“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” These words come from the author of the book The Secret Garden, first published in 1911. 【小题1】 Very soon after this, homes with gardens began to be built. This is what started the British love of gardening! Today, millions of Brits like to say that they have “green fingers”, with around half the population spending their free time gardening.

【小题2】 Each spring, children plant sunflowers and wait to see which one is the tallest. Expert gardeners know just the right corner for roses, and others spend hours trying to grow perfect vegetables to enter into competitions. And while many Brits like nothing better than spending their Sunday cutting the grass, some are happy just to sit under the branches of the trees and enjoy the beauty of the world around them.

But in cities, limited space has led to people looking for new solutions. 【小题3】 Today, there are over 4,000 people in London waiting for such pieces of land. One recent idea has been to turn rooftops and walls into private gardens. 【小题4】

As well as being good for the environment, gardening is also good for the soul. 【小题5】 And if you're in any doubt about this, take a moment to reflect on this line from The Secret Garden: “Where you tend a rose... A thistle (蓟) cannot grow.”

In Australia, like many places around the world, about 95% of the people use Google when they search the Internet for new and recently changed web pages. Because so many people turn to Google’s site first before ever going to a news website, news is a big money-maker for the company.

Australia is considering a bill that will charge Google for showing links to Australian news web-sites which are upset that Google is making money by showing links to articles on their own sites. In recent years, as large technology companies have gotten richer, many news sites have lost money. One way Google makes money is by showing ads on these search pages.

Many people were shocked at the idea. That’s because the Internet is built on links. Since the Internet began, links have always been free. When it comes to copyright(版权), it’s against the law to use someone else’s articles or pictures without their permission. But it has always been legal for anyone, including big companies, to link to any other web page on the Internet, without paying anything.

Tim Bermers Lee is the man who developed the ideas that led to the Internet. He says Australia’s bill ruins the free linking that is so important to the Internet. He thinks the bill should be rewritten.

Google agrees. The company says it wants to work out an agreement that’s fairer to Australian news sites, but that it can’t pay for links. Google points out that it has about 450 agreements in different parts of the world where it pays for the right to show the results of its searches.

Google says if the bill isn’t changed, it will have to stop its work in Australia. Many people worry that once some groups are forced to pay for links in one part of the world, other governments will create similar laws. They’re concerned that in the end, the Internet will be less free, open, and useful for everyone.

Hair loss is often be unwillingly accepted as a natural part of life. After all, most people, women included, will lose some or all of their hair as they get older. But when hair loss happens suddenly handfuls —it can be truly distressing. It can also be a signal of a health issue that needs to be addressed as soon as possible.

To understand why unexpected hair loss happens, it’s useful to know the growth cycle of healthy hair. Usually, most of your hair is in a growing phase, during which strands lengthen by about 1. 25 centimetres a month. This part of the cycle carries on for between two and eight years. After that, there's a middle phase, lasting about three weeks, during which the hair isn't getting longer but also isn't falling out. Finally, strands enter a resting phase, where the hair is loosened but sits in its follicle (毛囊). Then, when the follicle begins to grow a new hair, the old one drops out.

Due to this cyclical process, we all lose up to 100 strands of hair each day. “At any one time, about ten per cent of our hair is in the falling out phase,” explains Jennifer Jones, a dermatologist from London, UK, and an advisor to the British Association of Dermatologists. When that balance is disrupted, a person can have too much hair in the resting phase—and a few months later, he or she might find that a large amount comes out all at once.

Stress from sadness, divorce, or even moving house can cause hair loss. Another common cause is prescription drugs. In some cases, hair loss is subtle; other times, sufferers lose all their hair- including their body hair, eyebrows and eyelashes. “If you notice hair loss, you should discuss it with your doctor,” says Jones. “We can often switch your medications.” Treatment depends on the underlying cause. To discover that, a doctor might order blood tests, perform a small skin biopsy or examine the hairs under a microscope. If the loss is stress - or drugs-related, it is usually temporary, and resolves within a few months without any intervention.