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Culture: Festival starts to celebrate harest
Nadun Festival, celebrated by the Tu Nationality, falls between the 12th day of the seventh month and the 15th day of the ninth month on the lunar calendar. The annual festival is often described as the word's longest carnival. Temple fairs are held during the two months to celebrate the harvest. It was included in the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2006.
Video: Voyage along the Grand Canal
The Grand Canal a UNESCO world Heritage site, is the longest artificial waterway in the word and a famous tourist destination. Starting Beijing, it passes through Tianjin and flows through the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and Hangzhou, linking the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. The oldest parts of the canal date back to the Sui Dynasty(581-618).
Art: Qianlong vase to go under the hammer
A porcelain vase from Emperor Qianlong's(1735-96) collection will go under the hammer in Hong Kong in the fall, Sotheby's announced. The 40-cm antique was sold for an astonishing 43 million pounds($55.25 million) at the Bainbridge auction(拍卖）house in the United Kingdom in 2010. It was displayed at an exhibition in New York in 1905 and was purchased by a Japanese collector in 1924. It has remained in the private collection for almost a century.
Travel: Chinese tourists are biggest spenders
China maintained its leading role in the global tourism market with outbound(出境的) tourists spending $258 billion last year, accounting for one-fifth of the world's total spending on tourism, according to a world tourism report.
He never felt well on his journey home.He was sick.But this time,it was getting worse. He finally reached home and saw his mother and wife,who were ignorant of the fact that that happiness was not going to last long.
The disease showed its symptoms again.He ignored and gave his time to his family. In between,he saw dreams and kept noting those dreams in a notebook.
Things were getting worse.It had been almost 10 months since his return. No doctor, no medicine.His family tried to make him feel better in vain.But,he kept noting down his dreams and thoughts in a notebook,even in such a terrible health condition.
That unexpected day finally came.His mother got a shock.After all,he was too young to die. His wife cried her eyes out.
He was turned into ashes.But not his notebook.
Dear readers, this is a true story.That man was none other than our respected maths master Srinivasa Ramanujan.That notebook I was talking about was full of new mathematical discoveries but without any proofs(证明)of them.Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics,Ramanujan made great contributions to it, including(solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.During his short life, Ramanujan independently produced nearly 3,900 results.His work has opened entire new areas of mathematics and inspired a vast amount of further research.Nearly all his claims have now been proven correct.
We lost him at a very young age of 32 years.What he could have accomplished if he would have lived for some more years!
Who are the most famous painters in history? Keep reading to find out.
Leonardo da Vinci was not only a painter but also a sculptor, mathematician, poet, scientist, musician, inventor, engineer, cartographer (制图师), and writer. Leonardo was born in Vinci, in the province of Florence, Italy in 1452. This was a time of extraordinary changes, not only in the arts, but also in many other cultural areas. The city of Florence was at the center of this important period in the history of art. Some of Leonardo's most famous pieces of works are the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and The Vitruvian Man. The most well-known museums in the world display his paintings.
Michelangelo was born in Caprese, Italy in 1475 and started working as a student to a painter before starting his studies in the art of sculpting at the Medici gardens. His works include The Statue of David and The Pieta. The Pieta is in display at the Vatican. He also painted the frescoes (壁画) on the ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, which includes his masterpiece The Last Judgment. Even though he was born in Caprese, Michelangelo lived most of his life in Rome, where he created most of his pieces.
Raphael was born in 1483 in Urbino, Italy. He became Italian renaissance painter Pietro Perugino's student in 1504 at the age of 21. After this, he started painting his several Madonnas while living in Florence, where da Vinci and Michelangelo influenced him. When he moved to Rome, Pope Julius II hired him as his chief architect. Raphael died in Rome in 1520 at the age of 37. Despite his early death, he produced some of the most recognizable masterpieces including all his Madonnas, but also most notably the Madonna in the Sistine Chapel in Rome and his frescoes in the Palace of the Vatican.
The birth of Britain's first cloned dog has been considered "a waste of money" and scientists said the process raised serious ethical (伦理的) concerns.
Sooam Biotech, a company in Seoul, said it had cloned the puppy, named Mini-Winnie, from a 12-year-old dog belonging to Rebecca Smith, who lives in the west London. She had won a contest run by the company which hoped to sell the service to pet owners for 60,000 pounds a time.
Mini-Winnie was born after scientists took skin cells from Mr Smith's pet and dropped them into donor eggs to make embryos (胚胎). The puppy must remain in Korea for six months to satisfy British quarantine (检疫) laws.
But researchers warned that while a cloned dog might look similar to its biological parent, it would be a very different animal. "You would have many chances of replicating (复制) your favorite pet by choosing one from Battersea Dogs Home," said Robin Lovell-Badge, a geneticist at the National Institute for Medical Research in London. Dusko Ilic, a stem cell scientist at King's College London, said, "It is extremely unlikely that a puppy cloned from a favorite pet will behave in the same way. As time passes by, the differences will be more and more pronounced, especially personality traits. It is an absolute waste of money."
The cloning process is controversial (有争论的) because the animals are often born with diseases or die soon after birth.
I think, it's unnecessary to try to clone pets for pet owners. First, it's really costly. Second, the cloned pet is actually another dog. Third, there are many homeless dogs for people to adopt in shelters. So why not just adopt a dog instead?
How to Prepare for an Interview
Once you have received an interview call, you need to start your interview preparations . Lack of proper preparation on the other hand may lead to poor results.
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Review the resume(简历) and cover letter you sent for this particular job. Consider how you want to convey this information verbally and think of specific examples from your past experiences which highlight your skills, qualifications and achievements.
⒉Research
Find information about the potential employer and the position you have applied for. . A good research reflects well on your enthusiasm and the information you gain from relevant websites will help you prepare questions for the employer and give you a good sense of salary levels and working conditions.
⒊Practice
Predict interview questions. . You can practice with a friend to get feedback on your verbal and non-verbal communication skills. Invent a list of intelligent questions to ask during your interview.
⒋Interview date
Dress for success and bring along any documents or information you may need, such as extra copies of your resume and references. Arrive fifteen minutes prior to the interview and be friendly, respectful and positive with everyone you meet.
⒌Follow-up
. You will miss a valuable opportunity by failing to follow up with an organization after the interview. Follow up with the interviewers and inquire about the status of your application if you have not heard from them within the agreed time frame.
A. Know yourself
B. Write a good resume
C. Use the Internet to get current information
D. Ensure you know the interviewer's questions
E. After the interview, your work is not quite finished
F. In addition, prepare and practice answers to possible questions
G. Thorough preparation will increase your confidence and help you improve your performance
When I was little, my family lived a poor life. Before I was seven, I didn't know I could 1 a special gift. When I was 7 years old and my brother, David, was 9, my father got a good 2. The upcoming Christmas has a very 3 feeling. David and I were asked to 4 one gift we most wanted to get that year. I 5 a teddy bear. David asked for a bicycle.
Then that wonderful morning arrived. I got my teddy bear. However, David's bicycle was not there. "I 6 something." my father said, as he went into the other room. When he came back he was 7 a bicycle. On David's face was a look of both delight and something 8. The bike was secondhand, which David didn't 9 too much, but it was a girl's bike. Boys did not ride girls' bikes.
David and I had been 10 to ride on bicycles borrowed from friends in the neighborhood. I didn't 11 as skillfully as David, but I could manage to get from point A to point B without too much 12. Since he didn't have to ride his Christmas bike to school, David 13 being teased about the fact that it wasn't a boy's bike. And he was 14 teased about it in our neighborhood because David was older than most of the other kids.
David was very 15, letting me ride his new wheels often. He even figured out a(n) 16 to tie our Radio Flyer wagon (四轮马车) to the bike 17 he could pull me and other kids up and down our road. Now we could 18 places that were once beyond convenient walking distance. That winter we took many long rides down the snowy roads. That bicycle was the best Christmas present and it was 19 that the bicycle gave us an exciting new freedom. And it left us many beautiful childhood 20.
Advice is a word that is welcomed warmly by a lot of people. It helps in (achieve) goals in a better way. As we know, (experience) people offer their advice with a positive attitude without making a (judge). You can learn how they give advice.
Give advice to people who welcome it. In fact, your focus should be helping others and making aware that the advice can be useful if taken in the right spirit. When advice (give), it should be short. It is also essential that while giving advice, one should be fair. As giving advice is art, you should always state the positive side first so that the person is (relax) and would in turn welcome your advice.
Give advice on certain matters. a friend of yours wants to buy a car and requests your advice on the matter, your aim should be to give him details about things to be purchased, but you need not go for some particular brands or items. (similar), advice on some other important issues, like staying in the relationship or future planning, needs to be given (cautious).
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。
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As school students, we run into one difficult after another in the process of learning. Everyone have their own ways to deal with them. Here I would like to share with mine.
When I am faced with a problem, I usually chose to refer to relevant learning materials or web pages. In this way, I can not only work them out but also improve my ability to overcoming problems all by myself.
However, when it is something which goes beyond my competence, I normal turn to my classmates or teachers for help. Sometimes I also ask my parents for advice. As result, I have made steady progresses in my studies.
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