Your home can be a dangerous place. But, if you understand what you can do to make your home safer, you can prevent accidents. And always keep a first-aid kit in your home—just in case there is an accident.
The kitchen, bathroom and bedroom are the most unsafe places. Common accidents in these rooms include falls, fires, poisoning, cuts, hot water burns and electric shocks.
THE KITCHEN
Make sure the floor is not wet or slippery.
Always use a ladder (梯子) to reach high cupboards; never stand on a chair.
Always cut away from your body when you use a knife.
Follow directions for all electrical appliances carefully.
Unplug (拔掉插头) all appliances, especially irons, after use.
Keep matches out of the reach.
Store all cleaning materials and poisonous materials in a locked cupboard.
THE BEDROOM
Never smoke in bed
Unplug electric blanket (毯子) when not in use.
Have a telephone near the bed, especially if ill.
THE BATHROOM
Don't plug in an electrical appliance or use it while standing in water.
Don't use a hair dryer near a bath containing water.
Never leave a little child alone in the bath.
PREVENTING FIRES
Fires can cause terrible damage to your home and terrible injuries to people. But people are more important than things; so, if there is a fire, get everyone out of the house safely. Then call for help. Never go back into a burning building to save your things.
Have fire extinguishers in the house, which can be quite helpful at the beginning of a fire.
Buy clothes, curtains and toys that do not burn easily.
Put screens in front of fires.
Use heaters very carefully as they can set objects on fire. Place them away from furniture.
When cooking, do not let oil touch flames or other sources of heat.
Check electrical wires a number of times a year to make sure they are in good condition
Put covers over electrical outlets if young children are at home.
Pablo Picasso, born in 1881 in Malaga, was an active artist for most of his long life. His father, an artist himself, was his first and most formative art teacher. Picasso had one of the most fruitful and creative careers in history.
Picasso went through many creative periods in his career. His "Blue Period" started in 1901, when one of his dear friends, a painter and poet named Carlos, passed away in a cafe in Paris. Picasso was deeply affected, and sank into a depression that lasted several years.
In 1904, Picasso moved to Montmartre in Paris, and settled into the community of artists and creators there. Coming out of his depression, Picasso moved on from dark and serious subjects in his paintings to more lighthearted compositions featuring harlequins, clowns and carnival performers. His color palette (调色盘) warmed up as well, with his paintings now bathed in reds, oranges, pinks and earth tones. This period was known as Picasso's "Rose Period" and it lasted until 1906.
From 1906 to 1909 Picasso was heavily inspired by African art, after he was exposed to traditional African masks (面具) and other art objects coming from Africa into French museums in Paris. This stage was called his "African Period", and was a precursor (先驱) to his most famous period, "Cubism". Influenced by Paul Cezanne's experimentation with three-dimensional spacing and perspective on art, Picasso and Georges Braque led the artistic movement known as Cubism. This way of breaking down a form to its most basic forms and reconstructing them in an abstracted way is what Picasso is most known for.
Throughout his life, Picasso took inspiration from everywhere in his life, whether it be working through his emotions, responding to a difficult life event, or the works of his fellow artists. In turn, his life's works have inspired and influenced millions of people around the world and forever changed the history of art.
Life is precious, but health is more precious than it because life without health is just like food without taste. Health gives you the opportunity to live your life full of joy and make you able to do all of its activities as you desire. When you live a healthy lifestyle, your body remains healthy, and your mind stays fresh. So, this would prevent you from so many severe diseases, and live a healthy life to its full extent.
Living a healthy lifestyle not only extends your life but also rejuvenates your body and mind; it will help you feel better. Although a healthy habit is very hard to develop, it needs a change in one's mindset. But a firm will and a focused goal will help you to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Most of us have some kinds of health issues like overweight, lack of energy, and dull appearance. A good healthy lifestyle plays an important role in overcoming these issues. It will encourage you to live your life with no chance of a great difficulty in life.
A healthy lifestyle plays a vital role in boosting the energy in a person's body and providing a better performance in every activity of life. It minimizes the chances of insufficient sleep, and a person's body will get all the essential nutrients (营养) that are required to function precisely. A healthy lifestyle includes slight changes in life like daily habits and routine, and the most important food you eat because the food you eat impacts directly on your body and behavior.
Bad habits in your daily lifestyle may lead to a bad emotion, and you can improve it by adopting a healthy lifestyle. It will lead you to a relaxed mind and keep you energetic in a day. It is human nature that when a person is happy and satisfied, he performs his work more accurately and creatively, but if his mood is not refreshing then he can't perform anything at his best. A fine and healthy lifestyle will help the person to release stress and tension from his mind, so this person can perform all the tasks in his best condition and give amazing results.
Clean energy may also be called renewable energy or green energy, and it specifically refers to energy produced from renewable resources without creating environmental problems. There are several other ways that this term can be explained, however. It may refer to energy processes that pollute less or, alternately, to energy that doesn't pollute at all and doesn't use resources that can't be easily renewed, The basic forms of clean energy are often referred to as those that come from water, wind, or sun.
It's hoped that using this type of energy, especially as a total replacement for use of things like oil, might help to reduce global warming and greenhouse gas emission, creating a safer world for all people. In reality, clean energy has its problems too, which have not been fully realized that it is not a complete replacement for energy created by non-renewable resources. For instance, wind farms that can provide power may have significant effect on local bird populations, and birds of some types can face serious reduction of numbers when they live near wind farms.
Nevertheless, these negative consequences tend to be smaller in comparison to the use of oil or non-clean coal. Many environmentalists reason that, though no power source is completely without risk, green energy could have a wide-reaching effect on helping the planet to recover and perhaps stopping the trend of global warming. An additional reason why it can be so desirable is that it tends to come from sources that are free. While controlling this energy costs money, wind and sun aren't owned by anybody in particular. Otherwise, political problems may be created and wars may be fought for a certain resource. For example, most of the oil in the world is gathered in a few places, and the majority is located in the Middle East. So they believe that wind or solar energy could lead not only to a cleaner planet, but also a more peaceful world.
Much remains to be done to figure out how to best control renewable energy sources and how to use them to their best advantage. One issue is how to transport collected energy from one place to another, since many places that produce this energy are located in remote locations. Changing the power net to adapt to different sources of energy can help this problem, but this has yet to occur on a wide range.
Imagine that you are in a remote village somewhere with no medical clinic.Once the doctors get to you, they examine you and take blood samples, but they won't be able to help you until they take the samples back to the hospital to find out what is wrong. Thanks to engineer Andy Ozcan, many people may never be in this situation. He has invented an app that turns your mobile phone into a diagnostic (诊断的) tool.
Ozcan's invention is important because it is very accurate and easy to use. In many remote places, even if doctors have microscopes and other instruments to help them make diagnoses, there may still be other problems. Many doctors, for example, don't have enough training to correctly interpret what they see. With Ozcan's mobile phone app, health workers can take a special photo of a blood sample and send it to a central computer at a hospital. The computer will then automatically interpret the photo and send a diagnosis back in a few minutes.
His technology only requires a mobile phone and an Internet connection. As more than four billion people already have cell phones, the cost of establishing the diagnostic system is fairly low.
By inventing a medical tool that uses existing technology—mobile phones—Ozcan has developed a medical tool that is both practical and economical. Therefore, it can be effectively almost anywhere. .
A. As a result, they may diagnose illnesses incorrectly.
B. People are trying to reduce the cost of this new medical tool.
C. This tool has become much more popular all around the world.
D. Another reason that Ozcan's invention is important is that it is inexpensive.
E. You become very sick and must wait days until a mobile medical unit arrives to help.
F. Ozcan's simple, cost-effective tool might just save millions of lives around the world.
G. Even though you may only have a simple infection, you might die because of the delay.
Songs brings us through our life. Each time I listen to my favorite song Reach, I'm deeply 1 by its lyrics: "If I could reach higher, just one moment touch the sky…" When we hear this 2 song sung by Gloria Estefan, we can 3 imagine how she managed to return to the stage after her serious back injury. In 1990, this Cuban singer was 4 in a terrible traffic accident, and the doctor declared that she might never walk again. But Gloria didn't give up and kept on working hard toward her 5 . Just one year after the disaster happened, she stood up again and 6 this encouraging song at the Atlanta Olympics.
7 I think of Gloria, a memory crowds in my mind. When I entered university, naturally shy, ordinary looking, and with 8 scores in my lesson, just like an ugly duckling. I seemed to be the 9 outstanding one in my class. Continuous failures drove me into 10 . "Am I to take a back seat to everyone else?" 11 to give in to such a fate, I spared no effort to work on my lessons and joined in many activities, such as English speech contests and dramas. I just wanted to catch every little chance 12 myself. Luckily, all I had done finally paid off. I received some 13 . More importantly, I gained courage and confidence to face any difficulty in my life.
14 is just like farming. You 15 what you plant. Once you have a dream, don't hesitate. Keep moving.
Luosifen, from the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou, is a symbolic dish known for its strong smell. The smell can be unpleasant for first-timers, , those who brave it often find the taste unforgettable.
(combine) the traditional food of the Han people with that of the Miao and Dong ethnic groups, luosifen (make) by boiling rice noodles with pickled bamboo shoots (腌笋), dried turnips (干萝卜), fresh vegetables and peanuts in spiced river snail (田螺) soup.
Originating in Liuzhou in 1970s luosifen began as a cheap street snack that remained relatively unknown outside the city. It was not until 2012 a hit Chinese food documentary, "A Bite of China", featured it that it became a household name.
The development of the Internet, especially the rise of e-commerce and online food shows, has brought this Chinese passion luosifen to a new level. Luosifen (frequent) appears in videos by food bloggers and hosts of eating shows. One of the most influential is Li Ziqi, who has many fans on YouTube. Her video on how to make luosifen (receive) more than 61 million views on the website so far.
With its increasing (popular), the local government is working on making it known internationally. In 2019, authorities in Liuzhou City announced plans (seek) UNESCO's recognition of luosifen as an intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产).
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A few years ago, the company that I worked for sent my wife and me to live in New York for a year. I've always loved running, so I was really happy when I found I lived next to Central Park. This meant that every morning I could go running before I went to work.
Because a lot of people had told me to be careful of robbers (抢劫犯) in the park, so usually I didn't take anything with me. How could they rob me if I didn't have anything? But one morning, my wife gave me 10 dollars and asked me to buy some bread on the way. It was a beautiful morning and the park was quiet with few people walking or jogging around. While I was running through the park, another jogger knocked into (撞到) me. He said sorry to me and continued running. For a while, I didn't think too much of it.
However, when I noticed the wide path where I was running, I thought it was a little strange. The warning of robbers in the park hit me. "It could have been a robber!" I suddenly became anxious, so I checked my pocket and found that the money was missing. Without thinking twice, I ran after that jogger. I finally caught up and held him by the arm. I shouted, "Give me the 10 dollars! Now!" I am not usually a hot-headed (性急的) person, but I got really angry this time. I couldn't believe the robbery was actually happening to me.
Filled with anger, I shook my fist (拳头) at him. This seemed to frighten him. He quickly put his hand in his pocket and gave me 10 dollars. Then he ran away as fast as he could. I bought the bread and went home.
As soon as I got home, I couldn't wait to tell my wife the story. "You won't believe what happened to me," I said with pride. She immediately stopped me, "I know, you left the money for the bread on the kitchen table."
Looking at the money on the table, I stood there, shocked.
But I didn't give up finding him and for several days, I waited at the same place in the park.
