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Looney Tunes Carnival
Free Looney Tunes Umbrella Receive a limited edition Looney Tunes umbrella with a minimum spend of $ 100 (single or accumulated same-day receipts) at our participating malls (商场) from now till 27th March, 2018. Looney Tunes Merchandise Fair
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Easter celebration at POPULAR Bookstore!
Shoppers who purchase $ 15 worth of Warner Bros. Books and stationery at POPULAR are entitled to a FREE participation in any one of the following activities from 25 till 27th March. So come to Compass Point fast!
Activities in store for you
Bugs' Creative Class
(1st session: 3pm & 2nd session: 3:30 pm)
Twist and turn a balloon into a piece of art! So kids, get ready for the twist! Limited to 15 children per session.
Paint a Bunny Easter Egg
(1st session: 5pm & 2nd session: 5:30 pm)
Easter is the time to have extraordinary fun with eggs! Kids, get your hands ready to create works of Easter art on an egg canvas (帆布). Limited to 25 children per session.
Kids Squad Club
Become a Kids Squad member for just $ 12 for a one-year membership. Receive a goodie bag worth $ 30. Enjoy quarterly newsletters, birthday treats and special discounts.
The first 100 new members who sign up at each mall will receive an additional $ 5 Shopping Voucher.
Yue-Sai Kan was born in 1946 in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, and grew up in Hong Kong. In 1968, while majoring in piano at the Hawaii campus of Brigham Young University, Kan entered a beauty contest sponsored by the local Chinese Chamber of Commerce. She won second place, and as a result got to travel around the world. The life-changing experience marked the beginning of her career in fashion, beauty, communication and cultural exchange.
In 1972, she moved to New York and created the weekly television series Looking East, the first of its kind to introduce Asian cultures and customs to a growing US audience. In 1986, Kan returned to China, producing and hosting the television series One World, which was the first show ever hosted by a Chinese-American on the television network, and was a national hit. Other important projects of hers include the ABC documentary China: Walls and Bridges, which initially explored different forms of spirituality in the country over the ages.
"I worked in China for almost 40 years, and I was there to witness and contribute to the country's breakneck pace of change. This rare experience has given me a unique vision. As I say all the time, if I stay away from China for six months, I already miss so much of what is happening there! The Chinese saying "a year—small change, three years—big change has held true all this time," Kan says.
Kan has never stopped doing what she loves. She is currently planning to do a 10-part television series exploring and highlighting the most interesting aspects of 10 Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu. "I firmly believe that a TV series featuring these major Chinese cities is not only timely, but also necessary to educate, enlighten and entertain by showcasing the Chinese people as they live today. This will help dispel some of the misunderstandings about China in the world," Kan says.
Throughout her life, Kan has also been deeply involved in charity. On Jan 26, she is planning to host a major charity event in San Francisco, in which she will honor 12 of the most outstanding Chinese-American women.
Chinese elements are seen everywhere at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, from stadium construction and brand marketing to mascot manufacturing (制造), providing strong support for the grand football event.
The golden-bowl shaped stadium is located 15 kilometers north of Doha, capital of Qatar. Serving as the largest sporting venue in Qatar, it hosts important matches. To make the football pitch (场地)and the audience area cooler and more comfortable, independent cooling stations were built outside the stadium, sending cool breezes into the stadium. Hassan Al Thawadi said the complex structure proves the great skills and service ability of Chinese firms, adding that those who watch the games in the venue should be grateful to Chinese engineers and constructors.
In 2020, Chinese manufacturer Yutong was selected to provide service vehicles for the Qatar World Cup. The company equipped its buses with a device that protects the motors from sand and mud, employed liquid-cooling power batteries and adopted an intelligent temperature control in the buses. It is reported that Qatar has imported 1,500 buses from China, including 888 electric ones to meet the transportation demand. It marked the first time for a major global sports event to use Chinese new energy buses in such large quantities.
In a desert 80 kilometers west of Doha, there is a vast photovoltaic (PV) power station with a total area equal to 1,400 standard football pitches. Built by the PowerChina Guizhou Engineering Co., Ltd., the 800 MW Al Kharsaah Solar Power Plant has over 2 million PV panels that are able to generate 1.8 billion kilowatt hours of clean electricity for Qatar each year. It can supply around 300,000 local households and mainly reduce 900,000 tons of CO2 emissions on an annual basis.
More Chinese elements can be seen both on and off the field in Qatar. The appearance of referees Ma Ning, Shi Xiang and Cao Yi marks the first time in the recent 20 years for Chinese referees to judge World Cup games.
Today we know Antarctica as an extreme environment containing ice and snow. But new research provides evidence that the area was very different in the past.
The evidence was found inside a piece of earth sediment(沉积物) collected by researchers from a depth of about 30 meters below the ocean floor off the coast of Antarctica. In the sediment, they found forest soil estimated to be about 90 million years old. This would have been in the Cretaceous Period, when dinosaurs were the main land animals.
Johann Klages is a geologist, working in the Institute's Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. He said an examination showed that the material formed on land, not in the ocean.
The researchers estimate that the area – about 900 kilometers from the South Pole – had average yearly temperatures of about 12 to 13 degrees Celsius. During the warmest summer months, average temperatures likely reached between 20 to 25 degrees Celsius. The average yearly temperature in that area is about 40 degrees below zero Celsius.
The examination results showed "a dense network of roots that spread through the entire soil layer," the Helmholtz Center said in a statement.
The dark brownish-gray soil included fine dirt particles and hard clay, as well as substances linked to at least 65 different kinds of plants, the study found. Klages put that the plants included trees, ferns and flowering plants and while no animal remains were found, there were likely dinosaurs, flying reptiles and many insects in the environment.
The researchers said that the rainforest environment in Antarctica was especially surprising because each year, the area experiences a four-month polar night when there is no sunlight to fuel plant life.
How to Solve Worry Problems
The Great Nobel Prize winner in medicine, Dr. Alexis Carrel once said, "Businessmen who do not know how to fight worry die young." Then how can we find a quick, surefire recipe for handling worry situations? Here are a few basic steps to deal with different kinds of worries.
Get the facts
Why is it so important to get the facts? Because unless we have the facts, we can't possibly even attempt to solve our problems intelligently. This is the chief cause of worry. Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision. If a man will devote his time to securing facts in an objective way, his worries usually disappear in the light of knowledge.
Analyze the facts.
However, getting all the facts in the world won't do any good until we figure out what these facts mean and interpret them. In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision. Therefore, when we are worried, sit down and write down two questions-and the answers to these questions, "What am I worrying about?" and "What can I do about it?"
Arrive at a decision
Worry is killing. So we will probably save our life by sitting down and writing out all the various steps, we could take and then writing down the probable results of each step and calmly coming to a decision. It is the failure to reach a definite decision that drives men mad.
Act on that decision
Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate and retrace our steps. Don't lose ourselves in self-doubting which causes other doubts. Don't look back our shoulders.
A. Write down our worries.
B. There comes a time when we must decide.
C. Once we have made a decision, go into action.
D. Without the facts, we will be left in confusion.
E. And so do housewives, horse doctors and bricklayers.
F. It is much easier to achieve this after writing them down.
G. Experience has proved the enormous value of arriving at a fixed decision.
"It's time to wake up, Catherine," my mom sang from the kitchen. I tried to open my eyes. Why didn't the alarm on my cellphone 1? Soon, I sighed and realized today was the day for my 2: "A day without technology."
I didn't realize what I had gotten myself into until I was driving to school in my car in 3. No radio blasting my favorite songs, I had to sing to myself. The instant I got to school, I went to the library to print out my English project from my flash drive. "Uh-oh," I thought. "This isn't 4." The school day went on and I finally grew 5 the rule. This wasn't so6! I could do this every day.
I drove home in silence again, and my 7 eventually went into after-school mode,8 on what I would eat for supper and who would be voted off (淘汰出局) American Idol later that night. The next thing I knew, I was chatting with friends on Facebook, checking emails and watching a video on YouTube, all at the same time!
My mom walked in and her jaw 9. "What happened to no 10?" she asked me. I 11 for the second time that day and forced myself to go back to reality. I had failed.
This experiment, which many teenagers would 12 have the courage to attempt, was actually 13 to me. Even though my attempt at going about my day without these luxuries (奢侈品) was a 14, I realized that if I really tried, I would be completely 15 without my addiction to technology. We may even 16 we like talking to our families instead of watching TV. We might 17 a bicycle ride or a walk to the park instead of looking at pages and pages of Facebook pictures.
These devices 18 make my life easier, and I definitely wouldn't 19 getting rid of them altogether, but I do believe the lives of today's teenagers would be dramatically 20 without our tech dependence.
Mount Emei,(locate) in the southwest of Sichuan Province, is an ancient and famous attraction in China.
Three million years ago, the main part of Mount Emei(rise) sharply along a fault line here. Due to a complex combination of erosion (侵蚀) and weathering，a massive(high) difference of over 2, 600 meters was formed between today's mountain top and the Emei Plain. The Summit of Ten Thousand Buddhas, an altitude of 3, 099 meters, is the highest peak of Mount Emei. In a commanding position, The Golden Summit with the biggest concentration of temples and scenic spots on Mount Emei(call) the largest and highest place of worship of Chinese Buddhism in the world.
The Buddha statue of Samantabhadra, (measure) 48 meters high, is the highest golden Buddha in the world. The ten heads of the Buddha statue are divided into three layers, each with different expressions, represent the ten mentalities of ordinary people. The Golden Summit is also the most suitable place(appreciate)the impressive Mount Emei "Sea of Clouds. "
(incredible), the 72 peaks of Mount Emei are mostly over 2, 000 meters above sea level. The scenery features high peaks a love the clouds and white mist. Formed by ever-changing mist and fog, they presentunique full view. Now Mount Emei has become a famous scenic spot in the world.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及修改均仅限一词。
2．只允许修改 10 处，多者(从第 11 处起)不计分。
It's been two years when I joined the campus radio station. During this time, I had done several interviews. Every time I finish to writing an article, I am proud of myself for able to introduce the things I've seen to my schoolmates. It was difficult at times, but when I saw my stories publish in our school newspaper, you knew that it was something worth doing. My parents, teachers and schoolmates congratulated me on that I did. I felt happily when I shared a new story with them. The greatest thing about being the reporter is exchanging idea with others.
