At the present time, more and more people love travelling. It's a very good 1 of getting to know new people and cultures and acquiring (获得) experiences. It helps travelers 2 a lot. Travel can make our minds become 3 .
But travel does more than all that. It can also make us more creative. In recent years, some professors have been doing research on what many people have already learned from travel experiences. They believe that spending time abroad has the 4 to affect (影响) people's mind. For example, they found that the students who lived abroad for a longer period were better at 5 problems creatively than those who did not. If you stay in the same place, you can't experience new sights, new smells, new sounds and new cultures. All these can 6 your mind and make it more active.
7 , that doesn’t mean the more places you’ve been, the more creative you’ll become. Another group of professors have been doing 8research. They found the people who often travelled from one place to another didn't have enough 9 to immerse(使……沉浸)themselves in a new place and a new culture. They weren’t as creative as the people who spent the time 10 getting to know a place. You have to interact(相互影响)with the places you go to and then you can benefit(得益)from it.
If you go travelling. which do you prefer, staying in a place for a certain period or rushing all the way ?
A. To help your teeth grow strong. B. You should brush your teeth after each meal. C. Carrots and apples are good for your teeth. D. The tooth may have to be taken out. E. Everyone should have a set of good teeth. F. Try to visit a dentist every six months. G. Every person has two set of teeth. |
Cough Medicine: The medicine is for a person with a cough. Shake it well before use. Take it three times each day before meals or before sleep. Dose (药量): Age: over 14 2 teaspoonfuls 8~13 1 teaspoonful 4~7 1/2 teaspoonful Dot fit for children below the age of three or old persons with heart trouble. Put it in a cold place. Use it before December 1st, 2004. |
Do you want to live a happier, less stressful life? Try laughing for no reason at all. That's how thousands of people start their day at Laughter (笑声) Clubs around the world and many doctors now think that having a good laugh might be one of the best ways to stay healthy.
The first Laughter Club was started in Mumbai, India, in 1995 by Dr. Madan Kataria. "Young children laugh about 300 times a day. Adults laugh between 7 and 15 times a day," says Dr. Kataria. "Everyone is naturally good at laughing-it's the universal language. We want people to feel happy with their lives." There are now more than 500 Laughter Clubs in India and over l,300 in the world.
Many doctors are also interested in the effects (效果) of laughter on our health. According to a 5-year study at the UCLA School of Medicine in California, with laughing there is less stress in the body. Laughter improves our health against illness by about 40%.
So what happens at a Laughter Club? I went along to my nearest club in South London to find out. I was quite nervous at the beginning of the class, to be honest, I wasn't interested in laughing with a group of strangers, and I was worried about looking stupid. Our laughter teacher told us to clap our hands and say “ho ho ho, ha ha ha.” while looking at each other. However, our bodies can't tell the difference between real laughter and unreal laughter, so they still produce the same healthy effects.
Surprisingly, it worked! After ten minutes everybody in the room was laughing for real and some people just couldn't stop! At the end of the class I was surprised by how relaxed-and comfortable I felt. So if you're under stress, then start laughing. You might be very pleased with the results!
“A cold can disappear in two days. Seventy percent of people who catch a cold feel better within a week, but it is unusual to have the common cold for as long as two weeks, ” says Gary Rogg, a medicine specialist (专家) at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.
Why does your cold seem to be staying for longer than it should? Here are some possible reasons.
Getting Less Sleep
Sleep plays an important role in our system. In fact, a study proved that people who got less than seven hours of sleep per night were nearly three times more likely to catch a cold than people who slept for eight hours or more.
Low on Water
Water plays an important part in your body. If your cold won't go away, consider drinking more water.
Treating the Wrong Illness
The common cold can easily be mixed with other illnesses. Often, people believe they've had a cold for a few weeks and may not realize that they aren't getting better because they've been treating the wrong illness.
Exercising Too Hard
“People ask me all the time,' Should I exercise when I have a cold?'” Katona says. “My answer is usually yes', but do it at a lower level. If you do it at a high level, you may get even worse.”
So, what does Katona consider to be a lower level? The answer is taking a walk, not running five miles.
Have you ever had the flu(流感)? If you have, you know how bad it can make you feel. Most kids will get the flu sometime during their school years.
When you have the flu, you usually get a fever(发烧) (which can be high), have a cough(咳嗽), feel very tired, and may have a sore throat(喉咙痛) as well. It can make you feel sick for a few days or for as long as a week. Sometimes, it can be hard to tell if you have the flu or a cold, but with the flu, you'll usually have a higher fever and feel much worse.
The flu is a type of virus(病毒), which means medicine will only help the symptoms such as the cough and fever. For most kids, the flu comes and goes, but for some, it can be a serious illness. Most kids get the flu in winter because germs(细菌) spread(传播) more easily when kids are inside in settings such as classrooms.
The best way to stop from getting the flu is to wash your hands often, keep your hands to yourself, and go to your doctor for the flu shot(注射) or mist(喷雾).
Everyone must go to bed early and get up early , or we won't be healthy and clever.
Is it true ? Perhaps it is .The body must have enough sleep .Children need about ten hours' sleep every day .If you don't go to bed early, you won't have enough sleep. Then you can't think properly and can't do your work properly. You will not be clever.
Some people go to bed late and get up late. This is not good for them .We should sleep before ten o'clock .When the daytime comes, we must get up. This is the time for exercises. If you lack (缺乏) exercises,the body becomes weak. Exercises keep a strong body.
Exercises help the blood to flow (血液循环)around the body. This is very important .Blood takes food to all parts of our bodies.If we take exercises, we can also think better.
When you are doing homework, sometimes your eyes may suddenly twitch (抽动). You may hear some superstitions (迷信) about this. For example, if your right eye jumps, you will hear good news. If your left eye jumps, you will hear bad news.
But science can tell you that it has nothing to do with these superstitions. It is just a movement of your muscles (肌肉). There are a few reasons why this happens.
According to ZME Science, when you feel stressed or tired, your eyes will twitch. This tells you that you need to get more rest.
Looking at a TV or computer screen for a long time can also make your eye twitch. Looking at screens can make your eye dry (干涩的). So it twitches to make itself wet.
Lacking(缺乏) some minerals (矿物质) in your diet(饮食) is another reason. Eating food such as almonds (杏仁) or spinach (菠菜) can be helpful.
Dear doctor, First Aid is the immediate care given to a person who has been injured or suddenly ill, including self-help and home care if medical help can't be given in time. First aid knowledge means life or death during an emergent(紧急的)situation. So I want to learn something important about general treatment to burns and heatstroke(中暑). Can you help me? Jack |
Dear Jack, Thank you for asking me some questions about first aid. I hope I can give you a hand. General Treatment to Burns: Move the injured away from the heat. Check the breathing as well as the size and depth of burns. Wash the burnt area with water to reduce pain. Cover the wound with a sterilized(消毒的) dressing For burns on the face, use sheet or something else to cover the burnt area. Heatstroke: To avoid heatstroke, you should stop tiring activities in hot weather. If you still go outdoors, you should: wear light loose-fitting(宽松的) clothing; rest in a cool place as often as possible; drink boiled water or fruit juice; avoid drinks such as milk, wine and beer. Doctor |
China is the best birthplace of tea. Nowadays, an increasing number of foreigners are interested in tea and the tea culture. Drinking tea is good for our health. Here are some tips for tea lovers.
Green Tea is the best choice for office workers
People who work in places with air conditioning may face skin problems. They are easy to get dry skin. However, green tea can help you solve this problem. Besides, green tea, like makeup, can prevent computer radiation(辐射).
Winter is the season to drink Black Tea
Many Chinese people believe that different people should drink different tea. Black tea can warm the stomach, refresh the mind and accelerate digestion(加速消化). Therefore, drinking warm black tea in the cold winter is a most suitable choice.
Do not drink thick tea
Strong tea may take the human body much too excited and can do something bad to your cardiovascular and nervous system(心血管和神经系统). A person may get heart or blood problems if he drinks too much strong tea.
Do not drink too much tea when eating
Drinking too much tea or strong tea can stop your body from taking in the calcium, iron and so on. Also, people shouldn't drink tea with milk or other milk products because the tea may make the milk products less nutrition(有营养的).
A temporary hospital has been set up by members of the California National Guard in Indio, California, in the US.
Feng Bangli, a resident of Wuhan, Hubei, began to have a fever at the end of January and suspected that he had been infected (感染) with the virus. He tried several times to be admitted to a hospital but failed. He eventually gave up and stayed at home, taking drugs prescribed (开药方) by doctors.
At that time, "too many patients were waiting to see doctors at every hospital, and it was not possible for me to get a bed," said Feng. Days later, with the community staff's help, Feng tested positive for COVID-19 and was sent to a makeshift hospital (临时医院) for treatment.
"Without such makeshift hospitals, many COVID-19 patients like me may never have found a bed," said Feng, who recovered and was discharged (获准离开) from the makeshift hospital in Wuchang district at the end of February after staying there for 12 days.
Like Feng, more than 12,000 COVID-19 patients in Wuhan received treatment and care at 15 makeshift hospitals, which were converted (改造) from exhibition halls, sports stadiums and warehouses (仓库). These hospitals, which mainly received patients with mild symptoms (轻症), contained one in every four confirmed COVID-19 patients in the city, said Ma Xiaowei, minister of China's National Health Commission.
"Building makeshift hospitals was a key decision made in the critical (关键的) moment when Wuhan was facing a formidable task of epidemic (疫情) control, and it has played an indispensable (不可获缺的) role in both prevention and treatment of the disease," he said.
Makeshift hospitals have greatly eased pressure on designated (指定的) hospitals to receive and treat patients, which made it possible to treat and isolate (隔离) all people in need, said Xu Junmei, vice-president of Wuchang makeshift hospital. "They were the life vessels (生命之舟) during the peak of the epidemic."
Makeshift hospitals have now been embraced (接受) in other countries. Eight makeshift hospitals are being built in Tehran, Iran, to fight against the virus. The one converted from the Iran Mall, the largest shopping mall in the country, is expected to have a total of 3,000 beds, according to People's Daily.
On March 29, New York converted a grassy meadow (草坪) in Central Park into a makeshift hospital, where it will provide 68 hospital beds.
"Considering the ways we can increase hospital capacity right now is incredibly important," Dr Andrew Ibrahim, a surgeon at the University of Michigan told Architecture. "If hospitals do become overwhelmed (压垮的), and new facilities (设施) need to be built."
Nowadays, more and more people are in poor health. If we want to keep (health), we should have good eating habit.
First, we should have a (balance) diet. It (mean) we should have (difference) kinds of healthy food. So we should eat not only meat vegetables. Second, we had better (eat) regular meals. We need to eat breakfast, lunch dinner every day, because regular meals throughout the day can give (we) enough energy to carry out our daily activities. Third, we should get from fast food, for it may cause a lot of disease.
In the fight against the novel coronavirus(新型冠状病毒), Chinese people have come up with creative ways to solve different problems.
All for masks(面罩)
During the outbreak, masks are needed by1people and their prices become higher and higher.2production, over 3,000 Chinese companies have changed their production lines to make medical equipment(设备).
For example, a company that3make clothes spent 55 hours changing their production lines and is now able to make 1,200 protective medical suits4. Several car makers in China have also turned5production lines into mask-making lines. Guangzhou Automobile is now able to make seven6masks a week.
Amazing speed
In cities like Wuhan with large numbers of infected people, more hospital beds are needed. The 7way to solve this problem is to build makeshift hospitals(临时医院).
Within less than 15 days, two hospitals 8. They provided about 2,600 beds. The amazing speed impressed many people 9the world.
"China has a record of getting things done fast even for huge projects like this," said Yanzhong Huang, one of 10 senior officers for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. "This is very hard for Westerners to imagine," Huang added.
This is not a diet. It's a simple way to lose weight. And you don't even have to give up the food you love or join a gym. You just follow some habits that thin people have. Keep them, and you'll become thin.
⑴Wake - up
When you wake up in the morning, sit up slowly without using your hands. With legs straight out, bend(弯曲) forward until you feel sore in your back. It will burn(燃烧) about 10 calories (热量单位,卡路里).
⑵Start with soup
When you have a meal, order a clear soup, and have it before having the main food. In this way, you'll feel fuller, so you'll cat less when the main food comes.
⑶An apple (or more) a day
Apples are full of fiber (纤维) and water, so your stomach will want less. The study shows that people who eat at least thee, apples a day lose weight.
⑷Stand up and walk around
Every time you use the mobile phone, stand up and walk around. Heavy people sit on average(平均) two and a half hours more each day than thin people. This skill is very important as standing up and walking around will burn 50 or more calories.
Use these skills, and you will have a big weight loss.
About 37% of the people choose(选择) fast walking as their favorite exercise. Over 23% choose running and more than 14 % choose riding bikes. Fast walking is the exercise between walking and race walking. A study shows that fast walking has become the most popular exercise in China and many people walk more than 5.000 steps(步) a day. The results of the study are from QQ users.
Fast walking and running are easy, cost little and work well, so they are popular. And many people would like to do exercise in nature. It's best to walk fast for at least 10 minutes at one time and walk up to 6.000 steps every day.
The study also shows that people in Guiyang, Guizhou love sports most. On average(平均),everyone there walks 5,941 steps every day." It seems that people in places with better environment and air are more willing to(更愿意) do sports.
Masks, a simple protective tool, have been used by people for a long time. They can not only prevent epidemics(时疫), but also protect us from other harmful things, such as smog and chemicals. Let's take a look.
During the1st century, lots of people in the Roman Empire worked underground in mines ( 矿井 ). Pliny the Elder (23-79), a Roman philosopher, used animal bladders ( 膀胱) to protect miners from the dust. This was the first recorded use of protective masks.
Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) advised people to wear a woven (纺织的) cloth dipped (蘸) in water over their faces to protect against harmful chemicals.
In 1848, American Lewis Hassley became the first person to patent (注册专利) a protective mask for miners. In 1897, Polish-Austrian doctor Johann Von Mikulicz Radecki designed a simple mask with one layer of gauze (纱布). This was the first use of a surgical (外科的) mask.
In 1910, the pneumonic plague ( 肺鼠疫 ) broke out in Northeast China.
It was made of two layers of gauze. The mask was praised by experts around the world because it could be produced easily and cheaply.
Today, with several outbreaks of flu and the air pollution in recent years, masks have continued to develop. They can filter out (过滤掉) fine particulate matter ( 微粒物). China is now the world's largest mask producer, making about half of the world's masks.
A. For example, in 2012, when China suffered from smog, mask models such as N95 and KN90 became popular.
B. Chinese doctor Wu Liande designed a face mask called "Wu's mask".
C. These protection masks were made of chemicals.
D. He advised medical workers to wear it to prevent infection.
E. Producing masks throughout time
F. Many died of lung diseases caused by dust.
G. When was the protective mask first invented and how did it develop?
Everyone knows that exercise is important. We all need to exercise. Doctors say it is good for us. It makes your body strong. Children who often exercise are more active. That means they do better in schoolwork than those who don't exercise.
There are many ways to exercise. You can walk, run, swim, skate, or play ball games. Make sure you exercise in the following ways: You have to like what you are doing. Exercise enough—but not too much. It's best to exercise twice a week. Thirty minutes each time is enough. Try all kinds of sports until you find one, two or even three sports that feel right for you.
You can exercise at fitness centers. There is a lot of equipment in the centers. The equipment will help you exercise your arms, legs and other parts of your body to make you keep fit. Some people buy equipment to exercise at home. But it's very expensive.
There are always lots of strange stories about protecting your eyes. For example, you might have been told that you'd go blind from reading in the dark, but you could make up for it by eating carrots.
This is just one of the wrong ideas you may have heard of. Below teens has picked out scientific explanations for three mistakes the people often make about eyes. Let's take a look.
Can eating carrots improve your eyesight?
Carrots are rich in Vitamin A, which is important and necessary for your eyes' general health. Vitamin A helps eyes to make light into signals, allowing people to see in low light conditions. However, eating more carrots doesn't help you see better. Some carrots will help, but a large number of carrots will not give you superhuman vision or allow you to get rid of your glasses.
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Myopia(近视) can be passed from parents to children. A study by the American Optometric Association found that if both parents are myopia, there is a 33 to 60 percent chance that the child is. For children who have one parent with myopia, the chance is 23 to 40 percent, and it's down to 6 to 15 percent for kids with non-myopia parents. So no matter how bad your parents' eyesight is, you still have a chance having good eyesight.
Is it true that people who are color blind can't see colors?
Color blindness doesn't mean that someone can't see colors at all, like a black and white movie. It means that someone has difficulty telling some colors apart, usually green and red or blue and yellow. Color blindness is usually a condition caused by not having color cells (细胞). If the cells don't respond (反应)in the right way to differences in wavelengths of light, color blindness happens. There are different levels of color blindness. Some people cannot tell the difference between colors in dim (昏暗的) light, while others have difficulty in any light. In the most serious form of color blindness, everything is seen in shades of grey.