Four Best of British markets
Whether you're looking for antiques, food, collectors' items or just random junk, our rich heritage has produced some of the finest markets in the world. Here are four of them.
Edinburgh Farmers' Market
Traders in Edinburgh have long sold their goods in the shadow of the city's spectacular castle. It takes place on Castle Terrace every Saturday and attracts a huge crowd with its locally sourced goods. The market is now in its 15th year and champions the very best in Scottish produce.
Billingsgate Fish Market
This hub in the heart of the East End of London is the biggest inland market in Britain. Dating back to the 16th century, Billingsgate is now served by almost every UK port, with fish transported through the night to arrive for trading, which starts at 4 a. m. . It is famed for shifting 25, 000 tons of fish each year.
St George's Market
Follow your nose along May Street in Belfast and the smells of delicious home-made food from across the globe will land you in St George's Market, once voted the best in the UK. Completed in 1896 and featuring tasty food, the trading place is also one of Belfast's oldest attractions, thanks to its wide range of goods and live music performances.
Ford Airfield Market
Looking for an old-style prosthetic leg, a ventriloquist's dummy, or even a suit of armour?The chances are you'll find what you're after - and plenty of other random stuff - at one of the hundreds of stalls here in West Sussex. Huge car-boot sales（旧货市场）are held at the weekends all year round, come rain or shine. The market has been running for 25 years and is a well-known treasure trove for antiques experts looking for a bargain.
An American teacher who helped make college education accessible to low-income, immigrant, first-generation American, and refugee pupils has won the ＄1 million Global Teacher Prize. Keishia Thorpe, an English teacher in Maryland, was selected from more than 8, 000 teacher in 121 countries.
"As a young girl from the circumstances that I come from, I would never have thought something like this would ever happen to me. I'm speechless, I'm overjoyed, I'm amazed. This is just an extraordinary achievement for me, " Ms. Thorpe said.
Ms. Thorpe teaches English to 12th-graders at the International High School Langley Park, where 95 percent of pupils are from low-income families. She redesigned their courses for the English department to make it culturally relevant to her pupils who are from mostly Africa, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and South America. Since then, her English language learners have shown a 40 percent increase in their reading.
Ms. Thorpe spent a lot of time encouraging her pupils to apply for college and helped them with their applications and accessing fully-funded scholarships. She helped her senior pupils in 2018-2019 win more than ＄6. 7 million in scholarships to 11 colleges, with most of them not having to pay for their education.
She plans to use the prize money to give less well-off pupils an opportunity of receiving a third level education. "Every person deserves the right to education and I want to be that person who champions that for them. I plan to use the money to help students worldwide access higher education, " she said. "Students are the reason I'm here, so I plan to use that to promote them and create a better future for them. "
Organized by UNESCO and first awarded in 2015, the Global Teacher Prize is an annual award to a teacher who has made a vast difference to the profession. The winner of this year was announced at a virtual ceremony in Paris on November 10th, 2021.
With nearly a quarter of global greenhouse gas coming from all types of transportation, can we keep ourselves off gas-powered vehicles to avoid the worst effects? As more governments push for urgent action on climate change, quite a few companies are betting their future - that millions of consumers are finally ready for electricity-powered vehicles. Modern battery-powered cars are selling fast and zero- emission（排放）planes are coming. These changes, both leading to a more sustainable future, are reinventing how we get from here to there.
Cars and trucks are undergoing their greatest improvement since the automobile's（汽车）existence more than a century ago. Almost overnight, the era of the electric car has arrived. Electricity has the advantage that it works without smell and with less noise. Global annual sales of electric vehicles are expected to soar from just over 3 million today to 14 million by 2025. Just a month after Ford unveiled an electric version of the popular F-150, customers had reserved more than 100, 000 of them. The price is about ＄10, 000 above the gas-powered one, but Ford says the electric model will cost much less to maintain. Everything creating a green revolution on the ground is of limited help in the sky for the time being.
High-storage batteries are useless at present when it comes to the technological challenge of launching a few hundred people into the sky and carrying them thousands of miles. No battery yet invented can power, say, a Boeing 747 from New York to London. Promising improvements, however, do add up. Developments with zero-emission, battery-powered electric engines are already happening in commercial flight, involving trips of limited duration and distance. Airlines specializing in short journeys with small planes will lead the way to electric flight.
Our planet's health depends on zeroing out carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, and yet, by the timetable needed to address the climate challenge, the shift away from gas-powered vehicles remains far too slow. Nevertheless, the train has left the station. Someday, electric-powered transportation will be as common as air.
Children may learn new words better when they learn them in the context of other words they are just learning - according to a new research from the University of East Anglia.
Researchers investigated how 18-24-month-olds learn new words - in the context of words they already know well and those they don't. The findings help explain how children learn new words and suggest a new way that parents and carers could help boost language development.
Previous research suggests that when children hear a word they do not know and see an object they have never seen in the context of some objects that they can already name, such as a toy or a ball, they guess that the new word refers to the new thing.
Dr. Larissa Samuelson from the university wanted to know if the strength of a child's knowledge of familiar things - how well they know what "cars" or "balls" are, for example - mattered for learning new words and remembering them. They asked 82 children to take part in the study and carry out two experiments among them. And then they got some really surprising findings.
"We had expected that a stronger knowledge of familiar words would be better for learning new words, but we found the opposite was true. " Dr Samuelson said. "This new study suggests another way we might be able to help boost children's ability to remember new word-object links - by teaching them in the context of other things that they are just learning. "
It seems counterintuitive, but it is perhaps because the less well-known items don't compete with the new words as much. If they learn new words in the context of playing with well-known items such as a ball or book, they don't process the new word as much.
Apple's vitamin and mineral content, its easy availability, and its inexpensiveness are the reasons why it's the second most-consumed fruit in the world. But what about the calories and nutritional value in it?Can we consume apples in endless numbers and still stay fit?
A medium-sized apple contains up to 95 calories. However, the sugar content-about 19 g-is still less than the 21 g you get in a regular-sized chocolate bar. The fiber present in fruits and vegetables helps control blood sugar levels naturally. It slows down digestion and stops the blood sugar levels from rising as they would after you consume candy.
Eating one medium-sized apple gives you your daily dose of 14% vitamin A and 11% of vitamin C, both that your immune system needs the most. Antioxidants like vitamin A and C save the body from damage caused by unstable atoms. If we consume darker apples more, we can get an antioxidant that protects the body from diseases and a good amount of indigestible fiber our gut's good bacteria feed on, so it's a win-win deal!
Consuming one or two apples on a daily basis is good for your health. But if you're diabetic, you should restrict the consumption to not more than a small-sized apple a day as apples are a high-sugar fruit. If you stay alert and take a proper diet, your body will benefit a lot. But if you eat endlessly, even the healthiest food in the world would damage your body and increase the number of doctor visits.
A. So act smartly and stay safe.
B. How many apples can you eat in a day?
C. Therefore, you should watch out for the food quality.
D. How can we guarantee that we will get this fruit continuously?
E. Plus, this sugar is less harmful to your body since it comes with fibers.
F. They reduce the risks of illness and aging, giving you healthy and smooth skin.
G. Since it comes in many varieties and different tastes, people never get bored of it.
Many people, whose lives are filled with one fortunate event after another, don't understand how the other half, the1 half lives. Luis J. Rodriguez in his autobiography, Always Running, brings the2 into his world with in-depth descriptions of his3.
After moving from Mexico to America at the age of two, Rodriguez4 on the streets of Los Angeles. His youth is filled with drugs, gang violence, and racism against Mexicans. By his late teens, Rodriguez has already5 it all, and is trying to get away from it.
As Rodriguez took me through his life, I experienced many6：hatred as he describes the police；fear during gang wars；7 when he makes a difference in his community.
Rodriguez's intention of telling his story is to help others avoid the pain and suffering he experienced, and to show kids they can8 that type of life. Because that's not a life I've ever known, the book didn't have that9 on me, but I was able to understand his difficulties.
Rodriguez10 sees a chance to leave and tries to bring his friends with him. 11for them, leaving that life is like deserting their family, and they are still12 to get out of pain.
Reading this book is like a wake-up call：you see how13 others' lives are and feel extremely lucky for what you have. His14 is that it's always possible to extricate（解救）yourself.
When Rodriguez is 16, he realizes gang wars, racism, and hatred must stop. If the world were able to15 this, future generations wouldn't have to live that kind of life.
Chinese workers once demonstrated their great efficiency in 2018. （incredible）, around 1, 500 workers spent just nine hours（complete）the construction of a new train station in Fujian Province, southern China. Seven trains and 23 diggers were used（assist） the massive project.
A video（release） on the Internet showed how the construction workers connected three major railroads with the new Nanlong Railway. They also set up the traffic signalsa series of traffic monitoring equipment.
The construction took place at the Nanlong Railway Station in the city of Longyan. began on January 19 and finished on the early morning of January 20. The project was completed so quickly because the workers（arrange） into seven units to undertake different tasks at the same time.
Measuring 246 kilometres in（long）, the new Nanlong Railway is a main transport link between south-east China and（center）China. It supports trainsoperate at a maximum speed of 200 kph.
1）你未来想从事的工作；
2）需要做的准备。
注意：
1）写作词数应为 80 左右；
2）请在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Daniel got a job as a delivery man to work his way through college. His parents couldn't save up all the money he needed to get into law school, so since he was 15, he would take summer jobs and find some other jobs between studies to earn extra cash.
The boy was determined and every day he would wake up at 5 a.m., summer or winter, riding on his old bike to deliver parcels. It wasn't an easy job, especially during winter. Besides that, his old bike was slow, making things harder. But that wasn't a problem for Daniel.
Daniel's schedule was always the same every day and people in the neighborhood already knew him.
He called them by their names, and they would often wave and greet him as he passed.
It was a normal day and Daniel was delivering parcels as usual. "Morning, Daniel! Check out my brand-new mountain bike!" called out a man whose home Daniel visited frequently. "Morning, Mr. Warren! That's a really fancy bike!" Daniel screamed back at him as he rode towards his first delivery. He couldn't help imagining what it would feel like to own a bike like the one Mr. Warren had just shown him. "My deliveries would double with that" he thought longingly.
Suddenly, Daniel lost balance and fell on the road. He got up and leaned the bike against the wall to see what had happened. He found a nail stuck in the back tire (轮胎) and he unluckily had a flat tire.
As he turned around and tried to think of what to do, he saw something unusual. A strange man Daniel had never seen before furtively (鬼鬼祟祟地) looked around and placed a package under his jacket. "Hey!" Daniel shouted at the man. "Hey there! What are you doing? That's not yours!" The man heard Daniel and started to run as fast as he could.
注意：
1）续写词数应为 150 左右：
2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
After having a look at his bike's flat tire, Daniel quickly started to run after the man.
……
Mr. Warren arrived on his new bike, and then helped pin (按住) the thief down.
