Giraffe Manor(Kenya)
Giraffe Manor is an extraordinary hotel built in the early 1930s and lies in Nairobi, Kenya. The hotel is most well-known for its Rothschild giraffes. Every morning and evening, giraffes will enter the dining hall and eat with the guests. Giraffe Manor is the only place in the world where people can get this up close and personal with a giraffe.
The Ice Hotel (Sweden)
The hotel, lying in a remote village in Sweden, is the first ice hotel in existence. It was started in the 1980s by a Swedish artist who wanted to create a large sculpture to celebrate the natural resources around it. The hotel is rebuilt every year, opening in winter and closing in spring.
Free Spirit Spheres (British Columbia)
The goal of Free Spirit Spheres is to provide a place for people to enjoy exceptional experiences while living in a natural forest environment. It is open year-round on Vancouver Island. It is the only known eco-friendly tree house hotel in the world. It is so popular that you may have to book it three months to a year in advance.
The Manta Resort (Tanzania)
The underwater hotel is part of the unique Manta Resort on Pemba Island in Tanzania. It is 273 yards offshore in the Manta house reef. The reef is famous for its abundant oceanic wildlife and guests come to experience the peace and quietness that the remote island offers. The room is surrounded on all sides with large windows so that guests can be part of the wildlife activity around the reef.
If you dream of a world where neighbors share with each other and you don't have to spend money at a store every time you need something, then your local Buy Nothing Group might be the perfect fit. This clever idea began in July 2013, when two friends, Rebecca Rockefeller and Liesl Clark, from. Bainbridge Island, Washington, wanted to try something new. They liked the idea of developing a local gift economy as a way to challenge the consumerist mindset and reconnect neighbors. The Buy Nothing Project has grown rapidly since then, with 6,000 groups now in 44 countries.
The basic idea is that anyone can ask for what they need and anyone can give it. The official rules are simple: "Post anything you'd like to give away, lend, or share among neighbors. Ask for anything you'd like to receive for free or borrow. Keep it legal. No buying or selling, no trades, we're strictly a gift economy."
All participants have equal standing. Gifts and requests can be large or small, items or services (though they must be legal). Lending and borrowing are allowed, too. Things must be given freely, with no expectation of a gift in return. There are no rules about how to post, though people are encouraged to share personal stories about themselves, their gifts and requests, as this helps to build community.
When asked why the Buy Nothing Project has been met with such enthusiasm, the founders suggest it's because of the human desire to feel connected with others around us. Besides, this is truly a great way to take a stand against over-consumption, to clear out our homes, to save items from landfill and prolong their lifespan , and to keep valuable resources in the ground. The more sharing and reusing we can do, the better off we'll all be for both climate and human well-being.
Princess culture is less about a princess lifestyle, and more about great-depth of character, serving as a beautiful reminder of worth—whether a girl is a princess or not. In Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess, Sara Crewe survived her many tragedies and hardships by remembering "I am a princess. All girls are… even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They are still princesses. " Whether child or adult, all can benefit from the belief that no matter their circumstances, they always have value—that true self-worth goes beyond appearance or environment and is found deep within. No matter how difficult our circumstances are, princesses encourage us to remember our worth.
Spend much time with a four-year-old girl in the U. S and you will likely see some sort of princess play, whether it is dressing up, acting out stories, or playing with princess-themed toys. This particular type of pretend play is very important to children. Lindsey and Colwell found that children who regularly engage(参与)in pretend play have more positive emotions with peers(同龄人), score higher on emotional understanding, and are better at emotional regulation one year later. Research suggests that princess play specifically can lead to rich experiences for children as they expand on the stories of familiar characters.
Princesses also provide examples of "women who rule", showing women and girls that they can be accepted as the heroines of their own stories and lead with wisdom and maturity( 成熟). In other words, princesses inspire potential.
Adults often think of princesses in a negative way someone who is too proud or crazy about their appearance. But in children's imagination, the word "princess" allows them to think about what they can become. Maybe they won't save the world, but they will defend their values. Maybe they won't have the perfect figure, but they can develop the confidence to move beyond appearance.
Recordings (录音) of angry bees are enough to send big, tough African elephants running away, a new study says. Beehives ( 蜂窝) either recorded or real may even prevent elephants from damaging farmer's crops.
Years ago, scientist Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them. Today, Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might stop elephants from eating crops.
But before she asked farmers to set up beehives on their farms, she needed to find out if the bees would frighten elephants away.
Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder. Then she threw a stone into the beehive, which burst into life. Lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed down. Next, Lucy searched out elephant families in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya and put a speaker in a tree close to each family.
From a distance, Lucy turned on the pre-recorded sound of angry bees while at the same time recording the elephants with a video camera. Half the elephant groups left the area within ten seconds. Out of a total of 17 groups, only one group didn't react to the sound of the angry bees. Lucy reported that all the young elephants immediately ran to their mothers to hide under them. When Lucy played the sound of a waterfall ( 瀑布) instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families, the animals were undisturbed. Even after four minutes, most of the groups stayed in one place.
Lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it several times. She hasn't tested enough groups yet to know and she has now begun placing speakers in the fields to see if elephants are frightened away.
We've all heard people say "Oh , that person is so creative!" about someone who is great at art, but art is just one area where people can be creative. Any time you try something different to solve a problem, you're being creative. Maybe, but anyone can get more creative with practice. Here are some techniques that work for experts who are creative in very different ways.
Explore and Imagine. Shigeru Miyamoto, is the brains behind some of the world's most popular video games: Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelde and Donkey Kong. He spent hours exploring nature and going on adventures in his mind.
Tune into Music. "Music is important to me. It brings my creative juices, says author Linda Trice. When she was writing about American hero Harriet Tubman, she started each day by listening to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." In her picture book Kenya's Song, Kenya and her father compose a song inspired by all the different music they hear in their neighborhood.
Find Pictures in Patterns. The artist Leonardo da Vinci looked everywhere for patterns that would spark his imagination. For example, he would look at stone walls to discover landscapes or faces.
Dr . Lonnie Johnson is the inventor of the Super Soaker. When he was in high school, he wanted to build a robot, but he failed many times. Now he is an engineer and an inventor. In a TED Talk, he said, "Just like with the robot, I don't know any better than ‘Try !'"
A. Don' t Give Up. B. Look for Details.
C. Her characters are also moved by music .
D. Have you ever looked for animal shapes in clouds?
E. Are some people naturally more creative than others?
F. As a game designer, he still finds joy in making up new worlds.
G. She became famous for her huge paintings of small flowers and animals.
I spent time with some elders during my grandmother's five-year stay in the nursing home. I knew what it was like for them without any 1 .So sad. They just kept loving each other and being kind.
One day, I saw a man2 on a couch in the hall who was frequently lying with his head on the sidearm. Earlier he had been trying to push Jean, who couldn't 3 far alone in her wheelchair, with his head, from his wheelchair. Obviously, it was quite difficult for him and it was also a 4 for Jean.
I asked if they would like me to push Jean. Jean said with 5, "Yes, please!" and the man smiled a toothless "thank you". I thanked him for his 6 and pushed Jean back to her room.
Now, this same man was on his own and as I got 7 , I realized he had only one 8 and the one he did have was dry and full with rashes (疹子); he kept scratching (抓) it.
I had a lotion ( 涂 剂 ) in my bag that seemed to made him feel better. I even found myself 9 lotion on his other side, where there had been a leg as well. It just seemed a 10 thing to do. He didn't speak English but spoke to me in his home language—Vietnamese—and tears started to come gently down his face. I 11 his tears with tissues and patted him on his shoulder to 12 him. He kept talking and looking at me as if I understood him. I nodded and listened.
We didn't 13 each other and weren't blood-related and yet, in that moment, we shared a14 that went beyond blood—heart to heart. When I see him again, chances are that he won't recognize me—but I will remember him forever. And, every time my heart extends, it is 15.
China's biang biang noodles are taking the world by storm-yet the dish's name doesn't (official) exist. Here in Xi'an, the capital of China's Shaanxi province and one of the country's oldest cities, the craft of noodle-pulling is so twisted together with the blowing sound the noise
ended up inspiring this dish's curious name: biang biang noodles. The onomatopoeic (拟声的) "biang" character (mean) to imitate the sound of flour mixed with water hitting a counter. It is also (complex) to write than any character in the Chinese language.
In the past centuries, Shaanxi's biang biang noodles were no more than humble local dish. Compared to other noodle (variety) from north-west China, biang biang were less known outside of Xi'an, they were a comforting and beloved food among locals, for whom the back story and written character were common knowledge. In recent years, biang biang noodles and its associated custom have become more widely known across China, (drive) in part by social media interest in the made-up biang character. Now, the dish is passing through land and sea from its humble beginnings the hearts and mouths of diners the world over—a breakthrough that many people haven't expected (be) delightful.
假定你是高中生李华，你的英国朋友 John 对你校的茶艺选修课(optional course)很感兴趣，来信向你了解这门课程的情况，请根据以下要点给他回一封邮件。
1）课程目的;
2）课程内容;
3）个人感受。 注意：
1）词数 80 左右;
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear John,
Yours,
Li Hua
An Act of Neighborliness
The skies were dark. A strong wind was blowing hard, cutting my face like a sharp knife. Rain fell in big drops and thunder and lightning flashed across the skies. I shook with cold and fear as I walked home, through the streams of muddy water. Some people were rushing by, completely wet in the heavy rain.
Along the way, I saw some schoolchildren holding their heavy schoolbags tightly and rushing home, I also saw that some road repair work had been abandoned by workers. Obviously, the workers had left in a hurry because of the storm. There were few signs and it was hard to see what was on the road. There were pieces of wood and metal and it looked like a hole had been dug and hurriedly covered with boards.
I moved on but suddenly stopped as I heard some sounds. It sounded like children crying. I quickly turned back and went back to the place from where the sounds came. I was frightened! To my sadness, I found that a small child had fallen into the hole on the road. The boards had moved away with the force of the rushing water. I could hardly see the child as it was dark all around me. I told he that I was going to look for help. I knew the neighbors well, and they all shared a sense of neighborliness, willing to give a hand.
注意：
1）续写词数应为 150 左右；
2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Paragraph 1. Actually, I was not sure of what to do or where to go but decided to go to the nearest house for help.
Paragraph 2. The parents of the child who just arrived from work were totally shocked to hear of what had happed.
