Art Museum, CUHK
A unit of the Institute of Chinese Studies in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), the Art Museum researches and displays a wide range of works of art. Exhibitions on Chinese art are held all year round.
Address: Art Museum, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, New Territories
Tel: +852 3943 7416
How to get there: MTR (香港地铁) University Station and take CUHK shuttle bus to Central Campus.
Hong Kong Arts Centre
Hong Kong Arts Centre has been focusing on contemporary arts and culture in Hong Kong and abroad since it was founded in 1977. It includes theatres, galleries, studios, a restaurant, a café as well as offices owned by local and international arts and culture organizations.
Address: 2 Harbor Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island
Tel: +852 2582 0200
How to get there: MTR Wan Chai Station Exit C, go straight to Harbor Road. Turn left to the Arts Centre.
Hong Kong Film Archive
Come here to be absorbed in the magic of Hong Kong's splendid cinema history. Film lovers should be careful—you might never get out of the Resource Centre, which houses an enormous number of books, magazines, newspapers and audio-visual materials.
Address: 50 Lei King Road, Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong Island
Tel: +852 2739 2139
How to get there: MTR Sai Wan Ho Station Exit A, walk through Tai Hong Street to Lei King Road for five minutes.
University Museum & Art Gallery, HKU
The University Museum & Art Gallery, in the University of Hong Kong (HKU), focuses on artistic and cultural experiences that are available to people from all walks of life. The museum houses over one thousand items of Chinese antiques, including bronzes and paintings.
Address: 90 Bonham Road, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong Island
Tel: +852 2241 5500
How to get there: MTR HKU Station Exit A.
As the COVID-19 appeared, many people's life changed.
At the beginning of March 2020, Boylan, a professor of Medicine Jon Bae, went from working onsite to being another role as a health economic analyst(分析家) of Duke University Health System. And a month into the pandemic(流行病), his daughter, Elora, was born. The past two years drew Boylan closer to his wife, Katie, "During the time of the pandemic, I am not one of those people who have time to learn how to bake bread or anything," Boylan said. "I think, in terms of personal growth, I have learned much about how to live a happy life."
By October of 2020, the pandemic had lasted for several months, and Melanie Thomas was feeling down. "How do I have a rich and full life during this special time and keep a positive attitude?" Thomas asked herself. She decided that she needed a goal that she could work out until the world opened up. For the next several months, Thomas began running, working out at a socially distant gym, and walked as much as she could every day. While the trip to Nepal was the goal, the exercise to prepare for it became a central piece of herself-care routine.
A few weeks ago, Mary Atkinson began spending the remaining daylight after work setting up a garden in the yard of her Greensboro home. She as well as her two-year-olds on, West, often played there with the sand and his toy truck. "This is something that never happened before the pandemic, and it gives much happiness to us," said Atkinson.
During the pandemic, John Carbuccia, instead of eating lunch out or grabbing meals in the university canteen, found himself eating homemade breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Scrambled eggs with vegetables or simply prepared salmon fillets are some of his current favorites. And without having to rush to the company, he walks and runs around his neighborhood before and after work at home.
Recordings of angry bees are enough to send big, tough African elephants running away, a new study says. Beehives (蜂窝)—either recorded or real—may even prevent elephants from damaging farmer's crops.
In 2002, scientist Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them. Today, Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might discourage elephants from eating crops. But before she asked farmer to go to the trouble of setting up beehives on their farms, she needed to find out if the bees would scare elephants away.
Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder. Then she threw a stone into the beehive, which burst into life. Lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed down. Next，Lucy searched out elephant families in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya and put a speaker in a tree close to each family.
From a distance, Lucy switched on the pre-recorded sound of angry bees while at the same time recording the elephants with a video camera. Half the elephant groups left the area within ten seconds. Out of a total of 17 groups, only one group ignored the sound of the angry bees. Lucy reported that all the young elephants immediately ran to their mothers to hide under them. When Lucy played the sound of a waterfall (瀑布) instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families, the animals were undisturbed. Even after four minutes, most of the groups stayed in one place.
Lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it several times. She hasn't tested enough groups yet to know, but her initial (最初的) results were promising enough to begin trials with farmers. She has now begun placing speakers in the fields to see if elephants are frightened away.
I personally think trains are exciting and romantic. I must admit that trains are not important means of transportation in the US, but I do have some experiences with them.
When I was a child, growing up in a small town with very little entertainment, we used to go to the station to watch the passenger trains coming in. There was something exciting about the steaming, roaring string of trains coming into view around the mountains, slowly growing larger and louder and finally after their stop crowds of strangers spilling （漏出）onto the platform.
I took my first train trip when I was ten years old. I went with my elder sister to visit our cousins six hundred miles away. The train — so loud and violent on the outside — was gentle and rocking inside. We were very excited, and as that was also our first time away from our parents, we felt somewhat frightened too. However, because I had expected so much, I was a little disappointed when I was finally one of the passengers I had watched for so long.
As a college student, I used to ride an overnight train to my roommate's hometown. We could never afford a sleeper, so we played cards, sang, ate, read and talked until we finally fell uncomfortably asleep in the straight-backed seats.
My idea that trains are romantic may come from the fact that my husband and I took the train on our honeymoon, spending extra money to eat in the dining car, and looking out of the window as the desert scenery slid past.
Now, when I make a trip, I always fly or drive, and trains are not a very important part of my life. Still, every time I hear the train whistle far away on a quiet night, I can always feel the impulse in my heart to pack my bags and jump on board, entering a unique world of motions, sounds, sights and experiences which just aren't matched in the dull environment of an airplane.
Strategies for Getting Kids off Screens
It's time to keep kids off the screens! Parents should use the winter vacation to remind their children of what it's like to play freely, offline for hours on end. . Here are some practical strategies for giving kids a screen-free winter.
Set clear screen time limits
Establish how many minutes or hours you're OK with them each week, and make it something that can never be changed. For example, you could say they're allowed to watch for an hour on Sunday morning, or for 15 minutes in the evening while dinner is being made, or none at all for the rest of the winter—and then stick to it.
Get kids cooking
Involve them in meal preparation by assigning recipes that you'd like them to make each day. . And you'll have many tasty dishes at the end of it,
There are numerous half- and full-day camp options and lessons that can occupy a child's time, such as swimming, art classes, tennis, dinosaur camp and sports camp. Look around your community for activities that can get them out of the house for a few hours each day.
Establish a reading routine (习惯)
. Take your kid along to choose what she or he wants to read, and that will help keep them enthusiastic. Back home and see if you can set up a comfortable reading corner where they will be willing to read and let reading become a good habit gradually.
A. Sign up for lessons B. Assign household work C. That helps stop arguments of screen time D. Of course, this is easier said than done E. Master some basic tricks, using a homemade tool F. They'll develop new skills at cutting, cooking and baking G. Go to the library once a week to store up fresh reading material |
When your children are little, you have to accept the fact that at some point, they are going to decide that you are annoying and they don't want to hang out with you. I decided this when I was about 13. I remember coming back from a school trip, my parents coming to1 me up and me suddenly finding everything they did completely2 .
From then on, and for a number of years, while I would unwillingly accept their3 within the confines (限制) of home, I would do anything I could to4 myself from them publicly. Out5 , I would run into a friend and they would say, "You just doing some shopping with your6 ?" and I would reply, for example, "Only because I had to,7 they wouldn't know what to buy because they're idiots and everything they do is wrong."
I have been aware that this was going to8 to our boys at some point but I wasn't9 for it to be this early. Eleven? I considered using the10 I had always toyed with (随便对待), which was to go the other way and become as embarrassing as I possibly could for my own amusement. One day recently I thought it would be11 if I shouted to my son how much I loved him and how much he12 to me at the school gates. I thought he would be funny-embarrassed. He wasn't. He looked around at me with anger.
So I have13 it. We just have to wait it out now. I am hoping he'll be through the other side by about age 19, so it's just a little eight-year14 for him to want to be15 us again.
It was a long, hard day for me. I was going back home from work by bus. My mind was weight heavily with the stress from work. I (sit) there with a really (depress) mood. A young girl was sitting next to me, I didn't know. She asked me some questions casually and we had a short conversation. "She was just a (strange)", I thought to (me) and didn't take much interest. All of sudden, she suddenly handed me some pretty chocolates and said that it was her birthday. I instantly responded with a smile and it freed me from the stress that I had been carrying. In a single moment I felt the former heaviness of the day transform into lightness of a feather. Her simple act gave me joy even though I don't (particular) enjoy sweets as much. I wished her a long life and was thankful her sweet heart.
I realized that even small acts can make a person feel happy. I can't remember her face but (remember) the incident makes me happy. Here's an old saying, "You might forget a person's name, you might forget their faces, but you never forget they made you feel.
假如你是李华，打算在一个英语论坛发布帖子介绍你最喜欢的一位明星，内容包括：1. 人物介绍2. 喜欢他/她的原因3. 对人物的评价
要求：1. 词数80词左右2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
可以借助下列句型成文：1. When it comes to my favourite star,............comes to my mind. 2. It is generally believed that...... 3. What impress me most is his/her...... 4. In my opinion,......
My favourite star is
Several years ago, I traveled by train to Stockholm. I was visiting two friends who were to meet me at the train station. I stood there waiting for my first friend to arrive and in the midst of all the hurrying passengers that Friday afternoon, I heard a weak voice; it sounded like a question. I turned and saw a young man standing with a white cane （拐杖）,his suitcase by his feet. I approached and asked," Do you need help?"" Yes," he replied, nodding his head, appearing relieved.
He had been trying for some time, unsuccessfully, to get someone's attention. He had missed his train home. His cell phone battery was dead, and he needed to call his mother to tell her of the circumstances.
This young man named Mustafa, I found out, had just completed his first week at a school for the blind. He went to school on Mondays and returned home on Fridays. Of course I helped him call his mother. I did not understand what he spoke with her on my cell phone, but I could tell the language was Swedish. Of course the next problem was finding the right train home and telling his mother the new arrival time. Yet in this disordered train station, I did not want to miss connecting with my friend Bogdan who was on his way to the spot where we were standing.
Before I could dial the number to call Bogdan, he was suddenly already there. I described the problem and Bogdan took the young man's arm and we were off on our adventure to help get Mustafa home. While sorting out where his home was, what train, and what time, my second friend Marcello called and wondered where we were. Soon he joined us. It happened that Marcello speaks 12 languages.
注意：1. 续写词数应为150 左右；2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Marcello's gift in language was a great advantage.
Now we were leading Mustafa to his train.
