Music Club Music lessons (guitar, violin, piano and drums) Time: 8:30 am—9:30 am every Sunday Price: Only $20 each Address: 25 Jiefang Road Tel: 420-258-1200 | National Park Riding horses, Boating Time: 9:30 am—7:00 pm every day Price: adults $15 children (aged 3—7) $8 Address: 85 the Fifth Avenue Tel: 208-683-3400 | The Art Museum More than 300 works, 200 famous pictures Opening hours: 8:00 am—6:00 pm on weekdays Price: adults $10 children(aged 3—12) $6 Address: 120 Xinjin Street Tel: 307-864-2997 |
Museums are active centers of learning. In a science museum, people can learn about nature and technology as well as physics and chemistry. Visiting museums is a good choice to spend a holiday for people of all ages. But there're some rules when visiting museums. Take an art museum, for example.
Keep quiet. You can talk, but keep the voice down and be polite to those around you. You should turn off your phone or put it on silent. Sounds from your phone may disturb (打扰) others. If a call must be made, you should go outside to make it.
Ask before taking photos. Some museums welcome visitors to photograph or videotape works of art. However, please be careful with the sign "no photography" which means taking photos is not allowed for that work or exhibition. If you take photos without permission, you will be in trouble. Maybe you will be punished.
Do not touch works of art! Your touch may not seem like much, but even the slightest (最轻的) touch can damage the surface of a painting, discolor stone, and even rust metal. Keep a safe distance between you and each work of art. This helps to avoid accidental touching.
Never bring food or drinks into the museum. It's no good eating or drinking there. The art in the museum will provide plenty of food for thought as well as a dinner for the eyes!
Running and pushing are not allowed in the museum. Proper museum behavior is necessary to avoid accidentally hitting or damaging works of art.
Remember: ____. If you obey them, you will surely enjoy yourself in the museum.
①Many people travel to varied places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plane. So airlines offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste. Do you agree?
②To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don't want to lose customers.
③However, according to scientific research, a part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude (海拔) we can not taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure reduces one third of the sensibility (感觉) of our taste buds(味蕾). So our taste buds become senseless. The sad face, however, is that our noses don't know it.
④All of these help explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. ____ Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.
⑤Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.
⑥Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can't deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them.
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Once upon a time there was a happy paper doll that had no face. His whole body was perfectly cut out and painted, except for his face. However, he had a pencil so he could choose whatever face he wanted to have. How lucky! He then spent all day asking everyone he met, "What's a perfect face like?"
" One with a big beak (鸟嘴)." answered the birds.
" No. Not one with a beak," said the trees. " The perfect face is full of leaves."
" Forget the beak and the leaves," said the flowers. " If you want a perfect face, you fill it with colors."
The doll followed their advice. However, it turned out that nobody liked it. And now he couldn't erase it! " I only wanted a face that everyone would like," he cried. "And now look, what a disaster (灾难)!"
A small cloud heard his cries and came to him, " I think I can help you. As I'm a cloud, I can make any face you like. What do you think about me changing faces until there's one that you like? I'm sure we can fix you a little bit."
The doll again felt hopeful. The cloud made all kinds of faces for him. But none of them was perfect enough.
"Never mind," said the doll. " you've been a great friend." He gave her a big hug and the cloud smiled from ear to ear, happy at having helped. Just then the doll cried excitedly, " That's it! That's the face I want! It's a perfect face!"
"Which one?" asked the cloud. "But I haven't done anything."
"Yes, yes you have! It's that face you make when I hug you!"
The cloud finally realized that he was talking about her big smile. And together they took the pencil and drew the paper doll a big smile, ten times better than beaks, colors and leaves. And that face was indeed the only one that everyone liked because it had the secret ingredient (成分) for perfect faces: a big smile that could never be erased.
Dame Daphne Sheldrick did a great job -she protected and returned orphaned (孤儿的) elephant babies to the wild. In 1977, Sheldrick and her team David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust began to save and raise hundreds of orphaned elephant babies in Kenya. Here is what she shared with us in an interview.
Question: Can you tell us about your first interaction (互动) with an elephant?
Sheldrick: My first close interaction with elephants was that with my husband's two elephant orphans.
Question: Why did you set up David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust?
Sheldrick: David was, at the time, the finest wildlife warden (看守人) in Africa. After my husband died, there were many orphaned elephant babies that needed to be saved, so I came to help. That is how it all began.
Question:
Sheldrick: The orphans often come back to see their human family and the other orphans... Elephants never forget. They love their keepers for life.
Question: What can children do to protect wildlife?
Sheldrick: Children can help keep the environment clean and safe for wildlife. They can also raise money to help those working with wildlife.
A. Do the animals ever come back to visit? B. I came to love and understand those orphans. C. People are trying harder than before to save wildlife. D. The idea came from the love of my husband's many friends. E. They can join the wildlife club and learn to speak up for animals. |
Do you want to save and raise orphaned elephant babies like Sheldrick when you grow up? Why or why not? (答案不超过15个单词)
A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor. During the visit, the conversation soon turned into complaints about 1 in work and life. Offering his 2 coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and 3 with a large pot of coffee and a variety of cups — porcelain(陶瓷), plastic, glass, crystal(水晶), some beautiful, some expensive, some 4 — telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When each of the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, "If you have 5 , all the nice-looking expensive cups have been 6 , leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. It is 7 for you to want only the best for yourselves, but that is the 8 of your problems and stress."
"It is clear that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases 9 hides what we drink."
"10 all of you really want is coffee, not the cup, 11 most of you just went for the best cups. And then you looked to see what cups others picked."
Now consider this: 12 is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. 13 are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cups we pick has nothing to do with the life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we 14 to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don't let the cups 15 you. Enjoy the coffee instead.
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Young people and older people don't always agree with each other. They sometimes have different (看法) about living, working and having fun. But last month in one special program in New York, adults and teenagers lived together and (影响) each other in a friendly way.
Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for eight weeks as a group. Everyone works for several hours each day. Lots of vegetables and fruit are （种植） on the farms, icarrots, tomatoes and apples. Teenagers learn to（修理）things like tables and chairs with the help of the adults.
When people live together, rules are always (必要的). In this program the teenagers and the adults make the rules together. Also, they make a （协议）to decide everything together. If someone breaks a rule, the whole group will discuss the problem. Sometimes, adults are wthan teenagers in solving problems, but teenagers have quicker mind.
One of the teenagers says about the experience, "We don't only think about o. We learn to think about the(整个的）group."
Think about a person who loves and helps us all the time. For many children, parents might come to mind. Our parents play important part in our lives.
Before children are born , many parents start making preparations. any experience, they begin to buy clothes and toys for their coming children. They are ready to hear(beautiful) cry in the world. They hope they can have a healthy baby.
After a child is born, it seems that parents can't see(someone) except(除了) their kids. They look after their children (careful). And it's possible for parents to spend all of their time with children. Sometimes, they might expect (hang) out with friends. However, if their children need them, they (stop) thinking about it. They will stay at home and watch cartoons that they don't like with their children. After a child grows up, parents think education is so importantthey want to help their children go to the best school. Shlomit Gidon, a mother from Florida, the US, (send) her 7-year-old son to a private school. It was really expensive. She worked for 18 hours every day to make money, and she didn't get enough sleepher son finished school. Parents are always there to help us. It's really necessary for us to show thanks to our parents our daily life.
To: Li Ping@mail.com
Subject: Exchange Visit
Hi there, Li Ping!
My name is Jack and I'm going to be at your school for the exchange visit next month. I'm really excited about it!
Well, why I'm writing now? For one thing, I really want to know something about the wonderful clubs at your school, so could you introduce one of them? Also, I'm interested in Chinese traditional culture, so what do you suggest I do in my free time after school?
Take care and hope to hear from you soon.
Jack
参考词汇：paper cutting, cooking, calligraphy, Wushu, Taichi, …
Dear Jack,
Li Ping
