Magazines make great reading materials for kids. Libraries often have a large selection of periodicals (期刊) for every age group and reading level, and for many areas of interest. And some magazines may even have issues going back years and even decades! Below is a list of some of them!
Military Kids Life
It is about finding the bright side of life as a military kid! Inside each quarterly issue, your child will encounter inspiring stories, articles, and photographs! (8 to 16 years)
Faces
With articles, folk tales, and hands-on projects, Faces magazine takes young readers around the world for an honest and objective view of how children in other regions live. (9 to 14 years)
Make
Make magazine publishes tested projects, skill-building tutorials, in-depth reviews and inspirational stories, accessible by all ages and skill ranges. (9 to 18 years)
Brio
Brio magazine for teen girls has a fresh new look that includes more pages filled with inspiring profiles, cultural insights, health & beauty tips, faith-filled features and added fun! (13 to 18 years)
Please note: Though all the magazines on this list are written for children, some issues may contain content that you may feel inappropriate for your child. As always, please review all reading materials before giving them to your child to read.
There can be no doubt that Stephen King, New York Time's Best-Selling author, has found success in many aspects, but it wasn't always like this. King witnessed tragedy and horrors from the very beginning. When he was 2 years old, his father told his mom that he was going out to get cigarettes but in fact, he never came back, he had abandoned his family.
This left his mother Ruth to care for Stephen and his elder brother David on her own. Ruth was forced to move often, desperately looking for work as she was now the only provider of the family, and she had to rely on relatives most of the time. One day Stephen went out to play with friends and when he came back, he wasn't even able to speak a single word, it seemed he was hurt mentally or something, but he still got the courage to continue forward. It turned out that one of his friends was hit by a train and died, which left an emotional scar on him.
King, later on, dropped out of school due to some serious health concerns and was told that he had to enlist (入伍) again the next fall, which demotivated him too. Although Stephen King didn't see his childhood as something extraordinary or special, he did say that he was always fascinated by scary things. People used to acknowledge the King family by their love of literature, in fact whenever Stephen's mom had to go out, she didn't hire a babysitter, for the kids used to read novels to each other so they would not get bored. Stephen King's love of stories was developed from a very young age and he carried that tradition with his own children along with his wife Tabitha.
In 1973, Stephen King started his amazing journey of success when he published his first novel Carrie, which is scary. The rest followed from after that as he published many amazing books like The Shining, IT,Firestarter, andCujo.All of these books became instant classics and got their own movie and television shows adaptions.
It was long theorized that people make decisions based on integrated global calculations that occur within the frontal cortex (额叶皮层) of the brain, which is considered the seat of higher-order thinking. However, Yale researchers have found that three distinct brain circuits from the frontal cortex connecting to different brain regions are involved in making good decisions, bad ones, and determining which of those past choices to store in memory.
The study of decision-making in rats may help scientists find the roots of bad decision-making common to mental health disorders such as addiction, the authors say. They used a new tool to manipulate (操纵) brain circuits in rats while they were making choices between actions that led to them receiving rewards or no rewards. If the rats made the right decision, one that ended in a reward, one of the brain circuits was activated, but another was activated if the rats made the wrong choice and received no reward. The third circuit stored past experiences and decisions to help the rats with future choices.
Stephanie Groman, lead author of the research says, "A comparison would be deciding on a restaurant for dinner. For instance, without the ‘good choice' circuit you may not return to the restaurant with good food and without the ‘bad choice' circuit you might not avoid the restaurant with bad food. The third ‘memory' circuit is crucial in making decisions such as whether to return to the restaurant after receiving one bad meal after several good ones."
Changes in these circuits may help explain a typical feature of addiction why people continue to make harmful choices even after repeated negative experiences, The Yale researchers previously showed that some of the same brain calculations were disrupted (扰乱) in animals that had taken methamphetamine. "Because we used a test that is similar to those used in studies of human decision making, our findings have direct relevance to humans and could aid in the search for novel treatments for substance abuse in humans," Groman said.
Nowadays, the world is slowly becoming a high-tech society and we are now surrounded by technology. Facebook and Twitter are innovative tools; text messaging is still a somewhat existing phenomenon and even e-mail is only a flashing spot on the screen when compared with our long history of snail mail. Now we adopt these tools to the point of essentialness, and only rarely consider how we are more fundamentally affected by them.
Social media, texting and e-mail all make it much easier to communicate, gather and pass information. But they also present some dangers. By removing any real human engagement, they enable us to develop our abnormal self-love without the risk of disapproval or criticism theatrical metaphor (隐喻), these new forms of communication provide a stage on which we create our own characters, hidden behind a fourth wall of tweets, status updates and texts. This unreal state of unconcern can become addictive as we separate ourselves a safe distance from the cruelty of our fleshly lives, where we are imperfect, powerless and insignificant. In essence, we have been provided not only the means to be more free, but also to become new, to create and protect a more perfect self to the world. As we become more reliant on these tools, they become more a part of our daily routine and so we become more restricted in this fantasy.
So it is that we live in a cold era, where names and faces represent two different levels of closeness, where working relationships occur only through the magic of email and where love can start or end by text message. An environment such as this reduces interpersonal relationships to mere digital exchanges.
Would a celebrity have been so daring to do something dishonorable if he had had to do it in person? Doubtful. It seems he might have been lost in a fantasy world that ultimately convinced himself into believing the digital self could obey different rules and regulations, as if he could continually push the limits of what's acceptable without facing the consequences of "real life."
"Find your passion!" When discussing future career options or selecting a major in college, your parents often say this. The very expression is meant to inspire. But is it good advice?
"Finding" a passion implies that it already exists and is simply waiting to be discovered. Unfortunately, this idea is not what science tells us.
To study this, researchers use a framework of "fixed" and "growth" mindsets. They argue that encouraging people to "find" their passion may cause them to eventually believe that interests and passions are inborn and relatively unchangeable. In contrast, people who view interests and passions as developed have a growth mindset of interest.
Researchers have revealed that a fixed mindset of interest can decrease creativity. If people believe they are limited to only a few inborn interests and, in consequence, do not explore other areas, they may miss seeing important connections across domains.
Evidently, people can do a lot to embrace a growth mindset of interest. First, realize that your interests and passions aren't pre-existing. Take an active role in developing your passions. Second, practise positive self-talk. When you lack interest in a new task, pay attention to your inner dialogue. For example, change "I'm not interested in this" to "I'm not interested in this yet, but I know that interest can develop with time and engagement."
But a growth mindset of interest will help you remain open and curious. The science tells us we should work toward loving what we do. We might become more creative and resilient as a result.
A. So can a growth mindset of interest be taught?
B. Instead, passions, like interests, are developed.
C. People who think this have a fixed mindset of interest.
D. Of course, not every activity will become a burning passion.
E. As such, seeing interests as fixed limits their creative potential.
F. Don't expect that pursuing new interests will always be easy or exciting.
G. Replace self-critical thoughts with positive ones that encourage growth and learning. 决胜
After my mother suffered from Alzheimer's disease (阿尔茨海默病), the plants in our house began to die. In years past, I remember the deep, earthy smell that would 1 in our house after my mother had made her weekly watering rounds. Back then, I never connected it with the care that was at the 2 of everything she did.
But now, leaves were3 , some dry and edged with brown, and many of the stems (茎) bare. It was a mark of how my mother can no longer attend to all the things that she lovingly cared for. I was so focused on the increasing 4 of her own care that her beloved plants had escaped my 5 .
I began her old rounds, pouring water into the thirsty soil, and soon the plants 6 . That's the thing about houseplants: They demand nothing. They wait quietly, no matter how7 they are. But even after my best 8 , some of the plants couldn't survive. My mother's kind caregivers have since brought new ones to add to her 9 , and my father buys fresh flowers every week.
Though Alzheimer's disease10 so much of her memory, her desire to care is still there. I would guide her down the steps to water the plants herself. I watched as her shaking hands picked the brown leaves. Each time, she smiled up at me with 11 satisfaction because being able to 12 something is still what brings her the greatest joy.
I look at plants 13 these days. I see them as my mother does: 14 reminders of the need for kindness toward all living things. It is clear to me that the things we spend a lifetime 15 are never truly lost and the love she has planted in me still blooms (开花).
Going on a vacation might seem like a rather unconventional way to try to improve your sleep habits, sleep tourism has been growing in popularity in recent years. An increasing number of sleep-focused (stay) are popping up in hotels and resorts (度假胜地) across the world.
In fact, interest (increase) since the pandemic, with a number of hotels focusing their attention on those (suffer) from sleep disorders. Over the past 12 months, Park Hyatt New York has opened the Bryte Restorative Sleep House, an 800-square-foot suite (套房) filled with sleep-enhancing facilities, are designed to "promote rest".
The global pandemic appears (play) a huge part in this. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that 40% of the over 2,500 adults who took part (report) a reduction in their sleep quality since the start of the pandemic.
But can short term sleep-focused travel experiences actually have a long term impact on a person's overall sleep? According to Dr. Robbins, sleep researcher and co-author of the book Sleep for Success, travel experiences centered around "healthy sleep strategies" that aim to help guests to improve their sleep (be) hugely beneficial.
"The concept of travel actually allowing you to return home (refresh) is a really exciting proposition," she adds.
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Dear Editor, …… Yours, Li Hua |
Isla and I were studying in the same school. We had been friends since we were six years old. I took Isla as a smart, funny friend, but not all students at our school did, especially the girl students. Girls in our school wore fashionable branded clothes, but Isla sewed hers and her curly hair and thick glasses made her look like a fish, which made her stand out like a sore thumb (招眼).
For me, sometimes I felt embarrassed to be around Isla, particularly when students said rude words about her hair, clothes, glasses — even about the fact that she got really good grades. Isla always seemed to be able to ignore what other students thought, but I couldn't. I began to distance myself from her. Our school had a tradition — there was a talent show every spring. Students would sing, dance, play musical instruments, and do whatever they could to show their talents. Being our graduation season in this senior school, this year's talent show would be obviously different. It would be a huge night.
Ava, who was an outgoing girl, invited me to be on her dance team. "We win the talent show every year, and we expect a satisfactory graduation this year," Ava said to me excitedly. "We need a new dancer. But only you, not her!" Ava pointed to someone behind me.
I didn't need to turn around to see who she meant. "Oh, I see," I said quietly. Ava had hardly headed out when someone tapped on my shoulder. It was Isla. When I saw her confused face, it was like waking up from a dream. Isla asked me eagerly, "Emily, are you going to take part in the talent show?" I hesitated without response. "That's great, Emily!" Isla told me without waiting for my answer that she was also going to participate this year. I couldn't believe what I had heard. I started to worry about her when I imagined that she was in front of a huge crowd, and that everybody would laugh at her.
Time passed quickly, and I had barely seen Isla since then. For me, I had to practice hard every day with Ava and the team to keep up since the other dancers had already known the steps.
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Finally, it was my turn to perform, and I felt extremely nervous. …… I stepped off the stage and expressed my thanks to Isla, who was ready to sing. |