The Exploration area focuses on social science and history. The Discovery Sailboat and Baby Tide Pool are educational exhibits that help children better understand historical contexts and the world around them.
Habitat Gathering
Get ready to join the adventure at Habitat Gathering. Explore the rich environmental wonder through two habitat areas. Through our Habitat Gathering, little ones and their families will explore environmental sciences in experiences gaining skills in sorting, comparing and contrasting, social awareness, and more!
Our Home
At the Our Home exhibit, children will use their imaginations to grocery shop, cook, clean, and more. Kids can go shopping in the marketplace, use mini shopping carts, and buy play food to make meals in their "home".
Baby Tide Pool
The Baby Tide Pool area gives our youngest visitors a chance to explore, experiment, and play in a safe place built to stimulate their growth and development. The area includes sensory games and images of sea life.
Reading Book Corner
Choose your seat and get comfortable in the Book Corner with a wide selection of books for children aged 10 years old or more. Thank you to our Reading Book Corner supporters: The Linden Root Dickinson Foundation and KPBS.
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Museum Hours
Mon-Sat: 9:30 a. m.-4:30 p. m.
Sun: 12:30 p. m.-4:30 p. m.
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Group Rate（10 or more people）: $10.00 per person.
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Caitlin Clark now stands alone in the history of American collegiate（大学的）basketball. The Iowa Hawkey e player has now scored more points than any other player, male or female.
Pete Maravich, a good scorer for Louisiana State University（LSU）in the late 1960s, owned the record, having scored 3,667 point s in three seasons at LSU. With a free throw（罚球）near the end of the first half of her team's last regular-season game, against Ohio State, Clark got a point total of 3,668.
Just one game ago, Clark passed the all-time women's scoring record, held by Lynette Woodard. The Kansas player scored 3,649 points in four seasons in the late 1970s and early 1980s, at a time when women played under the support of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, which broke up in 1981, replaced by the National Collegiate Athletic Association（NCAA）.
The existing NCAA scoring record had been held by Washington star Kelsey Plum, who scored 3,527 points in four seasons, from 2013 to 2017.As a junior in 2023, Clark led her team to the finals of the NCAA Tournament. She gained high praise across the country for making long-distance three-points, some back near the half-court line. LSU defeated Iowa in that final, one of the most-watched in women's college basketball history. Clark was the NCAA National Player of the Year that year.
Clark also passed the 1,000 assist（助攻）marks this year; she is only the sixth women's player in NCAA history to do so. Clark technically will play again for Iowa in 2025.She has already declared her intention to go professional and enter the Women's National Basketball Association（WNBA）. She is expected to be the No. 1 pick.
Innovation in sustainable transport has an exciting first: a group of electric public transportation buses in Israel is the first in the world to be powered by a commercial wireless charging terminal（终端）, representing a milestone in sustainable travel.
An electric vehicle（EV）is defined as a vehicle that can be powered by an electric motor drawing electricity from a battery and that is capable of being charged from an external source. As Bus News reports, the site in Israel uses fixed wireless charging for parked urban electric buses, both at night and during the day, while the buses are parked at the public bus terminal.
Electreon, the company with the advanced wireless charging technology, is partnering with the Electra Afikim Company, a major Israeli transportation operator to deliver wireless EV bus charging in the center of Israel. As well as technology offer, Electre on manages the various construction stages, taking in electric infrastructure（基础设施）and civil engineering works.
Beyond the obvious appeal of the convenience that wireless EV charging offers, are a number of additional benefits that together seem likely to boost the greener transport that EVs offer. As CEO of Electreon, Oren Ezer, tells NoCamels, "We are promoting green public transportation in the city with the aim of reducing air pollution and continuing to improve the quality of life of the residents and the environment."
Additionally, wireless charging is likely to encourage EV use as it cuts charging downtime（停机时间）, and range（续航里程）anxiety. It also means that battery sizes can be reduced, making vehicles more sustainable, less costly, and lighter, with more space for passengers or goods. Another benefit is that multiple vehicles can charge at the same time from the same system without placing extra pressure on the electric grid（电网）. The technique's underground installation（安装）also means that there are no ugly visual impacts on the landscape.
The Australian government has given the World Heritage Committee the most recent information on the measures it has taken to protect the Great Barrier Reef from human -made climate change.
Last June, the World Heritage Committee chose not to list the Reef as "in danger", but asked Australia to give an update on its preservation measures by February
1.In the report, the government has shown how its policies and scientific research are helping to protect the heritage-listed reef. Improving water quality, tough new fishing restrictions and unusual experiments in "cloud brightening" are all listed in the report.
The government had invested $1.2 billion in the Reef, while the Queensland government had invested more than $1 billion since 2015."The Great Barrier Reef is the best managed reef in the world and the report shows the significant action we are taking to protect this important natural wonder," said Senator Nita Green.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has unveiled a new strategy to protect and restore the wetland areas of the Reef, which she said had decreased by over 50 per cent since European settlement.
Water quality improvements were a focus in the government's report, after the Committee said they were concerned that it was taking too long to meet targets. 140,000 tons of sediment（沉积物）had been prevented from entering the Reef over the past decade. Gillnet （刺网）fishing was being gradually stopped using, with half the previously allowed number of licenses issued this month. Conservationists welcomed the ban on gillnets, but others warned the move could ruin the fishing industry.
These projects have been exploring whether it is possible to provide shade for coral reefs by artificially increasing the reflectiveness of clouds, or creating fogs to stop sunlight reaching below the sea surface.
Five Helpful Ideas for Having a "Perfect" Day
To make things easier for you, we have listed down five ideas just for you to spend a perfect day, so make sure that you read till the end!
Set up a daily routine.
When you sit down to make a routine, you must push yourself to include at least one productive task in the day. However, make sure that your mental, physical and emotional needs are met through this routine. A routine gives the necessary flow to your life. .
Get a good night's sleep.
An adult needs at least 7-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Therefore make sure to include a minimum of 7 hours of sleep in your daily routine to keep you healthy, productive, and fresh all day. Give your body the rest it deserves!
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Always take out time from your busy schedule for your loved ones. Spending time with your loved ones is very vital for your mental and emotional health. Humans are social animals. We need interact with people around us, especially people close to us.
Appreciate yourself.
Self-appreciation is more important than appreciation from others. If you do not appreciate what you do, how can you expect others to appreciate your work? Self-appreciation makes work more fun and enjoyable. It becomes less boring and will motivate you to work even harder.
Be grateful.
You have a place that you can call home, clothes to wear, and somebody to share your feelings with. There are thousands of people who wish to have what you already have. It is okay if you are not able to cross every task on your to-do list.
A.Spend time with your loved ones.
B.Value communication with others.
C.Getting a good night's sleep is vital.
D.Focus on things you should be grateful for.
E.However, a large number of people ignore sleep.
F.Self-appreciation will help you increase your productivity.
G.It will help you keep yourself away from stress, anxiety, and unnecessary activities.
Virginia Finch, a local resident, was preparing Thanksgiving meals for the homeless with her daughter when she heard about a family living behind a gas station.
1 to deliver a meal to them, Virginia 2 a sight that would deeply move her. Behind the gas station, Virginia found Olivia and Eric, along with their three young daughters, aged 5years, 14 months, and 4 weeks. The family had been traveling across the country when their 3 broke down, leaving them stranded（被滞留的）and 4 of the upcoming winter.
5 , Colorado has cold and snowy winters that would be difficult to face in a truck. The family was in a very 6 situation, with little hope for gifts, jobs, or even enough food.
Virginia knew she had to do more than just provide a 7 . Determined to help, Virginia decided to offer something 8 .
Virginia had recently renovated（翻新）a second home,9 to sell or rent it. 10 , upon meeting this family, she chose to do something remarkable. She gave the family the home, rent-free, and even furnished it fully, 11 their lives completely overnight.
"I just didn't think it was real," Olivia expressed, surprised by the 12 . But it turns out that it was a very real 13 . Virginia's act of kindness not only provided the family with 14 and safety but also gave them a beautiful Christmas. More than that, it restored their 15 in humanity.
For more than 20 years Chen Xinbing and his wife Wang Meirong （work）as forest guards deep in the mountains near Shiqiao Township, Shandong Province. Their work at the State-owned Cave Forest Farm began after both graduated from school in 1990s. Their shared duty of protecting the forest brought （they）together, and they were married in 2001.
However, due to a manpower （short）in the forest and the huge responsibility of protecting it, Chen lives in an observation tower （sit）on a mountain 600 meters above sea level. He is in charge of monitoring ensuring the safety of over 530 hectares of state-owned forest, as well as forests located near 12 surrounding villages.
Wang, meanwhile, maintains the forest station the foot of the mountain. Due to the distance between them and their varying responsibilities, they only see each other （brief）about every 10 days when Chen comes down the mountain （refill）supplies.
During the fire season, they can go for up to two months at a time without seeing each other. For the past 22 years, the forest has not experienced a single fire or any other safety risk, has earned them the title "Outstanding Forest Guards" several times.
1.写信目的；
2.咨询内容。
注意：
1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Dear Steve,
Yours,
Li Hua
On the sunny afternoon of April 21, 2021, Green Lake was a busy scene. Among the crowd was Ramsay, a local high school student.
Ramsay was drawing the calm scene, his notebook filled with drawings of the lake and its surroundings, when a sudden noise broke his concentration. A group of teenagers by the water's edge was pointing and shouting towards the lake. Ramsay's heart raced as he realized what was happening—a young boy was struggling in the water, too far from shore.
Without a moment's hesitation, Ramsay dropped his drawing board and rushed towards the lake. The distance to the struggling swimmer seemed large, but Ramsay dived into the water with determination. He swam with all his might towards the boy.
"Hold on! I'm coming!" Ramsay shouted, his voice cutting through the panicked cries from the shore.
The boy, who appeared to be about 13 years old, was moving desperately, his efforts to stay afloat growing weaker. Ramsay reached him just in time, grabbing him firmly. "It's okay, I've got you. Don't fight me," Ramsay instructed, trying to calm the terrified boy.
With considerable effort, Ramsay began the exhausting swim back to shore, the boy holding onto him. Ramsay's muscles screamed in protest, but the thought of saving the boy gave him the strength he needed. Finally, they reached the shallow water, where several adults rushed to help them onto dry land.
The boy, coughing and gasping（喘气）, looked up at Ramsay with wide, grateful eyes. "Thank you," he managed to say between breaths.
Ramsay, exhausted but relieved, simply nodded. "You're okay now. Just be more careful," he said gently.
The crowd that had gathered praised Ramsay for his bravery. But Ramsay felt no need for the praise. Seeing the boy safe was a high reward for him.
As the doctor and nurses arrived to check on the boy, Ramsay found a quiet spot to sit down. It was then that the boy approached him.
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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。
Paragraph 1:"I'm Alex," the boy said, his voice still shaking. "I thought I was dying. Thank you very much!"
Paragraph 2: "Promise me something, Alex," Ramsay said after a moment. "Stay safe, and maybe take some swimming lessons."
