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These days, tall modern buildings are everywhere. But if you want to see how life was back in the old days, China still has many beautiful water towns to visit. And now, CNN has chosen five of the country's most beautiful ones.
The village of Zhouzhuang in Jiangsu calls itself the “oldest water town in China”. The village was built in 1086and is crossed with canals. Taking a boat ride through town, the red lanterns might make you think of China's romantic past.
Hongcun in Anhui is 900 years old. It was built to look like a big ox. Huangshan Mountain is the head; the town is the body and the bridges are legs. Hongcun is filled with lakes and beautiful Anhui-style buildings.
Fenghuang in Hunan doesn't look like a bird, but its name means “phoenix” in Chinese. The town is really as beautiful as the mythical bird. The stilted buildings on each side of the Tuojiang River make the area look like a scene from a postcard.
Huangyao in Guangxi is known for its natural fengshui. The town lies in a river bend. People say it can prevent the villagers' good fortune from flowing away
While most water towns are in the south, Shangdong's Tai'erzhuang stands out in the north. The town lies on the bank of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It was a busy trading center during the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the town, there are ancient bridges, a canal and temples, making you think of its past glory.
An upset little boy wanted to meet God. He thought it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips and a six-pack of root beer and started his journey.
When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman sitting on a park bench alone. The boy sat next to her and opened his suitcase. He was about to drink his root beer when he thought that the old lady might be hungry, so he offered her some chips. She gratefully accepted it and smiled at him. Her smile was so pretty that the boy wanted to see it again, so he offered her a root beer. Again, she smiled at him. The boy was delighted! They sat there all afternoon eating and smiling.
As dusk fell, the boy got up to leave; but before he had gone more than a few steps, he turned around, ran back to the old woman and gave her a hug. She gave him her biggest smile ever.
When the boy opened the door to his own house, his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face. She asked him, “What did you do today that made you so happy?” He replied, “I had lunch with God”
Meanwhile, the old woman, also returned to her home with joy. Her son was stunned by the look of peace on her face and he asked, “Mom, what did you do today that made you so happy?” She replied, “I ate potato chips with God.”
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
a. The boy shared food with the old woman
b. The boy came across an old woman
c. The boy set out to meet God
d. The boy arrived home and surprised his mother.
e. The boy hugged the old woman.
Night owls, people who stay up late and struggle to get out of bed in the morning, are more likely to die sooner than morning larks, the first study into their death rates has found.
New research by the University of Surrey and Northwestern University in the US found that people who naturally stay up late were 10 per cent more likely to die within the six-and-a-half-year study period compared to those who preferred the morning.
Researchers say that the ongoing stress of operating in a traditional 9-5 society was having a huge effect on millions of people and could be shortening their lives.
“This is a public health issue that can no longer be ignored,” said Malcolm von Schantz, a professor of chronobiology at the University of Surrey. “We should discuss allowing evening types to start and finish work later, where practical. And we need more research about how we can help evening types deal with the higher effort of keeping their body clock in line with sun time”.
The research involved nearly 500,000 Brits aged between 38 and 73 and found that around nine per cent considered themselves evening people, while 27 per cent identified as morning types.
In the new study, Scientists found owls had higher rates of diabetes, psychological disorders and neurological disorders. But the team has previously shown that whether someone is an owl or a lark is half genetic and half environment, meaning there may be ways to keep body clock issues under control.
The team recommends that night owls can help themselves by trying to become exposed to light early in the morning and not at night. Keeping regular bedtimes, maintaining a healthy lifestyle and trying to do tasks earlier in the day can help to reset body rhythms.
The study was published in the journal Chronobiology International.
What do the world's most successful people all have in common? The researchers found that high achievers like Robert Moses turn out to be all alike:
Busy！Busy!
in a study of general managers in industry, John Kotter reported that many of them worked 60 to 65 hours per week-which translates into at least six 10-hour days. The ability and willingness to work difficult and tiring hours has characterized many powerful figures. Energy and strength provide many advantages to those seeking to build power.
The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything. And that's what gives them the time to accomplish so much. . And focus means saying “no” to a lot of distractions（分散力）.
Know what you are
Ignore weakness and keep improving your strengths. Don't waste time exploring skill areas where you have little competence. Instead, focus on-and build on-your strengths.
Wiseman created a “luck school” to test these ideas-and it was a success. In total, 80 percent of people who attended luck school said that their luck bad increased. On average, these people reported that their luck had risen by more than 40 percent.
A. Just say no！
B. Ask for more time.
C. Strengths are exactly what you are good at.
D. Achievement requires concentrations（注意力）
E. This means knowing who you are and what you are good at.
F. Does applying these principle（原则）to your life actually work?
G. High achievers never stop working and they never lose a minute.
I knew it was snowing before I opened my eyes. There was that special quiet in the air that comes when the city is heavily 1 with snow. My thirteen-year-old big brother, Lenny, came in and asked me if I wanted to go 2 with him in Madison Square Garden.
I had no time to 3. I dressed myself in a hand-mc-down winter coat, put on the boots and 4 the clasps（搭扣）. Eventually, we 5on the twenty-block journey in the snow.
The first twelve blocks weren't 6, but the long cross town street 7 to be terrible. The fierce winds made it almost impossible to 8 forward. I could no longer 9 my brother. My 10 was uncovered. My hands and feet ached with 11.
We stopped in a doorway for a rest. Lenny took his hands out of his pockets and bent down to refasten the 12 metal clasps of my boots. 13 that Lenny had to take care of me, I stared straight ahead and 14 a man walking toward us through the snow.
I was unable to 15 how old he was but he was tall, thin, and had a gentle, 16 face. He wore no hat. There was a 17 around his neck, and his overcoat, like ours, was caked with snow. He kneeled down before me and wrapped his soft wine-colored scarf 18 around my head.
1don't remember ice-skating that day, or how we got home. All my19 holds is the snow, the 20 of a stranger, and my big brother, Lenny.
One night, a mother and her daughter went out for dinner together. The mother was a heavy smoker, (make) her daughter feel very upset and worried. She would often tell her mother that smoking was very bad her health. But her mother wouldn't listen and refused to stop smoking.
However, at (they) dinner that night, she noticed that her mother didn't have a single cigarette. As a matter of fact, she realized that she hadn't seen her mother smoke for whole day.
“I can see that you're not smoking at all today. Are you trying (give) up smoking?” the daughter asked hopefully.
The mother answered, “No, I'm just feeling a little bit sick right now. I don't smoke (cigarette) when I'm sick, because if I do, it takes me (long) to get better.”
The daughter(reply), “Well, I guess you would(probable) live a better life you got sick a bit more often!”
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增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仪限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last year I went to the seaside to spending my summer holiday with my family. We stayed there for about two week. The weather was much hotter than in my hometown, but I got used to it or felt not so bad. Every morning, I got up early than my parents and went for breakfast ahead of the time. Then I went to the beach and talked with John, my new friend whom I come across on my first morning there. John was warm-heart and he seemed to be very familiar to the seaside village. Soon we became very good friends. We have kept write to each other ever since then.
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