Museum Day is here for one day and one day only—so you'll need to hurry if you want to grasp the chance to get free Saturday admission to one of the hundreds of participating museums. The yearly event is hosted by Smithsonian magazine and involves museums and cultural institutions(机构) coming together to offer free admission for visitors who would otherwise have to pay for entry.
You just need an email address to get a ticket
To get a ticket. you'll need to go to the Smithsonian magazine website and pick which museum you want to go to. You'll be able to search to see which museums near you are participating, and from there you just have to put in your email address and name. After that, you can download your ticket and head out for some fun. Each Museum Day ticket is good for two people, so if you're in a group larger than that, a few people might need to sign up.
A lot of museums are still feeling financial stress from the pandemic
The event is happening as museums are still struggling from the hits they took during the first few years of the pandemic. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) estimated it will take years for museums to fully recover.
AAM president and CEO Aura Lots noted that federal relief helped remove the potential of closure that many institutions were facing, but "2021 proved to be another painful year in which operating in go me dropped further and attendance was down nearly 40% for many of our nation's museums." But there's hope that a free day at the museums might stimulate following visits.
Free Admission to Participating Museums FIND A MUSEUM
These days, videos of "diving grandpas" from north China's Tianjin are popular on the Internet. In the videos, they jumped off the Shizilin Bridge into the 7--meter--deep Haihe River. However, on Wednesday, they announced that they would give up the sport.
With an average age of 60, the diving grandpas have much experience in diving. They started as a group of local diving lovers. They went swimming in the city's rivers, and later they tried their hand at diving. The hobby has now lasted for more than thirty years.
Videos on the Internet have drawn lots of tourists from across the country to the Shizilin Bridge over the Haihe River, where "diving grandpas" perform diving. However, some inexperienced divers, trying to follow "diving grandpas", have met with accidents and got themselves injured. Some of the grandpas have begun volunteering to keep order for the crowds that come to see the performance on the bridge. However, accidents still continued to happen. As reported, members of the Blue Sky Rescue team in Tianjin said that they rescued 14 people at the risk of drowning or other injury in just two days.
The grandpas then made a difficult decision. They stopped diving off the bridge. They also prevented inexperienced locals and children as well as tourists from diving from the bridge . The grandpas welcomed the tourists to Tianjin, especially pointing out the other great places of interest and delicious food around the Shizilin Bridge.
Glass bottles have long conveyed (传递) a high-quality image for the wine they carry, but their carbon footprint is sizable. Fossil fuels are used to produce and recycle them. And when it comes to transport, they are also heavy and waste space.
But Packamama, an Australian packaging start up, has launched a range of flat wine-bottles, the first for the country, promoting them as an environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional glass. The bottles are made from 100 % recycled PET plastic. The slim, flat profile (外形) is 83 % lighter, and allows twice as many bottles to fit into a standard case. "Australia is home to the two most significant successful wine packaging innovations of the last century. Bag-in-box and screw cap (螺旋瓶盖), both from the mid-1960 s," says Santiago Navarro, Packamama's co-founder.
Three months after the first bottles hit the shelves, the data suggests flat-bottled wines are becoming popular with drinkers. Packamarna's first production order was for 65,000 units, a figure that has risen to 90,
000. The demand was so strong that they were sold out after the first production. Questions remain, however, about the flat-profile bottle's suit ability for high-quality wines. The wine maker Nicole Esdaile, of Cent Vineyard in Victoria's Yarra Valley, applauds the move but says it is not a workable option for her business, given its focus on classic, collectible wines typically exported to China. "Critically, they are not suitable for storing wine, with the recommended shelf life being no more than two years. The bottles are perfect for quick ‘drink-now' style."
The wine maker Tom Wallace wants to see how flat-bottled wines perform over the years ahead. "The priority for us is the quality of the wine going in, so the packaging has to reflect that and allow those wines to mature (酿成) in the best way possible. We will wait and see how the trials and research go before we jump on board."
The Stanford marshmallow (棉花糖) test was originally conducted by psychologist Walter Mischel in the late 1960s. Children aged four to six at a nursery school were placed in a room. A single sugary treat, selected by the child, was placed on a table. Each child was told if they waited for 15 minutes before eating the treat, they would be given a second treat. Then they were left alone in the room. Follow-up studies with the children later in life showed a connect ion between an ability to wait long enough to obtain a second treat and various forms of success.
As adults we face a version of the marshmallow test every day. We' re not tempted (诱惑) by sugary treats, but by our computers, phones, and tablets — all the devices that connect us to the global delivery system for various types of information that do to us what marshmallows do to preschoolers.
We are tempted by sugary treats because our ancestors lived in a calorie-poor world, and our brains developed a response mechanism to these treats that reflected their value — a feeling of reward and satisfaction. But as we've reshaped the world around us, dramatically reducing the cost and effort involved in obtaining calories, we still have the same brains we had thousands of years ago, and this mismatch is at the heart of why so many of us struggle to resist tempting foods that we know we shouldn't eat.
A similar process is at work in our response to information. Our formative environment as a species was information-poor, so our brains developed a mechanism that prized new information. But global connectivity has greatly changed our information environment. We are now ceaselessly bombed (轰炸) with new information. Therefore, just as we need to be more thoughtful about our caloric consumption, we also need to be more thoughtful about our information consumption, resisting the temptation of the mental "junk food" in order to manage our time most effectively.
How to Avoid an Internet Addiction
It may seem like everyone surfs the web these days. But if you can't have interest in other aspects of your life because of the Internet, you may be on your way to an Internet addiction. You might fear you're the only one who has experienced that feeling. Luckily, there are some ways to avoid living your life in front of the computer.
.
More and more people in the world are becoming addicted to the Internet, and you are not the only one with this problem. So do not be embarrassed. Just be brave to admit that you are on your way to an Internet addiction. And then find others with the same problem and help each other beat it.
Set aside limited time for computer use.
Make sure not to turn it on too many times a week. If you have a laptop, make sure to put it somewhere that you can remember but not somewhere that you see every day. Try keeping the lid closed when you are not using it. If you have a desktop PC, try not to go near it or put something over it like a sheet.
Call people instead of sending instant messages or texts.
If you are free on weekends, call friends and ask them to go outside to do something you enjoy, like playing a sport. This will take your mind off the computer. .
Use an alarm clock or timer (计时器).
Before using your computer, decide on a time limit such as 30 minutes. Set the clock or timer and make sure that you get away from the computer when the time is up. Alternatively create a shutdown timer on your desktop. .
A. Being addicted to it is quite normal.
B. Admit you are at risk of an addiction.
C. The truth, though, is that it's quite common to be an addict.
D. When the computer is not looking at you, you are less likely to use it.
E. This can be programmed to shut down your computer after the set time.
F. This will stop you from using the Internet so often or going on to another page.
G. If you have a problem on weekdays, phone your friends or ask for help in person.
Early in my teaching career, I heard countless excuses from my students for not having their homework. Many of them were made up and 1 And, yes, "the dog ate it" was one of them. As time passed, I was 2 of hearing "I don't have my homework because…". "No excuses. No 3 !" I, out of anger, 4 my eighth graders.
Then, one afternoon, Anthony 5 me and said shyly, not taking his eyes off the floor, "I know you said it doesn't 6 why we don't have our homework done, but my dad moved out and my mom waits tables at night, so I have to 7 my little brothers." Feeling shocked and 8 for him, I put my hand on Anthony's thin shoulder. "Why are you just now telling me...?" I stopped in mid-sentence. I knew why. So I 9 the question, "Would it 10 if you stay in my classroom after school and work on it before you go home?" He nodded.
The next day, I 11 to all my students that I'd offer an after-school study hall. Anthony was the first student to12 . Before long, I had a room full of eighth graders who stayed to work on their homework. I soon had a large collection of "I don't have my homework because..."13 like Anthony. All were very14 . Most importantly, I learned that "I'll15 " works a lot better than "No excuses".
It's common to see food delivery workers riding electric bikes in a hurry through big cities in China. Some of them even risk(run) red lights to deliver their meals in time. However, such careless behavior often causes serious problems.The reason for the rise of such a careless behavior is that there is large demand for food delivery workers, and many companies offer high salaries (attract) new workers.
In fact, food delivery workers are often under high (press) from their employers. They face company fines for delivering food late. Moreover, the more orders they take, the more money they can earn, leads to some workers checking (they) mobile phones for new orders while they are riding their bikes. While most companies require delivery workers to follow traffic rules, it remains a problem whether these requirements and rules are (strict) obeyed. To solve the problem, some cities (take) action since last year. Shanghai required the delivery workers should (train) on traffic rules and safety. Now in Shenzhen, if a delivery worker gets caught breaking traffic rules more than twice, he or she will be banned driving food delivery vehicles for a whole year.
Alex rode his bike on his way home, and Johnson's Pond came into view.
Sometimes his dad took him canoeing(划独木舟) there, and Alex loved it. The pond was always alive with activity, and sometimes Alex discovered turtles(乌龟) sunbathing on suing rocks Alex as curious about turtles. When it was too rainy to go canoeing, he often went to the library to check out books on turtles,
Now it looked like tomorrow might be another sunny day. He decided to ask Dad if they could go canoeing and look for turtles again. Suddenly Alex saw something in the road up ahead. It looked like a big gray rock. But it was a funny place for a rock to be. He jumped off to have a look.
And then, the rock started to move! It was actually a large turtle slowly making its way across the road! Alex knew right away it was a snapping turtle.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a car approaching The turtle was still only halfway across the road Alex knew he couldn't pick it up because snapping turtles have a powerful bite and they could even bite off someone's finger! What could he do?
Thinking fast, he started waving both hands wildly. "Stop! Stop!" he cried. The car slowed to a stop.
"Are you alight, Alex?" It was his neighbor, Mrs. Ramos.
"I'm fine, Mrs. Ram's." said Alex. "I'm just trying to save a turtle. It's probably going to lay egg."
"Oh, yeah. It's spring." said Mrs. Ram's. "So, I guess a lot of turtles need to lay their eggs in the grass across the road." Then she waved goodbye and drove off.
Alex thought about what Mrs. Ram's had said. "There would probably be more turtles trying to cross the road at this spot!" he realized. But he couldn't stand there all day trying to stop cars. He looked around and a road sign caught his eye. And then his face brightened.
Para1 He jumped on his bike and raced home to find Dad.
Para2 The next morning, Dad and Alex drove to the pond with the wooden sign in the car.
