Located beside Lake Geneva, the Olympic Museum houses more than 10,000 artificial objects and hours of interactive contents highlighting some of the best moments during the Olympics. Here are some of the museum's most moving moments.
The Olympic Park
The journey through the Olympic Museum begins in the Olympic Park, an 8,000-square-meter outdoor area in front of the museum overlooking Lake Geneva and the Alps. The park contains artwork and sculptures that show respect to the world of sport.
The first Olympic symbol
The "Olympic Rings" flag was designed by Coubertin in 1913. The rings represent the five continents that participate in the Olympics: Africa, Asia, America, Australia and Europe. The six colors include at least one color that is represented on the flag of every country.
The stadiums
The stadiums that host the Olympic Games are as much of a celebration of design as the games are a celebration of sportsmanship. Guests can explore plans and models of Olympic stadiums' past and present, including one of the games' most attractive stadiums, the Bird's Nest from Beijing 2008 Olympics.
The Olympic medals
Have you ever wondered what an Olympic medal looks like? The Olympic Museum has a room that houses every bronze, silver, and gold medal from every Olympic Games dating back to the first modern Olympics of 1896. Each medal design is a unique representation of the year and location in which the games were held.
A new study shows students who write notes by hand during lectures perform better on exams than those who use laptops(笔记本电脑).
Students are increasingly using laptops for note-taking because of speed and legibility(清晰度). But the research has found laptop users are less able to remember and apply the concepts they have been taught.
Researchers performed experiments that aimed to find out whether using a laptop increased the tendency to make notes "mindlessly" by taking down word for word what the professor said.
In the first experiment, students were given either a laptop or pen and paper. They listened to the same lectures and were told to use their usual note-taking skills. Thirty minutes after the talk they were examined on their ability to remember facts and on how well they understood concepts.
The researchers found that laptop users took twice as many notes as those who wrote by hand. However, the typists performed worse at remembering and applying the concepts. Both groups scored similarly when it came to memorizing facts.
The researchers' report said, "While more notes are beneficial, if the notes are taken mindlessly, as is more likely the case on a laptop, the benefit disappears. "
In another experiment aimed at testing long-term memory, students took notes as before but were tested a week after the lecture. This time, the students who wrote notes by hand performed significantly better on the exam.
These two experiments suggest that handwritten notes are not only better for immediate learning and understanding, but that they also lead to superior revision in the future.
As you grow rapidly through your teenage years, you will experience a lot of changes. The changes may seem difficult and they may seem to happen quickly. Don't panic! You will deal successfully with them! You are a young adult now!
With more responsibility, you will find more freedom to make your own choices. This is a time to be well informed about your choices so that you can make healthy balanced decisions that will help shape your future. You may already know your career path or you may have no idea at all what you want to do. Both situations are fine! Work hard and the right opportunity will present itself to you.
Young adulthood means greater freedom and more choices. You will probably want to be independent. But try not to shut your family out of your life. You should learn to think of others even though you are old enough to look after yourself. Your family have been with you since you came into this world.
It is also perfectly natural in this time for you to spend more time with your friends than your family. Choose your friends wisely. A true friend will stand by you no matter what happens. This period is part of the life cycle. There are some people who will be with you throughout life's journey and there will be some people with whom you part and go separate ways. Leaving school can be hard. The reality is that you may not ever see all of your classmates again.
You are a young adult. It is your life. No one can live it for you. The choices that you make from now on will be your choices. So making the right choices will be important to you. Life is for living. Enjoy your life wisely!
More than 10 million Chinese cultural relics have been lost overseas, most of which were stolen and illegally shipped out of China during the times of war before 1949. About 1. 67 million pieces are housed in more than 200 museums in 47 countries, which accounts for 10 percent of all lost Chinese cultural relics, and the rest are in the hands of private collectors.
Most of these treasures are owned by museums or private collectors in the United States, Europe, Japan and Southeast Asian countries. There are more than 23,000 pieces in the British Museum, most of which were stolen or bought for pennies more than 100 years ago.
The major method to recover these national treasures was to buy them back. In some cases, private collectors donated the relics to the government. Also the government can turn to official channels (渠道) to demand the return of relics.
In 2003, a priceless bronze pig's head dating from the Qing Dynasty was returned to its home in Beijing after it was removed by the Anglo-French Allied Army over 140 years ago. Macao entrepreneur (企业家) Stanley Ho donated 6 million yuan to buy it back from a US art collector and then donated it to the Poly Art Museum in Beijing.
Although buying-back is the most feasible way to recover the lost treasures, limited funding is always a big headache.
In recent years, the Chinese government has improved efforts to recover the precious cultural relics lost overseas. It has started a national project on the recovery of the treasures and has set up a database (数据库) collecting relevant information. It has signed several international agreements with many countries on this matter, and is also looking for international cooperation to recover the relics by working closely with several international organizations.
The only way we can really successfully deal with the unpleasant or unknown situations is to stay open minded. . Here is what they say worth trying.
Stay calm. One of the fastest ways to close your mind is to feel annoyed. . So try taking a deep breath and calming down a little to help fight the feelings of defensiveness or annoyance that might pop up when you find something that doesn't quite match how you see the world.
Be curious. This sounds easy, but it's not. It requires an active choice when you meet something you didn't know. You have to keep asking yourself. "Do I just assure this is something I already knew? Or do I want to be curious?" .
Surround yourself with the right people. Open-mindedness is often thought of as a one way street. . But the truth is that you can go both ways if you are surrounded by right people.
. Being around different people day to day can actually change your brain and you are more likely to see the world in a new way. And that's what real open mindedness is about: the willingness to consider, even briefly, another point of view.
A. Many of us consider ourselves open minded
B. So it's possible that a little bit of help could be the push we need
C. However, experts say it's easier said than done for most of us
D. The best condition for open mindedness is to diversify the people in your life
E. When you're angry the last thing you want to do is to adjust yourself
F. Answering these questions is a big step toward being open minded
G. Either you're open minded to the world around you, or you're not
Love Is Blind: The Magic of Tabby
In October, 2003 I started my work at my local animal shelter's Adoption Department. Over the years, more than 50, 000 animals have 1 the doors of the shelter. Most of them, I do not remember. But occasionally there are 2 animals, who touch me so deeply that I could never possibly 3 them. Tabby was one such animal.
Tabby was an ancient Cocker Spaniel, probably 14 years old. What's more, she was blind and deaf. Tabby's chances at adoption seemed 4 at best. After all, there weren't many adopters coming here 5, "Can you show me all of your really old dogs who are also 6?" We had all thought that Tabby would live out the rest of her life at the 7.
One day a woman named Loretta came to the shelter. Her son, Gary, had 8 Tabby's picture and stories on the shelter's website at home. They were interested in meeting her! It was the only 9 we ever had from others about Tabby. What could a young child possibly see in a 14-year-old dog who was both blind and deaf? Most boys would want a dog who could grow with them and 10 through grassy fields on summer days. Tabby would 11 be able to do that. But after meeting her, Loretta and Gary decided that she was the right dog for their family. They adopted Tabby!
If Tabby's story had simply ended with her 12 adoption, it would still have been something very special indeed. 13, it was what happened after her adoption that people might regard as "magic". Gary 14 from seizures（癫痫）. Since Gary and Tabby met, they became 15. They did everything together. They became so "in tune" with one another that Tabby began to telegraph Gary's seizures 16 they occurred, giving his family a(n) 17 that one was about to strike. What's more, Gary seemed to be having fewer and fewer seizures since Tabby's 18.
How could it be? Nobody could explain 19 Tabby did it. But those of us who were fortunate enough to know her and her family had 20 the magic, the kind that has its roots in love.
Black Friday, which is a popular holiday, is usually celebrated day after Thanksgiving in the United States. On this day, Americans all over the country rise at dawn in order to stand at the head of the line at (vary) stores, so that they can get deeply discounted deals offered by these stores.
This day (call) Black Friday because it is the day on which many traders "hit the black", (mean) that they start to make money after being "in the red" all year long. The traders used (write) with a red pen on their ledgers (账簿) to show losses and black inks to show gains. It is not how this holiday gets its name, but it is (common) believed by the public to be the case.
Although this day continues to be a big holiday in the United States, it is beginning to lose some of its (popular). That is more and more people are turning their attention to online shopping. It allows them to buy they want with convenience. As a result, Cyber (网络的)Monday appears, which is a day directly competes with Black Friday and may lead to (it) downfall.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏子符号（Λ）并在其下面写出该加的词
删除：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不记分。
I'm a middle school student name Li Ming. I'm writing to tell you something. Recently I have noticed many of my classmates often go to the cyber cafe near our school. I went there too in the other day. I was surprising to see many students playing computer games, watching films or chat. Some students are even talking about love affairs online. On my opinion, the cyber cafe should be a place which we can find much useful informations. The Internet should be a window to the outside world rather than place for games. The Internet is good if we make good use of them. Otherwise, it will do us great harm. So the local government should take measures to make sure that students use cyber cafes positively.
