—It was in the supermarket ____ I picked it up.
—Keep on walking and you can't miss it.
Countryside Bike Tour
Cycle away from the urban noise and disappear into the countryside on this guided bike tour, which lasts about 10 hours. This enjoyable ride takes your small group, usually no more than 8 people, along the AmstelRiver, past country villages and green fields. Learn about rural Dutch traditions and history, and finish your tour exploring Amsterdam's parks including Vondelpark, Amsterdamse Bos and Beatrixpark.
Personalized Day Tour in the Netherlands
Have a better understanding of the Netherlands' artistic works on this private walk tour, departing (离开) from Amsterdam, led by a professional art historian. Benefit from your guide's insider knowledge to create a fully personalized journey. Choose from a large number of museums, gallery, and attractions in this area, such as the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Mäuritshuis Royal Picture Gallery in The Hague, or Keukenhof Gardens.
Day Trip to Bruges
Discover the beauty of Bruges on this 10-hour trip, departing from Amsterdam. As you travel by bus, learn about the history of Belgium. Explore the city of Bruges, visiting the Market Square, Town Hall, and other historic sights. Experience and learn about the amazing culture of this city, especially about the Church of Our Lady.
Guided Canoe (独木舟) Adventure
Paddle through Holland's Waterland area on a canoe from Amsterdam. With an expert guide, travel north to Waterland. Then, board a canoe and paddle around the dreamlike waterways. Enjoy the sound of birdsong and smells of wild plants, and hear about the region's traditional way of life. Stop for a swim if the weather allows, and visit an island for a picnic of local food. Numbers are limited to 8 for a small-group experience.
Have you ever had cataracts (白内障) removed? Then you may see a bit more clearly due to the achievements made by Dr. Patricia Bath. She was born on November 4, 1942 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Different from girls of her time, she was fond of science as a young girl and greatly contributed to a cancer study while in high school. After earning a bachelor's degree from Hunter College in New York City in 1964, Bath attended Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C. and got a medical degree there in 1968.
After graduating from Howard University, Bath worked at Harlem Hospital; later she noticed that in her neighborhood, people leading a hard life suffered from blindness that could have been prevented. From then on, Bath determined to create a new field called "community ophthalmology (眼科学)". It aims to offer eye care to patients who have a hard time gaining regular eye care. Volunteers are trained to examine patients in senior centers or day care programs to test for serious eye conditions and to do vision (视力) testing. Community ophthalmology led to Bath and two others founding the non-profit American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in 1976. The purpose of the organization is to protect, preserve and restore the sight of patients all over the world.
Bath's work with patients with cataracts inspired her to develop a new surgical technique. Cataracts are cloudy things on the eyes that, if not removed, will lead to blindness. Bath wanted to use lasers (激光) to remove them, but the technology did not exist at that time. She spent almost five years researching and developing the technique and equipment. Because of that, Bath earned a medical patent in 1988. Her technique of using lasers to remove cataracts has improved and restored the vision of millions of patients around the world.
Many people just see crows (乌鸦) as a natural clean-up crew—eating insects, dead animals or food in trash cans. But researchers have found that crows are not only playful but also social and intelligent. They use tools to solve problems, and they remember faces for years and copy sounds they hear.
"Crows are always testing their environment," said John Marzluff, University of Washington professor of wildlife science. "Anything that looks possibly edible, they will taste it." This trait (特点) has led to interesting scientific findings. Some crows use sticks to gain hard-to-get treats. In other experiments, they learned to drop stones into narrow containers to raise water to a level where they can drink it or reach a floating treat inside.
Crows are social, living in large extended families of more than a dozen birds. Communication is key to their survival. Many calls are used—each having a different message. For example, they have separate warning calls for cats, dogs and people. Some crows even imitate the sounds of other animals and people.
Marzluff did several experiments to determine whether wild crows remember human faces. In one, researchers wearing masks caught seven crows around the campus and banded them. After setting them free, researchers found that regular passers-by got no reaction, but as soon as anyone wearing the same mask passed by, the crows made loud warning calls—even years later. Never be mean to a crow. They not only remember faces but teach their offspring who to beware of (当心). They also remember those who were kind to them and pass that information along, too, often bringing gifts of rocks or other small objects as a thank-you.
Begun 30 years ago, the Kubuqi desert greening project has succeeded in not only controlling the fast growth of the seventh-largest desert in China, roughly the size of Kuwait, it has also turned about 6,000square kilometers of the desert-one-third 6f it-green.
Lying about 800 kilometers to the west of Beijing in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region (自治区), the greening efforts have also controlled desertification (沙漠化) in the rest of the area.
The project, which began about 30 years ago, can be looked to as an example of efforts to advance green development, in order to create harmony between humans and nature, and leave a better environment for future generations.
The success of the project, which has been praised by the UN Environment Programme as an "eco-pioneer", sets an example for successful desertification control and ecosystem improvement based on effective government policies, supported by investment (投资) in the eco-industry and combined with the efforts of local farmers. These three aspects are key to the success of the "Kubuqi model".
Elion, a private ecology and investment company, has invested about 38 billion yuan ($5.82 billion) in the Kubuqi desert-greening project since 1988 helping to lift about 102,000 local farmers out of poverty. For example, the locals grow a drought-tolerant (耐旱) plant, Chinese licorice, which is the most used herb in traditional Chinese medicine. The plant helps enrich the desert soil, with the bacteria around the roots of the plants producing nitrogen. Besides, Cistanche, another type of drought-tolerant herb, was introduced after the successful planting of licorice. Under the company's guidance and with the local government's support, the local people benefit from the "environmental wealth".
More companies should be encouraged to apply the "Kubuqi model" in other desert control projects in Inner Mongolia and neighboring Gansu province, where the climate conditions are similar but not quite the same, so as to further gain experience and enrich the model in practice. Showing it can be successfully applied in other areas will help it promote the model worldwide.
A. Negative. B. Cautious. C. Supportive. D. Critical,
Sometimes too much pressure can make us angry, fed up or sad. But you can actually remove some pressure before it gets the best of you. .
Forget about being perfect. It's just you who put unnecessary pressure on yourself and reduce your ability to do excellent work. Take a look at the next point to find a better replacement for being perfect.
It is wise to reduce many of your inner, mental problems such as performance anxiety and other worries. So you'd better ignore the possible outcomes and just keep your focus on the work you are doing, which makes it easier to live up to your potential.
Be calm with mistakes and failure. When you learned to ride a bike, you fell off it time and time again. Just brush yourself off, perhaps cry for a moment and then get up on the bike again. See failure not as something negative but simply as a lot of room for improvement.
Just do it! It is often easy to get stuck in procrastination (拖延) and get little done. Tats will make you upset about yourself. "Just doing it" is a great way to get out of a procrastination state and just get going with what you want to do. But that's not always so easy. You have to get started at once.
A. Being perfect is pretty meaningless.
B. Focus on the process, not on the outcome.
C. If you make mistakes, you should apologize.
D. It happens, the pressure can start to build up.
E. Continue with your normal day in a perfect way.
F. Here are a few things you can do to accomplish that.
G. The world won't break down if you make mistakes or fail.
In 2016, I started working for the local company here in the community. I had to admit that the first day I walked into the office, I didn't know what to expect, I was really 1 . The waiting area was dark and dusty. I remembered sitting in the chair and feeling breathless with the 2 of files and paperwork all over. I was worried about my 3 .
One day, my boss asked me what I thought could be done with the scenery outside next to the office window. I paused for a while, 4 what I could do with it. Then I had the perfect idea. I'd plant 5 there if that was okay. He told me it was up to me. So, I got to work.
It took me a good week to 6 the field, getting rid of the weeds. And I had to choose which type of sunflower to grow, as there were many different varieties. That was when I learned about all the different 7 of sunflowers! I planted different ones.
It only took about a week for the sunflowers to sprout (发芽). I made sure to 8 them every day and give them all the love I could. Before I 9 it, the sunflowers had grown big, some even bigger than me. Watching them grow big and follow the sun throughout the day filled me with 10 . I think part of my happiness is that I've grown them and help get them to be such beauties.
Every year, my sunflowers grow bigger, and so do my 11 . Eventually, I have fields of sunflowers and an excellent 12 in work. And it all 13 with just a seed. Well, a packet of seeds. Dreams are like seeds; we could plant them, nourish them, and then watch them 14 . Dreams has the potential to become something 15 .
There are many things in Chengdu that attract people. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top (attract).
So it was a great honour for me (invite) to the not-for-profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps to pay for research. I (allow) to get up close to these cute animals at the 600-acre center. From tomorrow, I will be their UK ambassador (大使). The title will be (official) given to me at a ceremony in London. But my connection with pandas goes back my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s,
I was the first Western TV reporter permitted to film a special unit caring for pandas
(save) from starvation (饿死) in the wild. My duties will include (introduce) British visitors to the 120-plus pandas in Chengdu and others at a research center in the misty mountains of Bifengxia.
During my recent visit, I held a lively three month-old twin that had been refused by his mother. The nursery team switches (交换) him every few (day) with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed,
other is with their mum—she never doubts.
注意：1．词数约120，已给出的开头和结尾不记入词数。2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：泰山Mount Tai 北京大学Beijing University/Beida 长城the Great Wall
Dear Cousin,
How have you been?
Yours friendly
Li Hua
