Do you want to visit the coldest place in the world? Thousands of tourists 1 Antarctica(南极洲) every year. They go there in the summer because it is never dark. The sun 2 all day and all night. It is very cold in Antarctica in the summer, 3 not as cold as in the winter. In the winter the 4 is very low, sometimes -80℃ and it is always dark, all day and all night. Most 5 go to Antarctica by ship. They usually sleep and eat on the ship because there are no hotels in Antarctica.
Tourists can see some amazing 6 in Antarctica. The biggest animal in the world lives there. It is the blue whale. A blue whale is 30 meters long and can weigh 150,000 kilos. But only 7 tourists may see one. 8 animal tourists always see when they visit Antarctica is the penguin. Lots of penguins live there. Penguins are 9 birds. They can fly and swim very well. They 10 little fat men wearing black clothes.
Vicuna, a small town in the north of Chile, is a great place for watching stars all year round. Although it is near the sea, the cold, wet air from the coast does not bring clouds. Instead, dry winds from the desert keep the clouds away at night. In fact, the sky is so clear in Vicuna that it is possible to see many stars that can be seen only with advanced(先进的) instruments in other parts of the world.
In Vicuna, distant(遥远的) star systems such as Magellanic Clouds can be seen without the help of an instrument. That is why the town was chosen as the home of a number of sky observatories(天文台). One of them, the Mamalluca, is quite different from the typical observatories used by scientists. This observatory was built for tourists who like to look at the stars. During the year, Vicuna's hotels accommodate thousands of tourists who come from all over the world to see the night sky as they have only seen it in books. The cloudless sky is clearly a moneymaker for the town, which plans to set up even more observatories. It was recently decided that building observatories would go on for another few years.
At one point, however, the town faced a serious problem. As the town grew, more streetlights were added, making it more and more difficult to see the stars at night. The town saved the night sky by building a new system of lights that lit up the streets without influencing the view of the sky.
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Zhang Guimei, is the headmaster of Iluaping High School tor Girls, has been given the title(称号) "Role Model of the Times" for girls from poor families.
She moved to Lijiang to teach in the middle school in Huaping county the age of 17. Once, she got badly ill but had no money. The local people raised money helped her. "From then on, I told myself that I must do something for those people who helped me," Zhang said.
She was sad when she saw her couldn't afford to go to school. , a dream appeared in her heart. In 2008, she manage Huaping High School for Girls. This is free school for girls from poor families. When people asked why she worked so hard, she just said, "I hope these girls can live a life than me."
With her great efforts, she more than 1,800 students to universities so far.
