The Central Park SummerStage hosts dance and music events throughout the summer. Many of them are free, while others require tickets.
The SummerStage is in the open air, located at Rumsey Playfield.
Entrance to the SummerStage area begins 90 minutes before the shows start on weekends, and 60 minutes before weeknight performances.
Things to bring to the Central Park SummerStage
★Water
★Blankets
★Picnic dinner
★Sunblock/Sunhats for daytime shows
Things not to bring to the Central Park SummerStage
★Cameras
★Glass bottles
★Chairs
★Skateboards
★Bikes
Good to know about the Central Park SummerStage
★There are no tickets for free events, but space is limited and available on a "firstcome, firstserved" basis. Sometimes, lines form over an hour before the gates open.
★There is a special area where people can spread out blankets and sit during the show.
★If you're attending a show during the daytime, keep in mind that there is little shade (阴凉处), so sunblock and sunhats are necessary. Also, drink plenty of water to avoid getting dehydrated (脱水的).
★Food is allowed. And you can order everything from the Park Shop. But remember to take away your rubbish, otherwise you'll be fined.
★If you want to get into events more easily, pay for SummerStage Membership (会员资格) which offers members the fasttrack entrance to shows and seats on the bleachers (露天看台).
★If you're not into crowds and are satisfied with just hearing the music, there is plenty of space on the grass outside of the Central Park SummerStage area.
★For more information, follow SummerStage.com on Facebook.
Satellites are an important part of our ordinary lives.For example, the information for weather forecasts is sent by satellites.Some satellites have cameras which take photographs of the earth to show how clouds are moving.Satellites are also used to connect our international phone calls.
Computer connections of the World Wide Web and Internet also use satellites. Many of our TV programs come to us through satellites.Airplane pilots also sometimes use a satellite to help them find their exact location.
We use satellites to send television pictures from one part of the world to another.They are usually 35,880 kilometers above the equator.Sometimes we can see a satellite in the sky and it seems to stay in the same place.This is because it is moving around the world at 11,000 kilometers an hour—exactly the same speed as the earth rotates (旋转) at.A satellite must orbit the earth with its antennae (天线) facing the earth.Sometimes, it moves away from its orbit.So there are little rockets on it which are used to put the satellite back in the right position.This usually happens about every five or six days.
Space is not empty！Every week, more and more satellites are sent into space to orbit the earth.A satellite usually works for about 10－12 years.Satellites which are broken are sometimes repaired by astronauts or sometimes brought back to the earth to be repaired.Often, very old or broken satellites are left in space to orbit the earth for a very long time.This is very serious because some satellites use nuclear power and they can crash into each other.
What are your retirement plans? Keep working? Get more exercise? Or learn something new? You may put_them_on_hold. There's a chance that, sooner or later, you might have to move further than you were thinking, as far as Mars.
On Thursday, National Geographic will show the firstever Mars show home, giving earthlings (地球人) an idea of what their life could look like on the Red Planet. In the notsodistant year of 2037, the iglooshaped structure could be the home of your future.
It shows a house built using recycled spacecraft (航天器) parts and Martian soil, called regolith, which has been microwaved into bricks. Some parts of the home are recognizable—a kitchen, a bedroom—but there are fundamental differences that are important to human survival.
As the Martian atmosphere is around one hundredth as thick as the Earth's, people will need permanent (永久的) shelter from the sun; society will move largely indoors. Most buildings will be connected by underground passages and the houses won't have windows. The homes will have simulated solar lighting, or natural light that has been bent several times.
Walls will need to be 10 to 12 feet thick to protect people from dangerous rays (光线) that can pass through six feet of steel, and a double airlocked entrance to keep the home under proper pressure.
"We don't think of our houses as things that keep us alive, but on Mars your house will be a survival centre, " says Stephen Petranek, author of How We'll Live on Mars. This is not just the stuff of scifi. "10 to 20 years from now there will certainly be people on Mars, " Petranek says.
"We've had the technology for 30 years to land people on Mars, but we haven't had the will, " Petranek says. But two main factors have "completely swung public attitudes".
The private companies' participation has forced government agencies to speed up their game, and influential films such as Gravity and The Martian have caught society's eye.
It seems we can't get off the planet fast enough. Two thirds of NASA's money is spent on manned space exploration, and that number will grow with the USA's decision to send a man to Mars in 2037. We've seen all there is to see on Earth, right? Wrong. The final place is here, under the surface of the sea.
Heading down into the ocean, human limits are quickly reached. At 200 metres, the water is as black as a moonless night. Most nuclear submarines (核潜艇) would implode (内爆) before they reach 1 km down. At 3 km—still less than the average depth of the ocean—there's a good chance that you'll discover a new species. The deepestdiving whales go no further. At the very bottom, about 11 km down, lies the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. Eighteen humans have walked on the Moon, but only three have seen the Deep with their own eyes.
Yet things live down there. Big things. A very loud sound was once heard and scientists suggested that it was produced by an animal bigger than a blue whale, the largest creature known on the planet.
In the late 1990s, deepwater submarine was dropped in the Southern Ocean, and passing 4,000 metres, it discovered something huge passing under it. Surprised? Don't be. The ocean covers 70% of the planet's surface and we've studied less than 5% of it. We know more about the dark side of the Moon than about the bottom of the sea.
One reason that we explore space is to find evidence of other life forms. The search for life outside of Earth is important, but robots can look under the dry rocks of Mars better than humans. They're absolutely important for doing ocean research too, but they can't look under the sea. The cost of exploration is rising, but the results would benefit all our lives. Understanding the oceans will help us find new sources of food, drugs and energy.
Perhaps now it's time to begin a new period of sea exploration. Manned exploration of space is science fiction (科幻小说). The adventure of the deep sea is science fact.
We all have plans to achieve success in life, but what we are lacking is the motivation that keeps us going to put plans into action. Here are the ways that can effectively ease the problem.
Just grab a book, especially an inspirational book or a book of success stories. You can learn from others and the story will motivate you to move ahead with your plans. It also makes you refocus your energy on your goals rather than the problems at hand.
Think of your purpose.
Your purpose could be to improve the life of others, or help people to do things more efficiently. Thinking of your purpose is an important way to motivate you.
Talk to a supportive friend.
Talking to a supportive friend would be able to overcome the problem of lacking motivation. Find someone that you are comfortable with and share your problems with him.
Go through your goals daily.
Prepare a list of goals that you want to achieve and go through your goals at least once a day. By doing this, you refresh your mind with the goals you have set for yourself.
Do it at once.
Another way is to get started with what you need to do. But by forcing yourself to just do it, you'll probably make progress little by little and without realizing it, you have actually finished the task on hand.
A. Read a book.
B. See a motivational film.
C. You should have plans to achieve success.
D. After it, you will feel recharged and reenergized.
E. Think of why you want to achieve what you want.
F. Sometimes you don't feel like doing what you want to do.
G. You need to do this even more if you feel down and have no motivation.
An old man lived in a nice house with a large garden. He took care of his 1all the time, watering and fertilizing them.
One day a young man went by the 2.He looked at the beautiful flowers, imagining how happy he could be3he lived in such a beautiful place. Then, suddenly he found the old gardener was 4. He was very surprised about this and asked, "You can't see these flowers.5are you busy taking care of them every day？"
The old man smiled and said, "I can tell you four 6 First, I was a gardener when I was young, and I really like this job. Second,7I can't see these flowers, I can touch them.8, I can smell the sweetness of them. As to the last one, that's 9."
"Me? But you don't know me," said the young man.
"Yeah, it's 10 that I don't know you. But I know that flowers are angels that everybody 11. We enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us."
The blind man's work opened our eyes, and 12 our hearts, which also made his life 13. It was just like Beethoven, who became deaf in his later life and wrote many great musical works. Beethoven himself couldn't 14 his wonderful music, but his music has 15 millions of people to face their difficulties bravely. Isn't it one kind of happiness?
Worldfamous physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. He died (peaceful) at his home in Cambridge in the early (hour) of Wednesday.
Hawking was known the public for his work with black holes and relativity, and wrote several popular science books including A Brief History of Time.At the age of 22, Prof. Hawking (give) only a few years to live after doctors declared that he suffered from a rare disease.The illness left him in a wheelchair and he was (able) to speak except through a voice synthesizer (合成器).
Prof. Hawking was the first (set) out a theory of cosmology (宇宙学) explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.He also discovered that black holes (leak) energy and fade to nothing—a phenomenon that would (late) become known as Hawking radiation. Through his work with mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, he proved that Einstein's general theory of relativity suggests space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and end in black holes.
In a statement his children praised his "courage and persistence" and said his "brilliance and humour" inspired people across the world.They added, "He once said, 'It would not be much of a universe it wasn't home to the people you love.' We will miss him forever."
For many years, I had a recurring (重复出现的) dream. I was a little girl again, rushing about, trying to get ready for school.
"Hurry, you'll be late for school," my mother called to me.
"I am hurrying, Mom! What did I do with my books？"
Deep inside I knew where the dream came from. It was about some unfinished business in my life. As a kid, I loved everything about school. I loved books, teachers, tests and homework. Most of all I longed to someday march down the aisle (通道) to receive my diploma. That seemed more appealing even than getting married.
But at 15, I had to drop out because my parents couldn't afford tuition (学费). My hope of getting a diploma was dead, or so I thought. Pretty soon, I married and had three children, and I thought: "There goes my diploma."
Even so, I wanted my children to be educated. But Linda, our youngest child, had juvenile arthritis (幼年型关节炎) in her hands and knees, which made it impossible for her to function in a normal classroom. I felt really sorry for her and I didn't want her to live her life with regret. I didn't give up hope of her being back to school in some way.
One day, I saw an ad in the newspaper for evening courses. "That's the answer, "I said to myself. Linda always feels better in the evening, so I'll just sign her up for night school.
Linda was busy filling out enrollment (入学) forms when the secretary said: "Mrs. Schantz, why don't you come back to school?"
I laughed: "There's no way! I'm 55！"But he persisted, and before I knew what I had done, I was enrolled for classes in English and crafts. "This is only an experiment," I warned him, but he just smiled. So, I told myself to try for just a semester and to see if it would work. Anyway, my dream was still there in my heart.
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