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萬宇婧

1Weifang added to Creative Cities Network

山東濰坊加入“創意城市網絡”

Weifang， Shandong province， has been added to UNESCO's Creative Cities Network as a Crafts and Folk Arts City， UNESCO said on Nov 8. Weifang， with a population of 9.38 million， currently[現時;當前] has guqin， a traditional Chinese stringed musical instrument， and paper-cutting listed as masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Among the city's 17 national-level intangible cultural heritages[非物質文化遺產]， 10 are crafts and folk arts， such as kitemaking techniques and woodblock New Year paintings. An annual international kite festival that started in 1984 has become an international cultural and sports event and an important platform to promote international exchanges and cooperation.

聯合國教科文組織11月8日宣布，山東省濰坊市成功加入聯合國教科文組織“創意城市網絡”，并被授予“手工藝與民間藝術之都”稱號。濰坊市有938萬人口，現有古琴（中國傳統弦樂器）和剪紙共2項手工藝與民間藝術被列入聯合國教科文組織《人類口頭和非物質遺產代表作名錄》。在該市17項國家級非物質文化遺產項目中，手工藝與民間藝術類占10項，比如濰坊風箏和木版年畫。一年一度的濰坊國際風箏節始于1984年，已成為國際文化體育盛會和促進國際交流與合作的重要平臺。

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★Weifang is famous for its crafts and ________.

2CO turned to rock in Iceland

At the foot of an Icelandic volcano[火山]， a newly-opened plant is sucking carbon dioxide[二氧化碳] from the air and turning it to rock， locking away the main culprit behind global warming. Orca （based on the Icelandic word for “energy”） does its cutting-edge work at the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant in southwest Iceland. Fans in front of the collector draw in ambient[周圍的;外界的] air and release[釋放] it， largely purified of CO， through ventilators[通風設備] at the back. Dissolved in fresh water， the gas is then injected[注入] under high pressure into the basalt[玄武巖] rock between 800 and 2，000 metres underground. The solution fills the rock's cavities and the solidification process begins - a chemical reaction turning it to calcified white crystals that occurs when the gas comes in contact with the calcium [鈣]， magnesium[鎂] and iron in the basalt. It takes up to two years for the CO to petrify.

在冰島的一座火山腳下，一家新開的工廠采用新除碳技術吸收空氣中的二氧化碳并將其石化，讓造成全球變暖的主要因素“無處可逃”。這家名為Orca（源自冰島語，意思是“能源”）的工廠在冰島西南部的赫利舍迪地熱發電站開展這一前沿的工作。該工廠的收集器在通過前端的風扇吸入周圍空氣后，會去除空氣中的大部分二氧化碳，然后通過尾端的排氣扇將凈化后的空氣排出。二氧化碳在淡水中溶解后就會通過高壓注入地下800米到2000米深的玄武巖中。溶液填滿巖石的縫隙，凝固過程就開始了。當二氧化碳接觸到玄武巖中的鈣、鎂和鐵，就會產生化學反應，轉變成鈣化白色晶體。二氧化碳石化需要兩年時間。

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★It takes about two years to turn ________ into ________.

3Benefits for technical school graduates提升技工院校畢業生待遇

China will improve employment benefits[利益;好處] for technical school[技工院校] graduates in the 2021-2025 period， according to a five-year plan published by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. Works will be done during the 14th Five-Year Plan period （2021-2025） to allow technical school graduates to enjoy relevant policies on employment， entrepreneurship[創業] and army recruitment， as well as those on the granting of professional titles and employment in public institutions， says the plan. In the 2021-2025 period， China plans to keep the number of students at technical schools above 3.6 million and the employment rate for graduates above 97 percent， said the plan. By 2025， China expects to have provided over 20 million vocational training sessions to enterprise employees and key employment groups， as well as training more than 2 million highly-skilled personnel[高技能人才].

人社部近日印發的《技工教育“十四五”規劃》明確指出，“十四五”期間，我國將持續提升技工院校畢業生待遇，推動落實技工院校畢業生享受就業創業、參軍入伍、職稱評審、事業單位公開招聘等的相關政策?！兑巹潯诽岢?，“十四五”期間，技工院校在校生規模保持在360萬人以上，畢業生就業率保持在97%以上;到2025年，面向企業職工和就業重點群體開展職業培訓2000萬人次以上，累計培養培訓高技能人才200萬人以上。

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★China plans to improve employment benefits for ________ school graduates.

4First “Marz Edition”ketchup revealed全球首款“火星番茄醬”問世

Heinz revealed its first “Marz Edition”ketchup [番茄醬] with tomatoes produced on Earth in Mars-like conditions. A team of 14 astrobiologists[天體生物學家] worked for nine months at the Aldrin Space Institute at the Florida Institute of Technology， growing tomatoes in a controlled environment with soil， temperature and water conditions similar to Mars. Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino said ketchup has been a staple condiment in space to spruce up dehydrated[脫水的] meals， but the Marz Edition variety has implications that go far beyond flavor. The experiment， which has been two years in the making， demonstrates the possibility of long-term food production on Mars. The research team and Massimino will be the first to taste final product on Nov 10.

美國亨氏公司日前發布全球首款“火星番茄醬”，制作這款番茄醬的番茄是科學家在模擬火星條件下培育的。14名科學家組成的團隊在佛羅里達理工學院奧爾德林空間研究所培育了9個月才種出這些番茄，他們在實驗中模擬了火星的土壤、溫度及水源條件。美國航空航天局前航天員邁克·馬西米諾表示，番茄醬是太空脫水食物的常用調味品，但“火星番茄醬”的意義遠不止口味，這項歷時兩年的實驗還證明了在火星上長期種植食物的可能性。據悉，該研究團隊和馬西米諾將于11月10日首次品嘗這款“火星番茄醬”。

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★“Marz Edition”ketchup is made of tomatoes produced on ________.

5Library creates literacy from litter印尼圖書館推出“垃圾換書”

A librarian in Indonesia's Java island is lending books to children in exchange for trash they collect in a novel[新穎的;新奇的] way to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more. Each weekday Raden Roro Hendarti rides her three wheeler with books stacked up at the back for children in Muntang village to exchange for plastic cups， bags and other waste that she carries back. She said that she is helping inculcate[反復灌輸] reading in the kids as well make them aware of the environment. As soon as she shows up[出現;露面]， little children， many accompanied by their mothers， surround her “Trash Library”and clamour[吵鬧;強烈要求] for the books. She collects about 100 kg of waste each week， which is then sorted out by her colleagues and sent for recycling or sold. She has a stock of 6，000 books to lend and wants to take the mobile service to neighbouring areas as well.

印尼爪哇島的一名圖書館館長讓孩子們用收集來的垃圾換取圖書借閱資格，這一新招既能清潔環境，又能讓孩子們多讀書。每個工作日，拉登·柔柔·亨達爾蒂都會騎著滿載兒童圖書的三輪車到滿堂村換取塑料杯、塑料袋和其他垃圾，然后再把一車垃圾帶回。她說，她在幫助孩子們培養閱讀習慣和增強環保意識。她一出現，小孩子們就把她的“垃圾圖書館”團團圍住，嚷嚷著要換書。許多孩子都是在母親的陪同下來的。她每周能收集約100千克垃圾，由她的同事對垃圾進行分類后將其回收或賣掉。她的館藏圖書共有6000本，她也愿意為鄰近地區提供移動借閱服務。

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★Children can borrow books from “Trash Library”in exchange for ________.