 different ground beetle species across continental North America, Puerto Rico and Hawaii, the researchers found that a species' chance of success in a changing climate depends on several important factors, such as its habitat preference, body size, and whether it flies, climbs or runs.
"We found that less mobile, nonflying ground beetles, which are critical pest control agents, are more likely to decline over time in a warmer, dryer climate," said Tong Qiu, who led the study. "That means you're going to have more pests that can impact agricultural and forest ecosystems." But there is reason for hope, Qiu added, because the analysis also showed that habitat conservation can lessen these effects and reverse the trends in some areas.
"We hope conservation biologists will use this information and the online map that we created to better manage habitats for insects in general. Ground beetles are very beneficial to ecosystems, but they're largely invisible to the average person. In this paper we're showing the broad impacts they have on whole communities in forested and agricultural ecosystems," said Qiu.
The researchers used ground beetle count data from the National Science Foundation's National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and from 11 previously published studies to measure and map the beetles' distribution across North America. Habitat information, such as the location of gap s in forest canopies and the density of plants on a forest floor, was obtained by using NEON's imaging instruments to create detailed three-dimensional images of landscapes. They then entered the data collected into a computer model to simulate (模拟) climate changes to study how the insects would respond.
Automation was a hot topic. Nearly everyone agreed that people would be working less once computers and other kinds of automatic machinery became widespread. For optimists, this was a promise of liberation: At last humanity would be freed from constant toil, and we could all devote our days to more refined pursuits. But others saw a threat: Millions of people would be thrown out of work, and desperate masses would roam the streets. Looking back from 50 years hence, the controversy over automation seems a quaint and curious episode. The dispute was never resolved.
A. J. Hayes, a leader （and no relation to me）, wrote in 1964: Automation is not just a new kind of mechanization but a revolutionary force capable of overturning our social order. Whereas mechanization made workers more efficient--and thus more valuable--automation threatens to make them superfluous（过剩的）--and thus without value. The opinions I have cited here represent extreme positions, and there were also many milder views. But I think it's fair to say that most early students of automation, including both critics and enthusiasts, believed the new technology would lead us into a world where people worked much less.
As for economic consequences, worries about unemployment have certainly not gone away--not with job losses in the current recession approaching 2 million workers in our country alone. But recent job losses are commonly attributed to causes other than automation, such as competition from overseas or a roller-coaster financial system. In any case, the vision of a world where machines do all the work and people stand idly by has simply not come to pass.
The spread of automation outside of the factory has altered its social and economic impact in some curious ways. In many cases, the net effect of automation is not that machines are doing work that people used to do. Instead we've dispensed with the people who used to be paid to run the machines, and we've learned to run them ourselves. These trends contradict almost all the expectations of early writers on automation, both optimists and pessimists. So far, automation has neither liberated us from the need to work nor deprived us of the opportunity to work. Instead, we're working more than ever.
What about trades closer to my own vital interests? Will science be automated? Technology already has a central role in many areas of research; for example, genome sequences could not be read by traditional lab-bench methods. Replacing the scientist will presumably be a little harder than replacing the lab technician, but when a machine exhibits enough curiosity and tenacity, I think we'll just have to welcome it as a companion in zealous research. And if the scientist is elbowed aside by an automaton, then surely the science writer can't hold out either. I'm ready for my 15-hour workweek.
One of the primary goals of cognitive behavioral therapy (疗法) is finding effective ways to channel your anxiety into productive action. The best possible one is under the care of an experienced mental health care provider. Still, if you are hoping to stop being paralyzed (麻痹) by anxiety and use this energy to fuel and improve your life, you can.
Set a goal. Goal-setting is one way to use your anxiety as fuel. Take notice of your anxious thoughts and worries. What are you most concerned about? Instead of shaking in your boots, get to work developing a plan that allows you to overcome these fears.
Challenge yourself regularly to build resilience. Think of your resilience to anxiety as a muscle. Rather than avoiding those situations that cause anxiety, gradually expose yourself to them more often. When you do this, you will find that, over time, they lose their power. For instance, if you hate public speaking, you might benefit from signing up for a local Toastmasters club. Doing so will allow you to practice speaking in front of a group more often, which will reduce your anxiety.
Anxiety can feel like a live wire in your body. You can't sit still or focus. Exercise is a great activity to make use of this spare energy. Exercise offers a host of benefits like fighting off illness and helping you manage weight. One of the benefits most helpful to you, however, is its ability to neutralize anxiety and improve your mood.
Perform reality testing. You don't have to become a slave to your anxious thoughts, giving them permission to get you all worked up. Reality testing involves assessing a situation for errors in thinking. To assess the reality of this situation, you want to ask what evidence is there that says this is true. Did your friends actually call you lame? Are they avoiding you?
A. Put them to the test instead.
B. What are your biggest fears?
C. Burn off nervous energy with physical activity.
D. When you find yourself becoming anxious, check your thought patterns
E. Just transform anxiety into action by using positive strategies.
F. How can you deal with getting fired if it does happen?
G. The more you use the muscle, the stronger it becomes.
That holiday morning I didn't have to attend school. Usually, on holidays, Mother 1 me to sleep in. And I would certainly take full advantage of it. On this particular morning, 2 ,I felt like getting up early.
I stood by my window overlooking the 3 , having nothing better to do. But as it turned out, I was soon to learn about something 4 in life.
As I watched several people go by, get into their cars and go off, I 5 an old man on a bicycle with a bucket on its 6 and a basket rags and bottles on its back-carriage. He 7 from one car to another, washing and cleaning them. From the water on the ground, it seemed that he had already 8 washing and cleaning about a dozen or more cars. He must have begun to work quite early in the morning.
Several thoughts 9 my mind as I watched him work. He wasn't well-dressed. He had on a pair of shorts and a(n)10 T-shirt. The bicycle he rode was not by any means the kind modern 11 would want to be seen riding on. But he seemed12 with life. There he was, working hard at his small business,13 at passers-by and stopping to chat now and then 14 elderly men and women on their way to the market nearby.
There was a noticeable touch of15 in the way he seemed to be doing things—16 the windscreen (挡风玻璃), then standing back to admire it; cleaning the wheels and 17 , standing back to see what they look like after the scrub.
It was a 18 to learn, I felt. At no age need one have to beg for a 19 if one has good health and is willing to work hard. For a while I felt 20 of myself. Young as I am—just sixteen, and there was this old man who must have been usefully engaged perhaps before the sun appeared above the horizon.
The Grand Canal is the oldest and longest man-made waterway in the world with a history of more than 2,500 years, construction started in the Spring and Autumn Period. The 1794 kilometers' waterway is 22 times length of the Panama Canal. It is a golden waterway second only to the Yangtze River in China. The Grand Canal runs from Zhejiang to Beijing (pass) through six provinces and two municipalities and connects five main river systems.
The canal( function) as the backbone of the ancient empire's inland communication and trading systems. Grain, salt,(log) and silk were transported along the canal to all directions. Scores of towns along the banks developed, contributing (large) to ancient China's economy. The canal enormously promoted economic interaction and cultural exchange between the north south, which ensured the country's (stable).
In 2014, it was listed as a UNESCO world heritage site. In 2019 China issued a plan (construct) national cultural parks for the Grand Canal. During the last 2 years, building the Grand Canal national cultural parks (recognize) as a key task in the 14th Five-Year Plan. In future, cities along the Grand Canal will form a new cultural belt, green belt and tourism belt.
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. 每处错误及其修改仅限一词；2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
This morning I got up early and went to school as usually, only find there was nobody in the classroom because it was Sunday. "How a bad memory I have!" I couldn't help laughing. Stand in front of the school gate, I began to wonder what to do next. Suddenly a good idea occurs to me. "Why not get together with some good friends for a picnic in such a fine weather?" I immediately telephoned some of my best friends, but they all agreed to come to join me. About two hours late, we finally arrived a pleasant park with trees and flowers here and there. We really enjoyed us hugely.
注意：1) 词数100左右；2) 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3) 开头语已给出。
参考词汇：patriotic 爱国的；crow 啼叫，报晓
Dear Peter,
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Yours,
Li hua
