Attractions in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Historical Museum
30 N. Carroll Street on Madison's Capitol Square
Discover Wisconsin's history and culture on four floors of exhibits(展品). Open for public program. Admission(入场) is free.
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 9:00am—4:00 pm.
(608) 264-6555 www. wisconsinhistory. org/museum
Swiss historical village
612 Seventh Ave. , New Glarus
The Swiss Historical Village offers a delightful look at pioneer life in America's heartland. 14 buildings in the village give a full picture of everyday life in the nineteenth-century Midwest.
Tue. —Fri. , May 1st—October 31st, 10:00 am—4:00 pm. Admission is $20.
(608) 527-2317 www. swisshistoricalvillage. com
Artisan Gallery & Creamery Café
6858 Paoli Rd. , Paoli, WI
One of the largest collections of fine arts and crafts(手工艺品) in Wisconsin. Over 5000 square feet(平方英尺) of exhibition space in a historic creamery(乳品厂). While visiting, enjoy a wonderfully prepared lunch at our café overlooking the Sugar River. Just minutes from Madison!
Gallery open Tue. —Sun. , 10:00 am—5:00 pm.
Café open Wed. —Sat. , 11:00 am—3:00 pm.
Sun. brunch with wine, 10:00 am—3:00 pm.
(608) 845-6600 www. artisangal. com
Christopher Columbus Museum
239 Whitney St. , Columbus
World-class exhibit –2000 quality souvenirs(纪念品) marking Chicago's 1893 World Columbian Exhibition. Tour buses are always welcome.
Open daily, 8:15 am—4:00 pm.
(920) 623-1992 www. columbusantiquemall. com
Global warming , the increases of the earth's average surface temperature , results from greenhouse gases, for example, carbon dioxide, which traps heat that would otherwise escape from the earth. After the trees are cut down and more greenhouse gases are released, the "blanket" around the earth, called the ozone layer(臭氧层), will get thicker. This catches more heat and makes the earth hotter. Luckily, there are many things that every citizen of the earth can do to help reduce the effects of global warming, and it's never too late or too early for children to take action.
Children should learn what a carbon footprint is. A carbon footprint is the amount of greenhouse gases people make as they lead the daily life and go about the normal activities. In other words, the carbon footprint is a measure of the environmental impact the life has. To live an environmentally friendly life that hardly contributes to global warming, people should make the fewest carbon footprints possible.
Almost everything people do contributes to global warming and is related to fossil fuel consumption. These things people do can be direct use of fossil fuels, like riding in a gasoline-powered car, or indirect contributions to greenhouse gases, such as eating fruit and vegetables that have to be shipped from faraway places to reach their tables.
If a child wants to make a contribution to reducing global warming, he should ride a bicycle to the near park, the school, his friend's house, or anywhere else not so far instead of taking a car. Or he may try to walk or jog, which is also helpful. In addition, although trains and buses often run on fossil fuels, on average, each person uses less energy and produces less pollution to take a train or a bus. Next time if children with their parents have to go around town or go to someplace too far to walk to or bike to, take a bus or other public transportation instead of riding a car.
In our daily lives, we probably make silly mistakes. While these moments can be worrying, they can also be handled with humor. When we share a laugh at our mistakes, we can calm ourselves down with a thread of understanding and acceptance.
When one morning in a rush to school, I spilled(泼洒) my cup of orange juice. I immediately thought of the precious minutes I would have to spend in cleaning up the floor. I raced back and forth to the sink(洗碗槽) with a kitchen cloth soaked(浸透) with juice to wash off. My legs were shaking as I watched from my window the school bus coming to my street. Within a minute, I had thrown the orange juice-soaked cloth to the sink and ran outside to join the group of kids in entering the bus. When thinking about my morning rush to clean up the spilled juice on the bus, I realized how much unnecessary stress and worry I put myself through. I ended up smiling to myself about my minor nervousness over spilled juice.
These days I don't usually spill orange juice, but I do sometimes spill a bit of spaghetti sauce on my pant or put on my sweater backwards when I'm really tired and in a hurry for school. In each of my mistakes, I try to remind myself not to take myself so seriously. It takes me a minute to calm down, take a deep breath and smile at my carelessness. It is the ability to see mistakes in a different way that enables me to find humor in everyday moments.
Humor, however, doesn't always have to arise from silly mistakes. Kids may have a good laugh at comic books, classic jokes and stories told by friends and parents. What matters more is not where you find the humor in life, but that you can appreciate it.
Nowadays, Facial recognition software has found an unlikely new application: scanning the faces of thousands of British children in school canteens.
Nine schools in North Ayrshire will today start taking lunch payments by scanning the faces of pupils, claiming that the new system speeds up queues and is more secure than the card payments and fingerprint scanners they used previously. "It's the fastest way of recognising someone at the till," said David Swanston, whose company installed the systems. "In a secondary school you have around a 25-minute period to serve potentially 1, 000 pupils. But now the average transaction time was cut to five seconds per pupil. "He added.
However, privacy campaigners say there is little need to spread out facial recognition technology, which has been criticized for often operating without gaining approvals from the owners. Swanston argued that the system, which uses cameras to check against coded face-print modes stored on servers at the schools, was different from live facial recognition systems that scan through crowds to identify faces. Live facial recognition has previously caused debate after being used by schools for security or to monitor attendance.
North Ayrshire committee said that 97 percent of children or their parents had given agreement for the new system. "Pupils often forget their PINs and unfortunately some have also been the victim of PIN cheating, so they are supportive of the planned developments and appreciate the benefits to them," the council said.
But some parents said they were unsure whether their children had been given enough information to make their decision, and suggested that peer pressure had also played a role.
People find it tough to learn English, but there are certain things you can do to learn the language a lot faster. People can have a good command of English as long as they devote the time to practicing speaking, reading and writing in English.
Start by taking a class that teaches beginning English. These classes are often named as "ESL" classes, or "English as a Second Language. "
Buy an English audio (音频的) course. You can go over these classes in your spare time and learn quite a bit. Buy an audio course and listen to it in the car or while working, if possible. The higher the quality of the course, the quicker you'll learn.
Practice speaking English with other people, especially with native English speakers. . And make sure they are willing to help you learn English by having simple conversations with you. You will probably be surprised at how quickly you can start having a conversation in English.
. Pay attention to the dialogue and try to make clear what the actors are saying. Congratulate yourself on your being able to pick out certain words and phrases that you understand.
Read newspapers, books and magazines in English. At first they may be very difficult, but as your knowledge grows so will your understanding of written English. It will help you a lot in learning to speak the language much faster.
A. Try to understanding written English while reading.
B. Watch television shows or movies that are in English.
C. Read and remember as many English words as possible.
D. Here we will show you how to learn to speak English quickly.
E. Every morning you should get up very early and read English.
F. Make friends with people speaking English as their native language.
G. The teachers of these classes have the experience to teach the students.
It was time for lvy League( 常春藤联盟) schools to announce their admission decisions. 17-year-old Mekhi Johnson sat with his mother at a1. Johnson quickly started checking his position at each of the eight2schools that he'd3. He started with Yale一he was in. Next, Columbia and Cornell. Those schools4him, too. Then, he checked Harvard's5 ， As soon a he saw he got into Harvard, his mom started6loudly, "My son just got into Harvard. "Everyone in the restaurant started clapping. It was just7 !
Eleven years ago, Johnson heard a story about a student who was8into all the lvy League schools. Then he said with a(n)9look, "I want to do that!" 10he was young, he set the11and was pretty serious.
Johnson is the first Gilman student to achieve this. Johnson has attended Gilman12first grade, and has a 98.1 average. He edits the school's yearbook and magazines, 13in the jazz band and works on musical theater productions. He also volunteers with a group that14elementary school students from low-income families.
Johnson hope to study at a law school. He wants to use the special experiences he's had to15racism(种族歧视).
In much of Asia, especially the "rice bowl" cultures of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.
Chopsticks are usually two long, thin pieces of wood or bamboo. They can also be made of plastic, animal bone or metal. Sometimes chopsticks are quite artistic. Truly elegant chopsticks might(make) of gold and silver with Chinese characters. Skilled workers also combine various hardwoods and metal(create) special designs.
The Chinese have used chopsticks for five thousand years. People probably cooked their food in large pots, (use)twigs(树枝)to remove it. Over time，aspopulation grew，people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly. Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which(gradual) turned into chopsticks.
Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius, lived from roughly 551 to 479 B. C., influenced the (develop) of chopsticks. Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and being too (violence) for use at the table.
Chopsticks are not used everywhere in Asia. In India, for example, most people traditionally eattheir hands.
I walked into a restaurant and sat down at a table. I picked up a menu, trying to decide what to eat." Excuse me. Is your name Roger?" asked someone, who touched me on the shoulder. I looked up and turned to the side to see a rather nice looking woman standing before me." Yes," I replied, looking rather confused as I had never seen the woman before.
"My name is Barbara and my husband is Tony. He is from George High School," she said, pointing to a distant table near the door. I looked in the direction but I did not recognize the man who was sitting alone at the table, with a wheelchair(轮椅) around the corner.
"I'm really sorry. The name doesn't ring a bell," I said.
She turned and walked back to her table. She and her husband immediately began talking and once in a while looked directly at me.
I sat there, thinking hard and tried to remember who this Tony guy was. "I must know him," I thought to myself." He recognizes me for some reason. "I picked up my coffee and took a sip. All of a sudden, it came to me like a flash lightning.
"Tony. THE BULLY(校园霸凌者). The bully of my seventh grade geography class," I said to myself. I turned around and faced in his direction.
How many times that guy had made fun of my big ears in front of girls? How many times he called me" four eyed toad"? How many times he pushed me up against the lockers just to make himself look like a big man to all the other students?
He raised his hand and waved at me. I smiled, returned the wave and turned back and began to eat my breakfast.
"Goodness. He's so thin now. Not the big guy that I remembered," I thought to myself.
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All of a sudden I heard the sound of dishes breaking so I turned around to see what had happened.
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"Could you help me get into the wheelchair?" asked Tony.
