In the age of the Internet, everyone writes. First of all, remember: the most important thing in any written messages is simplicity. It doesn’t matter how intellectually wise you are. 【小题1】

【小题2】 The most powerful part of speech is the verb. Thanks to a strong word, a simple sentence gets a very strong emotional charge and affects the person reading it. 【小题3】 Write “uses” instead of “exploits” if you feel that the first word expresses your idea more clearly and understandably.

The film flows by itself, whether you are aware of what is happening on the screen or not. A book, on the other hand, requires the brain to be active from beginning to end. Read a variety of books—your writing and cognitive skills increase automatically when you read a lot.

A diary is not only a great tool for reflection but can also be your rough draft for polishing your writing. Not only can you write in a journal, but you can do sketches, draw visual diagrams and create tables. Before going to bed, you can describe in a diary all the things that happened to you during the day. 【小题5】

Of course in the case of the diary, it can just be automatic writing, but if you don’t want to turn your whole life into a structure, you need boundaries. When you choose a topic, you direct your focus to one subject and try to find a lot of interesting things about it.

A new study led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School has found that climate-impact labeling on a sample fast food menu significantly influenced people’s food choices in favor of more climate-friendly items, such as vegetarian diet, chicken, or fish dishes.

The researchers enrolled over 5,000 online participants and presented them a sample menu resembling a fast food menu and asked them to choose a single item for a meal. While one group of participants received a menu with non-red meat items like salads or chicken sandwiches labeled “low climate impact”, another one received a menu with red meat items, such as beef burgers, labeled “high climate impact.” Finally, a third control group received a menu with QR codes on all items but no climate labels.

The analysis revealed that both the high and low climate-impact labels significantly reduced red meat selections compared to the control group. The high climate-impact labels had a strong effect, increasing non-beef choices by 23 percent compared to just 10 percent in the case of menus including low climate-impact labels.

“These results suggest that menu labeling, particularly labels warning that an item has high climate impact, can be an effective strategy for encouraging more sustainable food choices in a fast food setting,” said the study lead author Julia Wolfson, an associate professor in the Department of International Heath at the Bloomberg School.

Besides, participants were also asked to rate how healthy they believed the item they ordered was, and those who selected a more sustainable item perceived their choice to be healthier compared to those who selected a red meat item.

Since red meat consumption has been linked to a variety of health issues, including colorectal (结肠的) cancer and type 2 diabetes (糖尿病), the type of climate-impact labeling could prove highly effective in preventing illness. However, as the researchers warn, climate-impact labels may also have the unwanted side effect of making a choice seem healthier than it actually is.

“We look for labeling strategies that create ‘win-wins’ for promoting both more sustainable and healthier choices,” Wolfson concluded.

Steps to communicate with your parents

You might find that as you become a young adult, you begin to have more conflicts with your parents.【小题1】. Parents also struggle to know when to support them and when to intervene(干涉) in what they think are bad choices. The following steps will help you start conversations with your parents smoothly.

·【小题2】. In order to get your point across, you have to know what that point is. Spend some time reflecting on what you hope to change as a result of the conversation. If you think you'll have trouble remembering your points, write down the goals that you hope to achieve with the conversation.

·Choose the right place. The place you choose can change the conversation dramatically. For example, if you bring it up at your parent's office, they are likely to be rushed. They also might feel as though they have to rule with an iron fist to avoid their coworkers thinking they are too soft on you.【小题3】.This can be in your home, in the car, or even on a walk together.

·Set a date. Fix some time to have this conversation. Tell your parents that you need to spend some quality time with them, and plan on doing that after dinner one night. Setting a time will ensure that both sides are prepared to be in the same place talking at the same time.【小题4】.

·Keep the situation calm. 【小题5】. Keeping yourself as calm as possible is important. If your parents are having a hard time staying calm, take a break or just finish the talk on another day. For example, if your parents don't agree to let you stay out later, do not yell. Instead, try something like, “I feel that I am mature enough to be out until 10:00, and I hope you'll give it some more thought.”

Once you start the conversation at the right time and in the right place, you can bring up your main points. Then you are willing to share ideas and listen to each other.