Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany is well-known for foods from various countries. Here are some of the best places to get a taste of the neighborhood.
Fisch-Schmidt
Founded in 1908, this popular fish restaurant is named after its original German founder. When he failed to persuade his son to carry on the business, he handed it over to his superstar 18-year-old Turkish employee, Ayshe. She and her family have run it ever since, and the restaurant still serves traditional German smoked fish and potatoes alongside Turkish-influenced salads.
Little Gourmets
This store is best known for roasted and sweetened nuts and dried fruit. Customers can buy the various sweets here and go to its next-door teashop which offers more than one hundred types of Turkish drinks. The store owners are not at all interested in rushing anyone-they encourage their customers to enjoy every last bite and drink.
Baraka
Baraka is a Moroccan restaurant named after its owner. Baraka's father ran a restaurant in Casablanca in the mid-1970s that was frequented by German business travelers. He thought he could make a killing if he opened a restaurant in Germany, so he did just that when Baraka was a young child. Today people arrive in crowds for the vegetarian soup, and the fresh bread piping hot out of the oven.
Noodle Soup Lady
Noodle Soup Lady is well known for its Thai foods. Its terrific beef noodle soup with thin slices of pork is slightly sweet and sour. Another classic dish at Noodle Soup Lady is a kind of spicy salad which is made just in front of your eyes.
Directions, luggage delivery, tasty food. Those are some of the things we've seen robots offering at the media center of Beijing Winter Olympics. And most of the robots we've seen here aren't made to look human. Instead, they present a wide range of looks.
Two of the most advanced robots regularly operate in crowded space. One greets visitors, answers questions and offers to guide people through the crowds. Another one cleans the carpeted hallways of the main press center. 'k speaks to passersby in a woman's voice. It seems to be speaking English. But we carnet make it out well, because it also plays joyful music while its two front brushes are clearing dust and dirt like a futuristic street-sweeper.
Don't assume these robots work all hours just because they're robots. They have carefully managed schedules. For example, the snack robots just go around the media center for about 15 minutes every hour-usually only between noon and 17:00.
Another kind of robots helps out with logistics（物流） at the media center. These robots can carry up to 300 kilograms of goods, move freely along the relatively empty halls and automatically recharge themselves. They send unique codes through text messages to the receivers when the delivery has arrived. Then they can pick up the goods with the codes.
There are even COVID-fighting robots, which move around pre-programmed areas spreading chemicals. Food ordering, making and serving in the dining room are fully auto magical too. Reporters from around the world can enjoy various food options here.
In short, robots are expected to play an outstanding role in the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. But the most important goal is to reduce direct contact(接触)between people.
The world is getting greener, according to a new study published in Nature this week.
Chi Chen, lead author of the study, and his colleagues have been mining data collected by an orbiting NASA camera that monitors green vegetation on Earth's surface, day by day. Even more interesting: They are able to show the exact causes of increasing or decreasing leaf cover in particular areas.
In some cold places, increase in leaf cover apparently resulted from global warming. Since the climate is becoming more and more temperate and the growing season is getting longer and longer, the plants are growing bigger and leafier there.
"One large area of Brazil lost vegetation. I personally checked the data, and that's because of lack of rain," Chen said.
The most striking changes, though, were the result of human decisions in China and India. Both countries have been getting a lot greener.
The greening of India, Chen says, comes from a huge expansion of irrigated agriculture. "Instead of having just crops when it's raining, they also have a whole six months of cropping and greenness when it's not raining," he saves. "This version of greening isn't really so great for the environment, though. The irrigation drains groundwater, vegetation is wiped away at harvest time and the extra chemicals farmers use produce greenhouse gases. "
In China, though, about half of the new leaf cover that Chen detected appears to be the result of a massive reforestation effort. It's a government-supported attempt to prevent disastrous dust storms that resulted from earlier deforestation. "They are really doing a good job," Chen says. "They have a large and comprehensive tree planting program. Those trees will stay in place，capturing(捕捉) dust and also CO2，the greenhouse gas. They'll store it in wood, roots and soil, doing their part to slow global warming. "
Scientists are racing to study the volcano in Tonga that erupted just before sundown on January 15, 2022.
"Everything so far about this eruption is really strange," said Janine Krippner, a scientist with Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program. "The sound of the explosion, the tsunami (海啸)waves that followed the eruption and the huge energy of this explosion, which equals to five to six million tons of TNT, are unlike any seen in recent decades. "
The sound of the latest eruption could be heard on distant shores around the world. According to Geoff Kilgour, a scientist from New Zealand, water likely has had a hand in it. "Perhaps the recent explosion had just the right mix of magma(岩浆) and water. Either more or less would have led to a quieter explosion," he said.
The tsunami waves that followed the eruption were even stranger. Tsunami waves usually start from the center of the eruption. Yet this time, waves appeared in other places, such as the Caribbean, far earlier than would be expected of a classic tsunami. In addition, as tsunami waves travel further, they usually become weaker. While the waves that hit the islands in Tonga were damaging, they weren't high enough to account for the surprisingly larger waves across the ocean.
Although many of the volcanoes in deep oceans usually aren't deadly, the recent event reminds us that how dangerous they can be and that how little we know about them.
However, monitoring underwater volcanoes is a complex task. GPS-which is frequently used to track changes in the surface as magma moves underground doesn't work on the seafloor. And obtaining real-time data from seismometers(地震检波器) on the ocean floor is expensive and technologically difficult.
The situation in Tonga has also shown how well the Tonga Geological Services (TGS) has dealt with the latest eruption. "They don't have a huge amount of money. They don't have a huge amount of staff," Janine Krippner added. "But they're asked to do a huge amount and they have done a really nice job to reduce the possible damages."
Have a look at some of the common myths (误区) about college admissions in the US.
Of course, your grades matter. But many students with perfect scores have been rejected because they didn't have anything else to set them apart.
Actually, what really matters depends on the classes you took, based on the offerings at your high school. Some schools offer more advanced courses than others, and a B in one of these more challenging courses can signify a higher level of mastery than an A in a grade-level class at a school. Many admission officers look for an upward trend and improvements over time that enable a student to finish strong.
The more clubs and activities, the better
. Being committed to key interests is more important than joining a lot of clubs. Colleges look for depth and potential leadership, not just participation. For example, your competitive swimming experience and working your way up to team captain add something really important to your strong academic record.
Some students simply don't have time for clubs and sports because they might need to take care of younger sisters and brothers after school or hold a part-time job. .
Ask for a recommendation only from a teacher who gave you an A
The best person to ask for a letter of recommendation isn't necessarily a teacher who gave you an A.. You might choose the teacher who taught your most difficult class, for example, or a class you thought you wouldn't like but did.
A. Talk to the admission officer in person
B. Getting all A's is the most important thing
C. Colleges usually measure applicants in terms of test scores
D. And don't be discouraged if your grades weren't good early in high school
E. In that case, they would do well to focus on what they get out of such work
F. Quality means more than quantity when it comes to extracurricular activities
G. It's better to go to a teacher who can show a different side of you to the college
An e-mail request for a special dish came in to a restaurant in Baltimore on a Thursday afternoon in March. The sender didn't1 want the food itself. He said that he was writing2his mother who loved the broccoli (西兰花) dish made by the restaurant. He went on to3that she was now in the final stage of lung cancer at her home in Vermont and that he was hoping to4the recipe to make it for her at home.
Steve Oliver, the restaurant's owner, read the5 and quickly replied with a(n) 6. "Thanks for reaching out," he wrote. "We'd like to.7 you in Vermont and make it fresh for her. "
Brandon Jones, the8, was shocked and wrote back, "Do you9that it is Vermont that we're talking about?"
"No problem. You tell us the10and we'll be there," Steve responded.
The day after receiving Brandon's e-mail, Steve11his truck with a cooler filled with Ingredients (食材) and the necessary cooking tools and then12 for Vermont with Ephrem Abebe, the cook.
As soon as they13at the parking lot, they got to work.14the broccoli dish, they made many other special dishes. After15boxing everything up, they knocked on the door.
"Go ahead and answer," Brandon told his mother.
As soon as she16the door, she recognized the smell. When she saw Steve Oliver and Ephrem Abebe, she couldn't17it.
For the past six years, every time Brandon's mother visited Baltimore, the first place she wanted to go was their18. Brandon Jones was19that his mother was able to enjoy her20broccoli with a side order of remarkable kindness one more time.
The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival,officially opened on January 5 and will run through next month, has turned the city in northeastern (China) Heilongjiang province into a wonderland.
Last year, more than a million visitors(attract) to Harbin to see the huge sculptures(create) from huge ice blocks and tons of snow by artists from 12 countries.
In the weeks(lead) up to the latest festival, hundreds of workers spent hours cutting blocks of ice from the nearby Songhua River. Each piece weighed up to 1,554 pounds and almost 261,500m3 of ice were cuttransported on-site.
When the ice and snow sculptures are lit up by thousands of lanterns, they are very (impress), with the massive main sculpture measuring 108 feet in height and over 325 feet in(long). From fantasy castles and creatures to recreations of iconic monuments, the incredible ice and snow sculptures allow the public to relive(they) childhood. Many visitors say it is once-in-a-lifetime experience for them!
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（A），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。
My schedule is tight than ever because I'm in a final year of high school. However, I still manage to do what I can help my parents with the housework. I've gotten into the habit of washing dishes after dinner when I turned ninth. I also do thing like washing and folding clothes. I even begin to cook for my family last month.
I find that doing housework with my parents is extreme fun and rewarding. We can chat with and sometimes even sing together! Doing housework with them also let me learn to take responsibility at home and, in the long term, in society.
