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Everything to know about Singapore
Here is how to plan the best possible trip to this impressive city-state.
When to go
Positioned just one degree north of the Equator, Singapore is consistently tropical. So it's more a matter of when not to go. Namely: the monsoon season between November and January when the city is blanketed in regular rainfall.
What to celebrate
Singapore celebrates its independence in an annual celebration known as National Day. Every year on August 9, the holiday is marked with great excitement that extends into the evening, ending in a massive fireworks display over Marina Bay.
What to eat
Hainanese chicken rice is considered the national dish of Singapore, as you can find it just about everywhere. If you are looking for something a bit spicier, try laksa--a coconut curry-based noodle soup.
Souvenir to take home
The Merlion is Singapore's official mascot(吉祥物), a mythical beast with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. Many local salesmen offer hand-carved figurines that fit easily into carry-on luggage and will serve as a lasting symbol of your time here. Anyone who's ever visited this place directly connects the symbol to the city.
Travel trip
Hawker centers are open-air food markets featuring delightful street food. Eat at these as much as possible to support local business and for a true taste of Singaporean dining customs. While each has its own charm, Maxwell Road Hawker Center in Chinatown is the most famous.
Instagram-worthy view
A photo from the world's largest rooftop infinity pool-- connecting the three towers of the Marina Bay Sands-- is a must for many tourists here. But back on the ground, Merlion Park affords a more impressive view of the hotel itself.
In early February 2019, 51-year-old Rainer Schimpf and his team set out to film South Africa's famous Sardine Run off the coast of Port Elizabeth. The migration of billions of South African sardines, is a big draw for hunters, especially seabirds and dolphins. The two species work together to herd the large group of fish into smaller shoals (浅滩), which are then eaten by not just the birds and the dolphins, but also sharks and Bryde's whales.
In an attempt to find the best scene of the amazing natural phenomenon, which has been the subject of many films, Rainer got into the middle of a swirling ball of fish. Suddenly the sea churned (翻腾), and the experienced diver and his photographer Heinz Toperczer, who was filming from the boat, instantly realized something strange was going on.
Toperczer later said, "As Rainer moved towards the shoals, suddenly the water churned widely up, dolphins shot out of the water and then a whale appeared and caught him!"
Rainer, who was swallowed in darkness inside the whale's mouth, was trying to survive. "I held my breath because I thought he was going to dive down and release me much deeper in the ocean," the diver said.
Fortunately for Rainer, the whale quickly realized he was no sardine! "I felt huge pressure around my waist (腰部) which is when I guess the whale realized his mistake," he said. "As the whale turned sideways, he opened his mouth slightly to release me, and I was washed out, together with tons of water, of his mouth." Though the entire event lasted just 1. 8 seconds, it felt like a century to Rainer.
Still holding his underwater camera, the diver swam to his boat, where he was quickly rescued by the members of the team. The terrifying adventure did not worry Rainer for too long. After checking to ensure he had no injuries, the diver returned to the water. Fortunately, the rest of the adventure went peacefully.
Whether in the home or the workplace, social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years. Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist at the robot company Jibo.
While household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools. For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad. This allows them to respond more appropriately to the user.
The Jibo robot, arranged to ship later this year, is designed to be a personalized assistant. You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks. The robot doesn't just deliver general answers to questions; it responds based on what it learns about each individual in the household. It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.
Social robots are not just finding their way into the home. They have potential applications in everything from education to health care and are already finding their way into some of these spaces.
Fellow Robots is one company bringing social robots to the market. The company's "Oshbot" robot is built to assist customers in a store, which can help the customers find items and help guide them to the product's location in the store. It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.
The more interaction the robot has with humans, the more it learns. But Oshbot, like other social robots, is not intended to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees." We have technologies to train social robots to do things not for us, but with us," said Breazeal.
When it comes to sitting properly, we all know the correct way even if we don't do it to the letter. No crossed legs, bottoms touching the back of the chair and feet on the ground. But even if you're doing it right, sitting for long periods is shockingly bad for you. It has been described as the new smoking, linked to heart disease and even cancer. There is no doubt we should all try to do less of it. But perhaps we could also do it better.
A classic survey, published in 1953, described 100 different sitting postures adopted by 480 cultures around the world. Among the most common were sitting cross-legged, kneeling and the deep squat (深蹲), with feet flat on the ground and bottoms resting on or just above it. Even in Western cultures, these are preferred sitting positions among young children. But Westerners tend to prefer chair use from an early age, insisting children sit on seats in school.
One big problem with this desire for chairs is that they make sitting so, well, sedentary (久坐不动的). Consider the Hadza, a group of hunter-gatherer people in Tanzania. They spend around 9 hours a day sitting. However, they squat and sit on the ground in various positions, and this involves high levels of muscle activity. The supportive nature of chairs, with their high backs and armrests, removes this effort perhaps the reason that people love them.
So what's the best way to sit? Josette Bettany-SaItikov at Teesside University, UK has found that kneeling can help keep the spine in a better position as does squatting. We might also take inspiration from traditional cultures like the Hadza. "Use a variety of postures and preferably not just still postures but some which allow movement," says Bettany-Saltikov.
Bettany-Saltikov believes that we should be rethinking what it means to do a desk job. "We still need to design workplaces that enable people to be productive while being lightly active, like with under-table cycling or walking desks," she says. For now, if your job is sedentary, don't forget to stand up regularly and move around.
You have an important test tomorrow. But you're still worried. You need to relax. What can help? Maybe a quiet walk? A cup of tea? A little yoga? Psychologists have another idea: Sit down and write! Write about your stress.
Why does writing help? There are two reasons. First, your memory works like the memory in a computer. You need to delete (删除) some documents to make room for other documents. So they need a lot of room in their brains for memory. They need to delete their "documents" of stress. Writing helps them by moving the stress out of the brain and putting it on paper. The second reason is writing helps you to focus. People write about their stress. As a result, they feel less worried. Then they can focus better on other things.
Psychologists are studying the connection between stress and writing. They do experiments with students. They put students into two groups.The other group sits quietly. Then all the students take a test. What are the results? The students in the writing group do better than the other group of students.
Some people don't sleep well. Writing at night will help them sleep better. Some athletes get stressed about winning or losing. They can't focus on playing well. Writing before a game can help them play better. People in job interviews get stressed, too. Writing before an interview can help them relax.
Try this experiment: Go to class ten minutes early, and write about your stress. You can write in English or your own language. Then take the test. Maybe the psychologists are right. Maybe writing will help you, too.
A. Do you get stressed about tests?
B. Writing can help other people, too.
C. Writing can help you perform well in an exam.
D. Students need to remember a lot of information.
E. One group writes about their stress for ten minutes.
F. Do you feel relaxed after writing about your stress?
G. You study very hard and you're doing well in the class.
I went to a group activity, "Sensitivity Sunday", which was to make us more1the problems faced by disabled people. We were asked to "2 a disability" for several hours one Sunday. Some members, 3, chose to use wheelchairs. Others wore soundblocking earplugs (耳塞) or blindfolds (眼罩).
Just sitting in the wheelchair was a4experience. I had never considered before how5it would be to use one. As soon as I sat down, my6 made the chair begin to roll. Its wheels were not7. Then I wondered where to put my 8. It took me quite a while to get the metal footrest into9. I took my first uneasy look at what was to be my only means of 10for several hours. For disabled people, "adopting a wheelchair" is not a temporary (临时的) 11.
I tried to find a12position and thought it might be restful, 13 kind of nice, to be14 around for a while. Looking around, I15 I would have to handle the thing myself! My hands started to ache as I16the heavy metal wheels. I came to know that controlling the17 of the wheelchair was not going to be a (n)18task.
My wheelchair experiment was soon 19. It made a deep impression on me. A few hours of "disability" gave me only a taste of the20, both physical and mental, that disabled people must overcome.
Marty is a (able) but a fairly positive person who never feels (annoy) for himself. In other words, he has learned to adapt to his disability. Marty always tries hard to live good life. He is realistic his disability he never stops doing as much as he can. He keeps (he) busy doing things like(write) and computer programming that do not require (physics) strength.
He has friends with whom he has access to going to movies and football matches and he has lots of pets. He also studies hard and never has absence from school. He is a (mental) strong (depend) boy. All in all, he is able to live as rich and full a life as everyone else.
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On a sunny day last month, I was visiting Summer Palace when I came across a little girl standing alone with tear streaming down her face. I walked up to her and offered to help. Thankful, she calmed down and told me what had been happened. She came here to do some sightseeing with her parents and they got separated. Immediately I take her to the broadcasting station. Before hearing the news, her parents rushed here. The girl couldn't wait to run towards him. The couple thanked me warmly, expressing their thanks for my kind help. Seen the family disappear into the distant, I felt very happy.
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