Following are 4 routes covering hot attractions in Beijing.
Route 1: Winter Wonderland
The Beijing Winter Olympic Park features elements about the Winter Olympics. About 15 minutes drive away is Shijingshan Amusement Park, where the ancient European castles, Arabian restaurants, and a wide range of entertainment facilities all promise a fun experience.
Route 2: Royal (皇家的) Getaway
As the largest existing royal garden in China, the Summer Palace presents a stunning picture, with its natural landscape of hills and water. The Yuanmingyuan Park, about 15 minutes drive away, has preserved the 3,000-year-old tradition of Chinese royal gardens.
Route 3: Documenting the City
To have a look at the past, visit the Beijing Archives(档案馆). There are currently seven exhibitions that carry themes such as the Olympics, city development, and treasured items. The Capital Library is 10 minutes drive away, which offers abundant books, a nice reading space and other cultural activities for visitors. Coffee and simple meals are available.
Route 4: Artistic Pursuits
Phoenix International Media Center is a draw for photographers due to its modern architectural features. Across the road sits the Art Museum of Beijing Fine Art Academy. For music lovers, the Musicfans Art Space, 10 minutes drive from the Art Museum, provides not only live music performances, but also coffee and drinks, and a space to meet friends.
Sport is not only physically challenging, but can also be mentally challenging. Criticism from coaches, parents and other teammates, as well as pressure to win can create too much anxiety or stress for young athletes. Stress can be physical, emotional, or psychological and research has indicated that it can lead to burnout. Burnout has been described as dropping or quitting of an activity that was at one time enjoyable.
The early years of development are critical years for learning about oneself. The sport setting is one where valuable experiences can take place. Young athletes can, for example, learn how to cooperate with others, make friends, and gain other social skills that will be used throughout their lives. Coaches and parents should be aware, at all times, that their feedback to youngsters can greatly affect their children. Youngsters may take their parents' and coaches' criticisms to heart and find faults in themselves.
Coaches and parents should also pay attention that youth sport participation does not become work for children. The outcome of the game should not be more important than the process of learning the sport and other life lessons. In today's youth sport setting young athletes may be worrying more about who will win instead of enjoying themselves and the sport. Following a game many parents and coaches focus on the outcome and find faults with youngsters' performances. Positive support should be provided regardless of the outcome. Research indicates that positive support motivates and has a greater effect on learning than criticism. Again, criticism can create high levels of stress, which can lead to burnout.
As my plane landed in Pamplona, Spain, I couldn't help thinking, "I'm crazy about going abroad and taking classes in Spanish." My biggest fear was whether I would be able to communicate with Spanish speakers, and how I would be able to adapt to a culture that is different in so many ways from American culture.
Having attended classes in Spanish and talking with native students for over a month now, it got better. When I first started, it was easy to get frustrated when I didn't understand parts of what my professor was saying, or to feel embarrassed when I had to ask someone to repeat themselves many times. However, people often politely corrected me when I made a mistake, and also offered support and words of encouragement. Noticing my own progress through my increased ability to have a conversation has made the frustration dissolve. And it helped me reach my biggest piece of advice to anyone facing the same fear: to force yourself to speak as much as possible.
Another challenge I faced was culture shock when I arrived in Spain. As someone used to stores always being open in Seattle, I've had to get used to most stores being closed during afternoon hours and on Sundays. Plans are made much more slowly, and usually at the last minute, which for someone who values organization and certainty as much as I do, was difficult to get used to. The best way I found to deal with the culture shock was to change my views. I've grown to appreciate the Spanish attitude that there is more to life than work. Family and friends are important as well, and having so much time off allows life outside work to be enjoyed.
Living abroad is always frightening, especially when the language and culture are completely foreign. There will always be challenges, frustrations, and problems. However, learning to deal with them and appreciate the journey has been one of the most valuable things I've learned while abroad.
Take a look inside a high school classroom. You will most likely find a teacher at the front of the class and students sitting at their desks. Yet, look closer, and you might notice a familiar scene: many of these students are not paying attention. Instead, they are dozing off (打盹) or even completely asleep.
Today, the majority of high school students are not getting enough sleep. This lack of sleep is a serious problem, especially as students are doing more than ever with their time. They come to school early, spend hours listening to teachers and taking tests, then run off to practices and meetings, and come home to be faced with even more work. And the homework load these days is not light; teachers give hours worth of homework each night.
Most kids need at least nine hours of sleep per night in order to function properly. Yet the period of this nine hours shifts as a child gets older. After puberty (青春期), the body's internal clock changes so that it is difficult for teens to fall asleep before 11 p.m. So even if a student falls asleep at eleven, they would need to sleep until at least 8 a.m. to get a full night's sleep. Considering the time at which most high schools in this country begin, those nine hours are clearly being shortened. Few high schools start after 8 a.m.
However, there are schools that have paid attention to this research and pushed backward the start of their school day. In schools where the start time is after 8:30 in the morning, the teachers believe that there has been a real change in their students. They note that the students miss class less, pay more attention in class, perform better in class, and report lower levels of depression. The researchers of these studies say that the results are quite important and that more schools should consider pushing backward their start time of their school day.
Harvesting fruits is a very demanding job. If pickers are not available, fruits will rot on the trees. But with pickers in short supply in recent years, growers needed to quickly find another way to harvest their fruits.
An Israeli company Tevel has developed these flying autonomous robots. The robots fly over a tree and pick fruits with its arms. They are fitted with cameras that use AI to assess the size and color of the fruit. In addition, they can collect more fruits than a picker during a given time.
The flying robots are connected to a platform that acts as the power source so that they never run out of power. They will work all day and night in any weather without taking a break.
Dozens of these smart robots can be used across an orchard(果园)during the time when the fruit is ready to be harvested. The farmers just need to tell the company how many flying robots they need and how long they will use.
The robots are now picking pears in Israel. The company also plans to add more tasks to the robot's function. In the future, fewer people will work in picking and more people will work in managing the robots, analyzing the data and making decisions.
A. So only the ripe ones are collected.
B. Now a new type of robot can come to their help.
C. Finding fruit pickers is farmers' biggest concern.
D. They can receive timely information from the robots.
E. Another advantage of the robots is that they never feel tired.
F. Then the company will transport the robots to their orchards.
G. For example, they can be used to cut off branches and water fruits.
When things around the house stop working, people probably just throw them away. There are many 1 for this trend. In some areas, it's difficult to find people who can make repairs, and 2 things can be expensive. Also, some small appliances are so cheap that it's easier to 3 buy a new one.
Martine Postma decided there must be a better way. Her 4 was Repair Cafés: places where people can take damaged or torn items. There they will find tools, 5 and volunteer experts to help with repairs.
Postma's first Repair Café opened in 2009 and was a huge 6. News of the café spread, and people began asking how they could 7 their own. In 2011, Postma established the Repair Café Foundation. This 8 organization provides guidance to those hoping to begin their own neighborhood repair group. Today, there are roughly 2,000 Repair cafés around the world. Everything is free, but donations are greatly 9.
The cafés not only provide help with repairs, they also 10 community ties. Postma has often heard visitors say, "This is the kind of world I want to 11!" In addition, valuable 12 is passed along and preserved.
In an interview, Postma described how 13 it is watching people who really want to help one another. Postma summed up the 14 of Repair Cafés best in the following words: "Everyone is a/an 15 and a receiver."
Six months ago, Xie Lei boarded a plane for London to complete an exchange programme. She recalled that she (choose) the year-long exchange programme with the (ambitious) to set up a business in China after graduation. It was the first time that she (leave) her motherland. When she came to England, she lived with a host family, members always helped her. At first, she had to get used to (live) in a new country and learn how to use public transport and how to ask for things she didn't know the English names for. Besides, she also had to face another challenge of the academic requirements. When writing essay, she was told by the tutor to acknowledge other people had said if she cited their ideas, but he wanted to know her own opinions. She also found many courses included students' participation in class as part of the final result. (lucky), after a few weeks, she could speak 64 in class on traditional Chinese art successfully. And she feels much more at home in the UK now. What seemed very strange before now appears quite normal to her. Now she has been involved in social (activity) as well as studying hard!
I stood there listening to the stern(严厉) words of my father.
"Which of you did this?" he asked with a sharp voice. We all stared down at the floor containing the art of a child's handwriting in chalk.
I stood there, trembling and hoped that no one else could see it. "Will he know it was me?" I secretly wondered. Scared, I said, "Not me, Dad."
The others denied it as well. Of course, we knew that one of us must have done it. But I, being the youngest and smallest of us three, just couldn't find the courage to tell the truth. I wasn't a bad kid and lying was not normal for me. But the look on my dad's face that evening frightened me and somehow I couldn't bring myself to tell him.
Without saying a word, he disappeared for several minutes and came back with a piece of paper and a pencil, determined to find out who did it.
He asked each of us to write exactly what we saw on the floor. I wasn't a stupid kid though. When my turn came, I deliberately(故意）wrote the words differently. So when my dad compared the handwriting, he still couldn't tell which one of us did it. Frustrated, he took a step towards us and looked at his three small kids.
"I'm going to give you one more chance to admit."
Not surprisingly, neither my brother nor my sister spoke up. Why should they?
I was the one who did it. "Should I say something? Is it too late? He will be mad." Again, frightened, I held my tongue.
He took us all in the house as tears suddenly filled my eyes. "Since none of you seemed to have done it, then you will all get a spanking(打屁股)." What? Still I stood there and said nothing. The last thing I wanted was a spanking.
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| Paragraph 1: "I did it," someone said and I was pretty sure it wasn't me. Paragraph 2: It was a secret we kept for many years. |
