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Are you looking for a winter vacation destination? Try these four resorts (度假胜地) and it will certainly give you an unforgettable experience.
Solitude Mountain Resort, Utah
Solitude Mountain is a place often recommended by tourist agents. It's a place to go if you love skiing in winter but hate waiting on lift lines. Loving a bargain doesn't hurt either since the accommodations here are less expensive.
Key West, Florida
The crowds thin out and the prices fall in Key West in winter. Key West has a remote, romantic feel. It has inspired many poets and literary greats. It will inspire you to literally celebrate the sunrise. Surely, there are nightly sunset celebrations!
Taos, New Mexico
Taos, New Mexico, is a popular winter spot. Besides skiing, you'll be able to experience all the culture and sights, including the thousand-year-old Taos Pueblo, the only living Native American community that is regarded as a World Heritage Site.
Big Sky, Montana
Big Sky, Montana, has more than 5,800 acres of skiing area spreading across a few mountains, with a vertical (垂直的) drop of 4,350 feet, as well as 85km of Nordic tracks. It's a good idea to head for Big Sky for the fantastic skiing in winter because then it has been called "the least crowded resort ever".
What is the greatest threat to mankind? Maybe different people come up with different answers. However, there is no denying the fact that the only threat to humankind, apart from humankind itself, is, without any doubt, the nature. Natural disasters are the result of natural environmental processes that have a damaging effect on people. Natural disasters can come in many forms: such as geological events like earthquakes, tsunamis or mud-rock flows, climatic events like storms, hurricanes or tornadoes and fire events like forest fires and wildfires.
The damage done by natural disasters is mainly as a result of our inability to predict(预测) exactly when they will happen. Although great progress has been made in designing and developing forecasting models for some natural disasters, complete certainty is still impossible. Even to be pessimistic, there is a possibility that human beings will never achieve accurate prediction of the happening of all natural disasters.
What's more, even though we were able to predict these disasters from nature, preventing them is equally impossible. So we only have two ways to both prevent injuries or deaths and reduce economic losses to the least. These two methods are to prepare before a natural disaster comes to hit, and to manage the necessary resources and public services after a natural disaster strikes.
These two things have always been at the leading position of the projects of both national governments and international organizations. In the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is responsible for the "preparedness, response and recovery planning" of both man-made and natural disasters.
Most natural disasters cannot be prevented, and both emergency preparation and good disaster management are the best ways to deal with them. Although natural events may appear to serve no purpose but simply to punish and destroy, natural disasters, a perfect symbol of the great power of the nature, are display of our planet's evolution and its state of change.
An elderly carpenter(木匠) was ready to retire. He told his employer, a contractor, of his plans to leave the house-building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. They could get by.
The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy(粗糙的) workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.
When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, the contractor handed the front-door key to the carpenter. "This is your house," he said, "my gift to you." What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well.
So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized that we would have done it differently.
Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about your house. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one more day, that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity. The plaque on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project." Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and the choices you make today.
Have you ever thought, if all ice in Antarctica(南极洲) and the arctic(北极) melts due to the global warming, what will happen? But one thing is sure with 100% certainty, penguins in Antarctic and the arctic will be in big trouble.
Rising temperatures in coming years would lead to less sea ice in the Southern Ocean that surrounds Antarctica and fewer habitats and feeding grounds for penguins, says the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in its report 2 Degrees is Too Much.
Antarctica and the Arctic are the most threatened regions from climate change. In the Antarctica, the temperature has risen 2.5 degrees in the past 50 years. This speed is nearly five times faster than that before the Industrial Revolution. It is mainly caused by burning fossil fuels. Unless nations reduce carbon dioxide emission, the world will warm by an average of 2 degrees in less than 40 years. Rich nations should agree to reduce greenhouse gas emission. Temperatures near the Poles have risen much faster, which has led glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula to melt quickly.
The situation is quite critical, because in the past 50 years the number of emperor penguins(帝企鹅) has decreased by 50 percent across the whole Antarctica. On the northwest coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, the number of Adelie penguins(阿德利企鹅) has dropped surprisingly over the past 25 years.
Fifty percent of the habitats of the emperor penguin and 75 percent of the habitats of the Adelie penguin face a rapid reduction, or even disappearance, if the global temperature rises 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
With a 2-degree increase in global temperature and the decrease in sea ice thickness, emperor penguins will find it difficult to find new areas to live. With less sea ice, penguins could be pushed further south, but this could prevent them from hunting for food during the dark winters, because they need at least a few hours of daylight to find their food.
All over the world, animals and plants are in trouble. People are trying to find ways to help them. Here are some tips.
Adopt an animal.
Many zoos and wildlife organizations have programs that let kids donate money to help specific endangered animals.
Don't release fish or pets onto the wild.
Chances are that your pet is not native to where you live. Set loose, it might become an invasive (入侵的) species, or it might spread diseases. So keep your fish in their tank, or find them a new home but not the pond.
Chemicals used to kill garden weeds and bugs (虫子) are a big problem for animals. Maybe if you offered to pull the weeds up instead, you could help people to use fewer poisons.
Speak up.
Share what you know and speak up for the animals. Write letters! Powerful people need to know that you care and you're keeping an eye on them to make sure they do their jobs right and protect the planet.
Make less rubbish.
Pollution and plastic rubbish are bad for animals and nature. How can you help? Take your lunch in a lunchbox or reusable bag. Bring cloth bags to the store and remind grownups if they forget.
A. Pull the weeds up.
B. Everything will go on well.
C. But what can you do in daily life?
D. Bring drinks from home in a refillable bottle.
E. It might seem kind to set pets free, but it isn't.
F. People are finding lots of ways to help the endangered species.
G. For your next birthday, why not ask your friends and family to help you adopt one?
One young person, who was well educated, went for a job as a manager in a big company. The president did the final1.
He discovered the youth was2and felt satisfied. Then the president asked who paid for his school fees. The youth answered, "My mother did it. She worked as a clothes3".
The president requested the youth to4his hands. So the youth did. They were smooth. Then he asked, "Have you ever5your mother wash the clothes before?" The youth answered, "Never, my mother always wanted me to 6."
"Go and clean your mother's7when you go back today, and then 8 me tomorrow morning," the president said9.
The youth felt his chance of getting the job was high, so when he went back, he10requested his mother to let him clean her hands. However, his tears fell11 he cleaned his mother's hands slowly. It was the first time he had12that his mother's hands were so wrinkled (布满皱纹的). After that, the youth didn't say a word and washed all the remaining clothes for his mother13.That night, Mother and Son14for a very long time, longer than any talk before.
The next15, the youth went to the president's office. The president noticed the tears in the youth's eyes and asked: "Please tell me how you16about helping your mother." The youth said, "Number One, I know now what17is. Without my mother, I wouldn't be successful today. Number Two, by helping my mother, I realize how18it is to get something done. Number Three, I've come to realize the19of family relationship."
The president said, "You are20. This is what I'm looking for to be my manager."
However, the attitudes of scientists towards this rise are (complete) different. On one hand, Dr Foster thinks that any trend in which the temperature increases by 5 degrees would lead a catastrophe. She says, "We can't predict the climate well enough to know what (expect), but it could be very serious." Others agree with her think there may be a rise of several metres in the sea level, or predict severe storms, floods, droughts, famines, the spread of diseases and the (disappear) of species. On the other hand, there are those, like George Hambley, who (be) opposed to this view and believe that we should not worry about high levels of carbon dioxide in the air. They predict that any warming will be mild with few bad environmental (consequence). In fact, Hambley states, "More carbon dioxide is actually a positive thing. It (make) plants grow quicker; crops will produce more; it will encourage a greater range of animals – all of which will make life for human beings (good)."
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