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With Memorial Day and summer right around the corner, you're bound to feel a serious case of wanderlust coming on. Whether you want to travel the world or just squeeze in a weekend getaway to your nearest National Park, camping is always the answer. Whatever you've got in mind, we've rounded up a selection of the world's most beautiful camping spots to get you started.
●Yosemite National Park, California
Ninety-five percent of Yosemite National Park is set apart for wilderness, which means no cars, no buildings, and no electricity. Sleep under the stars and hike up to Glacier Point for a view of Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, and Yosemite Falls. Make sure you store your food properly though - black bears are common!
●Boya Lake Provincial Park, Canada
Boya Lake Provincial Park, known for the color and clarity of its lake, is a great place to enjoy any type of water recreation. The lake is also one of the few in the north that's warm enough for swimming. The area was carved out by glaciers, leaving many islands and lakes behind for modern campers to explore on the park's hiking trails.
●Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica
Corcovado National Park is home to five percent of the world's biodiversity--National Geographic described it as the most "geographically intense" place in the world. Camping is a great option for a visit to Costa Rica: you'll be at the heart of the rainforest, away from the country's touristy resorts.
●Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
If you've always dreamed of safaris (野外观兽旅行), Maasai Mara is the place to go. The best time to visit this large game reserve is between July and October, when you can witness the annual migration (迁徙) of Thomson's gazelle, zebra, and wildebeest to and from the neighboring Serengeti, in Tanzania. Camp on the banks of the Mara River and hang out with the local Maasai people, well-known for their unique customs and dress.
Many people prefer eating out instead of cooking at home. A change appears to be taking place, though, and millennials (千禧一代） are leading the way. According to one survey, more young people are starting to cook at home for three basic reasons: They can save money, eat healthy and waste less food.
Popular TV chefs are also getting millennials excited about learning some basic cooking skills. Many millennials view cooking as a form of entertainment and self-expression. They proudly post pictures of their cooking creations on Facebook or Instagram, and invite friends over to share the cooking experience.
Many millennials have also found ways to avoid wasting food. After roasting a chicken, they put the leftover bones in their freezer instead of the garbage can. Later, they use the bones to make chicken soup, which is an important raw material in many dishes.
They also hate throwing out fruit that's too old. To avoid that situation, they bake ripe fruit like berries and bananas for 15 minutes at 175 degrees C. Then they freeze it overnight. After that, they place the fruit in plastic bags and store it their freezer for later use.
Now millennials only eat at restaurants that have excellent food-waste policies. These servants use every part of the vegetables they buy, including their stems and roots, in dishes. They also use beef, chicken and pork bones to make their own soup.
Millennials also reduce food waste by only buying what they require. Before going to a market, they write down what they need and don't buy anything else. They way they won't purchase more food than they can consume.
As missing children age, their appearances are quite different from their last known photographs, which makes finding them tough. Now AI could make it quicker to match any found children to those old photos.
Police can use software to age photos of people who have been missing for a while, but these tend to work best in adults, as age-related changes to adult faces are more predictable and so easier to simulate(模拟).
With children, these aged images don't tend to be like the older child, and matching photos of found children to old images in a database of missing children is difficult.
Now Debayan Deb, a professor at Michigan State University, and his colleagues have created an program to do this for them. They trained a face-recognition program on data sets including the Children Longitudinal (纵向的) Face data set, which contains images of nearly 1000 children aged between 2 and 18 years old. Each was photographed at least four times over a period of six years.
The AI learned to match recent photographs of children with images taken 2. 5 years earlier 80 per cent of the time.
With one year between the two photographs, the method was 90 per cent accurate at identifying faces. This dropped to 73 per cent after three years. The approach beats comparing children with photos taken when they were aged 0 to 4 that have been aged by software, which hovers at 50 per cent recognition after six months. The new AI might help to improve accuracy of this kind of software as well.
"This is a very good paper that could potentially be used to identify missing children," says Amarjot Singh at the University of Cambridge.
Deb's next goal is to extend the age gap. His team also hopes to develop an app that could be used to fight child trafficking (拐卖).
When is the last time you slept under the stars and cooked dinner over an open fire? You never know — you may just fall back in love with the great outdoors and turn it into an annual vacation!
Escape the busy city life
Why go camping? Once your tent and campsite is set-up, you don't have to worry about cleaning, laundry or any other tasks that seem to consume your everyday life. And it's a chance for you to turn off the smartphone, computer and other electronics to just sit back and relax.
There's so much beauty in the outdoors and we rarely get the chance to appreciate it. From beautiful mountains to freshwater lakes ideal for swimming, you'll have your pick of outdoor activities to engage in.
Quality time with friends and family
This will give your friends and family a chance to have some true quality time together whether it's playing sports, cooking or simply talking to one another — without the usual distractions (使人分心的事).
You can learn new skills
Living outdoors gives you the opportunity to learn some survival skills. You may also learn how to protect yourself from mosquitoes and other insects, as well as experience how many material possessions you really can do without.
Camping is affordable
When it comes to budget vacations, a camping trip is one of the most economical choices for a family getaway. Groceries can be bought ahead of time and once you've settled into the campsite, there's no need to worry about purchasing more food or buying souvenirs. Happy camping!
A. Decide with whom you are camping
B. Gain a newfound appreciation for Mother Nature
C. Make it a rule to keep the electronic games at home
D. You'll likely manage to build a fire after a camping trip.
E. Planning a camping trip begins with the desire to get outdoors.
F. It gives you the opportunity to do nothing for a weekend or even longer.
G. So if you're looking for a trip that's going to save money, get out there and set up that tent.
There is always a time in one's life when a hero comes along. Someone who has inspired you can really help you learn what life is about.
I 1 it as if it was yesterday. I was fifteen years old that year. It was around eight o'clock one evening when my mother2 a phone call from her brother-in-law, who told us my aunt was in hospital and that the doctor 3 them she would need an operation immediately. My family became very4 about my aunt's situation.
While my aunt was in the hospital with special5, my cousin Mark, who is mentally disabled, spent time with my family. Mark was seventeen at the time, and had been born with severe mental disorders, which6 a wide range of social and physical problems for him throughout everyday life. He never had any true friend7no one could relate to him. I must
8 that at the beginning I was filled with uncertainty as to how much of a 9 my cousin would bring on my family. Now looking back it saddens me to see the10I once showed.
Over the two weeks when Mark lived with my family, I probably11more about life and its meanings. Thinking back, I took 12in daily life for granted, believing it would always be there. I never even thought about being able to do things like walking, brushing my teeth, or going to the bathroom on my own. Now I see how 13I am to be able to do these things independently.
Mark was seventeen, but learned on a nine-year-old14. Although his learning ability was slower than most, he could still learn. He explored15 to do most of the things everyone else did. 16 he did pretty well and succeeded at almost everything he tried to do. He 17 his illness and showed an ambition to love life. To him, having a successful life means achieving goals on his own terms and at his own 18.
Mark is my hero, for his disability has forever19my viewpoint on life. It seems like a well-deserved life when you're fifteen, and it is amazing how in a period of time your point of view can change so20.
Curiosity is part of human nature. Children are famous wanting answers to tons of questions. People keep reading or watching because they want to find out happens. But curiosity also provides many practical (benefit).
Many of history greatest discoveries (make) by curious people. People wondered how processes worked or how certain tasks could be done more (effective). Thanks to their curiosity, people now know far more about the world and have useful technology to help (they).
Even if you don't plan to be. inventor of researcher, curiosity can still help you in the classroom. If you develop the joy of (learn), classes will become more fun. And you'll be ahead of others you will be fully engaged in the process of learning. Even if you're no longer a student, curiosity will make you better (inform) and thus a more capable worker.
I walked alongside my father, grabbing his right hand tightly. All my clothes were new: the black shoes, the green school uniform, and the red cap. They did not make me happy, however, as this was the day I was to be thrown into school for the first time.
My mother stood at the window watching our progress, and I turned towards her from time to time, hoping she would help. We walked along a street lined with gardens, and fields planted with crops: pears, and date palms.
"Why school?" I asked my father. "What have I done?"
"I'm not punishing you," he said, laughing. "School's not a punishment. It's a place that makes useful men out of boys. Don't you want to be useful like your brothers?"
I was not convinced. I did not believe there was really any good to be had in tearing me away from my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled building.
When we arrived at the gate we could see the courtyard, vast and full of boys and girls. "Go in by yourself," said my father, "and join them. Put a smile on your face and be a good example to others. "
I hesitated and clung(粘着) to his hand, but he gently pushed me from him. "Be a man, " he
said. "Today you truly begin life. You will find me waiting for you when it's time to leave. "
I took a few steps. Then the faces of the boys and girls came into view. I did not know a single one of them, and none of them knew me. I felt I was a stranger who had lost his way. But then some boys began to glance at me in curiosity, and one of them came over and asked, "Who brought you?"
"My father," I whispered.
"My father's dead," he said simply.
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Paragraph 2. Well, it seemed that my worry had no basis.
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