— I agree. And I think he has no choice but ________ drinking if he wants to stay healthy.
— Sorry, Dad. I ________to make sense of what the reporter said.
Can you go skiing in China? Yes, of course! At present, there are 770 ski resorts being built in China, and the snowing season can last for 140 days from November to March. Here are the top four ski resorts in China.
Harbin Yabuli Ski Resort
About two and a half hours drive from Harbin downtown, Yabuli Ski Resort is the largest ski resort in China, as well as China's biggest training center for snow activities. It consists of three mountains and boasts the longest alpine (高山的) ski slope in Asia.
·Opening Dates 2022: 12. Nov 2022-mid-March 2023
·Ticket/pass price: 140 yuan/2 hours, 280 yuan/4 hours, 380 yuan/full day, the price will rise on weekends and holidays.
·Suitable for: beginners, intermediates, experts
Beidahu Ski Resort
Only 33 miles away from the downtown of Jilin City, Beidahu Ski Resort is an important skiing center for both sportsmen and ski lovers. There are 26 ski runs in the resort with a total length of 48km.
·Opening Dates 2022: 12. Nov 2022-mid-Mar 2023
·Ticket/pass price: depending on your skiing hours, usually from CNY 190 (for 4 hours) to CNY 230 (for one day). The price will rise during weekends and holidays.
·Suitable for: intermediates and experts
Wanda Changbaishan International Ski Resort
Among the original forest of Changbaishan Mountains Nature Reserve, Wanda Changbaishan International Ski Resort is a great place to go skiing with beautiful natural scenery. It has great snow quality which is close to that of France and North Italy.
·Opening Dates 2022: 15. Nov 2022-mid-Mar 2023
·Ticket/pass price: CNY 300-CNY780
·Suitable for: intermediates and experts
Songhua Lake Ski Resort
Songhua Lake Ski Resort, located in Fengman Economic Zone, Jilin, is famous as an urban ski resort in China, and is just 19 kilometers away from the city center. Songhua Lake Ski Resort occupies a total of 175 sq. m skiing area, which has a capacity of 8, 000 for skiing.
·Opening Dates 2022: 12. Nov 2022-mid-Mar 2023
·Ticket/pass price: from CNY470
·Suitable for: all ages skiers and families with young kids
I stare at the row of jars filled with my parents' homemade tomato sauce. Every time I wonder: Should I really use one? I have been saving these jars like precious treasures. No matter how hard I try to find something instead, nothing compares. Store-bought sauces? It just doesn't taste right. It doesn't taste like home.
During the tomato season all my family were a lot busier than usual. My parents would use the basement as an area for letting the tomatoes they had collected locally ripen. Like the other Italian families in the area, we would then take them to the garage when they were ripe enough. There they were cleaned and boiled. Once stewed, whole tomatoes were passed through my father's homemade machine used to separate the sauce from the skins. Jars at the ready, we filled them with sauce and seasoning. They would then be lined up and ready to use.
My parents would make more than just sauce every fall. I loved it when they would season all the pork sausage. We would fry the meat, tasting it before making the separate sausages. My parents expertly hand-tied the sausages while I would poke (戳) them all over. These were my family's traditions.
These traditions were hard to maintain when my father got ill. After being diagnosed with cancer in 2019, he spent most of his time in hospital. In September that year he came home, on the same weekend we decided to continue the tradition. I have glorious memories of that day as they once again made the sauce. It was a beautiful but short-lived moment. My father died soon after.
Every time I go to reach for one of the jars, something stops me. My mother, ever practical, was visiting us recently and just stared at them. "You should use these or they will go to waste."
What will it feel like to use that last jar? It would mean the end of an era. Who knows? Maybe it's time to bring new traditions to life.
Plastic fishing nets, the so-called ghost nets, abandoned yearly in the sea—about 1 million tons—are more than just rubbish; they're a killer. Fish, sea birds, and turtles get caught in the netting and die, with more species at risk.
Much shocked at this, Pranveer Singh Rathore, a materials-science engineer and materials R&D manager at Samsung, and his team set themselves the task of giving new life to the deadly nets. Last month, Samsung revealed a new line of Galaxy products made in part from recycled plastic fishing nets for the first time. The company estimates this year alone it can recycle over 50 tons of ocean-bound plastic into the key components that will go into its smartphones, tablets, and computers, thus taking a bite out of the global ghost nets problem.
It's no small task to give waste fishing nets a second act. The nets are typically made of a substance called nylon which tends to dramatically degrade (降解) the longer it sits in the ocean and is exposed to the sun. "This makes it nearly impossible to use abandoned fishing nets directly," Rathore explains. Besides, high-performance smartphone, tablet, or PC has to be waterproof and can survive severe weather. The nylon in the fishing nets falls far short of that level of durability.
To deal with that problem, Samsung last summer teamed up with two partners: one to collect and transform the nets into tiny nylon pellets (颗粒) while the other to strengthen their toughness and durability. The end result: The partners hit upon an eco-friendly and high-performance plastic material that's being used to build the component parts for its latest line of products. For example, two parts of the Galaxy S22 mobile phone—the key bracket and the inner cover—are made of these fishing-net plastic materials. Samsung aims to use even more upcycled materials in future product lines.
"That's the hope for the globe and our mission," Rathore smiles.
In the late 1960s, the anthropologist (人类学家) Edmund Carpenter arrived in New Guinea armed with mirrors, videos and Polaroid cameras, and a mission: to disrupt (扰乱) the minds of members of the Biami tribe, who had never seen full reflections or images of themselves. "After their first astonished response—covering their mouths and ducking their heads—they stood frozen, staring at their images." Carpenter's devices disturb that inner image, causing discomfort. But not for long. Within days, the villagers groomed (打扮) themselves openly before mirrors and began taking Polaroid shots of each other.
It's unclear if the People of Biami were really as unfamiliar with mirrors as Carpenter thought. But in any case, what's striking isn't how strange their reaction seems, but how related. Do you know how it feels when you make a pleasant remark in a lift, but nobody responds? Or when two people greeting each other misjudge whether to go for a handshake, a hug or a social kiss? That's the same awkwardness: "self-consciousness tinged (带有) with uncertainty", as Dahl defines it. Suddenly, I see I'm viewed not as a friendly conversationalist, but as a strange person who talks in the lift.
As awkwardness feels unpleasant, it's natural to want to overcome it. Dahl's initial motivation for writing her book Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness, was to get over her own awkwardness. But after a journey through various awkward experiences, she makes a persuasive case for celebrating it. We live in an era with more opportunities than ever to do so. But awkwardness breaks that false appearance, exposing the imperfect life behind it. It creates a strange kind of social bond—how much in common we have when seeing that behind the disguise —we're all just trying our best to seem perfect.
The awkward you, then, are the real you, the one without the defensive performance. Dahl even indicates that taking a friendlier attitude toward awkwardness might help us make the connections with people holding different ideas.
Moving into a new home in a new neighborhood is an exciting experience. Of course, you want to make sure that you become an acceptable and valuable part of your neighborhood. The easiest way to accomplish this is to make sure you conduct yourself as a good neighbor should.
Perhaps one of the most important things you can do as a good neighbor is to keep your property(房产) neat, clean, and in good repair. By choosing to keep the outside of the home in great shape, you will help to improve the look and feel of the area.
Second, take the overall appearance of the neighborhood seriously. When going for a walk. Take a small garbage bag. This small act will let your neighbors know that you care about the area.
If a neighbor is going to be out of town, offer to collect mail and newspapers. If a neighbor suffers an illness, offer to do the grocery shopping. Let them know you are there to help in any way this acceptable, while still respecting the privacy of your neighbor.
By following the basic rules of respecting others, taking care of what belongs to you, and taking pride in the appearance of the neighborhood in general, you will quickly become a good neighbor that everyone appreciate.
A. In general, keep an eye on their property while they are gone.
B. A good neighbor is also one who likes to help out in small ways.
C. Being a good neighbor is more or less about considerate behavior.
D. Sometimes neighbors may go to the supermarket together to do shopping.
E. Should you come across waste paper thrown out of a passing car, pick it up.
F. People tend to take pride in keeping everything in their street fresh and inviting.
G. Here are a few tips to help you win over everyone in the neighborhood quickly
The first time Mercado thought seriously about becoming a professional model, she surfed the Internet for someone with a physical disability in the modeling world. That was six years ago, when disabled models were 1. Thus, her search came up empty.
"I didn't think there was a 2." she talks of the career she'd imagined. However, Mercado has helped 3 that reality because of her not giving up. Last year, Mercado signed with IMG Models, the powerhouse agency which represents top supermodels.
During a shoot, there are certain movements and poses that are simply not an option for her. But her team has always found a way to work around these 4, and she's never been cut from a campaign because of concerns about her disability.
"There's never been an excuse where it's like—'she has a disability, this is not going to work because the 5 won't look nice.' "She says.
With her small body having more than a dozen surgical 6, she says, "7 I'm very outspoken with what I believe in, I'm very much of a 8 person still at heart. But I wanted to 9 a challenge." Mercado liked 10 people that everyone can and should feel attractive in their own skin: "You shouldn't be ashamed of your own 11."
In the meantime, she's focused on her work and using her blog to encourage those who want to follow her 12. When the next generation of disabled models searches the Web for 13, they'll find her.
Mercado 14 her success to confidence, faith and never 15, "I'm an example that you can do what you want, because..." she pauses. "Just because! That's it. You just can."
In recent months, the China Grand Canal Museum in Yangzhou, which exhibits the history and culture of the Grand Canal, (attract) a great number of visitors. Each day, the museum provides 15, 000 tickets for visitors to book advance. They usually sell out on weekends, making the museum popular landmark in East China.
(locate) near the downtown, the museum is only 20-minute drive from the Yangzhoudong Railway Station to by taxi only takes 20 minutes. "My passion (arouse) by those passengers, so I took my children to the museum too. I never knew why it had such great charm I got there."
The museum, appearance resembles a giant ship, covers 80,000 square meters and houses 14 exhibition halls. While telling its story, the museum puts an (emphasize) on improving visitors' experience. Young people can take part in a live-action role-play game designed by the museum, transporting them back to the Ming Dynasty, and (immerse) them in an amazing world. "It is (true) a very meaningful experience," said a visitor surnamed Chen.
During this past year, I've had three instances of car trouble. Each time these things happened, I was sick of the way most people hadn't bothered to help. One of those times, I was on the side of the road for close to three hours with my big Jeep. I put signs in the windows, big signs that said NEED A JACK（千斤顶）, and offered money. Nothing. Right as I was about to give up, a Mexican family in a small truck pulled over, and the father bounded out.
He sized up the situation and called for his daughter, who spoke English. He conveyed through her that he had a jack but that it was too small for the Jeep, so we would need something to support it. Then he got a saw（锯子）from the truck and cut a section out of a big log on the side of the road. We rolled it over and put his jack on top, and we were in business.
I started taking the wheel off, and then, if you can believe it, I broke his tire iron. No worries: He handed it to his wife, and she was gone in a flash down the road to buy a new tire iron. She was back in 15 minutes. We finished the job, and I was a very happy man.
The two of us were dirty and sweaty. His wife prepared a pot of water for us to wash our hands. I tried to put a $20 bill in the man's hand, but he wouldn't take it, so instead I went up to the truck and gave it to his wife as quietly as I could. I asked the little girl where they lived. Mexico, she said. They were in Oregon so Mommy and Daddy could work on a fruit farm for the next few weeks. Then they would go home.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150左右；2. 续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
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When I was about to say goodbye, the girl asked if I'd had lunch.
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After they left, I got into my Jeep and opened the paper bag.
I'm Li Hua, a Senior Two student.
As a student in a foreign languages school, I do believe that I'm a qualified candidate for this job. , my spoken English is good enough to communicate with native English speakers. Besides, , such as showing them around, making them feel at home, and answering their questions related to our tradition and customs. I'm interested in this opportunity because .
Looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
