Some of the best museums across China are putting their exhibitions online in VR format for free. While stuck at home due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, why not take a detailed online tour at museums that you would not otherwise have time for?
The Palace MuseumThe Palace Museum is known as the Forbidden City. Visitors can browse all the buildings of the Palace Museums. More than 400000 imperial artifacts have been digitized online, which can definitely help you gain knowledge and immerse yourself in a cultural atmosphere.
The websites: //pano.dpm.org.cn/gugong_app_pc/index.html //www.dpm.org.cn/shuziduobaoge/html
Shanghai MuseumShanghai Museum is a large and famous museum, which collects over 120,000 precious artistic relics from more than 5,000 years ago to the Qing Dynasty. The marvelous bronze, ceramics, paintings and calligraphies offer a visual feast for the eyes, and also provide a good chance for people to learn the profound Chinese history and culture.
If you are into ancient Chinese arts and crafts, then the online Shanghai Museum is definitely worth your time.
The website: //www.shanghaimuseum.net/treasure/show/show
Mogao CavesThe Mogao Caves, also known as Thousand Buddha Grottoes, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located near Dunhuang in northwest China's Gansu Province.
Now visitors can directly browse dozens of classic caves and appreciate the murals(壁画) by cave rooms through the "Digital Dunhuang", the website of the Mogao Caves. The development of "Digital Dunhuang" not only shocks visitors in a visual sense but also "moves" the Mogan Grottoes outside.
The website: //www.e-dunhuang.com/index.html
In my childhood, my mother spent her evening hours doing something for someone else. Sometimes she knitted (编织) hats for babies, and at other times, she cooked chicken soup for sick neighbors. Therefore, I wasn't surprised when one evening my mother announced she had undertaken a new project.
"I am going to telephone seniors," said my mother. "Every night? But you don't even know these people." "It doesn't matter," she said. What's important is that I listen. "I was sixteen years old and couldn't understand why my mother was willing to spend her evenings talking to strangers She had friends and my two older sisters to call if she felt lonely. "They will talk your ear off. Some people didn't even stop to catch breath," I said.
My attitude didn't stop my mother's enthusiasm for the project. That evening, she settled on the sofa and dialed. For a while, I listened as she asked the woman on the other line about her day and what she had eaten for dinner. When she finished the call, I said "Why do you care whether she had cookies or rice pudding for dessert?" My mother grasped one of my hands and gave it a slight squeeze. "I'm the only person she talked to today."
It took me more than thirty years to fully understand the meaning of that statement. Now, as my mother is nearing eighty, I find myself thinking about those nightly calls she used to make. I am often the only person who telephones my mother, and sometimes I'm the only person she speaks to all day. I ask her what she cooked for dinner, but mostly I just listen as she describes a walk she took, or how her dog Lucky stole foods from the refrigerator. I realize that my mother's calls were life lines that ensured housebound seniors remained connected to the world. Without her, their world would have been empty.
They asked Katherine Johnson for the moon, and she gave it to them. With little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, who died at 101 on Monday, calculated (计算) the precise track that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrong's history—making moonwalk, let it return to Earth.
Yet throughout Mrs. Johnson's 33 years in NASA and for decades afterward, almost no one knew her name. Mrs. Johnson was one of several hundred educated, capable but largely unrecognized women who well before the modern feminist (女权) movement, worked as NASA mathematicians. But it was not only her sex that kept her long unsung. For some years at mid-century, the black women were forced to a double segregation ( 隔离): They were kept separate from the much large group of white women who in turn were segregated from the agency's male mathematicians and engineers.
Mrs. Johnson broke barriers at NASA. In old age, Mrs. Johnson became the most celebrated of black women who served as mathematicians for the space agency. Their story was told in the 2016 Hollywood film "Hidden Figures," which was nominated for three Oscars, including best picture.
In 2017, NASA dedicated a building in her honor. That year, The Washington Post described her as "the most high - profile of the computers" — "computers " being the term originally used to describe Mrs. Johnson and her colleagues, much as "typewriters" were used in the 19th century to represent professional typists.
"She helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space," NASA's administrator, Jim Bridenstine, said in a statement on Monday, "even as she made huge steps that also opened doors for women and people of color in the universal human quest to explore space."
As Mrs. Johnson herself was fond of saying, her tenure (任期) at Langley — from 1953 until her retirement in 1986 — was "a time when computers wore skirts."
It is quite clear to me, based on my research that tropical (热带的) insects rather than polar bears could be among the first species to become extinct as a result of global warming.
Insects in the tropics are already living at the limit of their temperature range and any further increases could quickly kill them off. This would be a major disaster for tropical habitats, which rely on insects for everything from pollination (授粉) to waste disposal (处理). We have found that arise in average temperatures in the tropics of just 1℃ or 2℃ could be enough to bring about a significant and harmful effect on the survival of a wide variety of important insects. Fitness levels most likely decline quickly and there may not be much we can do about it.
Many tropical species can only accept a narrow range of temperatures because the climate they experience is pretty steady throughout the year. Now our study shows that they will be harmed by rising temperatures more than species in cold climates. Unfortunately, the tropics also hold the large majority of species on the planet.
We used daily and monthly global temperatures from the 50-year period between 1950 and 2000 and compared them against data showing the "fitness levels" of different species. "Fitness" was determined by indicators such as population growth rates and physical performance for different creatures.
We found that even moving into the shade did not help the insects. The direct effects of climate change on the organisms (生物体) we studied appear to depend a lot more on the organisms flexibility than on the amount of warming in the area where they lived.
As well as the danger for insects, the research confirms that there will be other consequences of global warming that could also have a serious impact on tropical regions, particularly on food crops. Our research focused only on the impact of changes in temperature, but warming also will change rainfall patterns. These changes could be more important for many tropical organisms, such as plants, but they are harder to predict.
Everyone knows that kids should be physically active and need to exercise regularly to be physically fit., regular physical activity is considered by most experts to be an named Blessings for a wonderful moment of communication with God. But as she continued important part of a healthy lifestyle. However, that doesn't mean every child needs to spend four or five hours a day exercising.
How Much Exercise Do Kids Need?It is recommended that kids should be physically active for at least 60 minutes per day.
. For example, if your eight-year-old played soccer for 20 minutes during PE at school and then played basketball with his friends for 40 minutes after school, he would meet the recommendation of 60 minutes of physical activity for that day.
Exercise and Calories. It can help them build self-respect, sleep better, have more energy, and reduce depression. And as most people know, along with a healthy diet, regular exercise is the best way to lose weight and prevent childhood obesity (肥胖). Since your child is not likely to get his exercise using exercise equipment, it can be hard to always tell how many calories he is burning while exercising., as long as your child is getting his 60 minutes or more of physical activity each day and maintaining a healthy diet.
Youth Exercise and FitnessRemember that kids, even teens, don't usually stick with exercise programs. . Instead, kids do better with lifestyle exercise programs, such as active free play and organized team sports.
A. Fortunately, it doesn't matter
B. Regular exercise is good for kids
C. So they will be able to burn even more calories
D. That's why you don't see many kids in health clubs
E. Whether they are overweight or at a healthy weight
F. If your child is very active and is still gaining weight
G. But that doesn't have to be 60 minutes of continuous activity
A woman was walking along the beach on a damp day, lost in thought. Suddenly she was1 back to reality by a sound of someone shouting. It was from a man, just visible through the mist (薄雾). His arms wide, he shouted, "Come, blessings!" He took a2 in one direction and then another, shouting3, "Come, blessings, come!" The woman stopped, 4 the scene. Here was a man, she thought, calling blessings into his life loudly and eagerly. It was such a pure, direct spiritual call for something he5. She started walking toward the man, hoping to speak to him and express her thanks to him for the6she had got from his calling. As she walked, the wind continued to 7his voice, "Come, blessings! Come, blessings, come!" She started to speak the simple yet powerful words along with him, feeling8inspired each time.
Just then, a cute dog suddenly jumped toward the man from the mist with9. The woman now was10enough to hear him crying to the dog, "Blessings! There you are! I thought I had11 you!"
At first the woman felt12 for making such a ridiculous mistake. She confused a dog named Blessings for a wonderful moment of communication with God. But as she continued her walk, she smiled contentedly. She had received the inspiration to ask clearly and plainly for the13 and other blessings she longed for. It was clear,14 the bearer of the message had four legs and a tail.
Perhaps, she thought, it was not a(n)15 that the man had named his dog Blessings.
And perhaps the dog had not been lost at all.
No trip would be complete without experiencing the local food culture. Actually, China has various kinds of delicious food, (include) a wide variety of local snacks.
Without a doubt, for the majority of the foreigners I contacted, and myself included, Peking Duck, Dim Sum, Hot Pot were the favorite Chinese (dish). China is a placethe food is not only delicious, but the (cheap) I've ever found.
my last night in Beijing before returning to the States, I went to a Peking Duck restaurant that had been suggested for me to try. What a beautiful place! Splendid woodblock prints on the walls, fresh flowers in the vases on the table, (attract) silverware (镀银餐具) and beautiful chopsticks. I was handed menu and found most of the prices (be) especially low for the high quality of the food. The duck came in whole or half, along with all the little decorations that you know if you've ever eaten Peking duck-a little tortilla ( 玉米饼) to put the sliced duck and vegetables in chopped onion, sauce.
Anyway, I ended up ordering a whole duck and thought I'd just take the rest back to my hotel (eat) later if I couldn't finish it. Unbelievably, in the end there was none of the whole duck (leave) on the plate.
On a snowy day Steve sat down on the usual seat in the Union Square. Every Thanksgiving for nine years he had sat down there at one in the afternoon. Every time, a wonderful thing happened to him, which made his heart feel full of joy.
On those other Thanksgiving Days, Steve usually had been hungry. But today Steve was not hungry. He had come from a dinner so big that he had almost no power to move. His body had suddenly become too big for his clothes; it seemed ready to break out of them. They were torn. You could see his skin through a hole in the front of his shirt. But the cold wind, with snow in it, felt pleasantly cool to him.
The dinner had not been expected. He had been passing a large house near the beginning of that great broad street called Fifth Avenue, where lived two ladies of an old family who had a deep love of tradition that on Thanksgiving Day food will be offered to the first hungry person to walk by. Today Steve happened to be the one to pass by on his way to the park.
Steve sat in the park, appearing to be waiting for somebody, but appearing not to expect something to happen. Suddenly his eyes grew wider and his breath stopped. For the old gentleman was coming across Fourth Avenue toward Steve's seat.
Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years the old gentleman had come there to find Steve on his seat. Then he had led Steve to a restaurant and watched him eat a big dinner, which had been a part of Thanksgiving Day. The old gentleman was thin and tall and sixty. His hair was whiter and thinner than it had been last year. His legs shook, seeming not as strong as they were the year before.
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Paragraph 1:As this kind old gentleman came toward him, Steve began to shake and his breath was shorter.
Paragraph 2:With these words, the old man looked into Steve's eyes, expecting Steve to accept the dinner.
