“I have recently completed my college degree. The project we were 1in the last class was called “Smile”. The class was asked to go out and smile at three people and record their 2

    Soon, my husband and I went out to a McDonald's for 3We were standing in line, waiting to be4, when everyone around us began to back away.5 I turned around, I smelled a6“dirty body” smell, and there standing behind me were two 7 homeless men.

    As I looked down at the short gentleman, he was “smiling”. His blue eyes were8of expectation as if in search of acceptance. The second man9 awkward. I realized the second man was mentally challenged.

    The young lady at the10asked him what they wanted. He said, “coffee is all, Miss,” because that was all they could11. If they wanted to sit in the restaurant and warm up, they had to buy12. I realized that he just wanted to be13. It was too cold outside.

Then I really felt it— the compulsion (冲动) was so great I almost reached out and embraced the short man. I noticed all the customers in the restaurant were14at me, judging my every action. I smiled and 15two more breakfast meals for the two men. The short man looked up at me in16with tears in his eyes.

    I returned to the17on the last evening of class with this story. I turned in “my project” and the teacher read it. Then she said, “Can I18this?”

    I nodded. She began to read19while every student listened attentively.

    In my own way I20the people at McDonald's, my teacher, and every student in the classroom. I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn: UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE.

    My father once worked for a big company. However, when I was a year old he 1 his job and then our family got into a difficult station. We were 2, so we sold our house. Then we had to live with my grandmother. 3 she didn't like kids at all. She never 4. But l was very happy with my parents. My father was 5 at making things. I was also 6 and had a talent for designing.

    We didn't have money to buy. 7 so we made our own. I put two tyres together to make a horse. I learned a lot about gravity（重力）because I 8 many times.

    By 10, I knew I wanted to become a(n) 9, but they didn't take women in engineering school, so I went to another school and 10 in 1945. Then I was very 11to be accepted by the army's training programme. I learned a lot there. In 1966, I 12 serving the army. I began to work with children with learning problems. I wanted to 13 something that would help them. Luckily, I 14.

    I tried to retire five times but it 15 worked. In 1997, I went back to school to learn drawing, which was 16 for my inventions. On a TV programin2015, 1 17 David Kelley the founder of the design firm IDEO. When I realized he18 people from different backgrounds, I thought, “I have special life experiences and designing skills. I could be of 19 to his firm.”

I typed a letter to Kelley and quickly, I got a 20that I was accepted. I was 85.

The True Story of Treasure Island

    It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson's imagination. 1 recent research has found the true story of this exciting work.

    Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived 2 for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a 3. With him were his American wife Fanny and his son 4.

    Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long 5 over the hills. They had been 6 this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days 7.To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some 8.

    One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island, Robert 9that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of 10. "What's that?" he asked. "That's the 11 treasure," said the boy. Robert suddenly 12 something of an adventure story in the boy's 13. While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the 14 a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate (海盗)？

    Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the 15 of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to 16 such a man in a story. 17 Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was 18.

    So, thanks to a 19 September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of the greatest 20 stories in the English language.

    By the end of last year, my husband and I had settled in a house with an ocean view in New Zealand. We love it here and feel like we have 1 our life goals-well, one of them.

    The ocher goal is to 2 what we have now.

    Life isn't always like this. I 3 when I was growing up I always felt as though I was going through life for the only purpose of 4 my parents. The only 5 with this was that I was the only person who knew about that 6.

    Things did it really 7 when I went to boarding school. I was 8 sorry I would let my parents down. I was 12 years old then and 9 80 kg—not good for a 12-year-old girl. I hated myself. I did not 10 sports activities because I didn't know what to do. My self-esteem (自尊) was below the horizon and I felt a total 11, as if I was not good enough for 12.

    In my second year I thought I had turned things 13 when I came top of the class. It was only later that I learned 14 is not about people-pleasing and seeking 15 from others is not the way to long-term happiness—this is something that needs to come from within, from feeling complete, feeling 16, loved, successful and worthy. This is how I am today.

    I had been a victim (受害者) in life, feeling like everyone was 17 me, like I was never going to be 18 enough and so on. Then one day I discovered life coaching. Coaching was the life blood of my very being. I discovered I had a 19 in life. I will always have a choice, 20 that every decision I make is my decision. How powerful it is!

China's taijiquan, also known as tai chi — a major part of the amazing {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (open) ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and represented by numerous practitioners worldwide —{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (add) to UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on Thursday. On its website, UNESCO described the cultural icon as "a traditional physical practice characterized by relaxed, circular movements that can be used {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (adjust) breath besides cultivating an honest and neutral (中性的) mind".

"Their inscription onto the list showed the unique value of intangible cultural heritage on people's health and {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (sustain) development," said Wang Chenyang,{#blank#}5{#/blank#}inspector from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism who is in charge of the work related to intangible cultural heritage.

Taijiquan, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} originated during the mid-17th century in Wenxian county in Jiaozuo, Henan province, is practiced almost {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (day) throughout the country by people of all ages and ethnic groups, according to UNESCO's website. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (influence) by Taoist and Confucian thought and theories of traditional Chinese medicine, the practice has developed {#blank#}9{#/blank#} several schools or styles named after a family or a master's personal surname, such as Chen style or Yang style.

They are passed down through clan-based transmission or the master-apprentice model, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} built upon the yin and yang cycle and the cultural understanding of the unity of heaven and humanity, UNESCO said.

The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), China's leading aircraft maker, created the country's first fully solar-powered drone (无人机). The large drone, Qimingxing 50, took off at 5:50 pm on September 3rd, 2022, from an airport in Yulin of Shaanxi Province and stayed in the air for 26 minutes before landing on the same runway. AVIC said that all systems of the unmanned plane functioned well on its first flight.

Powered by six electric motors with solar batteries, the drone is designed to conduct long-time operations in near space. Near space is that part of Earth's atmosphere at altitudes of 20 to 100 kilometers. It is above the top altitudes of commercial airliners but below orbiting satellites.

Qimingxing 50, also called "quasi-satellite", features high operational efficiency and eco-friendliness and will be tasked with high-altitude reconnaissance (侦察), forestry fire monitoring, atmospheric environmental inspection, aerial mapping, communication signal relay and other operations.

"Thanks to its capability to conduct very long endurance flights in near space, the drone can essentially become a substitute for satellites," a Chinese aerospace expert said. Satellite services are not always available due to the limited number of satellites and relatively fixed schedules of overhead passes. In time-sensitive missions, near-space drones can offset these disadvantages, the expert said, noting that satellite services could also be damaged in wartime, so near-space drones could replace them in this occasion.

The successful first flight of the Qimingxing-50 lays a solid foundation for the development of key technologies in the country's new energy field, the composite (复合的) material field, which will enhance China's ability to perform tasks in near space and over far oceans. AVIC will seize the opportunity to increase investment and speed up the development of large solar-powered unmanned aircraft.