Santa Cruz County is home to the rough coastline, grand redwoods, and tracks to secret beaches making it the primary destination for your next adventure!
Berry Creek Falls at Big Basin State Park
Big Basin is California's oldest state park and is home to the largest continuous stand of ancient Coast Redwoods south of San Francisco. The park offers over 80 miles of tracks and has a surprising number of waterfalls. It features a series of year-round waterfalls, lush redwood forest and steep canyons.
Phone: 8637-0835976
Wilder Ranch State Park
Grasslands, small pines, coastal redwoods, the rough coastline, tidepools, hidden beaches, Victorian farmhouse, barns-need we say more? Wilder Ranch owns a wide variety of landforms and habitats, and offers over 34 miles of hiking, biking and horse tracks winding through coastal terraces (梯田) and valleys.
Phone: 8637-0835886
Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
Whether you're a family with tiny pets or tough teens, Henry Cowell has a track for you and yours. The main park area features 15 miles of hiking and riding tracks through a variety of forested areas with redwoods, mixed evergreens, yellow pines, and even sandhills. For slightly older kids—take the River Track for a scenic hike with great rewards—i. e. some water sports!
Phone: 8639-0836886
West Cliff Drive
Although not considered a traditional "hike", West Cliff Drive delivers on some serious strides (大步) with seaside views. Busy beaches and surf spots to quiet bays and wildlife? this coastal path serves up some breathtaking sceneries. When the path ends, take a glance toward the ocean and see the photogenic Natural Bridges State Beach.
Phone: 8635-0936888
When my grandmother Deed was young she contracted polio (小儿麻痹症). She was kept in bed for the better part of a year and lost the use of her right leg. She was raising my young father on her own, so it felt like an impossible situation. Her family gave her much support and encouragement. Slowly but surely, Deed learned not only to deal, but to thrive with her disability. People thought she was crazy when she wanted to start her own business, but she was determined. She borrowed money from the bank for her business. She went on to run a successful company and became one of the first women entrepreneurs in the city of Revere, Massachusetts.
I truly believe polio was a gift to my grandmother. It strengthened her beliefs and made her strong and resilient (有适应力的), but it also forced her to slow down and think about everything quietly and seriously. She never complained about her condition, not once.
However, I often got angry and complained when things weren't going my way. Deed would turn to me and gave me advice on my next move. Though far from Hollywood (she lived on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire), Deed seemed to know answers to the problems that seemed to puzzle me. She was my trusted mentor (导师). With each visit, she would help me better myself, expand my mind and go after bigger dreams.
I became confident, more driven and focused on what I wanted to achieve. Each step of the way, Deed was there to cheer me on. The more I leaned back out of fear, the more she challenged me to walk further to the possibilities.
Within a month of selling my first screenplay, Deed passed away. She is on my mind daily. Now, whenever I deal with career issues that scare me, I would remind myself of her greatest piece of advice: Sit down and take a breath. It will all work out
Over half of Tokyo's residents don't think the postponed 2020 Olympics should be held in 2021, backing either a further delay or complete cancellation because of fears for the coronavirus, according to a poll (民意调查) published on Monday.
The survey carried out by two Japanese news organizations is only a single data point, but comes after health experts warned that even a year's delay may not be enough to hold the Games safely.
The poll found 51. 7 percent of respondents hope the Games in 2021 are postponed again or canceled, while 46. 3 percent want to see the rescheduled Olympics go ahead. Among those opposed to the 2021 Games, 27. 7 percent said they want them canceled altogether, while 24 percent would prefer a second postponement.
The telephone poll, conducted by Kyodo News and Tokyo MX television between Friday and Sunday, received 1,030 replies. Of those who said they want to see the Games held in 2021, 31. 1 percent said the event should be on a smaller scale, while 15. 2 percent said they want to see fully developed Olympics.
Tokyo 2020 was postponed in March as the coronavirus spread across the globe, causing the worst disruption (中断) to the Olympics since two editions were canceled during World War II. The Games are now scheduled to begin on July 23, 2021, although they will still be known as the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Officials from Japan and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have warned that it will not be possible to postpone them again, and even the year-long delay has created significant financial and logistical (后勤的) headaches.
Earlier in June, the mayor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike told AFP that the rescheduled Olympics will be safe despite the coronavirus pandemic, promising to make a "120-percent effort" to ensure the first-ever postponed Games can go ahead. Koike has been heavily involved in preparations for the Games, traveling to Rio for the handover ceremony after the last Summer Olympics.
Stephen Warren, study leader at the University of Washington, has been on the case of the green icebergs for more than 30 years. He first took samples from one of these green hunks of ice in 1988, near the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctic. Most glacial ice occurs in shades of white to brilliant blue. The bluer the ice, the older it is. Typically, compression (压缩) from accumulating layers of snow pushes air bubbles out of the ice, reducing the scattering of white light. The compressed ice absorbs most of the light except for blue, creating the blue color seen in the hearts of icebergs and glaciers.
The green ice was similarly bubble-free, and yet it looked green instead of blue. Warren and his team soon found that the green ice came not from glaciers, but from marine ice. That's the ice from the undersides of floating ice shelves.
At first, the team thought that organic material in the marine ice was causing the green color. But further research showed that the green marine ice didn't have a higher — than — usual amount of organic impurities. Now, a new study finds that a different sort of impurity may be the root cause of the green ice. Warren and his colleagues report that the marine ice at the bottom of the Amery Ice Shelf has 500 times more iron than the glacial ice above.
This iron comes from the rocks under the Antarctic Ice Sheet, which are turned into fine powder as glaciers move over them. The icebound iron oxidizes (氧化) as t contacts seawater. The resulting iron oxide particles take on a green color when light scatters through them. When icebergs break off the larger ice shelf, they carry this iron-rich ice with them. It's like taking a package to the post office. The iceberg can deliver this iron into the ocean far away, and then melt and deliver it to other living things that can use it as a nutrient.
Time and money are life's most valuable resources. One of the great laws of economics is that time equals money. The phrase "time is money" is usually credited to Benjamin Franklin, who used it in an essay, Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748. He encouraged people to treat time like money. However, most people think about time and money in vastly different ways.
Poor or rich, we all have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Thus, each of us faces the choice of how to spend our time. In a world of scarcity, choosing one thing means not being able to do something else.
The value of time varies from person to person. Time is relatively scarce for people with higher incomes, partly because their time is more valuable. So, to have lots of time, rich people hire other people to do their household chores.
Time cannot be stored. One of the reasons we give little thought about how we use our limited resources is that we cannot save time. You can't bottle time and exchange it for an object or event. However, when people are made aware of their mortality (生命的有限) they wonder if they did make the most of their lives.
In sum, time is anything but free. As a non — renewable resource, time is quite expensive.
Do we want to spend these precious moments on social media or spend that time learning something new? Skills and knowledge take time, so the more time you spend on them, the more you improve.
A. Time is our scarcest resource.
B. It means time is a valuable resource.
C. However, it cannot be bought at any price.
D. Time moves on whether we choose to spend it or not
E. Actually, time and money are greatly different from each other.
F. However, a non-working person may spend more time on household chores.
G. Knowing that time is limited encourages us to ask how we are using our time.
Music is my first love. I can sit down at the piano and 1 all about my problems. During the lowest moment in my life, music was my greatest comfort.
After2 service in the army, I became an iron worker. A few years ago, the one-bedroom bungalow (平房)I 3 in Massachusetts was sold. Though the landlord (房东)gave me two months rent-free to find a new place to live, nothing affordable 4 . Eventually, I packed up my 5 and slept in my car, thinking it would only be 6. But weeks turned into months and the months into years. The one thing that kept me alive was 7. While I had developed cataracts (白内障)，nothing could keep my fingers from finding the right keys.
One Christmas Eve, I was driving to where I would 8 my car and sleep at night when another car came around the corner and into my way. With my only home destroyed, I felt as if my life were out of 9 and would never get back on key again.
10 Bruce Knight, a retired firefighter drove me to a 11shelter in Maine, where I met case managers from Volunteers of America's Veterans Services. With their help, I moved into their transitional housing, and got the surgery I needed to 12my eyesight. Almost every day, I'd play for hours, 13 lost in the music. People would gather around my piano, singing and 14.
Thinking back to those days, I realize how blessed I've been that people have helped me when I couldn't 15 how to help myself. They took me in, and encouraged me to make music.
We seem to be very familiar with teahouses. The function of a teahouse varies widely (depend) on the culture. In China, a teahouse is a place people gather to enjoy tea, chat and socialize. It (consider) as a symbol of Chinese tea culture.
Chinese teahouses enjoy a long-standing history. They developed from tea stands in the Western Jin Dynasty, (take) shape in the Tang Dynasty, developed (gradual) in the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties and became booming in modern times.
In the Song Dynasty, teahouses existed all over cities and villages, a rate comparable with that of restaurants. The owners preferred to decorate their teahouses with paintings of celebrities(名人)and rare and precious plants (attract) customers. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the number of teahouses went beyond that of restaurants, gaining more (popular) and becoming more famous. Later, the acculturation(文化移入)of Western culture forced traditional Chinese teahouses to take on new look. After reform and opening-up, teahouses flowered in China with the development of the economy and evident improvement of (people) living standards.
It was deep into the night many years ago. The rain just came pouring down outside. An elderly man and his wife entered the 10bby （大厅）of a small hotel in Philadelphia, USA.
Trying to get out of the rain, the couple approached the front desk hoping to get a room to stay in for the night.
"Could you possibly give us a room here?" the husband asked.
The clerk, a friendly young man with a winning smile, looked at the couple and explained that there were three conferences in the town. "All of our rooms are taken," the clerk said. "But I can't send a nice couple like you out into the rain at one o'clock at night. Would you perhaps be willing to sleep in my room? It's not exactly a suite, but it will be good enough to make you comfortable for the night. "
When the couple declined, the young man pressed on. "Don't worry about me. I'll make out just fine," the clerk told them. So the couple agreed.
As he paid his bill the next morning, the elderly man said to the clerk, "You are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best hotel. Maybe someday I'll build one for you. "
The clerk looked at them and smiled. The three of them had a good laugh. As they drove away, the elderly couple agreed that the helpful clerk was indeed exceptional, as finding people who are both friendly and helpful isn't easy.
Three years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten the thing when he received a letter from the elderly man. It recalled that stormy night, when he offered his kind help to the elderly couple. In the envelope, there was a round-trip ticket to New York, and a letter asking the young man to pay them a visit. The young man decided to set out immediately.
注意：
1）续写词数应为150左右；
2）续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好。
Paragraph 1：
"Do you still remember my promise years ago?" the elderly man said to the young man.
Paragraph 2：
"You must be joking," the young man said.
