Basketball Statistician Help Wanted

    The Athletic Department is looking for students to help assist staff during the Fall 2016, Winter 2016-17 and Spring 2017 semesters. Students in this position will be keeping live statistics during basketball games. Students must meet all of the following requirements:
● Good computer skills
● Available evenings and weekends
●  Knowing basketball rules and statistics
Students interested in working for the Athletic Department should contact the Athletic Coordinator at their respective(各自的) campuses.
●  TP/SS Athletic Coordinator, Michael Simone,240-567-1308
●  Rockville Athletic Coordinator, Jorge Zuniga,240-567-7589
●  Springfield Athletic coordinator, Gary Miller,240-567-2273
●  Germantown Athletic Coordinator, GavriChavan, 240-567-6915

    If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
    Dreaming about whether you would want to read minds, see through walls, or have superhuman strength may sound silly, but it actually gets to the heart of what really matters in your life.
    Every day in our work, we are inspired by the people we meet doing extraordinary things to improve the world.
    They have a different kind of superpower that all of us possess: the power to make a difference in the lives of others.
    We’re not saying that everyone needs to contribute their lives to the poor. Your lives are busy enough doing homework, playing sports, making friends, seeking after your dreams. But we do think that you can live a more powerful life when you devote some of your time and energy to something much larger than yourself. Find an issue you are interested in and learn more. Volunteer or, if you can, contribute a little money to a cause. Whatever you do, don’t be a bystander. Get involved. You may have the opportunity to make your biggest difference when you’re older. But why not start now?
    Our own experience working together on health, development, and energy the last twenty years has been one of the most rewarding parts of our lives. It has changed who we are and continues to fuel our optimism about how much the lives of the poorest people will improve in the years ahead.

   In the depths of the French Guianese rainforest, there still remain unusual groups of indigenous(土著的) people. Surprisingly, these people live largely by their own laws and their own social customs. And yet, people in this area are in fact French citizens because it has been a colony(殖民地) of the French Republic since 1946. In theory, they should live by the French law is often ignored or unk nown, thus making them into an interesting area of “lawlessness” in the world.
   The lives of these people have finally been recorded thanks to the effects of a Frenchman form Paris called Gin. Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250,000 living in its capital, Cayenne.
   “I have a special love for the French Guianese people. I have worked there on and off for almost ten years,” says Gin. “I’ve been able to keep firm friendships with them. Thus I have been allowed to gain access to their living environment. I don’t see it as a lawless land. But rather I see it as an area of freedom.”
   “I wanted to show the audience a photographic record touching upon the uncivilized life,” continues Gin. “I prefer to work in black and white, which allows me to show different specific worlds more clearly.”
    His black-and-white pictures present a world almost lost in time. These pictures show people seemingly pushed into a world that they were unprepared for. These local citizens now have to balance their traditional self-supporting hunting lifestyle with the lifestyle offered by the modern French Republic, which brings with it not only necessary state welfare, but also alcoholism, betrayal and even suicide.

   A warm drink of milk before bed has long been the best choice for those wanting a good night’s sleep. But now a study has found it really does help people nod off—if it is milked from a cow at night.
    Researchers have discovered that “night milk” contains more melatonin(褪黑激素), which has been proven to help people feel sleepy and reduce anxiety.
    The study, by researchers from Seoul, South Korea, involved mice being fed with dried milk powder made from cows milked both during the day and at night.
    Those given night milk, which contained 10 times the amount of melatonin, were less active and less anxious than those fed with the milk collected during daytime, according to the study published in The Journal of Medicinal Food.
    Night milk quickened the start of sleep and caused the mice to sleep longer.
    While the effect of cows milk harvested at different time has not been tested on humans up to now, taking melatonin drugs has been suggested to those who are struggling to fall asleep at night.
    Previous studies have also indicated that milk can be excellent for helping sleep because of the calcium content, which helps people to relax.
    Milk is also sugar-free and additive-free with nutritionists recommending skimmed milk as the best choice before bed as it is the least fattening. The more fat you take in before bedtime, the greater burden you will put on your body at night.

    Both men and women are living longer these days in industrialized countries. (1) _____ In general, they can expect to live six or seven years more than men. One reason for this is biological.
One important biological factor that helps women live longer is the difference in hormones between men and women. (2) _____ Between the ages of about 12 and 50, women produce hormones that are involved in fertility(生育能力). These hormones also have a positive effect on the heart and blood flow. In fact, women are less likely to have high blood pressure or to die from heart attacks.
    (3) _____ They help the body defend itself against some kinds of infections. This means that women generally ger sick less often and less seriously than men. The common cold is a good example: women, on average, get fewer colds than men.
    (4) _____ Scientists are still not exactly sure how influence aging, but they believe that they do. Some think that a woman’s body cells have a tendency(向) to age more slowly than a man’s. Others think that a man’s body cells have a tendency to age more quickly. (5) _____

    Lainey finished third grade. She had good grades and could read (1) _____ grade level, but she did not like to read. On a family car trip, her Aunt Dede pulled out a copy of Harry Potter, as a surprise for her (2) _____ . But Lainey took one look at it, (3) _____ her eyes, and said, “Borrring!”
Aunt Dede, a teacher, had read the book to her students, and they loved it. (4) _____ the youngest children in the class were (5) _____ by the story. They (6) _____ with great interest and then (7) _____ joined in grand conversations about Harry`s adventures.
    “How can you say it`s (8) _____ ? Have you read it? ” asked Aunt Dede.
    “No, it`s too long and it doesn`t have any (9) _____ .” complained Lainey.
    “Oh, that`s where you are (10) _____ ;there are lots of pictures. Every page is full of pictures; you just have to read the words to (11) _____ them. It`s like magic.”
    “Nice try , Aunt Dede,”Lainey replied (12) _____ from the back seat.
     Another (13) _____ was in order. “Well, if you don’t want to read it, give it (14) _____ .Maybe your mom would (15) _____ hearing the story.” The book sailed through the air to Aunt Dede and she began to read it aloud. By the end of the first chapter, (16) _____ were coming from the back seat:“Please read a little (17) _____ .”
    Lainey is an example of an (18) _____ reader. As shown here, Lainey can become (19) _____ about reading when (20) _____ with literature on topics that interest her, and when the people around her model involvement in the reading process.

   The giant panda (1) _____ (love) by people throughout the world.Chinese scientists (2) _____ (recent) had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby.She was a very (3) _____ (care)mother.For 25days,she never left her baby,not even to find something (4) _____ (eat)!She would not let any other pandas come near.She licked the baby constantly to keep it clean.Any smell might attract natural (5) _____ (enemy)that would try to eat the little comforting  pats.The mother held the baby in her front paws much the way a human does. (6) _____ it cried,she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats,The mother continued to care for the young panda (7) _____ more than two years.By that time,the panda no longer needed (8) _____ (it)mother for food.However,it stayed with her and leaned about the ways of the forest.Then,after two and a half years,the mother (9) _____ (drive)the young panda away.It was time for her to have a new baby, (10) _____ it was also time for the young panda to be independent.

  假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

    It is Mother’s Day today.Though it’s a western festival, it’s popular in China now.
    Mom has a full-time job,so she has to do most of the houseworks.She is a great mother.Both Dad or I planned to do something on Mother’s Day.We get up early in the morning.Dad cleaned the house,and then went on shopping.When he came back,I found a bunch of flowers in her hand.I asked Mom to stay in the sitting room and I cooked in kitchen.The dishes what I cooked were Mom’s favoritiest.At dinner,we said to her,“Happy Mother’s Day！”Mom was grateful and moving.

    某中学生英文报正举办“The Season I Like Best”的征文活动。请用英文写一篇短文投稿，
内容包括：
(1)你最喜欢的季节；
(2) 你喜欢该季节的两条理由（如：气候、景色、活动、感受……）。
注意：
(1) 词数100左右；
(2) 题目已为你写好；
(3) 行文连贯，语篇完整；
(4) 文中不得透露个人真实信息。