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Perhaps you have seen them, those who fall asleep on the subway and then, somehow, wake up exactly at their stop. Perhaps you are one of them. How is this possible? We spoke to two doctors, who offered their insights about it.

It is possible that your body gets used to waking up at a certain point each time during your commute, said Dr. Marc I. Leavey, a primary-care specialist in Maryland. That holds especially true if you commute at the same time every day. This suggests that if you were to get on at a different time, or if the journey were delayed, your internal clock might not wake you up at your stop. It is an interesting theory, but Dr. Ronald Chervin, director of Michigan Medicine's Sleep Disorders Centers, does not fully buy it. He is skeptical that circadian rhythms can also explain why you wake up after a brief nap.

You are also likely to wake up for your particular stop because of an oral cue, such as the conductor stating the name of the subway stop over the public-address system. Such cues alert your brain that you have arrived, explained Dr Leavey. According to a study published in the Public Library of Science, during sleep, our brain reacts differently when we hear our own name and other people's names, noted Dr Chervin. This suggests that your brain does not turn off during sleep, which makes it possible to pick up on the announcement of your stop.

Another reasonable possibility: You may wake up at each stop, check if it is yours, and go back to sleep, all without having remembered it, added Dr. Chervin. He sees this in cases where patients are suffering from sleep apnea. They may wake up as many as 200 times during a single night, without having remembered a single instance. That's because they fall right back asleep before their brain has time to process their experience into long-term memory. Similarly, you could be waking up every time you hear a new stop called. But you just don't remember such instances even after you fully come awake for your stop—leading you to believe that you have slept the whole way through and miraculously woken up at the right time.

Jiangsu province has been testing a color-coded system this year to indicate risks facing children who live in difficult conditions and to offer specific help to them.

In the four-tier system, red represents the most severe conditions and that civil affairs departments must intervene immediately. It is followed by yellow, blue and green.

Xiao Jing, not her real name, was recently added to the system. The 10-year-old is an orphan infected with HIV. She has been living in the smaller city of Xinghua with her grandparents since her mother died from AIDS and her father, who also has AIDS, abandoned her.

Despite their difficulties, the family did not apply for government assistance because they feared that filling in the paperwork would spread word of the girl's health problem.

Xinghua's civil affairs department found Xiao Jing in June by combing through big data. They sent workers to her home and completed the paperwork in two days without revealing information to the public. The family now has access to financial assistance and professional psychological help.

Wang Xiongli, deputy director of the Children Affairs Office of the Jiangsu Civil Affairs Department, said that in the past many families in difficulty either declined or did not know how to apply for government assistance.

“Many children have to live with their grandparents after their parents left them because of health problems, drug issues or being imprisoned,” he said. “Senior citizens usually don't know the application procedures.”

“But now, we don't need them to apply or fill in documents before giving assistance,” Wang said. “We find children who may need help by using big data from many agencies. We evaluate their condition and send social workers to their homes to confirm the findings. After that, we consult with experts to make plans for all of the children who truly need help.”

In early 2020, Jiangsu province chose Nanjing, Taizhou and Yancheng to pilot the color-coded system. In Taizhou, 4,319 children living in poverty were added to the civil affairs departments system this year, joining children previously receiving aid to make a total of 10,367 children now registered in the city's color-coded system.

The girl stopped and looked as if she might run away in surprise, but instead stood there regarding Montag with eyes so dark and shining and alive that he felt he had said something quite wonderful. But he knew his mouth had only moved to say hello.

“Of course,” he said, “you're our new neighbor, aren't you?”

“And you must be”—she raised her eyes from his professional symbols “— the fireman.” Her voice trailed off.

“How strangely you say that.”

“I'd—I'd have known it with my eyes shut,” she said, slowly.

“What—the smell of kerosene? My wife always complains,” he laughed. “You never wash it off completely.”

“No, you don't,” she said, in awe.

He felt the girl's nervousness and laughed, “Kerosene, is nothing but perfume to me.” Then he continued, “What are you doing out so late wandering around? How old are you?”

There was only the girl walking with him now, her face bright as snow in the moonlight, and he knew she was working his questions around, seeking the best answers she could possibly give.

“Well,” she said, “I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. Isn't this a nice time of night to walk? I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night walking, and watch the sun rise.”

They walked on again in silence and finally she said, thoughtfully, “You know, I'm not afraid of you at all.”

He was surprised. “Why should you be?”

“So many people are afraid of firemen, I mean. But you're just a man, after all ... Do you mind if I ask? How long have you worked at being a fireman?”

“Since I was twenty, ten years ago.”

“Do you ever read any of the books you burn?”

He laughed. “That's against the law! It's fine work. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn them to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.”

Hungarian artist Zoltan Viczan has revealed his love and memories of his homeland in a series of new glass artworks at the exhibition, Layers of Hungary, which is taking place at Picnic Gallery in downtown Shanghai from Oct 13 to Nov 15.

Born in Hungary in 1979, Viczan began his studies in glass art at an early age in Budapest. for having developed his own style and techniques for glass engraving(雕刻).

Traditional glassmaking in the West originated in Italy, where the royal court forced master crafts people to live on an island and create fine goods, Viczan says. Then they took the technique to other parts of Europe, such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.

Viczan came to Asia 10 years ago, spending four years in Japan and two years in Hong Kong before moving to Shanghai in 2016. Generally many expatriates socialized with people from their countries to overcome homesickness.

In the exhibition, visitors will see a map of Hungary sculpted in cast glass and decorated with traditional Hungarian glass patterns, and works describing the city of Budapest and Lake Balaton, the largest lake in Central Europe.

For example, he removed the protective and reflective layers of the mirror to create a window on the surface that reveals the layer underneath. He even placed multiple layers of these windows in front of each other, creating a 3D effect that changes when viewed from different angles.

“We live in an infinitely complex world that we have no way to fully understand,” he says. “Through our experiences, we form a worldview that becomes our reality, which will be challenged when we are exposed to new ideas. These layers of realizations are the signs of our personal development.”

A. He has practiced the art form for nearly 30 years.

B. This is the first time he has presented his creations.

C. The works on show reflect Viczan's unique methods.

D. Some managed to escape despite of the risks of death.

E. Viczan chose to represent memories of his homeland through his art.

F. The artist believes this is a good way to show idea about people's viewpoints of reality.

G. It recalled the beauty of the calm, flat water which starts rippling after throwing a pebble in it.

“I'm bored.” You may turn your nose up at the words when a child says so. In fact, boredom is generally viewed as an unpleasant 1 state. How can anyone 2 boredom when there's so much that can and should be done?

But boredom is 3 to experience. 4 the lesson most adults tell you — boredom is for boring people — boredom is useful. It's good for you.

If kids don't 5 this out early on, they're in for a not-so-pleasant surprise in the future. Life isn't meant to be full of 6. “That's right,” a mother says to her daughter in the novel Where'd You Go, Bernadette. “You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The 7 you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.”

People used to accept that much of life was boring. 8things happen when you're bored. Once you've truly felt bored, you find yourself 9 to discovery. This is why so many useful ideas occur in the shower, when you're held captive to a routine activity. You let your mind wander and 10 it where it goes.

Of course it's not really the boredom itself that's important; it's what we 11it. When you reach your breaking point, boredom teaches you to make something happen for yourself.

Teaching children to 12 boredom will prepare them for a more realistic future. One day, 13 in a job they otherwise love, our kids may have to spend an entire day answering Friday's leftover email. This sound boring, you might conclude. It sounds like 14, and it sounds like life. Perhaps we should get used to boredom again, and use it to our15.

The lander carrying China's first Mars rover has successfully touched down on the red planet early Saturday morning Beijing Time. It is the first time China (land) a probe(无人航天探测器) on a planet other than Earth.

Tianwen-1,  (consist) of an orbiter, a lander and a rover, was launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on July 23, 2020. It was the first step in China's planetary (explore) of the solar system, with the aim of completing orbiting, landing and roving on the red planet in one mission.

The name Tianwen, meaning Questions to Heaven, comes from a poem (write) by the ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan (about 340-278 BC). China's first Mars rover is named Zhurong after  god of fire in ancient Chinese mythology,  echoes with the Chinese name of the red planet: Huoxing (the planet of fire).

The spacecraft entered the Mars orbit in February a journey of nearly seven months through space, and spent more than two months surveying potential landing  (site). In the early hours of Saturday, the spacecraft began to descend from its parking orbit. “The craft's plummet through the Martian atmosphere, lasting about nine minutes, was (extreme) complicated with no ground control, and had to(perform) by the spacecraft autonomously,” said Geng Yan, an official at the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the CNSA.

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Recently I graduated from high school, and as a gift I received a huge hunch of flowers, 40 to be exact! I had so many that I didn't know what to do with them. The next weekend my niece and nephew, Sue and Mike, aged 6 and 7, came and suddenly I had an idea. I might let them give out these flowers to people they met on the street, and in this way they could learn how to be friendly to others. So I told them about my plan and explained that these flowers would make people feel happy and smile. They loved the idea and were eager to have a try. So at once we took every single flower and tied a smile card to it. We then went to the street with the flowers.

The first flower went to a policeman. As soon as she saw the policeman, my niece ran up to him and handed him a flower. His smile was so big, but hers was even bigger!

In no time, we neared the end of our flowers. It was lunch time and we went to Subway for lunch. There the kids gave a flower to the waitress, who was really excited to receive the flower. As we were eating our lunch, the waitress came up to the kids with two big chocolate cookies! She said the chocolate cookies were for them and that she really liked the flower! As they ate the cookies, my niece and nephew looked at me with the biggest smiles I had ever seen.
Paragraph 1：With just one flower left, I said it should be given to the person who needed it most.
Paragraph 2：It turned out to be a great day for us.

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