Unlike most restaurants, the Enoteca Maria Restaurant in New York offers only home-cooked food by grand mas coming from across the world.
Joe Scaravella, a 61-year-old Italian-American born and raised in New York, opened a restaurant in 2007. Having lost almost all his family members, he tried to recreate the feeling of home-cooked meal in his restaurant.
He employed (雇佣) grandmas from different parts of Italy at first, and later, he begin hiring grandmas from other countries like Brazil, France and Greece. He built two kitchens in the restaurant: one for Italian grandmas to cook during lunchtime and the other for grandmas from other countries to cook every evening. The menus in the restaurant are constantly (不断地) changing because what is being served depends on the grandmas who are on duty.
The restaurant opens five a week from Wednesday to Sunday. At present, there are more than 40 grandmas working in it. Most of them came to the U. S. with their children, helping take care of their grandchildren Scaravella give them the chance to express themselves in a culinary (烹饪的)way.
The Enoteca Maria Restaurant has received positive reviews since its opening. Customers are ingested by its delicious food, comfortable environment and most importantly, the grandma who may remind them of their own.
"It looks so good on you," said my friend. I was trying on a bathing suit. Then the topic of conversation turned to going on a diet(节食).
I wanted to become pretty and thin. So I decided to stick to the diet. I didn't eat my lunch. Some people asked me where my lunch was. I lied to them and made up excuses.
I did the same with breakfast. I tricked(欺骗) my dad into thinking that I ate my bread, but I fed it to the cat. My weight dropped fast, but when I looked at myself in the mirror, I still thought I was not thin enough.
Finally, dark circles formed under my eyes. I wore thick clothing in hot weather, but I was still cold. That didn't matter. I still needed to be thinner.
About a month after I bought the bathing suit, I tried it on again, and it fell right off me. My mother told me to look in the mirror. I could see my eye sockets(眼窝). That was the day I realized how skinny I was.
I went to see a doctor. My total weight loss was about twenty-five pounds in one month. It took one year for my body to start working normally again.
Sometimes I want to go back to being thin, but I will never do what I did again. It's not worth it. Please don't go on a diet when you're young. You will regret it. Don't judge and compare yourself with others. Try to love yourself for who you are, not for what you look like.
— Is the white one______?
Twenty-two-year-old Timothy Doner from New York City has been able to speak 23 different languages, including some rare African ones.
Timothy began his foreign language education at the age of 13. Attracted by in Israeli(以色列) musical band. Timothy listened to their album every morning. A month Later, he kept about 20 of their songs in his mind, though he didn't know what the Hebrew(希伯来语) words mean. But once he learned the translation. it was like he had a dictionary in his head.
Then Timothy moved on to Arabic (阿拉伯语) which he studied every morning by reading newspapers with a dictionary and by talking to street vendors (小贩). After that he learned Persian, then Russian, then Mandarin... and about twenty others and developed a crazy low for languages.
Now, Timothy is still teaching himself new languages. With the help of language books and word-learning Apps on his iPhone. He can master a language in a few weeks or months.
What has Timothy got from learning so many languages? "By learning languages, you are learning a lot more. You are learning about culture, everything from cooking to TV,poetry and whatever it may be. That helps you better understand the language,” he said.
①reading news papers ② joining in language clubs ③listening to foreign music
④using apps and dictionaries ⑤ travelling around the world ⑥keeping diaries in different languages
Do you know Stephen William Hawking? He was one of the most well-known scientists on [speis] and time in the world. He was born in England in 1942 and he died at the of 76 on March 14th, 2018. Hawking studied how the universe (begin) and how it would end.
When he studied math and[̍saiəns] at Oxford University, he fell (bad)ill, which made him unable to speak. Till the last moment of his life, he couldn't move or feed(him).However, he had a wheelchair with a special computer, with which he could communicate with others.
Although he was faced with all these difficulties, he [ri̍fjuːzd] to give up his hope of living. Becausehis illness, it was difficult for him to draw diagrams or to write. So he started to think in pictures. With this new way of thinking, he was greatly(respect) by people all over the world.
Once he was invited to China to give speeches. His self-confidence and humorous conversations impressed us deeply.
He once said, "When something unfair happens, is no need to worry about it! You just have to do the best in your own situation."
Ways to relax |
改变你的想法 |
想一想你最喜欢的人或事而不是想那些麻烦 |
你还可以这样做 |
听音乐、唱歌、锻炼等,这些都能让你高兴起来 |
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寻求帮助,和父母、老师或朋友多沟通。 |
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My points |
耐心一点。其实困难也许并不可怕,压力可能并不严重。说不定谁能帮到你,也说不定等等就好了。相信我们的生活会更美好。 |
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3)文中不得使用真实姓名、校名,否则以零分计。
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