Bus Tours in London
London by Night
Discover London' s top attractions at night by bus and learn key facts about London through the audio(语音) guide !
Every Friday & Saturday | Daily during school holidays
Starting from Coventry Street, London W1D 7DH at 8:00 PM May | 8:30 PM Jun to Aug |
7:30PM Sep|7:00PM Oct 15:00PM Nov&Dec
Adult: £22 Child: £ 13
London Bar Bus
Take a seat on the Bar Bus and enjoy the most original rooftop balcony of London and breathtaking views of the city and the audio guide while having a drink!
Starting every Friday and Saturday | Sunday in July & August from Charles I Street, London
SW1Y 4QN at 6:30 PM | at 5:30 PM on Sundays.
Adult: £ 36
Must -See London
Make the most of your journey by making a London hop-on hop-off bus tour and a Thames river cruise(游艇) together. See London's top sights by land and water at your own pace across 2 bus routes and 30 stops. Enjoy interesting stories and royal fun facts by our local expert guides.
Every day from Monday to Sunday
First bus: 8:30 AM Last bus: 6:00 PM | 7 :00 PM on weekends
Adult:£34 Child: £ 19
London & Windsor Discovery
Explore two of England's most famous destinations, the great capital and the historic town of Windsor at your own pace. Learn key facts through the audio guide.
Starting every day from Monday to Sunday
London first bus: 8:30 AM Last bus: 6:00 PM | 7:00 PM on weekends
Windsor first bus: 10:00 AM Last bus: 5:00 PM
Adult: £37 Child: £ 20
Twenty years ago, I entered a college， but suddenly my world turned upside down on September 11,2001. College seemed less important. Somewhere among the images that flashed across the TV were soldiers, and I thought I should be one of them.
I had the impossible task of persuading my parents that this was a good choice. It's not that they weren't proud; they were concerned and scared. Within weeks of 9/11，I joined the Army with the support of my family behind me.
The lifestyle change of civilian( 平民) to soldier wasn't a smooth process. My biggest challenge was military bearing. I smiled too much. Obviously, soldiers don't smile, but I couldn't help but smile. I did pay for it! My" pearly white teeth" earned me plenty of extra training. I had no choice but to dig deep and push my strength and endurance(耐力) to their limits.
Before the sun rose, we awoke to begin another day. It was painful, horrible, tiring... and so much fun. That non-military-bearing smile rarely left my face. I learned to love the absolute craziness of the Army. I smiled through it all.
A few months after graduating from boot camp, I crossed paths with one of my fellow soldiers. He smiled and said," Thanks for showing that smiling face every day. You really brightened my days during the difficult times.
What I learned from that brief' conversation was that even in the toughest，most physically tiring, and sweaty situations, a small symbol of human kindness and connection goes a long way. Sometimes, we don't even know the joy we bring to others.
I stayed in the military for ten years. Challenges continued to get thrown in my way, but I never lost my smile.
Minh Anh Ho is sitting beside a microscope. Many people are busy with other tasks. One is interviewing the mayor for a TV news station. Another is running the electric company. As a researcher for a company that repurposes plastic, Minh Anh Ho is studying a sheet of cling wrap(保鲜膜)."It's a really important job," she says." Plastic takes a really long time to disappear, so it would be good to come up with something else to do with it and not just throw it away.
The learning center where Minh Anh Ho and her class are spending their day is designed to introduce kids to working life. Students run an imaginary town, with each kid doing a different job in a different business. Each year, about 83% of all sixth graders in Finland go through the program. It teaches them not just about business and working, but also, as Minh Anh Ho's" job"
makes clear, about the circular( 循环) economy .
Most societies have linear( 线性) economies, which operate on a" take, make, waste' model. Natural resources are taken from the Earth and made into products, which are usually thrown away if left over. In 2016，Finland became the first country to use a" road map" to a circular economy. This model focuses on the transformation of existing products. Businesses rely on recycled or repurposed materials and use less raw(未经加工的) material to make their products. That reduces the amount of waste going into landfills.
Education has always been a central part of Finland's plan. Kindergarten director Lisa Woitsch is sitting on the floor with students and a broken wooden chair." Do we just throw it away now," she asks," or can you think of anything else that can be done with it?" A little boy pounds on the chair. He says it can be used as a drum.
Anssi Almgren helped design the program." Children have so many great ideas," he says.
"We want to enable them to think about solutions. But changing a society by educating its youth takes time.
Having a conversation on Mars would be difficult. That's partly because Mars can be really cold, and your teeth may be shaking. But it's also because the Red Planet's thin atmosphere of mostly CO2 doesn't carry sound well. In fact, someone speaking next to you on Mars would sound as quiet as if they were talking 60 meters away on Earth.
A team studied some of the first sound recordings ever made on the Red Planet. The recordings had been picked up by a microphone on American Perseverance rover( 探测器). This space robot has been exploring Mars since February 2021.
The recordings Perseverance got weren't the sounds of events on Mars. They were noises made when the rover fired a laser( 激光) at small rocks nearby. These data allowed the researchers to measure the speed of sound on Mars- and discovered a surprise. Within the range of human hearing, high sounds travel at about 250 meters per second. Low sounds travel slower一about 240 meters per second. Those low waves will travel just a few meters before becoming unhearable. Unexpectedly, the higher sounds die away over even shorter ranges.
When a sound wave moves through air or a fluid, it adds energy to the molecules(分子) around it. Air will gradually move that energy around. This is called the relaxation effect. For sound waves traveling through air, relaxation depends on the frequency of the sound and the type of molecules in the air. On Mars, the relaxation after a high sound happens faster than after a low sound. That' s because the atmosphere has low pressure and is mostly composed of( 由...组成) CO2.
Measuring the speed of sound can give scientists an exact way to study the Martian atmosphere. Air pressure，temperature and humidity(湿度) all affect the speed of sound. So, by measuring changes in the speed of sound over time， researchers can learn more about Martian weather. With Perseverance broadcasting more sounds back to Earth, scientists will be able to study how its soundscape changes over the course of Martian seasons.
Procrastination is the act of putting off tasks until the last minute, or past their deadline.
For many students, getting a task that is due in' two months is a great thing. They have two months to slowly work on the task, making necessary improvements all along the way. Some students plan to get to work on that task, but they never get around to it. Then, the due date rolls around and those students have to work all night to meet the deadline the next morning.
Many jobs are lost because a worker did not get to the work in time. Deadlines are missed because a business plan wasn't given enough consideration early on. These things cost businesses large amounts of money in lost productivity.
What is at the root of all of this procrastination? Some might say that it is laziness, but it is really just a problem with mindset( 心态).
It is difficult to stop this terrible habit. By doing that, you would be changing the way your mind processes work. As a hypnotherapist(催眠师)，I have used hypnosis to stop people from smoking and keep them away from stress. I find that it is an effective solution for procrastination as well.
They think that it is just like the dull shows on television. That's not what hypnosis is about, though. Hypnosis is really about changing a person's basic senses so that their thinking is changed. This sounds like a perfect way to deal with procrastination, doesn't it?
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A. That is how it is supposed to be done. B. For many people, it has become a habit. C. It takes a long time to truly change your ways. D. Procrastination is a problem that usually affects students. E. Procrastination can be found in the working world as well. F. If it does, you probably have a problem with procrastination. G. Many people don't even consider hypnosis as a treatment option. |
"Never give up! Never give up!" shouted my two young children, Max and Charley, as they marched behind their grandmother Mimi. They were1the ice-cream truck.
Before starting the search on that July afternoon, Mimi heard the.2sound of the ice-cream man's bell.3, the ice-cream man's visit is a daily occurrence, although the time between the sound of his bell and the leaving of his truck is short. One must be4to catch him.
Max and Charley were5when they didn't catch him in time that day. That lasted until Mimi's eyes shined and she said, "Never give up!" She explained that the truck might be6but they could hurry off to find it at its next7.
After about twenty minutes of walking, Max's8in the search began to waver( 动摇).He9that they should give up and said," Maybe we should give up, We have been walking pretty far and haven' t seen the10yet. "Charley said a quick" No way!" and11her shout with Mimi. Somewhat doubtfully, Max12.Not knowing which13the truck had taken, they had to14where to search. They were15, but they didn't quit.
Just two blocks later, they found it. Mimi, Max and Charley screamed with16," Never give up!" In that moment, my mom Mimi did for my17what she had done for me for countless times. Simple though it was, that phrase became our battle cry for the18we faced in many years she raised me and my brother alone. Leading by19, Mom taught us just how much one could accomplish with a positive attitude. Now， she is taking the same20in her relationship with her grandchildren.
Fireworks may seem like a very American tradition, (particular) on the 4th of July. But fireworks date a period well before the first American Independence Day celebration, took place in 1777, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
earliest fireworks can go back to around 2,000 years ago in China. People then are said to have burned bamboo stalks(竹竿). The stalks turned black and the air inside them would explode(爆炸). Baozhu is a Mandarin Chinese word for fireworks, (mean)" exploding bamboo" . Years later, Chinese chemists took fireworks a step further between 600 and 900 A. D.
People filled bamboo shoots with gunpowder and then threw them into fire. Some other materials (add) to make them sparkle(闪烁). Now in China, firecrackers (use) skillfully often can be seen in some celebrations.
In the 13th century, fireworks spread to Europe. In the next three (century) that followed，Europeans began moving to North America. So was no surprise that when July 4thbegan to be celebrated as America's Independence Day, fireworks were part of the plan. The first
July 4th celebration happened during the middle of the Revolutionary War. Guns, as well as fireworks, were fired (mark) the occasion. Today, fireworks are an established July 4 tradition.
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Last week, my father felt very down because he had the operation on his left leg. He had been in hospital for a few days and he is now recovered slowly. Today，I brought him some warm clothes as. the air-conditioner made him felt cold at night. He was boring at the hospital, so I bought some new books for him read. He was glad that I went to the hospital to care for him every day but tried my best to cheer her up.
Word came which my father could return home a couple of days later, and I decided to clean our house. When he eventually leaves for the hospital, he needn't worry about anything.
