PAUL HEMINGTON, 57, is the Assistant Operations Manager at Cheddar Gorge(切达峡谷) and Caves cheddargorge.co.uk
I moved to SOMERSET mainly for my family. My daughter was getting married and I didn’t want to live six hours away, so we made the move. Once we moved, we were made unneeded and it was a mad race to get work. I ended up at here at Cheddar Gorge and Caves.
Cheddar Gorge is like nothing else in the UK. It’s a unique phenomenon, because although there are other caves in the country, you don’t have the gorge elsewhere. This is a major geological feature, it’s three miles long and there’s just this natural, raw beauty. I can sit at my desk in guest services and look out at part of the gorge. It’s amazing.
The Cheddar Gorge spirit is strong. You know, not having worked here or heard about the area, you come here and it gets under your skin in the right way. You become part of it, it becomes part of you. I’m very passionate about it. And there’s the amazing wildlife, the geology, the prehistory — Cheddar Man is still one of the greatest finds in the UK.
Every day at Cheddar Gorge and Caves is different. You’ve got the rock sports side of things, the climbing, the caving. We take people through the caves on tours and we have pre-history, which we do with the museum, whereby we have schools come in and do demonstrations with them. We will dress up as genuinely as we can to reproduce the time period of the Cheddar Man, which is the Mesolithic period, so 10,000 years ago. We do fire lighting, for example, and hopefully it’s inspiring to the young people! It’s really cool to be in the museum garden and have part of the gorge as the background while you’re doing it, so you can really submerge yourself in that moment.
My favourite spot is when you go past the peak on the walk and you can look back down into the gorge or across to the reservoir. The view is amazing. Yes, you can see pictures of it, but honestly you have to be there to fully appreciate it. You might hear some buzzards or see some sheep or goats while you’re up there, just to enhance the experience!
1.PAUL HEMINGTON originally moved to Cheddar Gorge to __________.A.settle down in the countryside | B.be closer to his daughter |
C.land a job as a tour guide | D.take part in a competitive race |
A.affects you deeply | B.bothers you greatly |
C.increases your strength | D.improves your skin condition |
A.He goes to the school to give lectures on pre-history. |
B.He demonstrates to young people how to climb rocks. |
C.He participates in recreating the scenes in the Mesolithic period. |
D.He decorates the museum garden to make it look like the gorge. |
A.How he adapts to the local way of life. |
B.What major local attractions are worth seeing. |
C.Why Cheddar Gorge ranks first as a natural wonder. |
D.What makes Cheddar Gorge so special to him. |
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y = arcsin x, x∈[–1,1], y∈[–π/2,π/2]
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sin x = 1/2 ←→ arcsin x = π/6
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