Friday September 17
5 — 6:30pm Dance Mob Workshop & Performance*
Location: Dundas Place in front of Budweiser Gardens
(*Please bring your own pool noodle to dance with!)
FREE
In this workshop you'll learn a fun and easy dance while holding a pool noodle. The noodles will be an amusing way to make sure we all stay safely 2 metres apart while dancing. Once everyone has learned the moves, we'll head down the street for a surprise performance featuring local rapper Big Lou live on the mic! Open to all ages and experience levels.
FILM PREMIERES throughout the Festival — Learn more about Dance Films by Public Displays of Art and Nick Gordon
Saturday September 18
4 — 6pm Workshops for all levels: Partner Dance and Bellydance Basics;
6 — 7:30pm Performance
All Day: Interactive Dance Map and Pop-up
Performances by Belinda McGuire
Location: Ivey Park, 331 Thames St.
FREE but donations are gratefully accepted!
Join us for an exciting, free, LIVE dance event in Ivey Park. Learn new moves in all-levels workshops, then see London's talented dance artists perform on nature's stage.
This year registration is required. Masks must be worn to enter the event site, but may be taken off once you are safely two meters from others in a designated audience or participant space.
We're also looking for volunteers to help out at the event. Click here to learn about the jobs available and sign up to help out!
This year, several young athletes have shone brightly at the Beijing Winter Olympics, giving us a glimpse of their generation's nature.
Obviously, the young generation is filled with "brave warriors" who want to challenge impossibilities and push boundaries. Freestyle skier Gu Ailing is a good example. After she finished strong in the first two jumps in the women's free-ski Big Air event, it was certain that she could get a medal. But instead of taking heed of it , the 18-year-old skier pushed herself to the limit. On the last jump, Gu decided to attempt a difficult trick: a left double cork 1620 — four and a half rotations in the air — before landing". I have never done the 'left 16' before. I hadn't prepared much for it apart from two days on the air bag,"Gu told China Daily," but I felt it was a chance."
But for these young athletes, the sport is never just about scores, but also about having as much fun as possible.
Born in the US, Gu faced criticism and doubts for representing China in the Beijing Winter Olympics. When questioned by The Guardian, the girl said bluntly (直截了当地) she wasn't trying to make everyone happy. "I'm an 18-year-old girl out here living my best life. I'm having a great time."Gu said." It doesn't really matter if other people are happy or not, because I feel I' m doing my best and I'm enjoying the entire process."
Gu's good friend, Chinese snowboarder Su Yiming also shares a similar attitude. He takes sports as a way to have fun. After he was judged to have lost the gold to Canadian athlete Max Parrot in the men's slopestyle final, the 17-year-old didn't feel upset. Instead, he was happy to have the chance to compete with his idol.
"When I was on the podium (领奖台) hugging Max Parrot, it felt unreal," Su told China Daily." All I did today was enjoy the runs and concentrate on my tricks. As long as I am on my snowboard I am happy."
"Your password has expired ,"a message said on my screen, with instructions for changing it. Coming up with a new code doesn't seem like a big deal, unless you work at my company, where we have to change it monthly, using at least one uppercase character, one lowercase character, one symbol, and one number. Oh, the whole password can't be fewer than eight characters. And I can't use any of the same passwords I've used in the past three months.
Suddenly I was very angry. What didn't make it any better was that I was deeply depressed after my recent divorce. Disbelief about what she had done to me was all I thought about. Every day.
I remembered a tip I'd heard from my former boss. He'd said:" I'm going to use a password to change my life." I couldn't focus on getting things done in my current mood. There were clear signs of what I needed to do to get control of my life again.
My password became the sign. My password reminded me that I shouldn't let myself be a victim of my recent breakup and that I was strong enough to do something about it.
I made my password Forgive@h3r. I had to type this several times a day. The simple action changed the way I looked at my ex-wife. That constant reminder led me to accept the way things had happened and find a new way of dealing with my depression. As the month wore on, I felt a slow healing begin to happen. By the time my server asked me to reset my password the following month, I felt free.
One month later, my dear Exchange server asked me yet again to reset my password. I thought about the next thing that I had to get done. My password became Quit@smoking4ever. I quit smoking overnight. This password was a painful one to type during that month, but doing it helped me to yell at myself in my mind as I typed that statement. It motivated me to follow my monthly goal. One month later, my password became Save4trip@thailand. Guess where I went three months later: Thailand.
Seeing how these reminders helped to achieve my goals kept me motivated and excited. While it's something difficult to come up with your next goal, keeping at it brings great results.
The captain of the ship, the Beagle, wanted someone who would "profit by the opportunity of visiting distant countries yet little known". The person who answered the call was not the captain's first choice. It was a young man who had left medical school without completing his degree. What's more, he had recently received a letter from his father predicting that he would be "a disgrace to yourself and all your family". Despite all this, his adventures on this ship would lead to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.
The young man in question, Charles Darwin, was a geologist and naturalist, fascinated by rocks, plants and animals. The journey gave him the chance to study various living things in their natural environments. After Darwin had spent some time in South America, his room on the ship was crowded with samples of the plants and animals he had collected. As he studied these, he asked himself the question: how did different species come to exist?
At that time, people believed that all species had appeared on Earth at the same time, and had not changed since. But Darwin began to think differently. He noticed that some species of animals were very similar to each other. Maybe animals evolved as they adapted to their changing environments. It was just an idea, but enough to inspire Darwin to look for more evidence. When the Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands in 1835, Darwin saw a variety of new species, but it was the birds that interested him the most. Darwin noticed that there was a difference between the finches (雀科小鸟) on each of the islands. It seemed their beaks (鸟喙） had evolved according to what food was available on that particular island.
Darwin suspected the finches had evolved from a common ancestor, which had arrived on the islands a long time before. Over time, it had slowly evolved into many new species. And that was the answer to how new species of plants and animals came to exist: they evolved from earlier ancestors.
It was a completely new idea — a theory of evolution. Darwin explained this theory in his book, On the Origin of Species. Many people refused to believe that living things, including humans, had evolved from lower forms of life. But Darwin's scientific studies were so convincing that more and more people started to believe his theory.
Today, On the Origin of Species has changed ideas about life on Earth forever. And it all began with the journey on the Beagle.
①Darwin suspected that the finches had evolved from a common ancestor.
②Darwin proposed a theory that living things had evolved from lower forms of life.
③Darwin wanted to know how different species came to exist.
④Darwin noticed there was a difference between the finches on the Galapagos Islands.
⑤Darwin studied various living things in their natural environments.
Rising through Stages to Realize Ourselves
Many modern people have the problem that they don't know who they are and what their purpose is. Once high school seniors graduate, they seem to lose their identity. They once studied hard, but after they stop working, they begin to lose their way.
In the theory of the Hierarchy of Needs (需求理论), Abraham Maslow put forward a similar situation, which consists of the five levels of a person's need. The fifth and final level is self- realization, which is where our final achievement lies.
I think self-realization has three major aspects. The first stage is acceptance, the second stage is discovery and the last stage is perseverance.
Acceptance is the first stage. We should be reminded that we are all born unique, so we all have our own strengths and weaknesses. Being objective and yet tolerant is the key to acceptance.
Once we've accepted ourselves, we can discover what we are interested in and what we want to be. Many people tend to go along with social expectations. So before we start working towards a purpose, we should ask ourselves"Is this what we truly desire?"and"Is this going to change the situation we're in?"
The last stage is perseverance. Those who can self-realize are people who focus on the things they want to change.
Through the three stages, we could gain recognition of ourselves. And by this point, whatever our lives were like, we would be able to stand tall, confident of ourselves.
A. It's nothing to a man of perseverance.
B. But indeed we should live for ourselves.
C. Only by acceptance of the past can we change it.
D. This is especially common among college students.
E. It is the process of knowing ourselves and finding a purpose.
F. Exploring our potential isn't going to be done in a short time.
G. Only when we understand these can we pursue them or change them.
Chinese cuisine(烹饪) is widely known and enjoyed all around the world. Who doesn't1a favorite Chinese dish? But there is one interesting 2 concerning Chinese food which is almost unheard-of in the West, and 3 ignored by the youth of the East — the ancient custom of "tonic (滋补) food".
Tonic food is food consumed to improve one's well-being or4 sickness. 5 , it was once the 6 for new mother to eat a sesame-oil(麻油) hotpot every day for the first month after giving 7. It was believed that this dish would 8 the muscles, reduce pain, improve circulations, stimulate sweating and 9 the body.
Some food are 10 as "hot", such as goat meat and coriander (香菜), while others, such as Chinese cabbage and radish (小萝卜) are "cold". One should be 11 not to eat too much "hot" or "cold" food. 12 , how much "hot" or "cold" food one should eat 13 the time of the year, how the food is prepared and what it is prepared 14 , and the individual's 15 .
The custom of employing tonic food for a healthier life also 16 the catering (餐饮) industry. Some Chinese herbal medicines can often be found on many a restaurant 17. Whether you need to 18 yourself to boost your energy with a large helping of chicken soup or increase your 19 power with a serving of pig's brain soup, you may find that this ancient Chinese custom could be 20 the tonic you are looking for.
China's state -run news agency Xinhua introduced two newest members of its newsroom at the(five) World Internet Conference in Wuzhen. The groundbreaking AI news anchors (节目主持人), speaking Chinese and the other English, are the world's first news anchors (base) on the latest AI technology.
Chinese viewers (greet) with a digital version of a regular Xinhua news anchor named Qin Hao. The anchor, (wear) a red tie and blue suit, nods his head in emphasis, raising his eyebrows slightly." Not only can I accompany you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, but I can be (end) copied and present at different scenes," he said.
The English-speaking AI anchor adds, "The development of the media industry calls continuous creation and deep (combine) with the international advanced technologies. I look forward to bringing you brand new news experiences.
The AI anchors (join) the daily news reporting team already, reporting news on the agency's social media platforms. There is no doubt they have immeasurable prospects for the future news reporting as they can reduce production costs and improve accuracy and efficiency.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（⋀），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）每句不超过两个错误；
2）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 只允许修改 10 处，多者（从第 11 处起）不计分。
I'm longing to join in this activity for an exchange student to Britain, because I think it's a good opportunity for me to improve my English or I can learn more about British history and its culture.
I have many hobby. I like surfing the Internet and do sports. In addition to, I'm good at drawing and I love listening to music. If I'm luckily enough to have the chance, I hoped I live in a friendly host family and that they are willing to take me to visit around often. I'm sure I can get well with them. I would appreciate it whether you could help me achieve our dream.
