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Suspended Coffee
How about buying a cup of coffee for someone you’ll never meet?
The idea, begun in Naples, Italy, and called “Suspended Coffee”一 i.e., a customer pays for a coffee and “banks”it for someone (21) ___________ (fortunate) —has become an international internet nsation(轰动) with coffee shops in Europe and North America (22) ___________ (participate) in the movement. The Facebook page alone has more than 28,000 “likes”.
The tradition of “suspended coffee” is a long-standing tradition in Italy (23)__________ incread in popularity after the Second World War. Recently the practice was starting to take hold in other European countries (24) ___________ (hit) hard economically.
Homegrown Hamilton, a coffee chain of Canada, has decided to join the effort. “It’s a fantastic initiative (25) ___________ we decided to help out. We had been doing it pretty m
uch anyway, just not under a banner. During the winter, we were giving away coffee or soup to the homeless,” said manager Mike Pattison, “Staff members are always clo to the coffeehou’ front door, and (26) ___________ they e someone walking by who looks like they want, a coffee but can’t afford it, they approach that person. If the offer (27) ___________ (accept), they provide the coffee.”
However, not everyone supports the idea.
In a posting on the website, Consumerist, columnist Laura Northrup rais (28) ___________ number of objections, including that coffee isn’t nutritious food for people who are hungry and (29) ___________ the action could result in “greedy people” aking advantage of others’ kindness. He says people (30) ___________ consider other ways to help.
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Smart Phone Application Tracks Mental Health
白菜炖粉条怎么做Military rvice is obviously rough on a rvice member’s mental health. According to some 31____, 30 percent of rvice members develop some type of mental health issue within four months
of returning home after leaving the army.
The military is spending more money than ever to 32____mental health issues within the ranks, and their latest attempt is a smart phone application called the T2 MoodTracker application, which helps rvice members keep track of their mental health after leaving the army. The app works like a high-tech diary, allowing urs to 33____ emotions and behaviors that result from therapy, medication, daily experiences or changes happening at work or in the home. The smart phone app isn’t suppod to be a pocket 34 ____, though. It rves more as an extremely accurate and 35 ____record of a rvice member’s mental health.大白菜种子
Perry Bosmajian is a psychologist with the National Center for TeleHealth and Technology, where this smart phone app was created. He says this smart phone app will produce much more accurate results on the36 ____conditions of rvice members who have returned home. “Therapists and physicians often have to rely on patient 37____ when trying to gather information about symptoms over the previous weeks or months,” Bosmajian said. “Rearch has shown that information collected after the fact, especially about mood, tends to be 38____. The best record of an experience is when it’s recorded at the time and place it happens.”
The app specifically tracks anxiety, depression, general well-being, life stress, post-traumatic (受伤后的）stress and brain injury. The daily expressions add up over time to produce a(n) 39____ that can be obrved by physicians and therapists.
The app has been downloaded more than 5,000 times since it became 40____ on the Android Market a year ago. Urs of iPhones can also have access to the app some time next year.
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Directions Matter
Jet lag(时差感）may be the worst part of travelling, and it hits many people harder travelling east than west. Why they feel this way is 41________, but scientists recently developed a new model that provides an explanation for the mystery and insights on recovering from jet lag.
没安全感The model imitates the way neuronal oscillator cells (神经振子细胞）42________ crossing time湖泊的读音
zones. The cells in our brains 43 ________our biological docks. However，the cells don’t quite operate on a perfect 24-hour schedule. Instead, their activity follows a 44________ that lasts slightly longer than that, about 24.5 hours. According to Michelle Girvan, an associate professor of physics at the University of Maryland and a co-author of the study, that means it’s 45________ for us to extend the length of a day—for example, by flying west across time zones—than to shorten the day, by flying east.
The scientists found that for 46________ travel, a person who crosd three time zones would fully 47________in a little less than four days. For six time zones, recovery would take about six days. For nine time zones, the recovery would take just less than eight days.
However, when a person travels eastward, the recovery time doesn’t match up as 48________. When a person cross three time zones going east, it takes a little more than four days to recover. For six time zones, the recovery time 49________ to more than eight days. And for nine time zones, the recovery period is more than 12 days.
Girvan noted that not everyone has a biological clock of exactly 24.5 hours. 50________ , it varies from person to person. The other factor to consider is 51________ cues such as sunlight, Girvan added. How a person reacts to the cues can also 52________how quickly he or she will adjust to a new time zone.
