Walter Peak High Country Farm on the western shores of Lake Wakatipu is famous in history. Its sheltered bays were used as camping sites by Maori travelling to the Mararoa and Oreti Rivers on Moa hunting and gathering expeditions.
Things to do
Situated on picturesque Lake Wakatipu's western shores, the farm is the perfect place to spend a few relaxing hours. The Farm Tour itself is a wonderful experience for the whole family, with something to keep everyone entertained and happy. Our rural host will meet you after you leave the steamboat and take you for a walking tour of the farmyard. The first stop is the holding to help feed the sheep and deer, and even get up close to the Scottish highland cattle. Then walk slowly through the lakeside gardens to the charming Colonel's Homestead for morning or afternoon tea. Afterwards the farmer will lead you over to the shearing shed （剪羊毛棚）where you can watch the farm dogs rounding up sheep on the hills, and see the farmer cut the wool off a sheep. You will then board the steamboat for your cruise back to Queenstown.
Ticket Information
Child Ticket $ 22.00
Adult Ticket $ 77.00
Visitor Information
Opening Time: 10 a. m.
Closing Time: 4 p. m.
Additional Information
All tickets purchased at MyFun must make a booking at+64-3441-8166. Please mention your MyFun barcode (条形码) number when making your booking. Please print out your voucher (收据) and take along with you to the attraction. Tickets are valid for 12 months from the date of purchase.
A British friend told me he couldn't understand why Chinese people love eating sunflower seeds (嗑瓜子) as a snack so much. "I've met a lot of older Chinese and many have a crack in their front teeth, I believe that's from cracking the seeds," he said.
I had never noticed the habit, but once he mentioned it, I suddenly became more aware. I realized that whenever I'm watching TV or typing a report, I always start mindlessly cracking sunflower seeds. My friend doesn't like sunflower seeds, and, to him, it seems unnecessary to work so much just to get one small seed.
When we were young, the whole family would usually get together for Chinese New Year. Then, we all lived close to one another, usually in a small city, and sometimes even neighbors would go door-to-door on Chinese New Year's Eve to check out what every household was making.
I remember my parents would be in the kitchen cooking. Out in the living room, a large table would already be laid out, complete with fancy tablecloth, ready-made dumpling fillings, and dishes full of candy, fruits and sunflower seeds. Some of the dishes were to be offered to our ancestors later, while others were for neighbors and children to eat before the evening feast. I must have learned how to crack sunflower seeds back then.
I don't think it's right to criticize one's choice in food or eating habits, no matter how strange they may seem.
It's not only in China. When I went abroad, I found people had all sorts of strange habits when it came to food. In Denmark, they put salted red fish on bread and eat it for dinner, no matter how much it ruins your breath. They think it's。delicacy (美味佳肴), and it's connected to their certain culture. I think it's a wonderful tradition.
"Do not tell anyone". We often hear these words when someone tells us a secret. But keeping a secret is hard. We're often tempted (引诱) to "spill the beans", even if we regret it later.
According to the professor, Asim Shah, keeping a secret may well "become a burden". This is because people often have an "eager and anxious urge (冲动) to share it with someone". An earlier study, led by Anita, a scientist at the University of Notre Dame, US, suggested that keeping a secret could cause stress. People entrusted (托付) with secrets can suffer from depression, anxiety, and body aches, reported the Daily Mail.
Secrets are so often getting out. Why do people share them at all? Shah explained that people often feel that it will help them keep a person as a friend. Another reason people share secrets is guilt over keeping it from someone close to them. A sense of distrust can develop when people who are close do not share it with each other. "Keeping or sharing secrets often puts people in a position of either gaining or losing the trust of someone, "according to Shah.
He added that talkative people could let secrets slip out. But this doesn't mean that it is a good idea only to share secrets with quiet people. A quiet person may be someone who keeps everything inside. To tell such a person a secret may cause them stress, and make them talk about the secret.
Shah said that to judge whether to tell someone a secret, you'd better put yourself in their position, Think about how you would feel to be told that you mustn't give the information away. Shah also recommended that if you accidentally give up someone's secret you should come clean about it. Let the person know that their secret isn't so secret anymore.
Global warming is the increase of the earth's average surface temperature due to the effect of greenhouse gases, for example, carbon dioxide, which traps heat that would otherwise escape from the earth. After the trees are cut down and more greenhouse gases are released. the "blanket" around the earth called the ozone layer (臭氧层) , will get thicker. This catches more heat and makes the earth hotter. Luckily, there are many things that every citizen of the earth can do to help reduce the effects of global warming, and it's never too late or too early for children to take action.
The children should learn what a carbon footprint is. A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon and greenhouse gases people make as they lead the daily life and go about the normal activities. In other words, the carbon footprint is a measure of the environmental impact (冲击) the life has. To live an environmentally friendly life that doesn't contribute to global warming, people-want to have the smallest carbon footprint possible.
Almost everything people do contributes to global warming and is related to fossil fuel consumption. These can be direct uses of fossil fuels, like riding in a gasoline-powered car, or indirect contributions to greenhouse gases, such as eating fruits or vegetables that have to be shipped from far way to reach their tables.
If a child wants to make a contribution to reducing global warming, he should ride a bicycle to the near park, school, his friend's house, or anywhere else instead of taking the car. Or he may try to walk or jog, which is also helpful. In addition, although trains and buses often run on fossil fuels, on average, each person uses less energy and produces less pollution to run. Next time if children with their parents have to get around town or it's too far to walk or bike, take the bus or other public transportation instead of asking for a ride.
Who would win in a fight, a lion or a tiger? Well, if size has anything to do with the matter, the tiger would win. That's because tigers are the largest of all cat species. Tigers are not only large, they are also fast. They can dash as fast as 40 miles per hour for short distances and leap as far as 30 feet.
At the start of the 20th century, there were over 100,000 tigers living in the wild. By the turn of the century, the number of tigers outside of catch decreased to just over 3, 000. Interestingly, the most serious threats that tigers face come from a much smaller species, one with an average weight of around 140 lbs. That species is Homo sapiens, better known as humans.
Tigers are hunted for many reasons.Though trading tiger skins is now illegal in most parts of the world, tiger furs are worth around $10, 000 on the black market. Though the fur would be incentive (刺激) enough for most hunters, other parts of the tiger can also fetch a pretty penny. Some people in China and other Asian cultures believe that various tiger parts have cure function. Traditional Chinese medicine calls for the use of tiger bones, among other parts, to cure some disease.
Tigers have also been hunted as a game.Such killings took place in a large scale during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when an English hunter might demand to kill over a hundred tigers in their hunting career. Though this practice is much less popular today than it was in the past, it has not stopped entirely.
Humans have done great damage to the world's tiger population through hunting, but perhaps more damage has been caused through the destruction of habitat. Tigers once ranged widely across Asia, all the way from Turkey to the eastern coast of Russia.The tiger population is now isolated in small pockets in southern and southeastern Asia. This is because humans have heavily changed the environments. Humans have built towns and cities. Road and transport systems were created to connect these towns and cities. To feed the people living in these areas, forests and fields have been cleared to create farmland. A major difficulty to preserving tigers is the large amount of territory（领土，领域）that each tiger requires. Each wild tiger demands between 200 and 300 square miles. Because tigers need so much territory, it is really difficult to acquire enough land to support a large population of tigers.
A. Though humans have done great harm to tigers.
B. A lion is not as large as a tiger but runs faster than it.
C. People have long valued the famous striped (有条纹的) skins.
D. But over the past 100 years, tigers have lost 93% of their historic range.
E. Humans threaten tigers in primarily two ways：hunting and destroying habitat.
F. In other words, people hunted tigers only for the thrill and achievement of killing them.
G. You may not think that such large, fast, and fierce tigers need help to survive, but they do.
Sometimes people and things around you can remind you of yourself. I was1to my writing group with a book to read on the journey. Because it was an old book I didn't want to "dog-ear" the pages. I2in my pockets for something to use as a bookmark. I placed a ten pound note between the3.
Sitting on the bus I took the book out and was about to read but a young woman behind me who was speaking on her cellphone drew my4. She was talking to her brother. She wanted to know where he was, why he wasn't where he was5to be, why he had6their mother again and whether he knew that their mum had7in tears that morning because of him.
She kept it quiet but she didn't pull any punches (留情) with him. She let him know exactly what she8him but I could9there was love under all the10. She tried so hard to11this young man to come see his mother, but I got the sign she was fighting a12battle.
When she left the bus, I13behind her and14out the note in the book. "Excuse me," I said. "Do me a15, would you? Take this money and buy your16a box of chocolates or a bunch of flowers. And tell her a17man said that being a mother is the18but most important job in the world."
Then I turned around and walked on,19if in some way I was saying a thank you to my own mum. But I hoped I had raised a20on the face of a mother suffering for her child.
Today our knowledge of food and what it does for our bodies is far more advancedthat of the old times. Now we know about lots of vitaminshelp us in the growth of a particular part of our body. There are on the market all kinds of vitamins which one can take (make) up for one's lack of certain important things. Of course, if we eat properly, the food that we eat will take care of (we) bodies and so there is no need to take any kinds of vitamins.
Generally (speak), everything we eat (do) some good to our body, but if we eat too much of one kind of food and pay too little attention to others, we may have too much of one kind and not enough of others. Then we may be in trouble. We are often told that we must eat some meat at each meal in order to get the necessary proteins (蛋白质). That is only (part) true, for proteins are not found only in meat. They can also be got from some (vegetable). The (good) advice about what to eat is that we should eat all kinds of foodnever too much of any.
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Hello, Jane. I want to tell you something about your trip. Yesterday it was sun and a little windy. I went a park for a trip with my classmates. Since the park is far away, so we took a bus to arrive there. How beautiful a park was! We swam in the pool and then play volleyball. We took a lot of food and ate it for lunch under a big tree. Then we listened to beautifully music and had a rest. On the afternoon, we went fish and took lots of photos. Both of us had a great time in the park.
