11期報紙總結(jié)

1、11期報紙總結(jié)cooking for charitya day in the life of 18-year-old david lanster is full of typical (典型的)teenage stuff(1 ):school, baseball practice, homework. and then he starts cooking.“some nights lm up until 1 am making pies, or even later if we're braising (蒸)beefsaid the student at ransom everglad

2、es high school in florida, us.for the past year, lanster and kelly moran, his classmate, have been hosting(2.) fancydinner parties at lanster parents5 home. their meals have 17 courses(3.) and are allmade by them.their guests used to give them thank-you gifts until the two decided to give to charity

3、(4 .uwe got some really great miami heat tickets, a nice watch, and many kitchen gadgets (小物件)lanster said. “but we wanted to make this something positive(5.) for people other than us?lanster and mora n focused on(6.) common threads, a chicago-based non profit (非營利組織).it aims to teach kids in poor c

4、ommunities (7.)to cook and make healthyeating choices.the young cooks ask their guests to donate (8.)however much they want as paymentfor their meals. it all goes to common threads because lanster's parents cover their food costs. after their last 12-person event, lanster and moran gave $1,600 (

5、9,843 yuan) to the charity.now they're taking their show out of lanster parents5 kitchen and on the road. lanster and moran have started to organize private dinner parties with a similar model(9. : the host pays foringredients, and the guests make a donation to a charity of their choicewithout f

6、ormal(10.) training, lanster said he had been interested in cooking since hehelped his mom in the kitchen when he was very young. he has learned how to cook by reading cookbooks and watching tv programsoutside the kitchen, the two are busy preparing their college applications (申請).neither is sure wh

7、at they will do in future, but theyve promised their parents that theyll leave professional cooking alone(11.) until they finish school.why sadness often stayswhether it's losing a loved one, being rejected(1.)5 or going through a breakup,sometimes sadness can seem to go on forever.but according

8、 to a recent study published in the journal motivation and emotion, sadness really does last much ion ger tha n other emotions. it's because "sact feelings are often linked with(2. ) important, life-changing events, said researchers from belgium.in the research, philippe verduyn and saskia

9、lavrijsen from the university of leuven asked 233 high school students to remember recent events and tell them how long different feelings lasted.the study found that in a third of the cases, sadness (120 hours) lasted up to 240 times longer than shame(3.) (0.5 hours), which lasted the shortest amou

10、nt of time compared to theother 27 emotions on the list. other feelings that were over much quicker included surprise, fear, and being touched(4. .long-lasting emotions such as sadness are usually “about something highly important： such as death or accidents, so people need more time to deal with th

11、em, said lavrijsen. emotions that last for a shorter amount of time are usually caused(5.) by quite unimportant events, she continued.according to the study, hatred (仇恨)took 60 hours to disappear, joy took 35 hours, and hope, anxiety(6. , desperation (7. , and contentment (滿足)each lastedfor 24 hours

12、.one interesting find was that boredom(8.), which sometimes seems to never end,was found to last only a short amount of time (2 hours). verduyn and lavrijsen said that even though time seems to pass slowly when you are bored, it doesn't actually last very long.the research might help to explain

13、why depression (9.) can last for a long time, whilelaughter passes quickly.however, it's not all doom and gloom (悲觀失望)if you find yourself having a moment of sadness.laughter has been found to lift a person up(10. ) if they're feeling bad. a studypublished in the journal of organizational be

14、havior earlier this year found that firefighters who used humor to cope with (應(yīng)對)tragedy (悲劇)were more protected against mental(11.) problems.so, as the old saying goes: laughter is the best medicine.”完形some time ago i discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. i didn't think there would

15、 be any difficulty in getting it repaired, as there are a whole lot of antique(1.) shops near myhome. so i left home one morning carrying the chair with me. i went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception(2. . i was quite wrong. the man wouldn't even look at my chair.the second shop, t

16、hough slightly(3.) more polite, was just the same, and the thirdand the fourth, so i decided that my approach(4.) must be wrong.i entered the fifth shop with a plan in my mind. i placed(5.) the chair on the floor andsaid to the shopkeeper: "would you like to buy a chair?"he looked it over

17、carefully and said: “yes, not a bad chair. how much do you want for it, sir?”“20 pounds,” i said.“ok,” he said. "ill give you 20 pounds?“it's got a slightly broken leg,” i said."yes, i saw that, ifs nothingeverything was going according to plan and i was getting excited "what will

18、 you do with it?" i asked.“oh, it will be easy to sell once(6.) the repair is done/“i'll buy it,” i said.“what do you mean? yoitve just sold it to mehe said.“yes, i know but i've changed my mind i am sorry. ill give you 27 pounds for it“you must be crazyhe said. then, suddenly the penny

19、 dropped. “i know what you want. you want me to repair your chair/5uyou7e righti said. “and what would you have done if i had walked in and said, 'would you mend this chair for me?j“i wouldrtt have agreed to do it/ he said. uwe don't do repairs, not enough money in it and too much trouble .

20、but 111 mend this for you, shall we say for five pounds?”he was a very nice man and was greatly amused(7.) by the whole thing.all kids can learnwhen i say i believe all children can learn, people sometimes misunderstand.because i have been working with poor, minority(1 ) children in harlem for the l

21、ast 25years, some people think i am saying that if you give a bright kid from a poor family a good educationalsupport system, he or she can succeed. thafs absolutely(2.) true, but thafs not whati mean.you see i truly believe that all kids can learn. i believe it, lve seen it, and i've even taste

22、d(3. ) it.back in 1975 i worked in a summer camp for kids with real problems. kids that everyone 一 even their parents 一 had given up on.we would cook with the kids. these children didn't know the difference between baking powder (面粉) and table salt (精帝u食鹽)，but once they had eaten a warm biscuit

23、out of the oven, they wanted to learn how to make some more.suddenly, kids who couldrft sit still were carefully looking at ingredients as we measured them out(4. ), learning the simple math and spelling lessons we could along the way. by the end of the summer, i remember parents crying when they sa

24、w how their children had improved(5.the biscuits, by the way, were delicious, and i can still remember the taste of them today. more importantly, i still remember the lesson they taught me: that if we, the adults, can find the right motivation(6.) for a child, there's hope for their education. t

25、hat starts with lookinghard at each child, finding out what excites them, and exploiting (利用)that excitement.when i was growing up poor in the south bronx, one of four boys raised by a single mom, i probably looked like i was heading(7.) nowhere, getting into trouble. and i would have endedup dead or in jail (監(jiān)獄)，like many of my friends, if it hadn't been for a couple of teachers who s