If you like drawing and want to win & 3, 000 for your school or youth group to spend on a project to help the environment, then we have the perfect competition for you.
All you need to do is create a unique and fascinating design for a BRITA recycling bin that inspires others to reduce, reuse and recycle to protect the planet. BRITA is a company that helps reduce household single-use plastic by encouraging bottled water drinkers to get rid of single-use plastic boules for filtered water. As well as winning & 3, 000 for their school, the three students' wining designs will appear on BRITA recycling bins around the country. The judges can't wait to see what you create.
HOW TO ENTER
●Ask a teacher to apply for an entry pack by emailing CB20_WhaleWatcher@ brita. net. Give the school's address and who the pack should be sent to.
●Each school or youth group can submit designs for the competition from multiple students by scanning the entries and emailing them to CB20_WhaleWatcher@brita. net by 11: 59pm, 28October.
●Judging will take place from 31 October and a winner will be announced by 11 November.
●For full terms and conditions visit brita. co. uk/whale-watchers-competition-terms-conditions.
All the Light We Cannot See is about a blind girl named Marie-Laure, who lives in Paris, France, in the 1930s. When the Nazis invade in 1940, she and her father are forced to leave the city. They escape to a countryside town to hide with Marie-Laure's great uncle, Etienne. After several months, Marie-Laure's father gets arrested. She continues to live with Etienne, and they start passing on secret signals to aid the French Resistance movement.
Werner Pfennig is a German orphan with a hobby of listening to science and music programs on an old radio. Developing a talent for fixing radios, he is later hired by the Nazis to help them track enemy radio signals during the war. One day, he picks up a signal that is coming from Etienne's home in France.
Anyway, Marie-Laure and Werner meet and develop a strong relationship. These two poor souls try to find a way to escape this horrible war together, but can they?
Anthony Doerr, the author of All the Light We Cannot See, is from Cleveland, Ohio. Critics have praised Doer's writing for his short, sharp sentences and attention to detail. All the Light We Cannot See is his second novel, which was published in 2014. It quickly became a New York Times best-seller and won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The amazing novel gives readers a look at the ugly face of war. Throughout the book, we see how war can destroy people's lives in the blink(眨眼) of an eye. Characters such as Etienne and Marie-Laure's father disappear in an instant and are never heard from again. However, war is also shown to bring out the best in people. The characters who survive must show great courage and strength when they face challenges.
Another important idea is the importance of science and technology. Doerr suggests that technologies, such as the radio, are helpful to society if they are used with good intentions. However, if technologies fall into the hands of evil(邪恶), they can cause great destruction.
Most of us have been spending a lot more time at home these past couple of years — making us ask questions about the quality of the indoor air we breathe. Pre-COVID reports show that Brits spend more than 90 per cent of our time indoors, where levels of some poisonous substances can be up to five times greater than they are outdoors. The internet is full of claims that houseplants can help. But is there any truth to the claims?
Unfortunately, not much. Most of the articles, if they refer to any evidence, point to a NASA study from 1989. Back then, scientists were examining plants' ability to remove harmful chemicals called volatile organic compounds(复合物)(VOCs) from the air of space stations. In our homes and offices, sources of VOCs include paints, furniture, carpets and printers. The study found that over a24-hour period, several species of plant could indeed remove up to 70 per cent of one or more of the three VOCs tested.
But the results don't translate well to the typical home or office, according to a 2019 review that revisited the NASA data, along with 11 other studies. For starters, the experiments typically used fans to blow the VOCs over the plants, and carbon filters(过滤器) to collect them — setups that most of us don't have in our homes. More importantly, the plants were placed in small, closed rooms. But the buildings we live and work in are surprisingly leaky. In fact, the researchers estimate that you'd need to squeeze between 10 and 1, 000 plants into each square metre of your home to approach the rates of VOC removal happening in space stations.
Research shows that houseplants do have a range of other benefits, however. They help regulate humidity (湿度). They can improve mood and boost productivity. And they also look good. But if you want to freshen up the air in your home, your best bet is to buy an air purifier with a high-quality filter or — depending on where you live — to open a window.
Commercial flights have been available for more than 100 years. Air travel has become more and more common as time goes on. It's not unusual for a CEO to fly to another country for a meeting or fora family to travel to another country for a short holiday.
However, air travel has a huge environmental impact. Many people who are concerned about climate change have made the choice to reduce or stop their flying altogether. Instead, they are switching to taking trains. Of course, traveling by train is much slower, but it is more environmentally friendly.
In Sweden, there are two new words to support this movement: flygskam, or "flight is shame. "It is used to describe the guilt that air travelers experience. They know they are contributing to global warming by taking an airplane. Therefore, they feel ashamed of their flight. The other word, tagskryt, or "train brag," is used when someone feels proud and happy to be traveling by train. Both of these words are used as common hashtags(主题标签)on European social media.
In 2018, a group of Swedish celebrities, including Malena Emman, a singer, publicly announced that they would stop flying. In that same year, Greta'Thunberg, Emman's daughter, founded an event," Fridays for Future. " In this event, Swedish students skipped school to protest(抗议）climate change outside government offices. The movement quickly spread around the world, and Thunberg became a star at the age of 15.
In 2019, Greta' Thunberg took flygskam to the next level when she traveled by sailboat across the Atlantic Ocean to attend a United Nations meeting. She sailed from Plymouth in the UK to New York City in the US and completed her trip without contributing to carbon emissions.
The influence of this movement is clear in Europe, where domestic flights have been used less and less, and train travel has become more popular. Change doesn't just happen overnight. But with some good planning and responsible choices, we will all have the chance to enjoy traveling the world for many years to come.
Remaining positive and happy is a real challenge nowadays. Here are five ways to help you achieve a more positive outlook.
Many of us would like to be happier, but there is no quick fix. Becoming positive is an action. Itis learning to take that small step in a direction that moves us towards what is important to us. So, rather than aiming to be happy in the future, take little actions now that make you feel better.
Count your blessings
. At the end of your day, preferably just before sleep, write down quickly in a notebook all the things that happened to you during the day that you are grateful for. Doing this for three weeks will significantly affect the way you view your life.
Challenge negative thoughts
Paradox(悖论) of being positive is accepting that we can't always be happy and we don't need to be. Dropping the sense of need is a quick way to allow negative emotions to come and go more easily. A quick way to do this is to acknowledge feelings and flip(转换)thoughts. For example:" . "
Help others
. Above an income of about 20, 000 a year, there is no increase in happiness. Instead, donating that income to a cause you care about and forming good relationships with family, friends and members of your community can have a significant effect on your overall level of satisfaction.
Go outside
Being in nature, exercise, daylight and fresh air can have a huge effect on your mood. . Ideally, individuals should take part in physical activity that they enjoy, which may include outdoor exercise. That could be running, wild swimming, sports, gardening or walking to work. And try to stick at it.
A. Think out of the box
B. Have realistic aims
C. I'm feeling lonely and that's OK. I don't need to not feel lonely
D. Gratefulness work is one of the most effective ways to increase happiness
E. It can lead us further away from what might really make us happy
F. Physical activity is known to be beneficial for health, including mental health
G. We are far more satisfied by the feeling of helping others than by achieving success
Children know the difference between right and wrong before they reach the age of two, according to new research1recently.
Scientists have2that babies aged between 19 and 21 months understand fairness and can3it in different situations. They say it is the first time that having a4of fairness has been identified in children at such a young5.
Researchers say babies will watch a 6 for longer if they think it contains something unfair, so in two experiments the babies were7on how long they watched a live scenario(情景)about fairness.
In the first, 19-month-olds8two giraffe puppets(玩偶) given either a toy each or both toys to one of the giraffes. Longer looking times9that something was unusual or10to the baby. In this experiment, three-quarters of the babies looked longer when one giraffe got11toys.
In a second experiment, two women 12each other with a pile of small 13 between them and an empty plastic box in front of each of them In one scenario, one woman 14put the toys away, while the other kept playing, but both women were given 15. In another scenario, both women put the toys away and both got a reward. The 1621-month-old babies looked reliably 17when the worker and the slacker(偷懒的人) were rewarded equally.
Psychologist Stephanie Sloane, who led the study at Illinois University, said:" We discovered that 19 and 21-month-old babies have a general18of faimess, and they can apply it 19to different situations. "
The20appear in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science.
Teens are always finding new ways to celebrate their 18th birthdays. This is(particular) true of Hu Wenyi, a college student from Gansu province.
Two years ago, to mark her entry into adulthood, she(come) up with a novel way to celebrate — registering online to become3organ and body donor(捐赠者).
The number of people signing up to become donors has been rising in recent years, with young people showing particular (enthusiastic). Data from the China Organ Donation Administrative Center shows that more than 5. 01 million people had signed up to become donors by early September, (compare) with the 25, 000 who registered in 2015.
Cui Hao, 20, decided to sign up to become one of the organ and body donors (follow) the sudden death of a friend in a car accident six months ago. Feeling sad for months, he was suddenly awarethe fragility of life.
"That was the first time I experienced the pain of death, made me think about the meaning of life," he said.
Recovering from(he) sorrow, Cui convinced his parents to support his decision, which he hopes will save others from being tormented(折磨) by the pain of death.
"The real death of a person is when nobody remembers them, "said 21-year-old registered organ donor, Fu Yansong.
"When other people are able to live(long) and better thanks to my organs, it feels like my life is being extended in another way."
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(八)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(l)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。
The most precious item I owns is my photo album. It is a record of my life and contains a lot fond memories. There were pictures of many important moments in my life, such as my first day of school or the time when I completed a marathon. The photo also remind me of happy moments with people that I love, one of which is of me hug my grandmother at my 10th birthday party. She was passed away a few years ago, but this photo helps me remember him. My photo album holds many dearly memories like this one, and that is what it is the most precious item that I own.
