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Soon there will be a Review Blitz! In a month, we are searching for reasonable reviews that reflect your sincere opinions. Just keep in mind that the deadline for your reviews is October 23, 2023.
Rules:
To enter, you must be a teen (aged 13-19) with a Teen Creativity account.
Submissions ought to be relevant to the topic.
Each review must be no more than 250 words.
There is no restriction on the number of pieces you can submit.
Guidelines:
Give a brief summary of the book. Avoid explaining the entire plot or telling your reader how the book ends.
Inform the reader what you like or dislike about the book.
Recommend the book to specific readers. Does the book lend itself well to older teens? Would science fiction enthusiasts show interest in this book? It’s helpful for readers to think about the book in light of other books they’ve read.
Remember that it’s okay to have a strong opinion! Don’t start sentences with “I think”, “I believe” or “In my opinion” .
Prizes: All participants will be given a certificate.
First prize winners will respectively have one review published in Teen Creativity magazine and obtain a free 6-month magazine subscription.
Second-place winners will each receive a free 3-month magazine subscription. You’ll receive these prizes before December 28, 2023.
Submit your works towww.teencreativity.com. We hope reviewing books brings you joy.
B. The recommendation to all readers.
D. A summary that demonstrates the whole plot.
When I made the decision to quit my full-time employment, I never thought that I could get involved in an increasing global trend. I had to leave my relatively high-profile position for an unexpected move that hurt my pride and prevented me from getting promoted. Yet, I excused my departure by saying “I wanted to spend more time with my family” .
Curiously, after around two and a half years, my experience in what Americans refer to as “downshifting” has turned my excuse into an absolute reality. I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of Linda Kelsey’s “have it all” concept,which she has been promoting for the past seven years in the pages of She magazine, into a woman who is content to accept a little bit of everything.
I have discovered that abandoning the idea of “juggling your life” and adopting the alternative strategy of “downshifting” has benefits that go far beyond financial success and social status. Nothing could convince me to go back to the lifestyle Kelsey used to promote and which I had previously enjoyed: 12-hour workdays, tight deadlines, the terrifying pressure of office politics, and the demand of being a parent on “quality time” .
After the widespread layoffs (裁员) brought on by cost-cutting in the late 1980s, America started to move toward a simpler, less materialistic way of life as a response to the economic downturn. In America, simplifying one’s life is frequently done for financial reasons, but in Britain, at least among the middle class I know, we have different motivations for doing so. For the women of my generation who were encouraged to keep juggling, downshifting is not so much a search for a mythical (虚无的) good life—growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one—as a personal recognition of your limitations.
Like most nerds who read science fiction, I’ve kept wondering how society will greet true artificial intelligence, if and when it arrives. Will we panic? Ignore it and go about our daily lives? Hence, it’s been fascinating to watch the Twittersphere try to make sense of ChatGPT, a new cutting-edge A.I. chatbot opened for testing at the end of 2022. ChatGPT—which stands for “generative pre-trained transformer”— landed with a splash. In five days, more than a million people signed up to test it.
In recent years, though a few A.I. tools have gotten good at doing narrow and well-defined tasks, like writing marketing copy, they still tend to be weak when taken outside their comfort zones. But ChatGPT feels different. Smarter. More flexible. It can write jokes and college-level essays. It can also guess at medical diagnoses, and even seems good at answering the types of open-ended analytical questions which frequently appear on school assignments.
The technology that powers ChatGPT isn’t, strictly speaking, new. It’s based on what the company calls “GPT-3.5,” an upgraded version of GPT-3 in 2020. While the existence of a highly capable linguistic superbrain might be old news to A.I. researchers, it’s the first time such a powerful tool has been made available to the general public through a free, easy-to-use web interface.
Unlike Google, ChatGPT doesn’t crawl the web for information on current events, and its knowledge is restricted to things it learned before 2021. Since ChatGPT training data includes billions of examples of human opinion, representing every reasonable view, it’s also, in some sense, moderate by design. Without specific prompting, for example, it’s hard to coax (诱导) a strong opinion out of ChatGPT about political debates. Usually, you’ll get a fair summary of what each side believes.
The dodo, a Mauritian bird last seen in the 17th century, will be brought back to a semblance (外 观) of life if attempts by a gene-editing company are successful. Gene-editing techniques now exist that allow scientists to extract the dodo genome (基因组) that they believe they can then effectively recreate within the body of a living relative.
The scientists in question said their work, beyond providing an insight into the extinct dodo’s existence, could help inform the conservation of rare species that are not yet extinct. However, there is a fierce debate among biologists over whether this sort of research should be pursued.
Beth Shapiro, the lead paleo-geneticist (古遗传学家) at Colossal, told the Guardian she tried to persuade a museum to let her extract DNA from a preserved dodo exhibited there. She said there were hundreds of dodos in collections around the world, so it had been possible to sequence the dead bird’s genome. But she warned that the revived dodo could never replace what has been made extinct. “It would be crazy to think the solution to the world’s biodiversity crisis was to bring back a proxy.” she said.
Ben Lamm, the chief executive of the company, said they were raising a further 150 million dollars to pursue the research on the dodo. He pointed out that it could assist conservation efforts for many other threatened species around the world, as it would develop techniques that could allow scientists to detect and preserve key features in those existing species that could help them adapt in a changing climate.
Prof. Ewan Birney from European Molecular Biology Laboratory, who was not involved with Colossal’s work, said it would be “very, very challenging” to recreate the dodo genome. He added, “I’ve no idea whether the project will work as they claim, but the question is not just ‘can you do this’, but ‘should you do it?’ … I’m not sure what purpose it serves, and whether this is really the best distribution of resources. We should be saving the species that we have before they go extinct.”
As the weekend comes to an end, many of us are missing out on Sunday Funday and anxious about the upcoming week. Experts have nicknamed this worry the “Sunday scaries” . 36 Here’s how you can ease your end-of-weekend anxiety.
When structuring your Sunday, try not to arrange too many errands and chores. If you’re feeling more stress, it’s important to make space for some activities to relax yourself. And there’s no right way to do so—maybe a mid afternoon shower or bath, maybe an engaging movie or show. 37
Anxiety is a normal human experience, and one of the main ways to manage it is to identify your personal triggers. 38 Is it a deadline, meeting, or presentation? Even if there’s not a single reason behind your Sunday anxiety, organizing the stress you expect from the week ahead into small pieces can help it.
Getting rid of the Sunday scaries isn’t just about minimizing the gloom of the week ahead, either. Having something to look forward to gives you something pleasing to think about, rather than only focusing on the anxiety you feel. 39 Instead of focusing on the awful things you expect from the week, build excitement over a lunch date with a friend.
Make Sunday nights about doing something for yourself to reduce your anxiety about Monday. Plan some favorite foods to enjoy or go all in for some self-care. 40 Do your best to honor this time and make Sunday night all about you—leave the work emails for Monday morning.
Dressed up as Captain America for parades occasionally, Timothy White could have saved the day with his shield (盾牌) if he were the superhero. But in real life, when he saw trouble this September afternoon, he wasn’t wearing his 41 and couldn’t depend on superpowers.
White was driving home in Harrisburg when he noticed something hard to 42 . A truck on the opposite side of the street was moving from side to side uncontrollably and the driver appeared to be 43 . Referred to as Captain Harrisburg, White had to stop that 44 before accidents.
Having made a U-turn, White faced the same 45 as the truck and tried to overtake. No luck with the heavy traffic. 46 , Captain Harrisburg ran like crazy to catch up with the truck and leaped in through its open window. The man behind the 47 , 64-year-old Todd DeAngelis, was barely conscious and quite 48 by a stranger near him. White took 49 of the stick shift and forced the truck to park. DeAngelis, a diabetic (糖尿病患者), said he was not well. White 50 down a police officer. An ambulance 51 DeAngelis to a hospital, where it was 52 that had his blood sugar gone lower, things could have been much worse. After his 53 , DeAngelis credited White with saving his life.
White’s actions that day were not out of 54 . He ran a nonprofit and he once tried to save people on fire. He was from playing a 55 to becoming one in real life.
The Chengdu World University Games concluded on August 8 as the curtain 56 (raise) for the 15th National Fitness Day. This handover highlights the importance of both 57 (compete) sports and the general public’s 58 (pursue) of healthy lifestyles.
59 its focus on benefiting the public and sharing the competition, the Chengdu Universiade not just made dreams come true for athletes 60 inspired enthusiasm for wellness and sports. The sports spirit left behind by the event is sure to continue benefiting the public for years 61 (come).
In recent decades, people across China 62 (participate) in a wide range of mass fitness activities to
celebrate National Fitness Day. The data revealing more than 24,000 national fitness events were carried out across the country, with 63 number of participants estimated to exceed 6.5 million.
According to the National Fitness Program, the general public will enjoy more convenient physical fitness services by 2025, with full coverage of fitness 64 (facility) in counties, towns, and villages within a 15-minute walk. The program is also to offer people professional advice and a science-based policy, 65 (perfect) athletic performance with a universal standard.
Police Outpost Lake is as far south as you can go in Canada. In fact, next to the lake are the protected wetlands, where songbirds, ducks, and Canada geese glided by on the breeze, touching down briefly on the water’s surface before flapping(振翅) their way back up into the sky.
Standing at the lake’s edge, my cousin, Allan, and I cast our fishing lines separately onto the smooth-as-glass water. Down the shoreline was Allan’s father, my uncle Rick. He liked to fish alone, away from distractions, noise, and other people.
Allan shouted, “Dad, where should I stand?”
Uncle Rick pressed his finger to his lips, pointed to a shady spot by a large rock where he had cast his line and shook his head gently.
“He wants us to be quiet or else we won’t catch any fish.” I whispered.
“Why do I have to be so quiet?” asked Allan. “All those birds are making more noise than I ever could!”
I ignored him, pulling back on my rod gently and squinting into the glare of the sun. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of a few great northern loons(潜鸟) gathering together not far from the shoreline. What were they doing there? Loons usually travel alone, but here were five of them in a cluster. Maybe it was a family? Just then one loon, making a loud painful cry, swam away from the group, toward me.
“Allan! Come here. Now!”
Allan laid his fishing rod down on the dirty sand, darting toward me.
“Come here. Take a look at that loon. It’s swimming toward us, not far away from us. It’s trying to get our attention.”
The loon finally stopped in the shallow water near shore, not ten feet away from us. It was so close that we could see its round red eyes. Strangely, the bird’s wings were held tight against its body.
Wading into the water and getting closer to the loon, we both saw a fishing line wrapped tightly around its neck and a shiny red hook(鱼钩) in its body. Left like this, the loon couldn’t fly or fish or survive. It was asking us to help!
As I set down the loon on the water, it joyfully flapped its wings.
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