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Created in 1998 by Casey and Shelley Black, the Northern Lights Wildlife Wolf Center focuses on not only rescuing young abandoned wolves but educating the public. Unlike other centers, you can actually walk with the wolves and have exciting, hands-on interaction with them here. And so, we gathered one late winter morning to learn, prepare and walk.
Scrappy and Flora, our wolves that day, were brought to the center when only a few days old. "They lived in the house with us for the first several months. We treated them like human babies, fed them and slept with them," said Shelley. So, they are totally used to people. However, these are wild animals. For that reason, Shelley and Casey explained, the walk is totally on the wolf's terms. "We don't approach them, but if they come up to us, we can touch them."
With all this in mind, we headed for the woods. We were walking on a logging road when suddenly, Flora, all 60 pounds of her, hurried up to me and raised up on her legs. She was almost as tall as me. As she leaned in, put her huge muddy paws on my shoulders and sniffed my face, apparently she was saying hello in wolf talk.
We walked farther, maybe half a mile, while Scrappy and Flora dashed in and out of the woods stopping to occasionally roll in the snow, dig for this or that and just play. Then we all headed into the trees to a picturesque stream where the wolves splashed, drank and had a great time.
One could point out that this whole adventure was staged and quite artificial. But the purpose, Casey and Shelley said, is to explain the wolves' place in the environment and, primarily, to let people know wolves don' t have to be universally feared—they really don' t hide secretly in the woods just waiting to eat people, but they' d rather avoid people, for the most part.
For the 17 years my life was very happy. Then the first sad thing happened. My mother became very ill, and soon she knew that she was dying. Just before she died, she asked Elizabeth and me to go to her room. She held our hands and said, "Victor and Elizabeth, my children, I'm very happy because you love each other, and because one day you'll get married. Everyone in the family loves you, Elizabeth. Will you take my place in the family, my dear? I can die happy if you look after them when I have gone."
My mother died and we were very sad, because we loved her dearly. Elizabeth was brave and helped us; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother's death. The time came for me to go to university. I didn't want to leave my sad family, but we all knew that I should go. It was hard to leave, too, because the parents of my good friend Henry would not let him go to university with me. So I had gone alone.
On my first day at university I met my teacher, Professor Waldman, who was one of the greatest scientists in the world. He gave a wonderful talk to all the students who were starting at the university. He ended his talk by saying, "Some of you will become the greatest scientists of tomorrow. You must study hard and discover everything that you can. This is why God made you intelligent—to help other people."
After the professor's talk, I thought very carefully. I remembered the storm when I was 15; I remembered how the lightning had destroyed the tree. From then on, I wanted to use electricity to help people, and I wanted to discover the secrets of life. I decided to work on these two things.
I started to work the next day. I worked very hard and soon Professor Waldman and I realized that I could learn to be a very good scientist.
The professor helped me very much, and other important scientists who were his friends helped me, too. I was interested in my work and I did not take one day's holiday during the next two years, I did not go home, and my letters to my family were very short.
After two years, I had discovered many things and I built a scientific machine that was the best in the university. My machine would help me answer the most important question of all. How does life begin? Is it possible to put life into dead things? To answer these questions about life I had to learn first about death. I had to watch bodies from the moment when they died and the warm life left them. In the hospital and in the university, I watched the dying and the dead. Day after day, month after month, I followed death, so it was a dark and terrible time.
I built a tall mast about 150 meters high, which is higher than the tallest building in the city, to catch lightning and send the electricity down to my machine in the lab. I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead.
Then one day, the answer came to me. Suddenly I was sure that I knew the secret of life.
① Victor's mother passed away.
② Victor got help from the professor and other scientists.
③ Victor went to university and attended the professor's talk.
④ Victor found the answer to giving life to things that were dead.
⑤ Victor experienced a storm, seeing the lightning destroying the tree.
As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information, are people remember less? If you know your computer will save information, why store it in your own personal memory, your brain? Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.
In a recent study, Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments. She and her research team wanted to know the Internet is changing memory. In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer. The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information. The second group understood that the computer would not save it. Later, the second group remembered the information better. People in the first group knew they could find the information again, so they did not try to remember it.
In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the Internet. The information was in a specific computer folder(文件夹). Surprisingly, people later remember the folder location better than the facts. When people use the Internet, they do not remember the information. Rather, they remember how to find it. This is called "trans active memory (交互记忆)".
According to Sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet. Instead, computer users are developing stronger trans active memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date. This doesn't mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent, but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing。
It is true that summer is hot. But here is something to make your day easier. Are you prepared? Meet the new AirFreez— an alternative to traditional Air Conditioners that cools you just the same!
How does it work?
It is surprisingly easy to set up! You just need to plug it into a socket(插座)OR any USB port (it uses so little energy that it can even run off of a phone or laptop battery).
Once you have done that, simply fill it with 20oz/0. 6L of cold tap water.
Now just press the power button and the instant cool air is here!
What is so special about this little box?
It is no larger than a lunchbox. It can be powered by a pocket solar panel（电池板）or battery pack and you probably have the world's first and most portable AC unit.
Bad sleepers are putting the AirFreez next to their beds at night. The relaxing blow of cool, clean air, the comforting soft night light and the quiet create the perfect sleeping conditions!
The price is just amazing. Most AC units cost at least $ 300+ AND you have to pay more to cover the expensive electricity bills each month. AirFreez costs less than $ 100 (actually $ 53 if you buy more than one here).
Top Tips:
To make your air even cooler—add a bottle of cold tap water from your refrigerator or even ice!
For a beautiful relaxing atmosphere—add a few drops of fragrant oils to the water!
Flex your memory muscles
You'll remember more if you use your body and your brain, says our memory expert, Jonathan Hancock. Muscle memory is a powerful thing., our bodies operate instinctively (本能地)，following long-formed, well-practised routines.
Today, for example, I decided to go home a different way from my morning run. I spotted the new road I wanted to take, headed towards it ...and before I knew it, I was back at my front door — having gone exactly the same way I always did! I'll try again to take the scenic route next time. But muscle memory is actually a useful tool, and it can have a positive impact on your learning. .
If you're learning your part in a play, or preparing to give a speech from memory, repeat the same actions whenever you run through lines. You can even add extra movement instructions to your script(脚本)，to make sure that you do the same things each time. .
To remember a tough spelling, try writing it out by hand. , your muscle memory may well help you. Feel your way to forming the right pattern of letters again.
，connect it to a physical action that's already hard to change. For example, if you always reach for the coffee jar first thing in the morning, why not use that movement to remind you of something else — like the tablet you need to take at the same time every day?
A. When you've got a regular "to do" task
B. Without our conscious minds having much say
C. If you've used this word — or one like it ——in the past
D. You can write again when you've really got something to remember
E. Here are some suggestions for using muscle memory to your advantage
F. These movements will become effective reminders for the words that go along with them
G. My exercises can increase strength in certain parts of my body and improve muscle memory
Danielle was living in a new city with no local bank of her own. She desperately needed to find a bank to cash her paycheck. For more than two weeks, she made 1 one after another but in vain. How could she continue to 2 herself and her two children as a single mother?
Taking a break from her3, Danielle decided to attend a meeting at the local women's resource center. The women there had been a strong source of encouragement since she fled her home 4 for her safety. Sitting next to Danielle, Amy began to share the details of her desperate situation. She was just days away from 5 her home and her car. Her phone and electric services were both scheduled to be 6 . Her husband had gambled away their money. She had nothing left. Nothing!
As Amy described the degree of the situation, Danielle 7 God's soft whisper in her heart: "After the meeting, give Amy twenty dollars." Danielle immediately thought, "But I can't. I only have forty dollars." She heard the voice again. Danielle knew she needed to follow. When the meeting concluded, she reached into her purse and 8 handed twenty dollars to Amy. Knowing Danielle's situation, Amy was9 to accept it at first. But as a crowd of women 10 to give Amy hugs of support, Danielle told her that God wanted her to have it. Then Danielle left.
Now with just twenty dollars left in her wallet, Danielle decided to try cashing her paycheck at just one more bank before heading home. 11 she expected the rejection she had received at so many other banks, she was 12 filled with renewed confidence and optimism. Hopefully, she walked into the bank next to the women's center. Moments later, the bank 13 her paycheck with no questions asked. Wearing a big smile, Danielle returned home.
As for Danielle, it has been three years since that day. Realizing true hope has no 14, she continues to be 15 for the lifetime supply that she received for just twenty dollars.
Maryland's Cecil County is home to many interesting parks. However, is more mysterious and disturbing than the Perryville Community Park around 100 trees are marked by strange messages left by the mentally disordered patients in a hospital decades ago.
Before becoming a public park, the land (own) by the nearby hospital, and some of its former patients carved their disturbed thoughts into the trees. Over time, the words together the drawings carved into the tree bark have grown larger, (draw) the attention of curious passers-by. (interesting), even though the mark trees of Perryville Community Park have become quite popular among (tour), and even gotten their own Wikipedia entry, few residents of the Maryland town know about them and their history.
Of all the phrases carved into the trees, the (strange) ones are "Christ said to police there was no Second World War," and "October 18, 1960 The City of Baltimore has not believed yet — Saint Callender — police. "
The years carved into the trees date back to 1911, but the most .(mention) year is 1958, along with the name "Nelson Jonchou", which many believe belonged to one of the soldiers who (be) once admitted to the hospital.
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仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Today, I would like to share with you some ways to study English. First, you were supposed to read something in English, such as reading one or two pages of a novel appeals to you each day. Second, you may find this helpful to watch English films. It help you to practise your listening, and makes learn English more interesting. Third, you should work hardly on your English writing by keeping an English diary. Besides focusing on listening or writing skills, you should also take every opportunities to speak English in and after class. On this way, you can use English every day and improve your fluency. I have been doing all these things, so I have made a great progress in learning English.
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