Welcome to www. youth travel. com! Would you like to join us this summer vacation? Here are tours of four amazing museums. You can not only enjoy your life, but also learn something interesting.
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The Underwater Museum Time: July 5-10 Age: 8-18 Ticket: ￥50 You can enjoy fishes in different colors. There are also excellent dolphin shows. If you are brave enough, have a try to swim underwater to see the sea life clearly. Buy some gifts to your family if necessary. |
The Museum of Movies Time: July16-21 Age: 8-15 Ticket: ￥20 This is a museum about movies and cameras. It has very old cameras and you can learn a lot about the history of them. To relax yourself, you may watch famous movies from all over the world. |
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The China(瓷器)Museum of the Song Dynasty Time: August 3-8 Age: 12-18 Ticket: free More than 120 china pieces from ancient China are on show here. You can make your own clay art works in person at a very good price. Come and have fun with your friends! It is open every day except Monday. |
Suining Science and Technology Museum Time: August23-28 Age: over 6 Ticket: free You may learn something about the space and increase your science knowledge. You can experience wonderful activities such as VR games, driving games, recycling games and so on. Children under 12 must be with at least one adult. |
I am a person who loves reading in English. For me, it is easy to get lost in a book and return to the real world a couple of hours later. You may wonder it is hard for you, but how did I do it successfully?
At first, reading is a process in which you need your enthusiasm( 热情) no matter how old you are. As a 6-year-old child, I could read Harry Potter in English. Now, as a student, it is harder for me to find the time to read books for pleasure. However, I look forward to reading my favorite books. Growing up, I found spelling was not difficult for me and I had a wide vocabulary. This is something I benefited from reading at such a young age.
My second method is to read the books that you have often read in English. Reading fictions is especially a great way of improving your vocabulary as you are wrapped up(全神贯注) in the story line. It is easy to follow the story in English even if you don't understand some sentences.
The last important point is that it is not necessary to understand absolutely every word. If you understand the meaning of the sentence, each word is not necessarily important. Sometimes it is impossible to translate directly from one language to another. If a word is used several times in a text, you can get your own meaning from it and it makes much more sense than you try to look it up and translate it in the first place.
If you like reading as you like delicious food, the matter will be easier and you will open up a whole world of literature you never knew!
Parents are the closest people to you in the world. They love you just because you are you. And they would do anything for you.
Like a lot of middle school students, Zhuang Shuxia has her problem. She and her parents don't get on well. "I really want to be my daddy's little girl. But he just doesn't understand. He speaks to me but doesn't listen to me," said Zhuang, a Junior 3 student in Hebei. Of course, lots of kids feel that way. But you and your parents will be much happier if you can be friends. Why don't you take a walk and have a talk with your parents first? Here are some ways to have a good talk with them:
Find a good time to talk, like when you're having dinner, going out for a walk or watching TV.
Tell them something you're interested in, or ask them about their lives when they were young. They love to talk about it.
Listen to them carefully, and look them in the eye.
Be honest. Your parents will trust (信任) you more. And a trusting family is a happy family.
"Long time no see." is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend's e-mail, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect example of Chinglish.
Obviously, it is a word-by-word literal translation of the Chinese greeting with wrong English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American greeting. I was too surprised to believe her. Her words were unbelievable at all. So I did research on Google. com. To my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages containing "Long time no see." Though it is sort of informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily. Interestingly, if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word, the software will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected.
Nobody knows the origin of this Chinglish sentence. Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan's movies. In the 1930s, Hollywood movie makers successfully created a worldwide famous Chinese detective named "Charlie Chan" on wide screens. Detective Chan liked to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom by quoting Confucius. "Long time no see." was his symbol. Soon after Charlie Chan, "Long time no see." became a popular expression in America thanks to the popularity of these movies.
Some scholars compare America to a huge melting pot. All kinds of cultures are mixed in the pot together, and they change the colour and taste of each other. Language is usually the first thing to be influenced in the mixed pot.
You can have some examples from other countries, such as pizza from Italian, sushi from Japanese, and déjà vu from French etc. There is a long list! Since Americans admire Chinese culture more and more nowadays, I believe more Chinese words will become American English in the future. In this way, the American's melting pot keeps adding richness and flavour.
How to keep yourself safe from new virus?
After a new-type coronavirus was detected in viral pneumonia(肺炎) cases in Central China's Wuhan city a month ago, more cases have been reported in recent days. :
⒈ Wear masks outdoors
●Wearing a mask is one of the most effective ways to protect you from getting infected.
●Make sure to wear it properly by tightening up the nose clip and pulling the bottom of it over your chin.
●, a mask is also needed to prevent you from spreading germs(细菌) to others.
⒉ Cover your coughs and sneeze (打喷嚏) with tissue (纸巾)
Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze, or you can cough or sneeze into your sleeve (袖子), but avoid covering with your hands directly.
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Wash your hands with soap and running water thoroughly (彻底地的)for at least 15 seconds.
● Before eating and after using the toilet
● After returning home
● After touching trash or garbage
● After contacting with animals or handling animal wastes
⒋ Strengthen your immune system (免疫系统) and exercise regularly
● Exercise regularly is one of the most important ways to help you stay away from catching any infections.
● Make sure that shared spaces have good air flow and avoid going to crowded places such as hospitals, railway stations and airports. .
● Seek prompt medical attention if you have symptoms of fever and respiratory (呼吸) infection.
● Avoid close contact with people who have flu or cold-like symptoms.
●. Avoid contact with wild animals or farmed livestock without any protection.
A. If your hands are not visibly dirty
B. Eat thoroughly cooked meat and eggs
C. Wash your hands frequently and properly
D. Protect yourself and others from getting sick
E. Wear a mask if transport or movement is necessary
F. If you're not feeling well or have symptoms (症状) of fever
G. To prevent catching the infection (感染), here's what you can do
When Charles Lee handed me the small red notebook in 1974, he changed my life. "While travelling, you should keep notes on the things you see and do. 1, you will forget them some day," he explained. I was staying in his house when travelling in England.
I took his2. I wrote in the notebook every day during the homestay and back to university. I recorded weekend trips, my professors and ideas about my life and future.
When I wrote, I wondered about my3and purpose. Who would read this? Was I recording events and ideas just as a reminder to memory, or was there some larger purpose for this4exercise?
I got a big picture for the task. I was recording events, thoughts, words that were5to my life. I6 a future me sitting down to read the pages. I wondered what it would feel like to read those words later.
I filled the notebook Charles gave me. I bought a new one and 7it. Then another and another.
Recently, I decided to look through my notebooks in the past 42 years. Charles had been8. I remembered the big9, the central happenings, but on each page were details I had 10.
I hadn't written every day, but I always picked up the11 when it felt important. I often wrote in them at school 12 my students were writing. I wanted to pass on the 13 Charles had given me. These writings formed a continuous 14 between my past, present, and future through events in my life.
It took several long evenings to read through my notebooks. As I read, I suddenly realized they are a gift to the 15me—-I am now the person I was writing to throughout those years.
John graduated from a key university and he was very good at his major. He wished to find a good job. One day, he went to a company to1 for a job. He got the news in a newspaper. He did some research on this company. When he was 2 , everything went well. The manager asked him some questions and he answered them 3. John was very satisfied with his performances and was very 4 that he could get the job. But at that moment, the manager's phone 5 . He picked up the phone, listened and nodded. And then he turned around and said to John, "Sorry, I want to get some important6now. Please give me the book with the red 7 on that desk. " John looked around and found 3 books on the desk, so John went to the desk, took one book and handed it to him 8 . Holding the book, the manager 9 the phone and said, "Sorry, we cannot give the job to you." John was 10 and wondered why. The manager said, "There are three11 . First, when you came into the office room, I found that the third button on your shirt had been missing. Second, there are three books with red covers on that desk, but you didn't ask me which one I needed and you took one randomly（随机地）. Third, I was answering the call. You should 12 to the desk to save time. These 13showed you are not a careful person. "14, John didn't get the job.
We can learn a(n) 15 from John's experience. Some people don't 16the details in our life. But it is the details that17. Not only should we value what we learn but also we should pay more attention to the details. Sometimes they can even18our success or failure. We should form the habit of being careful and learn to keep the19 of quantity and quality. We should keep it in mind that20comes first, without which quantity is of no significance.
The young artist and potter Allan had a wife and two fine sons. One night, his elder son developed a severe stomachache. Neither Allan nor his wife took the condition very (serious), but the boy died suddenly that night.
Knowing the death could (avoid) if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, he always felt he was guilty. Worse still, his wife left him a short time later, (leave) him alone with his 6-year-old younger son. Unable to stand the hurt and pain, he turned to alcohol and became alcoholic.
As the alcoholism progressed, Allan began to lose everything he possessed and finally died alone in a small bar. Hearing of his death, I thought," a complete failure!"
As time went by, I began to revalue my (early) rough judgement. I knew Allan's now adult son, Ernie, one of the kindest and most caring men I've ever known. I hadn't heard him talk much about his father. One day, I worked up my courage to ask him what earth his father had done so that he became such a special person. Ernie said quietly, "As a child until I left home at 18, Allan came into my room every night,(give) me a kiss and said, 'Love you, son. '".
Tears came to my eyes as I realized that I had been a fool to judge Allan as a failure. He didn't leave many material (possess) behind. But he was a kind loving father,left behind his best love.
