Choose Your One-Day-Tours!
Tour A - Bath &Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge -￡37 until 26 March and ￡39 thereafter. Visit the city with over 2,000 years of history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum, Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years.
Tour B - Oxford & Stratford including entrance fees to the University St Mary's Church Tower and Anne Hathaway's -￡32 until 12 March and ￡36 thereafter. Oxford: Includes a guided tour of England's oldest university city and colleges. Look over the "city of dreaming spires(尖顶） " from St Mary‘s Church Tower. Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder.
Tour C - Windsor Castle &Hampton Court: including entrance fees to Hampton Court Palace -￡34 until 11 March and ￡37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VILL's favorite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle(entrance fees not included).With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former royal palace is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze(迷宫) where it is easy to get lost!
Tour D –Cambridge including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great -￡33 until 18 March and ￡37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18th century.
When I was a teenager, I knew nothing about mental health. If you talked about "safe spaces ", I'd think that you meant a bank. What's more, I didn't care about mental health. Why would I? As Dad used to say, "If it isn't broken, don't fix it! "
But unfortunately my mental health did "break ". I was diagnosed (诊断) as seriously clinically anorexic (厌食的) at age 23. I had immediate treatment in hospital, which lasted two and a half years. People always wonder what helped me recover and the key was simple: comedy (喜剧).
I'm a professional stand-up comic. Comedy began as my hobby and has progressed into a job. The word "comedy " is believed to come from the Ancient Greek kōmos meaning "to reveal ", whose job is to reveal, explain and understand things. This was something I turned to when I was in recovery from anorexia. I'd never been able to explain what going on inside my head; trying to explain what's going on in your mind is like trying to explain a color to someone who's blind. So humour became a way of understanding things and then a way of explaining them.
Dr Dieter Declercq, Lecturer in Film at the University of Kent, believes "Humor can change our opinions on a difficult situation ". However, he adds carefully that "We should avoid judgments like All humour is good for you. " In his new book Satire, Comedy and Mental Health, he looks at how comedy can be used as a mental health method. Enjoyed with others, it is important for good mental health and recovery.
Stand-up comedy was important to my recovery. I know I'm not alone in that. So I want to pay that forward and show other people your mental health doesn't have to be "broken " before you can "fix it ".
When most people hear the words "Big Ben " they immediately think of the attractive Victorian Gothic structure of the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster. Let's clear up a common misunderstanding first; technically speaking, the name "Big Ben " does not refer to the famous tower, nor to the four huge clock faces of this London landmark; instead, it refers to the largest one of the five bells inside the clock tower.
Construction of the tower was begun following the disastrous fire which destroyed the old Palace of Westminster in 1834. Charles Barry was responsible for rebuilding the Palace, and his designs included a clock tower.
It took 16 years to build the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster and it was completed in 1859. The tower is 316 feet high. The spire of the tower is built with an iron frame, and it is this frame which supports the weight of the bells. Several small rooms are built into the lower part of the tower, including a small prison cell.
The iron frame of the clock face was designed by AW Pugin, who was responsible for many of the Gothic decorative elements of the Palace of Westminster. The dials are 23 feet in diameter and the faces themselves are not solid, but are made up of many small pieces of opal glass, like a glass window. Several of the central pieces of glass can be removed to make it easier for people to check the hands of the clock from inside.
At the time of its construction the clock movement was easily the largest in the world, and it is still among the largest today. The clock, designed by Edmund Beckett Denison, has proven to be very accurate over the years.
Big Ben — the hour bell — is said to have been named after Sir Benjamin Hall, who was known for his great size, as is the bell! The first Big Ben hour bell was completed before the tower, so the bell was hung in New Palace Yard. After repeated public ringing the bell cracked and had to be replaced by the current bell.
Conversation goes far beyond talking. It also involves, as Swedish author Annika Thor has written, "eyes, smiles, the silences between the words. " When those elements are put together, conversational partners feel most deeply engaged and connected.
Dart-mouth College neuroscientists have taken that idea and carried it to new places. They report some surprising findings on the interaction between eye contact and how two people synchronize (使同步) neural (神经的) activity while talking. The researchers suggest that being in tune with a conversational partner is good — but that occasionally falling out of sync might be even better.
Maintaining eye contact has long been thought to act as the glue that connects two people in conversation. Similarly, the growing study of neural synchrony has largely focused on the way consistence in individuals' brain activity benefits the social connection between them.
Earlier research by the Dartmouth lab had showed that synchronized pupil dilation (瞳孔扩张) serves as a reliable indicator of shared attention, which in turn marks greater neural synchrony. In the new study, which measured pupil dilation during unstructured 10-minute conversations, the researchers found that the initial moment of eye contact — rather than a continuing period of locked stares — marks a peak in shared attention. Synchrony, in fact, drops sharply just after you look into your partner's eyes and begins to recover only when you and that person look away from each other. "Eye contact is not bringing synchrony; it's disturbing it, " says Thalia Wheatley, the paper's senior author.
Why would this happen? Wheatley claims that making and breaking eye contact ultimately drives the conversation forward. "Perhaps what this is doing is allowing us to break synchrony and move back into our own heads so that we can bring forth new and individual contributions to keep the conversation going, " Wohltjen says.
Connections between stare and synchrony might be relevant to research in mental disorders that involve untypical interaction. The findings also help explain frustrations over video-conferencing platforms, where real eye contact is nearly impossible to make or break because of the positioning of cameras and windows on screens.
Health is the most important thing in the world. Nothing is more important than health. If we take away our money, houses, or even our clothes, we can still survive. That is why we always try to eat in a healthy way and exercise regularly.
How can we keep healthy? In order to eat healthily, I usually avoid eating food high in fat, like French fries or cookies, which are junk food. I eat a lot of vegetables and fresh fruits which are full of vitamins.
Taking exercise every day helps us build a strong body Regular exercise is an important part of keeping me healthy.
What's more, I think friends are an important part of one's health. I always feel better when I am with friends than when I am alone. When I am with friends, I always laugh. Laughing is also an important part of health. It's good to stay with my friends.
By eating properly and exercising regularly, I can keep my mind as well as my body happy. These things sound easy to do, but not many people can manage them.
A. I only eat little meat.
B. On the other hand, doing exercise is very important.
C Some people appear fat because they often eat too much.
D. I think a strong will is necessary if we want to keep healthy.
E. But if our health is taken away, it is certain that we would die.
F. There are some people who like staying alone, but they keep healthy.
G. Many studies show that people who have a wide range of social contact get sick less than those who don't.
Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials to make the light bulb. When none worked successfully, his assistant complained, "All our work is 1 vain. We have learned nothing. "
Thomas Edison replied very 2 , "Oh, we have come a long way and we have 3 a lot. We now know that there are two thousand materials which we cannot 4 to make a good light bulb. "
If you learn from your mistakes, then you are 5 . If you learn from someone else's mistakes, then you are a genius. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines 6 daily and failure is nothing more than a few small 7 repeated daily.
How 8 the above lines are! Success takes 9 . We'll make mistakes 10 we do things in too much of a hurry. When we do not practice disciplines in life, we don't build enough confidence to 11 new and challenging tasks which are important and matter in life. Our confidence 12 what we think of ourselves and whether we believe in ourselves. We are all born with exceptional 13 , but only a few really 14 their true potentials and make efforts in life and the others just lead a(n) 15 life. Do you want to be exceptional?
Success is a fruit which everyone wants to 16 , but it is not found everywhere and no one can 17 it without serious efforts.
Those who want to succeed will find a way; those who don't will find a(n) 18 !
Success depends on previous 19 , and without it we will end in failure.
When you are 20 , please enjoy it and give your hand to others who want to accomplish something.?
China is the birthplace of silk. Raising silkworms for silk production (date) back to over 6,000 years ago. Legend has it that the wife of the Yellow Emperor was having tea under a mulberry tree(桑树) a cocoon(蚕茧)fell into her cup. As she watched, the cocoon spun a strong white thread. She unwound the string onto her finger, (realize) that it could be used as weaving thread. Thus an industry was born. She taught her people how to raise silkworms, and (late) invented the loom(织布机). Silk production reached high level during the Shang Dynasty (1600BC—1046BC).
For more than two thousand years, the Chinese kept the secret of silk to(they). It was one of the most guarded(secret) in history. Anyone found guilty of taking silkworm eggs, cocoons, or mulberry seeds was put to death. Silk clothes were worn by emperors and rich people and became a symbol wealth. Common people were prevented from wearing silk. With the increases of travels and trading, sericulture (slow) reached the outside world from Asia to Europe. Now most of silk (produce) in the south of the Yangtze River Delta, such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Shaoxing.
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：每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Some of my classmates and I went hiking on yesterday. Early in the morning, we gathered at our school gate and then head for West Lake, where was 10 kilometers away. On arriving, we first visited some famous places of interests there, which left a deep impression on us. Then we went boating, enjoy the beautiful scenery of the lake. Final, we tasted some local special snacks. Before we knew it, it was time for us go home. Although the hike was very tired, we all had a good time. They not only got relaxed by admiring the beauty of nature and also had our horizons broadened.
内容要点如下：
1. 写信目的；
2. 个人优势；
3. 能做的事情。
注意：
1. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
2. 词数100左右（信的开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）。
参考词汇：《学生双语报》Student Bilingual Newspaper
Dear Sir or Madam,
My name is Li Hua. I am a high school student in Class One, Grade Two.
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Looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
