A charity sale(义卖) for the poor kids in the mountain area.
Name | How long they have had it | What to sell |
Tim | For 2 years | A music player |
Mary | When she was 9 years old | Some of her books |
Lily | For half a year | An e-dictionary |
Do you like reading books?Here are some good choices for you!
Anna and the Swallow Man | By Gavriel Savit |
This story takes place in Poland in 1939. Anna is a 7﹣year﹣old girl. The German army takes away her father. A nameless refugee(难民),the Swallow Man,takes care of poor Anna. Their life is hard. They need to stay in caves(洞穴)to stay safe and even look for food from dead soldiers. | |
River of Ink:Genesis | By Helen Dennis |
On a cold day in London,a teenage boy gets out of the River Thames. He has lost his memory. He forgets who he was and where he came from. He doesn't know how he fell into the river. | |
North Face | By Matt Dickinson |
The story takes place on the north face of Mount Qomolangma. An 18﹣year﹣old man,Ryan Hart,comes to climb the mountain. A Tibetan girl called Tashi asks Hart to help find her missing friend Kami. Kami never comes back from Mount Qomolangma. |
You must have read or heard of the sad love story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. But can you imagine the two singing opera in English instead of speaking poetic Chinese?
Jia and Lin are two characters from the classic Chinese novel A Dream of Red Mansions(《红楼梦》),written by Cao Xueqin (1715﹣1763). Named as one of China's Four Great Classics,the book has a far﹣reaching influence on later writers. Now the book has been made into an English language opera. After being performed in San Francisco,US,the performance came to Beijing,Changsha and Wuhan.
Many of the opera's creators have backgrounds in both Chinese and American cultures,including the director and playwrights(剧作家). Their understanding of both cultures helped them change a Chinese classic into a foreign﹣language opera.
The book,which covers the rise and fall of the Jia family,has 120 chapters and hundreds of characters. But opera writer David Henry Hwang cut down the number of characters to just seven. Hwang,a Chinese﹣American,focused on the love story between Jia and Lin and tried to write a heartbreaking story that everyone would understand.
The art director Timmy Yip,from Hong Kong,tried to help foreign people understand the characters using costumes and stage settings(布景). He compared Lin to water and gave her a light green costume. When Lin showed up,there was usually water around her on the stage.
The creators considered it to be a meaningful job to introduce a Chinese classic to Western audiences. Hwang told China Daily he was happy to "have made a contribution(贡献) to the land where my parents were born".
Pandas are China's ambassadors(大使) and are loved by many people around the world. In February,pandas including Xiang Xiang and Yong Ming came back home. Before this,they were on loan to Japan.
Since the early 1980s,China has stopped giving away pandas as gifts because of their falling numbers. In the 1990s,China started 10﹣year loans of pandas to other countries. Today about 60 pandas are living abroad.
Making the pandas feel at home,this may lead you the question:How do overseas(海外的) zoo s make sure they have what the pandas need to be comfortable?
Wei Rongping,the head of the Wolong Panda Base in Sichuan says the overseas zoos need to meet several conditions. For example,there must be a healthy and safe environment for pandas to live in. In 2017,to welcome pandas Xing Ya and Wu Wen,the zoo in the Kingdom of the Netherlands built a Chinese﹣style panda house. It offers a clinic(诊所),a cold bamboo keeping room and a nursery when pandas are ready to have babies.
Also,the zoo must give pandas enough food because a panda may eat 12 to 38 kilograms of bamboo in a day,which means they spend at least 12 hours eating each day. Pandas Si Hai and Jing Jing traveled to Qatar in 2022. Every week,the park buys 1,000 kg of fresh bamboo from their hometown,Sichuan. Keepers there also learn the Sichuan dialect(方言) to better talk to the pandas.
Have you seen " dopamine dressing(多巴胺穿搭)" on your social media?
●What is dopamine dressing?
. Through brightness of colors,the dressing creates happy feelings in people.
The science behind color
Science showed long ago that different colors can affect(影响) people. They could make us feel warmer or cooler and also affect our feelings. For example,bright colors can make people feel happy..
●Getting a place in fashion world
Learning how colors work,fashion brands(品牌) have also used colors in different ways. For example,Versace,an Italian brand,added the idea of dopamine dressing to their clothes in 2021..
●Turning into daily style
Now,many people take this style to fight back bad feelings and show themselves. "I've seen people who are very sh y put on colorful clothes and become free,"Karen said. ""
A. The colors like black,white and grey may make people upset B. First created by Dawnn Karen in 2020,dopamine dressing is dressing for joy C. It said this could bring fun and positive energy to the world through fashion D. Their whole mood(心情) changes when they wear clothes that show who they really are E. It's one of the most popular fashion idea for 2023 |
A blind box keeps what's inside a secret(秘密). Usually,there are toys in blind boxes,but now stores are putting leftover(过剩的) food in them.
The food inside is near its expiration date(保质期) and will be thrown away if no one buys it. Each box costs little money but has a lot of food inside. They are more and more popular in China's cities,such as Beijing,Nanjing and Chengdu.
Back in 2021 when I was studying in the UK,I bought leftover blind boxes from an app called Too Good To Go. Each box cost about 3 to 5 pounds (27 to 45 yuan),and there were usually three to four things inside. For example,a box I bought from the coffee shop Costa had three kinds of bread and one cake. The box cost 3 pounds but the original price(原价) was around 10 pounds.
Every time I bought a blind box,the excitement of opening it hit me first. That helped me save a lot of money. Wasting less food is also good for the environment.
But the boxes also brought me problems. Since I can't choose what's in the box,sometimes I got the same kind of food. Also,the food may not be healthy enough. I had to make other dishes,such as a salad,to make the meal healthier.
Once upon a time,there lived a king who won many battles(战役). But unluckily,in his last battle,he was badly hurt. He lost one 1 and one leg.
One day,when the king was walking through the palace hallway,he saw the portraits(肖像) of many kings in the past. He thought that one day his children would also remember him 2 the portraits on the walls.
So he 3 many famous painters to his palace and said, "I want a beautiful portrait to be 4 in the hallway. Any painter who is able to take on this job will be given a bag of gold. "
The painters began to think,"The king has only one leg and one eye. It is 5 to paint his portrait beautifully. If the portrait doesn't look beautiful ,the king may get angry. "They were afraid to be punished(惩罚). So one by one,they started to make 6 and politely refused to paint a portrait of the king.
7 ,one painter raised his hand and said, "I will paint a very beautiful portrait and I'm sure you will like it. "A month later,the king's portrait was shown to the public. They were surprised to find that the painter expressed the beauty and bravery of the king,8 the king had only one eye and one leg. In the portrait,the king was sitting on a horse on the one﹣leg side,holding a bow and an arrow(箭)in9 hands with one eye closed. The painter did make a perfect picture by hiding the king's10 parts. The king gave the painter a bag of gold.
So if we think positively even in a difficult situation,then we will be able to solve our problems easily.
Visiting an amusement park can be great fun. But for (thousand) of special﹣needs people,the loud noises and fast﹣moving rides can be scary.
Gordon Hartman,a businessman from San Antonio,knows what that's like. His daughter Morgan has autism(自闭症). It is an illness that influence people's (develop) of language and social skills.
One day,Hartman found that many kids looked Morgan in fear when she (play) with them in the amusement park. That broke the (father) heart. Hartman was used to solving problems, he decided to create an amusement park. He thought a good park should allow people to have fun (complete). Then the amusement called Morgan's Wonderland was born.
It isfirst theme park of its kind in the world. All the activities are safe enough and(enjoy) for people with special needs. Many amusement parks don't allow people to bring food. But Morgan's Wonderland encourages families (bring) picnics——it's important because these kids often need special diets.
"This park is for everybody,and we put special ﹣needs people first,"Hartman said. "And it's more popularI thought. "
China launched(发射) the Shenzhou XVI manned spaceship on May 30th. The journey is the first flight of China's third generation(一代) of astronauts,and the first time a common person has traveled to space.
Zhu Yangzhu is one of the spaceflight engineers for the
Shenzhou XVI mission.自他是小男孩时就喜欢飞行。
When he was a middle school student,Zhu often did physical exercises about flying. Because of his high grades,Zhu could entered the National University of Defense(国防) Technology in Changsha in the summer of 2005. He spent several hours doing research on engineering every day after entering the university.He remained there for the following years. At the end of 2015,Zhu graduated from the university with a doctor degree and took his first engineering post.
In the summer of 2018,Zhu heard that China would choose the third﹣generation astronauts. He decided to try out for it. He wondered whether he could achieve his dream.In September 2020,Zhu finally became one of the country's third group of 18 astronauts,including six other flight engineers.
However,the astronaut training tasks(任务) were a real challenge for him. For example,astronauts had to stay up for three days and three nights in a closed room,and they had to do many tests on a computer.但是,他完成训练任务没有问题。At the same time,he could play a role in relaxing others and helping them to stay clear﹣headed by singing and telling jokes.
Thanks to his hard work,Zhu progressed rapidly in every training course.Zhu said he felt honored to become a member to fly in space.
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