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Yellowstone National Park, located in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, was established as the first national park in the United States. The park is a popular destination for visitors who enjoy ecological (生态的) tourism as it offers forests, mountains, and many ecosystems to explore. Some of Yellowstone's most well-known landmarks are its geothermal (地热的) hot springs and geysers (间歇泉), the most famous of which is named Old Faithful.
Last fall, Lisa and her friends decided to take a camping trip to Yellowstone National Park. They arranged to stay at one of the park's many convenient campsites. For their camping trip, they brought their backpacks, sleeping bags, and a cooler of food and drinks. They set up their tents immediately upon arriving at their campsite.
During their trip, Lisa and her friends hiked the many trails (小道) of the park, exploring its natural surroundings. In the forest, they saw a lot of local wildlife. Lisa was blown away by a family of grizzly bears, some gray wolves, and even bald eagles flying overhead. Unexpectedly, she seemed to quite enjoy being in such a great place. They were well protected. Outside of the woods, they admired the beauty of some of Yellowstone's natural waterfalls.
Since Yellowstone contains many hot springs and the world's largest area of active geysers, Lisa and her friends visited many different geyser sites. They even spent an afternoon swimming in Yellowstone's Boiling River. Of all of the sites, Lisa and her friends agreed that Old Faithful was the most impressive. Lisa and her friends waited patiently for the geyser to erupt. After about 40 minutes, a stream of hot water over 100 feet tall sprayed ( 喷洒) from the ground and up into the air. Luckily, no one got wet!
At Seattle's Garfield High School, a dozen (十多个) basketball players are practicing. These guys take the game seriously at this school. A half-dozen coaches keep everyone focused as Garfield prepares for a Saturday playoff game. In the middle of all this is Brandon Roy, the former NBA All-Star and Garfield's greatest player. Roy is the head coach.
Bad knees forced him out of pro basketball well before his time. Four years after his forced NBA retirement, he began coaching at Seattle's Nathan Hale High School in 2017 with no background whatsoever and won a state championship. He moved to his alma mater (母校) the following year and got another state title with a once-beaten team. "Really the thing that brought me to coaching was I missed basketball," Roy said.
After taking 2019 off from coaching to deal with personal issues, Roy returned and has his team pointed at state again. He owns a 78-5 coaching record.
With his success, others frequently discuss whether Roy wants to move up the ranks as he did as a player. "My ultimate goal is not to coach in the NBA but to build a real strong foundation at my alma mater. I don't feel challenged to make it to the next level. I feel challenged right here to make it at this level."
As practice comes to a close, Roy gathers his players around him and his coaches and they talk about the game ahead. Before everyone heads home, he has them shake hands. Players and players. Coaches and players. It's a show of respect and togetherness.
Mostly, he just listened to his mother and followed her insightful direction to become a topflight coach. "My mom gave me the best advice — she said keep your ego (自我) out of it," Roy said. "She told me to forget what I had achieved in the NBA and be down-to-earth. She trusted that I'd be pretty good at it."
When James Haskell started playing professional rugby football, technology's influence was very limited. One of its first and important uses within the game, he says, was just urine testing (尿检). "A lot has changed since then. Now all the players wear GPS heart-rate monitors," the former England and Wasps ruby union player says. Data and technology have become important parts of a professional sports team and its players' lives, Haskell says.
But this is only the beginning.
"New 5G will bring a whole set of new devices to the sports industry and the connectivity of supply chains that isn't possible today," explains Scott Petty, the chief technology officer of Vodafone UK. Vodafone's recent research shows 70 per cent of decision-makers in the sports industry believe it is behind other industries in adopting new technology.
However, things are changing gradually. The research suggests that 76 per cent of sports leaders say new 5G technology will drive innovation ( 革新) within their organisations. According to research, sport is an area where new 5G will have a huge impact. It has the ability to transform the fan experience and help athletes improve their fitness and training programmes. Around 74 per cent of sports leaders believe 5G will help meet rising fan expectations.
Haskell is looking forward to seeing what 5G will enable in the future. Vodafone's new 5G network was launched ( 推 出) in July. At the launch, two Wasps players demonstrated an innovative use of the tech when they conducted a joint training session, despite being 100 miles apart. At an event in London, Will Rowlands tackled (擒抱摔倒) a bag and almost at the same time, through wearable devices, De Jongh felt the force of the tackle.
Going forwards, Haskell expects that players will be able to quantify (量化) their performance in new ways. The key to this? The ability to read realtime data and make training programmes completely personalised. Haskell says: "This ability will be awesome and you'll suddenly be able to quantify everything!"
This will be game-changing.
The classroom environment offers many ways to include fun and laughter into a potentially dull routine，and effective educators make the most of these opportunities.．
Lighten up the atmosphere
Humour can be used to enrich literacy skills，spark creativity，teach critical analysis or just lighten the mood in the classroom.．Make fun of yourself and your mistakes.This can make students smile and has the added benefit of showing students that teachers are human.Use current music and sports subjects in teaching examples to engage students and introduce a fun cultural reference into the usually somber atmosphere of school.
Use humour in the media
．Take advantage of political cartoons to analyse historical events or trends and begin a debate.Humorous authors and reporters in the media can be used as models for writing jobs or oral presentations.
Children can fill in the words the cartoon characters might say，and then transfer those actual words into a story using quotation marks.Comics also can be used to teach literary devices such as puns，metaphors and symbolism.Children can create their own comics combining imagery from word pairs，a cartoon mouse using a computer mouse，for instance.
The learning benefits of humour
．Humour is found to be an important entryway into improving social connections with others.Brains might be able to be trained to interpret a difficult situation in a humorous way in order to help the body cope with stressful circumstances.
A．Keep a cartoon and joke file
B．Include happy remarks throughout lessons
C．Find humour from the behaviour of students
D．Humour is a kind of daily show for teachers
E．So young students laugh a lot in their classrooms
F．Humour can improve learning and strengthen memories
G．Newspapers provide points for issues on current events
For as long as I can remember, I've been part of a team of some sort of extracurricular (课外的) sport. I started swimming at a young age and then I was 1 to water polo (水球).
Water polo is a 2 sport. We grow together, we hang out together, and we succeed together. 3 in this sport depends on the successes of each other rather than the success of the 4 . This is important because we all realize that 5 we can grow fast alone, we grow more and get closer to our goals 6 .
I was never good when I first started a sport. To be honest, it was 7 when I first started playing water polo. My coach has always 8 me. She once said that we're never going to be 9 at first and that's okay because we can always get better. And get better? I did. No matter how 10 I got I noticed that there was always somewhere I was lacking and somewhere I could 11 .
Being an athlete is 12 . You have to wake up early every day. You have to 13 yourself every day. You have to balance your life outside of sport. But for me, 14 is never an option. I knew that simply throwing in the towel would cause me to be filled with great regret. So don't let hard work 15 your desire to become someone greater than you are today.
Irene Schouten did what most people expected of (she) at the Olympics: winning gold for the Netherlands at Beijing 2022.
But the speed skater was not satisfied just being an Olympic champion. She quickly and (elegant) established her position as the queen of the Ice Ribbon with three gold medals and a bronze (铜牌).
It has been a busy period for the Dutch star had her days fully occupied (被占用) between training skating in Beijing. She has also been busy (plan) for her upcoming wedding.
Here is something you should know about Irene Schouten who won the first and last speed skating (event) in Beijing.
Schouten let out a scream ( 尖 叫) and threw her hands in the air as she crossed the finish line of the women's mass start. Her (three) gold medal at Beijing 2022 was hard-earned. It was worth all the effort. A natural-born long-distance skater, Schouten started skating when she was 8. Watching her first Olympics, Salt Lake 2002, she (attract) by Gretha Smit's silver winning moment in the 5000m.
That Olympic moment encouraged her interest in the long-distance races in speed skating. "When I was young, I had a strong wish (win) Olympic gold and now I have it," she said after her 5000m gold in Beijing.
Have you ever been misunderstood (误解) by someone you care about? In my first year in high school, I had a good friend. We got along with each other very well and we often talked about our life and discussed the problems we had in school. We always shared our joys and sadnesses.
Every time I was in a bad mood (心情) or didn't do well on a test, she would encourage me and make me feel relieved. I also listened to her patiently when she got into trouble. We cared about each other so much that we thought of each other as part of our families. Both of us had the same interest in our free time. We enjoyed enriching our knowledge by reading articles in many different fields on blogs on the Internet. And blogging also became one of the important ways for us to communicate with each other. Sometimes we would post something that we weren't willing to say face to face on our blogs. And the next time we turned on the computer, we would know what had happened to each other these days and also understand each other more through the blog.
But one night I got an e-mail from her. In it she told me that she felt very disappointed with me and she didn't want to be my friend anymore! I was very shocked at that time and had no idea about what had made her so angry. So I called her back immediately, but no one answered the phone. I was so confused and didn't know what to do. I thought about the last time we had chatted with each other and couldn't find anything wrong. So I turned on my computer and read her blog, hoping to figure out what had happened to her. Suddenly, when I read an article about some other friends, I realized what had gone wrong.
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It was because of one article on my blog the week before.
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Finally, I came up with the idea of communicating with her through my blog, too.
