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Welcome to the British Museum, the grandest and the most spectacular of human history. The admission is free and we open every day from 10:00 to 15:30. You can explore 10 departments including:
The Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
The collection of the Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas includes around 350,000 objects. The scope of the collection is contemporary, and historical. It includes most of Africa, the Pacific and Australia, as well as the Americas. All of the collections were got during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and date from this time.
The Department of Asia
The Department of Asia covers the material and visual cultures of Asia – a vast geographical area of Japan, Korea, China, Central Asia, Afghanistan, South Asia and South-East AsiA. The collection dates from about 4000 BC, to the present day. It represents the cultures and ways of life of local people and other minority groups.
The Department of Greek and Roman Empires
The Department of Greek and Roman Empires features antiquities (古董). It has one of the most comprehensive collections of antiquities from the Classical world, with over 100,000 objects. These mostly range in date from the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age (about 3200BC) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine in the fourth century AD.
Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and even of books—especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy ‘proper' books, too, printed on good paper and bound between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charing Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being 'the biggest bookshop in the world' to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens' time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize — in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy(哲学), politics or any other of the myriad subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes solely in books about ballet.
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must venture (冒险) off the beaten path, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so grand as bookshops. Instead, the booksellers come along each morning and tip out their sacks of books on to small barrows (手推车) which line the gutters (贫民区). And the collectors, some professional and some amateur (业余爱好者) have been waiting for them. In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old volume that may be worth many pounds.
When students and parents are asked to rate subjects according to their importance, the arts are unavoidably at the bottom of the list. Music is nice, people seem to say, but not important. Too often it is viewed as main entertainment, but certainly not an education priority (优先). This view is shortsighted. In fact, music education is beneficial and important for all students.
Music tells us who we are. Because music is an expression of the beings who create it, it reflects their thinking and values, as well as the social environment it came from. Rock music represents a lifestyle just as surely as a Schubert song. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is obviously American because it came from American musical traditions. Music expresses our character and values. It gives us identity as a society.
Music provides a kind of perception (感知) that cannot be acquired any other way. Science can explain how the sun rises and sets. The arts explore the emotional meaning of the same phenomenon. We need every possible way to discover and respond to our world for one simple but powerful reason: No one way can get it all.
The arts are forms of thought as powerful in what they communicate as mathematical and scientific symbols. They are ways we human beings "talk" to each other. They are the language of civilization through which we express our fears, our curiosities, our hungers, our discoveries, and our hopes. The arts are ways we give form to our ideas and imagination so that they can beshared with others. When we do not give children access to an important way of expressing themselves such as music, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.
Science and technology do not tell us what it means to be human. The arts do. Music is an important way we express human suffering, celebration, the meaning and value of peace and love. So music education is far more necessary than people seem to realize.
Albert Einstein has a great effect on science and history. An American university president once said that Einstein had made a new outlook—a new view of the universe. It may be sometime before the average mind understands fully the identity of time and space and so on, but even ordinary men now understand that the universe is something larger than ever thought before.
By 1914 young Einstein had been world famous. He accepted the offer to become a professor at the Prussian Academy of Science in Berlin. He had few duties, little teaching and unlimited chances for study, but soon his peace and quiet life were broken by World War I.
Einstein hated fighting and killing. The great suffering of the war affected him deeply, and he sat unhappily in his office doing little. He lost interest in his research. Only when peace came in 1918 was he able to get back to work. In the years following World War I, honours were increasingly put on him. He became head of the Kaiser Whihem Institute of Theoretical Physics. But he himself refused the effort to put him in a position far above other people. He was well known for his humble manners. He often said that his success would certainly have been achieved by others if he had never lived. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize, and he was honoured in Germany until the rise of Nazism when he was driven from Germany because he was a Jew.
Changing People's Bad Impression On Us
Some of us have made bad first impressions in front of people we wanted to become good friends with. First impressions are important because they form the foundation on which all future thoughts about someone will be based. However, there are actions you can take to change people's bad impression of you.
●Apologize immediately. A sincere apology can go a long way because you will prove to everyone that you value their thoughts about you. Tell the people that you didn't intend to offend (冒犯) them and that you wish to correct the situation. Explain the reasons why you acted the way you did in your apology. Otherwise, it will make others feel uncomfortable that you keep bringing up the past.
●Use humor. When you are around the people you made a bad impression in front of, play a small joke on yourself. Once they know you are not afraid to laugh at yourself, it can break up some of the tension. Remember to only direct humor at yourself.
●Do not make assumptions. After you have made a bad impression, it can be easy to assume that everyone thinks the worst of you. Instead of assuming what someone thinks about you, explain to her that you feel ashamed about how you acted and ask him how your behavior affected him.
●In order to overcome a bad first impression, your words and actions in the time to come must be consistently good. With enough time and patience, gaining trust and changing wrong beliefs is possible.
A. Be careful not to overdo it.
B. Pay attention to future behavior.
C. First impressions are usually long-lasting.
D. However, things aren't always as bad as they seem.
E. That way you can avoid any more feelings of discomfort.
F. So it's hard to erase a bad first impression from someone's mind.
G. Be mindful of your surroundings and sensitive in what you say to others.
Three Apple engineers and three
Microsoft employees are traveling by train to a conference 
The Microsoft engineers each buy tickets but the Apple engineers buy only a1 ticket.
"How are three people going to travel on only one 2?" asks a Microsoft employee. “Watch and you'll see,” answers an Apple engineer.
They all board the train. The Microsoft employees take their 3 but all three Apple engineers cram (拥挤) into a restroom and close the door behind them.
4 after the train has departed, the conductor comes around 5 tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and an arm 6, ticket in hand. The 7 takes it and moves on. The Microsoft employees see this and agree it is quite a 8 idea.
So after the conference, the Microsoft employees decide to 9 the Apple engineers as they always do on the return trip and save some 10. When they get to the station, they buy one ticket. To their 11, the Apple engineers don't buy any ticket at all.
"How are you going to travel without a ticket?" asks one 12 Microsoft employee. "Watch and you'll see," answers an Apple engineer.
When they board the train, the Microsoft employees cram into a 13 and the Apple engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Soon one of the Apple engineers 14 his restroom and walks over to where the Microsoft employees are 15.
He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please..."
Each time I take the underground I find myself (surround) by dozens of passengers playing smart-phones. They almost won't even give a glance at the outside world. You may think it is normal to play smart-phones (kill) time. What's worse, when I talk with some of my friends, they talk as playing, which is really an (annoy).
I really miss the old days when I (chat) with some passengers on the train. Now things are different.
Everyone just concentrates their smart-phones. When talking with them, seems that you are disturbing their playing smart-phones. I could not just blame them for I am moving to be one like them. Sometimes I just feel we (large) ignore our neighbors and want to keep in touch with (distance) strangers through the Internet. We care about the things far away but pay no attention to the needs nearby. ridiculous the situation is! In a way we (control) by smart-phones now. Are you experiencing the same situation like me? Do you have any ways to avoid that?
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