Where to Drink
Cafe San Bernardo
Join table-tennis and pool-playing port. Cafe San Bernardo has been running since 1912.The Villa Crespo dive bar also offers up table football for￡4 an hour. Service is efficient; with last orders at 5 am. The daily happy hour between 6 pm and 9 pm includes 60 minutes playing your game of choice, plus a half-bottle of red wine and a corn pie, for￡9.
Avenue Corrientes 5436, Villa Crespo, 54 11 4805 3956, cafesanbernardo.com
M Salumeria & Enoteca
Trading only in wine with a story, sommelier(侍酒师)Mariana Torta chooses new ways on a daily basis, and keeps a list of around 250 labels. There's no wine menu—simply take your bottle from the shelf.
Open 11:00 am-11:30 pm, El Salvador 5777, Palermo Hollywood, 54 11 4778 9016, on Facebook
Negro Cueva de Cafe
Coffee has found its place in Buenos Aires. While LAB: Tostadores, The Shelter and Coffee Town are famous new places, Negro Cueva de Cafe is one of the best downtown. It serves Ecuadorian, Colombian and Brazilian beans, and its attracting cakes include croissant.
Open 9:30 am-7:00 pm, Suipacha 637, Microcentro, 54 11 4322 3000, negrocafe .com
La Calle
Head to the Niceto Vega address and you'll be faced with a pizza. Order the special wine, special candy, and prepare to sing until dawn with a high-energy young crowd.
Open 8:00 pm-2:00 am, Niceto Vega 4942, Palermo Soho, 54 11 3914 1972, on Facebook
During the two and a half years since I settled down in Germany, I've caught a cold several times and gotten to experience how different German cold remedies (疗法)are from the Chinese ones.
Back in Taiwan, whenever I had a streaming nose and a dry throat, I'd rush to the hospital to get prescribed medicine. For a fever, I would receive a red pill, which I now know is a type of antibiotic (抗生素).
Another thing I know now is that the criminal behind my cold is a virus. The drugs I used only relieved the symptoms. When I went to a German hospital intending to get some medicine to treat my cold, I got nothing more than a pat on my shoulder and words from the doctor, saying that I should get some really good rest. The first time this happened, I was shocked. I wondered how I could put up with my sickness without the help of medicine. But the longer I stayed in Germany, the better I knew how to self-medicate as other Germans do.
I learned to take vitamin C to build up my resistance. But what I like the most is drinking "Erkaltungstee". For German people, Erkaltungstee is what their grandmother gives them when they catch a cold. It's a tea bag mainly made of lime flower and orange rind. Another popular cold remedy in Germany is chicken soup. During my first winter in Germany, I got a really bad cold. My neighbor brought me a bowl of chicken soup to make me feel better. It contained a lot of ginger, onion, garlic, carrots and celery. Germans believe these ingredients are perfect for helping your body recover.
B . It can build up one's resistance.
C . It's a good way to self-medicate.
D . It's better than chicken soup.
Charity Cycling UK has recently launched a campaign to raise awareness of dooring after discovering that many people don't know what it is and those that do seem to think it's a joke. Dooring happens when a driver or passenger opens the door into another road user - typically a cyclist - without looking for other road users.
Cycling UK's chief executive Paul Tuohy told Gloucestershire Live, "Some people seem to see car dooring as a bit of a joke, but it's not and can have serious consequences. Cycling UK wants to see great awareness made about the dangers of opening your car door, and people to be encouraged to look before they open."
The charity says 2,009 of the 3,000 injuries were sustained(遭受) by cyclists, resulting in five deaths but says this might not be the full extent of the dangers.
Cycling UK says not all car dooring incidents will be attended by police, so the charity has written to transport minister Jesse Norman calling for a public awareness campaign urging all drivers to look before opening vehicle doors. One of the ways that the charity suggests could prevent injuries through dooring is the "Dutch Reach", where people leaving a vehicle reach over and use the non-door side hand to open the door.
Cycling UK also suggests serious laws and advice on safer road positioning for people who cycle.
Mr Tuohy said, "In the Netherlands they are known for practising a method, known sometimes as the 'Dutch Reach', which we think could be successfully encouraged in the UK."
"Cycling UK has written to the Department for Transport asking them to look into this, and stress the dangers of 'car dooring' through a public awareness THINK style campaign."
If you're really concerned about opening a door into the path of a cyclist coming behind you, consider using what's known as the "Dutch Reach" to open the door. That will naturally turn you in your seat and give you a much better view of what's coming up alongside the car.
Often people use laptops(手提电脑) on trains and airplanes, in airports and hotels. These laptops connect people to their workplace. In the United States today, laptops also connect students to their classrooms.
Westlake College in Virginia will start a laptop computer program that allows students to do schoolwork anywhere they want. Within five years, each of the 1500 students at the college will receive a laptop. The laptops are part of a $10 million computer program at Westlake, a 110-year-old college. The students with laptops will also have access to the Internet. Besides, they will be able to use e-mail to "speak" with their teachers, their classmates and their families. However, the most important part of the laptop program is that students will be able to use computers without going to computer labs. They can work with it at home, in a fast-food restaurant or under the trees—anywhere at all!
Because of the many changes in computer technology, laptop use in higher education, such as colleges and universities, is workable. As laptops become more powerful, they become more similar to desktop computers. Also, the portable(便携式的)computers can connect students to not only the Internet, but also libraries and other resources. State higher-education officials are also testing laptop programs at other universities, too.
Rivers play an important role on the earth, and we can't imagine what the earth would be like without rivers.
With a length of 6, 650 kilometers, the Nile is the longest river in the world. The Nile River has been the source of human civilization since ancient times. The Nile has two main branches—the White Nile and the Blue Nile. The White Nile starts from the Great Lakes region of East and Central Africa through Lake Victoria. The Blue Nile carries with it a lot of fertile soil which turns out to be very important to farming in Egypt.
The Amazon River is the world's largest river with a width of about 40 kilometers during the rainy seasons but about 10 kilometers wide when it is not flooded. The Amazon River has such a big water volume that it accounts for(占.....比例) more than 20% of all the world's fresh water—far more than any other river. The main Amazon River flows mostly through Brazil and Peru but its tributaries can also be found in many other countries.
It has a depth of about 250 meters. Its length is 4, 700 kilometers. The sources of the Congo River are in the highlands and mountains in the Eastern Africa Rift Valley. It's the second largest river in terms of water volume. The Congo River basin(盆地) is the catchments(流域，集水区) area of the Congo River. It lies in both north and south of the Equator, making its flow very stable as there are always some tributaries experiencing a rainy season at any time.
A. Some of them are worth mentioning.
B. The Congo River is the world's deepest river.
C. Do you know which is the deepest river in the world?
D. The Blue Nile originates from(发源于)Lake Tana in Ethiopia.
E. Without rivers, there would be no living life in and along them.
F. And it flows through the second largest rain-forests in the world.
G. Streams that begin in the Andes Mountains are its sources.
A beautiful September evening, my 11-year-old grandson, Josh, and his team were warming up for their first football game of the season.
At six, the 1 called the captains forward, said something and 2 his whistle. The two teams 3 separately. I was 4. The other team was, 5, ten inches taller than our players. It didn't take long for their 6 advantage to show. They took a 7-0 lead very 7 . At the half, the score stood at 34 to 6. Josh 8 minimal play time. In the second half, they used Josh more often. The score climbed to 40 to 6.
Once again, the other team began their 9 down the field. Their quarterback threw the ball. The receiver caught it and 10 the goal. There was only one man in his 11 —Josh. Josh dove and 12 that boy's legs with all his strength. The receiver dragged Josh a couple of yards and 13 fell down.
On the next play, their quarterback shot through an opening and rushed to the goal, but there was Josh again. Josh took him off his feet and 14 another goal. They scored on the last play. But it wasn't Josh's 15. The game ended with a score of 48 to 6.
On the way home. I wanted to 16 Josh, but he turned to me with a 17 smile. "Grandpa, that was a18 game."
"But you lost, 48 to 6!"
"I know, but I did good."
The boy understood the 19 better than I did. They didn't win, but he did his best. I was proud of him. More 20 , he was proud of himself.
A material can be really special when it was named after theplace where it (create)originally. That'certainly the case "china". And of all types of china,white porcelain(瓷)is among the most famous.
Nowadays, the (tradition) material has taken on amodern look in the (hand)of four Chinese artists in theModern White Porcelain Exhibition. And the key word here is "modern". One of the works (be) a porcelain boat. But look (attentive) and you'll see that the boat (build)with porcelain looks like atakeout box. Inside the boat is a statue of a baby. The baby stands for humansand the boat is supports life. It suggests we may havedone some damage to environment and that we're treating life like fast food.
All the four artists gave white porcelain a model style,each in (they) own way. And this is what theexhibition's theme comes from. It's a dialogue between the past and thepresent.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词；
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉；
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last term, I hosted an exchange student calling Jacob from the Great Britain to our school. He really cared for Chinese Culture. Jacob asked me to show himself around our city on weekends. So I took him to many local place of interest and we also go to the theater to watch a show of Peking Opera. He was very fond of the performance that he decided to learn it. My father happened to know a master of Peking Opera and introduced Jacob to him. Jacob was great honored to be one of his students. Put his heart into it, Jacob made a rapid progress. When he returned England, he gave a performance in his school, it helped him win much admiration from his classmates.
注意：1）词数100左右；
2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear George,
Yours,
Li Hua
