In the late autumn, John was badly ill andbecame bedridden (長期臥床的).After the doctor visited John several times, he told Sue, “His condition isquite ___22___.John seems to have lost all will to live. If he doesn’t want to live, medicineswill not help him.”
YangHongwei, 56, was born into a kite-making family in Weifang. When she was young,she often saw kites with bright colors and different shapes in hergrandfather’s workshop.
In the large yard stood thirteen trees ofdifferent sizes. One day, while Joey was playing with his sister under thetrees, he noticed that a tree trunk (樹干) had a sad look. He raninto the house to tell his mom about it. She told Joey to find the reason whyit was sad.
As a boy, Kevin visited national parks and helearned the Earth is in ___12___ condition. He felt worried, and hewanted to ___13___ the Earth. In 2009, he went to swim in water nearNorth Pole(北極)todraw people’s attention to the melting glaciers(融化的冰川).
Long ago, a poor old couple lived on the coast.One day, an old storyteller came to their village. The old couple gave him ameal. In return, he gave them a coffee mill (磨粉機)and said, “Say, ‘Mill, please grind (磨粉)’,”
In the large yard stood thirteen trees ofdifferent sizes. One day, while Joey was playing with his sister under thetrees, he noticed that a tree trunk (樹干) had a sad look. He raninto the house to tell his mom about it. She told Joey to find the reason whyit was sad.
As a boy, Kevin visited national parks and helearned the Earth is in ___12___condition. He felt worried, and he wanted to ___13___ the Earth. In 2009, he went to swim in waternear North Pole(北極)todraw people’s attention to the melting glaciers(融化的冰川).
The app — called Sit With Us — is ___15___. If a student is having lunch in the afternoon,he or she can create an invitation. Other students can open the app and ___16___ that invitation. They can then use the app todecide when and where to ___17___.
Thinking that her dream could never come true,Kelly was in low spirits and ____18____ her studies at school. Hermother did all she could to cheer her up, ____19____ Kelly refused tochange. She even took out all her anger and ____20____ on her mother.
At the age of nine, Kelly dreamed of being abasketball player. But one day when she was playing basketball, she hurt herleft leg ____16____.
Antarctica lies in the most southern part of theworld. It is the coldest area on Earth. There isn’t much rain, but there is alot of snow and wind. The lowest temperature was on 21 July in 1983 at -89.2℃!
During 1907-1909, British explorer EarnestShackleton explored Antarctica on foot. In 1911, two explorers—a British mannamed Scott and a Norwegian named Amundsen—raced 1, 400 kilometres to the SouthPole (南極).Amundsen arrived first.
Taiping nijiaojiao is made of the mudfrom the local mountain. It takes more than ten steps to make the clay toy, andthe key step is to knead (捏) it with your hands. You can knead the clay toyinto anything, like animals and plants. The blowhole is the most difficult partto make, for the size of the blowhole makes a difference to the sound. Whilecoloring, you can use traditional cultural elements (元素) thatcarry good meanings. It’s hard to make taipingnijiaojiao. But when you finally make it, you will feel proud of yourself.
“Red Trip” in TonghuaTonghua is a good choice to have a “red trip”. It is aplace full of “red stories”. The well-known national hero Yang Jingyu oncefought here. Experience the “red spirit”!
I joineda band (樂隊)as a drummer in my middle school. I thought itwould be fun playing the drum and meeting new friends. At first it was easy,but a month later, it got difficult. I was the only one who couldn’t keep pace (節(jié)奏)with the other players. Our teacher,Angie, singled me out to keep practicing while everyone else got to relax. Ifelt ashamed (羞愧的)as my teammates watched me fail so many times.Finally I got so tired of practicing that I didn’t care about doing it right.
When itcomes to a meaningful life, we might think of love, happiness and health. Alife filled with meaning is what most of us want for ourselves. Then, whatmakes a meaningful life?Manyresearchers agree that a meaningful life comes down to three factors (因素): havinglong-term goals, believing that one’s life matters, and feeling that one’s lifefits together and “makes sense”.But we believe there is more to consider. Sometimeslife enables us to experience small moments of beauty. When people are open toappreciating (欣賞) suchexperiences, these moments may improve how they see their own life. We callthis experiential appreciation (EA).
一般人在一個完整的夜間睡眠中,大腦在進行著具有一定周期性的功能和狀態(tài)循環(huán)。依據(jù)多導(dǎo)睡眠圖描繪的腦電圖模式、眼動和肌張力特征,人的睡眠結(jié)構(gòu)可以分為兩種類型:非快速眼動睡眠和快速眼動睡眠。非快速眼動睡眠與快速眼動睡眠循環(huán)交替一次稱為一個睡眠周期。每次夜晚的睡眠通常有4~5個睡眠周期,每個周期約90~110分鐘。兩個睡眠周期之間通常伴有短暫覺醒,整夜大概出現(xiàn)4~6次。
做一?!白x書種子”,讓閱讀成為一種力量,推動文化傳統(tǒng)薪火相傳,可以說正是讀書人的自我期許。從“每有會意,便欣然忘食”的陶淵明,到“讀書破萬卷,下筆如有神”的杜甫,再到“不是老夫朝不食,半山絕句當(dāng)朝餐”的楊萬里,無不是“讀書種子”的精彩寫照。讀書滋養(yǎng)美好心靈,可以遇見更好的自己,看到更美的世界。所謂“耕讀傳家久,詩書繼世長”,重視學(xué)習(xí)、重視詩書,千百年來融入中國人的血脈里,成為中國特有的文化稟賦。
人,說著就會慢慢兒長大的。坡里移來的小桃樹,在菜園里都長滿了-握。姐姐出閣了呢。那遠遠的山莊里,土財主。每次搬回來住娘家,母親和我們弟弟,總是于夕陽的輝照中,在莊頭眺望的。遠遠聽見了鑾鈴聲響,隔著疏疏的楊柳,隱約望見了在馬上招手的客人,母親總禁不住先喜歡得落淚,我們也快活得像幾只鳥,叫著跑著迎上去。問著好,從伙計的手中接過馬轡來,姐姐總說:“又長高了。”車門口,也是彼此問著好:客人盡管是一-邊笑著,偷回首卻是滿手帕的淚。
當(dāng)我見到畢業(yè)生名冊上你們的名字時,我為你們每一位(甲),我(乙)你們離校后,都能過“不負此生”的生活。首先,我希望你們能簡樸地生活。容我提醒各位一句:快樂與金錢和物質(zhì)的豐盛并無必然聯(lián)系。一個溫馨的家、簡單的衣著、健康的飲食,就是樂之所在。漫無止境地追求奢華,遠不如簡樸生活那樣能帶給你幸福和快樂。其次,我希望你們能過高尚的生活。我們的社會有很多陰暗面:不公、剝削、詐騙等等。我吁請大家,務(wù)必要莊敬自強,公平待人,不可欺侮弱勢的人,也不可做損人或損己的亊。高尚的生活是對一己的良知無悔,維護正義,亊亊均以道德為依歸。這樣高尚地生活,你們必有所得。