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    Brahms: The Boy II

    Horror |Mystery |Thriller

    Soon after a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their only son makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.

    Director: William Brent Bell

    Stars: Katie Holmes, Ralph Ineson, Owain Yeoman, Christopher Convery

    Little Joe

    Drama |Sci-Fi

    Alice, a single mother, is a devoted senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. Against the company policy, she takes one plant home as a gift for her teenage son, Joe. The plant was created by genetic engineering and anyone touching it will become strange.

    Director: Jessica Hausner:

    Stars: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Conor

    The Aeronauts

    Action |Adventure I Biography |Romance

    Pilot Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) and scientist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) find themselves in a hard fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a gas balloon.

    Director: Tom Harper

    Stars: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Phoebe Fox

    Apparition

    Horror |Adventure

    A group of young people, guided by an APP that connects the living with the dead, find themselves at an abandoned castle, a place with a horrific history tied to each of them, for reasons they'll soon discover.

    Director: Waymon Boone

    Stars: Mena Suvari, Kevin Pollak, Megan West, Jon Abrahams

    Early February, I was flying up to Ohio. Well prepared, I had everything in my favour—fuel for five hours, charts in order, my flight plan on my lap, and a beautiful clear sky.

    I was wrong.

    I had heard about Alberta Clippers coming out of Canada. I knew all about them―how an entire air mass was streaming along at over sixty miles an hour.

    That morning, the Weather Briefer informed me that an Alberta Clipper was going over Chicago about the time I got to the airport. Chicago was some 400 miles from my destination—not a factor, or so I thought. That was the first hint I missed.

    The controller called and asked if I wanted to adjust my flight plan. I did the check and everything was in the green. So I told him no. Twenty minutes later the controller called again asking whether I wanted to adjust my flight plan. I checked everything. All was fine. I ignored that hint. I was fooled by the smooth air and limited experience with a rapidly moving air mass that was not changing violently. The Alberta Clipper was clipping along.

    The first blast of turbulence (气流) struck my plane. I got slammed into the roof, and then slammed sideways hitting the window with such force up my nose that I started bleeding.

    After a 2-hour flight of 100 miles, I realized fuel was now an issue. So was landing. I called Flight Following. We figured out the airport I could land.

    The engine stopped. So did my heart. There is no quiet as quietly stunning as this one at such an altitude. I had run out of fuel in the left tank, and only a little in my right tank. The engine quit for a second time. I declared an emergency. I was told that I might get another few minutes of fuel if I gently banked the airplane. Luckily, it worked. Then, the engine quit for the last time. I was a glider now. I made a long lazy spiral descent. Down I went. I stopped at the very end of the runway.

    I made so many mistakes, missed so many clues, and showed my ignorance so much that I beat myself up over and over again in my mind. I learned textbook descriptions of Alberta Clippers and real-life experience with one are totally different. I will never forget the sound of that silence.

    I flew home the next day. Older. Wiser. Humbler. Lucky.

    Do you want to find a job that you just need to sit and sleep on a sofa? It is ridiculous, but it happens 26-year -old Anna Cherdantseva, from the city of Ufa, is a full-time sofa tester, spending up to 10 hours every day trying out new sofas for comfort and safety.

    Last month, Russian furniture giant MZ5 Group announced that it was taking application for a new position—full time sofa tester. Although all new products are tested in a specialized laboratory, management decided that in order to better meet the needs of consumers it needed some feedback on real-life use of its sofas. In just a few days, MZ5 received over 5,000 job applications from people eager to spend most of their time sitting and lying on sofas.

    "We were selecting candidates in several stages," MZ5 Group spokesperson Anastasia Russkih said, "Initially we checked their resumes, and then we let them tell us why they wanted the job." Eventually, the furniture company shortlisted just 7 candidates, among whom Anna Cherdantseva, a 26-year-old marketing expert, proved to be the most suitable for the job.

    "I felt extreme competition, and it was a real fight for my dream job," Anna said after getting selected. "I have a lot of ideas for improving the sofas, but I would prefer not to talk about them for now. I believe it will all work out between me and the sofas."

    Despite describing herself as an active person, Cherdantseva says that spending about 10 hours a day sitting on sofas doesn't sound bad at all. "Of course I will spend a lot of time on new sofas. The more time I spend on them, the better it will be for my work," she told reporters.

    Anna Cherdantseva is currently on a three month probation (试用期)at MZ5, but the company claims that as long as she proves to be up to the task, they plan on offering her a permanent position as a sofa tester. The young woman will receive a monthly salary of 56, 000rubles ($ 1,000) for the first three months. It's not so bad about the job.

    Two years ago, aerospace manufacturer SpaceX shocked the world by landing its reusable booster (助推器) engine — the biggest and most costly part of the rocket used to power spacecraft into low orbit — on an autonomous drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Now, California-based startup Rocket Lab, has come up with an even more courageous idea: using parachutes and helicopters to capture the returning booster, or first stage as it is often called, in the air!

    Rocket Lab's decision to avoid the propulsive or vertical (垂直的) landing used by SpaceX comes from its business model to keep its Electron rockets small and cost-effective. Standing just 57 feet tall, they are designed to deliver smaller payloads (有效载重) of about 500 pounds for only $5 million a launch. In contrast, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket measuring 229 feet tall can lift up to 50,000 pounds, costs about $62 million a mission. "We're not in the business of building medium-sized launch vehicles but small ones for customers to get on orbit frequently." said Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck.

    Similar to other rockets, the Electron divides into two once it reaches outer space. While the top part, carrying the load, continues on to its final destination, the booster engine falls back to Earth The company intends to fix a ballute — a parachute-like braking device — to quickly slow down the booster's supersonic speed (超声速) upon its return into the atmosphere. Once it slows down to a reasonable pace, a helicopter will grab the rocket from midair and put it onto an awaiting ship to transport to the company's headquarters. Beck said: "The grand goal here is that if we can capture the vehicle in wonderful condition, in theory, we should be able to put it back on the pad, charge the batteries up, and go again."

    The idea, still in the concept stage, will become one step closer to becoming a reality during Electron's next launch, scheduled for sometime in 3 years, "Engineers will carefully monitor the first stage as it returns, testing its ability to guide its landing with the best way to slow down its speed," said Beck.

    "Life is speeding up. ." Picture this: You're rushing to finish your homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings. Suddenly the computer blanks and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up to get it done. .

    . Due to these inventions, we are often left feeling stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they lead a simple life.

    One family in the UK went "back in time" to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today, The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons Benjamin, 10 and Thomas, 7, spent nine weeks in a house dating back to 1940. .

    The grandmother, Molly, said, "It was hard physically, but not mentally." She believed life was less materialistic. " ." she said. The boys said they had less to fight over, their computer, for example. Benjamin also noticed that his grandmother had changed from being a trendy, beer —drinking granny to one who liked cooking things.

A. Are you faced with a completely different situation?

B. Hardly can you succeed in doing something in a perfect way

C. Everyone is getting unwell

D. How can you feel calm and happy?

E. Inventions have speeded up our lives so much

F. They had no microwave, computer or mobile phones

G. The more things you have, the more difficult life becomes

    I was once the guide on a wildlife-photography trip to the North Pole, where wildlife is 1. After two days of travel, we reached a fjord (峡湾)and 2 several seals resting on the ice. I wished to get a picture of a seal as it came up for breath at a hole. Therefore, I 3 my camera and a motion sensor near the edge of a hole.

    At two in the morning, a colleague 4 us. He had noticed a polar bear approaching in the distance. We ran to the 5 of the boat to see what would happen. At first the bear walked toward the boat. Then it turned and 6 directly for my camera. The motion sensor 7 to its movement, starting the camera to take pictures. The bear 8 the camera, gently sniffing it.

    9 the bear knocked the camera into the hole! My camera and all those 10 pictures is appeared beneath the 11.

    12, a year later, I joined a similar trip to the same spot. I obtained 13 to bring a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and a colleague to 14 it. We would try to 15 the camera.

    When we arrived back and set out our search, we 16 technical difficulties almost immediately and had to pull the ROV out of water twice. However, on the third try, the ROV caught hold of the camera. As we eventually got the camera up, we 17 loudly. I managed to take the memory card out and later 18 all 149 photos.

    Regaining that camera is the most satisfying 19 of my career. I have never experienced such a 20 of excitement when we pulled that camera out of the water.

An American in Beijing lives his Chinese dream

    Gao Tianrui walks along streets in Beijing's Xicheng district as  public security volunteer. (wear) his bright red armband (红袖章) and speaking fluent Mandarin, 62-year-old Gao Tianrui could  (take) for any regular Chinese man. But on  (close) inspection, things are not quite  they seem: Gao's real name is Terry Crossman and he is from the United States. He is now a member of "Xicheng Dama", that is, volunteers, usually women in late middle-age, walk along the streets of downtown Beijing's Xicheng district. Terry said that, at first, he saw the group as busybodies, but  (gradual) he saw that it was a good thing for retired seniors  (help) others.

    He is often seen giving tourists  (direction), getting water for a baby and even helping a neighbor sell yogurt. "I like helping others," he said, "I live in the hutong and my neighbors and I usually help each other ... This is where I live, where my friends are and where I call home." Crossman  (become) interested in Chinese culture as a teenager when he read Tao Te Ching by Laozi.

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    I like Li Ziqi, which has inspired many people all over the world. Over the years, she had transformed from a village girl into food and lifestyle expert. She has become worldwide famous by making videos introduced the beauty of traditional Chinese culture. Therefore, Li's success did not come easy. Her father's death left her living with her grandparents in a poor village after she went to work in the city on the age of 14. In 2012, Li returned to home and opened an online shop to sell locally products. In 2016, she began to display Chinese culture by filming how hisproducts were created.

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Dear Peter,

    ……

Yours,

Li Hua