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Alabama: Gulf Shores

Snowbirds head south to Alabama's sunny coast for the winter, but Gulf Shores and its neighbor Orange Beach offer plenty to do for a family vacation as well. It might be a bit freezing for swimming in the sea, but the miles of clean coastline is perfect for walks and picnics. Mild temperatures also create ideal conditions to enjoy the area's golfing, fishing, hiking, and kayaking spots.

Alaska: Fairbanks

The Alaskan wilderness seems even more beautiful in the winter. Check out the World Ice Art Championships beginning in February for amazing frozen sculptures, then visit nearby Chena Hot Springs for an outdoor winter soak in this natural thermal spa. Winter pleasant activities in Fairbanks include ice fishing, dog sledding, snowmobiling, and snowshoeing, winter hiking.

Arizona: Scottsdale

All of Arizona can be beautiful in winter, but the higher elevations and northern areas of the state may be colder than you'd expect. Outside of Phoenix, the town offers superb golfing and spa resorts for a relaxing mid-winter break. In addition to urban delights like art galleries, boutiques, wine-tasting rooms, and restaurants, adventure outside the city for breathtaking desert are favorite sites in Scottsdale.

Arkansas: Little Rock

Martin Luther King Day (January 21) and Black History Month (February) are the perfect time to explore the history of the Civil Rights Movement in Little Rock. The city also features classical museums: The Arkansas Arts Center has a not-to-be-missed collection of drawings as well as paintings and photographs; the Museum of Discovery delves into science and natural history; and the historic Old State House Museum explores Arkansas' role in the Civil War. Plus, Little Rock's arts and culture scene prosperities (繁荣) in the downtown River Market district.

When Millet was a boy he worked on his needy father's farm. At the rest hour in the fields the other workers would all take naps, but young Millet would spend time drawing. Finally the village where he lived gave him a little money to Paris to study art.

When Millet reached Paris, he had a tough time. Fortunately, when he was almost starving, someone bought one of his peasant paintings, which enabled his family to leave for Barbizon.

Millet's pictures of peasants at work were painted in a unique way. The painter would go out on the farms and watch them carefully--digging, spreading manure, sawing wood, or sowing grain. Then he would come home and paint what he had seen. So astonishingly accurate was his memory that he could paint at home without models and get all the movements of his figures right. When he did need a figure to go by he would ask his wife to pose for him.

One of his noted artworks is called "The Sower", which shows a man seeding. He reaches into his bag for seed and then swings backward to scatter the seed, and with each swing of his hand the sower moves forward. In Millet's picture the sower has been working hard, but his swinging step and arm still move smoothly, like a machine. Only the man's head reveals his great tiredness.

Another masterpiece is called "The Gleaners". A gleaner is someone picking up the leftover in the field after the wheat harvest. When farmers near Barbizon are extremely badly-off, even the little the gleaners can find is a help. You can see from Millet's picture what back-breaking work gleaning must be.

When Brian Hall first heard about an ambitious volunteer effort to create an Internet map of every street and path in every city and village on the planet, he was hooked. At that time, OpenstreetMap had only a few American members.

Just a few years later, the Berkeley software engineer is editing digital maps so precise that they include drinking fountains and benches in the Bay Area parks where he hikes, and the mapping community of OpenstreetMap has increased to more than 240, 000 global members.

OpenstreetMap, which is trying to create an Internet map of every street in every city and village on the planet with the help of volunteers, is transforming how map data are collected, shared and used.

In the hours after the destructive earthquake in Haiti, OpenstretMap produced detailed digital maps of a quake-altered city that were important to relief workers on the ground - a "crisis mapping" pattern for future disasters.

Increasingly, the nonprofit community collaboration model behind OpenSteeetMap, which shares all data in its maps free of charge, is also changing the business of mapping. More and more, the accuracy of researched on Google Maps or directions issued by your car's navigational (导航) device are based on data collected by Hall and other volunteer members of OpenStreetMap's do-it-yourself army.

Google plans to introduce a product in the U. S. called Map Maker, which gives users much more power to customize maps. And Television Atlas—a company that supplies digital map data used for such things as car navigation devices and 911—now allows individual users to suggest map changes directly from their navigation devices.

Citizens Mapping is "an evolution of the entire mapping process", said Richard Takata, chairman of the geography department at San Jose State. "It is going to be part of the mapping world as we move on to the future".

UK supermarkets are producing more plastic waste despite promises to cut down, new research suggests, as sales of bags for life increase to 1.5 billion.

Retailers (零售商) were responsible for more than 900, 000 tons of plastic waste in 2018, according to a report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released Thursday. Seven of the 10 largest supermarket chains reported a higher plastic packaging tonnage (吨位) in 2019 compared to last year, although exact figures for this year have not been released.

Compared to 2018, this year the number of sold eco-friendly bags for life rose by about 25%, the report stated. Campaigners (运动领导者) said the rise showed that the bags are now being used by many as a replacement (替代品) for single-use carrier bags.

Campaigners recommend that supermarkets increase the price of bags for life to 70 pence ($ 0.9). They point to the 90% reduction in bags for life sales in Ireland, where prices are set at 70 cents ($ 0.77). However, in an ideal world bags for life would be removed completely, enforced (强制执行) by a government ban (禁令) , said campaigners.

"It's shocking to see that despite unprecedented (空前的) awareness of the pollution crisis, the amount of single-use plastic used by the UK's biggest supermarkets has actually increased in the past year," said Juliet Phillips, EIA ocean campaigner. He added, "Our survey shows that grocery retailers need to tighten up targets to drive real reductions in single-use packaging and items. We need to address our throwaway culture at its root through systems change, not materials change. Replacing one single use material for another is not the solution."

The report reveals that plastic use among suppliers is also to blame, and supermarkets have failed to make them reduce plastic packaging, Tesco has led the way in this area, threatening to delist (退市) products for suppliers who fail to cut excessive (过度的) plastic. Campaigners are urging other supermarkets to do the same.

Plastic waste is a global issue and various countries have taken action to reduce its impact.

Three Tips to Be a More Effective Learner

Keep Learning and Trying New Things.

A good way to become a more effective learner is to simply keep learning. According to an article in Nature, the amount of grey matter in certain areas of the brain increased for people who learned a new skill.  

So if you are learning a new language, it is especially important to keep practicing what you have learned.  . This use-it-or-lose-it phenomenon involves a brain process known as pruning (修剪). Certain pathways in the brain are maintained while others are removed.

Another good way to learn is to focus on learning in more than one way. For example, instead of just listening to a podcast, which involves auditory learning, find a way to review the information by drawing or writing.  By learning in more than one way, you're further fixing the knowledge in your mind.

According to research, the more regions of the brain store data about a subject, the more interconnection there is. And more interconnection means more opportunities for a learner to pull up all of those related bits of data from the multiple storage areas.

Teach Someone Else What You Have Learned.

Educators have long noted that one of the best ways to learn something is to teach it to someone else. Do you still remember the science presentation you did your primary school? By teaching it to the rest of the class, you gained much more. You may start by translating the information into your own words. This process alone helps fix new knowledge in your brain. Next, find a way to share what you've learned.  .

A. Learn in Multiple Ways.

B. Focus on What You Learn

C. Otherwise, you will soon forget it.

D. This might involve taking notes, or drawing a mind map, etc.

E. But as soon as they stopped practicing the new skill, it disappeared.

F. You can apply the principle by sharing your newly learned skills with others.

G. Some ideas include writing a blog post or participating in a group discussion.

Last year, I attended a class and discussed the topic of "paper books or e-books" with my classmates. The discussion was lively, but was left 1 because of several pros and cons (利弊) of both types of books and the personal 2 of different students.

According to an article from LA Times, a study discovered that 92% of 3 college students in America and other three countries 3 paper books. Many participants reported they had headaches for long screen time and are easily 4 when siding colorful pages.

I 5 that the 92 percentage is true, not just because it is the result of a study. Paper books can 6 another perspective (感受) to you reading experience through the 7 smell of the book, the feel of the 8 between your fingertips and the sense of progress being made throughout your reading.

However, pleasure comes at a 9. physical books aren't cheap 10 much room. As a person who moves often and loves written words, it can be a big 11 to move my mini library from one place to another, not to mention the money to buy those books. 12, besides taking up less space, e-books are more 13 than traditional books. Yet those 14 didn't keep my interest for long. Nothing 15 the comforting feeling of curling up (蜷缩) with a hot cup of tea and a book.

A Chinese dance drama has made its global debut (首映) on social media platforms abroad, (create) a new wave of discussion on the beauty of Chinese culture among art lovers from all over the world.

"Li Bai", a classic production by the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater, (strike) a chord (弦) with global audiences through the telling of a lifelong journey of the literary (文学的) giant Li Bai so far. After a year of improving, that (remark) work has returned to center stage. was updated of "Li Bai" provides the audience with a fresh new feel. The new music skilfully combined orchestral symphony was scored (integrate) with the dance and drama. When you turn off the music and watch the dancing and (perform) of the actors alone, it has no impact.

The classic piece greeted audiences at the National Centre for the Performing Arts three months ago with sold - out shows. Art has no borders. "Li Bai" (view) more than 1. 33 million responses. In the history of Chinese poetry, Li Bai was not "one of" "the one". In telling the story of great poet, China has once again passed its fine tradition and carried Chinese culture forward in its own way.

1）剪纸历史可追溯到南北朝，南宋时期盛行;

2）用于装饰和图案设计等;

3）邀请他来中国看剪纸展览，体验剪纸。

注意：1）词数80左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数;

2）可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯;

3）参考词汇：追溯 date back to 朝代 dynasty

Dear James,

I'm really glad that you like the art of paper in China.

It was a Saturday in June, 1988. Out of a 16-year-old's early tiring summer, I had set up a tent(帐篷) in our rural yard and intended to sleep in it, but I stayed in the house to finish watching the Lakers' play-off game. It was almost midnight and Dad had been asleep upstairs for hours when someone knocked at the front door. It never happened to me not to answer it.

To my surprise, it was a girl about my age with a bloody cut on her head. "Hi. I'm Maria. What's wrong with you?" I asked her with concern. Awkward and embarrassed, she replied: "I'm Jane. I…" she hesitated and then asked me carefully, "May I stay here for the night? I'll be off tomorrow morning" Seeing her uneasiness, I comforted her, "Take it easy, Jane. Stay with me tonight." I invited her into the house. Looking around, Jane appeared to have calmed down. "Let me treat your injury first," I said and she agreed.

I cleaned and bandaged (包扎) her injured head and then gave her some bread and meat to eat. "Want to sleep in my tent?" I asked her and she nodded. Having left her in the bathroom, I went to look for another sleeping bag When I returned, Jane was seated on the sofa, her face clouded by sadness. Walking across the dark yard, I went into tent with Jane. We lay down side by side. Caught by curiosity and concern, I turned over again again, wondering what had happen to her and how she came here. Jane seemed to have sensed that and started to speak. Jane's father died of cancer years before. Her mother did some cleaning jobs to raise her. Money was tight but her mother tried to do what she could to satisfy Jane. Several weeks before, Jane accidentally saw a fine white dress in the store window, which she fell in love with at first sight. She excitedly told her mother about that, who promised to buy it as her birthday gift. From then on, Jane was looking forward to it.

注意:

1）续写词数应为 150 左右;

2）请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

Jane's 16th birthday came but her mother didn't get home until the evening.

……

Having told her story, Jane began to feel a bit calm.