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Are you the kind of person who likes to move with music? It's a natural thing to do. Even little children startwhen they hear music. Scientists say that animals dance, too. But their dancing is different. The "dances" of animalsto other animals. But when people dance, they express feelings about life and love, or about these very human experiences.
Dances are good for you in many ways. For one thing, dancing is good for you physically. It makes your heart work and makes youfast. It also makes you, use your arms and your legs.
If you go dancing often, you can keep physically fit. You may feel veryafter dancing, but you'll probably also feel relaxed and happy. It gives you a chance to express your feelings and feel better about yourself. If you are angry or upset about something, dancing helps those feelings go away.
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Kunqu Opera (昆曲),also known as Kun Opera, is a kind of Chinese musical drama (戏剧).But it is more than just drama. It is actually a kind of arthistory, music, dancing and others.
It is believed that Kunqu Opera is the beginning of all the other forms of Chinese opera. With a long history of over 600 years, Kunqu Opera started in the city of Kunshan at the end of the Yuan Rynasty. It became quite in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In 2001,Kunqu Opera was as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity (人类口述和非物质遗产代表作).
National medals (奖章) and honorary titles (荣誉称号) are usually awarded once every five years. As part of the celebration of the 70th anniversary (周年) of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC. , President Xi Jinping awarded 42 people the Medal of the Republic, the Friendship Medal and national honorary titles. They come from different backgrounds, including scientists, lawmakers. educators, artists, model workers and six non-Chinese people. All have made big contributions (贡献) to the nation's construction and development. Here are some of the people we'll know.
Chinese scientist Tu Youyou is one of the eight who were awarded the Medal of the Republic. Tu. who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for her discovery of the malaria drug artemisinin (抗疟药物青蒿素), is the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine She has saved millions of lives worldwide. She has also made important scientific innovations (创新) in traditional Chinese medicine.
Tu is not the only one who has given her life to the country's development. Nan Rendong, before his death in 2017, led the research and development of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST, 500米口径球面射电望远镜), the world's largest radio telescope. He worked on the project for more than 20 years. His contributions to hinese astronomy (天文) earned him the title, "the people's scientist".
Also receiving awards are six foreign friends who have lent their hands to assist with China. Former French Prime Minister (总理) Jean-Pierre Raffarin, one member of the Friendship Medal, is a supporter of the Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路倡议) Having worked to strengthen the friendship between French and Chinese people in the past few years, he is "sincerely pleased" with the honor. "To work for this friendship is to work for peace," Raffarin said.
Thanks to the great efforts made by these great people, we can live in a peaceful country.
Night after night, she came to tuck (盖被子) me in, even long after my childhood years. Following her custom for 1, she'd lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead.
I don't remember 2it first started making me angry-her hands pushing my hair that way. Finally, one night, I shouted at her, "Don't do that any more-your hands are too rough!" She didn't say anything in reply, 3she never did it again.
Time after time, with the passing years, I 4 my mother's hands and her kiss on my forehead. Sometimes the feeling seemed very close, sometimes far away, but always in the back of my mind. Now I'm not a little girl any more. Mom is in her mid-seventies and she still does things for me and my family with her rough hands.
In the memory, for the thousandth time, I thought of the night my young voice complained, "Don't do that any more-your hands are too rough!" Taking my mum's hand, I told her how5 I was for that night. I thought she'd remember, as I did. But Mum didn't know what I was talking about.
She had forgotten it long ago. That night, I fell asleep with a new appreciation (感激) for my mother's caring hands. And the guilt (内疚) that I had carried around for so long was6to be found.
People normally think of dogs as man's best friend, but to Brian Wilson, his two pet parrots are his best friends.
It all began in 1995, when Brian was still a fire fighter. A car accident caused sdamage to his brain. After several months of treatment, Brian's doctors said that he would never talk again and would have to spend the rof his life in a nursing home.
However, according to Brian, his two pet parrots didn't give him up eye eThey kept talking to him day and night, until one day, he said one word, then a, and all of a sudden was talking like a normal person again!
Brian was so thankful that he decided to set up a home for birds which are not wanted by their owners.
Now 15 years later, his house is home to about 80 birds, which included many kinds of birds. The birds fly around from room to room, some cackling (发出咯略声), others talking like humans. T , they all have big cages, Brian lets them fly freely inside the house.
Over the years, Brian has developed a special relationship with birds. The birds who bite other humans, seem to like him and can get along with him well. He is now c a bird whisperer (鸟语者).
Brian pays for most of the costs of looking after the birds from his own money, but has recently set up a foundation (基金) to accept donations (捐助). He and his birds also earn money by p at birthday parties, weddings and other social events.
For many of us, the idea of a family is a lot narrower than it used to be. Today children go away to college, and take up jobs wherever chances seem greatest. So instead of growing up in a family with grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, many of us are truly connected only to our parents and brothers.
Many kids today know little of the lives of their relatives and don't care deeply about them.
Whether we realize it or not. (he feeling of being disconnected makes people feel lonely. "People need to feel connected, "says Joy Browne, a doctor in the U. S. "And they will do it in the easiest ways. "When family members aren't connected, what could be easier than forming a connection to famous people?
This isn't something unusual, of course. People cried when Mei Yanfang died in 2003. It's natural and in most ways harmless to feel that way, but that's unhealthy, because the relationships aren't two-way (相互的)
For that, we need to stay connected to our own families. Parents can help by telling their children stories about their grandparents, aunts and cousins so that children can know their latest activities and interests.
We can keep connected with our relatives by using technology. It's easy to send E-mail to granddad better yet. A week of relaxing vacation can be a great way to tie up family ties. And when a bad thing happens, no one can be as helpful as your relatives. Because no matter how much we cry for the famous people, they can't be there to cry for us.
