Best Family Vacations in Canada
When looking for the ideal destination for your next family vacation abroad, consider Canada for its wide range of multi-generational entertainment. Use this list to plan your next trip north, and vote below for your first-choice destination before you head out.
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Niagara Falls
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The maid of the mist boat tour may leave you fully wet, but it won't wet your spirit on your trip. When you're not admiring the falls, enjoy the blossoms at the Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens. Or, visit the Aquarium (水族馆) of Niagara, which has more than1,500 species of aquatic animals. |
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Prince Edward Island
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The background for the "Anne of Green Gables" stories, Prince Edward Island offers a variety of outdoor experiences—from sandy beaches to water sports like kayaking to exploring one of eight lighthouses. Plus, PEI is a quick flight from almost anywhere on the east coast. |
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Whistler
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Kids will love hitting the slopes (斜坡) on Whistler and Blackcomb mountains nearby Vancouver. Whistler also features educational activities, such as the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre, for families who want to gain some learning while on vacation. |
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Vancouver
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You'll find most of Vancouver's kid-centered attractions in Granville Island and Stanley Park. The nearly 1,000-acre park has the Vancouver Aquarium, plus four playgrounds, and a mini-train. For a more exciting rush, walk across the 450-foot-long Capilano Suspension Bridge. |
Many people often lose their friends and they don't know how to keep a long friendship. So how can you keep a long friendship？The following passage explains very well about this matter.
The first thing you need to do is become a good listener. In this way, you show your friends that you are interested in their lives. You want to know more about them and you want to help them solve their problems. They will cherish the friendship more if they know you care about them.
The next thing is that you should respect other people's privacy. People usually don't like others to know about their private life, so you should show respect toward their privacy. Sometimes, they need some suggestions from others, but this does not mean that others can know about their entire life. So respect for privacy is a must for keeping a long friendship.
The third important thing is that you need to be able to forgive. You must remember that nobody is perfect in this world. It is important to forgive others and not to blame them for the mistakes they have already made. You are not perfect either. Thus you need to apologize to others for the mistakes you may have made.
Pay attention to the three things above, and you will be able to have long friendships.
There are many famous museums throughout the world where people can enjoy art. Washington D. C. has the National Gallery of Art (美术馆); Paris has the Louvre; London, the British Museum. Florida International University (FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for its drawings and paintings.
FIU has opened what it says is the first computer art museum in the United States. You don't have to visit the University to see the art. You just need a computer linked to a telephone.
You can call the telephone number of a University computer and connect your own computer to it. All of the art is stored in the school computer. It is computer art, produced electronically (采用电子手段) by artists in their own computers. In only a few minutes, your computer can receive and copy all the pictures and drawings.
Robert Shostak is director of the new computer museum. He says he started the museum because computer artists had no place to show their work.
A computer artist could only record his pictures electronically and send the records, or floppy discs (软盘), to others to see on their computers. He could also put his pictures on paper. But to print good pictures in paper, the computer artist needed an expensive laser (激光) printer.
Robert Shostak says the electronic museum is mostly for art or computer students at schools and universities. Many of the pictures in the museum are made by students. Mr. Shostak says the FIU museum will make computer art more fun for computer artists because more people can see it. He says artists will enjoy their work much more if they have an audience. And the great number of home computers in America could mean a huge audience for the electronic museum.
Fish cats are a kind of cats that love water and love to fish. They are like tigers and lions, only much smaller, around twice the size of our average pet cats. They live in wetlands of South Asia and mangrove forests (红树林) of South and Southeast Asia. Like many endangered species, fish cats were in danger of dying out more than twenty years ago, mainly because of the great international need for fish food and the people's cutting of the mangroves at an extremely fast speed.
Mangroves of Southeast Asia are home to a great many fantastic species, like fish cats, turtles, shorebirds and others. Mangroves can protect soil, and they can be the first line of protection between storms, tsunamis and the millions of people who live next to them. The fact is that mangroves can store almost five to ten times more CO2 than other forests. So protecting mangroves may well be like protecting five to ten times more of other forests.
Ten years ago, in South India, many people came together to change the future of their home. In less than 10 years, with international support, the state forest departments and the local people worked together to restore over 20,000 acres of unproductive fish and shrimp farms back into mangroves. Now experts are working with them in helping study and protecting the mangroves as well as the species living in them. Fish and shrimp farmers are now willing to work with experts to test the harvest of nature protection like fishes, turtles and other species in mangroves. The local farmers are encouraged to protect and plant mangroves where they have been lost. A win-win-win for fish cats, local people and the global ecosystem (生态系统) is being built.
How to build good relationships with people from other cultures? Actually, it is important to learn some skills to communicate with them. Armed with the knowledge of how to communicate effectively, you can make things easier.
Learn about the culture beforehand. So if you have time before going abroad or meeting with someone from another culture, try to take time to learn the basic. "do's and don'ts " of that culture. You can find information on this from the Internet sources such as those provided by the National Center for Cultural Competence.
Be respectful and tolerant. Signs of these may appear when you communicate with people from other cultures. However, it is not the time to judge people based on these differences during basic communication. Instead, respect them for what they are, and tolerate them. You may even learn something new.
Speak clearly and slowly if necessary. But do not shout at others even if they don't understand you. Instead, it can be seen as rude. Likewise, even if there are difficulties in communicating with people from other cultures, do not treat other people as though they were unintelligent.
In some cultures, looking another person in the eye when you speak is seen as a sign of honesty and interest. However, in other cultures, it may be seen as disrespectful.
A. A little knowledge can go a long way.
B. It takes time to know about other cultures.
C. Keep eye contact when talking with others.
D. Know whether to make eye contact or avoid it.
E. Each culture has its own set of values and beliefs.
F. The following are some tips that may help you greatly.
G. Raising your voice cannot make yourself easier to be understood.
We live in the surburb near the city. Last month Dad and I walked 1 to our city's library. In the children's room, a librarian showed me a (n) 2 display (展示) case, saying "We're asking 3 to draw pictures to put in here. You can draw anything you want and bring it in here. "
"I'd like to do that." I said. I talked with Dad. We agreed to bring in my 4drawing.
Making that 5 was easy. Back home, 6 my eyes on a piece of blank (空白的) paper, I realized I didn't have many or any ideas! Finally, I thought, "Why can't I visit a 7filled with good ideas?" That's how I started daydreaming about standing beside a 8castle, which was built from a magic mountain of things: sea glass , marbles…After I 9inside, a crayfish 10 a flying saucer (飞碟) landed nearby. "Welcome," she said, "to your own made-up place to find 11 I'm Ms. Claw, your tour guide. " Then she led me through the castle. While I was wondering whether I should draw it, 12 , next we came to an 13 door. Ms. Claw said," This ends our tour. " She 14 the saucer's roof and 15goodbye.
As I 16 through the door, my daydream was over. That didn't 17： I'd already decided to draw the whole 18 . I worked hard, finished my drawing and brought it to the librarian. A week later, Dad and I visited the library again. My picture was 19 in the display case's center. It wasn't 20 , but other kids told me how much they liked it. I could almost hear Ms. Claw say, "Drawing your daydream was a good idea and fun, too!"
Teenagers who start the school day really early are likely to weigh slightly more than those who start later. That's the finding of a new study of nearly 30,000 (Canada) between the ages of 10 and 18.
Getting too little sleep can put kids risk for a number of problems. Sleepy teens are more likely to be overweight, to have trouble (concentrate)and to struggle in school. Genevieve Gariepy, who works at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, wanted to know earlier school start times might be connected with weight. So she decided to home in on the impact of school start times.
Her team collected start times for 362 Canadian schools. Then they asked students at those schools (give) their height and weight. In all, they collected data from nearly 30,000 10-to 18-year-olds. Among 6th-to 10th-graders, those who started school earlier were likely to be slightly (heavy) for their height. Every 10-minute delay in school start time (connect), on average, with a slightly lower weight among students who were same sex, age and height. , the difference is slight. Healthy eating and getting enough exercise will play a bigger role in keeping a healthy weight.
Because the study compared kids who already started school at different times of day, it's not clear that changing school start time would help heavier kids lose weight. To know for sure, researchers would want to compare the same kids before after changing to a later school start time.
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Several days later, Li Hua, one of my roommates, bought a bag of snacks from a supermarket. We invited to enjoy them. However, after eating, all of us get poisoned and had stomachaches with our face pale. We were quick sent to a nearby hospital. A doctor examined us and gave them some medicine. Unfortunately, we were out of danger soon after taking medicine. This accident made me to realize the seriousness of the food safe problem. I sincerely hope that the whole society should take notice in food safety.
