Thanksgiving Day is a public vacation. It is a day off for the general population in the US, and schools and most businesses are closed.
What Do People Do
Thanksgiving Day is traditionally a day for families and friends to get together for a special meal. The meal often includes a turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie and vegetables. Thanksgiving Day is a time for many people to give thanks for what they have.
Thanksgiving Day parades are held in some cities and towns on or around Thanksgiving Day. Some parades or festivities also mark the opening of the Christmas shopping season. Some people have a four-day weekend so it is a popular time for trips and to visit family and friends.
Public Life
Most government offices, businesses, schools and other organizations are closed on Thanksgiving Day. Many offices and businesses allow staff to have a four-day weekend so these offices and businesses are also closed on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day. Public transit systems do not usually operate on their regular timetables.
Thanksgiving Day is one of the busiest periods for travel in the US. This can cause congestion and overcrowding. Seasonal parades and busy football games can cause disruption to local traffic.
One North Carolina business owner is helping the homeless by opening up his parking lot to people who may be living out of their cars.
James Charles is the owner of Kiplin's Automotive Group in Charlotte, North Carolina. For about two months, he has been encouraging people sleeping in their cars to use the company's parking lot as a safe place to sleep at night.
Charles was first encouraged to do something helpful after his team tried to take back a woman's car back in January.
"The gentleman who was taking back the car said, ‘We can't take the car; there's somebody living in the car,'" Charles told WBTV.
Then he tried to get the woman into a homeless shelter (收容所). But he was shocked to find that every shelter in the city was full. Although he paid for her to stay in a hotel for a few nights, he knew that there were other people suffering from the same thing.
Charles made a Facebook post: "We would like to provide a safe place for those going through this tough time. We can't put everyone in a hotel, but we can get you a safe place for the night.
Since more and more people have shared his post, people have donated (捐赠) hats, scarves, food, and even an easy-to-move toilet for the parking lot. Not only that, but about 20 different people have helped Charles with his offer by parking their cars overnight at the lot.
These kind acts also made it possible for Charles to start his non-profit (非盈利的) organization, HALO Now. The organization was set up to raise money for the homeless people of Charlotte — and he has raised more than US$30,000.
New Zealand's government recently announced it will help pay for poorer families to replace their old cars with cleaner hybrid(混合动力的)or electric vehicles. The government said it plans to spend $357 million on the test program.
The move is part of a wider plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gases are believed to cause warming temperatures in the Earth's atmosphere. New Zealand plans to provide aid for businesses to reduce emissions and have buses that run on environmentally safe fuel by 2035. The government also plans to provide food-waste collection for most homes by 2030.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardem said in a statement, "We've all seen the recent reports on sea level rise and its influence right here in New Zealand. We cannot leave the issue of climate change until it's too late to fix. " The plan is a step toward New Zealand's stated goal of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Reaching net-zero emissions means not creating more carbon in the atmosphere than oceans and forests can remove. Ardern said that reducing dependence on traditional fuels would help protect families from extreme price increases. The plan also sets a goal of reducing total car travel by 20 percent over the next 13 years. The programs will be paid for from a $2. 8 billion climate emergency response fund.
Officials said that over time, money collected from polluters would pay for the programs rather than taxes from families. Some critics of the plan say it continued to be less restrictive on New Zealand's huge agriculture industry. Agriculture creates more than half of the nation's total greenhouse gas emissions. But the industry is also important to the economy as the nation's biggest export earner.
David Seymour is the leader of New Zealand's ACT political party. He said that some of the announced programs are proven to be ineffective and have been tried and failed overseas. Seymour added that people should be able to choose how they reduce emissions through the market-basedd emissions trading plan.
You're lying in bed, staring at the ceiling. Go to sleep, you tell yourself. You shut your eyes tight, force your body to relax, and wait for the pleasant sleep to come. But nothing happens. It's 3 a. m. , and you're still staring at the ceiling.
We have all been in this situation. Try as we might, it is nearly impossible to consciously will yourself to sleep. Sleep comes to those who let their mind wander and focus on anything other than sleep itself. Count sheep, control your breathing, listen to an audiobook (有声书), or whatever - so long as it turns your mind from wanting to sleep. This is a common example of the "law of reversed effort. "
The Law of Reversed Effort was first created by Aldous Huxley. "The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed. " Suppose, for instance, that you are learning how to ride a bike. You are told to hold the handlebars, to push off with this foot, to pedal at that speed, to hold your balance here, and so on. When riding, we know all these instructions, but we do not try to do them. They just happen. In Huxley's words, it's "combining relaxation with activity. "
There's a spiritual way of viewing the "law of reversed effort" as well. It's something that has a much longer history than Aldous Huxley - it's the Daoist idea of "Wu Wei. " It is to walk the path that opens up and push the door that gives. Call it fate, divine (神圣的) calling, or whatever, but Wu Wei is to stop doing what you think is right, and to let yourself be pulled by some other power. Wu Wei is the grass bending in the wind. It's the stick riding down the river.
There are many moments in life when trying harder makes things worse. When you have a mosquito (蚊子) bite, a broken bone, or a nosebleed, you leave it be. Picking and tapping only worsen the problem. So, too, with a lot of life's major moments.
The Guide to Keeping Your Dorm(宿舍) Room Clean
In most cases, students don't like or have time to clean their dorm rooms. As a result, everybody's business is nobody's business. Read through this guide to keeping your dorm room clean.
Have a cleaning routine(常规). With a cleaning routine in place, you will always tidy up your room at a particular time often. If you can, sweep up your room every day in the morning. You can also do it every other day. Doing this can make the process harder during exam time. In addition, you can take turns cleaning if you have a roommate.
The quickest way of making a dorm room dirty and unorganized is to throw clothes everywhere. Never throw dirty clothes on the bed or the floor. They will quickly fill your room up. Rather, you should keep your dirty clothes in a basket and clean ones in your closet.
Have a study plan. Being a student does not mean living without a plan. Therefore, having a study plan helps you stay in control of your study lifeAs a result, you are better able to clean your room if your life is organized.
Avoid eating in your room. Food can easily cause a mess in a room. No matter how careful you are, you will drop a few parts of food in your room if you eat in it. Therefore, the best way of keeping your room clean is to avoid eating in it.
A. Keep your shoes by the door.
B. Avoid placing clothes everywhere.
C. It also makes your social and personal life easier.
D. What's worse, waste can quickly spread all over your room.
E. But do not go more than two days without cleaning your room.
F. Besides, many students share a room with at least one other student.
G. Similarly, do not allow friends and classmates to eat in your room.
"Everything happens for the best," my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you don't 1, something good will happen some day. "
Mother was 2, as I discovered after graduating from college, I had 3 myself to be a sports announcer(播音员). So I went to Chicago to knock on the door of every station and was 4 every time. In one station, a 5 lady told me that large stations wouldn't employ（雇佣） a person without 6 since I just graduated. "Go out of the town and find a small station that might give you 7," she said.
I returned to Dixon, where I had finished my high school education and had 8 high school football. My father said that our town had built a store and wanted a man to 9 its sports department. The job sounded just 10 for me but I wasn't hired.
My disappointment had 11 as if by design. "Everything happens for the best," Mom 12 me. Dad lent me his car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio Davenport. The program director told me they had already 13 an announcer. After I left his office, I asked aloud "14 can a fellow get to be a sports 15 if he can't get a job in a radio station?" 16, I heard the director calling. "Do you know anything about 17?" Then he asked me to 18 an imaginary game. It was easy, and I did it without difficulty. The director was 19 and told me I would be broadcasting a game on the 20 Saturday.
We went to Tibet to observe Tibetan antelopes with Zhaxi as our guide. Luckily, on the plain in front of us, we saw a herd of antelopes (move) slowly across the green grass. These beautiful animals reminded me the danger they are in because every year many of them are hunted (legal) for their valuable fur. Especially in 1980s and 1990s, their population dropped by more than 50 percent. In order (save) this species from extinction, the Chinese government placed it under national protection and set up the Changtang National Nature ReserveZhaxi works. These measures were (effect) and the antelope population (have) recovered. However，the government doesn't intend to stop the protection programmes, since the threats to the Tibetan antelopes (not disappear). Only when we learn to exist in harmony with nature we stop being a threat to wildlife and to our planet.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Chris,
Are you interested in coming with me to see a famous opera？It will performed at the Sichuan Opera House at 2 p. m. in May Day. I know you took great interest in Chinese culture, especially local opera. I think the perform will not only leave you with an unforgettably impression, but satisfy your interest in Chinese Opera as well. If you can come, I suggest us should visit the Sichuan Museum near the Opera House before and after the opera. You decide. The museum is hosting a exhibition on Sichuan opera. If we go, I believe you can learn many about Chinese opera in there.
Yours,
Li Hua
1）词数应为80左右 2）参考词汇 中秋节：Mid-Autumn Festival 农历：lunar calendar
