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- A、 In about 20 minutes.
- B、 In about 15 minutes.
- C、 In about 35 minutes.
- A、 The room is crowded.
- B、 The room gets dirty easily,
- C、 The room is clean.
- A、 She is in a hurry.
- B、 She likes fast food.
- C、 She wants to spend less,
- A、 Not making a noise.
- B、 Choosing a birthday gift.
- C、 Making nice coffee.
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Sharing China 2023 Contest
The contest is calling for entries from all over the world. Regardless of whether you are a professional or an amateur, who you are or where you are from, you are welcome to send us photos of memorable moments about China.
The Rules
●All entries must be real and not photo edited. The tone and color of the image may be slightly adjusted. Composition and cutting are allowed.
●Entries should be in JPG or JPEG format, no less than 2 MB for each, Photos could be compressed (压缩), but please keep the original file. If the winning photos are published on the page, the original file will be required.
●Entries can be single photos or a series of photos. A series of photos counts as one entry and each series may contain four to ten photos.
●Entries should have titles and a short photo description, such as time, place and people in the photo.
Awards and Prizes
The contest will select 50 photos.
★5 for first prize: 2,000 RMB
★15 for second prize: 1,000 RMB
★30 for third prize: 600 RMB
The organizer will pay the tax on behalf of the winners.
When
Submission: from Dec 20, 2022 to Feb 12,2023
Selection and ranking: from Feb 13, 2023 to May 15, 2023
Result announcement: June 30, 2023
For information about short film contest please visit: Chinadaily.com.cn
Hunger is a very real problem around the globe. This year, almost 7 million people have died of hunger already. Why do people still die of hunger when there's more than enough food in the world?
Well, considering that there are places in the world where basic needs like housing and clean, drinkable water are not met, then it doesn't come as a surprise that food is just not accessible to them. The food exists-it just doesn't get to where it needs to be.
Nigerian farmer Samson Ogbole decided to go ahead and cultivate (培育) fruit and vegeta-bles in a different way. Ogbole's farming process centres around two concepts: soilless farming and aeroponics (气雾栽培). To put it simply-he's growing food in the air.
As Ogbole explained during a TED talk, aeroponics is the future of agriculture because it offers many benefits. For example, it is cheaper than traditional farming because there is no need to hire as many workers since everything is done with a "click". Also, this kind of farming is more environmentally friendly since farmers don't use pesticides. At the same time, there are no space limitations-planting in the air means you can plant as many layers as you like. The sky is the limit literally!
So, the young farmer has been practicing aeroponics for more than five years with impressive results. His work was recently praised on social media this summer when he was featured in a network post. In the post, Ogbole's farming method was mentioned, and Internet users had the chance to see pictures of the farmer' s produce.
Many viewers think southern Nigeria needs this method to grow crops. This will help in bringing down the price and avoiding future food blockades from the north. It seems that people are already realizing that this method will change the way people grow food. And, most importantly, it will help solve some of the issues related to hunger around the world.
A new study from North Carolina State University found that biology textbooks have done a poor job of including material related to climate change. For example, the study found that most biology textbooks published in the 2010s included less information about climate change than they did in the previous decade--despite significant advances in our understanding of how climate change is influencing ecosystems and the environment.
"In short, we found biology textbooks are failing to share enough information about climate change, which is a generation-defining topic in the life sciences," says Jennifer Landin, author of the study. "These books are the baseline texts for helping students understand the science of life on Earth, yet they are providing very little information about a phenomenon that is having a great impact on habitats, ecosystems, agriculture--almost every aspect (方面) of life on Earth,"
For the study, researchers investigated coverage of climate change in 57 college biology textbooks published between 1970 and 2019. The researchers found climate coverage has varied greatly over those five decades and that the amount of climate coverage in textbooks fell off in the 2010s. In addition to length, the nature of the content has also changed greatly over time.
"One of the most troubling findings was that textbooks are devoting less space to addressing climate solutions now than they did in the 1990s--even as they focus more on the effects of climate change," Landin says. "That suggests to students that nothing can be done, which is both wildly misleading and contributes to a sense of fatalism (宿命论) regarding cli-mate change."
"We are hoping that this study will serve as a wake-up call for publishers and instructors. We need to do a much better job of putting climate change into our courses if we want to pre-pare students to understand the role that climate change is playing in shaping life on Earth and how we study it," Landin says.
A healthy diet may not offset (抵消) the effects of a high salt intake on blood pressure, suggests a new study. The research, from scientists at a number of institutions, studied the diets of over 4,000 people. The results showed that people eating higher amounts of salt had higher blood pressure — no matter how healthy a person's overall diet.
The scientists behind the research are now advising people to monitor their salt intake-and food companies to lower the salt content in their products.
High blood pressure affects more than one in four adults in the UK, and increases the risk of a number of conditions including heart attacks and stroke. It's thought that vitamins and minerals in fruit and vegetables might in some way affect blood vessels (血管), enabling them to lower blood pressure. Previously, experts believed that eating high amounts of fruit and vegetables might help offset the effects of high salt on blood pressure. However, while these foods do tend to lower blood pressure, the new research suggests they do not offset theadverseinfluence of high salt intake.
In the paper, the team studied data from the so-called INTERMAP study. In this study published in 2018，scientists tracked the diets of 4, 680 people, aged 40-59, from the USA, the UK, Japan and China. The researchers found a link between high blood pressure and high salt intake, even in people who were on a healthy diet.
The recommended upper limit of adult salt intake in the UK is 6 g a day. The study found that the average salt intake across the study was 10.7 g a day. The average intake for the UK was 8.5 g while the intake for the USA, China and Japan were9.6g, 13.1 g and 11.7 g respectively.
Increasing salt intake above this average amount was linked 10 an increase in blood pressure. Dr Queenie Chan, joint lead author of the research, said the research shows the importance o cutting salt intake.
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For some people, income, fame, and a good work-life balance are the most important aspects when choosing a career (职业) path.. Looking for a job where you can make a difference? Here are some choices worth exploring.
Emergency services
Whether you choose to join the police, ambulance, or fire and rescue service, there are plenty of roles in this field.. You'll never have a boring day at work, but you'll also have to deal with a lot of pressure and stress on a regular basis since a job as a first responder is both mentally and physically demanding.
Caring for those in need can give you a sense of purpose and help you connect with people on a deeper level, so it's a very rewarding job. But this career path can be equally demanding, stressful, and exhausting. Empathy, patience, compassion, great communication skills, good observation, initiative, and physical strength are some of the most important caregiver skills and qualities you need in this field.
Charity work
Working for a charity is the very definition of helping and supporting people in need. From working in communications, HR, or IT to choosing a job in administration or fundraising, there are different ways in which you can bring your contribution..
Social work
. You'll be working with some of the most weak groups of people in society such as the elderly, children, adults with mental health issues, and so on. You'll help people deal with challenging situations, which can be both frightening and extremely rewarding.
A. Care giving
B. Nursing and healthcare
C. Thus, you'll be able to help people
D. It will put you at the forefront of social change and development
E. They allow you to serve your community and make the world a better place
F. For others, the possibility to help others far outweighs the rest of the benefits
G. Besides, charity jobs may also provide free working hours and conditions of employment
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When the TV station reported a coming cold storm in southeast Idaho, farmers immediately took1. Most of the farmers had to work 16-18 hours a day to get their potatoes, before the cold air fell deep into the soil. Snow was2hard and fast. However, one farmer in Hamer, Idaho, about 32 miles north of Idaho Falls, was3to gather all of his crop in time.
Realizing his4, his neighbors, working unitedly with their fellow farmers, sent their workers to5his crop. With trucks loaded with equipment, 6workers and farmers didn't think twice about reaching out to a farmer7.
Dozens of members of the8also joined in the help. They all showed up just in time as temperatures hit 29 overnight. Jason Larson, a farmer who lived nearby, sent 25 workers to10in the emergency operations. With the crisis averted (避免), it is11that the community worked hand in hand to save several hundred thousand dollars12of potatoes.
Larson witnessed (见证) all this and said, "It was just kind of neat to see everyone help. It was pretty13to help someone in need. What people do is that they help their neigh-bor. There14wasn't a second thought about it. This kind of thing15every day."
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Scientists have discovered six new species of frog the size of a thumbnail (拇指甲) in the forests of Mexico, with one earning the distinction of Mexico's smallest frog.
All six species are(small) than an Australian five-cent coin around 15 mm long when they are fully(grow). Adult males of the tiniest of these species, named Craugastor candelariensis, growonly 13 mm. The newly discovered species(know) as "direct-developing" frogs: Rather than hatching from eggs into tadpoles (蝌蚪)like most frogs. they emerge from the eggs as perfect mini frogs. And they're so small that they're right atbottom of the forest food chain.
With millions of these frogs(live) in the leaf litter, they're likely to play a(huge) important role in the ecosystem as a source of food for everything else, from lizards to predatory birds. Until now these new species(go) unnoticed because they're small and brown and look really similar to other frogs.
Their lifestyle is completely fascinating. These frogs live in the dark, humid leaf litter of the forests,is like a secret world. Scientists don't really know anything about what goes on there. They don't understand their(behave), how they socialize or how they breed.
其他应用文
1.对妈妈的感恩之情；
2.给妈妈的祝福。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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I went to a supermarket to pick up some things. I placed my purse in the baby carry-on chair and turned my back to add some cabbages into a bag for supper. The cart(购物车)was right next to me one minute ago, then gone!
As I looked around, I did not see an abandoned cart nor mine. I searched the fruit and vegetable area, and every cart but with no luck, no purse! My heart started pounding as I realized that someone may have taken my purse.
I walked to a member of staff, explaining what happened. He ran to get the manager. The manager listened carefully and told me she would go into her office and check the camera to see what happened on the video and call the police if necessary. I felt very nervous then. I told them my purse had my keys, license, phone, identification, etc. Meanwhile, the staff said he would check carts. The manager ran to her office at the front of the store to check the camera.
A young lady had just walked by asking if I was OK. I said, "Not good, but thanks." I asked if she had a cell phone to call my phone to check if someone would pick it up. But no one answered it. I thanked her. She said she would accompany(陪伴)me till I found my purse. I couldn't thank her enough.
After a while, the manager came back and told me she had seen an old woman in the camera video take my cart when I was in the meat section. Not until that time did I remembered that there was indeed a woman near me picking out goods. She must have dragged my cart by accident!
I rushed to the meat section, followed by the manager and the young lady. To my relief, I found the old woman without any effort.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
I approached her and told her what had happened.
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I accompanied the old lady to the manager's office to check the camera again.
