Are you interested in working with animals? Now here comes the CHANCE. Kirby Wildlife Park has set up the unique Keeper Experience package. The fantastic experience is available to anyone over the age of 18 who is reasonably fit. We regret that for health and safety reasons, participants who are pregnant, in a wheelchair or suffering from illnesses cannot take part.
A typical day
9:15 Arrival 9:30 Health and Safety Briefing
10:00 Apes and Monkeys
While cleaning out the enclosure (围场) you will find out about how enclosures are enriched with novel items and new smells to stimulate the animals' senses and imitate their natural environment.
12:00 Lunch 14:00 Big Cats
As one of the highlights of this volunteer experience, you will feed the cats and learn about their nutritional needs. The keeper will give you an introduction to how cat behavior can be read to get an idea of their welfare and health.
16:30 Meet the Team
Meet more of the staff and learn how you can get further involved with work at the park. Learn about our animal adoption plan, what it takes to be a good keeper and where to obtain the right qualifications for a career in animal welfare.
Booking and cancellation
The Keeper Experience is available on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the year, and must be booked at least two weeks in advance. Full payment is needed when booking.
Cancellations must be made more than fourteen days before the event. Otherwise, you won′t receive a full refund.
China's teen diving sensation (轰动性人物)Quan Hongchan's family and neighbours have been disturbed by tourists hoping to get social media "likes", local media say. Ever since the 14-year-old won the Olympic gold after delivering three perfect-10 dives, fans have rushed to her Maihe village home to take videos and photos. Some persistent fans are even climbing trees for a better view.
Quan has received massive support online after she said she took up diving to pay her sick mother's bills. Her story touched many people when she told reporters that she dedicated her Olympic win to her mother, who has been admitted to hospital many times after getting into a traffic accident years ago. "I want to make enough money to support her," Quan had said in Tokyo.
On China's Twitter-like platform Weibo, the hashtag(标签）"how to view Quan Hongchan's home becoming an internet photo hotspot" was viewed more than 25 million times. There was criticism over the actions of these influencers, who reportedly staked out the rural village in Guangdong province to livestream videos even after midnight. Others knocked on the door to take selfies with her family members, while some tried to steal jackfruit from her home as gifts, local media said. "If people are going to her house just to get followers, that's unacceptable. Her mother is sick. She shouldn't be disturbed," one Weibo comment read.
The village has now been closed to visitors as the large crowds didn't follow Covid control measures, reports say. Due to her years of training, the farmer's daughter said she had never been to a zoo or amusement park. Her comments made a safari and amusement park in Guangzhou decide to announce free annual membership cards to all Chinese diving team members. Other businesses and donors have come forth offering cash and gifts, including her favourite spicy street snack latiao--made from flour that is cooked and seasoned. Her father has reportedly declined cash gifts, and thanked donors for their "kind hearts".
Primary and junior-high school students and their parents across the country have seen some changes since the new school year started on September 1. Students have less homework, and their parents no longer need to correct the homework of their children. At the same time, the number of after-school tutoring institutions for primary and junior-high school students is reducing. These changes are the result of national guidelines to ease the burden of excessive homework and off-campus tutoring for students during the nine years of compulsory education. Known as the "double reduction" policy, the guidelines were issued at the end of July, and took effect this semester.
The policy is an important step in China's boosting of more well-rounded educational practices. In addition to providing compulsory education, China is also working to develop an education system that enables young people to create a moral, intellectual, physical and mental grounding. China's education system had become increasingly exam-oriented(应试教育)in recent decades due to the desire of achieving high scores in high school and the college entrance examinations. In addition, the extracurricular tutoring companies, most of which privately funded, were producing social anxiety in the name of creating a better future for children. Each of these factors contributed to an excessive burden on primary and junior-high school students, and made education a results-oriented tool serving short-term interests, endangering the entire education system and even the mental health of the future generations.
The policy of easing study burden aims to help education recover its essential purpose with schooling as the cornerstone of the system, social education as the supplement and family education as the foundation, so as to better educate high-quality talents for the country.
The policy may bring back well-rounded education; however, the motivation to receive and offer exam-oriented learning will last as long as exam scores remain the standard for entry to high schools and colleges. There is still a long way to go for China to change from exam-oriented to well-rounded education.
The thought of low material need and being unwilling to work, marry and have children, is described as a "lying down" lifestyle recently. It creates an emotional reaction among many young Chinese who are eager to take pause to breathe in this fast-paced and highly competitive society.
Many young people complained to the Global Times that duties, including work stress, family argument and financial pressure, have pushed them "against the wall". They said they hate the "involution (内卷)", joking that they would rather give up some of what they have than get stuck in an endless competition against peers.
"Instead of always following the ‘good quality' of struggle and sacrifice to bear the stresses, they prefer a temporary lying down as release and adjustment," said an expert. "It is no wonder that some young people, under the growing pressures from child-raising to paying the mortgage (按揭) today, would try to live in a simple way and leave the worries behind. "
Interestingly, the majority of young people, who claim to be big fans of the lying down philosophy, admit that they only accept a temporary lying down as a short rest. It is true that with the great improvement of living conditions, some Chinese youth have partially lost the spirit of hardship and are not willing to bear too much hard work. But in fact, lying down is not entirely comfortable. Young people who lie down always feel ashamed about their constant loss of morale (士气).
"Young people have both ambition and confusion about their future, but most of us have refused to waste opportunities and challenges," a postgraduate student told the Global Times. "It's no use running away. I have to ‘stand up' and face the reality sooner or later. "
Although most games have winners and losers, the goal of sports is not to win every game. The real goals include getting exercise, having fun, and learning important social skills, like sportsmanship.
Good sportsmanship is all about respect. Good sports respect their teammates and also their opponents. They respect their coaches, and they also respect the referees or other officials involved in their games. They shout at their teammates and they talk back to coaches or referees.
Kids usually learn sportsmanship good and bad from the adults in their lives. If parents and coaches show disrespect for other fans, referees, or each other, kids will likely act the same way on the field.
Some of them are very basic and easy to do, like shaking hands with other players before a game. Other examples may take a little more courage, such as acknowledging a great play made by the opposing team.
Learning good sportsmanship is important because it helps you develop an attitude of graciousness (礼貌) and respect that will carry over into all the other areas of your life. Being a good sport in the classroom will eventually lead to being a good sport in the workplace.
So be a good sport in whatever you do! When others see you acting in a way that makes it clear that winning isn't the most important thing, you can move on to focusing on the important things, like having fum, getting exercise, and improving your skills!
A. Good sportsmanship can be shown in many ways.
B. However, bad sportsmanship is all about disrespect.
C. Players' parents and coaches set examples that kids tend to follow.
D. We can be good sports by encouraging others but not laughing at them.
E. Starting as a good sport earlier will help you be a good sport as you get old.
F. If you're a good sport on the field, you'll also likely be a good sport in the classroom.
G. The example you set can be a powerful teaching tool for others.
The Thai government intends to further deepen its digital cooperation with Chinese technology company Huawei, senior Thai officials said at a cloud event held in Bangkok this week.
During the Powering Digital Thailand 2022 on Nov 17-19, Thai deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said digital infrastructure (基础设施), such as5G, is crucial to Thailand's 1 and social development, especially for the country's post-pandemic economic 2.
Badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, the tourism-reliant nation registered an economic reduction of 6. 1 percent last year, the worst in more than 20 years. However, the pandemic has significantly sped the 3 of digital technologies in Thailand, where Chinese tech companies have 4 advantages.
During the pandemic, Huawei used its technology to help local hospitals implement systems for automated medical supply, AI-backed 5 and remote treatment, which greatly improved the 6 of hospitals and made healthcare more 7.
Fueled by Thailand's digital roadmap, Huawei has focused on helping the country build 20,000 5G stations in the past two years. 8. Thailand has more than 4. 2 million 5G subscribers leading in 5G adoption among ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries.
Another strength of Huawei has been its cloud capabilities. Deng Feng, general manager of Huawei Thailand, said Huawei Cloud is the only cloud service 9 with local data centers in Thailand, considering that data localization is a key trend of global enterprises due to government regulations as well as security concerns.
He emphasized the Huawei will support Thailand's low-carbon and digital development in the future in four areas, including expanding 5G coverage and usage, providing cloud services, creating low-carbon development with digital energy, and 10 industry talents.
Thai Minister of Digital Economy and Society Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn expressed his hopes for 11cooperation between the Thai government and Huawei to 12 the country's digital economy, which is targeted to1330 percent of the GDP by 2030.
According to a joint report released by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company earlier this month Thailand's digital economy is expected to 14 $30 billion this year, up 51 percent, making it the second-largest market in Southeast Asia after Indonesia.
Huawei's Rotating Chairman Guo Ping said the company will continue 15and building a tech ecosystem to facilitate faster digitalization in Asia-Pacific, and invest $100 million over the next three years to build a startup ecosystem in the region.
China's Shenzhou-13 crew members Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu livestreamed (直播) a science lecture from the country's space station on December 9, 2021.
At the beginning of the class, Wang, the first female astronaut to enter China's space station, (give) the students a tour of their living and working areas with the assistance of her two male crewmates. She showed their bedrooms, the toilet, a (full) functional kitchen, the area where they conduct experiments, and their fitness equipment, a spin bike (include).
After the tour, they conducted several scientific (demonstrate) under zero-gravity conditions. First, Ye demonstrated experiments related to the (grow) of cells in the zero- gravity environment in space. Ye and Wang explained astronauts cannot walk in space like they did on the ground and showed how they turn their bodies in the (weight) conditions. team also conducted an experiment to show how lack of gravity causes loss in buoyancy (浮力).
At the end of the class, (satisfy) students' curiosity, the three astronauts conducted a real time question-and-answer session. "The secrets of space and science are boundless, and the future is (you) ", said Zhai, commander of the Shenzhou-13 mission.
—No, I go there ______ because it's too far away from my house.
—Just _____, Bill! Let's think about this for a moment.
1）邀请；2）时间、地点；3）活动内容。
注意：1）词数80左右；
2）可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3）请在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Mike,
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Yours,
Li hua
