Discover effective problem-solving methods, the importance of relaxation for problem-solving, and inspiring stories about wisdom and common sense in Reader's Bank Level 9 Unit 06. Learn how distancing yourself from a problem can lead to new insights and solutions. Explore intriguing tales about butterflies' defense mechanisms and a touching story about a boy named Jim who became the President of the United States.
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PPT Reader s Bank Level 9 Unit 06
21 / p. 62 Reader s Bank Level 9 If we continually struggle with a problem, we block our channel of wisdom and common sense. Most people seem to think that focusing sharply on a problem for a long time is the best way to solve it. In fact, all this usually accomplishes is the creation of a lot of stress. Our minds have much more ability to solve problems if they are relaxed and stress-free. To effectively solve a current problem, we need to distance ourselves from it. Whenever anything is too close to us, it is difficult to see with clear eyes. Therefore, we need to make greater efforts to closely examine every problem we encounter. As we let go of the problem, the answer we couldn t see before will present itself.
22 _1 / p.64 Reader s Bank Level 9 A bird sees a colorful, delicious looking butterfly and tries to eat it. Oh no! It tastes terrible! So the bird spits out the butterfly and lets it go. This lucky guy is a monarch butterfly. It is known to build up toxic substances in its body to defend itself against predators. Any bird that once tried to eat the monarch butterfly in the past will never attack the same species again because it remembers the terrible toxic taste. Interestingly, there are butterflies that mimic monarch butterflies to avoid predators. Viceroy butterflies copy the monarch butterfly s bright orange and black colors. It was once thought that the viceroy evolved to mimic just the color of the monarch. However, more recent research has shown that the viceroy also tastes horrible
22 _2 / p.64 Reader s Bank Level 9 topredators. Thanks to these features, viceroy butterflies are less likely to be eaten by predators which have experienced toxic monarch butterflies. * monarch butterfly * viceroy butterfly
23 , Jim_1 / p.66 Reader s Bank 9 One spring, in 1847, a boy appeared at the prosperous farm of a man named Worthy Taylor. The boy was looking for work. Taylor didn t know anything about the boy, but because he had recently fired a worker and was in need of a replacement, Taylor hired the boy. The boy s name was Jim, which was short for James. (A) But, Taylor turned down his proposal. He thought that a boy like Jim with no future prospects didn t deserve to be his son-in-law. Jim said nothing, but that night he packed his few belongings and disappeared. No one ever saw him again. (B) About thirty years later, Taylor was tearing down his old barn in order to construct a new one. On one of the old wooden beams above the place where Jim used to sleep, Taylor noticed his name carved onto the wood with a knife, James A. Garfield. Jim was currently the president of the United States
23 , Jim_2 / p.66 Reader s Bank 9 (C) Jim worked on the farm all through that spring and summer. was a good worker, but he was kind of an extrovert. He kept very much to himself. Before the end of the summer, however, Jim had fallen in love with Taylor s daughter, a pretty girl his own age. At last Jim gathered his courage and earnestly asked Mr. Taylor for permission to marry his daughter. He
24 _1 / p.68 Reader s Bank Level 9 When painting was put in crisis. The photograph, it seemed, did the work of imitating nature better than the painter ever could. Some painters made practical use of the invention. There were Impressionist painters who used a photograph in place of the model or landscape they were painting. But by and large, the photograph was a challenge to painting and was one cause of painting s moving away from direct representation and reproduction to the abstract painting of the twentieth century. Therefore, the painters of that century put more focus on expressing nature, people, and cities as they were in reality. Since photographs did photography came along in the nineteenth century,
24 _2 / p.68 Reader s Bank Level 9 such a good job of representing things as they existed in the world, painters were freed to look inward and represent things as they were in their imagination, rendering emotion in the color, volume, line, and spatial configurations native to the painter s art. * Impressionist painter * render * configuration
