My son Tom taught me a beautiful lesson today. He is three years old and it is amazing hatching him grow up.
He called out to me today saying, “Papa, sit”. That usually means 1everything and going next to him and sitting down to play with him. I did that, as he can be2and will not stop calling out until I 3 He was playing with beads (珠子), pushing a string through them, which is a great exercise to help 4fine motor skills. Then, after he finished playing with the beads, it was time to put them back in the box that they are stored in. I saw him 5 pick up each bead, look at it 6 it were made of chocolate and then placed it into its box.
With over a hundred beads to go, I was getting 7“What a long time it will take! Why cannot he8ten beads in one go and drop them in?” said my anxious mind. I noticed that he did this with as much9 as he had while we were playing. I didn't see any 10between his play and his putting away the toy. Obviously he enjoyed both.
Then it suddenly 11me that this boy was enjoying the whole 12The journey was his goal. For him the13 was in the game and after the game, not just in the fun part. What a great perspective: to live each moment as it is the14moment; to do each task as it is the most awesome task. Nothing else15.
Looking at how 16 my son was putting beads into the box17 me that the process was the goal. The joy of pilgrimage (朝圣) is not in getting there but in every 18of the journey.
This is what living in the NOW is all 19 Tom, my son, was showing me that it was about thoroughly enjoying every moment with 20 love and peace.
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Every man wants his son to be somewhat of a clone, not in features but in footsteps. As he grows you also age, and your ambitions become more unachievable. You begin to realize that your boy, in your footsteps, could probably accomplish what you hoped for. But footsteps can be muddied and they can go off in different directions.
My son Jody has hated school since day one in kindergarten. Science projects waited until the last moment. Book reports weren't written until the final threat.
I've been a newspaperman all my adult life. My daughter is a university graduate working towards her master's degree in English. But Jody? When he entered the tenth grade he became a “vo-tech” student (技校学生). They're called “motorheads” by the rest of the student body.
When a secretary in my office first called him “motorhead”, I was shocked. “Hey, he's a good kid,” I wanted to say. “And smart, really.”
I learned later that motorheads are, indeed, different. They usually have dirty hands and wear dirty work clothes. And they don't often make school honor rolls (光荣榜).
But being the parent of a motorhead is itself an experience in education. We who labor in clean shirts in offices don't have the abilities that motorheads have. I began to learn this when I had my car crashed. The cost to repair it was estimated at $800. “Hey, I can fix it,” said Jody. I doubted it, but let him go ahead, for I had nothing to lose.
My son, with other motorheads, fixed the car. They got parts from a junkyard, and ability from vo-tech classes. The cost was $25 instead of $800.
Since that first repair job, a broken air-conditioner, a non-functioning washer and a non-toasting toaster have been fixed. Neighbours and co-workers trust their car repairs to him.
These kids are happiest when doing repairs. They joke and laugh and are living in their own relaxed world. And their minds are bright despite their dirty hands and clothes.
I have learned a lot from my motorhead: publishers need printers, engineers need mechanics, and architects need builders. Most important, I have learned that fathers don't need clones in footsteps or anywhere else.
My son may never make the school honor roll. But he made mine.
Young sunflowers turn and swing every day. New findings add to evidence that the plants are animal-like.
Harmer, a professor in the University of California at Davis, Department of Plant Biology, carried out a series of experiments on sunflowers in the field, in pots outdoors and in indoor growth chambers.
By staking plants so that they could not move, Harmer showed that he could destroy their ability to track the sun. He also noticed that sunflowers prevented from moving were not as tough and leafy as those that were free to move. When plants were moved indoor with a settled overhead light, they continued to swing back and forth for a few days.
The indoor plants did start tracking the “sun” again when the apparent source of lighting was moved across the room. The plants could reliably track the movement and return at night when the artificial day was close to a 24-hour cycle, but not when it was closer to 30 hours.
When sunflowers track the sun, the east sides of their stems grew more rapidly than the west sides. At night, the west sides grew faster as the stem swung the other way. The team identified a number of genes that were expressed at higher levels on the sunward side of the plant during the day or on the other side at night. A plant growth-regulating hormone (激素), called auxin, appears to be a key driver.
The “dance” to the sun cycle obviously slows when the sunflower matures (成熟) and its flowers open up. At that point, the plants stop moving during the day and settle down facing the sun in the east.
“Bees like warm flowers.” Harmer said, adding that the bees are cold-blooded, so landing on a warm flower saves them energy and perhaps feels really good.
“The morning warmth changes the flowers in a way to make them more appealing to insects, perhaps causing them to release more attractive scents earlier in the day.” he said “We're currently testing this idea.”
Anew international study shows that some peopled biological clock plays a powerful role for their life expectancy, regardless of lifestyle choices.
Published in the latest issue of Aging on Wednesday, the study has found the most definitive evidence to explain why some people keep healthy lifestyle but die younger than others.
Geneticist Steve Horvath from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), led a team of 65 scientists around the world to record age-related changes to human DNA, analyse blood samples collected from 13,000 people and estimate their lifespan.
A higher biological age, regardless of actual age, consistently predicts an earlier death, the study says.
“You get people who are vegan, sleep 10 hours a day, have a low-stress job, and still end up dying young,” Horvath said in a statement. “We have shown some people have a faster innate aging rate.”
The findings discovered that 5 percent of the population ages at a faster biological rate, which translated to a roughly 50 percent higher than average risk of death at any age.
“The great hope is that we find anti-aging interventions that would slow your innate aging rate,” Horvath said, adding that “this is an important milestone to realizing this dream.
You should make thorough plans before you undertake a camping trip. Just follow these simple camping guidelines to make your trip safe and rewarding.
Selecting an appropriate tent
When determining the size of your tent, you should take into account the number of campers as well as the camping equipment necessary for your trip. There should be enough room in tihe tent for the camping equipment
Importance of food
While camping, you will need enough food to give you enough energy for your outdoor work.You should use a two burner stove to do all your cooking. Insist on simplicity in cooking and use vegetables and ready-made food during your trip to minimize cooking time.
Adequate sleep
Nights are generally cooler than the days so you need to have enough warm clothes to feel comfortable enough to sleep during the night. When buying a sleeping bag, check that you feel comfortable in it. Extra air mattresses (气垫) may be included in your camping equipment to make your bed more comfortable.
Bear these camping guidelines in mind and make sure you are fully prepared to enjoy your camping trip.
A. All campers should have adequate sleep during the night.
B. Thus you must have an efficient arrangement for food preparation.
C. The best camping trips are had by those people who prepare the best.
D. Take healthy and nourishing food with you to meet energy demands during your trip.
E .The comfort level in a tent determines the success of a camping trip.
F. The size is the most important thing you should carefully consider when choosing a tent.
G. It will destroy the mood of the entire camping trip if you don't have a good sleeping bag.
2）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
3）只允许修改10处。
My name is Alice, and I live in Beijing. I'm not happily every day. My parents always tell me,” You can't do that! You have to do this!” There are too much rules at my home. I have to get up early at 6:00 and make bed. I can't listen to music while eaten. From Monday to Friday, I have to walk to school, so my parents think it good for healthy. But if I arrive lately for school, my head teacher will be angry. So I often feel tired when I reach to school. On weekends, I have to finish my homework after I can watch TV. These rules make me stress out 1 need more time to play and relax. What should I do?
Last summer, as soon as school was over, I thought maybe I could spend the summer a way different from previous ones. But how? Perhaps I could take part-time job and make some money. I(offer) an interview soon after I filed my application to Kentucky Fried Chicken. The interview was three days ahead(prepare) for it, I went through Interview Skills, a book prepares readers for job interviews. My mom and dad tried to help by (give) me simulated (模拟的) interviews one after.I was all ready the day before the interview.
I answered all of the manager's questions (perfect). After all, my mom and dad had expected all of them and I just needed to repeat the answers I had prepared. Besides, I had carried myself well through the interview. My facial (express), my voice, my...…all were excellent. I felt the job was already mine. That night I calculated how money I would make, and I planned the ways I would like to spend it.
1) 时间和地点;
2) 内容: 学习唐诗;
3) 课前准备: 简要了解唐朝的历史。
注意：1）词数100左右;
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
