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What WeDo 我们做的事情 The Humour Foundation is a national charity established in 1997 to promote the health benefits of humour.ClownDoctors are the core project, and children are the focus.ClownDoctor programs are established in all major children’s hospitals aroundAustralia and some general hospitals and hospices.Clowns have also visited east Timor andAfghanistan. LaughterWorks provides speakers and workshop presenters on humour and health to the health and welfare sector. International research has demonstrated the health benefits of humour. ClownDoctors attend to the psycho-social needs of the hospitalised chilD.They parody the hospital routine to help children adapt to hospital.ClownDoctors distract children during painful or frightening procedures. They dispense doses of fun and laughter and help children forget for a moment that they are ill.Everyone benefits—patients, families and staff.ClownDoctors are highly skilled professionals that work in partnership with health professionals. The Humour Foundation’s core project is , touching the lives of over 85,000 people every year. The focus is children’s hospitals, andClownDoctors are now part of hospital life in all major children’s hospitals aroundAustraliA. "I am writing to thank you with all my heart for the fun, cheer and brightness you brought to me when I was in hospital for open heart surgery...I am thirty-seven years of age but felt just as excited as the kids no doubt are to see you.It was a terrific morale booster!" Children are our focus, but adult patients benefit too. Humour is built around each person’s interests and responses and participation is encourageD.Adults have just as much fun as the kids!ClownDoctors also play a role in palliative care. The aim is to provide ways of dealing with death, and paradoxically people frequently share their feelings.ClownDoctors take risks in balancing lightness with the profounD.Caring clowning can speak the language of the heart and bring a sense of profound connection and consolation. Doses of humour can help relieve stress, improve health and well-being. Laughter that is based on caring and empathy also creates bonds between people, is nourishing, helps develop resilience and helps people cope with difficult situations.By developing strategies to bring more laughter into your life, you can improve your focus and effectiveness, enhance your communication and creative problem solving and strengthen your relationships and overall health. Put more laughter in your life, for Aristotle once said, "Laughter is a bodily exercise precious to health. " Smile often Laugh every day Laugh at yourself and at life Lighten up-be playful and have fun Tickle your funny bone and seek out opportunities to laugh You don’t have to be funny, just have fun Develop a humorous perspective and look for the funny side Use humour as a tool, not a weapon The Humour Foundation is a charity dedicated to promoting the health benefits of humour. International research has found psychological and physiological advantages from doses of humour. Humour is an effective coping strategy. It can relieve fear and stress and aid recovery. |
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Code switching is when people switch, or change, from one language to another while speaking. They might begin a conversation in one language and then, later in the conversation, switch to another. They might also begin a sentence in one language but end it in another. Or they might insert a word or phrase from another language. When and why people code switch depends on the speakers and the situation. One reason people code switch is to show social closeness. Imagine that two women meet at a party in New York. Gabriela isBrazilian, and Pamela isBritish. In their conversation, Pamela asks. Pamela: Where are you from Gabriela: Rio. Pamela: Really Uma cidade muito bonita [A、beautiful city] I was there last year. Gabriela: Oh, do you speak Portuguese Pamela: Um pouco [only a little]… Here, Pamela uses a little Portuguese in order to show closeness or friendliness to GabrielA、 On the other hand, people also code switch to create social distance. Sometimes this happens in immigrant homes in the United States where the children can speakEnglish, but the parents understand only the language of their native country.Children can code switch to keep their parents from understanding everything they say. Likewise, parents may code switch when they share a language that their children do not understanD、 One final reason that people code switch is lack of knowledge about a language or lack of attention to one’s language. Imagine a teenage girl living in a Latino community in LosAngeles. Talking with her friends, she says. "Esperate [Wait a minute] What did you just say " It is possible that the teenager was not trying to show social closeness or distance. Perhaps she didn’t know how to express the second idea in Spanish. Most likely, she may simply have switched toEnglish without paying much attention to which language she was using. Code switching occurs between people who share more than one common language; however, it can also occur between people who share a language and a dialect, or variation, of that language.A、person may use one dialect at home and then switch to another dialect at school or work. One example is the way teenagers use slang when talking to their friends. For instance, a teen might say to his friend, "Gotta bounce. Me ’n’ the crew’re goin’ shoppin’ for some mad phat gear." Gotta bounce means "I have to leave". "The crew" means "my friends" and "mad phat gear" means "nice clothes". Therefore, the teen is saying, "I’m going shopping with friends".But only speakers of bothEnglish and this teen dialect can understanD、Teens use their dialect because it helps them to show that they fit in with their friends. It also shows that they are separate from their parents. Regardless of the situation, there are two important rules for code switching. First, the speakers have to know both languages or dialects—at least well enough to follow the changes. More importantly, the switches have to be grammatical. For example, the sentence "Tengo que do my homework" follows the "subject+verb+object" grammar rules in both Spanish andEnglish. One day you may be riding on a train, listening to the people next to you having a conversation. If you can understand only 50 percent of what they are saying, perhaps they are code switching—to show each other closeness, or perhaps to stop you from listening in on their conversation! |
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The world seems to be going diet crazy, and yet our nation’s obesity rate has shot up year after year.And, it’s not only the over 20 population that has to worry about their weight anymore.Children from kindergarten to twelfth grade are also experiencing the problems of an overweight lifestyle. According to the website cosmiverse.com, 11% of adolescents are categorized as being over-weight, and another 16% are in danger of becoming overweight. This is a 60% jump from the 1980’s. Some of the blame is being put on schools wanting to fit more academic classes into the children’s schedule rather than waste time on physical education. This new take on education has left us with physical activity at an all-time national low, resulting in obesity and poor physical conditioning at an all-time national high. The schools have tried a few solutions; the most recent in the news has been taking soda out of schools and increasing the required time children must be active during school. Will those methods help at allEducation is important at school, but starts at home. I believe students are getting their bad habits from watching their parents and how they eat and exercise. The school system only helps to hinder the child’s dietary eating. I know there are studies showing genes that determine how a child will be built. That does not explain however, why the rate continues to increase at such a rapid rate each year. It seems more likely that more and more families have both parents working, leaving their children to their own means for a meal. "Nintendo, TV, Playstation and the like," are what PhysicalEducation teacher, SueArostegui, attributes the inactiveness to. "Parents are either gone or too scared with today’s society to let them out and play." Classes on health need to become more regular and sports need to be encourageD、At Live Oak High School the staff does a good job of teaching how to eat and exercise to stay healthy. The freshmen study health every Wednesday in RE、, and Para James teaches healthy eating and food preparation in HomeEconomics for the first few weeks of every school year. "Kids have no idea how many calories they are eating," said James of the overweight problems facing students. "Fast food is becoming more popular, it’s easier and parents are busy. They are only setting their kids up to gain weight with that diet however." School cafeterias are also getting blamed for the students’ eating habits. "Healthy eating should start at home," said L.O.H.S. cafeteria coolBrenda Myers. "Too many kids are being raised on fast fooD、After eating so much fast food they don’t have any tastes for real home cooked fooD、I always have healthy foods for students, but they are less likely to eat them." Other schools do not even have the type of programs Live Oak offers and are suffering even worse consequences. Sports keep students fit and healthy. There need to be more readily available sports programs for anyone who would like to join. Many students when they feel they do not meet the standards for a team will admit defeat and drop off the team: There needs to be a program that all students will be interested in and continue through for the entire season. Schools can only do and be blamed for so much however, and it will be up to the parents to become more aware of what activities their children are participating in and how healthy they are eating. Until that happens, I foresee the obesity rate continuing on its uphill curve. |
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Questions 11-15 Yet the difference in tone and language must strike us, so soon as it is philosophy that speaks: that change should remind us that even if the function of religion and that of reason coincide, this function is performed in the two cases by very different organs. Religions are many, reason one. Religion consists of conscious ideas, hopes, enthusiasms, and objects of worship; it operates by grace and flourishes by prayer. Reason, on the other hand, is a mere principle or potential order, on which indeed we may come to reflect but which exists in us ideally only, without variation or stress of any kinD、We conform or do not conform to it; it does not urge or chide us, not call for any emotions on our part other than those naturally aroused by the various objects which it unfolds in their true nature and proportion. Religion brings some order into life by weighting it with new materials. Reason adds to the natural materials only the perfect order which it introduces into them. Rationality is nothing but a form, an ideal constitution which experience may more or less embody. Religion is a part of experience itself, a mass of sentiments and ideas. The one is an inviolate principle, the other a changing and struggling force.And yet this struggling and changing force of religion seems to direct man toward something eternal. It seems to make for an ultimate harmony within the soul and for an ultimate harmony between the soul and all that the soul depends upon. Religion, in its intent, is a more conscious and direct pursuit of the Life of Reason than is society, science, or art, for these approach and fill out the ideal life tentatively and piecemeal, hardly regarding the goal or caring for the ultimate justification of the instinctive aims. Religion also has an instinctive and blind side and bubbles up in all manner of chance practices and intuitions; soon, however, it feels its way toward the heart of things, and from whatever quarter it may come, veers in the direction of the ultimate. Nevertheless, we must confess that this religious pursuit of the Life of Reason has been singularly abortive. Those within the pale of each religion may prevail upon themselves, to express satisfaction with its results, thanks to a fond partiality in reading the past and generous draughts of hope for the future; but any one regarding the various religions at once and comparing their achievements with what reason requires, must feel how terrible is the disappointment which they have one and all prepared for mankinD、Their chief anxiety has been to offer imaginary remedies for mortal ills, some of which are incurable essentially, while others might have been really cured by well-directed effort. The Greed oracles, for instance, pretended to heal our natural ignorance, which has its appropriate though difficult cure, while theChristian vision of heaven pretended to be an antidote to our natural death--the inevitable correlate of birth and of a changing and conditioned existence.By methods of this sort little can be done for the real betterment of life. To confuse intelligence and dislocate sentiment by gratuitous fictions is a short-sighted way of pursuing happiness. Nature is soon avengeD、An unhealthy exaltation and a one-sided morality have to be followed by regrettable reactions. When these come, the real rewards of life may seem vain to a relaxed vitality, and the very name of virtue may irritate young spirits untrained in and natural excellence. Thus religion too often debauches the morality it comes to sanction and impedes the science it ought to fulfill. What is the secret of this ineptitude Why does religion, so near to rationality in its purpose, fall so short of it in its results The answer is easy: religion pursues rationality through A.(A)Icannotfinishthereportintime.B.(B)I B、I hate to join in social activities this weekenD、 C、I have to work extra time over the weekenD、 D、I will not attend the board meeting next week. WhydoesthemanwantanewjobA.He’sbored.B.He Why does the man want a new job A、He’s boreD、 B、He quits his joB、 C、He wants more money. Questions6to10arebasedonthefollowingtalk Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following talk. A、That it is detached from engineering. B、That it is related to engineering. C、That it is best explained by the historical distinctions made between science and engineering. D、That it is a purely theoretical fielD、 |