In 2020, compared with the previous year's film market, the popularity of domestic films this year improved, the themes were more diverse, and the coverage was more extensive. Here are some of the top 10 domestic box office movies in 2020.
The Eight Hundred
It is based on the battle of Songhu in 1937 and tells the story of a camp of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and its adherence in Shanghai. To strengthen the momentum the actual number of 400 people was changed to 800 people. The "800 heroes" fought hard for four days and it wasn't until Oct. 30th that they were ordered to withdraw to the British concession (租界).
The film was released in Chinese mainland on Aug. 21st, with a total box office of 3.09 billion yuan ($ 472.39 million) by Oct.25th.
Leap
The film tells the story of China's women's volleyball team's life and death battle from its first World Championship in 1981 to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. It also tells the legend of several generations of women's volleyball players who have experienced setbacks but remained indomitable (不屈不挠) and constantly struggling.
The film was released on Sept. 25th, with a total box office of 827.37 million yuan ($126.43 million) by Nov. 8th.
Love You Forever
A young dancer finds Lin Ge's diary while rescuing the elderly theater manager. In the diary, the old man with white hair is like her best friend. To fulfill his promise, Lin Ge goes back to the past, corrects his mistakes and saves his love. However, he is teased by fate and cannot be satisfied.
The film was released on Aug. 25th, with a total box office of 510.1million yuan ( $76.47 million) by Sept. 27th.
Coffee or Tea?
It tells the story of three young people with different personalities who return to an ancient village in Yunnan from a big city to start their own business. They understand that e-commerce going the countryside is not only to sell things in the city to the countryside, but also to sell things from the countryside. They change everyone with sincerity and start an extraordinary journey.
The film was released on Oct. 4th, with a total box office of 306.19 million yuan ($46.79 million) by Nov. 8th.
Every superhero, no matter how small, needs a cape(披风). That was Robyn Rosenberger's motivation when she started sewing superhero caps for kids with cancer, heart defects, and other serious diseases.
It all began when she was making a cape as a birthday present for her nephew. Rosenberger heard of a girl named Brenna who was battling a potentially deadly skin condition called harlequin ichthyosis (鱼鳞病). Anyone going through what she was going through had to be tough. "I had a happy moment," Rosenberger says. "Brenna was a superhero! She needed a cape."
So, Rosenberger sent her one, and Brenna's mother was delighted. Rosenberger found ten more kids online and sent out ten more capes. Before long, she quit her job at a software company to devote herself to tinysuperheroes.com, a website where people can buy handmade capes for brave kids facing illness and disability.
Since 2013, Rosenberger and her small paid staff have sent more than 12,000 handmade capes to kids in all 500 states and 15 other countries. The capes come in pink, blue, purple, or red and can be decorated with the child's initials(姓氏首字母) or specialized patches, including a heart, a rocket, or a lightning bolt. One receiver was eight-month-old Gabe, who was born with a cleft palate(腭裂) and Coffin-Siris Syndrome, which causes distinct (特有的) facial features. Rosenberger sent him a red cape with a bright yellow G in the center. It was a hit. Gabe is now a fixture on the company's social media posts. "The TinySuperhero community has been a wonderful connection to have," says Gabe's mom, Kate Glocke. "In fact, two years later, we still bring Gabe's cape with us to every hospital appointment."
On January 22nd, 2021, China said it has established a new monitoring and research center for greenhouse gases and carbon neutrality(碳中和) in order to contribute more to fighting climate change. The official announcement of the Monitoring and Assessment Center for GHGs and Carbon Neutrality (温室气体及碳中和检测评估中心), located in Beijing, was made by the China Meteorological Administration. It is expected to play a vital role in providing both technical and scientific support for researchers. The center will gather top scientists in the field from both home and abroad. Apart from providing ways to achieve carbon neutrality, it will also be helpful to make technological breakthroughs in the next three to five years.
The center is tasked with creating a system to evaluate the effectiveness of the country's efforts to fight climate change. The recruitment (招募) of staff members is expected to be finished in the next two months. A scientific steering committee will also be started in April to guide the center's operation.
China is determined to peak(达到峰值) its carbon dioxide emissions(排放) before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. One of the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic is that humankind must pursue a green development path and green lifestyle. China will lower its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by more than 65 percent from the 2005 level and increase its share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 25 percent. By 2030, China will also increase its forest stock by 6 billion cubic meters from the 2005 level, and bring its total installed capacity (装机容量) of wind and solar power to over 1.2 billion kilowatts.
The establishment of the center proves China's determination to pursue a green development road. It's a concrete action that China has taken to fight the climate challenge. Carbon neutrality, or a net-zero carbon footprint, means reading a balance between carbon emissions and removing pollutants through carbon sinks and other offset (补偿).
China has sped up research and development of equipment to monitor greenhouse gases and carbon neutrality and achieved encouraging results. However, there is still a long way to go to reach the top world standard.
Scientists have successfully used satellite cameras to count animals in complex geographical environments, taking environmentalists an important step forward in monitoring populations of endangered species.
For this research, the satellite Worldview 3 used high-quality pictures to monitor African elephants moving through forests and grasslands. The automated(自动化) system detected animals with the same accuracy as humans are able to achieve. The new surveying technique, created by Dr. Olga Isupova at the University of Bath in the UK with some other scientists, allows vast areas of land to be scanned in a matter of minutes, offering a much-needed alternative to human observers counting individual animals from low-flying airplanes. As it sweeps across the land, a satellite can collect over 5,000 km2 of pictures every few minutes, avoiding double counting. Where necessary, the process can be repeated the next day.
The population of African elephants has nose-dived over the past century, mainly due to hunting illegally and habitat (栖息地) ruin. With only 40,000-50,000 elephants left in the wild, the species is classified as endangered.
"Accurate monitoring is essential if we're to save the species," said Dr. Isupove. "We need to know where the animals are and how many there are." Satellite monitoring avoids disturbing animals during date collection and ensures humans are not hurt in the counting process. It also makes it simpler to count animals moving from country to country, as satellites can orbit the planet without regard for border controls or conflict.
This study was not the first to use satellite pictures and algorithms(计数法) to monitor species, but it was the first to reliably monitor animals moving through a complex environment—that is, an environment that includes areas of open grassland, woodland and partial coverage. "This type of work has been done before with whales, but of course the ocean is all blue, so counting is a lot less challenging," said Dr. Isupova. "As you can imagine, a complex environment makes it much harder to identify animals."
The researchers believe their work shows the potential of technology to support environmentalists to protect biodiversity and to slow the progress of the sixth mass extinction(灭绝)—the ongoing extinction event caused by human activity.
How to Quiet a Complainer
Talking to a complainer can stress you out, but with the right tools you can lighten the mood for all.
. Some complainers will stop if you change the conversation in a direction that interests them. If your neighbor is caring much about the phone company, tell her about an unexpected call you received from an old friend. If you coworker is complaining about your boss, ask whether he met the new employee.. Therefore, you can keep using it.
Summarize the complaint. If your complainer keeps repeating himself, he may stop if you prove that you're listening. Ask something like, "Can I tell you what I've heard so far and you know that I've got it?" Using "I" statements ("I've heard…") rather than "you" statements shows that you're interested rather than trying to shut the person down..
Challenge the person to act. When a complainer is always telling you about her latest problem, ask nicely what she's done to improve it. That isn't the usual direction that a complaining conversation takes..
Be honest. When you have things to do, tell the complainer that you must cut the conversation short. . You can simply be honest, even saying you need to move on so the conversation doesn't bring you down—especially if it's someone who's complained to you many times before.
A. Change the subject
B. Continue the subject
C. You don't need an excuse to stop it
D. Therefore, you can keep complaining it
E. Hard as it may be, avoid saying the word "you"
F. However, this direction may help to shortly end a complaint
G. This method is especially effective on those who are mindlessly expressing
Trevor was not born blind, but there was something wrong with his eyes. Ten years ago, he was still able to drive. With time going by, he could see nothing1light. On the other hand, Melanie was born2with a kind of disease, which3her of the ability to walk.
Trevor always loved outdoor sports and continued4in them even after he became a5man. As a kid, Melanie often spent her time camping and6the outdoors while she was in a7on someone's back.
Knowing all of this about each other, the pair8a brilliant idea—with their strengths9, they would climb the mountains of Colorado together!
Before the start of each10, Melanie, secure in carrier, is always helped by a friend or a fellow11onto Trevor's back. Her role is to give12to her partner as they moved forward on the road.
"I13everything I see and tell Trevor14how he needs to move," Melanie said of their hiking method. “He's the legs, I'm the eyes—boom! Together, we're the15team."
"It made me so happy to help someone experience what I've been able to16in my whole life. Just getting on top of a mountain which a car can't get to, you just feel that sense of17. The best part is being able to make her smile, which gives me purpose," Trevor said.
To them, the best part about18as a pair is that they get to give each other the19to accomplish something that other might believes is20.
Singapore's tradition of eating out in places called hawker(小商贩) centers is now (recognize) by the United Nations for its cultural (important).
A hawker is a person sells food or goods and advertises by shouting at people walking by on the street. Hawkers are an important part of Singaporean culture. Open-air eating areas where hawkers sell (they) goods are very popular. On Wednesday, the United Nations' cultural agency, UNESCO, added the city's "hawker culture," to its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Singapore (seek) to have hawker culture added to the list about two years ago.
Now that it has been recognized, Singapore must provide report every six years to UNESCO. The report must show efforts the city-state has made (save) and support its hawker culture. "These centers serve ‘community dining rooms' where people from diverse backgrounds gather and share the experience of dining over breakfast, lunch and dinner," UNESCO said.
However, Singapore's hawker culture does face difficulties. The average age of a hawker in Singapore is 60 years old. Younger Singaporeans now want to work in offices. They are less (interest) in working in small restaurants.
The COVID-19 health crisis also hurt sales, preventing foreign visitors from (eat) out. During the first few months of 2020, restrictions on movement and social distancing also stopped locals.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词：
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
As we all know, most people, especially students, use to go to the library or borrow books, such as reference books and novels. Therefore, with the rapid development of the Internet, nowadays fewer or fewer people will go to the library. That's because they can easy get the information when they need from the Internet. What's the more, mobile phones and computer have played major roles.
Personally, even though we can do reading from the phones or computers, we are not supposed to spend too much time fix our eyes on the electronic screens, which is not beneficial to his eyes. I strongly suggest we should make full use of our spare time go to the library.
