Between Thailand and Vietnam-tourists tend to ignore that there is an entire country to be discovered beyond the decaying temples. If you've never been to Cambodia before, it can be overwhelming to take it all in at once. We've put together a guide for you to make things easier.
Arrival at Cambodia
Most visitors arrive in Cambodia via Siem Reap International Airport, which is three miles from Angkor Wat and roughly five miles from the city of Siem Reap. You can take minibuses, buses, or domestic flights from Siem Reap to other country regions, such as Phnom Penh, Battambang, Kampot, and Sihanoukville.
To travel to Cambodia, tourists require a visa. Check the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism website for the latest information on policies before making travel arrangements.
Things to do in Cambodia
If you're thinking about a holiday to Cambodia，we have two recommendations for you:
Siem Reap
Siem Reap, a tiny village about five kilometres south of Angkor Wat, has grown into the fastest-growing settlement in Cambodia. When it comes to tourist attractions, Siem Reap is all about delicious cuisine, traditional cottages, and a number of fun activities that won't ruin your holiday.
Tonle Sap
Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake, grows from 1,000 square miles to 6,200 square miles during the rainy season, from June to October. Over 300 species of freshwater fish breed in the flooded forests, and the lake supplies half of Cambodia's entire fish catch. A short drive north of Siem Reap, Tonle Sap is known for its floating villages, where entire populations depend on the lake for their survival.
Where to stay
As Cambodia's most popular gateway city for tourists, Siem Reap has a wide variety of accommodation options, from hostels to five-star hotels. Booking in advance is especially important if you plan to travel during the peak season of December and February.
Best time to visit
Visit Cambodia in the dry season, which lasts from the end of November to the beginning of April. The Angkor temples are far more pleasant to visit during the dry season when the weather is cooler.
"We didn't intend to be farmers," Bob Paton says. In their 50s, he and his wife, Ann, envisioned "one more move". They lived in Newcastle upon Tyne and had a checklist for their dream house: "Northumberland, stone-built, a bit of character and a reasonable garden," Bob says.
The place they found ticked every box but one. Instead of a reasonable garden, it had six acres. As they walked the grounds，Bob turned to Ann and decided they could turn this into a small farm. Eleven days before his 60th birthday, he retired as a managing director with the IT company Accenture. Ann, 63, had already sold her grocery. Together they began to farm.
The next two years were a struggle. The four fields were badly fenced and waterlogged. The soil was poor. Growing vegetables was not a common thing to do in this cold，wet and windy area of Northumberland. They dug up thousands of stones, which was backbreaking, but they were never going to give up. As the son of a coal miner, Bob grew up in Ashington, 15 miles north of Newcastle and helped his father on his allotment (小块菜园）."Sunday lunches in mining communities were big things. My dad used to dig up potatoes. They melted in your mouth - the freshness! The memory stayed with me. But I think it was the sense of trying to achieve something." Bob recalled.
Now one field is home to a two-acre orchard. Two others house polytunnels, herbs and 50 varieties of vegetable. The fourth belongs to their Tamworth pigs. As Hexhamshire Organics, they sell 100 organic vegetable boxes a week, and supply Northumberland's only Michelin-starred restaurant." I used to say I retired，but now I say I had a career change，'，Bob says. They have never worked so hard. "It's usually the light that stops us, uAnn mentions. She brings a career in catering and retail to bear on the business, while Bob is the planner. Plan tomorrow today. Plan next week this week. Plan next month this month. His spreadsheet logs "every single vegetable", from sowing to harvest, and calculates output to the square foot.
In the children's story Alice in Wonderland，a character known simply as the Dormouse (睡鼠）keeps napping during the Mad Hatter's tea party, waking occasionally to utter a nonsensical remark. This species, the largest at six inches long, can sleep for more than 11 months of the year; that makes it the longest known hibemator (冬眠动物) on Earth.
However, dormice prefer to sleep in the holes of old trees and centuries of timber harvesting (森林伐木）has highly endangered this kind of animals which play an important role in ecological balance.
So Neris Regional Park's dormouse nest box and conservation program began in 2005 as part of a sustainable forestry certification with the Forest Stewardship Council, based in Bonn, Germany. So far, park staff has installed 250 nest boxes throughout the park's thick, old-growth oak forests. A dormouse nest box resembles a standard birdhouse spun around backward and tied to a tree trunk. There's enough space between the trunk and the entrance hole for dormice to squeeze in and out of their artificial nest, but so little that it's difficult for predators such as owls to attack. Best of all, nest boxes bring the otherwise mysterious creatures within reach for scientists.
Dormice usually spend around seven months out of the year sleeping in underground holes and venture (冒险）from their holes for a few hours each night to eat. This means opportunities to observe the animals are basically nonexistent. But by placing cameras in nest boxes or just peeking inside, researchers can check in on the animals whenever they want.
In addition to monitoring nest boxes, scientists are seeking out and protecting individual trees that can provide habitat for dormice, which will actually benefit a broad range of other species.
Navigation usually refers to the act of directing a ship or aircraft (飞行器) from one place to another, or the science of finding a way from one place to another. However, growing up in a city, according to a vast global survey, has a lifelong negative impact on a person's ability to navigate. When looking for a half-remembered restaurant in a poorly-lit side street, it seems Country Mouse would be a more useul companion.
In the new study, posted to the online repository bioRxiv, scientists led by Antoine Coutrot at Nantes University in France and Hugo Spiers at University College London describe how they used a dataset gathered from 4m players of a computer game called "Sea Hero Quest''，which tests way-finding skills by asking players to memorise a map showing the location of checkpoints and thenmeasuring how well players can steer a boat to find them, guided only by their mental map.
From that database, Dr Spiers and his colleagues found that the strongest indicator of a high score was a player's age—older people performed relatively poorly. But the benefit of rural living was strong enough to offset (抵消）some of that. Data from American players showed that a 70-year-old who grew up in the countryside had the navigational abilities of an average 60-year-old across the dataset.
The gap between the navigation skills of rural and city people was largest in America (about six times wider than for Romania), and the researchers think they know why. They foimd that countries dominated by simple layouts grid-based (网格式街道布局) cities (most common in America and Argentina) dragged down navigation skills more than growing up in a city based on more complicated networks of streets, such as Prague.
Although cities may appear more elaborate, they also feature more clues to help residents find their way, such as numbered streets.
If you're like most people, you're too busy eating pizza to stop and consider how it arrived on your kitchen counter. So why don't pizzas arrive in round cardboard boxes?
It's mostly because the pizza industry doesn't really care to bother the cardboard industry. That's because they can be made in one piece as well as neatly piled.
The advantage of making a round pizza box would mainly be aesthetic (美感的). But it's not going to save space over an edged box. It's just bad pizza management.
In the 1800s, street sellers carried pies in portable metal containers that kept them warm. When pizza started rising in popularity in postwar America, pizzerias used a single piece of cardboard as support and then slipped the pie into a paper bag. Eventually, corrugated (瓦楞的) cardboard struck a fine balance between retaining heat without traping too much moisture.
Will we ever see a radical rethink of the pizza box? Some people have tried. In 2010, Apple filed for a patent for a round pizza container with holes so moisture can escape. It's used in the company's food courts. Another company, World Centric, designed a compostable round box in 2018 that can be used to reheat pizza. A similar product was test-marketed by Pizza Hut in 2019.
A. The pizza box has changed over time.
B. Pizza wasn't always attached to square cardboard.
C. Cardboard boxes are usually manufactured with edges.
D. If piled vertically (垂直地)，pizzas run the risk of rolling out of place.
E. Pizza boxes are designed in square for the benefit of deliverymen.
F. Think it long enough, though, and you may find it curious that pies usually come in square or other boxes.
G. Although all of the designs were claimed to keep pizzas warmer and crispier for longer, none have become widespread.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Julia Koch, a first-grade teacher, received a call from Cynthia Phillips, who was having technique difficulties with her granddaughter's tools for online learning.
Koch 1 knew something was wrong with Phillips. The two women had spoken numerous times, but Koch had never heard the grandmother 2 quite like this. Her words were so 3 that Koch could barely understand her, although she was able to 4 that Phillips had fallen four times that day. Koch phoned her principal, Charlie Lovelady, who 5 that he would call and check on Phillips himself.
Just like Koch, Lovelady could barely understand Phillips. He 6 that she might be having a stroke (中风）because he recognised the 7 which his father had suffered from. Lovelady was able to make out the word 'kid' and immediately became 8 that Phillips's two grandchildren, aged six and eight, were probably home alone with her - she was their primary guardian - and scared.
Lovelady asked his office manager to send a(n) 9 to the grandmother's home. When he 10 less than ten minutes later, the ambulance crew was treating Phillips while the two girls, looking visibly 11, were outside with a neighbour. The quick response from Koch and Lovelady saved Phillips's life. She arrived at the hospital 12 to get treatment before chronic (长期的）damage occurred.
Virtual learning has been a(n) 13 across the world, but ifs fair to say that it has also helped communities grow 14. Many teachers have given their personal phone numbers to students and families in case they needed extra help. In this case, the exchange was actually 15.
When some people in Shanghai, has been experiencing its worst COVID-19 outbreak in the past two months, are retiring for the night, are working to keep the city running.
For example, Long Anhua, 51, delivers daily necessities to neighborhoods across Shanghai. At 10 pm on a recent evening，he had just completed deliveries of fruit and vegetables and (await) further orders from Shanghai Jiaxuan Logistics, the company he works for. Long, the truck driver, said though he does feel (absolute) exhausted, he will carry on as he believes it's what he should do during the pandemic and what he has done to date that embody his personal values.
Awaiting his next mission, Long said (control) the fast spread of the Omicron variant, Shanghai has raced time in the past three weeks by launching a series of efforts. With a number of local deliverymen (place) under a closed-loop management system (闭环管理), and to make supplies (access) to residents in a similar situation, e-commerce giants and logistics companies have expanded their courier fleets (快递团队) throughout the city. This means that (employ) such as Long have to work overtime or even through the night to deliver as many supplies quickly as possible to residents in lockdown. Undeniably, those ordinary workers have made great contributions in the fight against COVID-19 in Shanghai.
1）感谢邀请；
2）骑行感想；
3）下周末安排。
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Dear David,
Yours,
Li Hua
The perfect Christmas Tree
In our house in Middle Cove, Newfoundland, the tradition was to find the perfect tree before Christmas Eve. And this year, my brother Gilbert and I were being trusted to do it entirely on our own. And we took the challenge very seriously. So, axe in Gilberts hand, saw in mine, we set out for all the spots we imagined we might find a magnificent fir (冷杉树).
We were young, but we knew the rules. Trees could not be taken from personal land and not near any road.
We started out with the best of intentions. We were on Pine River Lane, and looking at the firs in the fields, but none of them looked quite good enough. It was getting dark but we still had no luck. On the way home, it was Gilbert who stopped, grabbed my arm and said, "I see it!"
"You see what?" I said.
"Right there, look. It's perfect."
And he was right. It was a young tree, two metres tall, standing alone. It was the classic Christmas tree. In all my years, I had never seen such a perfect one.
Perfect except for one small problem. The tree was pretty close to the road. Also, it was behind a fence, so the tree was in someone's yard. And not just any someone. It was in the yard of Timmy Green, my best friend.
However, the chances of our finding another one like it were slim to none.
"You stand guard," Gilbert said. And with that, we were over the fence and on our bellies crawling toward the target. I lay in the snow and put the Greens, house under surveillance (监视). I was to whistle or cough if I saw anyone coming.
Within a few minutes, it fell.
"Grab the end," Gilbert said, and we lifted it over the fence. Now we were on the road.
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Suddenly Gilbert's eyes widened. "Our footprints!" he said.
So it shocked me when I found Mr. Green in our house with my parents, drinking tea on Christmas Eve.
