Keep in the air:The Chaoyang Theater is one of Beijing Theaters to present acrobatic programs all year round. Top acrobatic artists invited from all over the country perform for Chinese and foreign tourists.The program features trick cycling,leaping through hoops and Chinese magic tricks.Some of the artists have won prizes in international competitions. Time:7:15p.m.Daily Place:36,Dongsanhuan Belu.Chaoyang District Tel:6507---2421 6507---1818 Use your head:Green head is a new drama given by a group of young Chinese actors.It's a reworking of American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's famous novel The Scarlet Letter .It describes the heroine's great courage in finding the true love against a backdrop of disapproval. Time:7:15p.m. until March 5th,except Mondays Place:China Children's Theater Tel:6603---7255 6603---7265 Mix and match:Story of Puppets tells a fairy.Zixia,who looks for true love in the human world.After watching a puppet play Peony Pavdion ,she thinks it must be true love in reality,so she uses magic to turn the puppet characters into the humans,wanting to fall in love with the puppet hero.But things don't go as she planned. Li Liuyi,the director of the play has made several successful attempts to join different traditional operas together in one play.This time he combines Peking Opera,Kunqu Opera,Pingju Opera and an orchestral accompaniment,using the structure of modern drama. Time:7:30 p.m until March 10th,except Mondays Place:Small Playhouse of Beijing People's Art Theater Peking Opera:The Peking Opera Troupe will give two performances at the Chang'an Grand Theater. Each performance consists of two classical plays. One is Wenxi(a play focus on singing and dancing);the other is Wuxi(a play full of acrobatic dancing). The first night will be The crossroad and Presenting a pearl of the Rainbow Bridge.And the second night will see the performance of The Godess of Heaven Scatters Flowers and Havoc in Heaven. Time:7:30p.m. February 27th,28th Place:Chang'an Grand... Which of the following statements is true according to the ads? A) The director of the Story of Puppets combines different operas in it. B) Green Hat is based on a famous novel acted by some American artists. C) Top Acrobatic artists will present their performances around our country. D) The Peking Opera Troupe will give two performances with the same plays.
A
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Many women write to me perplexed about why they can't form close friendships. They try new approaches, put themselves in all the right places, see therapists, and read relevant self-help books. They consider themselves interesting, loyal, kind and friend-worthy people. But for reasons unknown to them, they have a tough time forming intimate relationships. Many admit to not having even one close friend. A recent study published in the offers some clues as to how both nature (personality) and nurture (experience) impact our friendships. Researchers at the University of Virginia and University of Toronto, Mississauga studied more than 7,000 American adults between the ages of 20 and 75 over a period of ten years, looking at the number of times these adults moved during childhood. Their study, like prior ones, showed a link between residential mobility and adult well-being: The more times participants moved as children , the poorer the quality of their adult social relationships. But digging deeper, the researchers found that personality--specifically being introverted or extroverted -- could either intensify of buffer the effect of moving to a new town or neighborhood during childhood. The negative impact of more moves during childhood was far greater for introverts compared to extroverts. "Moving a lot makes it difficult for people to maintain long-term close relationships," stated Dr. Shigehiro Oishi, the first author of the study, in a press release from the American Psychological Association, "This might not be a serious problem for outgoing people who can make friends quickly and easily. Less outgoing people have a harder time making new friends." Families often have to relocate -- across town, across the country, or across the globe. Yet, in many cases, their kids and young adolescents haven't yet built up a bank of friendships. So the conventional wisdom is to try to minimize moves for the sake of your child, whenever possible , and to move at the end of the academic year. In order for children to maintain long-term close relationships , parents _ . A) should not relocate their homes B) should relocate their homes within the town C) had better move at the end of school year D) had better move when their children couldn't build up a bank of friendships
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C
Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson, South Dakota. Baseball was always her favorite sport. Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first base in their games. More often, however, they asked her to umpire for them, because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing. One day in 1904, Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden, Iowa, to watch Hank play for the home team against Hawarden. When they arrived at the ball field, two local teams were waiting to play a preliminary game. The umpire hadn't arrived, so Hank argued that the teams should let his sister serve as umpire. The players finally agreed. Amanda, then sixteen and standing five feet, ten inches tall, made perfect calls. She was so good that players for the main game asked her to umpire for them and even offered to pay her. Thus, at sixteen, Amanda Clement became the first paid female baseball umpire of all time. She is honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Why did Hank and his friends often ask Amanda to umpire for them? A) Because she called them brothers. B) Because they wanted to make her happy. C) Because no one else wanted to do it for them. D) Because she knew the rules well and was fair.
D