It is hard, it hurts —and yet more than two million of us in the UK run at least once a week.
Of course, some people run to lose weight, or to get fit, and these are great reasons. Running is also easy to do, it's cheap, and you can do it when you want. All these factors certainly contribute to the fact that running is one of the most popular sports in the UK.
But for many of those two million runners, the real reason we head out to beat the roads until our legs hurt is more intangible (无形的) than weight loss or fitness.
Many runners become interested in times. They try to break the 40-minute barrier for the 10K, or run under four hours for the marathon. Yet, really, these times are almost meaningless. And as soon as they are achieved, another target is thrown out almost immediately.
The times are only the carrots we put in front of ourselves. But why do we put them there in the first place? Nobody ever gives a wise answer Deep down, we all know the answer.
Running brings us joy. Watch small children when they are excited, at play, and mostly they can't stop running. There's a great moment in The Catcher in the Rye when Holden Caulfield, caught in the uneasy space between childhood and adulthood, is walking across his school grounds one evening and he suddenly starts to run. “I don't ever know what I was running for一I guess I just felt like it,” he says.
This will to run is born. In fact, humans may well have evolved (进化) the way we did because of our ability to run. As children, and even adolescents, we can respond to this natural call to run whenever the feeling takes us.
As we run, we begin to sense that childish joy, which is born to live a wilder existence. As we run, the layers of responsibility and identity we have gathered in our lives, father, mother, lawyer, teacher, all fall away, leaving us with the raw human being.
If we push on, running harder, deeper into the loneliness, further away from the world and the structure of our lives, we begin to feel strangely excited, separated yet at the same time connected, to ourselves. With nothing but our own two legs moving us, we begin to get a sense of who, or what, we really are. After a long run, everything seems right in the world. Everything is at peace. To experience this is a powerful feeling, strong enough to have us coming back, again and again, for more.
1.Why does the author think setting time goals is almost meaningless?
A.Because those time goals can' t be achieved.
B.Because those time goals can be achieved easily
C.Because people will be very proud once the time goals are achieved.
D.Because there will always be a new time goal once the former one is achieved.
2.The author mentions the reasons for running EXCEPT___________.
A.challenging ourselves B.running away from responsibility
C.losing weight and keeping fit D.bringing us joy and peace in mind
3.Which of the following words can best describe the author's attitude towards running?
A.Uncertain. B.Doubtful.
C.Supportive. D.Puzzled.
4.What does the underlined word "this “in the last paragraph probably mean?
A.breaking the 40 -minute barrier for the 10K.
B.running under four hours for the Marathon.
C.feeling separated from the world after running
D.feeling everything is right after a long run.
5.What may be the best tile of this passage ?
A.Running to Keep Fit B.Running to Break Records
C.Running to Be the Real You D.Running to Become an Adult
Nearly each country in the world has its official honors reserved (保留) for outstanding people. For instance, in the United State, the highest civilian honor is the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In China, there are also such official honors given to people who have made outstanding contributions (贡献)to the nation's construction and development.
On Sept. 17, 2019, President Xi Jinping signed a presidential decree (主席法令) to award 42 individuals the Medal of the Republic, the Friendship Medal and various honorary titles.
Shen Jilan, an 89 year old farmer, is one of the eight people who were awarded the Medal of the Republic. She is the only person in China who has served at all 13 National People's Congresses (人民代表大会) since 1954. She is the very witness to the development of the People's Congress system. It was she who put forward the clause on “equal pay for equal work” between men and women, which was written into the first Constitution of PRC in 1954.
Tu Youyou, who had received the Nobel Medicine Prize in 2015，was also awarded the Medal of the Republic. She is famous for finding out Qinghaosu, which has helped to save millions of lives. Before the discovery, malaria is a deadly disease to people of tropical developing countries in South Asia, Africa and South America. Therefore, her discovery of Qinghaosu and its treatment of this disease is considered as an important breakthrough in the 20th century.
Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice (杂交水稻), received the Medal of the Republic as well. He is known for his great contributions to hybrid rice research and the wonderful work he has done to improve rice production in many developing countries. Judging from his appearance, he looks like a farmer rather than a scientist, with his sunburnt face and slim, strong body. That is because he always works under the sun for a long time and that is how he developed hybrid rice which produces 1/3 more than normal rice.
Ye Peijian who has been devoted to China's lunar program for twenty years, received the honorary title “the people's scientist”. He is well-known as a leading scientist in deep-space exploration at the China Academy of Space Technology.
1.Based on the presidential degree,__________________.
A.Shen Jilan was awarded the presidential medal for the clause on "equal pay for equal work"
B.Tu Youyou received the Friendship Medal for her contribution to find out Qinghaosu
C.Yuan Longping was awarded the highest Civilian Honor for his hybrid rice research
D.Ye Peijian received the honorary title “the people's scientist” in 2019
2.What can we infer from the passage?
A.Shen Jilan didn’t get equal pay for equal work as men.
B.Malaria helped Tu Youyou to discover Qinghaosu to treat disease
C.Yuan Longing has improved the word rice production by 30%
D.Ye Peijian has had rich experience in deep-space exploration
3.Where is the passage most probably taken from?
A.An advertisement. B.A science fiction.
C.A heath journal. D.A news report
4.What adjectives can be used to describe the four persons?
A.Devoted and hard-working B.Creative and easy going.
C.Polite and devoted. D.Honest and patient.
5.What is the writer going to talk about following the last paragraph?
A.Ye Peijian's work at the China Academy of Space Technology.
B.Tu youyou's devotion to the discovery of Qinghaosu.
C.Yuan Longping's great work in hybrid rice research.
D.The development of the People's Congress system.
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We often focus on building relationships with others that we forget the essential first step: being friends of ourselves. That is the important first step if we are to have good relationships with others. 1.
1. Forgive yourself.
You may have made those mistakes in the past, but is there anything you can do about them? I don’t think so, except learning from them. Maybe you are not perfect, but neither is everybody else. 2. So do yourself a favor by giving yourself forgiveness.
2. Focus on your strengths.
3.You always have some strengths which give you a unique combination nobody else have. Recognize your strengths and build your life around them.
3. Write your success stories.
One reason we may not like ourselves is we are so focused on what we don’t have that we forget about what we have. So make a list of your achievements; write your success stories. They do not have to be big things. 4.For example, if you have some good friends, that’s already an achievement. If you have a good family, that is also an achievement.
4. Stop comparing yourself with others.
You are unique. You can never be like other people, and neither can other people be like you. The way you measure your success is not determined by other people and what they achieve. Instead, it is determined by your own life purpose. You have everything you need to achieve your life purpose, so it’s useless to compare yourself with others.
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You don’t like other people lying to you, right? Similarly, you won’t like yourself if you know that you lie to yourself. Whether you realize it or not, that gives your mind a reason not to like yourself. That’s why it’s important to always be true to yourself. In whatever you do, be honest and follow your conscience.
A. Always be true to yourself.
B. Accept things you can't change.
C. It’s normal to make mistakes.
D. Here are some tips to being friends of ourselves.
E. Instead of focusing on your weaknesses, focus on your strengths.
F. There are a lot of small but important achievements in our life.
G. You might be disappointed with yourself on why you could make such mistakes.
Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed new artificial intelligence software to recognize the faces of chimpanzees in the wild. The new software will allow researchers to significantly cut back on time and resources spent analyzing video footage.
“For species like chimpanzees, which have complex social lives and live for many years, recording their behavior from short-term field research can only tell us so much.” says Dan Schofield, researcher and DPhil student at Oxford University’s Primate Models Lab. “By using the power of machine learning to unlock large video footage, it makes it feasible to measure behavior over the long term. Observing how the social lives of a group change over several generations become possible as well.”
The computer model was trained using over 10 million images from Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute (PRI) video footage of wild chimpanzees in West Africa. The new software is the first to recognize individuals in a wide range of poses, performing with high accuracy in difficult conditions such as low lighting, poor image quality and movement blur (模糊).
“Access to this large video footage has allowed us to use cutting edge deep neural networks to train models at a scale that was previously not possible.” says Arsha Nagrani, co-author of the study and DPhil student in University of Oxford. “Additionally, our method differs from previous primate face recognition software in that it can be applied to raw video footage with limited manual intervention (人工干预) or pre-processing, saving hours of time and resources.”
The technology has potential for many uses, such as monitoring species for protection. Although the current application focused on chimpanzees, the software provided could be applied to other species, and help drive the adoption of artificial intelligence systems to solve a range of problems in the wildlife sciences.
“All our software is available open-source for the research community.” says Nagrani. “We hope that this will help researchers across other parts of the world apply the same cutting-edge techniques to their unique animal data sets. As a computer vision researcher, it is extremely satisfying to see these methods applied to solve real, challenging biodiversity (生物多样性) problems.”
“With an increasing biodiversity crisis and many of the world’s ecosystems under threat, the ability to closely monitor different species and populations using systems will be important for protection efforts, as well as animal behavior research.” adds Schofield. “Interdisciplinary cooperation like this have huge potential to make an impact, by finding solutions for old problems, and asking biological questions which were previously not available on a large scale.”
1.What’s the function of the new artificial intelligence software?
A.Analyzing video footage in difficult conditions.
B.Recognizing the faces of chimpanzees in the wild.
C.Cutting edge deep neural networks to train models at a scale.
D.Saving hours of time and resources without manual intervention.
2.What does the underlined word “feasible” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A.possible B.important
C.natural D.official
3.From the passage, we know that the artificial intelligence software could ________.
A.recognize individuals but not clearly
B.save time and resources only
C.help to protect different species
D.hardly solve biodiversity problems
4.What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To introduce a new software.
B.To explain a measure.
C.To assess a project.
D.To describe a procedure.
