Take a closer look at the wonders of Kew Gardens by joining a guided walking tour. Led by our knowledgeable volunteer guides, it is a fun and informative way to explore the grounds.
Free daily walking tours
Tours leave at 11:00 am and 1:30 pm from the information desk at Victoria Gate. Each guide presents their own tour which takes in the highlights (最精彩的部分) of the season.
Themed tours
Tours leave at 12:00 from the information desk at Victoria Gate. Our guides offer attractive seasonal themes including Autumn Colour and Winter Evergreens.
Expert-guided tours
Every Tuesday throughout the year at 11:30 am and 2:30 pm we'll be holding an expert-guided tour. The tour will feature (以……为特色) a different plant each month and you'll go behind the scenes and talk to the staff about their work. You'll find out interesting facts about the featured plant or fungus (真菌), including why it's grown at Kew Gardens and how it's used and cared for.
Price
The cost is £60 per guide (this does not include your entry to Kew Gardens). Each guide can take up to 15 people. Groups of more than 15 must book more than one guide. Smaller groups are also accepted but the cost remains £60.
Tours take about one hour and may be booked from 10:00 am every day. Please note that no refunds (退款) can be given once tickets are booked.
As you grow rapidly through your teenage years, you will experience a lot of changes. The changes may seem difficult and they may seem to happen quickly. Don't panic (恐慌）！You will deal successfully with them! You are a young adult now!
With more responsibility, you will find more freedom to make your own choices. This is a time to be well informed (知晓) about your choices so that you can make healthy balanced decisions that will help shape your future. You may already know your career path or you may have no idea at all what you want to do. Both situations are fine! Work hard and the right opportunity will present (展现) itself to you.
Young adulthood means greater freedom and more choices. You will probably want to be independent. But try not to shut your family out of your life. You should learn to think of others even though you are old enough to look after yourself. Your family have been with you since you came into this world.
It is also perfectly natural in this time for you to spend more time with your friends than your family. Choose your friends wisely. A true friend will stand by you no matter what happens. This period is part of the life cycle. There are some people who will be with you throughout life's journey and there will be some people with whom you part (分离) and go separate ways. Leaving school can be hard. The reality is that you may not ever see all of your classmates again.
You are a young adult. It is your life. No one can live it for you. The choices that you make from now on will be your choices. So making the right choices will be important to you. Life is for living. Enjoy your life wisely!
Research carried out last year stressed the growing challenge facing employers in terms of managing and supporting the UK's aging workforce.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics have suggested that the number of people aged 65 and over still working has reached 1.19 million—up 25,000 from a year ago. There were also now more people aged 50-74 in work than ever before. However, the overall trend was hiding the fact that 12% people are forced to stop working before reaching state pension(养老金，退休金) age because of ill health or disability.
Nearly half a million (436,000) workers who are within five years of state pension age have had to leave work for medical reasons, with an apparent divide between the North (worse) and South (better). Those in the lowest-paid jobs, including cleaners, leisure industry workers and people doing heavy laboring jobs, were twice as likely to stop working before retirement age, because of sickness and disability than managers or professionals.
Within this, the needs of the "sandwich generation"— those juggling work with caring for elderly dependents as well as children — needed to be given greater priority (优先权) by employers, a white paper by insurer and health care provider concluded.
Its research argued that 66% of managers think the average age of retirement in their organization will increase in the next 5 to 10 years. Yet, 36% reported being unaware of anything their organization did to attract, keep and engage older staff. Fewer than a quarter (23%) of employees said they felt supported by their employer with their responsibilities for caring for a loved one.
This was perhaps unsurprising, given that only 28% of managers said their organization had formal policies (政策) and practices in place to support these employees, argues health care distribution director Chris Horlick.
Some people all over the world enjoy an alcoholic drink, such as wine or beer, during dinner. Some people raise a glass of alcohol to celebrate a wedding or a birthday. And having drinks after work with friends and co-workers is called "happy hour". All these situations are considered "social drinking" because they happen at social events.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), alcohol abuse kills 3.3 million people each year. And in a new report on alcohol use around the world, the WHO says alcohol can create dependency, or addiction, in some people. The report also warns that alcohol use can increase the risk of developing more than 200 diseases, including some kinds of cancers. And, the WHO says alcohol abuse can put people at greater risk of infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, pneumonia and HIV.
WHO Mental Health and Substance Abuse Director Shekhar Saxene says the organization is concerned about drinking among young people between the ages 15 and 19. The report concludes that worldwide 16 percent of drinkers over the age of 15 engage in binge-drinking, which is much more harmful than other kinds of drinking and causes the most harm in terms of accidents, self-harm and harm to others.
High income countries have the highest prevalence (流行) of binge-drinking. The report finds that the highest rates of alcohol-linked deaths are in Europe. The report also finds Europe is the area with the highest alcohol use. Central and Eastern Europe are especially high.
These include increasing taxes on alcohol sales, raising the drinking age limit, and controlling the marketing of alcohol beverages.
A. So, how can we protect teenagers from alcohol abuse?
B. But when does "social drinking" become problem drinking?
C. WHO suggests ways countries can protect people from alcohol abuse.
D. This is followed by the West Pacific and then the Americans.
E. High income countries have the highest alcohol consumption.
F. That is six percent of all deaths around the world.
G. And it is more concerned about "binge-drinking"—an extended period of heavy drinking.
Alice is a student who came to my class last year. Though she has already turned 60, Alice looks so fit and1with a bright smile and an enthusiastic attitude. I am Alice's teacher in class, but I feel she is my teacher in life.
For my 2-hour class every Saturday morning, Alice has to take a 3-hour round trip. But she is never 2for class. Alice is very passionate about learning English. She often says, "Don't 3 me as a 60-year-old. I am just a new beginner who wants to learn anything 4. You know, I am very excited to come to the class!" So I feel a strong sense of5 to make sure what I teach makes sense to her.
Alice came to me only with very 6 English skills, but she turns out to be a very fast learner because she always puts English7 on a daily basis. I check her 8 before every class. It is usually not what I 9 for the class, but rather something that she 10 to put together. She makes various sentences using the important words and phrases she learned from our previous (先前的) class. I am always 11 by the quality of her homework.
I feel12 to have a student like Alice. She has 13 me so much. Our interaction is a great learning 14for both of us. Though I have no idea why she learns English, I hope I can help her 15 her dream, whatever it is.
Nowadays, the number of American teenagers reporting feelings of depression has grown significantly. A big new study suggests an (explain) — the rise of social media. With data (collect) from more than 50,000 American teenagers, researchers found that those who spent lots of time (read) social media posts were more likely to agree with remarks such as "The future often seems (hope)." Those who used screens less were less likely to report feelings of depression.
This, in fact, is not the first time that scientists (find) that social media can rob people of their happiness. One study published in 2016 asked a randomly selected group of adults to quit Facebook for a week. It turned out that they reported feeling less depressed at the end of the week than those who continued using it.
Some research, , suggests that social-networking sites can promote happiness if used (proper). This provides a reminder that it is users' attitude that have an effect their experiences on social media. Sarah, junior at a high school in Los Angeles says, "People only post what they want you to see, so it can seem that their life is better than (you). "But when asked if she has ever considered deleting her social media accounts, Sarah looks confused. "No. I would feel lost."
