Harbin Ice Festival 2023
Ever think of what Elsa's ice palace might look like in real life? Ice stairs, ice walls, and ice towers? When winter approaches, Harbin turns into a kingdom of ice and snow.
The annual Harbin Ice and Snow Festival opens in late December and lasts for around 3 months, till late February.
What's New for Harbin Ice Festival
Every year, there's a unique theme for the Ice Festival. A huge Snowflake Ferris Wheel (摩天轮) has already been built inside the park. Visitors will be able to ride on the Ferris Wheel and overlook the ice castles in early 2023. For this upcoming festival, the highlight may be when the giant Snowflake is colorfully lit up at night, shining high in the sky.
Yearly Time Line
| Dates | Activities |
| Early December | Ice Harvest |
| December | Carving and Building |
| Christmas period | Unofficial Opening |
| Jan.5, 2023 | Opening Ceremony |
| Jan. 18 to Feb. 15, 2023 | Special Celebrations for Chinese New Year |
| Late Feb. to early Mar. | Ice and snow sculptures start to melt |
Click here and Book Now! Tickets for Harbin Ice and Snow World are on sale now!*Dec. 25, 2022—Jan.5, 2023: ¥170/person (half price for children)
*Jan. 6, 2023—Feb. 28, 2023: ¥230/person (half price for children)
Contact us for available tour dates before they are fully booked.
Attention
As long as the ice and snow sculptures are open to visitors, it is impossible to take photos of the charming ice buildings without any visitors in! This might be different from what you see in the media (that have special access).
On the way to his home the child turned many times and beat the dog, declaring with childish gestures that he held him in contempt as an unimportant dog. The dog apologized for being this quality of animal and expressed regret in fine form, but he continued stealthily to follow the child.
When the child reached his door-step, the dog was a few yards behind, moving slowly toward him. He became so anxious with shame when he again faced the child that he forgot the dragging rope. He tripped(绊倒) upon it and fell forward.
The child sat down on the step and the two had another interview. During it the dog greatly exerted himself to please the child. He performed a few playful jumps with such abandon(尽情地) that the child suddenly saw him to be a valuable thing. He made a swift, greedy charge (猛冲) and seized the rope.
He dragged his captive(俘虏) into a hall and up many long stairways in a dark building. The dog made willing efforts but he could not walk very skillfully up the stairs because he was very small and soft, and at last the pace of the child grew so energetic that the dog became panic-stricken. In his mind he was being dragged toward somewhere unknown. His eyes grew wild with the terror of it. He began to wiggle his head wildly and to brace his legs.
The child redoubled his efforts. They had a battle on the stairs. The child was victorious because he was completely absorbed in his purpose, and because the dog was very small. He dragged his acquirement to the door of his home, and finally with victory across the doorway.
No family member was in. The child sat down on the floor and made overtures to (向……示好) the dog. The dog instantly accepted. He smiled with affection upon his new friend. In a short time they were firm and abiding(矢志不渝的) comrades.
Cimabue, the greatest painter in medieval(中世纪的) Italy, was surprised one day when he came back from his lunch break and discovered a fly was under the nose of a character he had been working on. So he reached out to touch the insect. To his surprise, he found only wet paint. Turning around, he saw that his apprentice(学徒), Giotto di Bondone, was doing everything he could to keep from laughing. Giotto had painted the fly when Cimabue was away, and it looked so real that Cimabue had been completely fooled.
Giotto was born into a poor farming family. Legend has it that one day when Cimabue was walking around the countryside, he spotted a young shepherd(牧羊人) boy. The boy was not tending his sheep. Instead, he was drawing pictures of them, and the sheep he drew were so lifelike that Cimabue stopped to ask the boy his name. The boy replied that it was Giotto, and Cimabue immediately asked him to come to Florence so that the young shepherd could learn how to paint.
In the Middle Ages, an artist not only had to concern himself with things like design and technique, but he also had to learn how to make paints. Almost all artists were men, and they began their apprenticeships at an early age. An apprentice's job was to copy his master as exactly as he could. The unfortunate result of this imitation was a lack of new ideas.
In fact, art in the Middle Ages remained the same for hundreds of years. The people in paintings didn't look like real people, and the symbolism of art was often so remote that it must have been difficult for viewers to connect with it on a personal level. Giotto used many techniques that were uncommon at the time to bring the paintings to life for viewers. He painted people the way he saw them, instead of the overly tall people that other artists painted. He created three-dimensional space by using perspective, something that had not been done since Roman times. Finally, he threw out parts of the symbolism associated with medieval painting.
A team of students from Stanford University are making efforts to launch a satellite powered exclusively by water into orbit (轨道) around the Mars. The team names itself the Super Lunar Explorers.
These creative students are now attending a competition called the Future Space Challenge, which is held annually by NASA, the American space agency to find more talents in space. The winners will be publicized in about a month. The final three winners will be announced in early 2023. They will get to ride on NASA's space launch system in early 2024.
The principle behind the competition is simple: to think, design, build and launch "qualified small satellites." NASA officials required that the satellites must be able to perform "advanced operations near and beyond the moon." Twenty teams are competing for the championship. But the Super Lunar Explorer satellites are totally different. They use only water to power their spacecraft, which has never been done before.
Such a novel idea for a water-powered satellite came from Peckon Lewis, who works at Stanford University now, who once worked as NASA's chief technologist. He has always been wondering whether something other than rockets can be used to push spacecraft beyond earth. "A lot of things we send into space these days is with the help of rockets -- the only way we get anything into space," he said, in a Stanford press release. "But if we could try something that has been already there? If we could do that, if we could re-fuel spacecraft while they're already in space…"
The spacecraft is about 30 centimeters in length, and the two pieces are interconnected. The lower part of the satellite is designed to store water, which will be separated by solar panel into two elements: hydrogen and oxygen. When one combines hydrogen and oxygen with a spark (火花), an explosion was caused. This provides a forward movement, known as thrust.
Antarctica is the highest, driest, and coldest place on Earth. It is also the remotest, a fact which demystifies its unspoiled environment. It is difficult for people to get there, and not a comfortable place for people to stay once they arrive.
. They never melt. Even though Antarctica receives more sunlight than the equator, the temperatures are lower because the ice sheet reflects the heat back into space. Thus, the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was in Antarctica in July, 1983. Soviet scientists shivered (瑟瑟发抖) through temperatures that fell to minus 89. 2 degrees Celsius.
Once completely inaccessible, gold, uranium and oil are just some of the valuable resources which lie beneath the continent's icy covering.
For centuries, Europeans wondered about the existence of a South-pole continent, but no one actually knew for certain Antarctica was there until 1820 when European explorers "discover" it. Since then, men have gone to Antarctica in search of adventure, testing their abilities.
Damage to the environment occurs as people come looking for resources beneath the ice, or carelessly leave their garbage behind. Currently, countries are working to ensure that the damage to Antarctica's environment is minimized, and that the last wilderness on Earth will remain an unspoiled place.
A. The cold climate is responsible for maintaining the continent's year-round ice fields.
B. It is widely described as the last true wilderness on our planet.
C. Measures are being taken to protect Antarctica.
D. Yet, Antarctica's fragile and complicated ecosystem is threatened by its human visitors.
E. In the icy covering are buried few precious resources,
F. Antarctica has more recently been playing host to adventurers seeking excitement and companies looking to exploit this wild zone for profit,
G. Several teams of explorers set out in 1911 to be the first men to stand at the South Pole.
One of my fellow volunteers, a girl from Tanzania, seemed a bit desperate, so I asked what the problem was. She told me she had a friend back home, who was, really 1 with her university studies. It was beginning to look like financial difficulties, which would make it 2 for her to complete her course.
So this friend of mine had done something 3: she had sent all her pocket money for the month to Tanzania to 4 her friend! This meant that she didn't have much food to eat, no money to go anywhere outside the village, no money to buy any clothes, and so on.
I was so 5 that she did this for her friend and I felt I had to do something. So, 6 my next trip to one of the nearby towns I walked into the fair trade shop to buy some food. I didn't have much money left myself but I thought I'd buy her an extra box of the muesli we both liked and some rice. I started talking to the woman 7 in the shop, who was also a volunteer and 8 told her about my friend.
The woman looked at me, 9"Does she eat pasta?" she asked. "Yes," I replied. She immediately started to fill a bag with pasta, cookies, more muesli, sweets and other things until the bag was full. "Give her this for me. It's my 10!" I couldn't believe it but cried with 11.
I left the shop to go home with my 12 bag of food, I asked the woman her name. "Just Gloria! God bless both of you!" she said. Imagine my friend's face when I arranged the gifts on my kitchen table. I have never seen her so happy! A few weeks later, she found Gloria in the shop and thanked her 13.
These two 14 women really showed me what true kindness and compassion is, and the 15 will stay with me for the rest of my life!
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday authorized "a special military operation" in response the appeal of the leaders of the "republics" in the Donbass region. In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev(基辅), (explode) were heard at Boryspil International Airport and other places across the city.
Putin on Monday signed two decrees (法令) (recognize) "the Lugansk People's Republic" and "the Donetsk People's Republic" independent and sovereign states. "Our plans do not include the occupation of Ukrainian territories. We are not going to impose anything on anyone by force," he said.
Putin called on "all people living on the territory of today's Ukraine "to" (independent) determine the future of their own and children. "NATO has created fundamental threats year after year, expanding to the east and bringing its military infrastructure (close) to Russian borders, Putin noted, seeing it as matter of time.
Russia will not allow Ukraine （have) nuclear weapons, he said, adding that Russia's actions are not connected with infringing upon Ukraine's interests with protecting itself from "those who take Ukraine hostage. "
The conflict (arouse) grave concern in the international community.
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I am Li Hua, a senior three student of our school.
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These days, Marathon des Sables runners carry a GPS tracking device and helicopters monitor their path to make sure no one gets lost, but when Mauro, a police officer, participated for the first time in 1994, there were no such safeguards in place. When you're running through the largest desert on Earth, one wrong turn can cost you your life. Mauro Prosperi did just that during the Marathon des Sables, a six-day ultramarathon that many regard as the toughest foot race in the world.
The race was almost 156 miles long, taking runners across sand dunes (沙丘) with few natural sources of water. Temperatures in the Sahara could reach as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, and each runner carried over 20 pounds of food, water, and emergency supplies on their backs. Most of these runners wouldn't end up finishing the race, which was about the same length as six regular marathons.
That was how, on the fourth and longest days of the race, the runner Mauro encountered a severe sandstorm that turned him around and sent him wildly off course.
He spent eight hours waiting out the storm, huddled in a sand dune. The next morning, he expected to see rescuers heading his way. Instead, all he saw was desert in all directions. "After running for about for hours, I climbed up a dune and still couldn't see anything," he said. "That's when I knew I had a big problem."
A search party was organized to find Mauro, but rescuers had no idea he had been so far off course. Twice a helicopter circled over his head, and twice they didn't see him wildly waving at them from below. He sent up his only flare (照明弹) and even set his backpack on fire hoping to catch their attention, but it was no use.
When Mauro's water ran out, he began drinking his own urine. He found a marabout shrine, an ancient building that once served as a tomb. He took shelter from the sun's rays there, drinking the blood of bats.
With his energy running out, he thought, "I am bound to die here".
……
After being treated in the hospital for weakness, he made a full recovery!
