Attractive lakeside cottages and cabins
Lafitte' s Landing Guest Quarters, Uncertain, Texas
There are five cottages featuring high ceilings and spacious bedrooms. Lafitte' s is a certified Backyard Wildlife Habitat, so you don' t have to go far for bird-watching. Explore the lake on a steamboat, or head to Caddo Lake State Park for night adventures such as Owl Nights and Bat Watches.
Rates: Summer nightly rates range from $559 to $1, 899
Lake Placid Lodge, Lake Placid, New York
With 17 cabins sitting along the shores of Lake Placid, the arts-and-crafts-style Lake Placid Lodge offers an exciting summer lake experience. Lakefront cabins come outfitted with hand-built beds and stone fireplaces. Go for a hike, or hit the lake for swimming, fishing, or boating.
Rates: Rates are $120 per night for double occupancy; each additional person is $20 per night.
Lake Crescent Lodge, Olympic National Park, Washington
Its cottages and cabins are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Choose between one-and two-bedroom Singer Tavern Cottages, or stay in the always favored (and often booked) Roosevelt Fireplace Cabins. Spend your days hiking in the surrounding Olympic National Park, or exploring Lake Crescent by boat.
Rates: Nightly rates for cottages and cabins range between $317 and $398.
Tamarack Lodge Resort, Mammoth Lakes, California
It is on the peaceful shores of the Twin Lakes. Choose between recently built Deluxe Cabins and old wood-and-stone cabins. Swimming, fishing, boating, biking, and hiking are popular pastimes.
Rates: Summer cabin rates range from $369 to $999 per night.
Growing up, I thought math class was something to be endured, not enjoyed. I disliked memorizing formulas(公式) and taking tests, all for the dull goal of getting a good grade. One of my teachers told my mother that I was " slow" . But my problem wasn't with math itself. In fact, when a topic seemed particularly interesting, I would go to the library and read more about it.
By high school, no one told me that I could become a professional mathematician. What I wanted to do then was to play college football. My ambition was to get an athletic scholarship to attend a Big Ten school.
The chances of that happening were very low. But that didn' t stop my coaches from encouraging me to believe I could reach my goal, and preparing and pushing me to work for it. They made video tapes of my performances and sent them to college coaches around the country. In the end, a Big Ten school, Penn State, did offer me a scholarship.
I wish math teachers were more like football coaches. Students are affected by more than just the quality of a lesson plan. They also respond to the passion of their teachers and the engagement of their peers, and they seek a sense of purpose. They benefit from specific instructions and constant feedback(反馈).
Until I got to college, I didn't really know what mathematics was. I still thought of it as laborious(耗时费力的) calculations. Then my professor handed me a book and suggested that I think about a particular problem. It wasn't easy, but it was fascinating. My professor kept giving me problems, and I kept pursuing them, even though I couldn' t always solve them immediately. The mathematical research I was doing had little in common with what I did in my high school classrooms. Instead, it was closer to the math and logic puzzles I did on my own as a boy. It gave me that same sense of wonder and curiosity, and it rewarded creativity. I am now a Ph. D candidate in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
entering college?
You have probably read about robots replacing human labor as a new era of automation takes root in one industry after another. But a new report suggests humans are not the only ones who might lose their jobs.
In New Zealand, farmers are using drones(无人机) to herd and monitor cows and sheep, taking up a position that highly intelligent dogs have held for more than a century. The robots have not replaced the dogs entirely, Radio New Zealand reports, but they have appropriated(盗用) one of the animal' s most powerful tools: barking. The DJI Mavic Enterprise, a $3,500 drone favored by farmers, has a feature that lets the machine record sounds and play them over a loudspeaker, giving the machine the ability to act as the dogs.
Corey Lambeth, a shepherd on a farm, told RNZ the machines are surprisingly effective. " That' s the one thing I' ve noticed when you' re moving cows that the old cows stand up to the dogs, but with the drones, they' ve never done that," he said, noting the drones move cows faster, with less stress, than the dogs do.
The drones come in handy for more than just herding(放牧) cows and sheep. The robots allow farmers to monitor their land from afar, monitoring water and feed levels and checking on the animals' health without disturbing them. Jason Rentoul told RNZ that a two-hour herding job that used to require two people and two teams of dogs could be accomplished in 45 minutes using a single drone. " Being a hilly farm where a lot of stuff is done on foot, the drones really saved a lot of man hours," he said.
For now, farmers say, there is still a need for herding dogs, primarily because they have a longer life span than drones, can work in bad weather and do not require an electrical socket every few hours to recharge.
Recently I rolled into a local restaurant to try an Impossible Burger, an all-plant patty(人造肉饼) invented by Impossible Foods. It' s well known for having an strangely chewy(有咀嚼感), even bloody, meat-like quality, a surprising verisimilitude(逼真) that has made it " perhaps the country' s most famous burger," as New York magazine wrote. One bite into its wonderful, smoky taste and, damn, I was convinced.
This is good news, because the time has come to consume fake meat. In the fight against climate change, meat replacement is something we can try. A University of Oxford study recently found that, to keep global warming below 2 degrees this century, we need to be eating 75 percent less beef and 90 percent less pork.
However, diets are culturally enshrined, so changing them will be hard. It isn' t easy to replace 75 to 90 percent of beef and pork with fake meat. The first taste of an Impossible Burger—a moment when low expectations work a powerful magic in the product' s favor—is one thing. But how do you keep meat-eaters asking for more after their sixth, and their 26th？
To get to true mass adoption, fake meat will need to compete favorably with the real thing on multiple fronts. Impossible Foods' goal is to drive the price of its product below that of Safeway' s 80/20 hamburger meat, at which point people will simply vote with their wallets. The new industry also wants to improve on animal flesh in various ways. Fake meat has an advantage over traditional meat because " you won' t need to refrigerate it" cofounder Niko Koffeman says. Plus, custom(定制的) production could improve choice. " You could have very soft and tender meat for elderly people," Koffeman adds. " You could have a tailored meat for whatever you need. "
You can tell the world is shifting this way, because the ranchers(牧场主) are nervous. Last year, the US Cattlemen' s Association asked the government to define " meat" as a product " coming directly from animals. " That anxiety—and the power of the science driving it—goes to show that this grand shift isn' t impossible.
their culture.
have to beat over traditional meat?
Do you think studying in a different country is something that sounds very exciting? Certainly, it is a new experience, which brings the opportunity of discovering fascinating things and a feeling of freedom. You will experience culture shock. Evidently, at least four essential stages of culture-shock adjustment occur.
The first stage is called " the honeymoon" . In this stage, you feel excitement about living in a different place, and everything seems to be marvelous.
Eventually, however, the second stage of culture shock appears. This is the " hostility stage" . You become tired of many things about the new culture. Moreover, people don't treat you like a guest anymore. Everything that seemed to be so wonderful at first is now awful, and everything makes you feel distressed and tired.
Then you come to the third stage called " recovery" . You start feeling more positive, and you try to develop comprehension of everything you don't understand. The whole situation starts to become more favorable.
The last stage of culture shock is called " adjustment" . The things that initially made you feel uncomfortable or strange are now things that you understand. Now you feel comfortable; you have adjusted to the new culture.
A. Actually, culture shock is something you cannot avoid when studying in a foreign country.
B. B. You have reached a point where you feel good because you have learned enough to understand the new culture.
C. You like everything, and everybody seems to be so nice to you.
D. You recover from the symptoms of the first two stages.
E. In spite of these advantages, however, there are also some challenges you will
encounter.
F. However, when you have completely adjusted to a new culture you can more fully
enjoy it.
G. You begin to notice that not everything is as good as you had originally thought it was.
For centuries, Beijing has been one of China's most important cities. 1 a place for emperors and officials, today it is an international city and a popular tourist2. People from all over the country are moving to Beijing to 3 jobs and opportunities as this exciting city is a place where dreams can come true. Throughout the city, 4 dressed business people 5 for their offices, mobile phones held to their ears and visitors can only watch and imagine the deals and 6 being made at that very second.
Beijing's streets provide a fascinating 7 of the past and the present. In tea houses, groups of old men play chess 8 the Macdonald's next door is filled with laughing teenagers sipping milkshakes. Walking through the broad streets 9 with designer stores and multi-storey skyscrapers, you can10 a turn and suddenly find yourself in a century's old 11 where a fruit seller chats happily to an old woman sitting in the sun. Many of the road signs and advertising billboards are now in 12, making Beijing more 13to foreigners. Public transport is efficient, new businesses are 14, and every modern convenience and international brand is 15 in this booming global city.
Beijing has some of China's most stunning 16. Visitors often come to Beijing with the single 17 to see the Great Wall, one of the ancient wonders of the world, but once they've arrived, they realize that this is only one of the city's 18. In fact, what visitors ever seem to only19about Beijing, is that they simply20time before seeing it all.
In modern India, polluting sectors continue to be important pillars of the economy. Many argue that any attempt to get rid of coal would result a widespread loss of jobs. (similar), much of India's commercial transport is run on diesel(柴油). The idea of replacing diesel trucks and cars with cleaner electric powered vehicles (consider) too expensive. As the change from coal to natural gas would increase their operating (cost), business owners fear becoming less
(compete) in an increasingly global market.
One of the (large) contributors to air pollution in India, especially in the north of the country, is the agricultural sector. Every year, between October and November, thousands of farmers burn harvest residue(剩余物) as prepare fields for the new crop. The practice, (know) as stubble burning, leads to a smoky haze(雾霾) forming in much of northern India.
The government (try) to encourage the use of green technology, such as so-called "Happy Seeder" machines can sow seeds without having to remove the agricultural residue. However, this has proven to be expensive.
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（从笫11处起）不计分.
My experience with a foreign language begins in junior middle school. I had a kind and patient English teacher which often praised all the students. Because his positive method, I eager answered all the questions I could, never worrying much about make mistakes. However, my experience in senior school was very difference from before. When my former teacher had been patient with all the student, my new teacher quickly punished those who gave incorrect answers. As a result, not only did he lose my joy in answering questions, but also I totally lost my desire to say anything at all in the English.
要点如下：
1）写信的原因；
2）介绍中国学生的寒假生活：时长约20天；过春节等
3）询问美国学生的寒假生活.
注意：1）词数 100左右；
2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯.
Dear Peter,
……
Yours,
Li Hua
