Want to know all the ins-and-outs regarding the Paris 2024 Olympics? Then you've come to the right place! Below you will find all the information about the new Olympic sports.
Olympic skateboarding
Who will follow in the footsteps of Momiji Nishiya, the first Olympic skateboarding champion, who was crowned at the last Games at the age of 13? The answer will be revealed in Paris this summer. Speed, technique, mastery of the board will be required to successfully perform the most beautiful tricks.
Olympic sports climbing
With its second time entering the Olympics, sports climbing has three branches: Speed, Bouldering (抱石攀岩)and Lead. Speed is all about the speed of climbing. Bouldering is all about climbing a boulder on a wall and Lead requires athletes to climb a difficult route 20 meters high.
Olympic surfing
The Olympics will be held in Paris, but what about Olympic surfing? There is one venue(场地)that is literally on the other side of the world. The location Teahupoo, on the island of Tahiti, is where Olympic surfing will take place. This island is part of French Polynesia, between Australia and South America.
Olympic breakdancing
Breakdancing is the new Olympic sport that will make its first appearance in Paris 2024. How to establish a grading system without taking away the artistic freedom at the same time? The points should be based on creativity and musicality, a gray area that depends a lot on feeling and thus has a lot of subjectivity to it.
Looking for a handy list of all sports? Click here! Throughout Paris there are all kinds of stadiums and arenas(竞技场)where sporting events are held. Not only Paris itself, but also the surrounding suburbs of the capital of France set the stage for the Olympic Games!
Before going abroad, I was very concerned about culture shock, but it turned out that I had a harder time dealing with reverse(逆向的)culture shock when returning home. Coming back has been a tougher transition than expected. It's not just about transitioning back to home life; it's also about handling the strange situation of being a different person in the same old environment. I am most terrified of waking up in a few months and feeling like I'm the same person I was before I studied abroad.
This situation is especially strange with people who have known me for a long time, like my parents, who witnessed all my major life changes before this one. I didn't realize how much I'd changed until I interacted with them and close friends. Despite only being away for three and a half months, I quickly noticed the differences between who I was before and who I am now. Over the past few weeks at home, I've been wondering how to maintain the positive changes and qualities gained from my semester abroad.
I've realized that surroundings and situations greatly influence mindset, and keeping a certain mindset while losing its corresponding(相对应的)environment is challenging. For instance, being in Madrid taught me to be more relaxed and stress-free. However, returning to Penn State with its demanding course load makes maintaining that mentality(心态)difficult. I've come to realize the problem that perpetual stress about school isn't healthy, especially after experiencing a semester of travel, fun, and academic success. Therefore, I've decided to work hard and study as usual but occasionally give myself a break, and do what I can to avoid getting over-stressed about tests and assignments. This means I will put in effort when necessary in order to make sure I am always caught up or ahead of class material.
Coming home has been more challenging than expected, but I'm confident I'll get through it in the next few weeks. Nevertheless, I'm determined to maintain the important lessons I learned about myself and others in Madrid.
In the spring, the western tanagers(唐纳雀)prepared to migrate(迁徙)thousands of miles to the forests of the Mountain West, flying through grasslands, deserts, and occasionally, suburban yards.
To fuel them on their lengthy journey, western tanagers feed on insects and berries. They must take advantage of the early-season boom in insects that started with springtime plant growth to produce healthy young. But as global climate change caused spring to start earlier, birds such as western tanagers were arriving at their destination after what was known as "green-up", when flowers began blooming and insects popped up. With the shift of the time when plants put out new leaves, western tanagers became more likely to reach their destinations when food is in shortage or after insect numbers have begun to drop.
Scott Loss, a professor at Oklahoma State University and his colleagues used satellite imagery to calculate the average start of spring green-up along the typical migration routes of 150 North American bird species, and then compared that timing with the current green-up. They found that spring was indeed beginning earlier along birds' migration routes. The trend continued this year.
The paper continued to build this picture of the inability of birds to track the changing seasons caused by climate change. Timing mismatches between birds and their food could affect whether birds survived the migration and how many chicks they had.
Morgan Tingley, an researcher at UCLA said that the migration research could indicate conservation efforts in the future. "Part of it suggested which species were vulnerable(易受伤害的)to various threats," Tingley said. "This added to the knowledge about vulnerability of a wide range of bird species." And he hoped that the information would serve to highlight the urgent need to lower greenhouse-gas emissions as fast as possible: "It was really important, if we couldn't address climate change immediately, to try to stop habitat loss as much as we can."
One thing that many Americans can agree on, even in an era of deep political polarization(两极分化), is that our country is in a moral free fall. In survey after survey, US adults of all ages, education levels, political or religious backgrounds say that people are less kind, honest, generous, and respectful than they used to be. So is our nation's moral foundation falling apart?
Not necessarily. In fact, two psychologists, Columbia's Adam Mastroianni and Harvard's Daniel Gilbert, say that the widespread belief in moral decline(下降)is a misconception. They recently conducted a meta-analysis of all the major surveys that asked Americans about the state of moral values in this country and they found that US residents have been complaining about one another's declining morality for as long as researchers have been seeking their opinions on the matter. And yet when individual respondents are asked multiple times, over the span of a decade or more, to describe the level of politeness and kindness they observe in their fellow citizens, their descriptions of other people's attitudes and behaviors do not actually worsen at all.
Mastroianni and Gilbert, whose paper appears in the journal Nature, say the results of similar surveys conducted in dozens of other countries over the decades suggest that people all over the world are easy to be influenced by the misconception that their peers are less moral than they once were. They say that this misconception is likely explained by two well-established psychological phenomena acting together: that we tend to pay closer attention to negative rather than positive information about people's actions in the present day; and that we tend to selectively forget such negative impressions as the years roll on, leaving us with good memories for the past.
Mastroianni and Gilbert also say that their discovery has important social and political implications, especially given that, as one 2015 survey found, three-quarters of all Americans believe that addressing the moral breakdown of the country should be a high priority(优先项)for the government. "The United States faces many well-documented problems, from climate change and terrorism to racial injustice and economic inequality — and yet, nowadays it is believed that the government should devote fewer resources to reversing an imaginary trend."
Does your teenager seem addicted to the Internet? Probably yes. At first, parents welcome the Internet into their homes, believing they are opening up an exciting new world of educational chances for their children. Instead of using the Internet for homework or research, they are spending hours messaging with friends, playing online games or talking to strangers in chat rooms.
Keeping a healthy balance between entertainment media and other activities in their children's lives has always been a challenge for parents. The Internet has made this challenge even more difficult. .
However, parents are usually not aware that there is a problem until it becomes serious. This is because it is easy to hide what you are doing online and Internet addiction is not widely recognized by the medical community.
Children and young people can easily become hooked on online activities such as multi-player games, instant messaging and chat rooms. The most vulnerable children are those who are unpopular or shy with peers. Boys, in particular, are frequent users of online role-playing games, where they assume new identities and interact with other players. For the children who are not so outgoing, playing these games with thousands of other users may apparently be a social activity. . So parents need to help children limit the online time to an appropriate amount.
A. That is especially obvious when it comes to online social games.
B. In fact, playing too much can further keep them away from friends and peers.
C. The amount of time teenagers spend online is a source of concern for many parents.
D. But numerous parents don't discover this worrying situation and ignore it naturally.
E. However, many parents soon realize that their kids were gradually becoming Internet addicts.
F. The engaging nature of the Internet makes many children lose track of time when they're online.
G. They can be easily attracted to the opportunities for creating new identities in online communities.
When Hailey Fort was six, she saw a person standing on the street in her town. She wanted to 1 him, so she and her mom gave the man a sandwich and a bottle of water.
Hailey kept thinking about the man and what it would be like to be 2 . She knew that fresh fruits and vegetables often weren't 3 at food banks, where homeless people may get canned or boxed food. An idea 4 to her.
"There was a garden in our backyard, and we weren't using it," she said. "I asked my mom if I could use that garden to grow food for the homeless."
Now, several years later, Hailey's garden had 5 many people with fresh produce. When food was ready to be 6 , Hailey picked, washed, and bagged it. Then she and her mom gave the bags to people on the street or to a local food bank. Hailey had given away more than 550 pounds of fruits and vegetables 7 !
While 8 food, Hailey and her mom often saw people more than once. They learned their names and talked with people about what it was like to be homeless. When Hailey found out that people without homes didn't 9 have safe or comfortable places to sleep, she thought of a new project — building a sleeping 10 .
Due to her mom's 11 , Hailey learned to build one big enough for a person to sleep in. Hailey's family was working with local groups to find a good place to park the structure as 12 housing for someone in need.
Hailey had learned a lot since she gave away her first sandwich — and not just about gardens and
13 . She has learned to see people who are homeless as individuals. To help others, she said, "Start
14 . You can always 15 over the years."
Humans like to think of themselves as individuals, capable of making their own decisions without consulting anyone else. They (prize) for their ability to stand out, blaze their own path, and create their own style. However, underneath this originality lies a deep-rooted (eager) to fit in. That's
teen peer pressure is so hard for kids to resist.
Studies suggest that peer pressure from a child's friends becomes more significant during adolescence. The pressure grows (great), and the things teens are pressured to do become more dangerous. Besides, teens are born to connect with peers and struggle for belonging. As they mature and gradually become independent, (gain) the approval of others in their age group becomes increasingly important. , some teens will follow their peers to make an unwise choice in order to feel accepted.
But how much social pressure a teen feels depends on who they spend time with. universally recognized study in the journal Developmental Psychologyfound that teens who spent time with who don't engage in unhealthy behaviors are less likely to misbehave themselves. In other words, teens
(surround) with peers who would share their values and don't behave in destructive ways, are less likely to engage in harmful acts, without they could have healthy bodies and rosy futures.
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Run with the Music, Everyone!
Ever since I was little, my favorite season was winter. I loved to play in the snow and enjoyed the hot chocolate. Unfortunately, winter never gave me the special gift of snow on my birthday. The snow disappeared before my birthday and started after it. The seed of receiving that special gift was deeply planted in my heart.
As I lived with my grandparents in my girlhood, I would always ask my grandmother why it didn't snow on my birthday. She would laugh and tell me I asked too many questions, and my grandfather would always smile at me affectionately, sitting beside the stove. But one day, my grandmother promised that she would make it snow when I was enjoying life to the fullest. I thanked her and asked for snow on my next birthday, but my mind was occupied with confusion. "How can you make it snow?" My grandmother didn't reply but shot me a determined look. It seemed that she had already hatched(策划)a plot.
But that year, before my birthday, my grandmother passed away. I was at an emotional loss, but angry because she had promised me to make it snow. The day of my sixth birthday, I woke up and ran to my window, hoping to see just one snowflake. Unfortunately, there was no snow. I cried and cried all day because my grandmother had let me down, but my grandfather said with certainty that my grandmother would keep her word.
Before my birthday every year, I would pray but it never came. By my sixteenth birthday, I had lost all hope of getting my snow, even though I still wished for it. During my party, I had the best time ever! I enjoyed the company of my friends and family, and I was truly happy.
I was outside with a friend when she asked me if I was having a good time. I told her I was enjoying my life to the fullest. Then I saw the white snow falling all around. I became like a little child on Christmas morning as I ran around screaming and laughing. I was so excited that my friend looked at me as if I were crazy, and laughed at me. She asked me if I had ever seen snow before, and I laughed and said that I had, but that this snow was very special to me.
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Curious about my reply, my friend asked, "Why was this snow so special?"
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Hearing my friend's advice, I decided to head for my grandfather's home.
