There are about 100 beaches around the SydneyHarbor（港口）and along the coast. If you find it hard to pick the best destination, here are four waiting for you.
Freshwater Beach
Freshwater Beach is the location where surfing was first introduced to Australia in 1915. The beach is only 350 meters long and is a popular destination for surfers. The beach is protected and therefore provides a quiet swimming experience away from the hustle and bustle（喧嚣）of its busy neighboring beaches.
Bondi Beach
Bondi Beach, Australia's most famous beach, is more than 100 meters wide and over 3 kilometers long, which allows plenty of space for the large number of tourists and locals. On a sunny day every grain of sand is covered with bodies, with crowds pouring into nearby bars and cafes. Parking near the beach is impossible. It's also the perfect spot to see a sunset and the scene of family parties during summer.
Clovelly Beach
As one of the best options for surfing and exploring what hides beneath the water's surface, Clovelly, noted for its unique narrow bay between two rocky ridges（山脊）, is a popular destination for swimmers. It's a good base where you can check out diving routes through the waters, or take a coastal walk to Bondi.
Palm Beach
It's the scene of the long-running Home and Away TV series and endless celebrity spotting. A salt water lake affords great views, typical of beaches on the north side of the harbor. On a nice day, Palm Beach is a postcard-perfect sand destination.
Every April, I find myself troubled by the same concern—that spring might not occur this year. The landscape looks dull, with hills, sky and forest appearing gray. On May 3, 1 awoke to a green so amazing as to be almost electric, as if spring were simply a matter of pressing a switch. Hills, sky and forest revealed their purples, blues and green.
Then there was the old apple tree. It sits on an undeveloped lot in my neighborhood. It belongs to no one and therefore to everyone. The tree's dark branches stretch out in unpruned（未经修剪的）abandon.
Until last year, I thought I was the only one aware of this tree. And then one day, in a bit of spring madness, I set out to prune（修剪）a few disorderly branches. No sooner had I arrived under the tree than neighbors opened their windows and stepped onto their porches（门廊）.
These were people I barely knew, but it was as if I had come uninvited into their personal gardens. My mobile-home neighbor was the first to speak. "You're not going to cut it down, are you?" she asked anxiously.
Soon, half the neighborhood joined me under the apple tree. It struck me that I had lived there for five years and only now was learning these people's names, what they did for a living and how they passed the winter. It was as if the old apple tree was gathering us under its branches for the purpose of both acquaintanceship and shared wonder.
Just the other day, I saw one neighbor at the local store. He remarked how this recent winter had been especially long and complained of not having seen or spoken at length to anyone in our neighborhood. And then, he looked at me and said, "We need to prune that apple tree again. "
Air-conditioner's setting often forms the basis of office arguments between women and men regarding the "correct" temperature for it to be set. And it's a common debate between couples — the perfect temperature to keep both parties warm but not hot. Research does consistently show women prefer a higher indoor temperature to men. But is there any science backing up the widespread belief that women "feel the cold" more than men?
At around the same body weight, women tend to have less muscle to produce heat. Women also have more fat between the skin and the muscles, so the skin feels colder, as it's slightly further away from blood vessels.
Women also tend to have a lower metabolic（代谢）rate than men, which reduces heat production during cold exposure, making women more likely to feel cold as the temperature drops.
The hormones oestrogen and progesterone（雌激素和孕激素）, found in large quantities in women, contribute to the core body and skin temperatures. Oestrogen dilates（扩张）blood vessels at the extremities. This means more heat can be lost to the surrounding air. And progesterone can cause the vessels in the skin to narrow, meaning less blood will flow to some areas to keep the inner organs warmer, leaving women feeling cooler.
So how do we agree on the ideal temperature? The "Scandinavian sleep method", where couples sleep with separate blankets, is one way to overcome the differences in temperature preferences.
In the workplace, personal comfort systems are heat systems that can be locally positioned in individual work stations such as desktops, chairs, or near the feet and legs. Examples include small desk fans, heated chairs and blankets, or foot-warmers. These systems provide individualised comfort to meet personal needs without affecting others in the same space, and have been found to produce higher comfort satisfaction in the workplace. They may also be an energy-efficient method to balance warmth and health in office environments.
In a dark room, it may seem there will be little to detect in the darkness. However, a bird in the room will be able to pick up on the magnetic field（磁场）of the earth and will know which direction to fly if it is time to migrate（迁徙）. A snake will detect the presence of humans in the room by sensing their radiation. Each of these creatures could all be sharing exactly the same physical space and have a totally different experience of that space.
Each animal has access to its own sensory environment — called an "umwelt". "Umwelt" was popularized by a German biologist named Jakob von Uexküll. The word comes from the German for "environment", but Jakob von Uexküll wasn't using it to mean the physical environment. He meant the sensory environment, the unique set of smells, sights, sounds and textures that each animal has access to.
Humans can't sense the faint electric fields that sharks and ducks can, or the magnetic fields that robins and sea turtles detect. Our ears can't hear the call of rodents and hummingbirds, and our eyes can't see the light that birds and bees can sense. Our noses can't detect various odors（气味）that dogs would be able to smell.
So imagining the world as animals perceive it opens up a new appreciation for the everyday wonders of nature. If we think of nature as something remote and distant, accessible only to someone who can go to a national park, we lose the motivation to save and protect it.
Instead, we can go on an adventure just by thinking about the sensory world of the bird that sits on the house opposite us. Then nature would feel like something close. In that case, people will be more motivated to try and protect it. Protecting nature isn't just about saving whales or pandas, but about protecting things that are close to us.
Many people don't take much time for lunch or if they do, they eat at their desks while checking emails. But lunch breaks are more than just a time to eat a meal. Taking lunch breaks can make you more productive and reduce stress.
You may consider spending time in nature. Go outside! Even spending a short time in nature has a positive effect on your mood. Besides increasing your vitamin D, spending time in nature could help calm and relax you as well as helping to improve your immunity（免疫力）. So go outside and enjoy yourself in the sun.
A short exercise session will help you meet your fitness goals and give you an energy improvement. If your workplace has a gym or there is one nearby, keep a gym bag in your office so you have no excuse not to go. If not, you can take a walk. Just keep moving!
Reading can also be a good choice. So read a chapter of a good physical book. Not a reader? Listening to something also helps. You can listen to audiobooks to refresh yourself and relax. In short, take time to recharge your batteries for the rest of the day.
Eat mindfully. Good nutrition plays an important role in your physical and mental health. Make your lunch count by eating nutritious foods. Make an everyday eating plan for yourself. But stay away from sugar or caffeine because when the initial energy wears off, it will leave you tired and unproductive.
A. You can try a lunchtime workout
B. It makes you learned and less stressed.
C. Nothing can take effect better than that.
D. Read to find more benefits of lunch breaks.
E. So take time to do something good for yourself.
F. It will keep your body and brain conscious of careful eating.
G. Find a park or other green space nearby and eat your lunch there.
There are some disabled people in the world who fight an unseen battle within themselves every day. They never cry or 1 but with a big smile on their face. I call such people 2 because they know the art of living life.
About nine years ago, I was in a car accident. The driver slept, and the car fell in the ditch As a result, I suffered 3 injuries: the radius and ulna（挠骨和尺骨）of my right arm were 4 : the lungs and livers were badly injured. But what changed me and my life 5 was the injury of spine（脊柱）. Many people came to 6 me. They did try to find an ambulance but 7 . So I was thrown in the back of a jeep and 8 to the nearby hospital, where I went through three major and two minor 9 .
The days I spent in the hospital were 10 . I was in severe pain, especially psychologically. I was11 with wearing the hospital gown, lying in the ward and looking at the white walls. I was so12 that I felt life was pointless and 13 . But then I realized instead of crying for what I had lost, I was going to fight against my fate. Thus, there came the best14 that I took in my entire life—painting, a magic way to color my life.
That's how this experience helped me in 15 an artist in me. So be grateful, be alive, and live every moment.
The Dragon-Head-Raising Festival falls on the second day of the second lunar month every year, the dragon wakes up from its winter hibernation（冬眠）and after the day, rainfall increases.
Traditionally, the dragon is believed to be charge of bringing rain, which is an important factor in ancient agriculture society. Legend has it one year a drought struck a village. Blue Dragon, having compassion for people, gave them some rain without permission. To punish the Dragon, the Jade Emperor imprisoned it in a mountain and said he would never release it gold beans bloomed. clever villager found that com kernels（玉米粒）were golden like soy beans and more (important), they could bloom when (roast). Then the man led all the villagers to worship the Jade Emperor with bloomed com kernels. To keep his word, the Jade Emperor had to release the Dragon on the second day of the second Chinese lunar month. Since then, the Dragon-Head-Raising Festival (celebrate) in various ways in China to show (admire) for the Dragon. The most famous traditions getting a haircut, (mean) getting rid of bad luck.
When I was little, I used to walk with my grandmother on a quiet and small road across which she and my grandfather lived. My grandfather rarely joined us. He was a seemingly strict man, an ex-soldier who. usually held back his emotions, especially his affection（喜爱）. He wasn't a man who hugged me often when I was a child, but I had never doubted his love for me.
Grandma and I would walk, hand in hand, moving at an equal pace. The sun would be shining; the birds would be singing. We would chat about this and that, or just walk in silence, enjoying the outdoors and each other's company. Yet, for me, these times were not just a chance to get some exercise or be with my grandmother, though both were important. These walks were treasure hunts.
More often than not, at the road's edge, there would be money. Not lots of it — I cent here, 5 cents there. Sometimes, on really lucky days, I'd find 10 cents or even 25. I'd pick up these coins, proudly show Grandma and joyfully put them into my pockets. Some days, I wouldn't find anything. "Maybe next time, " my grandmother would say. Other days, I'd come back from our walk with more than twenty-five cents to put in my piggy bank, or to buy candies — a treat for a six-year-old child.
Looking back now, it wasn't even the money that was such a big deal; it was the joy of discovery. It was the hope of finding something small left or forgotten along the side of the road. It made me feel so lucky and so special. Yet, it wasn't until years later, when I was in my late twenties, that the simple memory meant much more to me than simply the happiness of a child. It was my mother who told me the secret which brought a whole new meaning to my experience.
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"Remember when you used to walk with Grandma and find money?" Mother asked.
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Now, I would do the same thing my grandfather did.
