Whether you're taking a trip alone or with your family, it's easier to get sick when you're in a new place because your body hasn't had a chance to adjust to the food, water, and air there. Read the following tips on keeping your travel experience as healthy as possible.
Safe foods and drinks
What foods are safe to eat? Foods that have been boiled are generally safe, as well as fruits and vegetables that have to be peeled before eating. Avoid eating uncooked or undercooked meat.
Stay away from foods that require a lot of handling before serving.
Drink only bottled water when travelling. If you have to use the tap water, you should boil it first.
You can take it with you
When you're packing, taking some painkiller and diarrhea (腹泻) medicine is a good idea. It's also a good idea to pack some allergy (过敏) medicine even if you don't take it at home, because people sometimes unexpectedly develop allergic reactions in a new environment.
Make a travel journal
Before you leave your sweet home, create a medical history form that includes the following information: your name, address, and home phone number as well as a parent's daytime phone number, your blood type, a list of any ongoing health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, or AIDS; type a list of current medicines you are taking; type a list of allergies to medicine, food, insects, and animals the name, address, and phone number of a relative other than your parent.
It also helps if you have some basic first-aid medical knowledge, not only for yourself but also for helping others you may be travelling with. A great way to prepare for your trip is to take a first-aid or basic life support course before you go; if you're travelling with a group, you should know where the first-aid kit is and what's in it.
Last summer, I spent four months working in France, where the company I was working for put me up in a house that didn't have Wi - Fi. I wasn't looking forward to it.
I soon discovered, however, that living in a house without Wi - Fi was easier than I expected.
Contact between my friends and family was significantly reduced to the odd text message here and there. I couldn't enjoy my usual web browsing on BBC iPlayer, social media sites, keeping up to date with the news, or even wanting to know the opening hours of shops in the new area I was in.
I didn't, however, spend a full four months without connecting to a Wi - Fi network. It was only a five minute walk to the reception where I could connect for free and spend as much time online as I wanted to at my own leisure. It made me think, though, how unnecessary it can be, how unnecessarily we rely on it - how we perhaps rely on it too much. As a person, I was more sociable. I spent more time with my housemates instead of hiding behind a computer screen. I did other things that I wouldn't necessarily have done if I could have browsed the web at my leisure. I read more, I cooked meals for my friends, and I even tidied up more often. Dare I say it; I learned how to live without Wi - Fi. Dare I say it; I found it was easier than I had imagined.
Watching the young, 21-year-old Jordan Spieth win the US Masters today, I could not help but think of the great qualities he showed to win the most famous golf event on the calendar against the greatest players in the world.
Jordan Spieth has learned to keep himself in check. There is a great proverb: A fool shares all his or her feelings while a wise man keeps them in check. As I watched Spieth playing, I noticed a constant calm around him. Whether he hit the shot he wanted or not, he was the same and kept his emotions steady and strong. He never blamed the crowd, clubs (球棍) or wind.
He knows which club he is going to drive with on every hole; he knows which side of the fairway (高尔夫球道) to land and exactly where he wants to be standing on every green when he is putting: he has played it through his minds for months. He is the person who makes things happen by planning in advance because he knows winning is a product of months and years of planning.
If there is an event that every golfer dreams of winning, it's the US Masters. Spieth failed in 2014, getting so close to winning but coming second. As good as second was, he only wanted to be first. As a great person once said, "While you're green, you're growing, when you're brown, you're dying." He stays green. He is always reading, learning, and he understands that the greatest teacher of all is failure.
The dog has long been called man's best friend. It is a comment that is often based on the dog's behavior: its loyalty (忠诚), love, and ability to please. Pet owners like Sharon Reid of Grand Rapids, Michigan, says she's experienced such things first-hand. "After my husband passed away, my dog was the most dependable one in my life to help me through the difficult months that followed."
Among the most widely understood and accepted health benefits (好处) of pet ownership are that pets provide better dealing methods for stress and encourage greater compassion (同情), and that their companionship can protect people from suffering from loneliness. These benefits are found in a recent survey from the American Psychiatric Association, which showed that 86 percent of owners feel their pets have a mostly positive influence on their mental (精神的) health, and that some 90 percent consider the animal to be a member of the family.
But understanding the degree to which pets do good to the mental health and well-being of their owners is a matter of some debate among researchers. While most of them agree that certain benefits are well recognized, others may not be as based on scientific evidence as some believe.
Among the recognized benefits is that pet-owner interaction can improve one's quality of life. Research shows that playing with a dog can improve one's feelings, that reading to a pet can help children with learning development issues, that pets can lessen the levels of stress of their owners, and that having a pet can increase one's bodily activity levels.
Pet ownership has also been shown to help a wide variety of people, including some dealing with specific mental health conditions. It's also worth noting that some older adults may gain benefits from pet ownership. "The comfort from having pets is especially important for those who have fewer close relationships with friends and family, such as older adults," says Rodriguez, a professor of human-animal interaction.
We see hundreds of logos on signs, vehicles, websites, and even on the clothes we are dressed in. All these logos are intended to attract our attention. However, recent research supports the idea that remembering what a logo looks like is a very difficult task.
Researchers gave 85 students a simple assignment to draw the logo of a famous company from memory. Surprisingly, only one student could make it. Researchers have developed a theory that they think might help explain this blind spot in our memories.
Logos are typically designed to be simple and easy to recognize with a quick glance. Yet the frequent exposure to these logos can actually make our brains overlook them. This process is known as attention saturation (注意力饱和)
we become familiar with them. This constant exposure leads to the situation where our brains remember the basic idea without all of the details. This general sense of memory has its own benefits. In fact, being familiar with a popular logo can even make people feel more comfortable about buying or using certain products.
Nowadays, logos are everywhere. A fancy design or a thoughtful (体贴的) colour combination may be a good start for a logo concept , but there are some other things to consider. Maybe a clever design is well worth trying.
A. When we see some logos over and over again,
B. People will know the product behind the logo.
C. This may be inspiring to logo designers.
D. So why is it so difficult for people to recall the details?
E. They also help us remember a product or service connected with them.
F. Our brains actually signal us to ignore information we don't think we will need to remember.
G. Logo designers need to know that people will only remember what they believe is worthwhile.
One hot July day, three police officers went into a market to get something cool to drink. Once inside, they were 1 by a security guard (保安人员) to help with a 2 woman. The woman in question was obviously 3 , and her face was wet with tears. The officers looked inside her bag. All they saw were packets of 4 .
"I'm hungry," she explained5 . Caught in the act, the woman no doubt expected to be treated as a6 . But the police officers had other 7 . "We'll pay for her food," one of them said to the 8 security guard, "She would not be9 ."
"Thank you! Thank you!" the woman repeated, 10 her wet face. She was not the only one touched by this act of 11 . Customers at the store were so impressed by what they had12 that some even posted a photo online13 , attention was never what the officers tried to get. They were 14 by a far more common emotion.'
When we look at someone's face and see that they need you, it's pretty15 as a human being to walk away from something like this.
On my trip to Dunhuang, Gansu province in December, I had an exciting experience of (explore) Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟) in Dunhuang with 735 caves (build) by believers from 366 to the Yuan Dynasty(1271-1368).
The guide (random) opened one of the old caves at Mogao Grottoes and curious tourists began a journey of mystery. Following tiny points of light from the guide's small flashlight (手电筒), we learned stories of the past from the Buddhist statues and murals (壁画) in the darkness.
Some wall paintings represented musicians playing Chinese instruments, as well as complex gestures of dancers at parties in an ancient royal court. Others showed interesting and exciting scenes of hunting in the (wood). The statues—even those faces had turned black, and some having lost an arm or two to natural weathering(自然风化)—didn't stop the solemn (庄严的) power.
Thanks its being the off-season, my group was able to see 12 caves. Tourists, however, (allow) to see a maximum of eight caves during peak season. When I (come) out from the three-hour exploration, I was amazed that I had bought (vary) souvenirs, which help preserve the memory and feel of the place.
1）早餐的重要性；2）给出你的建议。
注意：
1）写作词数应为80左右：2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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Dear Lucy, …… Yours, Li Hua |
Billy was 15 years old then. He grew up in a very poor neighborhood. No one in his family had gone to college before. Actually, few people around him had received higher education. They all struggled to live a good life. Therefore, Billy knew nothing about colleges or scholarships and he never thought he would go to college one day. Although he was a smart boy, he didn't study hard at school and often got into trouble with other teenagers in his neighborhood.
One day, while Billy was walking on the playground, a boy of his age started making fun of him. Then that boy pushed him hard and Billy fell onto the ground. Billy became so angry that he stood up and beat that boy. So a fight began.
It happened that Billy's English teacher Mr. Smith was walking nearby. He immediately ran to the boys to stop the fight. Billy was a bit worried because he knew his teacher was very strict with students. He was afraid his teacher would punish him. However, to his astonishment, his teacher didn't do that.
"Billy, let's have a talk," said his teacher.
Billy, not knowing what his teacher wanted to do, was very worried. But he nodded. So they went to a bench nearby and sat down. After they sat down, Mr. Smith began, "Billy, I know you're a smart boy, but you're wasting your life now. Why don't you study hard to go to college so that you can change your life and have a bright future?"
Hearing that, Billy didn't know what to say. He had never thought about it. Billy was in silence. Mr. Smith continued, "I know you may have never thought about going to college. But everything is possible. When I was at your age, I was a troublemaker just like you and never thought I'd be able to go to college, either. It was all because of the support and encouragement of Mr. Howard, my math teacher in high school."
注意：
1）所续写短文的词数应为 150左右；
2）续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；
Paragraph 1
Then, Mr. Smith began to tell Billy his story.
Paragraph 2
Billy was greatly touched by Mr. Smith's story.
