I was born on the 17th of November 1828, in the village of Nam Ping, which is about four miles southwest of the Portuguese Colony （殖民地） of Macao, and is located on Pedro Island lying west of Macao, from which it is separated by a channel of half a mile wide.
As early as 1834, an English lady, Mrs. Gutzlaff, wife of a missionary to China, came to Macao. Supported by the Ladies' Association in London for the promotion of female education in India and the East, she immediately took up the work of starting a girls' school for Chinese girls, which was soon followed by the opening of a boys' school.
Mrs. Gutzlaff's comprador（买办） happened to come from my village and was actually my father's friend and neighbor. It was through him that my parents heard about Mrs. Gutzlaff's school and it was doubtlessly through his influence and means that my father got me admitted into the school. It has always been a mystery to me why my parents should put me into a foreign school, instead of a traditional Confucian school, where my big brother was placed. Most certainly such a step would have been more suitable for Chinese public opinion, taste, and the wants of the country, than to allow me to attend an English school. Moreover, a Chinese belief is the only avenue in China that leads to political promotion, influence, power and wealth. I can only guess that as foreign communication with China was just beginning to grow, my parents hoped that it might be worthwhile to put one of their sons to learning English. In this way he might become an interpreter and have a more advantageous position to enter the business and diplomatic world. I am wondering if that influenced my parents to put me into Mrs. Gutzlaff's School. As to what other sequences it has eventually brought about in my later life, they were entirely left in the hands of God.
Scientists have proved the idea wrong that women are underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics （STEM） industries because of biological differences which affect their math skills. Girls and boys have similar brains and are equally able when it comes to understanding math, according to the study.
The research involved 104 children aged between 3 to 10 years old, 55 of whom were girls. The kids watched an educational video featuring math concepts such as counting and addition, while the scientists recorded their brain activity using an MRI scanner. The team then compared all the scan results. According to the data, there was no difference between the children's brain functions or development. And the boys and girls appeared to be equally tuned into the videos. The team also looked at the results of a math ability test taken by 97 children aged between 3 and 8 years old, 50 of whom were girls. Both genders performed equally well, regardless of age.
Between 2015 and 2016, women made up only 35. 5 percent of STEM students in the US, 32. 6 percent of masters courses, and 33. 7 percent at PhD level. Jessica Cantlon, professor of developmental neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University and senior author of the paper, commented in a statement: "Science doesn't folk beliefs. We see that children's brains function similarly regardless of their gender so hopefully we can redefine expectations of what children can achieve in mathematics. "
Cantlon said: "Typical socialization can enlarge small differences between boys and girls that can snowball into how we treat them in science and math. We need to be aware of these origins to ensure we aren't the ones causing the gender unfairness. "
Alyssa Kersey, postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago and first author on the paper, said in a statement: "I's not just that boys and girls are using the math network in the same ways but that similarities are evident across the entire brain. This is an important reminder that humans are more similar to each other than we are different. "
Rain beats against the window, matching my mood. I should have known that my new job at the hospital was too good to be true. Throughout the day, rumors warned that the newest employees from each department would be laid off. I was the newest one in the training department.
My boss appeared. "You probably know we were cutting back on staff, " he said. "Administration wants us to offer outplacement classes to help those employees find other jobs, showing them how to actin an interview, for example. ""Fine, "I answered unwillingly, not knowing what else to say.
I decided to go home early that day. In the hall, I met the lady who brought us cookies very Friday. She was a little woman with gray hair. Only her head and the top of her green apron were visible over the cart （小车） loaded with cleaning supplies. At least she had a job!
At the final meeting, laid-off workers formed a line at the door. A colleague whispered, "I can't believe our Cookie Lady is being laid off. We'll miss her as much as we'll miss her cookies. " When the colleague spoke to her in Spanish, I knew my classes would be useless for her.
I decided to do something for her. I wrote to a newspaper expressing how I felt about the unselfishness of the Cookie Lady who needed a job. A few days later, my article appeared in the newspaper and the Cookie Lady was allowed to stay in her position. On the same day, I received a letter, which seemed so unlikely that I read it twice. "An editor of a local magazine likes your piece and wants you to call her next time you are looking for work. . . "
Do you feel safe walking alone at night in the area where you live? Residents in 144 countries and regions answered this question and more in the 2020 Global Law and Order report.
On Oct. 27, the US-based organization Gallup released （发布） the report. The survey was conducted throughout 2019, and involved nearly 175, 000 people aged 15 and older who were interviewed face-to-face or by telephone.
Interviewees were asked about their confidence in their local police, their feelings of personal safety, and the incidence （事件） of theft （盗窃） and attack or robbery （抢劫） in the past year.
The organization collects the "positive" responses to the questions into a Law and Order Index score for each country and region. The higher the score, the higher the percentage of the population that reports feeling safe.
The average index score for the world in 2019 was 82 out of 100 — the same as in 2018. Ninety countries and regions posted scores lower than this average.
China received a score of 94 and ranks third on the list, following Singapore and Turkmenistan, which both received 97. The report also showed that 90 percent of the interviewees from China said they feel secure when walking alone at night.
In recent decades, more and more Chinese people have traveled abroad, and noticed that public security in China was better than that in any other countries, according to China Daily.
Wang Yidi, 17, a Chinese student studying in Pennsylvania, US, used to go out for midnight snacks with her friends when staying in China. "But in the US, not so many people dare to walk alone at night." she said.
In fact, China has taken great efforts to ensure people's sense of happiness and security. According to China Daily, it launched （启动） a three-year campaign against organized crime in 2018. By August 2020, more than10, 000 criminal gangs （犯罪团伙） had been arrested nationwide. Serious violent crimes have been on the decline for 10 years.
Artificial—intelligence systems like Grammarly, an automated grammar—checker, are trained with data. for instance, translation software is fed sentences translated by humans, Grammarly's training data involve a large number of standard error—free sentences and human—corrected sentences. The software then looks at a user's writing: if a line of words seems ungrammatical, it tries to spot how the generally supposed mistake is most closely similar to one from its training inputs.
Advances in language technology have been impressive in, for example, speech recognition, which involves another sort of statistical guess—whether or not a stretch of sound matches a certain line of words. It can rate the tone of an email before you send it, after being trained on texts that have been assessed by humans, for example as "admiring" or "confident".
But grammar is the real magic of language, joining words into structures, joining those structures into sentences, and doing so in a way that maps onto meaning. Computers can analyse grammatical sentences fairly well, labeling things like nouns and verb phrases. But they struggle with sentences that are difficult to analyse, precisely because they are ungrammatical—in other words, written by the kind of person who needs Grammarly.
But computers don't work in meaning or intention, they work in formulae（惯用语）. Humans, by contrast, can usually understand even sentences that are not grammatically correct, because of the ability to guess the contents of other minds. Grammar—checking computers illustrate not how bad humans are with language, but just how good.
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A. Grammarly can seem to miss more errors than it marks. B. One Grammarly feature that works fairly well is sentiment analysis. C. To correct such writing requires knowing what the writer intended. D. Grammarly has some obvious strengths in understanding meaning or intentions. E. Computers outpace humans at problems that can be solved with pure maths. F. Developers also add certain rules to the patterns Grammarty has taught itself. G. In this decisive structure—meaning connection, machines are no match for humans. |
When my children were younger, we used to walk a graveled trail（用碎石铺成的小路）around the lake near our home. One spring day my daughter and I1just how much rubbish was2along the trail. The next day then we brought a big rubbish bag with us and started to slowly, step by step,3the rubbish along our way. There were plastic water bottles, wrappers for candy bars, empty chip bags, and even an old discarded shoe. We stopped and picked up each one. By the time we had circled the4, the bag was nearly5.
Tired but6, we put the bag in an empty rubbish can. We stopped before we7home and took one last look at the lake as the sun set. It looked more8than ever.
I know that at times this world's problems can seem9to deal with and you wonder what you can do to make a difference. But the10is everything you do makes a difference! Every time you bent11to pick up a single piece of rubbish you make a difference. Every12you share makes a difference. Every kind word you say makes a difference. Every hug you share, every flower you plant, every animal you13,everything you do, no matter how14, makes a difference in this world.
Therefore, make your difference15from picking up a piece of rubbish.
In 1985, there was little rainfall in Ethiopia, which （lead）to poor harvests and the death of many of the country's cattle. Bob Geldof organized a charity concert to help the victims. In wrestling with the dilemma of worldwide hunger, the United Nations set up an agency （call）the World Food Programme.
Today, some developing countries in Africa, Asia and South America still need help in order not to fall further behind. The sad truth is that （mere） sending loaves of bread is far from enough. There is saying that goes, 'Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man （fish）, and you feed him for the rest of his life.' In a bid to find a permanent solution to this long-term problem, countries need to develop.
developing countries need most is to stop （poor） by fighting the causes of it. Another way to help is through the development of private enterprise along with job training. Finally, we must remember that the future of a country lies in the hands of （it）children.
A lot is being done, , we cannot pretend that the fight is over. （great）efforts need to be made so that people all over the world live better lives.
Get out of my house, you rude, unwanted , ugly and stupid child!" Aunt Foully shouted as Justin before closing the front door. Justin looked out at the grass that surrounded his aunt's garden. He sighed as he remembered the list of housework that his evil aunt had planned for him after he got home from school. It was just not fair. If his parents had not died, he would not have to spend his entire life with Aunt Foully. Aunt Foully was a woman with crazy, curly, orange hair. She had small, black eyes, a big nose and a mouth so wide that you could have fitted a dining plate in it. Worse still, she had a heart so cold that you would freeze if you went near it.
As Justin dragged himself to school, she felt angry and disappointed. He wanted to express his anger at somebody. He decided that for the whole day, he was going to be rude to everyone, including Madame Bell, who was a little hard of hearing.
As he stepped into the classroom and took his place at the back of the room, he started making loud noise with his mouth, and started throwing paper airplanes at his classmates. Whenever Madame Bell looked back at the class, Justin would stop and pretended to be reading his history textbook. After throwing paper plans at his classmates for ten minutes, Justin started to feel bored. He slowly took an eraser out of his pencil case and threw it at a girl in the first row named Jody. But at that moment, Jody bent down and the eraser hit Madame Bell on her back. Madame Bell turned around quickly but crashed into a water bottle on the table, water and broken glass all over the floor. Madame Bell glared at the whole class, face red with anger, and shouted, "Who threw the eraser?"
All eyes turned to Justin as he sank lower and lower in his seat. "Justin Wang, go to the headmaster's office immediately!" Madame Bell ordered, Justin stood up and went out of the classroom.
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Justin walked in the headmaster's office,
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After the long talk with the principal, Justin went back to his classroom.
