"Playing Shop" Social Activity
Children are invited to get behind the shop counter（柜台） of Susannah Place Museum, recreated 1915 shop.
This is a good time for your children to put on an apron（围裙） and become shopkeepers. They learn how to wrap（包裹） an egg, weigh out goods on a scale （秤） and count in pounds and shillings（先令）!
Suitable for the children between 5 and 7, the Playing Shop activity will see your children:
■ Use an old-fashioned shop scale.
■ Wrap goods.
■ Fill an order and make a delivery （配送）.
Tickets for Playing Shop are now on sale through sydneylivingmuseums.com.cn. Choose from the following periods:
9:15 A．m.-10:30 a. m. or 10:45 a. m.-12 p. m. on Wednesday, May 12, 2023.
9:30 A．m.-10:45 a. m. or 11:00 a. m.-12:15 p. m. on Friday, May 21, 2023.
Please note children must be accompanied （陪伴） by an adult.
You can continue your fun at Susannah Place Museum by joining a guided tour at 2 p. m., 3 p. m. and 4 p. m. at an additional （额外的） cost on the day.
I've lived in Cardigan Bay（卡迪根海湾） in West Wales since I was a few months old. You've got everything you need here. Hills, stunning beaches, nice coastal paths. As someone who loves the countryside, I've never wanted to leave.
I was lucky to find work I could do in this area. A lot of people do have to move away in order to find work. I started Adventure Beyond here about 30 years ago and we work all over the UK. We go up to Scotland, we work along the Thames. We've also taken groups to Canada, the Himalayas, places like that. But honestly, West Wales has got everything. We can do everything we need right here.
Cardigan Bay is pretty huge, but I find having grown up here there's a definite sense of belonging. There's an awareness that we're lucky to have these incredible sandy beaches, pebbly beaches, beautiful rivers, and hills. It's peaceful, and it's not overdeveloped. Of course, there are periods when it gets busy, but then the second schools go back and you pretty much get the beaches to yourself. There is a sense of community （群体） too, with a lot of good community-based clubs, such as the Poppit Sands Surf Lifesaving Club.
I set up Adventure Beyond to make my own work in the area. I love the outdoors, and I wanted to be in Cardigan Bay, so it was perfect. I've tried to always keep that personal touch. The clients（客户） will pretty much always meet myself and all the staff. We took a lot of people on through the Kickstart scheme（启动计划） and they've been employed with us for a few years. A lot of our clients have been with us since we started, too. There's a sense of family, which is quite special.
I won't mention a specific favorite place, but in general the beaches are just amazing. It's just a sort of wild west, really.
Children at boarding school get the best night's sleep because of strict lights out time, according to a recent study, which was presented at Sleep Down Under, the 33rd yearly scientific meeting of the Australasian Sleep Association. Professor Kurt Lushington, a psychologist who led the study; said, "It is a naturalistic experiment showing the key to good sleep in teenagers is quite simple: a good timetable and no mobile devices（设备） at night."
Over the past 20 years, the time children spend sleeping has fallen and only half regularly get more than seven hours. The recommended amount is eight to ten. The biggest problems are smartphones and tablets （平板电脑） whose blue light wakes the brain, making it harder to drop off.
An Australian team compared sleep patterns of 15 to 18-year-olds at a school in Adelaide. The 59 boarders had to leave their phones in a kitchen area or on their desk before bed and turn their lights out by a set time. They slept for an average 8 hour 26 minutes a night compared with 7 hours 46 minutes for day pupils.
Lack of sleep affects mental health and school performance and causes behavioral problems. It has also been connected with the child obesity epidemic and other diseases. This year an American study found that teenagers who didn't get enough sleep took in extra sugar during a school year. They ate sweets, cakes, chocolate and biscuits and drank fizzy drinks to promote their energy levels.
Lushington recommends that parents reach agreement on not using a phone. This is most likely to work if they do likewise and offer other enjoyments, such as books. "I think if you put these rules in place, kids will go along with them," he told New Scientist.
The giant panda's special black-and-white fur makes it one of the most recognizable animals on the planet. But why does it have this unique coloring? To hide from natural enemies, both in the snow and in the shadows, study lead author Tim Caro, a professor in the UC （University of California） Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, said in a new statement. Moreover, the large black circles around a panda's eyes may help other pandas recognize it, the researchers said.
Understanding why the giant panda has such noticeable color has been a long-term problem to solve. To find out the answer, Caro and his colleagues looked at photos of pandas and 195 other carnivore （食肉动物） species, including 39 subspecies of bears. Then, they recorded the coloring on each area of those animals' bodies, and compared them with areas of the panda's body. "Compared with the previous studies, the breakthrough in this study was treating each part of the body as an independent area," Caro said.
The research team tried to figure out the purpose of the dark-colored furry areas. After going through many comparisons, the researchers determined that the white parts of the giant panda help it hide in the snow. In contrast, its black arms and legs help it hide in the shadows, they said. The panda's white-and-black coloring didn't appear to be related to temperature regulation. Nor did they find evidence that the dark circles around a panda's eyes helped to make them look cuter.
"This really was a great effort by our team, finding and scoring thousands of images and scoring more than 10 areas per picture from over 20 possible colors," study co-author Ted Stankowich, an assistant professor of bi ology at California State University, Long Beach, said in the statement. "Sometimes it takes hundreds of hours of hard work to answer the simplest question: Why is the panda black and white?"
Slow travel is about connecting deeply with your travels. Rather than rushing from one place to another, slow travelers treat each experience as an opportunity to learn and feel more deeply to the people, culture, and food they want to explore. .
Relax and enjoy
Once, a vacation provided relaxation from the stress of everyday life. But over time, we began trying to put everything we want into a checklist. . Slow travel exchanges checklists for the chance to really enjoy a place. It's amazing how much more involved you can be when you're not in a rush. It's easier to relax and look forward to whatever the day brings.
Have more memorable experiences
. If so, the idea of slow travel may feel like you'll miss the latest Top
10. In fact, you free yourself from scratching the surface of everything without enjoying anything. Slow travel allows you the time to feel a destination and you will have more memorable experiences.
Meet people and actually get to know them
When you decide to take the slow travel route, you free yourself up to meet and spend time with others. You can meet locals at a park or restaurant and enjoy a conversation. Learn about the people on your food tour. You may even decide that you like someone enough to meet him/her later for lunch or a coffee. , because you are not rushing to the next big thing.
Traveling by plane, train, and bus has a bad effect on the environment. We can transport ourselves to one location and spend more time exploring it on foot, by bike or on horseback. That's less harmful to the planet than rushing to the next thing on the list with whatever vehicle that will get us there in a hurry.
A．Be more eco-friendly
B．Experience different means of transportation
C．This created more stress than we were escaping
D．Making a checklist makes your journey more organized
E．Here are some reasons we think you need to try slow travel
F．Your communication tends to be more relaxed and more real
G．Maybe you're used to jumping from one attraction after another
I was talking to my friend Sandy about our children. Sandy had recently moved into the neighborhood with her four 1 , including her youngest, eighteen-month-old Kim. She seemed 2 to have kids nearby, until she saw our dog, Sam.
Sam, our shiny black dog, loved to play with the kids and 3 them. But Sandy was 4 of dogs, and she started to back away as Sam approached. I grabbed Sam's collar and made him sit, trying to 5 Sandy's fear.
Sandy mentioned that she needed to get her kids ready to go to their grandmother's house. Just then, her door opened and her kids rushed out. Sandy warned them not to 6 Sam.
The kids huddled（蜷缩） around their mom, looking at Sam 7 . Emma, my daughter, showed the kids how to 8 a dog properly. Gradually, the kids were won over by Sam's 9 nature.
One day after that incident（事件）, when the kids were playing across the street, I 10 the eighteen-month-old baby heading towards a small hill. I saw a car approaching at a high speed and shouted to everyone to 11 the baby. Sam rushed to the boy without 12 and pushed the baby away from the oncoming car 13 . The kids cheered, completely unaware of the 14 . They thought Sam had come to play.
Within a year, Sam had made friends with all the neighbors. Even Sandy started to 15 Sam and would often come over to give him a hug.
When Lin Qiaozhi was 18 years old, she didn't follow the traditional path of marriage like the majority of girls. Instead, she chose to go to Peking Union Medical College, she studied medicine and got the Wenhai Scholarship. And then she worked a doctor in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. A few years later, she （send） to study in Europe and then in the US. Her American friends wanted her （stay） in the US, but she refused and told them she wanted to work for her motherland with great （determine）.
In 1941, Dr Lin became the first Chinese woman ever to be appointed director of the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. After department was closed because of the war, she opened her own clinic.
Dr Lin Qiaozhi played a key role in the medical field of our （new） built country. Though she held many important positions, she still tended （patient）, published medical research on care for women and children, and （train） the next generation of doctors.
Known as the "mother of ten thousand babies", Lin Qiaozhi died on 22 April 1983, （leave） her savings to a kindergarten and a fun d for new doctors.
Poor Bobby was getting cold sitting out in the backyard in the snow. With only one dime （10美分硬币） in hand, he could not come up with an idea for his mother's birthday gift. Ever since his father had passed away, the family of five had struggled. Although the family was short of money, they had love and family unity（团结）.
Bobby had three sisters, all of whom had already made beautiful gifts for their mother. Wiping tears from his eyes, Bobby kicked the snow and started to walk down to the street where the stores opened. Anyway, he wanted to try his luck.
Bringing together all his courage, he walked into the first store he saw. His heart quickly turned cold when salesperson after salesperson told him that he could not buy anything with only a dime. Finally he saw a flower shop and went inside to wait in line. When the shop owner asked if he could help him, Bobby presented the dime and asked if he could buy one flower for his mother. The shop owner looked at Bobby and his dime. Then he put his hand on Bobby's shoulder gently and said, "You just wait here and I'll see what I can do for you." Then the shop owner left. All alone in the shop, Bobby began to feel alone and afraid. After a little while, the shop owner came out with a bunch of red roses, with leaves of green and tiny white flowers all tied together with a big silver bow.
1）根据文本内容从方框中选择恰当的词并用其正确形式填入文本图示中，每词限用一次，有两词为多余选项。
| store poor gift make flower turn courage treat disappoint sad refuse leave |
2） 根据文本内容回答下列问题。（共3小题；满分10分）
How might the shop owner feel when he heard Bobby's words?
How might Bobby react when he saw the roses? Why?
What might the shop owner do next?
1．美食简介；2．推荐理由。
注意：1．词数100左右；2．请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Sam,
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
