The only survivor of a shipwreck(失事船)was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed worriedly for God to rescue(营救)him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but {#blank#}1{#/blank#}seemed forthcoming(即将来临的). Exhausted, he {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(eventual)managed to build a little hut(小屋)out of driftwood(漂浮的木头)to protect him{#blank#}3{#/blank#}the bad weather, and to store his few possessions(财产). But then one day, after searching for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(roll)up to the sky. The worst had happened;{#blank#}5{#/blank#}was lost. He was almost fainted(昏倒)with grief and anger. “God, how could you do this on me!” he cried. Early the next day, however, he was awakened by the sound of a ship that {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(approach)the island. It had come to rescue him. “{#blank#}7{#/blank#}did you know I was here?” he asked one of his rescuers. “We saw your smoke signal,” they replied.

    It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad. But we{#blank#}8{#/blank#}lose heart,{#blank#}9{#/blank#}God is at work in our lives, even in the middle of pain and suffering.

    Remember, next time your little hut is burning to the ground it just may be {#blank#}10{#/blank#}smoke signal from the grace(恩泽)of God. For all the negative things we have to say to ourselves. God has a positive answer for them.

    One of the purposes of children's slang(俚语){#blank#}1{#/blank#} (be) to stop adults from being able to understand what they're saying. Obviously, the strategy works. Recent research shows that {#blank#}2{#/blank#}majority of adults can't translate the meaning of common slang.

    In a survey of 4,5000 people last month,{#blank#}3{#/blank#}was found that 85 percent of adults didn't understand the translations of emoji(表情符号)and text. The researchers warned that a lack of {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(aware) of what children are communicating online can leave them unprotected, with phrases that express eating disorders and unhappiness not

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(understand).

    For young people growing up with technology, this new language comes {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(natural), but it's leaving some adults unsure about {#blank#}7{#/blank#}is being said by their children online. It's important for adults to speak to young people about how they use social media and chat online.

    Caroline Bunting, general manager at Internet matters, said “While it is unrealistic to expect parents

    {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(know) every piece of Internet slang their children will ever see, online safety starts {#blank#}9{#/blank#}a conversation. It's vital for parents to talk to their kids about their digital worlds, including all {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(sort) of things they might experience online and the types of problems to be aware of.”

Photographers Turn Their Cameras on Pets

In 2019 photographers Kendrick Brinson and David Walter Banks visited 14 countries on assignment. When the couple described the adventures {#blank#}1{#/blank#}they had experienced when photographing, people invariably asked, "But who takes care of your four cats and dogs?" They joked that the pet siter made a lot of money.

But 2020 couldn't have been {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(different). Due to COVID-19, Brinson and Banks never left the United States. Often, they didn't even leave their Los Angeles neighborhood. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} {#blank#}4{#/blank#}spending long hours in airport security lines and waiting-for the perfect lighting, the pair stayed along with dogs Tux and Tia and cats Rex and Kudzu. "Our pets became emotional therapy animals, and our only friends we could safely hug in a world {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(strike) by a deadly pandemic," Banks said.

As COVID-19 lockdowns swept across the world in March of 2020, the change made an especially great impact on photographers, who are accustomed to {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(spend) long periods abroad. And so many cameras {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(turn) on a domestic subject: the pet.

Research suggests that pets have offered emotional support during the pandemic, helping {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(make) the long days of isolation more bearable, says Emily MeCobb, a clinical associate professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. In fact, the pandemic has sped up a trend, according to McCobb's and other scientists' observation, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the pet is becoming a member of the family. "In the past 20 to 30 years, the role of the pet in the family {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(take) on a whole new role," says MeCobb." It really hasn't been that long {#blank#}11{#/blank#}these furry child substitutes gained this kind of importance in American society."