Yours,
Li Hua
Chinese wine culture has a long and rich history, dating back thousands of years. One of the most famous traditional Chinese
In Chinese culture, wine is often associated with toasting (祝酒),
Team building activities can make a great difference when it comes to job satisfaction and organizational success.
Set the team’s goal
Studies have shown that teams s work better when each member is aware of the goal. Before the team sets up, have a meeting to create a list of the goals that can help reach the end goal.
Solve problems immediately
Effective teambuilding requires an environment where problems are quickly dealt with. It’s wise to send a management team for solving problems. Furthermore, according to one social experiment, a “bad apple” can ruin a whole team. So it might be important to ensure one team member isn’t ruining the effort.
It’s useful to get the team from everyday surroundings and into somewhere unexpected. This can improve creativity, but also help build a closer relationship within the team. You could hold team meetings at a cafe, at the company lawn, or even at museums or amusement parks.
Bring humour to team work
The saying “Laughter is the best t medicine” definitely holds true in team building. Humor is a great way to relax team members. Bring humor to teamwork through fun cartoons, little jokes and even series of fun video clips.
| A．Get outside of the office. |
| B．Have teams take a break. |
| C．But you should find a balance. |
| D．What’s the solution if this is the case? |
| E．You should stress the positive steps the team has taken. |
| F．This will lead members to focus in a specific direction to get the expected results. |
| G．But even with the best intentions, it’s not enough to just bring a group of people together. |
I am an anxious traveller. I arrive at airports and train stations extra early. I double-check all of my documents, feel butterflies in my stomach until I’ve arrived where I’m going. Non-anxious people laugh at me for being nervous. I used to feel bad about it, seeing it as unreasonable, weak. Not anymore now. I’ve learned to respect my anxiety.
Recently, I was driving along a country road at the start of a long trip that would mainly be on a large highway. I began feeling that something could go wrong. What if I run out of petrol? I worried, even though I still had plenty. So when I saw a petrol station just before the entrance to the highway, I decided to fill up. Just in case. And that’s when I discovered that one of my front tyres was badly deflated (漏气的). If I’d taken no notice of my anxiety, the tyre would have blown on the highway. My planning ahead, even though it wasn’t necessary, saved me from a possible disaster.
A growing number of psychologists are getting the message out that anxiety and other negative feelings have a role to pay in our lives. Psychologist Dennis-Tiwary thinks our culture goes to extremes in demonizing (妖魔化) difficult emotions. She knows what it’s like to be trapped by anxiety. “I remember a period at work when there was a lot going on,” she says. Worries kept waking her up at 4 a.m. and it kept her from fang back to much-needed sleep.
Instead of trying to stop this unpleasant feeling, however, Dennis-Tiwary leaned into it. “If you sit with the anxiety, you have an opportunity to learn from it,” she says. “I usually write down two or three things I could do to solve it” The next day, she always s felt calmer.
But how do we manage anxiety before it takes control of us? According to Dennis-Tiwary, solutions include meditation (冥想), exercise, volunteering, and close contact with nature.
1．By sharing his experience of driving on a country road, the author wants to ________.| A．show that anxiety could benefit us |
| B．argue that being nervous is unreasonable |
| C．warn us of the possible danger of driving on highway |
| D．inform us of the importance of making full preparations |
| A．Pay no attention to it. | B．Share it with others. |
| C．Depend on it. | D．Face it positively. |
| A．To provide an example. |
| B．To offer solutions. |
| C．To support an argument. |
| D．To give background information. |
| A．The Upside of Anxiety |
| B．Learn to Cope with Anxiety |
| C．My Struggle with Negative Feelings |
| D．Misunderstandings about Difficult Emotions |
In the time before air-conditioning, southern China’s sky wells played a key role in keeping people’s homes cool. Could they do it again today?
A skywell, or “tian jing”, is atypical characteristic of traditional homes in southern and eastern China. Different from a northern Chinese courtyard, or “yuan zi”, a skywell is smaller and less open to the outdoor environment. Its size and design differ from place to place.
Skywells were designed to cool buildings at a time well before air-conditioning existed. When wind blows above a skywell house, it can enter the indoor space through the opening. Because outdoor air is often cooler than indoor air, the incoming wind travels down the walls to the lower stories and create airflows by replacing warmer indoor air, which rises and leaves through the opening.
Although skywell buildings have existed in China for hundreds of years, in recent times they have often been forgotten by people who prefer modern buildings. Over the past two decades, however, skywell buildings have been making a comeback.
Yu Youhong, 55, has spent more than 30 years restoring (修复) skywell homes in Wuyuan county of Jiangxi province, apart of the old Huizhou. One of the skywell homes restored by Yu is in the village of Yan, in Wuyuan county. The deserted 300-year-old house was bought by Edward Gawne, a former marketing director from the UK, and his Chinese wife, Liao Minx in, in 2015. The couple turned the three-storey house into a 14-room hotel with the help of Yu. They kept the spaces surrounding the sky wells in their original state: open and with natural airflow. Gawne says that even without air conditioning the skywell areas are very comfortable in summer.
Yu says he expects sky wells to be more and more popular among younger generations especially as sustainability (可持续性) becomes an important element for new buildings.
1．What do we know about the sky wells?| A．They had the same size and design. |
| B．They were commonly seen throughout China. |
| C．They acted as air-conditioners in the summer. |
| D．They were fully open to the outdoors like courtyard. |
| A．When sky wells appeared. |
| B．What sky wells look like. |
| C．Why sky wells are no longer popular. |
| D．How sky wells cool buildings. |
| A．They enlarged its rooms. |
| B．They moved the skywell. |
| C．They pulled it down and rebuilt it. |
| D．They kept part of its architectural characteristic. |
| A．The comeback of sky wells. |
| B．An introduction to an expert in sky wells. |
| C．The preservation of traditional Chinese architecture. |
| D．The influence of modernization on ancient buildings. |
The New York Marathon (马拉松) is my goal for this year. I know I am never going to win a race but now, when I get anything negative, I will think of the kind gentleman who really believed, “You very good… you very fast.”
At the time, I was living in the Bay Area, and my mother had come to visit for a few days. On the last day of her stay, I was preparing to go out for a run. I picked up a T-shirt I just bought the other day from a Chinese clothing shop — it had some Chinese characters on the front, and a scene of Honolulu Chinatown on the back. I didn’t speak Chinese, but somehow this special T-shirt was quite soft and good for exercise.Working in a very negative environment, I found morning runs very beneficial — body tired but mind awake.
And I had always met an elderly Chinese gentleman walking on the opposite side of the trail (道路) when I was running on other mornings. I had always said, “Good morning,” and he had always smiled warmly and nodded his head slightly.
As I was going out the door, my mother suddenly said, “I don’t think running is so hot — that famous runner died.” I started to recount what I had read about Jim Fixx, and how running had probably been the contributing factor to his living far longer than most of the other members of his family, but I knew there was absolutely no point.
As I started running on my favorite trail, I found I couldn’t shake my mother’s statement. I was so discouraged that I could hardly run. I began thinking, “Why do I run at all? Serious runners probably think I look silly! I might have a heart attack on the trail — my dad had a fatal (致命的) heart attack at 50 years old, and he was seemingly in better shape than I am.”
My mother’s statement remained in my mind like a giant blanket.
Upon hearing the man’s words, I felt more unexplained strength in my step.
Over the years, tai chi has gained increasing
Tai chi, together with other types of martial arts,
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