Handcrafted by the experts at Reader Offers Ld, we are delighted to present the Bestselling All-Inclusive Snow Monkeys & Japan Discovery.
Day 1-Day 2 Fly from London to Tokyo, Japan
Day 3 Tokyo, Japan
After breakfast, you will begin with a visit to Senso-ji Temple, Tokyo's oldest temple, followed by a wander down Nakamise Shopping Street, a street with traditional snacks and souvenirs. Next, you will participate in a Sushi making class where you'll enjoy your own creations for lunch. Spend the afternoon exploring the streets of Ginza, famous for its boutique shopping and high-tech electronics (B, L)
Day 4 Tokyo - Nagano- Yudanaka, Japan ★Snow Monkeys*
Today, transfer to Nagano. Your first stop will be the 7th century Zenko-ji temple, before lunch at a local restaurant. Continue to Jigokudani Monkey Park home of the famous Japanese Snow Monkeys. Accustomed to humans, the monkeys can be observed from very close and almost completely ignore their human guests. After this amazing experience, transfer to your Ryokan in Yudanaka where you will enjoy a Onsen hot spring bath and a traditional Japanese dinner (B, L D)
Day 5 Yuanaka - Mt Fuji - Tokyo, Japan
After a traditional Japanese breakfast, visit Mt Fuji, where your first stop will be Oishi Park, which offers great views (weather dependent). In case of bad weather, you will visit the Mt Fuji Heritage Centre instead. You will then be transferred back to Tokyo to spend the rest of the evening at leisure (B, L)
Day 6 Tokyo, Japan
Transfer to Yokohama port and embark (登船) the ship for your 12 night al-inclusive cruise of Japan.
Day 7-Day 19 cruise on boar…
P.S. Meals are included on the tour as stated: B = Breakfast, L= Lunch, D = Dinner. All meals are included on the cruise
Your room fares are: £4229 for Interior Room (3599 for Reader Offers)
£5449 for Ocean View Room (£4549 for Reader Offers)
Book by 8:00pm 25th April2021 and you will receive a discount of£675 per booking only when booking with Reader Offers.
What else is included in your Reader Offers:
-All-Inclusive Classic Dinks Package worth＄1,416
-EXCLUSIVE to members: free room upgrade
At the age of 14, James Harrison had a major chest operation and he required 13 units (3.4 gallons) of blood afterwards. The blood donations saved his life, and he decided that once he turned 18, he would begin donating blood as regularly as he could.
More than 60 years and almost 1,200 donations later, Harrison, whose blood contains an antibody (抗体) that has saved the lives of 2.4 million babies from miscarriages (流产), retired as a blood donor on May 11. Harrison's blood is valuable because he naturally produces Rh-negative blood, which contains Rh-positive antibodies. His blood has been used to create anti-D in Australia since 1967.
“Every bottle of Anti-D ever made in Australia has James in it,” Robyn Barlow, the Rh program director told the Sydney Morning Herald. “It's an amazing thing. He has saved millions of babies. I cry just thinking about it.” Since then, Harrison has donated between 500 and 800 milliliters of blood almost every week. He's made 1,162 donations from his right arm and 10 from his left.
“I'd keep going if they let me,” Harrison told the Herald. His doctors said it was time to stop the donations — and they certainly don't take them lightly. They had already extended the age limit for blood donations for him, and they're cutting him off now to protect his health. He made his final donation surrounded by some of the mothers and babies who his blood helped save.
Harrison's retirement is a blow to the Rh treatment program in Australia. Only 160 donors support the program, and finding new donors has proven to be difficult. But Harrison's retirement from giving blood doesn't mean he's completely out of the game. Scientists are collecting and cataloging his DNA to create a library of antibodies and white blood cells that could be the future of the anti-D program in Australia.
Professor Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech developed an artificially intelligent teaching assistant to help handle the enormous number of student questions in the online class, Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence. This online course is a core requirement of Georgia Tech's online Master of Science in Computer Science program. Professor Goel already had eight teaching assistants, but that wasn't enough to deal with the overwhelming number of daily questions from students.
Goel and his team developed several versions of a virtual assistant named Jill Watson before releasing her to the online forums. At first, the virtual assistant wasn't too great. Then they began to feed Jill with the questions and answers. After some adjustments and sufficient time, Jill was able to answer the students' questions correctly 97% of the time. The virtual assistant became so advanced and realistic that the students didn't know she was a computer. The students, who were studying artificial intelligence, were interacting with the virtual assistant and couldn't tell it apart from a real human being. Goel didn't inform them about Jill's true identity until April 26. The students were actually very positive about the experience.
The goal of Professor Goel's virtual assistant next year is to take over answering 40% of all the questions posed by students on the online forum. The name Jill Watson will, of course, change to something else next semester. Professor Goel has a much rosier outlook on the future of artificial intelligence than, say, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates or Steve Wozniak.
On Tuesday, Chinese health authorities confirmed the sixth death from the coronavirus which shares genetic similarities with the one responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome, and revealed that 15 medical workers in Wuhan had been infected, with one in a critical condition. The number of people known to be infected continues to rise with new cases still being reported.
With the head of the Chinese government expert team saying on Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed and the Spring Festival travel rush under way, in which hundreds of millions of people will be crisscrossing the country and traveling overseas for the holiday, it is widely expected that more cases, and even deaths, will be reported in the days to come.
The new coronavirus has already been classified in the same category as the SARS outbreak, meaning compulsory isolation for those diagnosed with the disease and the potential to implement quarantine measures on travel, which shows that the authorities are prepared and resolved to safeguard people's health.
The World Health Organization has so far given a thumbs-up to Chinese efforts. It said earlier this month that it was "reassured of the quality of the ongoing investigations and the response measures implemented in Wuhan, as well as the commitment to share information regularly".
The coronavirus has so far spread to three other Asian countries, which indicates the urgency for medical scientists all over the world to work together against the common threat to human health. Epidemics know no borders and a local disease could easily morph into a global crisis, which is why the WHO is holding an emergency committee meeting on Wednesday to decide whether to declare an international public health emergency.
The speed of response is testimony to improved global preparedness for such epidemics. Now concerted efforts based on the experience accumulated by Chinese health experts and their foreign counterparts during the joint fights against such epidemics as SARS, swine flu and avian flu are needed to win the fight against the latest health hazard.
How to Increase Walking Stamina (耐力)
If you've decided you want to improve your fitness, walking is a good choice. It's free, simple, and adaptable to your schedule. If you don't have the patience for that, there are a few other tricks you can try to help you reach your goals faster.
●Walk for at least 30 minutes 3 to 5 days a week. Going for regular walks improve your cardiovascular (心血管的) fitness gradually, but don't sweat it if you can't walk this long initially.
●Go on a longer walk at least one day a week. Plan a longer walk for at least one of your sessions so you can gradually push your endurance. When you first start, the distance will likely be relatively short. Don't worry about where you start - just focus on improving a little each week.
●Walk at a brisk pace of about 3 miles(4.8km) per hour. This pace is faster than a stroll, but likely not the fastest you can walk. There are some smart phone apps, such as PaceDJ and RockMyRun, that will help you plan your playlist to include songs with the correct numbers of beats per minute to keep you on pace.
● If you only have a short period of time to walk, add resistance to work on your stamina. You can buy ankle and wrist weights at sporting goods or department stores (or online), but this type of equipment isn't strictly necessary. You can also simply put a few books or solid objects in a backpack and carry that. After you've been walking with weight for a few weeks, try walking without the weight and see how much further you can go.
A．Carry weight while walking.
B．However, as you progress, the distance will grow.
C．Listening to music while you walk can help you keep the pace.
D．Over time, you body will get used to a certain level of activity.
E.Keep track of the amount of weight you're carrying so you can increase it.
F.If you download a step app for your smart phone, it will help you keep pace.
G.If you walk a little further every day, your walking stamina gradually improves.
Cecilia Chiang died on Wednesday at her home in San Francisco. She was 100. Her San Francisco restaurant, the Mandarin, 1 American diners in the 1920s to the richness and 2of authentic Chinese cuisine.
Ms. Chiang was born in a 3family. When she was little, children were not allowed in the4, but she paid close attention on trips to the5markets with her mother and listened carefully as6instructions were given to the cooks. After her parents died, she 7the family business in her teens.
After the Japanese occupied Beijing in 1939, she was 8to join relatives in Chongqin, where she married Chiang Liang, a professor.
Ms. Chiang sailed to San Francisco in 1920 to help her sister. There she met two women who wanted to9a restaurant that 10 Chinese diets. Later, when the two women11 , Ms. Chiang decided to open a restaurant herself. The early days were 12But little by little, customers came13 for hot and sour soup and pan-fried potstickers. One evening, Herb Caen, the popular columnist for The Chronicle,14 at the restaurant. In a15 column, Herb Caen 16it “a little hole-in-the wall” that was offering “some of the best Chinese food east of the Pacific.”
Overnight the 17 filled. The Mandarin was on its way. In 1968, Ms. Chiang moved the restaurant to 18quarters, where she could 19300 diners.
“I think I20 what average, people know about Chinese food,” Ms. Chiang told The Chronicle in 2007, “They didn't know China was such a big country.”
Traditionally, we Chinese attach great importance to our hometown and are often ．（willing）to migrate to other places. However, in present times, in particular after the reform and opening-up policy was introduced, more and more people fancy（settle）down in more developed cities just as my family members did.
My parents were both born in Sichuan. In 1963, a time when（graduate）were assigned（分配）jobs by the government, my father received a job in Beijing. After I was born in 1969, my parents went to work in Xinjiang.
In the 1980s, Chinese society（fill）with hope, and people worked hard to achieve their dreams. So did my family. In 1988, admitted Renmin University of China. I went to Beijing. It took me 72 hours by train（travel）from Xinjiang to Beijing, withdistance of over 3,770 kilometers. In 1990, my brother also passed the entrance examination and was enrolled in a university in Guangzhou,he now lives and works.
Recalling the changes over the past four decades, 1 think（improve）transportation is very important to our family. The long distance kept us apart most of the time. Today, the speed and methods of transportation have been improved a lot, which has（entire）transformed our life and can bring us together easily.
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线,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)不计分。
All students from our class go to the exhibition displaying China's outstanding achievements in last month. As soon as we arrived, a guide gave us a introduction to the exhibition. While listen, we made some notes carefully. We felt excitedly and couldn't wait to start the visit. We were both inspired by the various exhibits, including the models of the high-speed train. We took a lot of photo and were proud of the achievements of our country.
The next day, we decided have a class meeting to present which we had seen. Immediately we devoted ourselves to prepare the presentations.
