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How to learn English

There are four key points to study English: listening, speaking, reading and writing. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Air pollution is one of the world’s invisible killers. It causes seven million deaths a year, making it the largest single environmental health risk. In cities, air pollution is particularly serious. More than 80% of people live in the areas where pollution levels are beyond WHO limits.

One well-established way to reduce air pollution is to plant trees, as their leaves catch and absorb harmful particulates (微粒). But planting new trees is not always a good choice for lack of enough space. That’s why the “City Tree”, a mobile tree which removes pollutants from the air, has been becoming popular in cities around the world, including Oslo, Paris, Brussels and Hong Kong.

Each City Tree is just under 4 meters tall, nearly 3 meters wide and 2.19 meters deep, acting as a chair or a bench. A screen is included for information or advertising. Berlin-based Green City Organization explains that its invention has the environmental benefit of up to 275 actual trees.

But the City Tree isn’t, in fact, a tree at all—it’s a moss culture (青苔培植). “Moss cultures have a much larger leaf surface area than any other plant. That means we can catch more pollutants,” said Zhengliang Wu, co-founder of Green City Organization.

The huge surfaces of moss in each tree can remove dust, NO₂ and O₃ gases from the air. It requires very little care: solar panels provide electricity, while rainwater is collected into a container and then sent into the soil.

To monitor the health of the moss, the City Tree has sensors which measure soil humidity (湿度), temperature and water quality. “We also have pollution sensors inside the trees, which help monitor the local air quality and tell us how efficient the tree is,” Wu said. Its creators say that each City Tree is able to absorb around 250 grams of particulate matter a day and contributes to removing 480 tons of CO₂ a year.

Dear Tim,

Today is Sunday. It’s 7:00 in the evening here. I’m writing to tell you something _____my life. My father is watching CCTV news. That’s his favourite ____. My mother ____computer games. My dog Dick is taking the shoes to me . He wants me to put ____on and go out for a walk_____him. What a clever dog! My little sister is playing ____piano. It sounds(听起来) beautiful today. Outside, I can ____cars and buses coming and going_____. Also there are some boys playing ball games in the school next to my house. It’ s really a noisy(嘈杂的) ____happy evening . Don’t you think so?

What are your family ____ ? I know that time here is thirteen hours ahead of that in New York . Are you getting up ? Please write to me soon .

Denial

Cathy Hackl’s son wanted to celebrate his ninth birthday, but he didn’t ask for a party or gifts. He asked if he could hold the celebration on Roblox, a digital platform (数码平台) where users can play and create games. He and his friends wouldn’t meet in person—they would attend the party online.

“They hung out and played and they went to other different games together,” Hackl says. “It happens in a virtual (虚拟的) space but it’s very real to my son.”

Roblox is part of the metaverse (虚拟世界), a “place” similar to the real world. Today, millions of people spend hours a day in online communities. We enter the metaverse through virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), or simply on a screen. These experiences allow a stronger connection between our digital and physical lives. But these two worlds are already mixed together, no headset (头戴式视图器) required. Think about the Google Map. It uses location data to help people find the best way to a place.

The metaverse is part of the Internet. And there are plenty of Internet problems. For example, the personal information may be stolen. These suggest how challenging a future in the metaverse could be. However, many people believe the metaverse has real benefits. They say it can enlarge social networks.

Hackl is a metaverse expert. She’s also Latina (拉丁美洲裔女性). “We need to see people like me in these public-facing roles,” she says. “You can inspire a lot more people to join and say, ‘Hey, I am welcome and highly valued in this metaverse world. I’m sure I can build a different life.’” For those who are already spending part of their life in the metaverse, that building has begun.

Carrie Tatsu runs a business in the metaverse. But she wants her kids to spend as much time as possible in the real world. “It’s so important for humans to be with humans in real life,” she says. “I think that as kids grow up in this space, there must be some outlets for them to be connected with the real world, like tasting the delicious food, feeling the warm light on the face, having a face-to-face conversation with a real friend…any activity that can help them leave the virtual space and share their ideas in real life. Even though you can create a virtual world online, it is not the same as the real one.”

There was a famous scientist who made several important discoveries. Once he was 1． how he could be so creative. He replied that it all came from an experience he had with his mother when he was years old. He was trying to take a bottle of milk out of the fridge. But the bottle was too slippery(滑的) and he 2． it. The kitchen floor was covered in milk.

When his mother came into the kitchen, 3． of shouting at him or punishing him, she just said, “Robert, what a great and wonderful mess you have 4．! I have never seen such a huge puddle(水坑) of milk. Would you like to play in the milk for a few minutes 5． we clean it up?

So he did. After a while, 6． cleaned it up together. Then his mother said, “This was not a successful experiment in how to carry a big bottle of milk with two small hands. Let’s go out in the backyard and fill the bottle 7． water and see if you can find a way to carry it without dropping it?” The little boy learned that if he held the 8． at the top near the edge with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it. What 9． wonderful lesson!

The scientist then added that, at that moment, he knew he didn’t need to be 10． to make mistakes. They can help us to learn something new. Even if the experiment doesn’t “work”, we can still learn something valuable from it.

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When my father was young，