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哈佛北大精英创立 1 二模首字母专题原创二模首字母专题原创 1 The small Italian city of Sieana sits on top of a htrying to get a hill It makes for beautiful views But if you re a piano to the top it means a lot of work But Dothan Negron was not afraid of the challenge For him pushing a piano from place to place is a regular task In five years time Dothan t to over 300 cities in 21 countries with his piano sharing his love of music with people from USA Mexico Canada and a number of European countries When Dothan first graduated from college he c jobs very often The young man never felt like he had a real interest in these jobs He wanted to do something u with his life Finally in 2010 Dothen left his own city of New York and bagan working as a travelling pianist He first travelled to some other cities in USA then farther to more cities a Of course his life is by no means easy Moving a 500 pound piano is really h Dothan once had his piano fall on his hand which broke two of his fingers His van was broken into in Mexico And he also had problems when he tried to park hs van on narrow Eurpean streets But it has never stopped Dothan from getting to the next place He loved meeting people of all kinds All t these years he has had over 1200 contacts in his phone book Who would have thought that playing the piano is the best way to clear up misunderstanding Dothan said Now Dothan plans to travel to Aisa and Australia and c to meet more aspiring people Keys travelled changed unusual abroad hard through continue 2 Touch is one of the most important of our five senses It is one of the first senses we develop One of the most commonly accepted forms of touch among people is also one of the first e we have in the world A hug There is no better way to understand the i of hugs than to lose them For those who have experienced the loss of hugs you will know how important they are to share A recent r has shown that when people hug the brain releases the chemical which increases our willingness to trust and reduces fear It has also shown that hugs are great for your heart In 1995 a pair of newly born twins was being c for in hospital While one of the twins seemed quite healthy her sister was not After trying different m treatments the nurse on duty Gayle Kasparian placed the the twins in bed together The twins immediately snuggled 依偎 up to each other As one placed her arm around the other the weak baby became better gradually How great the power of a hug is The need for hugs doesn t disappear as we grow o though it seems we are less willing to give them Research on people of all ages has proven that a hug is necessary for physical and emotional health Without hugs we can become sad A hug provides safety and gentleness A hug provides us with social contact a sense of health and a feeling of i and belongings Keys experiences importance research cared medical older importance 哈佛北大精英创立 2 3 Besides the spelling of the word there are clearly many differences between Americans and British humor There is a c belief in the UK that Americans don t understand irony 讽刺 This is of course not true But what is true is that Americans don t use it all the time Irony may show up in Americans comedies 喜剧 but people there don t use it as much as the British do in daily life H irony is common in British culture It actually runs in the blood of the British people They use it as much as prepositions 介词 in everyday conversation as a way of playing with their friends and l at their enemies as well as themselves This may sometimes make people unhappy if the listeners are not used to it Things are quite d in America After Americans use irony they will clearly say that they are only kidding They feel the need to make a joke clearer so that it will not make other people uncomfortable Humor is tied so much to culture American jokes are more clear and forward a bit like Americans themselves British jokes on the other hand are more subtle and usually with a h meaning This may result from the fact that British culture is more reserved 矜持的 than American culture However we still find that certain American comedies have made huge s in British and vice versa 反之亦然 T although there are differences between both comic styles there is still an appreciation 欣赏 and understanding of the other s sense of humor Keys common However laughing different hidden success Therefore 4 Alfred Noble was a Swedish chemist who lived from 1833 to q896 Alfred and his brother made explosive 炸药 but in 1864 there was an accident in the laboratory and Alfred s brother was k Alfred then decided to spend his life t to make explosives safer to use One of the strangest explosives at that time was nitroglycerin 硝化甘油 this explosive which looks like oily water is very dangerous to use or even to carry Noble wanted to study nitroglycerin so he could find a way to make it safer but the Swedish government would not let him make any explosives in his laboratory It was to d Noble had the idea of taking nitroglycerin out on a boat in the middle of a lake and working with it there When Noble wanted to take the nitroglycerin he was working with from one place to another he put it into small boxes Then he found the small boxes into a larger box made of clay One day when he opened the large clay box he f that nitroglycerin was coming out of one of the small boxes To his surprise the large clay box was still dry This gave him the idea of mixing clay with nitroglycerin The clay would take the oil out of nitroglycerin and make it safer He called his new explosive dynamite Dynamite was very useful Alfred Noble made and sold so much of it that he became a very r man In his will he gave a lot of money to the Swedish Academic of Arts and Science 瑞典艺术和科学学 院 He wanted the money to be used ti give prizes to people who d excellent work The Academic called them Noble Prize The winners get a lot of money Noble wanted one of the prizes to be given to people who work foe peace because he hated war and he did not want people to remember him as the dynamite man Some very famous people have won the 哈佛北大精英创立 3 Noble Peace Prize including Nelson Mandela of South Africa The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces won the p in 1988 Noble Prize are given out on December the date that Noble died Keys killed trying dangerous found rich did prize 5 When I was 14 I left school I was on the way to California to follow my dream When I reached downtown El Paso I met a bum on the street corner He s me and asked me if I was running away from home I told him Not exactly sir b my father had given me a ride to the train station and said It is important to follow your dream son After t for a few minutes the friendly bum told me to follow him He took me to a public library The bum first took me to a table and asked me to sit down and wait for a moment A few moments later he returned with some old books and sat beside me T he said There are two things that I want to teach you young man and they are these Number one is to never judge a book by its cover for a cover can fool you He continued You think I m a bum don t you young man I said Well uh yes sir Well young man I ve got a little surprise for you I am one of the r men in the world But I realized there were certain things I had not yet experienced in life So for the past year I have been going from city to city living as a bum So you see don5t ever judge a book by its cover Number two is to learn how to read my boy There is only one thing that people can t take away from you and that is your w At that moment he showed me the old books The bum then took me back to the street where we first m He asked me never to forget what he taught me when we left each other Keys stopped because talking then richest wisdom met 6 While good grades and test scores are the basic requirements for getting into college after school activities are becoming more important in the college selection process in the US As entrance into college has b more difficult colleges have looked more at what skills you have Taking part in after school activities is great way to s in school High School Clubs Most high school offer a lot of c and activities so it is easy to find something that you are interesting in College look for students who will also be active other than test scores There are many clubs in school such as the drama club and a book club You may even be able to find relates to a future job such as T of America High School Sports If you want to go to college and want to take part in s at a college level then this fact just might give you a chance It s generally a good idea to focus on one single sport If you play on sports 哈佛北大精英创立 4 opening college doors and leading to college scholarships it would be better if you decide which sport to do In this way you will have enough time to b their skills High School Publications Another smart way to be active in high school and show colleges that you are interested in activities more than academics is to be a part of their school s newspaper or magazine There may be an actual class you can join or you may join a club Being in high school publications can be very h particularly if you want to major in English or in education in college Keys become succeed clubs Teachers sports build helpful 7 People used to find it safe to keep their treasure and money in some secret or unknown place They tried various ways as they could think out They buried 埋 treasure to s other people from taking it They choose a quiet place dug a deep hole and buried the treasure in it Then they made a map where the treasure was or wrote down other clues 线索 that would help them or someone else to find it a In Britain a few years ago a writer wrote a some treasure that he had buried He put clues in the story to help reader