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Bestselling Books of the Last Ten Years
The Hunger Games $8. 79
Readers couldn't get enough of the fearless heroine Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins' bestseller trilogy (三部曲).Set in a realistic future where children have to fight to the death in the yearly "Hunger Games", all of the novels in the trilogy became huge hits. In 2012, the first book sold "an astonishing 27. 7 million copies," according to Publishers Weekly. The Help $9. 43
Kathryn Stockett's novel became a runaway hit on bestseller lists. The story follows two black maids in 1960s Mississippi as they face injustice. The novel was also made into an Academy Award-winning film. Actresses Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Jessica Chastain were all nominated (提名)for their performances in the film. Spencer won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Minny.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks $9. 99
Oprah Winfrey adapted this bestselling nonfiction book into a movie for HBO (美国有线电视网). The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks combines science writing with moving storytelling as it describes a young black woman's experience with cancer and the ways her cells, which were taken without her permission, influenced science in enormous ways. The book topped several "best of the year" lists and remained a nonfiction bestseller for over 40 weeks.
Outliers $7. 79
Malcolm Gladwell's nonfiction pop-science book struck a chord (共鸣)with readers. Gladwell makes his topic accessible and highly readable as he examines the nature of success. Gladwell looks at various successful people and examines the environment that made them extraordinary in ways that offer surprising and unexpected insights.
Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight route from Boston to Los Angeles when a flight attendant asked an urgent question over the loudspeaker： "Does anyone on board know American Sign Language?" Clara, 15 at the time, pressed the call button. The flight attendant came by and explained the situation. "We have a passenger on the plane who's blind and deaf," she said. The passenger seemed to want something, but he was traveling alone and the flight attendants couldn't understand what he needed.
Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help with her dyslexia (读写困难)and knew she'd be able to finger spell into the man's palm. So she untied her seat belt, walked toward the front of the plane, and knelt by the aisle (过道)seat of Tim Cook, then 64. Gently taking his hand, she signed, "How are you? Are you OK?" Tim asked for some water. When it arrived, Clara returned to her seat.
She came by again a bit later because Tim wanted to know the time. On her third visit, she stopped and stayed a while. "He didn't need anything. He was lonely and wanted to talk," Clara says. So for the next hour, that's what they did. She talked about her family and her plans for the future (she wants to be a politician). Tim told Clara how he had gradually become blind over time and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman.
"Even though Tim couldn't see her, she looked attentively at his face with such kindness," a passenger reported. "Clara was amazing," a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. "You could tell Tim was very excited to have someone he could speak to, and she was such an angel. " Tim's reaction: "Best trip I've ever had."
Cambridge Dictionary has named 'up cycling' as its Word of the Year 2019.
Upcycling was chosen as the 'Word of the Day' which resonated (共鸣)most strongly with followers on the Dictionary's Instagram account. The noun— explained as the activity of making new furniture, objects, etc. out of old or used things or waste material — received more likes than any other 'Word of the Day' when shared on 4 July 2019. The number of times upcycling has been looked up on the Cambridge Dictionary website has risen by 181% since December of 2011, when it was first added to the online dictionary, and searches have doubled in the last year alone.
"We think it's the positive idea behind upcycling that appeals more than the word itself," said Wendalyn Nichols, Publishing Manager of the Cambridge Dictionary. "Stopping the progress of climate change, let alone turning it around, can seem impossible at times. Upcycling is a specific action a single human being can take to make a difference." "Lookups of upcycling reflect the trend around individual actions to combat climate change—the youth activism started by Greta Thunberg; the growing trends of vegan and plant-based diets; reading and following the handbook There is No Planet B; or fashion designers upcycling clothes to create their latest collections."
Other words on the shortlist for Word of the Year 2019 reflect the same concern with the effects of climate change, such as carbon sink (碳汇)and compostable (可降解的).
The Cambridge Dictionary editors use data from the website, blogs, and social media to identify and rank new additions to the Dictionary. They recognized upcycling as a word to include after noticing a sharp rise in searches for the word in 2010. Cambridge University Press has been publishing dictionaries for learners of English since 1995. Cambridge Dictionary began offering these dictionaries completely free of charge online in 1999.
"What kind of rubbish are you?" This question might normally cause anger, but in Shanghai it has become a special "greeting" among people over the past week. On July 1st, the city introduced strict trash-sorting regulations (条例)that are required to follow and expected to be used as a model for our country. Residents must divide their waste into four separate categories and toss (投放)it into specific public dustbins. They must do so at specified times, when monitors are present to ensure correct trash-tossing and to ask the nature of one's rubbish. Individuals who fail to follow the regulations face the possibility of fines and worse. They could be punished with fines of up to 200 yuan ( $ 29). For those who repeat to go against them, the government can add black marks to their credit records, making it harder for them to get bank loans or even buy train tickets.
Shanghai government is responding to an obvious environmental problem. It generates 9 million tons of garbage a year, more than London's annual output, which is rising quickly. But like other cities in China, it lacks a recycling system. Instead, it has relied on trash pickers to sift (筛选)through the waste, picking out whatever can be reused. This has limits. As people get wealthier, fewer of them want to do such dirty work. The waste, meanwhile, just keeps piling up.
Many residents appear to support the idea of recycling in general but are annoyed by the details. Rubbish must be divided according to whether it is food, recyclable, dry or harmful, the distinctions among which can be confusing, though there are apps to help work it out. Some have complained about the rules concerning food waste. They must put it straight in the required public bins, forcing them to tear open plastic bags and toss it by hand. What they complain most is the short periods for dropping trash, typically a couple of hours, morning and evening. Along with the monitors at the bins, this means that people go at around the same time and can keep an eye on what is being thrown out no one wants to look bad.
"You are the same today as you will be in five years except for the books you read." A love of reading can make your brain more efficient, lower stress levels, and inspire life pursuits (追求). Here's how your brain and body benefit when you crack open a book.
Reading can improve brainpower.
Whether you're interested in a book or simply scanning an instruction for your coffee maker, your brain will drive other functions—such as vision, language, and associative (相关的)learning, according to a survey by Ken Pugh, PhD. Another recent study found that older adults who regularly read books are two and a half times less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease.
Reading can melt away stress.
Being lost in a good book lowers your levels of unhealthy stress hormones. In a British study, participants were involved in an anxiety-provoking (引发焦虑的)
activity and then either read for a few minutes, listened to music, or played video games. The stress levels of those who read dropped 67 percent.
Reading about someone who overcame hurdles may encourage you to achieve your own dream. If you'd like a raise, following a character into the boss's office may give you the courage to make the same request. The more you identify with a character and experience the events as if they were happening to you, the more likely you'll take action.
Turn off your phone and computer, and set aside one or two hours to read books every day.
A. Reading can encourage life goals.
B. Reading can recall your memory.
C. As a result, stress is associated with reading.
D. That process forces you to think and concentrate.
E. Reading gives your brain a different kind of workout.
F. We cannot think too highly of the benefits of reading.
G. It was a more important drop than that of the other groups.
I was standing in the checkout line behind a woman who looked to be in her 60s. When it was her1to pay, the cashier2her by name and asked her how she was doing. The woman3, shook her head and said, "Not so good. My husband just lost his4."
Then she gave the5food stamps (食品券).
My heart6. Should I offer to pay for her groceries or ask for her husband's resume(简历)? I did nothing—yet. Then the woman left the7. Walking into the parking lot, I spotted the woman returning her shopping cart, and I8something in my handbag that could help her in a9but hopefully profound way. It wasn't a handful of10or a lead on a job for her husband, but maybe it would make her life11.
"Excuse me," I said, my12trembling a bit. "I couldn't help13what you said to the cashier. It sounds like you're going through a really14time right now. I'd like to give you something. "
And I15her a business-sized card. When the woman read the card's only two16, she began to cry and said "You have no17how much this means to me."
I was a little18by her reply. Having never done anything like this before, all I could think to respond was, "Oh. Would it be OK to give you a hug?" After we19, I walked back to my car and began to20too. The words on the card：You Matter.
Schools in the UK are trying the use of "classroom robots" in order to ease the growing teacher (short). So far, two primary schools in Plymouth have introduced the robots, an alternative to teaching assistants.
Britain's lack of teaching staff (become) worse over the last ten years and shows no sign of improving. Graduates are not (will) to enter the primary education and many current teachers are abandoning the profession for careers in other fields. (face) with this concerning problem, some schools believe that robots might soon be able to improve the situation.
Tests have shown that teachers can train the robots within just three hours by showing a range of classroom techniques, are then copied by the robot and used in a real classroom setting with real students doing tasks. In one example, the robot teacher (successful) guided the students through challenging tasks, (give) them praise and encouragement when necessary.
The project has been met with (mix) reactions from teachers. Some are concerned that the robots are here to replace their jobs, others optimistically consider the machines as a way to reduce their heavy workloads.
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I as well as my classmates are going to visit our English teacher at our junior high school in this month. Our English teacher who was in his thirty gave us a lot of help when we were at junior high school. He always encourages us to make fully use of time to study hard. He was enthusiastic about teaching, work late in the office every day. His classes were so encouraging that we all found easy to learn English with our English teacher guided us. He was not only a English teacher but also our close friend. Wherever we go, we will always treasure the time which we stayed with our English teacher.
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