Welcome to Adventureland!
Everyone loves Adventureland! The Parks and Exhibitions were built for you to explore, enjoy, and admire their wonders. Every visit will be an unforgettable experience. You will go away enriched, longing to come back. What are you going to do this time?
The Travel Pavilion
Explore places you have never been to before, and experience different ways of life. Visit the Amazon jungle village, the Turkish market, the Tai floating market, the Berber mountain house and others. Talk to the people there who will tell you about their lives, and things they make. You can try making a carpet, making fishing nets...
The Future Tower
This exhibition shows how progress will touch our lives. It allows us to look into the future and explore the cities of the next century and the way we'll be living then. Spend some time in our space station and climb into our simulator (模拟装置) for the Journey to Mars!
The Nature Park
This is not really one park but several. In the Safari Park you can drive among African animals in one of our Range Cruisers: see lions, giraffes, elephants in the wild. Move on to the Ocean Park to watch the dolphins and whales. And then there is still the Aviary to see...
The Pyramid
This is the center of Adventureland. Run out of film, need some postcards and stamps? For all these things and many more, visit our underground shopping center. Come here for information and ideas, too.
The next time your friends roll their eyes when you're snapping a selfie (自拍照）or taking a photo of your dessert, tell them that photographing everyday things can actually make people happier.
In a study of more than 2,000 people, researchers found that people who took photos of their experiences, whether they were walking through a museum or going on a city bus tour, had a better time overall compared with those who didn't.
During each of the study's nine experiments, people were asked to either take photos or give up photography during an everyday activity, such as eating a meal. In nearly every experiment, the group that took photos showed higher levels of enjoyment.
The finding might not sound terribly surprising. After all, Facebook members upload about 2 billion photos daily, and Instagram users upload about 80 million photos every day. But some people argue that taking photographs can distract themselves from enjoying an experience while it's happening.
The new research shows that it isn't the case and that photography does increase a person's enjoyment, because it increases his or her engagement in the activity. For example, in one experiment, people toured a museum while wearing glasses that tracked their eye movements. The group that took photos spent more time looking at the artifacts than those who didn't. However, photos are sometimes a drag. For instance, if the camera is difficult to carry, it might not bring enjoyment to a person. And in some cases, photography can make situations unpleasant. For example, when people in the study took a virtual safari (游猎) and watched some lions attacking a water buffalo, the people who took photos of the bloody event were reported to have a lower enjoyment of the activity than those who didn't, the researchers said.
Manutea Owen is a hero on his home island of Huahine. His ancestors took over nearly every island in the South Pacific Ocean in what was perhaps the greatest achievement before humans went to the moon. Only recently have scientists begun to understand where these amazing sailors came from, and how, with simple boats and no navigation equipment, they could manage to find hundreds of distant islands that cover nearly a third of the globe. This expansion into the Pacific was achieved by two wonderful peoples: the Lapita and the Polynesians.
How did the Lapita and early Polynesian pioneers do this? Very little evidence remains to help scientists understand their great sailing skills. However, with little evidence, scientists have been able to develop some theories about the secrets of these explorers' success.
Sailors have always relied upon the so-called trade winds, winds that blow steadily (匀速地) and in predictable directions over the ocean's surface. Geoff Irwin, a professor of archeology (考古学) notes that the Lapita's expansion into the Pacific was eastward, against steady trade winds. Sailing against the wind, he argues, may have been the key to their success.
Athol Anderson of the Australian National University believes that they may also have been lucky—helped by a weather phenomenon known as EI Nino. E1 Nino occurs in the Pacific Ocean when the surface water temperature is unusually high. It affects world weather in a variety of ways, but one of its effects is to cause trade winds in the South Pacific to weaken or to change direction and blow to the east. Scientists believe that E1 Nino phenomena were unusually frequent around the time of the Lapita expansion, and again when early Polynesians began their even more distant journeys.
The success of the Lapita and the Polynesian may have been because of their own sailing skills, of reverse (反向的) trade winds, of a mixture of both, or even of facts still unknown. But it is certain that by the time Europeans came to the Pacific, nearly every piece of land, hundreds of islands in all, had already been discovered by the Lapita and the Polynesians.
College is a time to study hard and go to class. But a new survey finds that US students spend more time, working paid jobs than studying. Many students finish school deep in debt.
Work vs. School
Researchers surveyed 1,507 students ages 18 to 34. All were presently admitted to college or graduate school. Results showed that 85 percent of students worked while in college. That was more than twice the time they spent in the library. It was almost two hours more than they spent in class. And it was 1.4 hours more than they spent studying at home.
Deep in Debt
People in the US spend more on college students than almost every other country in the world. The cost of college is at an all-time high. So is the level of student loan (贷款) debt. It is even worse for younger adults with entry-level jobs. US students also build up personal debt while in school. They spend an average(平均)of $4,321 to pay back that debt.
Students Bear the Burden(重担)
American parents pay for an average of $17,314 of college costs. Students spend almost $100,000. Almost 75 percent of US parents use their day-to-day earnings to help pay for their children's schooling.
Very Worried
Students reported feeling very worried about their finances. Young ladies felt more stress(压力)than young men. They pay more for student loan debt.
A. US colleges cost a lot to attend.
B. US college students spend more time studying.
C. Researchers also surveyed almost 10,500 parents.
D. They spent about 4.2 hours a day working paid jobs.
E. Students are responsible for paying back more of their debt.
F. Student loans are the second-largest source of US family debt.
G. Six in ten students said they worried "frequently" or "all the time".
When I first entered university, my aunt, who is an English professor, gave me a new English dictionary. I was 1 to see that it was an English-English dictionary, also known as a monolingual (只用一种语言的) dictionary. 2 it was a dictionary intended for non-native learners, 3 of my classmates had one, and to be honest, I found it extremely 4 to use at first. I would look up words in the dictionary and 5 not fully understand the meanings. I was used to the 6 bilingual dictionaries, in which the words are 7 both in English and Chinese. I really wondered why my aunt 8 to make things so difficult for me. Now, after studying English at university for three years, I 9 that monolingual dictionaries are 10 in learning a foreign language.
As I found out, there is, 11, often no perfect equivalence (对应)between two 12 in two languages . My aunt even goes so far as to 13 that a Chinese " equivalent " can never give you the 14 meaning of a word in English! 15, she insisted that I read the definition (释义) of a word in a monolingual dictionary when I wanted to get a better 16 of its meaning . 17, I have come to see what she meant.
Using a monolingual dictionary for learners has helped me in another important way. This dictionary uses a ( n ) 18 number of words, around 2, 000 in its definitions. When I read these definitions, I am 19 exposed to the basic words and learn how they are used to explain objects and ideas. 20 this, I can express myself more easily in English.
Number 1 in Chinese Culture
Number 1 is the simplest number, but has most complex cultural meaning in Chinese culture. It has the meaning of the beginning, the origin, and the whole, was first suggested by Lao Zi, a well-known philosopher in ancient China in his classic—Tao Te Ching. Meanwhile, this number (regard) as "the mother of all creatures" by some other Chinese philosophers in ancient times. Chinese people respect it for its meaning of the first and winner as the same in Western culture. It is easy (find) how people love the word from Chinese ancient literature. There are over 260 phrases and more than 420 idioms (begin) with this word in Chinese language system. In Chinese culture, it is lucky nor unlucky. The (combine) with some other numbers has positive meanings, such as 1314. (it) pronunciation in Chinese sounds similar to lifetime, which is widely used between (lover). Sometimes, 1 (Yi in Chinese Pinyin) sounds similar to the word "You"(Ni in Chinese Pinyin). The common use of 5211314 in network language means "I love you forever". 521 (simple) means "I love you", which is the most beautiful line to all.
内容包括：
1）介绍你的行程安排；
2）询问她能否担任导游；
3）期待对方的答复。
注意：
1）词数80左右；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Susan,
……
Yours,
Li Hua
A farmer grew some vegetables in his garden. One day his wife was ill and he had no money. He had to sell some cabbages and carrots in the market. The next morning he took two baskets of vegetables to town. But it was raining hard that afternoon and there were few people in the street. When his vegetables were sold out, it was dark. He bought some medicine and hurried to his village.
On his way home he saw a person lying on the snow. He placed his baskets on the ground and was going to help the person to get up. At that time he found it was a dead man and there was much blood on his body. He was so afraid that he ran away quickly, without taking the baskets with him.
The next afternoon the farmer was sent to the police station. Having shown the baskets, an officer asked, "Are these yours?" "Yes, sir," the farmer answered timidly(胆怯地) "Have you killed the man?" "No, no, sir." the farmer said in a hurry. "When did you see the dead man?" "About seven last evening." "Did you see who killed the man?" "No, sir." The officer brought out a knife and asked. "Have you seen it yet?" "No, sir." The officer became angry and told the policeman to beat him up and sent him into prison. The officer wanted to trap the farmer into the confession(供认), but the farmer didn't admit he was the murderer.
注意：
1）所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2）至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；
3）续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已经为你写好；
4）续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。
Paragraph 1:
The officer was so angry that he asked the policeman to beat him up again. ……
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The farmer was lucky. A few days later, ……
