Discover the art that moves you
Everyone is invited to enjoy kinetic art at Tate Modern
Art isn't just paintings hanging on walls. It can move. Art that moves is known as kinetic art. If this sounds like fun, head to UNIQLO Tate Play Holiday Make Studio: Kinetic at Tate Modern, where you can create your very own works inspired by art in Tate's collection. Materials will be provided, so all you need to build a piece of moving art is your imagination!
Design your own kinetic art
To make your piece of kinetic art at home, follow these simple steps below.
What you will need:
Scissors.
●Tape or string.
●Any spare materials such as paper, cardboard, buttons and plastic bottles.
1).Forinspiration,havealookonTate'swebsiteforkids www.tate.org.uk/kids.
2). Now, think about what you are going to create. Is it an object like a butterfly or a rocket, or will it be a special shape and object?
3). Try and find suitable spare materials to fit your idea. For example, paper for butterfly wings, cardboard circles for the Sun, a tin can for a special shape.
4). Carefully build your design and then use the tape or string to attach it to a coat hanger or old plastic bottle so it can twist and turn.
5). Ignore these rules and create your own moving art however you want to—just remember, it has to move!
How can I find out more?
UNIQLO Tate Play Holiday Make Studio: Kinetic runs from 25 May to 2 June at Tate Modern, London. It's free and no booking is required, just drop in!
For more information,searchUNIQLOTatePlayorgotowww.tate.org.uk/whats-on.
Opera is deeply rooted in Chinese culture. However, it requires only an opportunity to awaken people's interest. A Yue Opera play titled New Dragon Gate Inn is just the opportunity.
As the play gains popularity, an actress, who plays the important supporting role of JiaTing, has become a star. Nicknamed the "Jade-faced Man", Jia's handsome appearance and attractive yet natural charm have got more attention.
Now the actress is sparking a Yue Opera fever in China. She says her profession is a combination of the charms of both genders while showing a mysterious sense of beauty.
Innovation(创新) may be an important reason for this play to be popular. Unlike traditional opera stage, the theater is like an inn. The audience sit close to the performers. They are guests in the inn, and sometimes, the performers interact with them. In some cases, the audience become part of the play. They immerse themselves in a unique and fascinating viewing experience. The idea of the stage seems to disappear. So does the distance between performers and the audience. The audience and performers are all part of the play.
This fresh, unusual viewing experience has drawn young people to the theater again and again. They really like it. The success of New Dragon Gate Inn comes not only from the charm of the work itself, but also from the cultural heritage. Through the play, more people have come to realize that Yue Opera can tap more opportunities for the future of Chinese traditional opera.
"Opera is absorbed in the DNA of the Chinese. After a small stone is cast, the DNA awakens. I hope I am that small stone," the actress said. "Today, we are putting in great efforts to make Yue Opera more popular with the younger generation. This is a positive step in the revival of this ancient art."
Today, many people spend a lot of time reading online. Whether reading news or e-books, people are spending more time staring at screens. While online reading opens up a great deal of knowledge to people, there are some disadvantages too, such as tired eyes, headaches, as well as difficulty in focusing on the text. Now a new reading system, Bionic Reading developed by a Swiss company, can help people overcome these issues, and most importantly, it aims to help people read faster online and develop a more in-depth understanding of the content.
The reading system improves the reading process by guiding the eyes through the text with artificial fixation points. To make it short: some parts of the words are displayed in bold(粗体). As a result, the reader only focuses on the highlighted letters and lets the brain center complete the rest. Your brain can "read" faster than your eyes, so by reducing the number of letters your eye needs to look at, you can read faster while still preserving the full context.
The company discovered the system by accident. They were working on designing a book in a foreign language and realized they could read it if they sectioned it off. They worked for six years to develop Bionic Reading and are still working to adjust it.
An early study was conducted but more research is needed before it can be definitively shown that the system improves reading. Some people with ADHD(注意缺陷多动障碍) have proved that Bionic Reading helps them focus and understand what they are reading. Other people don't seem to notice a big difference compared to the regular text. There's also no evidence to suggest Bionic Reading is any better than the regular text. The best way to know if Bionic Reading helps you read better online is to try it yourself.
A team in Europe are working with wood, but not in the usual ways. They are not carpenters (木匠). Instead, they are scientists exploring how wood can lead to a greener electronic device, a transistor (晶体管) made from balsa wood, whose production releases less climate-warming gas into the air.
Transistors play an important role in computers and other devices. They act like tiny switches to control the flow of electricity. Engineers use them to process and store data. Today's laptops may host billions of them. So they must be tiny—only a little wider than a strand of DNA.
The new transistor being built by physicist Isak Engquist and his team at Sweden's Linköping University isn't as small as those. Big enough to see and hold, it can stand only an electric pressure that pushes electrons along. And it controls a current using charged particles (粒子) called ions.
This new technology shows a "proof of concept" that the idea can work, even if the new device is not yet ready to put into today's electronics. "While it seems large by today's standards, such a transistor still might prove useful for electronics that require low electric pressures," says Engquist.
"The new transistor suggests that future electronic devices might be made in living plants," Daniel Simon, a physicist in the team, says. "Imagine peeling away some bar k from a living tree," he says, "and stamping electronic circuits into the living wood."
In fact, Engquist says, "There are so many ways we can use wood and the components of wood that we would never have thought of." For instance, he can now imagine a wood-based sensor that could monitor crop health, measure pollution or survey a forest for fire risk.
Most of us agree that life's real education happens outside the classroom. However, they are not the only ones. In fact, traveling is the best way to learn things. Here are some reasons why traveling is the best form of education.
You learn history. All that was really cool. However, nothing beats traveling to historic landmarks and exploring your way around a city's history and culture. When you visit museums, palaces and galleries, the entire nation's history comes out right in front of you. Learning about different dynasties, conflicts and changes is so much easier when you actually explore a nation.
You learn social skills. You may be shy and find it difficult to engage yourself socially. But traveling will change that as things like talking to strangers are not an option but a necessity during travels. Taking some social skill courses is useful. However, you can achieve it by traveling your way to a wonderful place on your own. .
You learn to do new things. When you are traveling, you are forced to do plenty of new things. Therefore, you must learn to be able to adapt to a new learning environment in a very short time. It also helps in your overall learning as well.
Probably the most important aspect of education that travel helps is your education about yourself. By traveling, you realize your true potential, the things that you really enjoy and the person who you really are. Without travel, you probably have a very limited understanding of yourself. And you may even be completely unaware of your real personality.
A. You learn about yourself.
B. You learn a lot by chatting.
C. You are out of your comfort or familiar situation.
D. You'll learn much better than through such courses.
E. You can study about the major historical events in your history class.
F. Classrooms with teachers and textbooks are of course one way to learn.
G. This helps you meet a lot of new people and experience some exciting things.
Thomas became a hero at
61. One night, his family had already gone to 1 . In the house next to Thomas' lived a mom, a little boy and a little girl. The mom had been preparing dinner. Feeling 2 , she forgot about the food and fell asleep on a sofa. When she 3 ,the house was full of fire and smoke.
4 the girl and her mom ran out, but the boy was left inside. The mom 5 knocking on Thomas' door. He got up quickly and went to answer the door. The woman6 and asked Thomas to help her son, who was in the 7 . Thomas told his wife to call 911, and quickly went to 8 .
Thomas 9 rushed into the house to save the boy. He was crawling(爬行) on his10 and knees, trying to find the boy. It was 11 with no electricity, and the wood panels were burning and making his hands blister(起水疱). At this point, he didn't care; his12 was to save the boy. Finally, he found the boy 13 in the hallway unconscious(昏迷的). He picked up the boy and ran out. When they finally got outside, Thomas performed CPR on the boy and made him come back to life.
Thomas was later 14 the Government Award for his bravery. He was also awarded the Carnegie Medal for his act of heroism. Thomas's story is a great example of someone being15 .
You may sometimes notice people with purple circles on their skin from cupping (拔火罐). Or maybe you know someone believes in acupuncture(针灸) for his back pain.
More and more people are using practices these from traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) to not only fight disease, but also prevent it.
TCM is ancient system of health that (use) in China for thousands of years. While western medicine focuses mainly on treating disease, TCM looks at your entire well-being. With a little background on how it's used, you can make wiser choices to improve your health.
Western medicine tends (view) the body a lot as a car. It has different systems that need the right inputs and outputs. TCM, on the other hand, is based on balance, harmony, and energy. There are two (centre) ideas behind TCM:
Qi: This is also called life energy. The (believe) is that it runs throughout your body. It's always on the move and (constant) changes. TCM treatments often focus on ways to promote and maintain the flow of qi.
Yin and yang: These are (opposite) that describe the qualities of qi. It's believed everything in life has a little bit of its opposite but balance is the key.
According to TCM, when the yin and yang of qi is in balance, you feel healthy and well. When not, you feel sick. TCM aims to create harmony and a healthy flow of qi.
1.做好学习规划；
2.与家人一起旅行；
3.询问他的暑期计划。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80个左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Peter,
Yours,
Li Hua
My name is Shelly and I am a young author. I have been writing books for years and they have been published. However, they didn't sell well. I thought it was time to promote the sales and share my stories with the world by myself. However, I hadn't expected that this decision would take me on an adventure I could have never imagined.
I have always loved the fast-paced atmosphere of this modern city. It keeps my mind sharp and quick. With my bag full of copies of my first book, I set out to sell them. I walked along the busy streets, stopping at every possible bookstore, trying to persuade them to stock my book. But every manager I spoke to gave me the same answer—"Sorry, we are not interested."
I was sad. I had put my heart and soul into my book, and here I was, facing many rejections. But I refused to give up. I knew that I needed to get my books sold. As I walked, lost in my thoughts, someone tapped my shoulder. I turned around and saw a young man, probably in his mid-twenties, smiling at me. "Excuse me, Miss. I couldn't help but overhear your conversation with that bookstore manager. I happen to own a small bookstore a few blocks from here. I would be happy to stock your book," the man said.
I couldn't believe my luck. I followed the young man to his bookstore. He introduced himself as Alex, and we ended up chatting for hours. He had a love for books and was glad to help a struggling author like me. From that day on, Alex's bookstore became my go-to place to sell my books.
Months went by, and slowly, my books started selling well. Alex and I became good friends, and he even recommended my books to his customers. I was happy and grateful for his support, but my journey was not smooth.
注意：
1.续写词数应为 150个左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
One day, as I got to the bookstore, I noticed many people outside.
With the help of our supporters, we were able to reopen the bookstore.
