World's Best Summer Festivals
The Governors Music Festival
A relative newcomer to the summer music festival scene, the Governors Ball offers a variety of performers and a taste of New York culture. Visitors can watch shows from rock, electronic, and performers, all while tasting food from popular New York City restaurants. To take a break from the music, festival goers can participate in activities such as Silent Disco or lawn (草坪) games.
WHERE: New York City
WHEN: June 3-5
Roskilde
Created by two Danish college students, Roskilde has developed from a hippie (嬉皮士) gathering ground to a mainstream music festival. The festival attracts followers from all over the world to watch their favorite artists perform in large tents.
WHERE: Roskilde, Denmark
WHEN: June 25-July 2
Montreux Jazz Festival
Set on Lake Geneva's beautiful shoreline, the Montreux Jazz Festival attracts a global audience. Founded in 1967 as a jazz-only festival, Montreux has since evolved into a two-week-long showcase that attracts more than 200,000 music enthusiasts. Performances don't end on the shore; visitors can catch themed shows from boats and train cars.
WHERE: Montreux, Switzerland
WHEN: July 1-16
Rock al Parque
Rock al Parque is proud of an attendance of 88,600 visitors a day. Most music festivals require tickets, but the participation in the three-day festival is free of charge. Festival-goers line up to watch performances from some of Latin America's most popular artists, but the festival also offers performances from international bands.
WHERE: Bogota, Colombia
WHEN: July 2-4
"Do what you love, not what others tell you is right," says Georgia Lines of New Zealand.
I spoke with the 24-year-old singer-songwriter earlier this month about her rise to fame. In 2022, Lines was named breakthrough artist of the year at the annual Aotearoa music awards ceremony. Aotearoa is the Māori name for New Zealand, an island country in the Pacific Ocean that is home to more than 5.1 million people.
Lines makes success look easy, but she has worked hard to perfect her skills. "I love what I do," she told me. "I love it when I get lost in the music, and everything works together."
Already Lines has opened for pop singer George Ezra. She hopes "to open for Harry Styles one day," she added.
Lines has written more than 20 songs and worked together with several top artists including Jack Burton, Alex James, and Cassie Henderson. "I love working with other people and cooperating," Lines said. "I find I work better when I'm with others so we can bounce ideas off each other."
When asked about her musical ambitions growing up, Lines smiled. "I was never a musical genius as a child," she said. "But I always loved singing and music."
In recent years, Lines has drawn enthusiastic crowds for her concerts. The video for her hit song, "No One Knows", won best music video of the year in New Zealand in 2021.
As for her future goals, Lines said that she wanted "to have a sustainable (可持续的) career and to keep doing what I love." That means, focusing on her own career and artistic achievements. "Comparison is the robber of success," she said. "If I had stopped to compare myself with others, I wouldn't have made it as far as I have."
Along the streets of Malabon in the Philippines, Marilene Capentes pushes a cart every morning except Sundays. The city of Malabon is just north of the capital, Manila.
Capentes is a waste picker. She collects bags of separated garbage, placing food waste in one container. This material will be turned into compost (堆肥) at the local recycling center. The rest of the waste goes into separate containers. The recyclable materials are later sold.
Capentes said the heavy rubbish used to be all mixed together. Then a few years ago, a local environmental nonprofit (非盈利机构) started asking people to separate their rubbish.
The Mother Earth Foundation in the Philippines is a member of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, called GAIA. The organization wants to avert food waste from going to landfills. Food waste gives off biogas (沼气) as it breaks down. Biogas is a powerful greenhouse gas.
At a material recycling center in Malabon, organic (有机的) waste collected from households is turned into compost. This material then goes into a community garden to grow vegetables. Some of the food waste is broken down into biogas. This biogas is then used to cook vegetables for waste workers to eat.
There are challenges in establishing these systems in new places. It costs money to set up a facility for composting. People, including local officials, have to be educated on the importance of separating waste. Containers have to be provided to families that cannot buy more than one.
And sometimes separating organic waste is not thought to be important. Also, unlike recyclables and metals, there is not a large market for organic materials. Therefore, waste workers must be paid for the system to work. But these problems can be solved. More people are making the connection between reducing biogas and fighting climate change.
Humans spend about one third of their lives sleeping. But some mammals (哺乳动物), like the northern elephant seal, survive with much less sleep.
Researchers in a new study described the unusual sleep pattern of these ocean animals. They found that when these mammals go to feed on trips that can last seven months, they sleep just two hours each day. Those two hours of sleep are made up of short moments of rest lasting only 10 minutes each as they dive deep to avoid predators (捕食者). The only other mammals known to get so little sleep are African elephants.
The researchers placed a head covered with sensors on the heads of the seals that they studied. The sensors recorded sleep signals created by the seals' brains and heart rate. The sensors also recorded the animals' location and depth beneath the sea.
The researchers studied female seals because they go out on long open-ocean trips while males feed in coastal waters.
During dives lasting about 30 minutes, the seals went into a deep sleep called slow-wave sleep while keeping a controlled downward movement. When they then experienced rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, the seals fell into a turning pattern. Then, at the deepest point of their sleeping dive—up to 377 meters deep—they wake up and swim back to the surface.
Terrie Williams is a scientist at the University of California at Santa Cruz who helped write the study. She said, "It is remarkable that a wild animal will fall into deep, paralytic REM sleep when there are predators on the hunt." She added that the seals solve this problem by going into deep sleep in the deep parts of the oceans where predators usually do not hunt them.
Williams said the brain's ability to control awakening the sleeping seals at a depth before they drown is also a discovery about how mammalian brains work. She commented on this saying that it shows the survival control of the seals' brains.
Reasons to Put on Your Rollerblades and Hit the Pavement
Rollerblading (旱冰) is great for building balance, strengthening muscles, and improving mental health. It's also a cheap, fun, and eco-friendly way to get your daily exercise in.
It's fun
We all know that we should be exercising several times a week, and picking a workout that is fun naturally motivates us to get up and get going. The top benefit of rollerblading is exercise in ways that are fun, soul-filling, and mental health-improving.
It's cheap
Rollerblading is also a great exercise choice because it costs very little. There's no need to pay for a monthly gym membership or expensive equipment. Rollerblades cost a lot less than a bike.
It's eco-friendly
Rollerblading is much faster than walking and can take you up to ten miles. Maybe that's why some Viennese citizens are choosing to use this sustainable (可持续
) activity for their means of transportation.
Skater and climate activist, Gerhard Ladstatte explains why he started Friday Night Skating, a free street skating event. "We want to move without burning fuel." People looking for an oil-free way to get to a workplace that isn't too far from home, while combining daily exercise into their routine, can consider rollerblading to work.
It's good for your mental health
Like any form of aerobic exercise, skating is associated with a number of wellness benefits. By fixing your attention on both the body and its surroundings, you can shift focus away from negative thought patterns and anxieties. Rollerblading can also increase self-confidence and positive feelings.
A. In other words, rollerblading has it all.
B. Exercise and fresh air can reduce stress.
C. Not only is skating cheap, it also benefits nature.
D. All you need is a pair of skates and some safety equipment.
E. Rollerblading is an exciting way to get in fresh air and exercise.
F. It's easy to see why so many people are discovering the joys of skating.
G. Unlike a bicycle, you don't need to find a place to store your skates while you work.
I had spent some time in the morning talking to my granddaughter about being "generous". She had a lot of chocolates. I asked her if she had thought about how she was going to 1 her good fortune with her sister? "No!" she said.
That's why I 2 her to share, and why it's good to be generous. Not sure if she was convinced, we then 3 out on the town, in Sydney. I wanted to show her Chinatown and shop at the markets.
After shopping I took her to a 4 . She is a fussy (挑剔的) eater. She was having a good time and even tried some new 5 while I taught her how to 6 chopsticks.
I noticed a man sitting near me having lunch Then he got up to 7 and upon leaving he paid for our 8 . The shop owner checked with us if that was OK. I was so 9 . Then he was gone before I really had 10 to thank him. My 9-year-old granddaughter was really 11 by this. We were then also gifted dessert by our waitress. Good 12 came in pairs.
Upon leaving I 13 them $5. Then I said to my granddaughter "we don't really need a 14 lunch, do we? So now we have to pay our good fortune forward to someone else." She got money 15 and was looking for a homeless person.
Body language is an important part of (communicate). If you wish to communicate well, then it makes sense to understand how you can use your body to say what you mean.
Different culture usually makes different body language. Chinese often greet others with a firm handshake, but Americans like a loving hug instead. Russians like to kiss on their (friend) cheek. Some body language also have same meaning in different countries we speak different languages. Smiling is one of them. Take care your body language, then you may make a good impression.
Body language (use) by people for sending messages to one another. It is very useful because it can help you make yourself easily (understand). When you are talking with others, you are not just using words, but also using expressions and gestures. For example, waving one hand (be) to say "Good-bye." A smile and handshake show welcome, and (clap) hands means congratulations. Nodding the head means agreement, but shaking the head means disagreement. The gestures are accepted both by Chinese and foreigners as having the same meanings.
When you use a foreign language, it is very important to know the meanings of (gesture) and movements in the foreign country.
注意：1.词数 80 左右;2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
When I worked as a nurse, I was on day duty while my workmates were on night duty. On one shift, I sensed something strange just before going off duty at 1 1 am. I put down the tray (托盘) on the table and suddenly it fell off the table. At first, I didn't care as I thought I had accidentally knocked it over, but then I felt the whole building shaking and heard patients were screaming and running madly.
At that moment, I realized that an earthquake was happening. My first thought was to rescue my patient and protect myself. I quickly caught hold of a nearby patient, who was terribly frightened and pushed her under a bed. And then, I got under another bed myself. As soon as the earthquake stopped, I decided to try and get the patient safely outside. I carried her out and helped her down to the grassland, where several other people had gathered.
As I was afraid that my other workmates were in danger, I went back inside the building again. When I met Lucy, our head nurse, I found her patient couldn't walk. We made a seat for the patient by linking our hands and arms, and carried her outside together. We went back through the building to check if anyone was left behind in our sickroom.
Just then, we saw that a man doctor was calling for volunteers to go down to other sickrooms with him to help more patients and medical workers. So we followed him together. The doctor went ahead of us and found one of the nurses partially covered with broken stones, luckily still alive. Suddenly, the aftershock struck and the doctor ordered us to leave. The brave doctor intended to stay alone and risk his own life to save the nurse.
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But no one was willing to leave.
My next task was to settle and care for the sick on the ground.
