基本信息 | 位置:广州番禺区(Panyu District)迎宾路 |
面积:1000多亩(mu) | |
地位:中国领先的海洋主题公园之一 | |
特点 | 1.有6个园区,各种各样的种娱乐设施,如过山车、跳楼机等; |
2.富丽堂皇的演艺广场(performing square)和大型巡游; | |
3.在白虎大街(The White Tiger Street)购物。 |
Guangzhou Chimelong Paradise
“Bye, Mom; bye, Dad; don’t worry. We’ll take care of everything!’’ Carly waved from the front door of the shop as her parents drove off. They were headed for a well-deserved vacation from their candy store, and Carly had promised them she’d be able to run it by herself. Her parents didn’t quite agree, however, so they gave in to each other by having Carly Aunt Maggie come over and help. Her parents often called her aunt “uniquely creative’’, but it didn’t matter; Carly always had fun when her aunt was around.
Maggie blew into the store happily. “All right, Carly my love, what do we do first?” she smiled at her niece. Carly knew clearly the main job was to serve customers, so she could hardly wait to make her best candies. Seeing them on display, Aunt Maggie bit a bite of the chocolate mint-flavored candy. “It’s good, but… unoriginal,” commented her aunt. “We can do better.”
Before Carly could question what Maggie meant, the woman had gone to investigate the kitchen in the back. Shortly, she came back, hands full of items. “We need to add some of these to better that basic taste.” “Brussels sprouts? (芽甘蓝粉)’’ Carly looked at her aunt, surprised and puzzled. She couldn’t be serious! But she was. Carly’s eyes grew wide as she watched her aunt mix it together. “And some spicy sauce (辣酱汁)? That’s definitely an ice cream flavor. The cold will perfectly make candies less spicy!” Carly shook her head as Maggie continued her strange candy combinations: lemonade-flavored candy, barbeque-flavored candy...
Carly looked up as the bell over the front door rang, announcing some customers. Three boys came in and approached the counter. “Try something new!” insisted Maggie, offering the first boy a piece of the Brussels sprout candy she had made, the second boy a spoon of hot sauce one... Puzzled, but too polite to argue, the boys left the store.
“There go our customers. Nobody will want to shop here!” Carly said to herself. The store was quiet. Carly sat behind the counter, not knowing what to wait.
With the sound of the bell again, the boys came back.
Carly had never seen the shop so busy!
The winter had been long. I desperately needed a break, so I decided to have a trip with a friend. The trip was just three days away, and it consumed my every thought.
I was planning to pick up some things for the trip during my lunch break,but at around 12:30pm, the boss came to my desk and asked to speak with me in the boardroom.
At first, I didn’t think anything of it, but as I entered the room and saw the human-resource manager had already been seated, I knew it couldn’t be good. Just months before my ten-year anniversary (周年纪念日) with the company, I was kicked out.
As I left the office with my belongings, I was in complete shock—too shocked to even cry. I wondered how they could do this after everything I had done for them.
Canceling my trip wasn’t a choice, as I needed it now more than ever. But instead of buying a new hat for the beach, I spent the next two days rewriting my resume (简历) and standing in line for unemployment insurance.
The night before my trip, I had a dream that my friend came to pick me up to go to the airport. I had two suitcases at the door—one that was packed and the other that was empty. When I got to the airport, I realized that I had brought the empty one.
When I woke, I realized this dream meant that I was leaving all of my “baggage” behind and I did. I enjoyed and appreciated my vacation more than any others. And while I usually feel depressed about returning from a trip, I wasn’t this time. Having had time and distance from my work break-up and a dream about getting rid of my old baggage, I was looking forward to returning and starting the next chapter of my life.
I knew I wasn’t going to find a position in my narrow, competitive field right away.
I started writing after I was out of work, and I did it because I liked it.
Dear Li Hua, My roommates at my dorm isolate (孤立) me all the time. They have their own group chat and never talk to me. We have never had any real conflicts (冲突). I don’t know whether it’s because of different hobbies or my personality. Should I do something to change the situation? Jiujiu |
Best wishes,
Li Hua
The news that Derby has approved what promises to be Britain’s largest urban rewilding project so far is very welcome. The 320-hectare Allestree Park will, subject to detailed consultation, be given over to a range of habitats and perhaps even see the reintroduction of species such as dormice and red kites.
Urban rewilding - which is not the same as urban green space, however extensive - can take many forms. They
But in fact, some of the most successful projects have been
Urban rewilding,
The pressure for development means that there will always be tension with
In these mid-pandemic, post-Brexit, austerity-bitten (财政紧缩的) times, the financial arguments can be hardest to
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“The dangerous thing about lying is people don’t understand how the act changes us,” says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University. Psychologists have documented children lying as early as the age of two. Lying is even considered
According to Ariely, lying takes work. In studies, he have subjects a chance to deceive for monetary gains while examining their brains in a functional MRI machine. Some people told the truth instantly. But others opted to lie, and they showed increased activity in their frontal parietal(颅腔壁的)control network, which is involved in complex thinking. It suggested that they were deciding between truth and dishonesty, and after thinking about it,
External conditions also matter in terms of when and how often we lie. We are more likely to lie, research shows, when we see others being dishonest. And we are less likely to lie when we think others are watching. “We
In a 2016 study, Ariely and colleagues showed how dishonesty alters people’s brains, making it easier to tell lies in the future. When people told a lie, the scientists noticed a burst of activity in their amygdala, a crucial part of the brain that produces fear and guilt. But when scientists had their subjects
Yours,
Li Hua
In 2009, the number of hungry people in the world reached one billion for the first time. It is difficult not to be shocked by the fact that more than one in seven people on the planet do not have enough to eat.
The UN estimates that almost two-thirds of the world’s hungry people are in Asia, which is of course the world’s most populous continent.
Although many people point out that there would be less hunger if the global population were smaller, few people would argue that there is not enough food to go around. The basic problem seems to be not a lack of food, but its distribution.In the last 50 years, global food production has risen even more quickly than the global population and there are of course many areas of the world where people generally have more than enough food.
A.More than a quarter are in sub-Saharan Africa. |
B.There are many reasons for world hunger. |
C.It takes the effort of every country to fight against world hunger. |
D.In those places, obesity is a far bigger problem than hunger there. |
E.Those places need far more food than they actually get. |
F.By the end of this year, more than 35 million people will have died as a result of not having enough to eat. |
Sincerely yours,
Li Hua