Things to Do in York
One activity that everyone enjoys is sightseeing—so charge your camera and pack your walking shoes as York has a lot of sights for you to see.
The Bar Walls of York
At 3.4 kilometers long, these beautifully preserved walls protected the city for nearly 2,000 years. If you want to walk around the whole walls, it will take you around two hours, but there are multiple points at which you can stop.
Clifford's Tower
Clifford's Tower allows you to look at old York. As the only small remaining part of York Castle, there is plenty of history to learn and enjoy. The castle also hosts games and costume play for children and adults can participate too!
JORVIK VikingCantre
Journey through the reconstruction of Viking Age streets and experience life as it would have been in the 10th-century York. Fun for all the family!
York and the Magic of Harry Potter
The Shambles is similar to Diagon Alley and now filled with Harry Potter inspired shops. Nearby Malham Cove, Dalby Forest, York Railway Station, and Brimham Rocks were also used as filming locations in the Harry Potter films. Goathland Railway Station became Hogsmeade Station in the first Harry Potter film and featured as Aidensfield in the drama series Heartbeat.
Getting to York
A visit to Yorkshire is easy by car or train. For those looking to explore the north and east of Yorkshire, driving is recommended. The county is easily accessed by the Al or M1 from the north or south. and from the west it can be reached via the M62. The A64 also runs across the county from Leeds to Scarborough, skirting past York in-between.
"Why did the fox steal my shoes?" sounds like the start of a brain teaser (脑筋急转弯) or an annoyingly hot song. But for people in Berlin, it was a real question that a local fox was behind a series of shoes thefts.
About two weeks ago, Meyer, a resident of Berlin, noticed that one of his new running shoes had disappeared from his porch, and he decided to examine the theft, a German news site reported.
Meyer quickly learned that he was not the thief's only victim, and a tip helped him catch the fox. Days later, Meyer spotted the fox again; he followed it and discovered the fox's secret place of more than 100 shoes.
Meyer got a photo of the thieving fox and its ill-gotten shoes, which he shared on Twitter. The shoes contained sneakers, and slippers in range of colors, shapes and sizes, though the most numerous shoes by far were Crocs.
This isn't the first time that an urban fox has demonstrated a seeming shoe fetish (恋物). In August 2019, a fox in Melbourne, Australia, repeatedly visited a woman's porch and stole three boots over the course of a week. In a small town in western Germany, a female fox stole about 110 to 120 shoes in just one night, presumably "for her babies to play with", according to Reuters.
It's unknown whether all of these foxes were acting independently or whether their actions were linked, perhaps as part of an international shoe-stealing group with a bad purpose that humans can only imagine.
Once upon a time, a young man wanted to go to a village on business. Halfway there was a mountain. Before he left home, his family warned him to stay calm and climb onto trees if he was in face of beasts(野兽). In this way, the beasts couldn't do anything to him.
The young man remembered these words and began his trip.
He walked for a long time carefully and found no beasts were out there. He thought his family's worries were unnecessary. And he became relaxed as he walked. Just at that moment, he saw a fierce(凶猛的) tiger running to him and he climbed onto a tree nearby at once.
The tiger roared(咆哮) around the tree and even jumped to reach the man. The young man was too scared to hold the tree and fell right on the back of the tiger. Full of fear, he had to hold the tiger tightly. The tiger thought that must be a giant beast. So it was afraid and started running madly.
People on the road didn't know what had happened and said, "Look at the young man. He is riding a tiger!" "Cool!" "Superman!"
Hearing these words, the young man was very angry. "Why can't they see I'm suffering a lot? Don't they understand I am in fear and almost scared to death?" he said to himself.
Britain is the sixth fattest country: within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). For more than a decade, the government has declared obesity (肥胖) a national emergency and promised to take action, only to produce disappointing plans that don't reach what is required.
It should not have taken a disease like COVID-19 to make people fully aware of the awful consequences of the UK's obesity. Obesity, as well as its associated conditions of diabetes (糖尿病) and high blood pressure, is strongly connected with a higher risk of death from COVID-19 and will have undoubtedly been a factor in the UK having the highest COVID-19 death rate in Europe.
As the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson's experience of caching the virus and being admitted to ICU has reportedly resulted in a complete change in him, who has previously prided himself on his dislike of an over-controlling state. The government is expected to set out a new strategy this week, aimed at reducing obesity levels both in the next few months — ahead of a possible second wave of infections and the longer term.
This obvious change is welcome, but only if it results in a complete change in the government's approach, which doesn't rely on personal responsibility but on much tougher rules, as with tobacco and alcohol.
There is plenty of evidence about what is needed to cut obesity and in recent years, many reports, including from Public Health England and the former chief medical officer, have called for urgent action. Yet these calls were ignored by the government that has seemingly put the food and drink industry's financial interests over the health of the nation.
We listen to music every day. Some music hits our hearts. Some music makes us full of joy. Some music makes you burst into tears.
·Music makes us express our emotion.
You usually play the music that reflects your thoughts or your emotions.When we try to express some sad emotion, we will use soft and deep music.
·Music makes learning more pleasant.
Music is an extremely unique way to develop the capability of memorizing. The best example to prove this sentence is that we can easily learn something in the form of songs.Whatever our minds enjoy, it keeps it.
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It helps us in improving our mind by making it more artistic. No matter what the great invention is, it requires art. Creativity is fulfilled by music. Music is an art of beauty.
·Music improves your fine reasoning skills.
During a study of children, it was shown that if children are exposed to three or more years of musical training, these same kids performed better. This was the result. They had better listening and speaking skills than those who had none.
A. Music is the key to creativity.
B. Music makes our mind enjoyable.
C. Enjoying music can change our memory.
D. This way our brain conveys the thoughts without speaking a word.
E. The children even tested better for vocabulary and reasoning skills.
F. In order to analyze functions of music, let's see the benefits it brings.
G. The reason behind learning a song quickly is that our mind enjoys music.
Washington is home to lots of trees,and also lots of fireplaces and wood-burning stoves too. But1 you lived there and couldn't cut wood or couldn't afford to pay someone to do it?2 ,Shane Mc Daniel and his twin sons，Harrison and Henry McDaniel,21,are happy to lend a hand.The three men cut truckloads of wood—then 3 those in need.
The idea started as a father-son project."I had to 4 my dad in cutting wood.He just loved doing it."says Shane.He wanted to 5 along that feeling,so he and the twins spent the summer of 2018 like a clan(家族)of Paul Bunyans. 6 ,a great wall of wood piled up around their house.
It was too much for the7 to use themselves,and when the weather turned cold that November，Shane started thinking of others.He8 on Facebook："IN NEED OF FIREWOOD AND CANNOT AFFORD IT，PLEASE PM ME!... Please help me and my boys9 NO ONE GOES COLD. "
Single mom Katelyn Ticer,29,and her four-year-old daughter10 on wood-burning stove as their only source of heat，so it was a11 to receive a truckload of firewood from the McDaniels before the holidays. 12 ,she said"Getting that much wood made a big difference to me". "So much13 and anxiety is off my shoulders. I couldn't be more14 ."
Shane is OK with that. "Giving is the15 ."he says.
Take a walk down a street in China, especially around the Chinese New Year. Then you'll see beautiful hand-made sugar paintings on a stick for sale. This traditional Chinese folk art dates back the Ming Dynasty (1368—1644).
It doesn't take much equipment to sugar paint. (make) such an artwork, the artisan scoops (舀) up the melted sugar and forms designs on the metal. Before the liquid sugar becomes hard, a wooden stick is placed in middle to turn it into a lollipop (棒棒糖) to be separated from the metal.
I haven't seen many people eat their sugar paintings. Perhaps it's because they're (work) of art for our admiration. Perhaps because we have much tasty sugary food, the taste of sugar paintings no longer (excite) us. But during the Ming Dynasty, only the rich powerful could afford them. During the Qing Dynasty, sugar paintings were created freehand. And sugar paintings (become) popular since then.
This art form is a part of Chinese history and proof of its people's creativity. Sugar painters (invite) to take part in cultural events both within China and abroad nowadays. Online, there are even toys (create) for kids like a 3D pen. Of course, anyone is interested can have a try. After all, you're combining a delicious treat and art.
1.近几年发生的变化；
2.介绍家乡的旅游胜地；
3.邀请他暑假来游玩。
注意：
1.词数100左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Peter,
Yours,
Li Hua
It was in the afternoon before the end of the Second World War that Antonio Black, who was twelve, caught sight of a beautiful brooch (胸针) in a shop window. The brooch is so beautiful that he was unwilling to leave the store until he had purchased it. But it was too expensive — $
5. His family was very poor and his parents struggled to make ends meet. Five dollars would buy almost a week's food for his family.
Antonio couldn't ask his father for the money. Everything his father made through fishing went to his mother, Susan. Slim and beautiful, his mother was the center of the home and the glue that held it together. The housework was never-ending, and she struggled to feed and clothe their five children, but she was happy as her family and their well-being were all she cared about.
Nevertheless, he opened the shop's door and went inside. Standing proudly and straight in his flour-sack (面粉袋改做的) shirt and washed-out trousers, he told the shopkeeper what he wanted, adding, "But I don't have the money right now. Can you please hold it for me for some time?"
"I'll try," the shopkeeper smiled. "People around here don't usually have that kind of money to spend on things. It should keep for a while."
Antonio respectfully touched his worn cap and walked out. He would raise the money and not tell anybody, for he thought Mum would be surprised when she saw that brooch. On hearing the sound of hammering (锤打) from a side street, Antonio suddenly had an idea that he could raise money by selling the used nail bags. People built their own homes in Bay Roberts, using nails bought in bags from a local factory. Sometimes the used bags were thrown away at the construction site, and Antonio knew he could sell them back to the factory for five cents a piece. That day he sold two nail bags and hid the money in a rusty soda tin.
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。
Every day after school, Antonio started his plan.
The day finally came!
