Which of the following books should you read? It is based on your next travel destination.

As you're traveling around Amsterdam, read "The Fault in Our Stars

Previously adapted into a film in 2014, John Green's story of star-crossed teenagers famously includes a trip to Amsterdam. The Anne Frank House and The Rijksmuseum are two of many major destinations mentioned in the book. Plus, the bench from the film adaptation of this novel has even become its own tourist spot.

"The Elegance of the Hedgehog" is excellent reading for a trip to Paris.

Before wandering down the Champs-lysees, open Muriel Barbery's novel for a delightful look into the lives of wealthy Parisians. Set in a French apartment building, the story follows two totally different people who discover they are kindred souls.

Bring "One Hundred Years of Solitude" to read in South America.

A significant work of literature, Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez's classic follows generations of the Buendia family as they live in their South-American town. Garcia Marquez's descriptions make the book a perfect read for visiting some of the breathtaking sights of South America.

"Call Me by Your Name" should perhaps be read in the summertime, in Italy.

This novel is said to take place in the Northern-Italian seaside region of Liguria. And if you've seen the 2017 coming -of-age film adaptation of the book, you'll already know the story describes beautiful summers in Northern Italy, complete with seaside encounters and lush greenery.

If you're visiting New York City, enter the mind of Holden Caulfield.

"The Catcher in the Rye" is a classic tale of a lost teenager's unplanned trip to New York City. In the JD-Salinger novel, Holden visits a nightclub in the East Village, goes ice skating in Rockefeller Center, and takes his sister to the Central Park Zoo.

Some colors people see late at night could cause signs of clinical depression. That was the finding of a study that builds on earlier study findings. They show that individuals who live or work in low levels of light overnight can develop clinical depression. Doctors use the word "clinical depression" to describe severe form of depression. Signs may include loss of interest or pleasure in most activities, low energy levels and thoughts of death or suicide.

In the new study, American investigators designed an experiment that exposed hamsters (仓鼠) to different colors. The researchers chose hamsters because they are nocturnal, which means they sleep during the day and are active at night. The animals were separated into four groups. One group of hamsters was kept in the dark during their night-time period. Another group was placed in front of a blue light, a third group slept in front of a white light, while a fourth was put in front of a red light. After four weeks, the researchers noted how much sugary water the hamsters drank. They found that the most depressed animals drank the least amount of water.

Randy Nelson heads the Department of Neuroscience at Ohio State University. He says animals that slept in blue and white light appeared to be the most depressed. "What we saw is that these animals didn't show any sleep uneasiness at all but they did mess up biological clock genes and they did show depressive sign while if they were in the dim (微弱) red light, they did not."

Randy Nelson notes that photosensitive (感光) cells in the eyes have little to do with eyesight. He says these cells send signals to the area of the brain that controls what has been called the natural sleep-wake cycle.

He says there's a lot of blue in white light. This explains why the blue light and white light hamsters appear to be more depressed than the hamsters seeing red light or darkness.

Almost every day we come across situations in which we have to make decisions one way or another. Choice, we are given to believe, is a right. But for a good many people in the world, in rich and poor countries, choice is a luxury, something wonderful but hard to get, not a right. And for those who think they are exercising their right to make choices, the whole system is merely an illusion, a false idea created by companies and advertiser, hoping to sell their products.

The endless choice gives birth to anxiety in people's lives. Buying something as basic as a coffee pot is not exactly simple. Easy access to a wide range of everyday goods leads to a sense of powerlessness in many people, ending in the shopper giving up and walking away, or just buying an unsuitable item that is not really wanted. Recent studies in England have shown that many electrical goods bought in almost every family are not really needed. More difficult decision-making is then either avoided or trusted into the hands of the professionals, lifestyle instructors, or advisors.

It is not just the availability of the goods that is the problem, but the speed at which new types of products come on the market. Advances in design and production help quicken the process. Products also need to have a short lifespan so that the public can be persuaded to replace them within a short time. The typical example is computers, which are almost out-of-date once they are bought. This indeed makes selection a problem. Gone are the days when one could just walk with ease into a shop and buy one thing; no choice, no anxiety.

Harvard University, which is facing claims of racial discrimination against Asian-Americans in its admission process, has announced that its early acceptance rate for Asian Americans for the Class of 2022 has hit 24.2 percent, up from 21.7 percent a year earlier. The figures were released on Dec 12, 2017 by the school on its official website, the Harvard Gazette.

The early enrollments for the Class of 2022 also reflect an overall increase in other nonwhite students from previous years, the famous university said. African-Americans make up 13.9 percent of students admitted early, compared with 12.6 percent last year. At the same time, Latinos account for 9.8 percent, up 1 percentage point last year, and Native Americans and Native Hawaiians account for 1.8 percent, up from 1.1 percent.

"From small towns, suburbs, and cities — from throughout the United States and around the world — the Class of 2022 promises to be among the best classes in Harvard's long history," said William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid at Harvard University.

Harvard is facing scrutiny from the Department of Justice and a separate lawsuit accusing the college of discriminating against Asian-Americans in its undergraduate admission process.

In November, 2017 the Justice Department cited a 2015 lawsuit that charges Harvard's affirmative action policies discriminating against Asian-American applicants, in a letter setting a Dec 1 deadline for Harvard to hand over documents on its admission policies. Responding to that deadline, Harvard offered a compromise position in which the government's lawyers would be able to examine all the records, including an electronic database, in the offices of Harvard's lawyers, with some personal information redacted, according to The New York Times.

Harvard University reported that 16.6 percent of a total 29,652 students are Asian, according to college factual.com. Over the past five years, the total international population of students on campus has grown at an average rate of 6.8 percent. China is the largest contributor to this growth, with about 1,263 students.

Today it is common to see people who walk about with colored wires hanging from their ears wherever they go. They move about in their personal bubbles, sometimes unaware of what's happening around them.  Outside life is shut out. So are you one of "them"?

For me, walking around in my own personal bubble is perfect.  What's even better, wearing earphones seems to give a signal to people which says, "I'm not available for chatting at the moment!"

Suppose, you're at work and about to make an incredible breakthrough, but a colleague suddenly turns up. At this precise moment, the slightest disturbance would break your concentration.  Once again, those wires hanging from your ears would be sure to give that "Go away!" signal.

It's probably part of the growing up stage when they just want to ignore their whole family. While their mothers give them lectures about why they should do their homework, they can just turn up the volume on their MP3 player, smile, and say "Yes, Mum." Problem solved.

Pretty soon, not only will we have pretty colored wires hanging from our ears—but also our brains will be directly plugged into some new high-tech instruments. We'll be in a virtual(虚拟的) world, communicating with everyone else, or choosing not to, as we like. In this world, we will all be permanently plugged in.  And they are changing our social habits along the way.

In the end, there is a thin line between using technology as a tool for making life better and being a slave to it! It's so strange—suddenly, I don't feel like wearing my earphones anymore.

A. Our instruments are changing quickly.

B. I also have wires hanging from my ears.

C. In the home situation, teenagers love these wires.

D. I don't have to deal with the noise from the environment.

E. After all, I am listening to my favorite music and would rather not be disturbed.

F. Listening to music through earphones is the perfect way to ignore such interruptions.

G. They walk around in their own spaces, with their personal "digital noise reduction systems".

It is well-known that all the world is a stage and all the men and women are merely players. 1, now one homeless dog in the Turkish city of Izmit seems determined to perform on that stage as well. It is surprising but heart-warming.

When the dog made his 2 during an outdoor performance being given by a local theatrical troupe(剧团), he wasn't 3applause. It seems that Numan Ertuğrul Uzunsoy's acting of an injured man was so 4 that the dog believed the actor was actually hurt and in need of 5.

As Uzunsoy lay on the ground 6 a fall from a horse, the dog came up to him and 7 began to lick his face and neck. It took a few seconds for Uzunsoy to 8 what was happening. "I felt warmth on my face. At first, I thought another performer was 9 me," Uzunsoy said. "I was very 10 when I felt the dog's kisses...I was very glad. He wanted to help me. It was a very emotional and surprising moment for me. I was not 11 it."

While the audience and cast members were obviously amused by the dog and didn't mind the 12, the dog was led offstage later. Uzunsoy continued his character and the 13 went on. The dog did not14around to take his curtain call(谢幕). However, since the good dog was known to frequent the area where the performance took place, dog-loving Uzunsoy was 15 that he would see his unintentional costar again.

Archaeologists have found something even more exciting in Sichuan Province, and the discovery was made at the Sanxingdui Ruins (三星堆遗址). The site (believe) to be the location of an ancient civilization active thousands of years ago.

  we are seeing now is one of the newly discovered sacrificial pits (祭祀坑) at the Sanxingdui Ruins. Sanxingdui,   (literal) meaning "three-star mounds" in Chinese, is about  80-minute drive from Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province. In the 1980s, archaeologists determined that the three mounds were once part of a city wall that defended an ancient kingdom.  （cover）12 square kilometers, the Sanxingdui Ruins are believed to be remains of the ancient Shu Kingdom, which was active over a period spanning 2,600 to 4,800 years ago.

The first discovery here was a piece of jade (玉石) unearthed   accident by a farmer in 1929. In 1986, two sacrificial pits   (fill) with relics were discovered. On a press conference held just now, Chinese    (authority) announced that archaeologists have found six more sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui Ruins. The six newly-discovered pits sit next to the two discovered in 1986,   make up a sacred complex that would have been the site of sacrifices and prayer.

Even today, many secrets are hidden in the Sanxingdui Ruins. But hopefully one day we can find out more about the   (mystery) ancient civilization that once lived here.

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Dear Jack,

Hearing that our school is scheduled to buy some new books,

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Yours

Li Hua

Bales left the pavement of Base Road and stepped onto snow-covered Jewell Trail. She planned a six-hour hike through New Hampshire's Mount Washington State Park. She had packed for almost every emergency and intended to walk alone.

She'd checked the weather forecast posted by the Mount Washington Observatory before she left. Based on her experience, Bales knew that her hike was realistic. Besides, she had two emergency plans and extra layers of clothing to better adjust her body temperature as conditions changed.

The hike up the lower part of Jewell Trail was pleasant. Bales felt excited as she walked up into snowy paths. The sun shone through the trees and cast a shadow over her smiling face. Less than an hour later, loads of dark clouds had replaced the sunshine, and snow covered the surrounding trees.

She still smiled. However, the weather was showing its teeth. Bales added even more layers to shelter herself from the cold winds and thick fog. She made her way across the snow-covered ridge (山脊toward Mount Washington and began to think about calling it a day. Suddenly, she noticed something: a single set of footprints in the snow ahead of her, which had been made by a pair of sneakers-typically not the type for hiking.

Meanwhile, Bales was getting colder, even though she was moving fast and generating some body heat. With strong gusts of wind screaming and attacking her back and left side, she decided to abandon her plan. The only thing, however, kept her on the trail was the sneaker tracks in the snow.

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Bales faced a dilemma about whether to follow the tracks or not.

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Her searching now turned into rescuing the man.