"Dr. Deep Sea" Lives Underwater for 100 Days
Dr. Joseph Dituri, also known as "Dr. Deep Sea", has just finished an amazing adventure（冒险）. For 100 days, the University of South Florida teacher lived in a small room underwater. He set a new world record, beating the1 record of 73 days.
On March 1, Dr. Dituri, who's 55, began the project. His goal was to stay for 100 days at a special underwater hotel. The farther you go below the ocean's surface（表面）, the 2 the pressure（气压） is. Dr. Dituri wanted to learn how this pressure would 3 the human body over time. He believes that high pressure could help people live longer and stay healthier 4 they get older. It could also help doctors treat different medical diseases, 5 brain problems.
While he was living underwater, Dr. Dituri stayed 6 . He often exercised in the morning. He kept teaching his college classes, and he had online chats with over 5,500 students from 15 different countries. The doctor had a number of 7 who dove（潜水） down to spend a little time with him. Dr. Dituri said what he missed the most when he was underwater was sunshine.
Last Friday, June 9, Dr. Dituri returned to the surface, where he was 8 able to see the sun again.
Many friends, family, and supporters were there to greet him and celebrate his 9 .
Dr. Dituri and his team of doctors plan to study the information they 10 during the project. He says his favorite part of the project was talking with young people. "Who knows?" he said, "Maybe one day, one of them will come back and break the record we just set."
The most important thing about making a campfire is being safe. You must not do any of this without the help of a grown-up. Human beings have been making fires for tens of thousands of years. Nowadays lots of people seem to have forgotten how to do it. The best way to learn is to ask someone to teach you. The RULES are as follows.
Make sure you have permission（许可） from the people who own the land you are on. Next, gather everything you need for the first half hour of fire burning. You will need tinder, kindling sticks（火柴） and fat sticks.
Tinder is something really dry that is easy to light. Paper is good, or handfuls of really dry grass, or bark（树皮） from trees. Kindling is a handful of tiny sticks.
Make a safe space for the fire to be in. A circle of stones is good. Then make a pile of tinder and light it with a match and the help of a grown-up. Add bits of kindling slowly, being careful not to burn yourself.
Carefully add larger and larger sticks until you have some fire. And remember, the wise person builds a small fire and keeps warm. The unwise person builds a large fire and keeps finding wood for it. Or, because this is a book about pets, maybe that should be:
The cat builds a small fire and keeps warm. The dog builds a large fire and keeps finding wood.
Be warned: as soon as you light a fire, a dog will appear from nowhere and get in front of it. They just can' help it.
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Charlie, a boy in a dirty and old shirt, took out the wet dollar. "One Wonka's chocolate," he said.
The shopkeeper looked fat. He reached for the candy bar and handed it to Charlie. Charlie quickly tore off the wrapper（撕掉包装） and took a large bite. Then he took another.. and another.. and oh, the pure joy of being able to put large pieces of something sweet into one's mouth! Charlie missed the feeling so much. He couldn't stop.
The shopkeeper gave Charlie the change. "Take it easy," he said. "You may have a stomachache if eating it like that."
In less than half a minute, the whole thing had disappeared in Charlie's mouth. He felt happy, really, really happy. He reached out a hand to take the change. Then he stopped.
"I think." he said quietly, "I think… I'll have just one more. Please."
"Why not?" the shopkeeper handed Charlie a new bar.
Charlie tore off the wrapper… and suddenly… there was something gold.
Charlie's heart stood still（静止）.
"It's a Golden Ticket!" screamed the shopkeeper. "You've got a Golden Ticket! You've found the last Golden Ticket! Everybody, this child found Wonka's last Golden Ticket! Be careful, son! That's valuable! You can even visit Mr. Wonka's factory with it!"
In a few seconds, there were about twenty people around Charlie, and many more were pushing their way in. Everybody wanted to get a look.
"Where is it?" somebody shouted. "Hold it up!" "There it is, there!" someone else shouted.
"How?" a boy shouted angrily, "Twenty bars a day I've been buying for weeks and weeks!"
"Think of all the free chocolate he'll get!" another boy said with envy, "Wonka will offer him chocolate for his whole life!"
"He'll need it. He is so thin!" a girl said.
Charlie hadn't moved. He was standing there, holding it with both hands while all the people pushed and shouted around him. He was like a balloon in the air.
At that point, he felt a hand putting lightly on his shoulder, and when he looked up, he saw a tall man standing over him. "Listen," the man whispered, "I'll buy it from you. 50 dollars! And a new bicycle! Okay?"
"Are you crazy?" shouted a woman, "I'd give him 500 dollars for that ticket!"
"That's enough!" the fat shopkeeper shouted, "Let him out!" He led Charlie to the door and whispered, "Don't let anybody have it! Take it straight home, quickly, before you lose it! You understand?"
Charlie nodded.
The fat shopkeeper smiled at Charlie, "I'm glad you got it. Good luck, son."
Human beings are amazing creatures. We have walked on the moon, cured diseases, and built many structures, from ancient Great Wall to modern buildings. So what is it that makes us so special? The answer is our brains. The human brain is a fantastic body part that controls everything from your breathing to your memories and imagination. Below are several more surprising facts about this natural supercomputer.
The brain does not fully grown until age 25.
Scientists have discovered that while most areas of the brain finish forming before we leave high school the areas that deal with planning and reasoning aren't fully grown until ones 20s.What's more, after the age of 24, the brain actually starts going into a slow drop, making our 20s the time when our brains are truly at their top!
Three-quarters of the brain is water.
As a result, our brain is always in great need of water, which is one reason why it's important to drink lots of water. The brain's large water content also affects its texture（质地）, which is similar to puddings.
Our brains aren't the biggest, though being the brightest.
We often think that a bigger brain equals a better brain. And while humans do have large brains, ours aren't the largest in the animal world. Besides, we don't even have the largest brains among humans. Neanderthals（穴居人）—though now disappear—had brains that were actually 10 percent larger than ours. This doesn't mean they were smarter than us, though. Brain size is important, but the brain's structure is even more so. Indeed, the human brain deals with a lot of hard work in a small space.
Of course, these aren't the only interesting things about the brain. In fact, our brains still have a lot of secrets for scientists to find out.
Have you ever received extra support from a teacher or coach who believed you were born to be successful? And did this person's expectations（期待） and actions give you the confidence you needed to succeed? If so, then you've learned the Pygmalion effect（皮格马利翁效应）.
The Pygmalion effect means expectations will influence a person's performance（表现）. He found that when teachers told a student he or she had a gift in Chinese or Chemistry, the student would act better on tests than those who were not told so.
The idea behind the Pygmalion effect is that people rise or fall to reach the expectations set for them. When someone is expected to be perfect, they are more likely to get the resources they need to succeed. On the other hand, when someone is thought as less capable（能力不足）, they may miss a lot of chances and resources, which can result in poorer performance and less success.
This effect can be seen in different environment. In the workplace, managers who have high expectations of their workers will be more supportive and provide better chances for their growth and development. Similarly, coaches are more willing to spend extra time with athletes who they consider gifted. The extra attention helps these athletes to spend more time practising their skills, so they improve faster than the other athletes. In both cases, the key is not only to have high expectations but also to communicate those expectations and create a suitable environment.
And we people can use this effect in our own lives by keeping high expectations for ourselves and those around us.
A. Finally the effect becomes a kind of circle. B. This can lead to better performance and greater success. C. To get better results, extra time and hard work are especially needed. D. It's no surprise that such an environment leads to better work performance. E. It may be hard for these people to be influenced and change their bad behavior. F. This effect was found by Robert Rosentha in study "Pygmalion in the Classroom" in 1968. G. By setting expectations and giving support, teachers can use the effect to help more students. |
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Zhang Shouhua, a teacher who set up the educational assistance program（教育援助计划） to help poor students at Soochow University, died in Suzhou at the age of 86, according to Suzhou Television General Station.
In August 1961, he graduated from Tsinghua University. Zhang devoted his whole life to radio chemistry （放射化学）. In 1975, Zhang came to Soochow University, where he worked as a teacher. Though he was in poor health, Zhang tirelessly rode his bicycle to contact students in need and brought them great .
Zhang the idea of helping poor students in 1996 when he saw a student giving some of her meager living allowance（微薄的生活津贴） to her father for meals her father kept leaving all his money to her, though it meant going hungry during the way home.
In the same year, Zhang started the educational assistance program. Over the past years, Zhang has supported over 600 students. The whole city was by his great love.
We all have （experience） misunderstandings（误解）.I had one （recent） that really taught me a lesson. My friend Parker was chosen to be group leader for project in school. We were asked to build an a model rocket. Everyone in the group wanted the rocket to go well, so we all gave lots of ideas. , Parker wouldn't listen to anyone else. He seemed really strange and got angry easily. Soon everyone got tired of （work） with him.
At first, I was also angry at him as he was my best friend. But soon I began to wonder was going on with him when I noticed that he'd quickly leave school the end of every day. Then one day, I was walking by the hospital after school when I saw Parker outside pushing his grandmother in a wheelchair.
She didn't look very well, and I realized that her （ill） must be the cause of Parker's stranger behavior. Mybe it would be （good） if I just asked him why he was acting strangely. And my misunderstanding could be （prevent）.
In short, this experience taught me that, in the future, I should communicate more directly with my friends.
Scheduling（行程安排） attracts many people.
Scheduling means setting a detailed, fixed time for an activity. It is one of the most familiar and powerful methods of forming a habit and its one of my favorites. Scheduling makes us far more likely to turn an activity into a habit. I schedule even more small habit such as "Kiss my daughter every morning and every night."
Habits grow strongest and farthest when they are repeated in the easiest ways. And for most of us, putting an activity on the schedule means locking us into doing it. So In college and law school, I never asked myself, "Should I go to class?" or "Do I need to do this reading tonight?" If class was scheduled, I went. If reading was on the schedule, I read it.
A fiend with a daily schedule gets up at 4:30 am, takes a 40-minute walk, eats breakfast with her two sons, showers, dresses and is on the train to work at 7:30. For someone else, any of these activities might be a challenge, but not for her; she's already decided what to do.
Scheduling can help us fill our timetable of the day, and it will turn the timetable into habits. Scheduling one activity makes that time unavailable（不能利用） for anything else. Which is good—especially for people who have trouble saying no. Every week, Elisa and I go on a "Wednesday afternoon adventure（探险）"（though we are not that kind of adventurous, and usually end up at the museum）.Especially now that Elisa is in her special teenage years, I want to make sure we have some pleasant time together every week. So I put our adventure on the schedule and if I am asked to do anything else, I say automatically（自动的）, "I have a plan at that time." Scheduling makes activities automatic, which builds habits.
