Before traveling around the world, take some time and find out what sightseeing destinations are. Some of those spots that most guides mention are the following thrilling attractions.
Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls has always been considered to be an incredible place worth taking pictures of. There are a lot of spots that tourists love. Some of them are very dangerous for people. Yet the brave are ready to overcome their fear for a shot of a lifetime.
Arctic Cliff Face
A cliff does not make the most comfortable place for camping. Camping on the ground is far safer anyway. Despite all the inconvenience, the new trend is rapidly gaining popularity among climbing enthusiasts and outdoor addicts.
Auckland's Sky Tower
Auckland's Sky Tower is popular with bungee jumpers. Some celebrities, such as Beyonce, have already tried it, which proves that the place is not only safe but popular as well. The tower is 630 feet tall. At the top of the structure there is an observation deck(甲板). Trust us, most of those reading this article would prefer to stay on the ground rather than climb up this scary structure.
North Yungas Road
The Road of Death is the right name given to a road in Bolivia. Hundreds of people die here every year. The major cause of all those accidents is the road. The problem is that it is too narrow and badly maintained while here the traffic is heavier than anywhere else. Nevertheless, it seems like tourists will continue visiting this strange road despite its scary nickname.
Last Sunday morning, I was sitting on the sofa in my parent's living room. Before me on the tea table was a worn journal of thin and discolored pages. It was my grandfather's journal and now belongs to my father. My grandfather had passed away in the months leading up to my birth. I never got to visit the places he had frequented and the people who had been a part of his life's journey.
I was now about to enter his world, through the words he had left behind. Within minutes, I was captivated by the power of the written words. In the magical script before me, I was transported to another age when food was an everyday art, planned, prepared and enjoyed in the company of others, and a time when people had the heart to pause their own lives to embrace each other's struggles. All this was conveyed to me in the beauty of the words that flowed together to connect with the writer's mind and understand the world they lived in.
That kind of writing seems to be lost on us today. We have gotten used to writing in bite-sized pieces for a public looking for entertainment, and hungry for information. No wonder, there are nearly
200 million bloggers on the Internet and a new blog is created somewhere in the world every half a second. Instead of adding to our collective wisdom, most of these writings reflect the superficiality(肤 浅) and impatience of our day and age.
This not only robs us of the skill of writing impressive essays, it also prevents us from exploring what is indeed important. Writing humbles us in a way that is vital for our character growth, by reminding us about the limits of the self and our appropriate place in the vast flow of life.
Writing frees us by helping us explore the unknown so that we really open up to the magic of the world around us. I saw all of this in the writing of my grandfather. And I've seen it again and again in the writings of the greatest thinkers of humanity. Their writing reflects deep thought on issues of human importance.
Tourism is popular in the area around Taal Lake on Luzon Island in the Philippines, which is known for its natural beauty. Every year, travelers go there to see the scenery that surrounds Taal Volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in the country. It was quiet for years until January 12, 2020 when the volcano erupted. Since then, the cities surrounding the volcano have been covered with ash and many people are forced to leave home.
But the ash didn't stop the residents of Binan, a city that is 35 km south of Manilla, from finding a way to help their neighbors in the towns that suffered the most from Taal. Binan Mayor Walfredo Dimaguila ordered the city residents to collect the ash and to put it in sacks (麻袋) to be sent to the state-owned factory that can produce 5,000 bricks a day to turn it into bricks to use for rebuilding damaged communities.
"What we plan is to turn them into hollow blocks and bricks and sell them to interested companies," Dimaguila said. But he noted, the money would be donated to the people directly affected by the volcano. "When Batangas (the region where Taal is located) is in recovery, the bricks can not only be used to build schools, community halls and livelihood centers but also help deal with ash pollution for the earth," Dimaguila said. "The misfortune of our neighbors in Batangas is there. Let's transform this into opportunity. "
The Philippines, located in the Pacific "Ring of Fire: zone of fire" and part of the typhoon belt, is a country that is known for natural disasters like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and major storms. But the Filipino people show their strong will and community spirit.
It is a phenomenon known as the "first-night" effect that people often experience trouble sleeping in a different bed in unfamiliar surroundings. If a person stays in the same room the following night they tend to sleep more soundly. Yuka Sasaki and her colleagues at Brown University set out to investigate the origins of this effect.
Dr. Sasaki knew the first-night effect probably has something to do with how humans evolved(进化). The puzzle was what benefit would be gained from it when performance might be affected the following day. She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals put half of their brains to sleep at a time so that they can rest while remaining watchful enough to avoid predators (捕食者). This led her to wonder if people might be doing the same thing.
To take a closer look, her team studied 35 healthy people as they slept in the unfamiliar environment of the university's Department of Psychological Sciences. The participants each slept in the department for two nights and were carefully monitored with techniques that looked at the activity of their brains. Dr. Sasaki found, as expected, the participants slept less well on their first night than they did on their second, taking more than twice as long to fall asleep and sleeping less overall. During deep sleep, the participants' brains behaved in a similar manner seen in birds and dolphins. On the first night only, the left hemispheres (半球) of their brains did not sleep nearly as deeply as their right hemispheres did.
Curious if the left hemispheres were indeed remaining awake to process information detected in the surrounding environment, Dr. Sasaki re-ran the experiment while presenting the sleeping participants with a mix of regularly timed beeps (蜂鸣声) of the same tone and irregular beeps of a different tone during the night. She worked out that, if the left hemisphere was staying watchful to keep guard in a strange environment, then it would react to the irregular beeps by stirring people from sleep and would ignore the regularly timed ones. This is precisely what she found.
How to love your Mondays
I used to spend the second half of Sunday dreading (害怕) Monday morning. What a waste of a perfectly good evening! But now I am definitely in the "I Love Mondays" camp.
Start Monday morning with your Sunday night routine. When you get ready to exercise, you warm up first. Get everything you need for the morning ready to go. Then consider a special "Sunday Night Only" winding down ritual (固定收尾方式). It might be tea and a favorite TV show, or a long hot bath. Whatever it is, enjoy this Monday morning warm-up, and consider turning in a little earlier than you're used to.
Turning in a little early Sunday night can help with getting up a little early Monday morning. When you have a little extra time in the morning, you can gently settle into the day and keep that weekend feeling of ease as you start your new week.
Find a theme for the week. Every Monday, I post an inspiring quote or saying on the wall. These are intentional! Each week, as part of my Sunday night winding down time, I consider what I'd like to focus on in the coming week, and look for a quote that's a good fit to reinforce (加强) it.
Look at the week's tasks as opportunities instead of problems. What are you excited about for the new week? What's been hanging over your head undone from last week? Take a look at the week ahead and highlight a few things that you can reasonably accomplish.
When you are intentionally creating a life you love, Mondays begin to feel like a beautiful new start!
A. Here's what I've found that works:
B. Get up early enough to start slowly.
C. Consider Sunday nights your warm-up for Monday.
D. What problem-solving opportunities do you have?
E. Have them in clean, working order and a convenient location.
F. It can be a word or whatever inspires you for the week ahead.
G. The work is the same either way, but our attitudes are within our control.
Catherine is in the final year of her doctoral program in physical therapy (治疗), and determined
Lawrence McNutt, aged 73, is one of her patients. She's known he's had the 1 to get well again, so when he2while using his walker, she was sure he would be 3 to get right back up again.
However, the only problem wasn't that he 4 couldn't walk, but that he was using a walker that was too 5 for him. He needed a wider frame to 6 more stability for him, but walkers aren't cheap and insurance isn't always 7 with medical equipment.
Thanks to Catherine's efforts, Lawrence is 8 a new walker, completely free of charge!
How did she 9 it? She took it upon herself to use the power of social media. Now she is 10more senior citizens who need medical equipment like walkers, and wheelchairs. "These days, I've seen many 11 in our neighborhood, such as patients having broken brakes on their wheelchairs," she wrote on a social website and 12 some pictures to show the seriousness.
"This is all increasing their 13 of falls. People living in low-income areas like ours can't 14the necessary equipment. " She 15 people, friends and family members to donate their unused equipment or donate through her GoFundMe to help 16 them instead.
Since her initial request, she has already received17 responses and collected more than 50 pieces of medical18 for the patients.
Catherine has done such deeds even before 19 her program. With her 20 to her work, there's no telling how much more motivation she will put into the world!
With the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games (approach), our city government has recently launched series of activities aimed (popularize) ice and snow sports on campuses.
First of all, can arouse students' interest in ice and snow sports such as skating is held at schools. Besides, skills relevant ice and snow sports (teach) in PE classes. More happily, during the coming winter vacation, students are freely admitted to some ski resorts and outdoor ice rinks(溜冰场), they can enjoy themselves, practice and improve (they) skating and skiing skills. Not only will the activities promote ice and snow sports but they can help students to (strength) their bodies.
Anyone interested is (sincere) invited to join us and have fun on the ice and snow.
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．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Of all my teachers, Mr. Black is the one impresses me most. He is 34, so he looks young for his age. And he's one of the most popular teachers in our school. Mr. Black always pay more attention to his way of teaching, comparing with other teachers. He tries different ways to make his classes actively and lively. In his opinion, we should not only know "what", but also understand "why". So, instead of giving us answer immediately, he encourages us to think by ourselves every time when he puts forward questions. Under his help, we've learned how to solve problems. He leads us to so wonderful world of "why" that we all admire and respect her.
