Choose Your One-Day-Tours!

Tour A - Bath &Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge -￡37 until 26 March and ￡39 thereafter. Visit the city with over 2,000 years of history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum, Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years.

Tour B - Oxford & Stratford including entrance fees to the University St Mary's Church Tower and Anne Hathaway's -￡32 until 12 March and ￡36 thereafter. Oxford: Includes a guided tour of England's oldest university city and colleges. Look over the "city of dreaming spires(尖顶）" from St Mary's Church Tower. Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder.

Tour C - Windsor Castle &Hampton Court: including entrance fees to Hampton Court Palace -￡34 until 11 March and ￡37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VILL's favorite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle(entrance fees not included).With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former royal palace is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze(迷宫) where it is easy to get lost!

Tour D –Cambridge including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great -￡33 until 18 March and ￡37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18th century.

Nowadays more and more people like to travel, especially when vacations come. A great number of people rush out of their homes or companies to travelling spots. They either drive or take a bus, a train, a ship and so on. Some even ride bikes.

However, there is another way of travelling — poorism. People have a tour in the poorest areas of the world. Some people may take a one-day poor tour, and some even pay to stay in very poor neighborhoods to experience the lowest living standards in the world. Poorism tours take place around the world, and not just in the third world countries. You can, for instance, tour New York neighborhoods in the Bronx, in the Bund of Shanghai. Such tours can take people into the heart of poor areas within some large and rich cities. These tours may awaken people to pay more attention to long-standing poverty, or the effects of war.

Some suggest that tours in the poor areas can raise social care. And the money from the tour can be donated to help the people there.

One summer I was driving from my home town of Tahoe City, Calif., to New Orleans. In the middle of the desert, I came upon a young man standing by the roadside. He had his thumb out and held a gas can in his other hand. I drove right by him. There was a time in the country when you'd be considered a jerk if you passed by somebody in need. Now you are a fool for helping. With gangs, drug addicts, murderers(杀人凶手), rapists, thieves lurking everywhere, "I don't want to get involved" has become a national motto.

Several states later I was still thinking about the hitch­hiker. Leaving him standing in the desert did not bother me so much. What bothered me was how easily I had reached the decision. I never even lifted my foot off the accelerator.

Does anyone stop any more? I wondered. I recalled Blanche DuBois's famous line: "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers". Could anyone rely on the kindness of strangers these days? One way to test this would be for a person to journey from coast to coast without any money, relying solely on the good will of his fellow Americans. What kind of Americans would he find? Who would feed him, shelter him, carry him down the road?

The idea intrigued me.

The week I turned 37, I realized that I had never taken a gamble in my life. So I decided to travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic without a penny. It would be a cashless journey through the land of the almighty dollar. I would only accept offers of rides, food and a place to rest my head. My final destination would be Cape Fear in North Carolina, a symbol of all the fears I'd have to conquer during the trip.

I rose early on September 6, 1994, and headed for the Golden Gate Bridge with a 50­pound pack on my back and a sign displaying my destination to passing vehicles: "America".

For six weeks I hitched 82 rides and covered 4,223 miles across 14 states. As I traveled, folks were always warning me about someplace else. In Montana they told me to watch out for the cowboys in Wyoming; in Nebraska they said people would not be as nice as in Iowa. Yet I was treated with kindness everywhere I went. I was amazed by people's readiness to help a stranger, even when it seemed to run contrary to their own best interests.

Playing sports offers you more than just physical benefits. The benefits are the same whether or not you're good at sports. If you are not good enough to play competitively on a school team, you can play sports with your friends.

Making new friends.

Playing sports enables you to create friendships you otherwise might not have formed. You play together happily and gradually know each other. Many times, the friendships you create on 'the field remain strong when you are not playing sports.

Understanding the value of health.

Taking part in sports improves your health in many ways. This gets you thinking about what eat and how to treat your body so as to achieve the highest performance levels. Thus, playing sports can lead to better eating habits and prevent you from becoming too fat.

Building team spirit.

Sports provide children with the important lesson of learning how to work in a team. By working together they will learn each other's strengths and weaknesses and will be better able to decide and work out the best plan for the team. This will without doubt help them in their future lives and jobs as well.

Playing a sport requires a lot of time and energy. Some may think this would take students' attention away from schoolwork. However, the opposite is true. Sports require memorization (记忆), repetition and learning — skills that are directly relevant to schoolwork.

A. Becoming active in class.

B. Doing better in your studies.

C. Everyone has to work together to achieve the goal.

D. To be a good athlete, you must take care of yourself.

E. Sports can help you in your study and fit in society as well.

F. Sports bring teens together from different schools and backgrounds.

G. Clearly, sports will improve your fitness and help you achieve weight goals.

In the middle of town lived an old man. One day he 1 his watch in his own store. It was 2 to him because it was from his wife. After searching 3 in the store for a long while, he 4 to ask for help from a group of children playing outside the store. He 5 them that the person who found it would be rewarded. 6this, the children hurried inside the store, went through and around the 7 store, but still could not find the watch.

Soon the man felt hopeless and wanted to 8. A little boy went up to him and asked for another 9. The man looked at him and thought, "Why not? 10 this kid looks sincere enough. "11 the man sent him back in the store. After a while the boy 12 with the watch in his hand! The man was very 13, and he asked the boy how he found it while the others had 14. The boy replied, "I did nothing but sat on the ground and 15. Then I heard the ticking(滴答声) of the watch and just looked for it in that 16." We usually think about our own needs, which can't bring peace into our mind. 17 we need to think about ourselves and keep peaceful for a while, which can produce a 18 result. So allow a few minutes of 19 to your mind every day, and see how it helps you deal with your work and make 20 as you expect to!

    When I was a kid, Mom used to cook food for us. One night after (spend) a long hard day at work, Mom placed a plate of bread jam and (extreme) burnt toast（烤面包） in front of my dad, I was waiting (see) if he noticed it. However, while eating his toast. Dad just asked me my day was at school. I don't remember what I told him that night, I do remember I heard Mom apologizing to Dad for burning the toast. I'll never forget what Dad said, "Honey, I love burnt toast."

    Later that night, I (go) to kiss Daddy good night and asked him if he really liked his toast burned. He gave me big hug and said, "Your mamma put in a long hard day at work today, really (tire). Besides, a burnt toast never hurts but cold words do!"

    What I've learned over the years (be) that learning to accept each other's faults is one of the most important (key) to creating a healthy, growing and lasting relationship.

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