Istanbul&Faces
Titled"Timeless City:Istanbul&Faces", the Turkey photography exhibition celebrates the 30th anniversary of Istanbul and Shanghai's sistership. The 42-year-old photographer focuses on the distinctive(独特的) historical quarters and the atmosphere that spreads in Istanbul. His work also pays respects to its people as well, with well-defined portraits.
Date:Till Jan. 18, 10 a. m. -4 p. m. Venue:Shanghai Art Collection Museum.
Knitted Works
The knitted(编织的）show is aimed at raising awareness of post natal depression. The works were created by more than 20 mothers from different cities. All the knitted dolls and other works will be sold with the profits(利益) going to charity when the exhibition ends. If you are interested in the knitted works, you can order a special piece.
Date:Till Jan. 1, 7 a. m. -9p. m. Venue:Bl Jinxiu Fun.
Old Shanghai Teahouse
The newly-opened zone at Shanghai Dungeon features nostalgic sets and experiences for visitors to have"scary fun". Visitors can wear traditional Chinese costumes and take photos with the performers.
Date:Daily, 11 a. m. -8 p. m. Venue:Mosaic Shanghai Mail.
Musical Titanic
The Tony Awards winning musical"Titanic"is in Shanghai with more than 100 characters cast. The impressive stage effects promise to take the audience to the bottom of the ocean.
Date:Till Jan 22, 2 p. m. -7:30 p. m. Venue:SAIC Shanghai Culture Square.
Some people have tried locking their mobiles away in order to fight against their smartphone addiction(上瘾), while others have used some tricks such as making their screens black and white. But the cure to smartphone addiction may lie in an app that rewards users for leaving their phone alone.
The new app, called Hold, can detect(检测)when users have used their smartphones and gives them points dependent on how long they avoid the temptation(引诱)of looking at Facebook, for example. Upon downloading it for free, users receive 10 points for every 20 minutes spent without touching their phone between 7: 00 and 23: 00 every day of the week, with a user email address needed to receive the rewards. To get half price Vue cinema tickets, users need 60 points. For two free coffees from Cafe Nero, users need 300 points, and a glass of juice for 90 points, For £5 Amazon vouchers(代金券)users need to have collected 1, 000 points.
Hold was created by Maths Mathisen, Florian Winder and Vinoth Vinaya-three Norwegians. They noticed that young people's dependence on their smartphones was getting out of hand while studying at Copenhagen Business School. Rather than punish their users, the three found that the best way to get them to put their phones down was to use tricks that got them interested in the first place.
Lots of studies in recent years point to the worrying rise of smartphone addiction and the effects of smartphones on education. Researchers from the London School of Economics found that students who did mot use their phones at school found their grades improved by 6.5 percent.
Cafe Nero, Amazon and Planet Organic will also offer discounts on the Hold marketplace. Students will also be offered the choice to use points to buy school books which are then donated to some schools.
Livestreaming is a kind of e-commerce and marketing and sales method. It combines live product demonstrations, time-limited pricing promotions, live negotiations, and instant ordering through online streaming services hosted either by an influencer studio, or online store.
Livestreaming removes barriers between brands and consumers. While it is focused on driving short term sales, livestreaming can enable firms to improve marketing efficiency by combining brand marketing and performance marketing. There are certain factors that will increase the chance of success.
Brands should not use livestreaming as a short-term sales booster but as a long-term way to remove barriers between brands and consumers. Specifically, brands could better demonstrate their products in this way, tell fuller brand stories, introduce emotional and cultural elements to their products, obtain instant feedback, conduct product trials, improve marketing efficiency by combining brand marketing and performance marketing, use different livestream hosts to build a bridge for the consumers and cultivate brand loyalty.
Of course, Livestreaming is not without drawbacks, however. For ads on TV, government has clear rules to forbid brands parading the before-and-after effects of health products. The restrictions are not clear yet for internet-based livestreaming, and health products are frequently promoted by livestreamers. We need to continue to monitor regulatory updates carefully.
As promoting products through live-streaming has been compared to "tuning clicks into cash," some people have made illegal profits by creating false prosperity. Through the purchase of fake followers to increase shares and comments, some live streamers can falsify their rate of engagement to cheat brands and companies in an effort to win more trust and make more money. Meanwhile, live-streams have also faced issues like the return, refund and exchange of products.
It's reported that half of around 7,000 languages on the earth are in danger of disappearing by 2100.There are many reasons for such disappearance. Sometimes younger generations stop learning a language because parents want children to fit in modern society. For instance, native American children of the late-19th century were required to attend boarding schools where educators forbade them from speaking their native languages.
Endangered languages are ranked according to their risk level by the United Nations. A "critically endangered" language is one that even grandparents don't speak often. New York's Onondaga language is an example with only 50 speakers left. An "extinct" language has no speakers, which means it is gone forever.The last person who spoke it died in 2008. So this language doesn't exist any longer.
Various animals and plants benefit our environment.Saving these languages benefits our understanding of other cultures. Languages can show how a society looks at the world and what it values. The Endangered Language Alliance, a non-profit group, wants to save languages from disappearing.However, its efforts are limited. If an endangered language is going to make a real comeback, it'll probably get its start in schools. Now students in Hawaii can keep learning Hawaiian from elementary schools to college and beyond.
At least one did. In 1881, a Jewish linguist named Eliezer Ben-Yehuda brought the 3,000-year-old language Hebrew back to life. Today it is one of the official languages of the country of Israel, with more than 4 million speakers.
A. Alaska's Eyak language is one example.
B. Why should we save endangered languages?
C. With just five speakers left, it is absolutely endangered.
D. Can a language with zero native speakers come back to life?
E. Similarly, different languages contribute to cultural diversity.
F. Sometimes societies force minorities to give up their language.
G. The organization finds native speakers and records their stories.
I'd never been to a Day of the Dead festival before. As my dad and I looked around for seats, I 1 Marco, my best friend, hurrying toward us. "Hi, Mr. O'kane," he 2 my dad. Then he turned to me. "Nate! Will you help me?"
"Whatever you need," I said.
Marco threw me parts of a 3 : Mexican sandals（凉鞋）, a straw hat, a cane(手杖), a gray wig, and an" old man" mask（面具）. "My cousin couldn't4 !" Marco's voice rang with worry.
"It's part of a traditional dance" he said.
"You expect me to dance? " I 5 . "I don't dance!"
Marco smiled. "It'll be fun. And hurry! We're 6 late."
" We're going to do a lot of stomping(跺脚). Slow at first. Keep one hand 7 on your back, like an old man with an ache." added Marco.
The speakers 8 : "Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for The Dance of the Little Old Men!"
"Be quick," Marco 9 to me to follow his lead.
We all began stomping slowly to music. I could only see 10 the small holes of the mask. I continued to stomp, trying to 11 what to do. I leaned on my cane and kept a hand low on my back. After a few minutes of dancing like that, my back 12 started to ache.
The music 13 . And we stomped quickly. Performing with Mexican sandals was 14 . People laughed as we hopped and kicked, but after a moment the laughter turned into cheers.
Marco gave me a thumbs-up. As the audience clapped for our group, I said to him happily, "You were right. That was 15 ."
China has designated(指定) a special day for farmers to celebrate the annual harvest. It is the first festival (create) by the state specifically for the country's farmers. The Chinese farmers' harvest festival falls on the Autumnal Equinox(秋分) each year, (start) from 2018. Autumnal Equinox (usual) falls between September 22nd and 24th, during the country's (agriculture) harvest season.
As we all know, China has largest population in the world. It (be) not easy to feed the largest population in the past. With the development of modern agriculture, people's life is getting better and better. The festival helps to give greater importance rural work and speed up the construction of rural vitalization(振兴). (variety) of celebrations will be organized to display the harvest, rural technology achievements and farmers' creativeness. Farmers are encouraged (take) part in some activities, are related to their work and life. Rural vitalization is a key part of China's efforts to develop a modernized economy. developing its vast rural regions, China expects to see a beautiful countryside and well-off farmers.
It took place in a teacher's family. One day, Ben was playing basketball in the living room after school, when he accidentally threw the ball at a vase sitting on the shelf. The vase dropped to the floor and a large piece broke off. What made Ben more upset was that the vase was not a common decoration but an antique, which was handed down through generations from the 18th century. It was also his mother's favorite possession. To cover his terrible action, the terrified boy glued the pieces together quickly and put the vase back to its place.
As the mother herself dusted the vase every day, she naturally noticed the cracks that evening. To her surprise, the repair work was actually very good. At dinner time, she asked her boy if he broke the vase. Fearing punishment, the suddenly inspired boy said that a neighbor's cat jumped in from the window and he couldn't drive it away no matter how hard he tried. It raced round the living room and finally knocked the vase off its shelf. His mother was quite clear that her son was lying, for all the windows were closed before she left for work each morning and opened after she returned. However, in the face of her son's nervous eyes and the suspicious looks of the other family members, Ben's mother remained calm. She realized she shouldn't just simply blame and punish her son for lying. She came up with another idea.
Before going to bed, the boy found a note from his mother in his room, asking him to go to the study at once. The boy thought he would now be punished, but as he had already lied, he was determined to deny everything to the end, no matter how angry his mum became.
In the study, calmly bathed in the light, his mother's face showed no sign of anger. On seeing her son push open the door and cautiously enter, she took a chocolate box out of a drawer and gave him one.
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The mother said, "This chocolate is a reward for your imagination: a window-opening cat!"
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Now with some chocolates in hand, a sense of guilt welled up inside the boy.
