If you are interested in travelling, it is highly recommended to read these three books about exciting travels around the world.
One Man, One Bike
by Paul Carter
There are many ways to travel around Australia. But Paul decided to tour on a motorbike that runs on cooking oil. Why? He worked in the oil industry, and was keen to explore replaceable fuels(燃料). So he bought the unusual bike from some university students who had built it themselves and set off. In his book, he almost dies in a crash and he even attempts to break the land speed record for a motorbike running on biofuel.
Travels Through Unloved Britain
by Tim Moore
Travel writers usually go to the best destinations. But not Tim."My primary challenge was to have a good time in places that everyone had said I wouldn't,"said the author. In this book, Tim travels to the worst places in the UK. Follow him as he heads to"the emptiest towns and the scariest pubs". And to make matters worse, he does it in the middle of winter. But he does discover that even Britain's ugliest parts have inner beauty.
Coasting
by Jonathan Raban
In 1982, Jonathan bought a boat and sailed for Britain. And this is the book about his adventure. Along the way he gets caught in a few storms, explores seaside towns and even takes his ageing parents along for part of the journey. Jonathan also uses his time at sea to think about the development of Britain in history. Like all great travel writings, Coasting is actually a story about life.
When I started skating at 6 years old, I liked Dorothy Hamill so much that I had a Dorothy doll and would put it on the edge of the rink(溜冰场) to watch me skate on the ice. There was something meaningful to me about having the doll next to me as I would jump, fall and pick myself back up again. It was there inspiring me to never give up.
Fourteen years later, I followed Dorothy's path to become the first American woman figure skater (花样滑冰运动员) to win Olympic gold since she did it in 1976. And now, three decades later, Barbie (芭比娃娃) is honoring me with my own doll as the newest addition to its InspiringWomen Series.
Six-year-old me never would have imagined I'd be where I am today. But I made it because I was able to discover my dreams as a young girl. My Dorothy doll had the power — it was not just a piece of decoration on the ice rink; it inspired me to dream big and work hard.
When I achieved my dream, I felt like giving children chances to find their dreams and pursue them. Through working with children and raising my own girls, I quickly realized a child's success in life starts with a school education and an interest in reading. A book is more than just a book, just like what the Dorthy doll meant to me. That's where dreams are born. When children open up a book, they open up their world.
So in 1996, I established Always Dream, a nonprofit organization that aims to improve children's reading by providing access to books and encouraging families to read together. If I can do more for other young girls, not only with my Barbie Inspiring Women doll, but also with what I'm doing now, that just might be the biggest gold medal of all.
Parents who force their children to have piano lessons are keeping them away from classical music, Lang Lang, a world-leading pianist, has suggested. The Chinese musician stresses that children who are forced into piano lessons can end up shunning music.
Lang Lang has launched an initiative (倡议) through his foundation (基金会) to put piano lessons into primary school schedules, so they are not just an after-school activity for the rich. The lessons, designed by professionals, can be taught by any teacher and the foundation has donated dozens of digital pianos to schools. The initiative uses tablets (平板电脑) and keyboards to get children playing right away, from Beethoven to Mozart.
Lang, who became famous in his mid-twenties, expressed his strong disagreement with the parents who forced children to have piano lessons because"the neighbour's kid does". He said:
"Those parents don't even know what music is. They get their kids to play without knowing what they are going to listen for."
Lang said children had to be educated about classical music to truly enjoy it."You really need to have a good childhood education in music. Take the reading of Shakespeare as an example. If you don't learn Shakespeare in schools, you are less likely to pick it up later."
The school initiative, Keys of Inspiration, is running in 100 schools in America and 110 in China. And the UK programme has started in four primary schools in London. The initiative was created partly because arts education had been forced out in schools. Lang added:"When I came to America, the first day I realized few students in the high school knew Mozart. In the regular schools they just simply don't have art and culture."
An artificial intelligence(人工智能) system has shown it can save lives by warning doctors to check on patients whose heart test results show a high risk of dying. In a test with almost 16,000patients, the AI helped reduce the total deaths by 31% among people who were at high risk.
"This is actually quite amazing,"says Eric Topol at the Scripps Research TranslationalInstitute in California."It is quite uncommon for any drug to result in a 31% reduction in the number of deaths, and then even more unusual for a non-drug—this is just monitoring people withAI."
Chin Lin at Texas Medical Center and his colleagues trained their AI on more than 450,000 electrocardiogram(ECG) (心电图) tests, which measure the heart's electrical activity, along with the survival data of the ECG subjects.The AI learned to produce a percentile (百分位) score representing each patient's risk of death, whose score in the 95th percentile or higher would be considered high risk.
The researchers then tested the AI warning system with 39 doctors at two different hospitals.As nurses transmitted each new patient's ECG tests to a computer server, the AI system would analyse the results and warn doctors if it identified someone as being high risk. In addition to reducing the risk of death from all causes, the AI system also reduced the death rate from heart issues in high-risk patients by more than 90%.
Lin and his colleagues say the AI warnings may help focus attention on the highest risk group.During the research, doctors usually followed up warnings with more tests and treatment. The system is already being used across 14 hospitals in Texas."This can be put into effect in every hospital around the world," says Topol."It should be the standard of care when you see such a significant benefit."
It's hard to be energetic in your daily activities when worries are controlling your thoughts and influencing your work, school, or your home life. In fact, trying to do so often makes your worries stronger.
But that doesn't mean there's nothing you can do to control worries. Rather than trying to stop an anxious thought, the following are what you can do to help: allow yourself to have it, let it out, and get physically active.
Create a worry period. Choose a set time and place for worrying. It should be the same every day and early enough that it won't make you anxious right before bedtime. During your worry period, you're allowed to worry about whatever is on your mind. .
If an anxious thought comes into your head during the day, make a brief note of it.Taking it down is like saying it out, which helps you to reduce worries. Also, writing down your thoughts is much harder work than simply thinking them,so your worries are more likely to lose their power.
Get up and get moving. Exercise is a natural and effective treatment against anxiety because it helps relieve stress, promote energy,and improve your sense of well-being (幸福).Even more importantly,by really focusing on how your body feels as you move,you can stop worries running through your head. .
A. Write down your worries.
B. You just need a different method.
C. Remind yourself of the unfinished.
D. Telling yourself to stop worrying doesn't work.
E. The rest of the day, however, is a worry-free time.
F. The more you practice, the more control you'll start to feel over your worries.
G. As you relieve worries this way, you'll find it easier to build up your confidence.
When eleven-year-old Ella and Cash met at Ocean Heroes Camp 1 July 2019, they immediately 2 . Even their moms had no idea the kids would become 3 guards.
"We knew we could make a 4 ,"says Cash. Within a short time, their meeting changed into action, and then 5 the Cleanup Kids—a youth-led non-profit determined to make waves in environmental 6 . Ella's love for the environment started with the 7 of cleaning up rubbish. For Cash, his awareness was8 when a plastic straw(吸管) on the beach caught his eyes. That's when he realized the 48 facing thousands of sea creatures, which may 9 dying because of eating plastics. They are co-leading the Cleanup Kids, which now has over 20010 worldwide and counting.
"My hope is that it's not just hundreds of kids 11 us, but having a ripple effect (连锁反应),"says Cash. Members' 12 include conducting clean up,sorting and recycling rubbish.
In 2022, Cash and Ella received the Gloria Prize for Young Heroes. How can teenagers begin to make the 13 ? Ella's advice is to start 14 ."I started with just a couple of cleanups with my family,"says Ella."And just remember that teenagers may be only a small part of the population, but we're 100 percent of the 15 ,"she adds.
The woman, balancing a pot of water on her head, the stone and spilt the water everywhere.
The boy wanted to as a superhero to help the homeless.
you are a college student, you should learn to be independent and responsible for your own choice.
Three Chinese astronauts the Shenzhou 17 spacecraft returned to Earth safely after completing their mission.
The coach spoke highly of his sportsmanship, which left him .
As a five-year-old girl, Lin Qiaozhi (affect) deeply by her mother's death. At 18, she chose to study medicine instead of (get) married. Eight years later, Lin graduated Peking Union Medical College and was hired as a resident physician in the PUMC Hospital. But the department was closed because of the war. Later, Dr. Lin opened a private clinic (treat)patients and charged very low fees. She did not
retire until the day she died. And even as she (lie) dying, her final thoughts
were for others.
The virtual choir, which enables people to add their voices to those of others through the use of technology, was the idea of Eric Whitacre, an award-winning composer and(conduct).In 2009, Whitacre received a video of a girl who was singing one of his works.(inspire),he asked his fans to make videos, he then joined together into one performance. His first virtual choir received millions of views on the Internet. The virtual choir is wonderful way for people to sing with one voice,
thus making the world a(good) place.
1.回忆活动经历；
2.分享个人感悟；
3.希望保持联系。
注意：
1. 词数100左右;
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Jack,
Yours,
Li Hua
