Opening Times of the British Museum
For everyone's safety, all bags, rucksacks, packages and personal items may be searched before entry. Wheeled cases and large items of luggage are not allowed on British Museum premises. Storage for luggage is available at major rail stations, including Euston, King's Cross and Charing Cross.
Admission andopening times
Free, open daily 10: 00—17: 30.
The Museum is closed on 1 January and 24,25 &26 December, but open every other day of the year.
Gallery opening times
Museum galleries are open daily 10: 00—17: 30, and most are open until 20: 30 on Fridays. Closing starts from 17: 20 （20: 20 on Fridays）.
Bank holiday opening hours
The Museum is closed only on bank holidays that fall on 1 January or 25 & 26 December. The Museum is open as normal on all other bank holidays. Please note, however, that the availability of free tours and talks may be substantially reduced on public holidays.
Great Court opening times
The Great Court, including the Information Desk, is open daily 09: 00—18: 00 and until 20: 30 on Fridays. The Ticket Desk is open daily from 09: 00—17: 00 and until 19: 45 on Fridays.
Fridays open late
The following galleries are open until 20: 30 on Fridays （except Good Friday）.
Africa: The Sainsbury Galleries Room 25
Americas: North America Galleries Room 26
China, South Asia and Southeast Asia: The Joseph E Hotung Gallery Room 33
Chinese jade: The Selwyn and Ellie Alleyne Gallery Room 33b
Medieval Europe: The Sir Paul and Lady Ruddock Gallery Room 40
School times at exhibitions
Exhibitions are sometimes closed to the public for exclusive school views, please look at exhibition ticket pages for dates.
Temporary gallery closures
Galleries may occasionally be closed for maintenance or long-term refurbishment （翻修）.
Disney finally has its first young plus-size heroine, and fans across the Internet are in high spirits.
"Reflect" is a short film now on Disney about a young ballet dancer named Bianca who struggles with her body image. In the short（短片）, Bianca doesn't want to but has to look at herself in the mirror, checking her posture. Always feeling depressed to find herself fatty and ugly, she almost gives up dancing ballet. Though body positivity and self-acceptance can be easier said than done, eventually, she overcome her negative feelings and dance freely.
Though the film was first released on the platform in September, many social media users are now celebrating "Reflect" as a win for representation among the young.
"16 year old me needed this Disney short before I quit ballet because I didn't want to be the fat girl in class anymore," one user on Twitter said. "I'm glad little ones （小朋友） will have this. 10/10（10 分满分评级） for Reflect!" "I don't think you all comprehend, this is my Ariel," a TikTok user said in a video, titled "Disney, you really got me in my feelings."
Making the film from the perspective of a dancer, director Hillary Bradfield explained, felt natural. "When people watch the short, I hope that they can feel more positively about themselves and how they look, and feel okay about the tough parts of their journey," Bradfield said.
People often ask us where the idea for the Avocado （牛油果） Show came from. Well, it came from the avocad o itself. Just enjoying it in any shape and form is inspiring. Our favorite super fruit in the world is nutritious, versatile （多用途的）, good-looking and tasty! So we decided to open our first restaurant in Amsterdam to celebrate_our_best_green_friend. Together with the legendary chef and friend Jaimi e van Heije we are able to create the impressive, delicious and mouth-watering avocado dishes that you see on our Instagram and Facebook page. Looks count, but trust us when we say that our creations taste even better than they look!
We created a place for avocado fans, amazing food lovers and friends to enjoy and have fun. The aim is to serve fans around the world and to open the Avocado Show in every cool city across the globe, starting in Amsterdam. The Avocado Show serves visually amazing and incredibly tasty signature dishes made with love from sustainable and socially responsible avocados. Our avocados are more than tasty. They're awesome! Every single avocado that we use at our restaurant is grown sustainably and they're all picked, packed and transported socially responsibly from different markets and countries around the world, like Chile, Peru, South Africa and other certified farmers.
Classic avocad o dishes and contemporary avocado creations shape the menu together with a wide selection of fresh and tasty drinks to satisfy all of your desires.
First come, first served at the door, so no reservations are possible. Just walk in, sign up with our host and enjoy the show! Open 7 days a week, from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. and we serve breakfast, brunch and lunch. We accept card payments only, for environmental and safety reasons. No cash, no gold and no diamonds.
Toronto Wildlife Centre's rescue team wants to match their expert skill with the latest technology to help more animals.
The rescue team wants to help animals fast and with an even higher success rate. They are looking at technology ranging from as simple as a quick-firing net gun to as complex as a remotely controlled trail camera that is connected to the network. This would immediately inform them with a photo if an animal has been successfully trapped, or has returned to a site that they are monitoring.
A compact thermal imager（热成像仪） is another piece of equipment that the rescue team is looking at to add to their tool box. The technology would allow the rescuers to see an animal more easily. This would be useful for finding animals hidden in brush, rescuing wildlife stuck inside buildings, or finding animals at night when it's too dark to see. "Say we know there's an injured animal in a backyard with many hiding spots. We don't want to storm there and scare him away. We want to be able to predict this movement and rescue him as effectively as possible and the only way we can do that is by knowing where he is," the rescue team leader, Andrew Wight said.
The team also has their eye on a camera-equipped drone （无人驾驶飞机）."We want to use drones for sky watching in situations like when we have a baby bird that came from a nest that is difficult to access. If there's no other baby in the nest, we can build a new nest, and the parents will simply find their baby and relocate to the new nest. If there's another baby in the nest, we can't separate the family and will need to return the baby to the original one. If we have a camera-equipped drone, we will easily see if there are any other babies in the original nest and plan accordingly," Andrew explained.
China's growing excellence in scientific and medical research is playing a major role in the global war on pathogens（病原体） and infectious diseases, according to Alain Merieux, chairman and CEO of French Conglomerate Institute Merieux. Merieux has made a massive contribution to improving China's public health over the past 40 years, initially by providing vaccines, and then through medical diagnostics and immunotherapy.
He first visited the country in April 1978, several months before the central government launched its transformative reform and opening-up policy. Since then, he has spent decades dedicated to cooperation in the health sector, eventually leading to the opening of China's first P4—photolithographic pattern plated probe—laboratory in 2015. The lab, which is based in Wuhan, Hubei Province, has the highest biosafety standards in the world, allowing researchers to study the most dangerous viruses, including Ebola.
"In the health field, which is the one I know best, China has been able to address major issues over the past 40 years,"Merieux said, "providing access to healthcare for everyone in an enormous country; fighting against the major threats represented by pathogens, respiratory diseases and cancer; and preventing food-borne health risks."
"China has made exceptional progress that commands respect," he said. "The country has accomplished in 40 years what other countries took a century to do, and has been able to assert （评估） itself as a leading global power." In four decades, "China has rediscovered its pride and strength," Merieux added.
"The country has particularly excelled in terms of infrastructure （基础设施）, as the creation of highways, airports and high-speed trains has completely changed the country," he said. Merieux called for greater international cooperation with China to help in the prevention and control of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis （肺结核）.
A. He wants to contribute more to the whole world. B. He also praised the overall changes seen in the nation. C. This fight must be global, since pathogens cut across borders. D. His company was established by his grandfather in Lyon in 1897. E. The project has become a symbol of Chinese-French collaboration in public health. F. His aim is to improve diagnosis and treatment of major infectious diseases in China. G. There has also been remarkable progress in scientific research, as well as academic and science. |
I have grown up with pictures and shapes. Ever since I was a little girl, still 1 able to read, my mom would set me up on her lap and read children's picture 2 for me. She would point to each picture, trace each line and tell me which 3 made the pictures up. Attracted by the tracing of her finger, I would stare and concentrate my eyes to catch every movement that her finger made and would listen for the name of the shape. If I 4 anything, I would beg her to repeat the page over and over again, until I had the name and figure of the shape in my 5 .
As I entered the second grade, my memorization of the shapes 6 with me. I learned newer, complex shapes and my knowledge of shapes 7 to the point where my old picture books I had at home could no longer satisfy my need for shapes. Instead, I 8 the world as my new, 9 picture book and read each building, house and truck as rectangles（长方形）, squares with triangles and rectangles with circles on the bottom. If I could, I would go up to each 10 and follow the tracing 11 that my mom did when I was younger. I'd take my finger and trace along the outlines of the object and 12 what kind of shapes made it up.
At school, during the 13 , other kids would say playing dodge ball, but I would say playing spheres（圆球）. 14 other kids saw a red wagon （马车）, I would break the wagon down in my mind into a rectangle and two 15 . I was the only one that saw these "pictures" broken down into shapes, where as everyone else saw it as a whole. Now that I am a senior in high school, I still see things in the same way.
It's a long-term question for teachers: how to get children who hate physical activity to take part in PE lessons? A Northampton primary school believes it has the answer. To make the least active pupils take an interest in their fitness, a program （introduce） at Lings Primary School recently. Not only have the pupils developed an interest in activities ranging from football ballroom dancing, according to the school, but their school work has also improved （significant）.
Students now have best attendance record in the country at 98 percent. The change has been achieved by simply making PE fun. Instead of （climb） wall bars and running on the spot, the pupils practice exercises such as moving like （animal）. One routine involves crawling around the floor like a bear and moving around like gorillas, and the children try to keep their balance on the boards （make） of rubber, all of help stretch their muscles and improve fitness.
Baroness Campbell, who chairs the Youth Sport Trust that （design） the program, said, "We want to show young people that physical activity is fun and a great way （ help） them learn skills that will stay with them for life."
1. 节约水电；2. 垃圾分类处理；3. 骑自行车或乘坐公交车。
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参考词汇: 低碳 low carbon
A Gift Beyond Measure
At an early age, I was crazy about music, dreaming of possessing a piano on which I could practice and play in the way a famous pianist did on the stage. Later when I was getting older, on my way to school, there was an instrument shop that I passed by almost every day. When I saw through the window, in the corner of the shop stood a nice piano which would always attract my eyes so deeply that I even forgot everything around me.
To my sadness, my family was truly struggling. In that period, my mother was laid off from her position and my father was only a clerk in a company. It was just a matter of getting by on a low income, not to mention buying me an expensive piano though they knew I was eager to play that piano so much. The increasing wrinkles in my father's face even stopped me from having this thought.
Then one day after school, I went as usual to the shop window to look at the piano. However, the piano had gone! It was a big surprise. Someone had purchased the piano that I would stare at almost every day! I should not have been surprised as others had the right to buy it, if they could afford to. However, at the thought of not being able to see that piano any more, tears filled my eyes.
Disappointed and helpless, I wandered aimlessly up and down the street. I felt as though something had been stolen in my heart. After what seemed a year, I returned home, dragging my heavy legs. Hardly had I just gone into the house when my mother called my name. Brushing away my tears, I followed the sound of her voice into the dining room.
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I couldn't imagine what was happening in front of me.
Then the door opened and my father appeared, with a big smile on his wrinkled face.
