Musicals in Washington's Historic National Theatre in 2020
The Last Ship
Friday, March 27—Sunday, April 5
$49—$154
THE LAST SHIP, inspired by Sting's 1991 album "The Soul Cages" and his own childhood experiences, tells the story of a community in Tyne and Wear. Sting will star and perform the role at every performance. It features an original score with music and lyrics by Sting as well as a few of his best-loved songs: "Island of Souls" "All This Time" and "When We Dance". Learn more at TheLastShipMusical.com.
Recommended for ages 13 and up.
Run time: Approximately 2 hours, 30 minutes.
The King's Speech
Tuesday, Feb. 11 — Sunday, Feb. 16
$54 — $104
THE KING'S SPEECH is based on the true story of King George VI's struggle with a speech problem and the friendship he formed with his doctor, Lionel Logue. With the Nazi threat coming and civil unrest at home, royal secrets explode around the King as he appeared onto the world stage.
Recommended for ages 13 and up.
Run time: Approximately 2 hours, 50 minutes.
Blue Man Group
Friday, May 8 —Sunday, May 17
$64—$124
At BLUE MAN GROUP, you'll rock, laugh, and party! As three blue men explore our world, together we'll discover music, comedy and surprises at every turn. It is perfect for audiences of all ages and cultural backgrounds, and returns to D.C. with new music, fresh stories, custom instruments like never before.
Recommended for ages 4 and up.
Run time: Approximately 1 hour, 30 minutes
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
Wednesday, July 22 —Sunday, Aug. 2
$54—$114
Donna Summer was a girl from Boston with a voice from heaven. With a score featuring more than 20 of Summer's classic hits including "Love to Love You Baby" "Bad Girls" and "Hot Stuff", this electric experience is a moving tribute to the voice of a generation.
Recommended for ages 13 and up.
Run time: Approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes
MacArthur's love for sailing dates back to when she was just four years of age, when she first got the opportunity to have a try. "I'll never forget that feeling as a kid of setting foot on a boat for the first time," MacArthur said. "It's kind of struck me that this boat had everything we needed to take us anywhere in the world. And as a child, that opened up everything," she explained how it felt like the "greatest sense of freedom".
This experience lighted a passion within MacArthur. She knew then that she wanted to sail around the world. She had no idea how to achieve it — growing up in the countryside, it wasn't the most obvious career path — but she knew that was what she wanted to do at some stage. So, she acquired knowledge and saved up for years to seek a career in sailing. She would have potato and beans every day for eight years so that she could save up to buy the right equipment. By reaching certain financial goals and asking technical questions about sailing, MacArthur felt as though she was getting closer to her ambitions.
"When you know where you're going, you can actually get there — even if it seems impossible. The impossible could be possible and aiming high is not necessarily such a crazy thing to do." And it seems that MacArthur's drive to become a sailor went beyond her expectations. At the age of 24, she started to receive media attention after participating in the Vendee Globe, a single-handed non-stop yacht (游艇) race that goes around the world. She came in second place. Some three to four years later, MacArthur chose to sail for 71 days and 14 hours, covering more than 26,000 miles during the course of her journey. This led to MacArthur scoring a new world record in 2005, as the fastest person to sail around the globe single-handedly. While this record has since been surpassed, MacArthur is still considered as Britain's most successful off shore racer.
Google's new camera, called Clips, is a smart device. It comes with a case that has a clip (夹子), but it's not designed to be worn on your clothing. Most interestingly, it uses artificial intelligence to take photography out of your hands and captures moments entirely on its own!
What sets this roughly 2-inch by 2-inch camera, with a three-hour battery life and Gorilla Glass for toughness apart is that it is specially intended for candid moments, like when a child does something cute that may happen too quickly for you to pull out your smartphone.
The Clips device, it uses machine learning algorithms (计算程序) to help capture scenes. Those algorithms include face recognition. "Once it learns that there's a face you see frequently, it'll try to get nice photos of those faces," said Juston Payne, the device's product manager. And they also want it to recognize facial expressions, which involved "training it to know what happiness looks like". The Google team also trained it to recognize what not to shoot—like when a child's hand is over the lens, or if it is tossed in a dark purse.
The only way to see the images is by connecting the camera with your phone, as it has no screen for viewing or editing.
Concerned it could seem strange? Yes, Payne admitted, but he said they addressed that by making it obvious what it is. A green light on the front signals that it is on. Besides, unlike a camera meant to monitor your home, it is not connected to the Internet.
"This product is only possible because of the way that silicon(硅) has advanced," Payne said that now they could squeeze the technology down into a device this size. Going forward, we're likely to get more assistance from the artificial intelligence packed into our apps and gadgets.
Green Wave was one of the four apps to be recognized at the recent i-Way hackathon (编程马拉松)hosted in Israel by the car company Hyundai. The goal of the event was to discover new apps that could help improve the driving experience in new connected cars. And the winning apps were chosen for their ability to ensure the driving experience in a safe manner.
City driving means stopping every quarter of a mile at red lights. People tend to drive faster to "make" the next light, a practice that doesn't always work and which can endanger other drivers and pedestrians. Israeli developers Shlomo Shenzitz and Rafael Vianeti say their Green Wave app will tell drivers the suitable speed they need in order not to stop at a red light again.
To determine the right speed, the app would draw information from both the city and from its database of users, once enough people have started to use it. When a car is moving at a speed that guarantees it won't have to stop at a red light, a green wave will appear. When a red wave is shown, the driver needs to adjust their speed.
The "green" in Green Wave may stand as much for the environment as it does for "go". Stopping at red lights is annoying for drivers and even worse for the environment. Researchers found that carbon emissions(排放)were four times higher when a car was moving away from a red light, compared to when it drove through the green light.
What it comes down to is the old saying — slow and steady wins the race. You can either hurry up and wait, or slow down and never stop at another red light. Green Wave might not get you to your destination any faster, but it might increase road safety and reduce stress on drivers and the environment.
Learning a new language can be tough, and there is no magical way to go about it.
Know your learning style. This is the single most important thing you need to know when starting to learn a language. You will need to figure out if you learn best through repetition, through writing down or listening to a native speaker.
Learn pronunciation. Just ask a Polish person how to pronounce the letters" cz". It will help to learn IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet, as most dictionaries use it. Besides, the Foreign Service Institute offers free online language learning materials, which include audio recordings that help with learning pronunciation.
This is probably the most important part of the language besides the vocabulary. "Paul want Mary go store" may communicate an idea, but it is not at all correct English. If you do not pay attention to grammar, you can sound equally incomprehensible in another language.
Memorize 30 words and phrases each day. Within 90 days this means you will have memorized about 80% of the language. Memorization is half the battle and there are many different ways to memorize.
Practice the alphabet. Especially if you are learning a language which operates in a different alphabetical system, you will need to know what the letters look like and how they operate.
In doing so, your brain will have an easy path to remembering the letter and the sound that accompanies it.
A. Pay attention to grammar.
B. Start with the most common words.
C. Therefore, there are really no secrets or shortcuts.
D. Try associating images with each letter and sound.
E. Everyone learns differently, especially when it comes to language.
F. Nevertheless, with certain techniques you will be fluent in no time.
G. Even if a language has the same alphabet as yours, the pronunciation is not always the same.
Afel was only a very small boy when he first saw snow in a picture book. It had lots of pictures of children 1 in big white fields. He asked, "Mum, what are those white fields?" His mother laughed, "That's snow, and they are making a snowman!" She tried to 2 what snow was. Afel didn't really 3 because there was no real snow where he lived. But he showed great 4.
One day when he was 12, Afel was watching a programme on TV at his uncle's house. The programme was full of snow. And not only snow — there were people 5 across the snow. They looked like fantastic birds. They had hats covering all their heads and big goggles over their eyes. And on their feet, they had 6 shoes.
"What are those?" he asked his uncle 7. "Skis," replied his uncle. "And those people are called skiers." At that moment, he 8 to be a skier. He asked his uncle what the programme was. "The Winter Olympics," said his uncle. "It's like the normal Olympics, but for 9 where you need snow — ski jumping, bobsleigh (长橇), those sorts of things. They 10 it every four years."
Afel found out that the next Winter Olympics would be in Beijing, in 2022. "Perfect," he thought. "Enough 11 for me to become a brilliant skier."
"But there's no snow here!" people told him. "Where are you going to ski?" Afel 12 them. He made himself a pair of skis from two pieces of wood. He tied them to his feet and practised skiing 13 two sticks in his hands. He practised again and again until he could 14 quite quickly across the sand. He 15 to fly down the hills like the people on TV, but he couldn't.
"Never mind," he thought. "It's a 16…"
"How will you go to the Olympics?" people asked him. "Our country doesn't 17 have a team that goes to the Winter Olympics. We have good runners and win lots of medals at the Olympics. But no skiing, no." Afel didn't 18.
So every night, out in the middle of the desert, Afel now practises skiing down sand hills. He 19 that the yellow sand and brown earth are as gold as the medal he will bring home with him, when he is the 20.
Two pals from Florida received the most(expect) reward for tidying up in the aftermath of the state's flooding.
Skyle Thompson's land in Tampa, Florida was flooded by the Pratte River nearby. (thank), the cabin that Thompson built on the land was saved from the waters. He and his friend Guy Steven spent their entire Sunday (clean) up the debris.
Exhausted from their day of labor, they were ready to get back to their car Steven saw what looked like a refrigerator. Steven hiked the 50-foot distance between him and the fridge and was shocked (find) that it was filled with beers. Not only that, there were ice cold.
"It was a gift sent from the heavens," Thompson said in disbelief. The two men could hardly believe their luck, but they drank a few beers as rewards and posted their (luck) find online. The (photo) were shared thousands of times within hours and eventually appeared on the newsfeed of Bums Harvey, the refrigerator's owner, who recognized it immediately.
In addition surviving a cabin fire, the brave fridge somehow managed to survive the floodwaters as well. Harvey and Thompson (be) in contact with each other ever since, and Thompson has promised to return the fridge so that can live to fight another day in the future.
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：在错的词下划一横线，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。
For years, I thought my father was strongest person I had ever met. He worked hard most of his life and he was physical healthy. However, he had a seriously illness at the age of forty. My mother is always fighting alongside him. She suffered a lot of pressure as for his caretaker. She also managed to doing a full-time job and raise three children. My mother never lost faith that my father would be standing next to him again and the pair would be gardened together in the spring. It was her strength what kept my father alive. Fortunately, after 8 year of treatment, my father finally recovered.
1）活动的时间，地点和目的 2）活动的过程 3）你个人的感受
注意：1）词数100左右 2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
提示词:遭受巨大的压力 suffer from great pressure
心理健康周:a Psychological Health Week
专业指导:professional guidance
