Choose Your One-Day Tours!
Tour A — Bath & Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge — ￡37 until 26 March and ￡39 thereafter.
Visit the city with over 2, 000 years of history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum. Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5, 000 years.
Tour B— Oxford & Stratford including entrance fees to the University St Mary's Church Tower and Anne Hathaway's house — ￡32 until 12 March and ￡36 thereafter.
Oxford: Includes a guided tour of England's oldest university city and colleges. Look over the "city of dreaming spires (尖顶)" from St Mary's Church Tower.
Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder.
Tour C— Windsor Castle & Hampton Court including entrance fees to Hampton Court Palace — ￡34 until 11 March and ￡37 thereafter.
Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, HenryⅧ's favourite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle (entrance fees not included). With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former royal palace is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze (迷宫) where it is easy to get lost!
Tour D— Cambridge including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great — ￡33 until 18 March and ￡37 thereafter.
Includes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18th century.
Getting around in Canada is fairly easy. Most cities have urban transportation systems, including buses, streetcars, and trains, and some of the larger cities also have subways.
You can board these systems at regular stops along their routes. Some let you pay with cash; others require tickets. If you don't have a ticket for the bus, you must pay with the right amount of money. This is because the driver does not carry any change. Once you get settled, you may want to buy a monthly pass or a package of tickets to save money. You can buy subway tickets at the subway station.
If you have to take several buses or the subway for a single trip, you do not need to pay any money each time. Simply ask the driver for a transfer, or pick one up from the machines on the subway platform.
If you are not sure where to board the bus or the streetcar, just ask someone, or follow the crowd. It's usually at the front of the bus, where you show your pass to the driver. When using public transportation, Canadians line up. First come, first served, is a common approach to many activities in Canada.
Maps of routes and schedules are usually available from the public transit company in your area, and there may also be a telephone information line. You may want to ask someone for the name of the transit company where you live, and then look it up in your telephone book.
From this September, the new policy on students' sleeping time set by the Ministry of Education has been officially carried out nationwide. According to the new policy, the first class in the morning at primary schools is not supposed to be earlier than 8:20, and that of high schools no earlier than 8:00. Schools are also not able to require students to come in before class for any learning activities. If possible, schools must also guarantee nap time during lunch break for students. The new policy shows the importance the government attaches to students' health.
Deng Mengyu, a high school English teacher from Shenzhen Hongshan Middle School, said that their school already put some measures into effect to make sure that students are well rested and using their time effectively. "We encourage students to manage their morning time by themselves instead of sitting in the classroom," she said. Some students need more sleep while others prefer doing exercise to start the day. So the school's dormitories open doors at 6:00. At noon, students will have a one-hour nap time, ensuring that they can learn effectively in the afternoon.
Zheng Xiaowan, a high school student also from Shenzhen Hongshan Middle School, supports this policy. She believes that the quality of studying is not necessarily related to the length of time spent on it. "When well rested, students' psychological burden will be reduced accordingly, and they will be more ready for study tasks," she said.
Meanwhile, there are also voices expressing concerns. "The new policy is a challenge to our self-discipline", said Zhang Fuyue from Chaoyang No 2 High School, Liaoning province. "More sleeping time can lead to oversleeping in the morning or staying up late at night."
The intention of the policy is obviously positive. With efforts from both schools and students, the policy can lead to expected results.
If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like "Shakespeare" "Samuel Johnson" and "Webster", but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn't even speak English-William the Conqueror.
Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic. In the rest of the country lived the Saxons, actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons, and other Germanic and Nordic peoples, who spoke what we now call Anglo-Saxon or Old English, a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be close to German.
But this state of affairs did not last. In 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over England. For about a century, French became the official language of England while Old English became the language of peasants. As a result, English words of politics and the law come from French rather than German. In some cases, modern English even shows a distinction (区别) between upper-class French and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words. We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating. When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more "foreign" than France because the German they see on signs and advertisements seems much more different from English than French does. Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one man's ambition.
Summer is the season of family travel. Here are our top 5 things to teach your children before entering big crowds：
How Far They Can Go— For young children, you should set a rule of always holding a parent's hand. For older kids, you may be comfortable with a "I can always see you and you can always see me" rule.
To Call Your Real Name—Teach your children that you will find them, so it's best if they stay in one place. What's more, teach them to call out your full name instead of "Mummy" or "Daddy" to help you more easily find them.
How to Identify a "Safe Person"—Make sure your children know the best people to approach if they get separated from you. Employees working at the place you're visiting are generally "safe people". But what about places that may not have employees, like the beach? Experts say that mums are often the most willing and best equipped people to help kids.
What to Say— Remember that if your children do get separated from you, they will likely be panicked(恐慌), so don't assume that they will know how to tell strangers that they are lost. Roleplay getting lost and using simple sentences like" I am lost" with your kids to help them know what to do if it actually happens.
Their Personal Information—Make sure your children know as much basic personal information as possible, including their full names, parents' full names and telephone numbers and the address.
A. Teach your children to look for a mum with kids.
B. Sometimes it's not hard to find a safe person in such places.
C. But do your kids know what to do if they get separated from you?
D. If your kids are too young to remember them，write them down!
E. It can be hard for people to help a lost child.
F. Tell your children to behave normally when they get lost.
G. It's important to talk with your children about how close you expect them to stay to you.
I was born legally blind. Of all the stories of my early childhood，the one about a 1 is my mother's favourite.
I was only two when the 2 occurred. We had just arrived home from a trip. Mom lifted me out of the car and 3 to speak to the driver. I took advantage of my brief 4 to dash across the lawn (草坪)—and hit a large maple tree! I was running so fast that I bounced off the trunk and 5 on my backside. Mom 6 me to start crying, but I just sat there for a minute. Then I 7 myself up and kept right on going. Mom always adds here that, as many times as I 8 across the lawn after that，I never again 9 into that tree.
Mom loves to use this story as an 10. It reminds her that children don't enter life afraid to take risks or unwilling to 11 again when they fall down. She never wanted me to lose that 12 as I grew older. When I made my major life decisions, I was still that little girl tearing fullspeed across the lawn. I studied abroad and later moved away from my parents' home to look for a 13. Through years of 14 ， I have become a respected teacher in a school serving highneed students.
We are almost certain to get 15 at some point during the process of achieving our goal. When that happens，don't sit in the grass and cry. Just get up and keep on going. It will all be worth it in the end.
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We've all heard that breakfast is the (important) meal in the day. It may actually be true. Recently，a study of more than 50，000 adults aged 30 and older (find) that people who have breakfast are more likely to lose (weigh) than those who don't eat a morning meal. Other studies connect not eating breakfast a higher risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and so on.
However, it's not just when you eat that matters, but you eat also matters. (keep) fit，you should have a balanced diet with protein, fiber and healthy fats, which is the key to a satisfying nutritious breakfast. If you want to keep (you) from being hungry later of the day, you'd better eat within 90 minutes after waking up. Also, coffee drunk on an empty stomach is not recommended because it can be (harm) to your body.
There is an old saying that advises "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a beggar". It is worth (follow).
