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A New Hero is Here to Save the Day
It’s thought that when a hero like Batman is blessed with great power, he or she must endure loneliness and suffering as a result. The Flash(闪电侠), however, makes a fun, lightning-quick and optimistic superhero. After the wild success of TV series Arrow, a TV network launched The Flash, 1. (show) the image of this Superhero, who was only a supporting character in Arrow.
Like Spiderman, who gained the ability to make webs and climb walls after he 2. (bite) by a spider, Barry Allen in The Flash was shocked into superhero-status by accident. A strike from a lightning put Allen into a nine-month unconscious state, and when he emerged, he found himself 3. (equip) with super speed.
Naturally, Allen slips on a colorful suit and becomes the Flash, a hero 4. extreme speed to fight super-powered bad guys. But the Flash also has other purposes, namely finding out the truth behind his mother’s death and his father’s unjust imprisonment.
In line with superhero series standards, The Flash features action and eye-popping special effects. There’s nothing terribly innovative here, but 5. we do get is a unique superhero with a more unusual personality. 6. Allen has gone through unpleasant childhood experience, in this show he grows into a superhero 7. powers include optimism. He’s got a group of scientists that not only save his life, but also provide him with emotional support and the tools necessary 8. (fight) crime.
A big surprise for me was that The Flash cast Prison Break star Wentworth Miller as a bad character, who uses a gun that 9. turn anything into ice. US shows began their entrance into the Chinese market with Friends, but Prison Break pushed interest in US TV series to a new height largely thanks to Miller’s wonderful acting. Now Miller’s back to act in The Flash. 10. is a nice surprise that this new show serves as a platform for Prison Break fans to revisit their old favorite, although this time around he’s an antagonist(反派角色).
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Innovations that will change the classroom
American schools are going high - tech. Many symbols we still associate with classrooms and learning, like chalkboards, pens, notebooks - even classrooms 1. --- are quickly becoming outdated.
As this week marks The Huffington Post’s 10th anniversary, we’ll take a look at some products that 2. (introduce) to classroom in the past decade and have the potential to change the educational landscape in the years 3. (come).
1. Remote Learning
Some schools are cutting down on snow days, thanks to technology. Rather than giving kids the day off 4. weather conditions are too dangerous for commuting, these schools are asking students to follow classroom lessons online.
Although kids 5. (hope) for a snow day may not particularly appreciate these advancements in digital learning, online lessons allow these kids to complete their coursework and still interact with peers. Some students with medical conditions 6. “go” to school via video conferencing or even with the help of robots enabled with video chat that they can control remotely.
2. eBooks
Discovery Education has been replacing traditional textbooks with original “techbooks” for six years. These “techbooks” can also be switched to Spanish or French, Kinney said, 7. allows some parents who don’t speak English to help their kids with their homework.
3. Educational Games
In-class gaming options have evolved to include more educational options. GlassLab creates educational games that are now being used in more than 6,000 classrooms across the country. Teachers get real-time updates on students’ progress as well as suggestions on 8. subjects they need to spend more time perfecting.
The Internet and other digital tools have some drawbacks. They’re often distracting, 9. most developments have exciting implications for the future. Over the last 10 years, technological innovations have made education more interactive, immediate and 10. (personalize), -- and have shown us the potential for more accessible and effective classrooms.
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Mako sharks get new protections
At the global wildlife trade meeting in Geneva, countries have decided to protect the endangered mako shark from trade. GENEVA made the proposal 1. more protections should be taken for both shortfin and longfin mako sharks and was adopted today after a 102-40 vote at the global wildlife trade summit. The vote still needs to be finalized at the full meeting at the end, when all appendix (附录) change proposals passed in committee are officially adopted.
The proposal, debated at this year’s CITES Conference, lists mako sharks under Appendix II, meaning that they can’t be traded 2. it can be shown that fishing wouldn’t threaten their chances for survival. Conservationists say this was the world’s last chance to prevent mako shark populations from collapsing.
3. (list) mako sharks on CITES Appendix II is great news for shark conservation. More than 50 of the 183 CITES members signed on as supporters of the proposal brought forth by Mexico. Nonetheless, conservationists feared that opposition from a few countries with fairly large mako fishing industries—primarily the United States, Canada, and Japan—4. tip the scale. Japan opposed the measure during the debates, and the United States announced afterward it 5. (vote) no.
In the past, the U.S. and others have supported listing other shark species under CITES, but not so in this case, 6. commercial interests. For a lot of these countries, they were happy to list shark species when it was ones they weren’t so heavily involved in fishing. Suddenly, when they’re being asked to be responsible, rather than asking other people to be responsible, they’re 7. (little) keen to take it on board.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which determines the conservation status of species claims that both species of mako sharks to be endangered, saying an 8. (estimate) 50 to 79 percent population decline over three generations, or about 75 years. They 9. (target) for their fins (鳍), used in shark fin soup—a dish in Asian countries, that’s often served at weddings as a sign of respect for guests. Their meat is more edible compared to 10. of other sharks, which is often acidic and is usually sold as a byproduct of the fin trade for “pennies on the dollar”.
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Procrastination - a Virtue When It Comes to Creativity?
Psychologist Adam Grant, from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, argues that people who “put off” solving a task for a little while - thus engaging in moderate procrastination -- are often able to come up with 1. (original) ideas about how to solve that task than people who get started on their work right away.
Grant makes this argument in the book Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World and reiterates it in a popular TED talk 2. he says that “procrastination is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue when it comes to creativity.” This point of view seems 3. (find) some support in existing studies that indicate a correlation between creativity and “putting things off.”
Grant explains that the link between moderate procrastination and originality likely 4. (exist) because when we actively put off a task for a while, our preoccupation with the task itself does not disappear. Instead, the unfinished work “runs in the background” of our brains, 5. (buy) us time to find innovative solutions.
One study 6. (publish) in Personality and Individual Differences in 2017 also found a link between creative ideation (coming up with creative ideas) and active procrastination. It suggested that among 853 undergraduates at Chinese universities, “active procrastinators” may be more prone to creativity.
Boredom 7. have something to do with this boost in creative thinking. Older research from the University of Florida in Gainesville suggests that people who procrastinate may be more prone to boredom than their peers.
And while boredom itself is a concept that sometimes has negative connotations, studies 8. (show) that allowing ourselves to feel bored for a while can boost our creative abilities. The researchers explain that this may be because when we are bored, we allow our minds to wander, thus “training” our imaginations.
Finally, 9. putting off a task forever out of fear and self-doubt may be paralyzing and unhelpful, a little bit of “directed” procrastination will likely not be harmful and may allow us to assess the task at hand more imaginatively.
And for some of us, that pressure of looking a deadline straight in the eye can be just 10. we need to keep us on our toes. As Calvin, one of the main characters in the comic strips Calvin and Hobbes, once said : “You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood,” and that mood is “last - minute panic.”
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Billions of poor people around the world 1. (depend) on the use of wood for cooking. And as they take more and more firewood from wild areas, they are destroying habitats around the world. Wood collection is one reason why many animals have become endangered. This is 2. Dr. Metcalf spends each summer in Africa. He wants to teach women and children in villages how to cook with the sun. He helped create Solar Cookers International. It’s an organization 3. introduces solar cookers to developing countries as well as teaching people how to use them.
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Controversy erupted after winners for this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature were announced on Oct 10. 1. was different was that two prizes were given, one for the 2. (cancel) 2018 award and the other for 2019. The choice for 2018 — Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, who also 3. (win) the Man Booker International Prize in 2018, was well-received. The 2019 winner, however, caused quite a stir. Peter Handke, from Austria, has 4. (previous) been accused of defending war crimes.
In 2008, French-American writer Jonathan Littell said this about Handke: “He might be a fantastic artist, but 5. a human being he is my enemy.” Hari Kunzru, a British-Indian novelist, was so outspoken as 6. (call) giving Handke the Nobel “a troubling choice” in the Guardian.
But the Swedish Academy didn’t think the 7. (accuse) was relevant. “It is not in the Academy’s mandate (权限) to balance literary quality against political considerations,” Mats Malm, the Swedish Academy’s secretary, told The New York Times.
When it comes to the literary quality of Handke’s work, there’s no argument. “Handke is a great German prose stylist (散文作家), 8. has spent his career 9. (explore) both the natural world and the world of human consciousness with precision, humor, and courage, ” Jonathan Galassi, president of the Farrar, said in a statement.
So in the end, these controversies come down to a simple question: Should a person’s morals and political views 10. (take) into consideration when we evaluate literature?
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Chinese animators (动画制作人) have been drawing inspiration 1. Chinese folk stories and mythology ever since the country’s first animated film, Princess Iron Fan in 1941. In recent years its animated-film industry has witnessed several blockbusters based on classic Chinese tales, among 2. Nezha is the subject of the 3. (late) hit, which officially opens in cinemas in China on Jul 26.
Nezha earns enthusiastic reviews and 4. (consider) even better than Monkey King: Hero is Back. It is also China’s first 3D animated feature film released in IMAX format. Nezha has more than 1, 300 shots with special effects, and it took over 20 Chinese special-effects 5. (studio), employing more than1,600 people, 6. (realize) the film’s fairy tale setting, the mysterious Dragon King’ s palace, and an amazing fight between fire and water.
The film is loosely based on the Chinese novel The Investiture of the Gods. In the novel Nezha is born during the Shang dynasty (1600BC-1050BC) and is famous for fighting against the Dragon King. 7. third son of his father Li Jing, he never 8. (please his father and eventually commits suicide. However, compared with the 9. (origin) novel and past animated versions, the relationships between the characters are given modern meaning. In Yang’s film he is fighting prejudice: Nezha is hated and feared as the rebirth of devil (恶魔). But Nezha believes his fate is not predetermined and that he can choose to be a devil 10. a god.
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It is a rough world out there. Step outside of a shopping mall and you could break your leg 1.(slip)on the doormat. Luckily, if the doormat failed to warn of coming danger, a successful lawsuit(官司) might compensate you for your troubles. Since the early 1980s, juries have begun holding more companies responsible for the customers' misfortunes.
Feeling threatened, companies responded by writing longer warning labels, trying to anticipate every possible accident. Today, even ladders carry a label several inches long that 2.(warn) among other things, that you might fall off. While warnings are often necessary for companies, many still feel uncertain whether those labels can protect 3. from legal responsibility if a customer is injured. Actually, about 50% of the companies lose when 4.(take) to court by the injured customer.
Now the tide appears to be turning 5. personal injury claims continue to grow, some courts are beginning to side with defendants(被告), especially in cases6. a warning label probably wouldn't have changed anything. In May, Julie Nimmons, president of Schutt Sports successfully fought a lawsuit7.(involve)a footballer who was paralyzed (t )in a game while wearing a Schutt helmet. " We are really sorry he has become paralyzed, 8. helmets aren't designed to prevent those kinds of injuries, "says Nimmons. The jury finally agreed that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reason for the injury. Meanwhile, the American Law Institute, a group of judges and lawyers, issued new guidelines stating that companies needn't warn customers of obvious dangers or annoy them with a lengthy list of possible ones 9.information won't get buried in a sea of trivialities ( 琐事). If the moderate end of the legal community has its way, the information on products might actually be provided for the benefit of customers and not10. a protection against legal responsibility.
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Chinese oracle-bone inscriptions(甲骨文) were included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.
Oracle-bone inscriptions are the 1.(early) documentary evidence found in China, unearthed from the Yin ruins in Anyang city, Henan province. These inscriptions provide 2.(record) of divination(占卜)and prayers to gods from people in 3. late Shang dynasty. Over the years, oracle-bone inscriptions 4. (develop) into modern-day Chinese characters, 5.(show) the continuous evolution of Chinese civilization. Oracle bones serve 6. important materials for studying the long-standing and brilliant Chinese civilization.
The Memory of the World Programme, 7.(establish) by UNESCO in 1992, aims to rescue the gradually aging, worsening 8. disappearing documentary heritage in the world, 9. (strengthen) protection, and to raise public awareness of the significance of documentary heritage. The program 10.(take) place every two years, and last time, China’s submission of “Archives of the Nanjing Massacre” was included in the Memory of the World Register. So far, China has already had many examples of documentary heritage included in the Memory of the World Register.
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Phone-surfing Results in More Purchases
Leaving your mobile phone at home when you go shopping could prevent mindless overspending, a new study suggests. Research from the University of Bath discovered that when people are distracted by their mobiles during a trip to the supermarket their shopping bills 1. rise by an average of 41 per cent. Attention-weakening devices also encourage shoppers to wander along more shelves, 2.they come across more products.
In one study, 294 people aged between 18 and 73 at four Swedish supermarkets wore eye-tracking glasses throughout a shopping trip to measure where they went and 3.they looked at. Their receipts were then used 4.(assess) their spending. Those using a mobile phone spent on average £33.73 compared to an average of £23.91 for those who did not.
A second study of 117 shoppers found those with mobile phones spent longer in the store, 5.(give) more attention to shelves. They also spent an average of £36. This study found shoppers using a mobile phone spent on average £36.16 on 20.85 items, compared to £25.59 on 13.22 products.
Dr Carl-Philip Ahlbom, of the University of Bath’s School of Management said: “Business owners have tended to worry that mobiles distract shoppers from spending money, 6.we were amazed to find completely the reverse effect.” The findings were very clear - the more time you spend on your phone, the more money you’ll part 7..
“So if you’re trying to budget, 8.(leave) your phone in your pocket. It's not the phone 9.that causes more purchases, but its impact on our focus.” Researchers believe people spend more because using a phone distracts people from their 10.(plan) lists.
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