Kid of the Year Photo Contest

　　Enter your kid’s photo today and win! We’re giving away 52 weekly $250 prizes from Readers' Choice votes. PLUS our editors will select one entry (参赛作品) to win our grand prize of $7,000.

　　Official Contest Rules

　　No purchase necessary to enter or win.

　　The Kid of the Year Photo Contest entry period begins at 12:00

　　a.m. January 23, 2011, and ends January 21, 2012 (the "Entry

　　Period"). Entries must be received by 9:00 p.m.on January 21, 2012

　　("Entry Deadline"). Entries will not be acknowledged or returned.

　　SPONSOR: Meredith Corporation, 1716 Locust Street, Des Moines, Iowa.

　　ENTRY: There will be two methods of entry.

　　ShareMy Entry:

　　Visit http://www.parents.com/photos/photo-contests-1/kid-of-the-year/ and click the button to

　　enter. Then complete the registration form and follow the instructions to upload one album of up

　　to six photos of your child age three months to eight years. Photos must be taken by entrant,

　　non-professional, unpublished and may not have won any prize or award. Photos must be .jpeg

　　or .bmp image formats (格式) and cannot exceed 3 MB.

　　Facebook Entry:

　　Visit Facebook.com/ParentsMagazine and click the Kid of 2011 tab. Fill out the registration

　　form and upload one album of up to six photos of your child age three months to eight years. You

　　may provide one description and one album title that will be applied to all photos. Photos must be

　　taken by entrant, non-professional, unpublished and may not have won any prize or award. Photos

　　must be .jpeg or .bmp image formats and cannot exceed 3 MB.

　　This promotion is in no way sponsored, supported or run by, or associated with Facebook.

　　You are providing your information to Parents Magazine and not to Facebook. The information

　　you provide will only be used to run the promotion and register for Parents.com.

　　Photos must not contain material that infringes (侵犯) the rights of another, including but

　　not limited to privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright

　　infringement. Photos must not contain brand names or trademarks. Ks*5u

　　LIMIT: One entry per household, per eligible (有资格的) child, per week. One weekly prize

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　　The $11 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that you should turn negative thoughts like "I never do anything right" into positive ones like "I can succeed." But was positive thinking advocate Norman Vincent Peale right? Is there power in positive thinking?

　　Researchers in Canada just published a study in the journal Psychological Science that says trying to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply highlight how unhappy they are.

　　The study's authors, Joanne Wood and John Lee of the University of Waterloo and Elaine Perunovic of the University of New Brunswick, begin by citing (引证) older research showing that when people get feedback which they believe is overly positive, they actually feel worse, not better. If you tell your friend who is slow to learn that he has the potential of an Einstein, you're just underlining his faults. In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write essays opposing funding for the disabled. When the essayists were later praised for their sympathy, they felt even worse about what they had written.

　　In this experiment, Wood, Lee and Perunovic measured 68 students' self-esteem. The participants were then asked to write down their thoughts and feelings for four minutes. Every 15 seconds, one group of students heard a bell. When it rang, they were supposed to tell themselves, "I am lovable."

　　Those with low self-esteem didn't feel better after the forced self-affirmation (自我肯定). In fact, their moods turned significantly darker than those of members of the control group, who weren't urged to think positive thoughts.

　　The paper provides support for newer forms of psychotherapy (心理治疗) that urge people

　　to accept their negative thoughts and feelings rather than fight them. In the fighting, we not only often fail but can make things worse. Meditation (静思) techniques, in contrast, can teach people to put their shortcomings into a larger, more realistic viewpoint. Call it the power of negative thinking.

　　53. The first paragraph is written ___________.

　　A. to raise an argument about positive thinking

　　B. to introduce the power of positive thinking

　　C. to encourage people to have positive thoughts

　　D. to introduce the $11 billion self-help industry

　　54. According to the study of the Canadian researchers, ___________.

　　A. positive thinking is not as powerful as negative thinking

　　B. encouraging positive thinking may actually discourage people

　　C. happy people can think positively while unhappy people can’t

　　D. getting people to think positively can strengthen their confidence

　　55. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean?

　　A. You are pointing out the mistakes he has made.

　　B. You are reminding him that he is not intelligent.

　　C. You are not taking his mistakes seriously enough.

　　D. You are showing he has great potential in spite of faults.

　　56. We can learn from the last paragraph that ___________.

　　A. negative feelings must be got rid of

　　B. there’s no point in thinking positively

　　C. it doesn’t make sense to think negatively

　　D. negative thinking is not always negative

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　　It was 1963, in Paris. While walking through the fruit and vegetable market Alice Waters was struck by the display of brilliant colors, the music of farmers selling their produce, and in the middle of a great city. She felt "directly connected to the land." Chez Panisse, a Berkeley restaurant, which was founded upon Waters' ecological philosophy, has been named "The Best Restaurant in America" by both the James Beard Foundation and by Gourmet magazine, many times in the past. Only the food grown in accordance with the principles of sustainable (可持续发展的) agriculture was used in the restaurant. Menus offered nightly at Chez Panisse have consisted only of fresh ingredients, harvested in season, and purchased from local farmers.

　　Alice Waters has successfully demonstrated how a restaurant can develop successfully while contributing to the general welfare of the farming community. Sharing a meal between the people was one of the wishes of Alice Waters as she would love her customers to know each other. In 1996, inspired by the Garden Project at the San Francisco County Jail(监狱), Waters decided to apply her principles to education. The project was first started at the Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley with the idea to transform some land near the school into a garden and, in the process, to teach local school children about food and agriculture. In 1999, over 120 people came to help plant the first cover crop, which prepared the field for farming by adding nutrients to the soil.

　　The student garden staff has had several years' worth of harvest, and has started growing gardens like herb and tea. Here, agricultural practices are continually being revised and updated and every year the Schoolyard staff attends the Ecological Farming Conference in Monterey. A kitchen classroom has also been created, where students learn about main foods eaten in other parts of the world.

　　"I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them," says Waters. The middle school has become a model in itself. The students work the land and harvest the crops, while the cafeteria(食堂) buys and prepares the produce for school lunches. This program will go a long way in teaching kids to value fresh food and their own contributions. This project is sure to inspire a national change in school curricula(课程). In fact, many middle and high schools in California and Ohio have launched similar projects. In 1997, Alice Waters received the Humanitarian Award from the James Beard Foundation in recognition of her dedication and contribution towards environment. In 1999, the U.S. Department of Education Secretary, Richard Riley, honored her with a John H. Stanford "Education Hero" award.

　　57. It was in Paris that Alice Waters ___________.

　　A. made up her mind to be a farmer

　　B. learned about cooking delicious food

　　C. took a fancy to a unique food culture

　　D. opened Chez Panisse, a Berkeley restaurant

　　58. We can infer from the underlined sentence in the second paragraph that __________.

　　A. the jail authorities could make some money from the Garden Project

　　B. Alice Waters started the Garden Project at the San Francisco County Jail

　　C. Alice Waters taught the prisoners gardening at the San Francisco County Jail

　　D. the Garden Project was designed to transform prisoners by connecting them with the land

　　59. The school project is intended to ____________.

　　A. teach students not to waste foodB. provide students with free lunches

　　C. teach students agricultural knowledgeD. provide Chez Panisse with fresh food

　　60. Which of the following best explains why Waters was awarded the title“Education Hero”?

　　A. She had helped popularize healthy eating.

　　B. She had made great contributions to the environment.

　　C. Her principles had brought great benefits to farmers.

　　D. She had brought school children into a new relationship with land and food.

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