Qibao Ancient Village
Qibao, located in the center of Minhang District, Shanghai, is a village with a history of one thousand years. In the village, wine and tea are served on old-fashioned square tables together with long benches, long-mouth copper pots and flat-end chopstick used. The most famous snacks in old Shanghai are square pastry, rice wine and steamed salted pork in wine.
Telephone: 021-21087225
Entrance Ticket: 45 yuan per all-in-one ticket (preferable price of 30 yuan is available now), covering almost all tourist attractions inside the village.
Jinshan Village of Farmer Painting
Villagers skillfully make good use of folk arts such as printing and dyeing, embroidery (刺绣), wood carving. They take the various folk customs and the busy scenes of labor of villagers in the lower Changjiang valley as the theme of paintings and create farmer paintings in a simple style.
Telephone: 021-57355555
Entrance Ticket: 30 yuan/person
Merry Countryside Tour in Zhonghua Village
The village provides tourists with accommodations, tours, chess, cards, fitness and entertainment through renting out separate farmhouse and sells tourist products and agricultural by-products related to the merry countryside tour.
Telephone: 021-57395433
Entrance Ticket: Free
Pudong Lingkong Agric Gardening
It is one of Shanghai countryside tour scenic spots, which features art of teapots, crop plantation and export. The Geological Science Popularization Hall stores up tens of thousands of rare stones collected all over the world.
Telephone: 021-33935557
Entrance Ticket: 50 yuan /person
When Paul Greenberg's son turned 12, he was asking for a smartphone of his own. He challenged Greenberg's reasons for why it wasn't a good idea, pointing out his dad's own addiction to his phone. That's when Greenberg decided to replace his smartphone with an old-fashioned flip phone and focus on spending time with his son.
Greenberg ended up writing a delightful book about the transition, called "Goodbye Phone, Hello World: 60 Ways to Disconnect from Tech and Reconnect to Joy"—but it's different from what you might expect. It's not an essay on the evils of technology, but a brief, and practical guide on how to live without a smart phone.
The book is divided into chapters that explore the various sides of your life that will improve when you reallocate（重新分配）your time, such as finding a sense of purpose, strengthening mind and body, building better relationships with friends, family, and lovers, and healing the environment. But first, it opens with a message that our screen addiction is not so much a result of weakness, but rather a carefully invented plan by many computer scientists far more knowledgeable than we are about our own brains and nature.
"I wanted to tell my son that people aren't addicted to screens because they're lazy, but instead because billions of dollars have been invested（投入） to make this outcome unavoidable. When you look into your phone, you think it's just your two eyes looking at a screen. What's really happening is that 10, 000 programmers' eyes are looking back at you, following you, tailoring（定制）your environment so that you'll keep looking."
"However, you can quit, refuse to play the game; and when you do, doors of opportunity open all around."
This book is a pleasure to read. Its briefness is purposely suited to people who have lost their attention span(持续时间), but wish to regain it. I know that when my kids get home from school later today, they won't see me on my phone. I'll leave it inside and take them out to play Frisbee.
The opening sequences(片头)of television series are usually significant. They need to show great honor to the stars and make an introduction for the episode(一集) to follow. Above all, they must persuade the viewers to be interested in the show for the next 30 minutes or more. Take, for example, Game of Thrones, which no one doubted was a masterpiece when watching the amazing pictures at the start of each episode in 2011. For long, networks thought it was worthwhile to create complex and costly opening sequences.
However, it was Girls, which had its first show in April 2012, that took an absolutely different opening approach. With a sequence of a single title card on screen lasting only seven seconds, Lena Dunham's (the director and leading actress) comedy thumbed its nose at the industry's usual luxurious (奢华的) opening.
With the rise of screaming (流媒体) services, viewers started watching several episodes without a break, and the brief opening gained additional praise. In 2017 Netflix stared its "jump introduction" function, enabling viewers to cut out opening parts and get straight to the drama. Most viewers were happy that they no longer had to press fast-forward, but others saw it as a disrespect to the art of television.
Indeed, maybe opening sequences are no longer necessary. But if they become a history, the desire for something more creative and mysterious may reappear one day. When they are done well, they can be as attractive as short films.
As climate change affects the planet, the world is turning to seaweed (海草) as a possible settlement and play a huge role in fighting climate change. It is used to create natural fuel and renewable(可再生的) plastics. It helps improve oceanic ecosystems.
People think of forests as the best defense（防御） against climate change. But some researchers say seaweed is a better settlement. Unlike trees, seaweed doesn't need fertilizers or fresh water. It grows faster than trees do. And it doesn't require any land. Most importantly, it absorbs carbon from the environment.
Seaweed could also become a key global food source. Many worry about the environmental influence of eating meat. Could seaweed farms provide enough protein for the world? Carlos Duarte, a professor of oceanic ecology thinks so. When you look at how we are going to feed the world population by 2050, in a way that doesn't harm the environment, there is only one pathway," he says. "Seaweed farming."
In the past decade or so, global seaweed production has doubled. In British Columbia, seaweed farming becoming popular. For thousands of years, First Nations people, the native people of Canada, have farmed on land and in the ocean. Seaweed farming helps them create economies of their own that agree with their traditions. Their role has always been to connect with the land and repair it.
Seaweed might fight climate change, but it isn't without risks. If it isn't harvested, it can go bad and give off carbon back into the air or water. Growing too much of it could also affect the amount of light that reaches species living deeper in the water. That would be dangerous for underwater ecosystems. So some scientists think seaweed can be a part of the settlement to climate change, but it's not a perfect one on its own.
Muzak
The next time you go into a bank, a store, or a supermarket, stop and listen. What do you hear? It's similar to the music you listen to, but it's not exactly the same. That's because this music is especially designed to relax you, or to give you extra energy. Sometimes you don't even realize the music is playing, but you react to the music anyway.
Quiet background music used to be called "elevator music" because we often heard it in elevators. But lately we hear it in more and more places, and it has a new name "Muzak". About one-third of the people in America listen to "Muzak" every day. The music plays for 15 minutes at a time, with short pauses in between. It is always more lively between ten and eleven in the morning, and between three and four in the afternoon, when people are more tired.
If you listen to Muzak carefully, you will probably recognize the names of many of the songs. Some musicians or songwriters don't want their songs to be used as Muzak, but others are happy when their songs are chosen. Why?
Music is often played in public places because it is designed to make people feel less lonely when they are in an airport or a hotel. It has been proven that Muzak does what it is designed to do. Tired office workers suddenly have more energy when they hear the pleasant sound of Muzak in the background. Supermarket shoppers buy 38 percent more groceries.
They say it's boring to hear the same songs all the time. But other people enjoy hearing Muzak in public places. They say it helps them relax and feel calm. One way or another, Muzak affects everyone. Some farmers even say their cows give more milk when they hear Muzak!
A. Some people don't like Muzak.
B. The music gives them extra energy.
C. Music is playing in the background.
D. Factory workers produce 13 percent more.
E. Muzak tends to help people understand music better.
F. They will get as much as $4 million a year if their songs are used.
G. Muzak is played in most of the big supermarkets in the world.
A call came into Gilleece's bar. A newly married woman, who had spent the afternoon at the beach bar, couldn't find her wallet. She didn't1about her ID or credit cards, but her2was inside it.
Gilleece, 42, didn't like 3 occurred at his place, so he set out to4the wallet. He spent hours 5 surveillance cameras (监控摄像机), seeing the woman staying in the bar until she went to sit on a bench outside. Within minutes, a young man6the bench after the woman left, put something in his pocket, and walked off. Gilleece7a clip (片段) on the bar's Facebook page to find the boy.
Within hours, Gilleece got a text from 17yearold Rivers Prather. Prather8having taken the wallet and told Gilleece he'd done it because he hadn't 9 for two days. He said he saw the ring but thought it was a(n) 10 one, so he took the money and 11 the wallet. Then he bought a sandwich.
Gilleece wasn't sure if he could 12 the boy, so he told the teen to meet him at the bar. There, they got to talking, and Gilleece, a father of two, saw Prather was more of a kid than a(n) 13.
"He would be going to big boy jail (监狱)，" Gilleece says. "I had to 14 him somehow." Gilleece hired two local divers to __15__ the waters. More than one hour passed, with no __16__ of the ring. Gilleece grew17, especially when the detective tried to get the boy to jail. A diver popped up 18. In his hand was the wallet, and inside was the ring.
"Most people would have given the video to the 19, but he chose to help me and offered me a job," Prather told CBS News. "I'm20of all the support he has given me."
Wang Yaping has become the first Chinese woman (perform) a spacewalk. Wang's dream of becoming an astronaut was inspired by Yang Liwei's 2003 space flight. "Now China has its first man in space. When will our country have its first woman?" thought Wang, (work) then as a fighter pilot. (bear) in a small village in Yantai, Shandong Province in 1980, Wang has been (active) participating in long-distance running since primary school. In 1997, Wang, a high school student, (encourage) to apply for the pilot recruitment (征募）program by her classmates. Given her strong build and ability to stay calm under pressure, Wang passed all tests.
In 2010, Wang became an astronaut. However, the joy of (select) did not last long as the cruel training began. In the first year, Wang could not get the top level in the high-G training, during she had to stand eight times the force of gravity. Wang improved her performance by doing extra (strong) exercises every day. At last, Wang realized her space dream in 2013 as part of the Shenzhou-10 mission. During her mission, Wang taught China's first live physics lesson from space. In 2020, team of Chinese university students majoring aerospace, art, architecture and music translated cosmic (宇宙的）rays into music. They said they had watched Wang's live space lecture when they were teenagers.
During the next few months, Wang and her teammates will carry out scientific experiments and do spacewalks. Wang is confident that they will complete this mission successfully.
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。
The day before yesterday, I went to the bookstore where is near our school to buy the reference book. It was Saturday, so there were many people. Under the help of the shop assistant, I quickly got the book I needed to. I was about to leave when I found someone try to steal a man's money. Although I was nervous, I tried to think of a way to help him. Suddenly, a good idea occurred me.I stepped on the man's foot on purposes. As expected, the man's scream gives the thief a fright, who quickly walked out of the shop. After hear my explanation, the man smiled and showed great gratitude for me.
