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Slightly larger than the North Island, and much less populated, the South Island of New Zealand is well known for its fantastic scenery and wide range of outdoor activities. Among the many places you could visit, here are some of the best known.
Marlborough Wine Region
The largest wine area in New Zealand(producing more than half of New Zealand's wine), Marlborough is home to New Zealand's most famous wine, made from the sauvignon blanc(长相思) grapes. Take a car and spend a few days visiting some of Marlborough's wineries(酿酒厂). Most have wines available for tasting and a number of them also have their own restaurant or cafe, where you can enjoy the wine alongside.
Kaikoura
The charming background of Kaikoura is the snow-capped mountain range which seems to come all the way down to the sea. Among the many activities here—fishing, hiking, kayaking(划独木舟) and even bird watching—the one not to miss is a boat trip on the bay to see the whales. Kaikoura is in fact one of the best places in the world for whale watching.
Queenstown
On any list of places to visit in New Zealand, Queenstown should be at the top. This alpine(高山的) town has things to do for all seasons, and impressive scenery that is among the country's very finest. Located on the shores of Lake Whakatipu, there is a full range of water as well as land-based activities. In the winter Queenstown is the place for the best skiing in New Zealand.
Milford Sound
Mitre Peak is a mountain which seems to rise out of the waters of Milford Sound and is one of the most photographed and recognisable New Zealand sights. Milford Sound lies in the southwest corner of the South Island. The water is surrounded on either side by rock faces that rise at least 1, 200 meters (3, 900 feet) and after rain hundreds of waterfalls appear, some up to a thousand meters long.
It is no wonder that Milford Sound was described by Rudyard Kipling as the "Eighth Wonder of the World".
Is there a way to turn back the aging process in people? For centuries, people have been looking for a "fountain of youth". The idea is that if you find a magical fountain, and drink its water, you will not age.
Researchers in New York did not find an actual fountain of youth, but they may have found a way to turn back the aging process. It appears that the answer may be called the hypothalamus(下丘脑), which is part of your brain. It controls important body activities, including growth, the way we process food and so on.
Researchers at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine found that hypothalamus neural stem cells(干细胞) also influence how fast aging takes place.
Dongsheng Cai, a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, was the leading researcher in a study on aging in mice. He and his team reported their findings.
"Aging speed can be controlled by a particular place in the body, which is the hypothalamus. And it can be controlled by a particular type of cells, which are hypothalamus stem cells. "He added that when the hypothalamus starts aging, so does the body. So when hypothalamus function is in decline, particularly the loss of hypothalamus stem cells, and this protection against the aging development is lost, it eventually leads to aging.
Using this information, the researchers began trying to activate the hypothalamus in laboratory mice. They did this by injecting the animals with stem cells.
The researchers said the results showed that the treatment slowed aging in the animals. "When we injected the hypothalamus stem cells to the middle-aged mice, the mice aged slowly and they can also live longer."
But these results were just from studying mice in a laboratory. If the mice can live longer, does that mean people could have longer lives? The next step is to see if the anti-aging effects also work in human beings.
"If we can translate what we have seen in animals to humans, I think humans can function better during later ages." Cai and his team say their study may have other benefits. They say the findings could lead to new ways to help doctors identify and treat any number of age-related health issues.
Squatting down on my disorganized closet floor, I looked eagerly through my albums for the picture of my grandma's Christmas lights. I searched so long and so eagerly that I lost all feeling in the legs. Ignoring the pain, I went on with my search, because finding the picture was worth it.
My beloved grandma on my dad's side, who passed away almost four years ago, would decorate the Christmas trees like it was her job. Each year she would decorate an ornate, 12-foot-tall, shining tree in her living room, and most years she would have an additional pink tree, palm tree, coloured-light tree, white-light tree, bedroom tree, etc. The ideas varied year after year, but the theme was always the same:Let There Be Light.
For the outside of the house, my grandma hired people to come and string thousands of lights through the trees in her yard. It wasn't easy, and it wasn't cheap, but it was a labour of love. People in the small town came and parked their kid-packed cars on the street, gazing at the thousands upon thousands of shining lights year after year. They brought us magic, which was grandma's legacy. That is the family act I am supposed to follow for the rest of my life. It's what I'm dying to recreate and pass on to my own kids. I feel so much pressure because no one is capable of doing it—and of doing it correctly—but me.
So, it's me and only me, each year unfastening countless strings of lights, winding them round a 10-foot, prickly tree, and sending the lights to the highest branches. Though I'm only ever just scratching the surface of grandma's magic, I uncover a little more each year. I still haven't found that picture of my grandma's Christmas lights, but I know it exists, and I will find it, even if it means losing all feeling in my legs.
A funny thing happened on the way to the communications revolution: we stopped talking to one another.
I was walking in the park with a friend recently, and his cell phone rang, interrupting our conversation. There we were walking and talking on a beautiful sunny day and…I became invisible, absent from the conversation. The telephone used to connect you to the absent. Now it makes people sitting next to you feel absent. Why is it that the more connected we get, the more disconnected I feel? Every advance in communications technology is a tragedy to the closeness of human interaction(互动). With email and instant messaging over the Internet, we can now communicate without seeing or talking to one another. With voice mail, you can conduct entire conversations without ever reaching anyone. If my mum has a question, I just leave the answer on her machine.
As almost every contact we can imagine between human beings gets automated(自动化), the alienation index(疏远指数) goes up. You can't even call a person to get the phone number of another person any more. Directory assistance is almost always fully automated.
I am not against modern technology. I own a cell phone, an ATM card, a voice mail system, and an email account. Giving them up isn't wise…they're a great help to us. It's some of their possible consequences that make me feel uneasy.
More and more. I find myself hiding behind email to do a job meant for conversation. Or being relieved that voice mail picked up because I didn't really have time to talk. The industry devoted to helping me keep in touch is making me lonelier…or at least facilitating my antisocial instincts.
So I've put myself on technology restriction: no instant messaging with people who live near me, no cell phoning in the presence of friends, no letting the voice mail pick up when I'm at home.
Working together is an art form. Sharing skills, talents and, above all, learning to compromise(妥协)is necessary when working with groups of people. Improve personal and professional relationships and open the door for productive group interactions.
Meet with the group, committee or board to define(规定)a corporate goal. Define your final outcome.
Set a date to reach each milestone with corresponding(相应的)meeting to come together. Remind team members not to consider their own interests in favour of the collective goal.
Understand the need to compromise on some issues. Decide what important things must be present in the final plan.
Assess(评估)the views of the group with an open mind. Don't prefer your own ideas and methods. Value the differences and absorb a variety of ideas into the joint project.
Learn to transform complex ideas into one. The spirit of co-operation is about many people coming together to contribute their advantages to one common goal.
Discuss ideas, not personalities. Stop the members when accusations(指责)go beyond the work.
A. Working with others means learning to cut your own individual learning goals.
B. Be a team player by co-operating with group members.
C. When being co-operative, it's important to respect the other people in the room.
D. Focus your energy on the assigned outcome, if an argument arises.
E. Learn to find out the advantages and disadvantages of your group members.
F. Create an action plan to achieve agreed upon goals.
G. Appreciate that differences exist between you and your group members.
When Sir Winston Churchill, the great British Prime Minister, reached his eightieth birthday in November, 1954, he was presented with his portrait by a well-known modern artist, Graham Sutherland. The painting had been ordered and paid for to 1 the Grand Old Man of World WarⅡ.
Sir Winston and Lady Churchill were deeply moved by this 2 of respect and affection. 3 of them, of course, allowed the others to see how much they both disliked the portrait. “It makes me look 4, which I am not!” protested Churchill in private(私下). 5, he only remarked that it was a fine example of modern art. His friends smiled. It was known that Churchills didn't 6 modern art.
Churchill was so unhappy about the portrait that finally his wife had it 7. Churchill died at ninety in 1965. Lady Churchill 8 him in 1977. Shortly after her death, the public learned what had happened to the 9, and a heated argument broke out. The painter was 10 sad. The artist community, shocked and 11, said that the destruction of the picture had been a crime(罪行). Historians said that they regretted the disappearance of a(n) 12 document. All agreed that the Churchills didn't have the 13 to do what they had done.
Graham Sutherland had told Churchill that he would 14 him “as he saw him”. Churchill never had a chance to see the work in 15 since the painter 16 to show it to him. He found out only 17 he received his present that Sutherland had seen him 18 a heavy, sick, tired old man. Since he hated old age, he was naturally 19.
Who has the right to a work of art, the owner, the donor, or the artist who created it? Was the portrait a good one, as many (including the painter) said? Or was it bad as others thought? None of these questions have been answered yet to everybody's 20.
Have you just been fired? Don't worry. Cheer (you) up and send your wings. Perhaps another much (good) opportunity is awaiting you. Though sometimes you don't realise it, you are asking to be fired.
Dan Zawacki was a happy camper,(sell) computers for Honeywell. One holiday he was thinking up creative gifts and then good idea came to him—selling dinner live lobsters(龙虾) to his favourite customers. He packaged them himself with butter and put them in the trunk of his car between the computers and started delivering. It was a huge success. As a result, one of his customers suggested they go the lobster business together. Dan laughed. Still, this landlocked computer salesman couldn't get the idea of lobsters out of his mind. Why not turn this into a hobby make a few extra dollars? While on a job assignment in Chicago, he persuaded a local radio station (give) him a few ads in exchange for lobsters.(fortunate), his boss's boss heard his prize salesman selling lobsters, not computers. No surprised, Dan was let go. After returning the company's car, he (start) to think maybe this was a sign. Playing with his phone that night, Dan tried dialing 1-800-LIVE-LOB. The number was available, and Dan the lobsterman was born. Today, twenty (year) later, Dan is still selling dinners, through his company, Lobster Gram. And he couldn't be happier.
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Thank you for your letter. To tell you the truth, I've thought a lot of about whether you should buy a laptop help you with your study. In my opinion, you'd better not. For one reason, it's very easy for you to develop some bad habit once you have it, such as playing computer games, see movies and so on, which will be a waste of time. For other reason, buying a laptop don't mean you can study well. If you want to make a progress, you need to put your heart into your study but work hard. Whether you had a laptop or not is not the most important. Do you agree to me? Looking forward to your reply!
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