Sydney Day Tours
Port Stephens Day Tours
Labeled "Blue Water Paradise", Port Stephens is known for its beauty and marine surroundings with over 19 miles of clean, white and sandy beaches. It is home to around 150 bottlenose dolphin and thus called the dolphin capital of Australia.
Highlights: Dolphin Watching; Australian Reptile Park
Operates: Mon Wed & Sat—8 AM
Adults: $195 Children: $98
Note: Not suitable from Dec. 20th, 2017 to Jan. 9th, 2018 in Christmas & NY period, Feb. 14th-22th, 2018 in Chinese NY.
Sydney City Day Tours
Sydney is a big city, filled with lots of landmarks and attractions to see. This can make it a stressful task to plan your own vacation in Sydney. Luckily, our tours are designed to allow you to see all of Sydney's most famous landmarks. You can rest and make sure that you will be seeing all that Sydney has to offer.
Highlights: Harbour Bridge; Sydney Opera House
Operates: Daily—8 AM
Adults: $129 Children: $65
Blue Mountains Tours
These Blue Mountains Tours from Sydney have been designed for the adventures and people who like to enjoy bushwalking. Additionally, these Blue Mountains Day Tours includes a tough walk from Glenbrook to the Wentworth Falls.
Highlights: See Australian wildlife up-close; Guided hike at Wentworth Falls.
Operates: Daily—8 AM
Adults: $99 Children: $74
Note: A good level of fitness is required for the bush walk. Minimum child age is 11 years.
It doesn't matter when and how much a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That's what all doctors thought, until they heard about Herpin. Herpin, it was said, never slept. Could this be true? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves.
Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised. Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw him sleeping. In fact, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.
The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason? No one could be sure. Herpin died at the age of 94.
Have you ever stayed in a hotel? Most Chinese hotels often provide guests with things like disposable (一次性的) toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo and slippers.
Many guests like the idea because they don't have to bring their own. But, if you travel to Beijing, remember to bring your own things. Starting from June, some hotels in Beijing will no longer provide guests with these disposables. They want to ask people to use less disposable things.
Many disposable things are made of plastic. People throw them away after only using them once. It is a waste of natural resources (资源) and is very bad for the environment. Do you know, one Chinese person makes as much as 400kg of waste a year! Most of that waste comes from disposable things. In Beijing, people throw away about 19,000 tons of plastic bags and 1,320 tons of plastic lunch bowls every year! Plastic can take between 100 and 400 years to break down. So the less plastic we throw out, the better. So, wherever you travel, bring your own things and use them again and again.
Back at home and school, you can also do something to make our world a better place. Try to do these things in your daily life: Use cloth shopping bags, not plastic ones. After using a plastic bag, wash it out and let it dry. Then you can use it over and over again. Do not use paper cups. At your school canteen（食堂）, use your own bowl and chopsticks instead of disposable ones.
When asked why he or she wears clothes, some people will probably answer "to keep warm and to cover my body". These are the basic reasons why clothes are worn, but people also want to look attractive and appear successful to others.
If people only wore clothes for warmth and to cover their bodies, most clothes would be simple and cheap. In most Western countries, however, clothes are sometimes very expensive. The main reason for this is not the cost of the cloth or the cost of making the clothes. The clothes are expensive because of fashion(时尚).
Successful businessmen, for example, often wear very expensive suits, shirts and ties. Sometimes they pay thousands of dollars for a suit and hundreds of dollars for a tie. It's just a suit and a tie but they pay these prices because of the famous name of the designer. A suit costing much less would be just as warm and would cover the wearer's body just as well.
Fashion is always changing, which means those who want to be fashionable have to buy new clothes every few months, even if last month's clothes have only been worn once or twice. Some people have wardrobes full of clothes that have hardly been worn but are no longer in fashion. Being fashionable, therefore, can be a very expensive pastime(消遣)!
Everyone wants to be self-confident, but maybe we just don't know how to be. Here are some tips on how you can feel more confident about yourself.
Everyone has shortcomings. When you have found your shortcomings, work to overcome them. If you are a shy person, take part in social activities, such as parties, and speak to at least one or two people there.
Second, try to spend more time with positive people. Successful and confident people have their own ways of settling problems.
Third, set goals for yourself. With each goal you achieve, you self-confidence will increase. We are afraid that we might lose. Stop thinking like that and give yourself a chance.
Fourth, start each day with a sense of opportunity. Think positively about yourself.
Actually everyone has his or her own way of becoming confident. Friends might have useful suggestions, too.
In short, as long as you try new things, you are sure to become more confident.
A. You should talk with your friends.
B. Pay attention and learn from them.
C. First, don't think about your weak points.
D. It's not always right to ask friends for help.
E. sometimes we might be afraid of trying new things.
F. First, you should know what your weak points are.
G. Start your day by reading something encouraging.
A little boy invited his mother to attend his school's first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy's1, she said she would go. This2be the first time that his classmates and teacher3his mother and he felt4of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar（疤痕）that5nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to6why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were7by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in spite of (不管) the8, but the little boy was still embarrassed(尴尬）and9himself from everyone. He did, however, get within10of a talk between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked11, "How did you get the scar on your face?"
The mother replied, “12my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was13afraid to go in because the fire was14, so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked senseless but luckily, a fireman came in and saved15of us." She16the burned side of her face. “This scar will be17, but to this day, I have never18what I did."
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with19in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great sense of the sacrifice(牺牲)that his mother had made for him. He held her hand20for the rest of the day.
What is your favorite cartoon? It may be (difficulty) for you to decide. But for pianist Lang Lang, Tom and Jerry is the best one.
When Lang Lang (be) two years old, he saw Tom playing piano. This was his first time to enjoy western music and this experience encouraged him (learn) to play the piano. His talent at the keyboard has taken him from Shenyang the world. Lang became a good piano student at three. Ever since, the boy has been doing (good). In 1997, the 15-year-old boy studied at a famous American music college.
Lang's performances are full of energy. He is well-known for (make) facial expressions and moving around while playing the piano.
The road to (succeed) has never been easy. Lang's father stopped his job to look him, while his mother stayed in Shenyang to make money. But Lang considers (him) lucky and believes he should give something back. He has helped the children in poor areas a lot.
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注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
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I am interested at swimming very much. At first, I went swimming just to keep health. Now my dream was to swim for my country in the Olympics. Though practicing in the pool is very bored, but I still work very hard in order to realize my dream. Because my hard work, I have already come first in much important competitions. In the competitions, I've made lot of friends and we're very close. It's much easier to have friends which are swimmers because they also have to get up early to practice like you and they understand this kind of life.
1）表示欢迎；
2）介绍与本地生活相关的信息（如天气，饮食等）；
3）介绍本班情况；
4）希望Chris做哪些事情，以增进中美学生之间的了解和友谊。
注意：
1）请勿提及与考生相关的真实信息；
2）可适当加入细节，使内容充实，行文连贯；
3）词数不少于100，开头已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：交换生exchange student
Dear Chris,
I'm Li Jin, monitor of Class One, Grade Eleven.
