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Don’t worry. I can match my pace to yours.

Okay. Let’s jog together to the tree over there.
Of course. I’ll wait here while you finish jogging.
I see. Thank you for inviting me to jog with you.
Same here. I haven’t been jogging these days, either.

I have a better idea. Let’s take a taxi.

Yeah. We have to pay extra if we’re late.
Too bad. The rental store is closed today.
Right. It’s hard to find one in the afternoon.
$360 $450 $500 $540 $600 No. Why don’t we rent them for our children?
 Dear friends and colleagues,
Woman:
As you were informed in the last newsletter, which is No.
We need to hurry to get better items there. 93, the executive committee has asked me to act as the chair
We have to be careful to buy only what we need. of our society until it can make a formal decision at its
I’m really satisfied with the bookshelf from the store. upcoming meeting on February 10. I have been authorized by
I’ll make sure to check if the bookshelf has any flaws. the chair of the committee to accept this request. It is with
great pleasure that I take on this responsibility and follow in
You can’t negotiate the price at the secondhand store.
the footsteps of the previous society chair, Louise Dupont,
who as you are aware, has been appointed as a dean of
Greenwich University. I thank you very much in advance for
all of your support.
Cordially,
Joanne Chambord
Man:
You may be right. I’ll buy them for her as just a gift.
So do I. I wish I could afford to buy her a ballet dress.
Thanks for your lessons. My daughter really likes them.
Definitely. Ballet is good exercise for both girls and boys.
Really? I didn’t know that there are sample ballet lessons.
Amy
Amy met a most gloriously beautiful sunset when wandering
down Virginia Street. She had an urge to speak to someone on the
Alex Katie street to share that beauty, but no one was to be seen on the street.
She felt like she was abandoned in a strange place. She quickly
went into a department store and asked a lady if she could come
Alex: Katie, outside for just a minute. The lady looked at Amy as though she
I found a music concert that we can go to together. were crazy and said, “Well...” Amy said, “It will only take a
moment.” Seemingly against her better judgment, the lady
I’m afraid I can’t go to the rock concert with you.
moved toward the door. When she got outside, Amy said to her,
I know why you like to listen to classical music. “Look at that sunset! Nobody out here was looking at it and I just
I’d like you to learn how to play the piano. wanted to share it with someone.” The lady smiled at Amy, and
I respect your love for classical music. Amy felt happy she could watch the beautiful sunset with another
person. It felt good to share the beauty.
lonely delighted jealous regretful
expectant angry excited disappointed
indifferent interested

methods to raise herbs for tea indoors If you don’t properly detach from work, your chances of
the comparison of herbal tea with coffee depression are much higher. Your relationships will suffer, as will
advantages of herbal teas for our bodies your health. You are a system. Everything is connected. If you’re
how to remove caffeine from herbal teas radically imbalanced and unrested, how do you expect to be healthy,
a variety of countries of origin of herbal teas vibrant, and present? Because people are always connected, they
remain in a state of continuous low-level stress. This stress is
subconscious, but it ages the mind and body. The only way to
psychologically detach from work is to change your defaults. You
need to disrupt your work environment. Aside from putting healthy
limits on your work and technology, you probably need to
chamomile rooibos peppermint communicate to your colleagues that you will no longer be available
ginger hibiscus during certain hours of the day. Rather than being upset, your
colleagues will respect you more for respecting yourself.
 Practice really does make perfect.
People have strong attachments to their cuisine, including
Stressful life events may serve to benefit relationships, making distaste for the food cultures of others. Societies use culturally
them hardier and more energetic. A study conducted by Lisa Neff important foods and associated culinary patterns as metaphors of
and Elizabeth Broady from the University of Texas at Austin themselves. Presentation of a particular meal or cuisine marks the
found that manageable stressors early in a couple’s marriage can boundary between the collective and the “other.” The Japanese
serve to make the relationship more resilient to future stress. Over believe rice is more than the staple of their cuisine; it creates their
two and a half years, newlywed couples provided data regarding identity as well as a sacred metaphor for the state. Long-lived
their stressful life events, their coping strategies and their marital flavor combinations and their tempos of change allow us to track
satisfaction. Those couples who had good coping strategies and aspects of social and cultural life that can be elusive in
experienced moderate amounts of stress during the early months archaeological inquiry. Changing cuisines signal other changes
of marriage were not only better at dealing with stress later in throughout society. Cuisines can materialize social changes
their marriage, but also reported more satisfaction with their more subtly than other elements of society can, initiating a
marriage. This was compared to couples who had good coping semiotic cultural study for archaeologists. Therefore,
strategies, but who did not have to deal with any stress early on. understanding a cuisine’s components and tracking its history
Practice really does make perfect. can be rewarding.
* resilient: * culinary: ** elusive:
Newlywed couples have to plan for their future together. *** semiotic:

Even couples have different strategies to deal with stress. archaeological elements that determine cultural identity
The stress from a marriage decreases as couples get older. the significance of cuisine studies in archaeological research
The success of married life depends on mutual understanding. various cuisines to represent specific aspects of each culture
Stress experienced early in a marriage makes the relationship scholarly meanings to obtain through archaeological research
stronger. the influence of a culture’s cuisine on those of other cultures

The rules that govern an organization must be acceptable to all.

Many think of the leader as the boss as the person who makes
the decisions. A Kantian does not accept that view but thinks that
The advent of agriculture fed a vicious spiral of behavioral
the leader is a decision proposer rather than a decision imposer.
demands that changed the very nature of our brains. A
The leader in an organization can propose ends as well as the
hunter-gatherer had to be self-sufficient, but the post-agriculture
means for reaching those ends. He or she can propose
world favored specialization. Someone to plant the wheat,
decision-making rules as well. But the leader should not order
someone to pick it, someone to mill it, someone to cook it,
these things or impose them on the basis of his or her power. In
someone to sell it. While this process of hyper-specialization
management terms, the leader creates the conditions for
eventually led to the industrial revolution and all its conveniences
participative management. In less scholarly terms, the Kantian
like smartphones, shopping malls, and the Internet, these modern
leader gets agreement. But the agreement is not based on
trappings came with a flip side. Fitting an ancient brain into a
charisma or on the power of the position. Rather, it is based on the
modern environment may be like fitting a square peg into a round
merits of the proposal. The rules that govern human interactions
hole, as evidenced by the millions of Americans on
should be rules that are acceptable to all.
antidepressants, stimulants, and other drugs. A person with
ADHD, whose brain thrives on novelty and exploration, may
have been the ultimate hunter-gatherer but today this person
struggles with a job that requires repetition and routine.
* trappings: ** peg:

Ancient Brain vs. Modern Brain: Which Is Smarter?

Our Ancient Brains Suffer in the Specialized World
Does Repetitive Practice Make a Perfect Genius?
Does Our Ancient Body Need a Modern Brain?
Modern Society: Always in Need of Specialists
 Dulles High School Science Night

Thanksgiving E-commerce Revenue in the United States

Dulles High School Science Night
We are pleased to announce Dulles High School’s Science
Night, which aims to raise funds for the Fort Bend Forward
Society. Participants can meet a special guest, physicist Don
Cooper, in person.
The following three organizations will provide presentations
and activities:
∙ Fort Bend Astronomy Club: Gravity and Laws of Motion /
Telescope Viewing
Thanksgiving Black Friday Cyber Monday
∙ Liam Museum of Natural Science: Discovery Dome / Liam
Day
Wildlife and Birds
The above graphs show e-commerce revenue in the United ∙ Fort Bend Photography Club: Creative Photography /
States on Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday Wildlife Photography
from 2016 to 2020. Overall, Cyber Monday was the most When: Friday, January 28, 6 p.m. 8 p.m.
popular day for e-commerce sales among the three days, totaling Where: Dulles High School
$12.9 billion in 2020 alone. Black Friday showed the next Tickets are $10 per person, and can be purchased online or at
most e-commerce sales after Cyber Monday, with sales in 2020 the door. All proceeds will be donated to the Fort Bend
more than doubling those in 2016. Thanksgiving Day’s Forward Society.
e-commerce sales stayed under $5 billion from 2016 to 2019 but For more information, please visit our website at
were over $6 billion in 2020. In 2020, e-commerce sales on www.dulleshighschool.ac.us.
Black Friday exceeded $10 billion but were more than $2 billion Don Cooper
less than Cyber Monday sales in the same year. From 2019 to
2020, the rise in sales was the largest on Black Friday among the 1 28 2
three days, with an increase of more than $2 billion.
Fort Bend Forward

Ice Highland Classic

Isabel Briggs Myers

Ice Highland Classic

Born in 1897, Isabel Briggs Myers was educated at home by This is a guided trek along the Ice Highland’s hiking trails.
her mother in Washington, DC. Her father, Lynam Briggs, was Trip Length: 7 days
a physicist and for over a decade was the director of the National Distance: About 34 miles
Group Size: 2 12 guests
Bureau of Standards. Isabel married Clarence Myers in 1918 and
Fee: $3,600 per person (Return guests get a 10% discount!)
the following year graduated from Swarthmore College with a
Physical Requirements
BA in political science. Her personality type tests of over 5,000 ▪Hiking uphill or downhill with a 10-20 pound backpack for
medical students were conducted at the George Washington 8-10 hours daily
School of Medicine. She followed up the study 12 years later, ▪Maintaining balance and footing on variable, uneven

finding that the students had generally followed paths (i.e. surfaces
▪River crossings via rope bridges
research, general practice, surgery, administration) that might be
What’s Included
expected of their type. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
▪Professional, certified wildland hiking guides
was first published in 1957 by the Educational Testing Service. ▪Mountain hut reservations and accommodations on the trek
On May 5, 1980, Isabel Briggs Myers died following a battle with ▪Vehicle service for transportation of luggage and supplies
cancer. Her work is continued today through the Myers & Briggs between huts
Foundation. If you have any questions, call 800-765-HIKE or contact us
online at www.icehighlandclassic.com.

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 Some people persuade themselves that choosing not to say Members of a political community seek to make sense of it and
something incriminating is less culpable than outright lying. its history, form a general conception of the kind of community
Consequently they go to great lengths to avoid saying it is, and arrive at some form of self-understanding. Like
anything that is untrue, whilst being quite content to be individual identity, but even more so, national identity is highly
economical with the truth and thereby mislead other people. This complex, multilayered, composed of different and sometimes
is simply wishful thinking on their part. What is wrong with lying conflicting strands of thought, patterns of behaviour, values and
is not just that it typically results in people believe things ideals accumulated over centuries. It is therefore amenable to
which aren’t true, but also that it involves deliberate deception different interpretations and, while a particular manner of
and may have bad consequences. Yet being economical with the understanding it tends to become dominant, it is rarely free from
truth also involves deliberate deception and can have just as dispute. Even the widely shared self-understanding remains
unpleasant consequences as lying. It is hard then to see how to tentative, as parts of national identity are opaque and inaccessible
justify drawing a moral distinction between the two sorts of even to the most searching inquiry, largely because those
deception. The main difference seems to be that lying is usually reflecting on it are themselves too deeply influenced by it to
easier to prove than cases of being economical with the truth. notice their presence. While some forms of self-understanding
* incriminating: are more plausible than others, none can claim to be the only one
** culpable: that is correct. It captures some features of national identity and
ignores or marginalizes others. It is therefore necessarily
.
* strand: , ** amenable to:
**tentative: **** opaque:

stable partial obvious

universal repetitive

Robert Provine at the University of Maryland is one of the

world’s most prominent yawning researchers, and he has
established the basics of the process. On average, an ordinary
yawn lasts six seconds and involves a huge inhalation followed
by an exhalation, stretching the mouth open to its limits and
squinting the eyes. There’s a repeatable series of events in a yawn
eyes close, mouth opens, air moves in and then out, yawner
Reading momentum is the force compelling the reader to read
relaxes. Once you start the sequence, it’s hard to stop it, and if you
in order to get closure on the expectations raised by the writer in
do, you feel unfulfilled. You can yawn while pinching your nose
earlier sentences. Words at the beginning of a sentence can
closed, as odd as it feels. But try it with your teeth clenched and
have the most powerful effect on the reader. Take a word like
you’ll find a yawn is very difficult, if not impossible, to complete.
although. It immediately puts the reader on the alert. Although
That’s curious, because if the purpose of a yawn is to move a lot
sets up the expectation that the main clause will minimize the
of air in and out, you can do that perfectly well with your teeth
subordinate clause. Take because. Placed at the beginning of a
clenched. Conversely, you can have a huge intake and output of
sentence, because announces a main clause that contains a
air and still have a failed yawn. You to
consequence. In both cases, these conjunctions set a delay
propel your yawn to completion.
between the time the expectation is raised and the time it is
fulfilled. That delay creates tension and momentum. The * squint:

tension acts like a metallic spring: it pulls reading forward. In the need the whole package of facial actions
real world, the length of a spring matters less than its strength; have to manipulate air flow in the mouth
likewise, a sentence’s length matters less than the tension should deny your body’s instinctive desire
eliminated by the arrangement of its words. must carefully control your emotional state
* conjunction: must make facial muscles as relaxed as possible
 The immediacy of comedy .
Unlike other aesthetic modes, comedy does not translate or age A number of organizations are trying to be more proactive
well. What one society finds humorous often creates boredom or about finding “passive” internal candidates people who would
indifference in another. The last skill that one acquires when most likely be very good at certain jobs but may not know about
learning a language is the ability to understand or tell jokes in the available openings or may not have considered applying.
new language. Even moving into a new area where one’s own Identifying those candidates involves developing analytic
language is spoken requires some adaptation in order to grasp the models to predict how well each of the current employees within
difference in comedy. The problem with time is just as the organization would fit the profile for a given role.
pronounced. For the most part, we don’t continue to recite jokes Recruiters can then reach out to the best fits and solicit
from prior eras. Even the comic masterpieces of the past, like The applications. Some companies have rigorous and up-to-date
Clouds or The Frogs, do not have the same resonance today as information on job requirements, but almost none have the
ancient tragedies, such as Oedipus Tyrannus or Antigone. We can information on employee skills needed to figure out a good
appreciate the art of Aristophanes, but we cannot laugh at his match. Being able to identify internal candidates doesn’t just
plays as vigorously as his contemporaries could. Even the hold down recruitment costs evidence suggests that internal
greatest writers can only dent the immediacy of comedy; they hires consistently outperform people brought in from the outside.
cannot overcome it completely. As a result, a number of established organizations have been
* resonance: ** dent: exploring how to use analytics to better identify promising
reflects worldwide universal emotions candidates within their ranks.
locates it in a specific space and time * proactive: ** solicit:
makes it possible to adapt it with ease
is grounded in diverse meanings of words
requires direct contact with one’s audience

A relationship is built of strings of moments that our mind

has pulled out from where they were stored in memory,
moments and memories that come with emotions attached.
Robert Frost said that writing free verse is like playing tennis
with the net down, for it’s the self-imposed, indeed artificial (A) So, a child leaving home for college, who left still on the
demands of poetic conventions that stir the imagination. Let’s verge of adulthood and returns an independent adult, will
say a poet arbitrarily imposes this limit: He decides to write in encounter a parent’s resistance when the person who steps
six-line stanzas, rhyming every other line. After rhyming the back into the parent’s memory is not the same as the one who
fourth line with the second line he reaches the end of a stanza. left. It takes a period of adjustment on both sides to set the
Backed into this corner, his struggle to rhyme the sixth line with chain evolving back on a new course.
the fourth and second may inspire him to imagine a word that has
(B) Memories, spliced together like this in a seamless thread,
no relationship to his poem whatsoever it just happens to
make a relationship seem continuous and whole. So, after
rhyme but this random word then springs loose a phrase that
not seeing a childhood friend for years, we can pick up where
in turn brings an image to mind, an image that in turn resonates
we left off, as if no time at all had intervened.
back through the first five lines, triggering a whole new sense and
feeling, twisting and driving the poem to a richer meaning and (C) In this way, too, relationships can be sustained in thought
emotion. Thanks to the poet’s Creative Limitation of this rhyme during long absences parents away from adult children,
scheme, the poem had the poet allowed long-distance lovers, commuting husbands and wives. But
himself the freedom to choose any word he wished. the same capacity of the brain to forge this chain of memory
* stanza: 4 can lead to difficulties in a relationship if one member
defies conventions it would have followed evolves past where the other’s memory left off.
achieves an intensity it would have lacked * splice: ** seamless:

emphasizes the uniqueness it would have lost (A) (C) (B) (B) (A) (C)
abandons the concept it would have presented (B) (C) (A) (C) (A) (B)
skips describing images it would have depicted (C) (B) (A)
 The global city literature and the literature on spectacular Later empirical research would produce results not far
neoliberal urbanism both focus on particular kinds of global different from this.
connections that work to maintain globally dispersed
How much power could a horse supply? Implicitly this
production processes: the networks of high finance, the nodes
involved knowing how much power an engine or a human could
of global coordination, and the role of global city elites.
provide, since the point of the comparison was to facilitate
(A) However, less spectacular low-profile networks may have engineering decisions about when to adopt human power, when
an equally strong influence on the composition of urban to adopt horse power, and when to adopt steam power.
landscapes and place-making in the global city, whether in Post-Renaissance European philosophers and scientists had
speculated about this question. A scientific approach to
the shadow of, or far away from, corporate headquarters and
comparing the strength of the two species first appeared in 1699
five-star hotels.
in the initial volume of Memoires of the French Academy.
(B) Low-level traders, who work with relatively small quantities The Memoires reported a discussion among savants
of goods, pay in cash, and personally transport their about the horizontal pushing force of a horse and a man.
merchandise with them on the airplane, provide a good Horses, they speculated, were equal to six or seven men in their
example of what can be called globalization from below. power output. From the perspective of these French
technicians, both humans and horses could be thought of as
(C) Urban anthropological studies that use notions of the global
machines, interchangeable power sources.
city tend to examine similarly high-end spaces and people,
* savant:
often at the expense of less visible or less prominent
connections and networks.
* urbanism: ** node: (A)
(B)
(A) (C) (B) (B) (A) (C)
(B) (C) (A) (C) (A) (B) Studies show that Latin American immigrants are joining
(C) (B) (A) the American culture and learning English at the same pace as
earlier European immigrants. First generation immigrants,
then and now, often don’t learn English. Their children can
typically speak both languages but cannot read or write the
language of their parents. In the third generation, most cannot
speak their grandparents’ native language. So it is with
Hispanic immigrants to the United States. Two-thirds of the
third generation speaks only English. Spanish-language
movie theaters are closing in Los Angeles. This does not
mean that America should open the doors and not control
This isn’t true; since we are the ones doing the thinking, we illegal immigration. Even in America, there are limits to
are also the ones responsible for changing our thinking. realistic absorption rates. Existing rules for lawful
immigration must be maintained and strictly enforced.
When we are faced with any type of adversity, we naturally Unenforced rules breed disrespect for all laws.
react by thinking about it. Most of us, however, forget
that we are the one who is doing the thinking, that we are
Although the children of US immigrants are likely to be
actively manufacturing the thoughts we think. Our
(A) in terms of language, the writer thinks that
thoughts become so habitual to us that we don’t even realize we
illegal immigration shouldn’t be allowed because America
are having them! Instead, we develop patterns of
has finite capacity and all laws are (B) by
negative thought as our normal reaction to events and our way
unenforced rules.
of coping with life, and believe that our life and our
circumstances are responsible for the thoughts we are having. (A) (B)
When we realize this, we can shift from a pessimistic distinguished exploited
to a more optimistic outlook. You can learn to stop all distinguished identified
negative trains of thought from developing before they have a alienated abstracted
chance to develop fully by taking responsibility for the fact that assimilated weakened
you are the driver of the train! assimilated overestimated
 (B)

With all their biological systems at work, an animal saves It was true. Mr. Davis looked closely at the wall. In each one
energy if it can rely on huddling, thereby conserving body heat of the small pieces he could read, in tiny letters, “fool”, “idiot”,
by reducing its loss to the surrounding environment. This puts “pain”, “bore”, and a thousand other negative things. Jacob
it in the position of predicting its future body temperature based added, “This is how I started turning all my bad times into an
on its social capital. A penguin knows it won’t freeze or starve opportunity to add to (b) my collage. Now I like the collage so
to death burning its precious fat reserves if it (a) surrounds itself much that each time someone makes me angry, I couldn’t be
with many reliable others. From an evolutionary perspective, happier. They’ve given me a new piece for my work of art.”
those individual penguins who were bad at predicting their
(C)
social capital were (b) less likely to survive to reproduce and
pass on their genes. After showing Mr. Davis around the house, Jacob opened
Humans effectively build on top of this old-school, (c) his bedroom door. The wall was a unique collage of
penguin-like biological foundation. They pile upon it more thousands of colours and shapes! Jacob explained, “Some
(c) abstract, more “social” notions, such as trust, friendship, and people at school think I never think badly of anyone, but that’s
love. One result of this human biological evolution was the not true at all. I’m just like anyone else. I used to get angrier than
linguistic evolution of the word warmth as a metaphor for such all the other kids. But years ago, with the help of my parents, I
social concepts, which in fact are biologically linked to physical started a small collage. I could use any kind of material and
warmth. We humans are such intensely social creatures, and colour for it. With every little piece (d) I stuck on I added some
society is defined to so great an extent through language, that we bad thought or act.”
have collectively forgotten the original links between physical * collage:
temperature and the social concepts of trust, friendship, and
(D)
love and today (d) forget only their metaphorical links to
warmth and coldness. The metaphor became nothing more than That day they discussed many things, but what the teacher
a handy expression. But as with the penguins, our brains still act never forgot was how an ordinary boy had shown (e) him that
as machines that (e) connect the prediction of weather with the the secret to having a cheerful and optimistic character is to
prediction of social capital. Whether or not we are aware of convert the bad times into a chance to smile. Without telling
doing so, we continually evaluate social cues to tell our bodies anyone, on that very day, Mr. Davis began his own collage. He
how warm or cold we are likely going to be in the near future. would recommend it so often to his students that, years later,
they called that neighbourhood “Art Town.” Each house
contained its own magnificent works of art, made by those
cheerful and optimistic children.
Human Sensitivity to Warmth in Social Connections
Body Temperature: An Indicator of General Health
(A)
Predicting Social Capital: A Life-Saving Skill
Are Penguins More Social Than Humans?
Heat Metaphors Reflect Natural Selection (B) (D) (C) (C) (B) (D)
(C) (D) (B) (D) (B) (C)
(a) (e) (D) (C) (B)

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (a) (e)

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)

(A)
Jacob was a nice, cheerful, optimistic boy. No one could Jacob
remember ever having seen him angry. (a) He seemed incapable Davis
of insulting anyone. Even his teachers admired his good Jacob Davis
disposition, which was so unusual that a rumour was going Jacob
round that Jacob’s goodness must be due to some special secret. Davis
The fact that there was a supposed secret meant that no one could
think about anything else. They were very curious about Jacob.
One afternoon, Jacob invited his favourite teacher, Mr. Davis,
to his house.