Many libraries around the world are as amazing in their architecture and organization as they are in the huge amount of knowledge they contain. With shelves and shelves of books, various collections and amazing historical and cultural displays. there are plenty of undiscovered wonders.
Beinecke Rare Book Library (New Haven, Connecticut)
Yale University has one of the most beautiful college campuses in America, and one of its most interesting features is the Beinecke Rare Book Library. It is one of the largest buildings in the world devoted to rare books and manuscripts（手稿） of famous people. From 2015-16 the library building was closed for 18 months for major improvement. Inside there is a stat ue of its main founder that rises up high.
Vennesla Library (Vennesla, Norway)
Located near the southernmost tip of Norway, Vennesla Library is more than a collection of books—it's a city cultural center and meeting place. The building hosts a coffee shop, open meeting spaces, classrooms for children and adult education courses. and a cinema. It is mainly built out of wood. The long. thin beams（横梁） on the inside were designed to look like the inside of a whale.
Suzzallo Library(Seattle)
Among the many beautiful features of the campus at the University of Washington, such as its cherry flowers and a light rail station, Suzzallo Library was built in the Collegiate Gothic style. Its buttresses（扶壁） are decorated with 18 statues featuring famous academics and writers such as Plato, Shakespcare, I. eonardo da Vinci, Dante, Galileo, Beethoven, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.
Library of Muyinga (Muyinga, Burundi)
A school for deaf children, the Library of Muyinga in Burundi was built with local techniques and traditions. A rope hammock（吊床） that hangs between the first and second floors of the library serves as part of the children's reading room, a great place for indoor activities.
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In 2013, Deegan was trying to take control of her life after winning the fight against drinking. She did quit, but she was having difficulty reconnecting with people. Even looking someone in the eyes proved to be difficult. "I was sort of like a shell of a person and just didn't really have many life skills or self-confidence," Deegan said.
However, baking was something that always brought her joy as a child. One day while helping out in the neighborhood, Deegan picked up a handheld mixer and started baking. "My life was just out of control, but baking is such a controlled thing, where if you take the right steps and follow the directions, you'll get a pretty exact result," she said.
Deegan started bringing her homemade baked cookies to people's homes, which helped her reconnect with people. "Feeding people is such a universal love language," she said. However, she was still trying to figure out how to find a career at 27 years old. She had no real work experience and she couldn't put' quit drinking'" on her resume.
Deegan's life shifted in 2015. Encouraged by her friends, she challenged herself to see if she could sell just one pie. She sold dozens! She began baking out of her tiny apartment and eventually launched an official business in 2017. She spent four years developing a pie crust（酥皮） cookie recipe, which has since become the bread and butter of her business."People have been walking, running and lining up to get cookies, and it's just been so magical seeing that,"she said.
When she needs more help, Deegan says she looks for anyone who is just excited to work, even if they don't have any experience. After her own struggle, she realized that the desire to work was better than having a certain skill set. And she became a second-chance employer, hiring women out of prison or the shelter system. "You just have to walk through the door and be ready, willing and able and excited to show up and work and you've got a job," Deegan told the reporter.
Today China is the world's biggest consumer of wheat. But it wasn't always that way.
Wheat only came to the area now known as northern China toward the end of the Neolithic（新石器） period, some 4,600 years ago. Initially, w heat didn't seem to be so delicious and had been treated as a crop of desperation rather than a cooking delight. The first farmers of northern China primarily grew millet（粟）， starting as early as 11,500~years ago. By the time of the Tang dynasty, w heat had replaced millet, becoming a major crop. But relatively little was known about exactly why this shift occurred.
In an attempt to track the answer, I accumulated（积累）a collection of nearly 1,200 data points covering more than 50 sites from the mid-Neolithic, about 9,000 years ago, to the collapse of the Eastern Han dynasty in 220 AD. The sites were across 8 modern provinces, ranging from Gansu province in the northwest to Shandong province in the east.
One possible explanation is a major climate shift, called the Holocene Event 3, which happened 4,000 to 4,500 years ago. At that time, the climate became colder and drier across continents, causing damage to crop production.
On top of this, the late Neolithic period was also a time of rapid population growth around the world. With an ever-increasing population and unsteady crop production, it is reasonable to assume that Neolithic farmers in northern China were struggling.
Wheat, it turns out, actually needs more water than millet, making it seem a poor choice for a dry period of history. But importantly, it can be sowed after millet has been harvested. That, we think, is the most likely reason why the people across northern China started to grow wheat.
From more extreme weather to changing coastlines, climate change has always brought unexpected and sometimes dramatic changes to societies. In this instance, the consequence of the Holocene Event 3 in northern China proved, eventually, delicious.
Let's face it. You're likely reading this article in an effort to avoid some other tasks you're procrastinating （拖延） to learn how to stop procrastination, but the clock is ticking. So why can't you seem to get rid of that?
Though the psychological causes are still debated, there's a human tendency to over or underestimate the value of a reward based on its temporal proximity（时间接近）. This is often referred to as temporal discounting. For example, if I offered you $100 today or 110 in a month, most would take the hundred and run. But what if instead I offered you 100 dollars in a year or 110 in a year and one month, you might say to yourself if I can wait a year I can wait the extra month.
But the time and value difference are the exact same in each example. It. turns out that human motivation is highly influenced by how near the reward is meaning the further away the reward is the more you discount its value. So being online is more appealing than preparing for your test. The problem is surfing the Internet provides many small quick and continuous rewards unlike your test scores which are a future one.
So how do you overcome the urge to put off so many tasks?
Unfortunately there is no definite answer, but try rewarding yourself with a timely snack or other enjoyable activities. The Pomodoro Technique makes use of a timer to work for 25 minutes straight and when you've done this give yourself the reward with a 5-minute break. Then start the working clock again, Gradually increasing the amount of work time you put in will improve your time management skills.
It's been shown that creating a costly deadline is also an effective way to manage your working habits. And try to enjoy the process of achieving something instead of thinking only our minutes of suffering.
In 2001, UNESCO declared 21 May as UN World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. The day's not intended to find out the uniqueness of different cultures, separating them from each other.___Here are a few modest and simple ways to mark the occasion.
Visiting an exhibition or a museum dedicated to other cultures comes first since it may inspire you to create something yourself, and heighten your desire to learn about a new topic or culture.___. T or example, you can see the British Museum's collection online, and the National Gallery has a ɑ:gital tour of 18 rooms that lets you get up close to the paintings.
___ It's a great way to expand your knowledge of the world. Many traditional folk tales have universal themes, but at the same time, shine a light on particular aspects of another culture. So now might be a great time to dive into the storybooks and read folk tales.
There is perhaps no better way to experience another culture than listening to music. Even if you don't understand the words, you can still hear the influence of other cultures. You could allow yourself to discover music from every corner of the globe , on forums.___After all, series of musics are on the air, often with strong international influences.
It never goes without mentioning language while embracing culture diversity. It is relatively easy to have a go at trying a new language through the many smartphone apps or through an online language exchange.___
A. Or you could listen to radio programmes.
B. In short, it's never too late to learn a language.
C. You could also appreciate music in foreign films.
D. Remember language serves as a reflection and carrier of culture.
E Learning about traditional stories from other cultures won't disappoint you.
F Even if you can't visit a museum at first hand, you can select virtual exhibitions.
G. Instead, it's a chance to unfold the similarities and celebrate the cultural diversity.
The polar bear was a tiny point in a frozen white world. A film crew began to follow at a distance, gradually getting1 , hoping to get a good picture. However, the bear came to a rest at a hole in the ice and started to2 . So did the crew.
For 12 hours the bear lay half asleep, half3 without a move. It was too long; the crew had been working for 22 hours 4 on the sea ice. Cold and exhausted, they 5 defeat.
Hours of waiting for little reward is not 6 ."It's the price we pay to get unique images," says award-winning photographer Florian Ledoux. "It is a 7 for us to get each shot in Arctic — we push our limits." The battle is intense especially during winter:8 dark ness affects your mood, the lack of routine9 your body clock, you are forever fighting the bitter cold, and everything you touch with 10 hands sticks to your skin. However 11 your clothes are, the cold bites through.
An Arctic photographer for years, Ledoux has witnessed the significant 12 there. It is heating up, causing ice to melt and 13 the whole ecosystem. "Am I just photographing? No," he says. "I try to catch some unique beauty of 14 , to give a voice to the one that cannot 15 ."
The Leshan Giant Buddha（乐山大佛） is a huge statue___(carve) into the side of Lingyun Mountain. Sichuan Province. It is the tallest and ___(large) Buddha in the world. There is a local ___(say):"The mountain is a Buddha and the Buddha is a mountain."If you want to get ___close-up view of the Buddha, you have to climb the mountain. You can choose the walking route, going along the wooden pathways ___(enjoy) the changing view from various ___(angle) of the Buddha, from its foot to its head. It ___(take) around two hours. You can also choose to visit the Leshan Giant Buddha on a sightseeing boat. This will let you se c the Buddha from a distance ___get a full look at it. taking only thirty minutes.
However, I bet you`ll just be ___many other visitors — doing both the boat ride and the two-hour walk. Only when you join the walking tour up, down, around and even through the rocks will you feel___incredible the place is. Believe me, it's well worth it.
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Crash! The old black pickup truck in front of me stopped. I didn't. I crashed into its back breaking the fender（挡泥板） and bending the driver's door of my car. To make matters worse. it wasn't my car. It was my father's. I shouldn't have been driving it, and now I had destroyed it.
A farmer jumped out of the truck, slowly and carefully, and looked at the damage. I sat sobbing（抽查）， my lip bleeding where I'd bitten it. He was in a hurry to leave, but we managed to exchange names and phone numbers before he pulled out onto the highway again. I followed. knowing I dared not go home. I'd be in big trouble.
It was my high school graduation day. I drove to school and climbed out through the passenger door. Surveying the broken fender and the door, tears flowed down my face, which was rapidly becoming swollen. I walked into the gym and joined my classmates to prepare for the graduation party. Bad news traveled fast, and soon a teacher came to me.
"You'll have to go home to get dressed for the graduation sooner or later," she said. "Sooner would be much better and you have to tell your parents."
I finally agreed and slowly drove home. The Death March sounded in my ears.
My mother took one look at my face when I got home and screamed, "What on earth happened?"
I hung my head and tears rolled down my face again. "I crashed Daddy's car."
She threw up her hands in panic and rushed to the backyard where Dad was making burgers.
"Stop cooking, Ted. We're not going to cat. Jean has destroyed your car."
Dad looked at her and said quickly. "Is she hurt?"
"No, except for biting her lip."
"Well, then, what does that have to do with cating dinner?" He put a burger on a plate with the others, then walked across the yard and put his arm around me. "Let's go inside and hear all about this if you're sure you're all right." I sobbed and nodded.
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The phone was ringing when we got to the back door.
……
I graduated that evening with my family in attendance.