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July 20, 2021 marks the 52th anniversary of the first moon landing. The National Space Center will provide you with super-size space experiences: a giant Earth model, a domed planetarium (穹顶天文台) and a 42-meter rocket tower. It's all under cover so it's a good place to visit on a rainy day.

Ticket

It's not cheap-adult $15, 5-to-16-year-olds $12-but once you've paid you can revisitas many times as you want in a year, and admission is free for kids under five.

Opening hours

10 am-4 pm Monday to Friday, 10 am-5 pm weekends and school holidays.

What about lunch?

The Boosters Cafe serves reasonably priced hot and cold snacks and drinks at the foot of the center's two rockets. The cafe offers vegetarian (素食的)option too.

Exit through the gift shop?

It's stocked with souvenirs including books, games and telescopes. Some are quite pricey. The gift shop is the first thing you pass on entry and also the last thing you see as you leave.

The number of British students going to US universities has been climbing steadily over the past decade. The latest available figures (from 2017- 2018) show 11,460 British students are choosing to study in US. This represents a small drop (0.3%) from the previous year, showing that American degrees remain a popular choice.

Among the most popular American universities for British students are, Harvard, Y ale, Princeton, Stanford and also institutions with convenient location—New York University in New York City, or the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, for example.

Two factors motivate young people to head west for universities: academic opportunity and the increasing availability of financial aid for foreign students. Anthony Nemecek, an education expert, explains, "While there are many reasons British students consider higher education study in the US, the main reason is the wide range of choice on offer, both subjects and institutions, as well as not having to decide their *major/course' until the end of the second year."

One reason why the Brits may be unwilling to pursue a US degree is the cost. The University of Oxford, for example, estimates living costs of f14,850 in 2020, along with course fees of f9,250, so a total of f24,100. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a world-leading specialist in science, costs $73, 1 60 (£59,447; more than twice as much as Oxford), but most students at MIT will get financial aid. MIT is home to a financial aid program for international students, making it a great place to apply if money is not enough.

On a cold November morning in Y osemite National Park, on the south-west face of EL Capitan, Alex Honnold holds on to the side of the wall with nothing but the tips of his fingers and two thin edges of shoes, attempting to do something that professionals have long wanted to do—a" free solo" climb of the world's most terrifying cliff (悬崖). That means he is alone and climbing without a rope as he makes his way up more than half a mile of rock.

Paul Preuss, the father of the free soloing, stated the key of the climbing was to master a mountain with superior physical and mental skill, not "artificial aid". Having made some 150 ropeless climbs by the age of 27, he fell to his death in 1913 while free soloing in the Austrian Alps. But Preuss's ideas survived and inspired the "free climbing”movement of the 1960s, which supported using ropes and other safety equipment. The next free soloist appeared in 1973, when Henry Barber climbed up the 1,00--feet north face of Yosemite's Sentinel Rock without a rope. In 1976, John Bachar free soloed New Dimensions, a 300-foot cliff in Yosemite and Peter Croft free soloed two of Yosemite's most celebrated routes— Astroman and Rostrum--in the same day.

Croft's achievement stood until 2007, when Honnold, then 22, astonished the world by repeating Croft's Astroman--Rostrum masterpiece and free soloed two famously tough routes in Zion National Park and Y osemite. Now, Honnold is attempting much higher goals and he is well on his way to completing the greatest rock climb in history.

Micro-plastics have occupied almost every part of the planet today, including the most distant reaches.

The Arctic is far from clean, though it's rarely stepped in by visitors. Melanie Bergmann, a marine ecologist (海洋生态学家) and her colleagues had been studying plastics on the Arctic seafloor since 2002. In deep sea, they found about 6,0000 particles (微粒) in every 2.2 pounds of mud. In sea ice, there were as much as 12,000 pieces per 34 ounces of melted ice.

Scientists measured micro-plastics in snow from this distant location and found a lot, which could only have caught rides on the wind. The study raises concerns about the pollution that micro-plastics brought to the air, bringing a health risk to people and animals that breathe them in. But they are less worried about the threat that breathed-in pollutants have to wildlife than about polluted snow going into water.

The science on the health effects of micro-plastics is still going on." For human health, we now now very little," says micro-plastics researcher Chelsea Rochman," There is a lot of concern. For wildlife, we know that micro-plastics may go into every level of the food chain." Laboratory studies find some physical and chemical effects from micro-plastics, but the findings vary by the plastic type, shape experiments will be carried out soon with use of equipment if financial support approves."

Even worse is the threat from airborne micro-plastics in the area—too small to be noticed and may actually enter cells. Research on that also has been done and it could be a bigger problem, according to Rochman.

Chinese fried rice with egg enjoys great popularity throughout China due to the simple cooking method. Do you want to have a try? Follow the recipe, and you will get it.

Ingredients you need.

A bowl of cooked rice, an egg, cooking oil salt, ham. For example, you can use pork, beef or chicken, green pepper, mushrooms, and vegetables.

Dice ham finely; crack an egg into a bowl; add a little salt; beat it up with egg-beater or chopsticks.

Some steps to follow.

Fry the egg: Preheat a pan. Add cooking oil and heat it until 150 ℃. Pour the beaten egg into the pan. Then stir gently and turn it over until both sides are golden. Turn off the heat and cut the egg into small pieces. Add a little more cooking oil and heat it up. Add diced ham and fry for half a minute. Then add rice. Press to make sure that the rice is completely covering in the pan.Serve the rice on a plate or in a bowl and the fried rice with egg is done.

Tips on cooking.

Remember a little salt is essential when preparing the egg. And make sure to use cold rice cooked in advance.

A. Preparations you need to make.

B. Except for ham, other ingredients also will do.

C. Let it expand for half a minute without stiring.

D. Frying the rice quickly over high heat also matters.

E. The amount of ingredients can be adjusted depending on personal tastes.

F. After that, add in the fried egg and mix well with the rice and diced ham.

G. The rice in the dish is really soft and delicious, and the egg has high nutritional value.

When Meredith Bastian was 8, she talked to the manager of primates (灵长目动物) and asked about wild gorillas. This summer an 11-year-old girl, Addy Barrett，1Bastian who is the present manager of primates at the National Zoo—something Bastian did as a child,2her love for gorillas.

Addy, a 3visitor to the zoo, never gets tired of watching the gorillas. She told Bastian, “I learned gorillas are being4. I needed to do something to save my5animals."" She sold homemade cookies for her6. Recently, she was named a winner of the 2019 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes7her hard work to raise $7,000 for8groups aiming at protecting the animals in danger. Bastian said the9 that gorillas face is a combination of habitat loss, climate change and spread of disease. But there's also the problem of mining that 10gorilla's living conditions. Coltan is a mineral used to make cell-phones." One of the strongest messages you can send to people is to 11their cell- phones," Bastian told Addy.

Addy 12the Gorilla Heroes project and meanwhile she held social media discussion to raise  13in the hope of more participation in protecting gorillas. 14Addy hopes to get close to gorillas in the wild, 15a person needs to be at least 15 years old to visit where the gorillas live. Bastian said every animal has a16, just like every human does. They can be friendly or17. So she offered words of18for Addy's future visit: Never stare at gorillas because they take that as a19Bastian said," You just need to20 and have your body language tell them 'yes, this is your forest, not mine.'"

Fujian puppetry (木偶戏) hasuninterrupted thousand-year history. It is one of the contributions of Chinese performing art to the world's cultural heritage.

By now, no conclusions  (reach) on the origins of Chinese puppetry.(date) from the Shang Dynasty (1600-1064), pottery figurines (陶俑) used as burial objects (随葬品) have been discovered at the Yin Ruins. Wooden figurines appeared during the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods. These were a great (improve) on those from previous dynasties,represent the early Chinese puppets. Over time, figurines as burial objects developed into puppets for entertainment on festive occasions.

(Lucky), Fujian puppetry has fallen out of favor with younger generations.response, worried groups and bearers created the 2008-2025 Strategy for the Training of Coming Generations of Fujian Puppetry Practitioners. The key goal(be) to safeguard the spread of Fujian Puppetry, to promote its progress through professional training, and (breed) a new generation of puppetry practitioners.

With the broad participation of practitioners, local people and education institutions, Fujian Puppetry can expect a (bright) future.

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I am delighted to know you are curious about the lecture delivering in my school last month. Here, I'd like to share some detail about it.

To solve the conflict with parents and build more harmony relationship, our school held a lecture Build a Bridge of Communication with Parents, which turned out a huge success. That impressed me most was the communication skills. When we made mistakes, we should make an apology for parents sincerely. Unless they did something wrong, we should stand in our shoes, understanding and forgiving them. In the end, the lecturer had appealed to us to show more respect and love to our parents.

From now on, I made up my mind to greet my parents more in gentle voice and care about them with all my heart. I do hope my letter will help you get the whole picture of the lecture.

Yours,

Li Hua

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