— Her experience of winning the gold medal at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics after 16 years of hard work tells us that _________ is impossible and just do it.
—Let's search on the Internet for it!
Did you watch the popular TV series Meet yourself during your winter vacation? In the TV series, Xu Hongdou travels to a village in Yunnan province and volunteers at a local café. She gets 1 meals in return. Because of this hot hit, 2 travel—similar to Xu's type of work—has caught more attention.
In general, the 3 of taking such a trip is to take part in a service chance to help others, according to Wise Tour. During the trip, volunteer travelers often provide services like teaching, cooking, animal caring, and cultural activities. In 4 for their help, the volunteers may get free accommodation (住宿), meals and laundry (洗衣), activities, or classes.
It seems that only modern transport could make these long journeys 5 in recent years. However, volunteer travel started from the 1960s, when Alec Dickson and his wife Mora from the UK 6 Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), an international volunteer organization.
According to Sanlian Lifeweek magazine, volunteer projects in the 7 are now attracting more visitors from the city to relax from the fast and stressful life. Yang Yan, a pioneer of a volunteer platform (平台), told the magazine that there has been a rapid 8 in the number of tourists from the city to volunteer in village areas.
People try volunteer travel for several reasons. By working voluntarily while traveling, travelers may make a 9 to the world. The volunteers provide services through charities with lower costs for the communities they serve. Another 10 of volunteer travel is that it helps tourists from the city to get a taste of country life. In this way, travelers can relax from their busy lives, while country communities also develop by receiving more customers for local tourism industries.
Jane, a reporter, is collecting information for the local newspaper. She is interested in the following things introduced in a magazine.
Smart Schoolbag
Forget to pack the books you need into your schoolbag in the morning rush?
A schoolboy aged 11 has invented a schoolbag. It tells you which books to pack. A small computer and a scanner (扫描装置) are fixed in the bag. As each book is put into the bag, it is checked by the scanner. If any book is missing, a message will be shown on the computer screen to remind you.
Weather Sweets
Can you eat weather?
A university makes that happen. It uses a 3D printer to create sweets based on the weather information of a certain day.
The shapes of the sweets are influenced by wind speed. The colors of the sweets are decided by temperature. The sweets act as a weather record of the day when they are made.
Sunrise Bed
It's hard for you to get up in the morning, isn't it?
To help you get up, a company has created a "tool" —a sunrise bed.
It wakes you up gently as a sunrise does. Lights built into the bed turn on and start to get brighter and brighter. When the lights are fully on, soft music will begin to play. It will be louder and louder until you turn it off. The company explains, "The gentle light tells your body that it is morning, so it stops producing a chemical that helps you sleep. "
The World of Orienteering
Imagine you are in a new city. You ask someone how to get to a bookstore. They tell you to go straight, turn left, and you will find it on your left. In fact, you can also find your way with a phone. Now imagine you are in an outdoor game. You only have a map and a compass, and instead of running down a city road, you may need to run around in the woods, climb over rocks and go up and down hills. Welcome to orienteering!
In the game of orienteering, players use a map and a compass to find stations. These stations are called controls. A special flag, usually in bright colours, marks each control. Controls are not easy to find. They may be in front of a big rock or behind a tree. In most of the games, you'll have to find controls in numbered order, but in some games you can change the order.
At each control, players mark a card they carry with them and the card will be marked in different ways (See Figure 1). The cards are very important because players must find all the controls to win. If someone misses a control, they won't have that mark on their cards. They might cross the finish line first, but the next person to finish with a full card will win the game.
Culture Note:
The first compass was invented by ancient Chinese people. It helps you find your way by always pointing to the North.
ChatGPT, a powerful AI (artificial intelligence人工智能) chatbot tool, has swept the world in the past few months. The tool is an AI chatbot system that was created by OpenAI company in America and went public in November 2022. ChatGPT can remember the topic of your conversation, answer your questions and write stories and any other written texts you can think of. It gets its answers from a great deal of information on the Internet.
You can ask ChatGPT anything, like explaining physics, asking for birthday party ideas and getting programming (编程) help. Perhaps it's not smart enough to complete everything humans can do yet, but it can be creative, and its answers can sound completely correct. A few days after its coming, more than 1 million people were trying out ChatGPT. It is reported that ChatGPT reached 100 million users in 2 months, while it took TikTok about 9 months to reach 100 million users and Instagram spend two and a half years reaching it.
ChatGPT is free to use at the moment because it is still in its research process (过程). But when too many people flood onto the server (服务器), it is crowded with too many users and can't deal with your needs. It just means you should try visiting the website at a later time when fewer people are trying to enter it. If you wouldn't like to wait, there is a good choice for you. Up to February, 2023, OpenAI has another product, ChatGPT Plus, which allows users to join the server quickly even during the rush hour of Network. This service does come at a cost of $20 per month.
However, Google has an advantage over ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence robot that can solve your problems, while Google is a search engine, and on it you can search for as much information as possible. ChatGPT has fixed knowledge because of its programming but Google has up-to-date knowledge every day.
There are millions of recipes(菜谱）hidden in the boxes and hearts of grandmother and parents. These family recipes are a special part of our family history. Some of them have been passed down from generation(一代人) to generation.
"I realized I couldn't go home every weekend for my mom's delicious dishes. " says Shreya, who is about to enter university. Shreya has recently started following her mother around the kitchen, taking notes on how to make her "masala chai" and tasty kachoris.
"Those special tastes can immediately unlock a whole flood of emotions, memories and feelings of family, love and comfort. " says she.
She adds, "I am looking to the day when my kids will come to know about their grandmothers through the dishes they cooked. "
But many of us find it difficult to keep the food connection with their busy life. Even if we have time, not many of us take the effort to collect and record the recipes from our grandmothers and parents. We often get a recipe on the phone and take it down quickly on a piece of paper. We just stick it onto the fridge for a week or two and forget about it as soon as the paper disappears from there.
Actually, there are simple ways to keep family recipes. Scrapbooks(剪贴簿) are easily found in the market. You can even add photos to record every detail of your memories about the recipe. With the help of some popular apps like Story Scans, recording family recipes has never been easier. What is needed is to scan(扫描) the recipes and record the story behind each of them. It can become the most meaningful work you have ever done with and for your family.
Keeping family recipes is saving and honoring(尊重) our tradition so that future generations can continue to make family ties stronger. Every time you remember your loved ones, recreate one of the dishes from your collection and let the memories from the good old days comfort you. So why not gift your kids a family recipe book when they are starting a new life?
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Don't do these when you have a fever |
A fever-defined(给……下定义) as an increase in body temperature over 37. 3℃—is a common sign of illness. But recently, it has caught uncommon attention: It can be a sign of catching COVID-19. Whatever the cause, here are some things you should remember if you develop a fever.
Don't have certain drinks. Alcohol (酒精), soda (苏打) and caffeinated (含咖啡因的) drinks should be avoided when you have a fever. They can cause your body to lose water when it really needs a lot of water.
Do not dress too warmly or put yourself in a place that is too hot. This can influence the body's ability to regulate (调节) its temperature and make your fever worse.
Don't double your medicines. Although fever-reducing medicines are very useful for treating fever, taking more than the recommended amount can cause serious harm to your health and even death.
Don't stay hungry. The old saying "Those with a cold should eat, while those with a fever should eat nothing" is wrong and dangerous. Fever speeds up your metabolism (新陈代谢), so you need to get more energy from food. Hunger also reduces the body's ability to fight off disease.
Don't forget to drink water. A fever will increase the number of breaths, causing water loss. The body also sweats more as it regulates its temperature. What's more, people usually drink less water when they have a fever, which finally cause the body to lose water faster.
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Have drinks like alcohol, soda and caffeinated drinks. |
These drinks can to the loss of water in your body. |
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Dress warmly or stay in a hot place. |
It can have a bad influence on the body's ability of regulating its temperature. |
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Double your medicines. |
Taking too many pills can be to your health and even cause death. |
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Stay hungry. |
Hunger can make you to fight off disease without energy from food. |
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Drinking less water can cause your body to lose water faster. |
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Dear Frank,
I am glad to know you're coming to study in our school.
Best wishes.
Yours,
Li Hua
