How to visit Argentina

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As with most holiday destinations, when you want to visit depends on what you wish to do during your trip.

If you want to avoid crowds and peak price(人群和高峰价) while still enjoying everything on offer, Lloyd Boutcher advises visiting from October to mid-December(Argentinian spring) and April to mid-June(their autumn).

If you want to see the Patagonia penguins(企鹅), Tom Bourlet advises going between October and March.

If you like to party, Tom Hughes recommends heading to Argentina during carnival(狂欢节) time in February.

Thanks to Argentina’s size, the country has something to offer everyone.

“Buenos Aires is a melting pot of cultures,” said Tom Hughes. “Here travellers will discover a wealth of culture, not to mention it is the birthplace of a fast dance, tango. Nature lovers should head to the world’s largest waterfall system, Iguazu Fail.”

“I highly recommend San Carlos de Bariloche—a beautiful and fantastic town in the Andes mountains,” Tom Bourlet said. “It also acts as a good base for exploring the Lake District.”

Lloyd advises avoiding some of the chain hotels. “While it may be attractive to stay at well-known hotels, I recommend some of the smaller boutique hotels in the city,” he said.

Mark Smith and Jarryd Haines are good friends. The two boys from Sydney have known each other for most of their lives. Both of them enjoy playing Australian football.

A few years ago, when Mark was nine, he developed brain cancer. The disease robbed the boy of his sight, part of his hearing and his ability to play his favorite sport. However, throughout the years, Jarryd remained his closest friend. They still share their love of Australian football. And they still enjoy talking about the Sydney Swans, their favorite team.

Two weeks ago, I took my seat at Sydney Cricket Ground to watch the Swans. The old stadium was crowded with fans. Shortly into the second quarter, heard some great commentary(实况报道） from a boy. Play by play, Jarryd was bringing the game to life. I turned and saw him. Mark was sitting next to him.

Although he cannot see anymore, Mark still loves the Swans very much. Usually, he goes to the stadium and listens to the commentary on the radio. However, in the second quarter of that match, the radio system broke down. That was when his friend Jarryd stepped in.

I hardly looked at the Swans and Buddy, the team’s star player. Instead, I was focusing on Jarryd and Mark. “What’s happening now, mate?” Mark asked. “Don’t worry. Mark,” Jarryd replied. “Okay. Buddy’s got it. Will he go for it? He’s going for it! It’s his tenth goal! Buddy is on fire!” Mark listened carefully. He was lost in the magic of Australian football brought to life by his friend.

Sports can be competitive. However, they can also allow us to share wonderful moments with others, may they be close friends or perfect strangers. Here, Jarryd and Mark have moved me, and perhaps some other spectators（观众）, with the best commentary.

Electrical devices(仪器) could soon use power made by human energy. British scientist Max Donelan and other scientists in Canada and the United States have developed an experimental device that produces electricity from the physical movement of a person walking.

The device connects to a person’s knee. As the person walks, the device captures energy each time the person slows down. To do this, the device helps with the slowing-down movement of the lea, the movements of the walking person push parts of a smart machine that produces electricity. Using the device, an adult walking quickly could produce thirteen watts of electricity in just a minute. Donelan says walking at that speed could produce enough power to operate a laptop computer for six minutes.

There are several possible uses for the device. Developers say it could help people who work in areas without electricity to operate small computers. The device could also be used in hospitals to operate heart pacemakers(起博器), it could even be used to assist in the movement of robotic arms and legs.

The experimental version of the device weighs about one and a half kilograms, but it is too costly for most people to buy. The researchers hope to make a lighter, less costly version. An improved version should be ready in one year. The developers hope the device will one day help developing countries, nearly twenty five percent of people around the world live without electric power.

A similar product was invented in 2005 by Larry Rome of the University of Pennsylvania. He created a bag carried on a person’s back that also produces power from walking. The knee device does not produce as much electricity as the bag, but the bag requires the walker to carry a load of twenty to thirty kilograms.

Traveling with kids is 90 percent reminding yourself to live in the moment and 10 percent making up your mind to never again leave your house.

I have an uncanny ability to forget this as soon as we return home from a trip and I’ve finished washing piles of dirty clothes in our luggage and cleaning all the messy caused by the kids. Extremely tired and annoyed, I would actually begin to miss the place we just left!

Family travel is like childbirth, I suppose. Painful, loud, messy, sort of awful, actually, but also wonderful. And you remember only the wonderful until you’re back on a plane and your kids are fighting over who gets the aisle seat. Then you remember the bad stuff.

Last weekend, my kids and I flew to Texas for a trip. we would have nothing to complain about big hotel, wonderful view. And yet we found things to complain about. The pool was bigger in that other hotel! Why do you get to shower first? They call this coffee! Luckily, I’ve learned to put my metaphorical coat of armor on as soon as we land somewhere, and it forces complaints to bounce off me and land in a pile at my feet. For three days, genuine fun was had and annoying complaints were heard and ignored. Until it was time to catch a plane and fly home.

Unfortunately, our flight was cancelled. We spent hours finding a hotel room. We hit the hotel pool before bed and swam well into the night, my kids making up songs and laughing so hard at their silly lyrics and their crazy good fortune to be swimming at 10:30 on a school night.

And that was when it hit me that family travel is all those things I said before but it’s also a lot more. It’s taking your kids to parts of the world that will open their eyes and finding that actually, yours need opening too. It’s remembering that joy and memories are where you make them, not where you find them.

Maybe you are familiar with scenes in movies where a pilot is caught in a severe situation during flight and you hear him shout “Mayday, mayday, mayday”.

    16    “Mayday” is an internationally recognized distress call(求救信号), mostly used by pilots and boat captains. The signal can be sent out on any channel by radio communication.

This emergency call goes back to the 1920s. At that time the standard distress call was “SOS” and was typically used by navy captains. The message was sent in Morse code by telegraph. In Morse code, “SOS” is three dots(点), three dashes(线) and three dots.    17    . However, aircraft pilots use radio calls, so sending out “SOS” could be misheard as other letters, such as “F”.

    18    Frederick Stanley Mockford, a radio officer at Croydon Airport in London, was asked to think of a word that would indicate distress. With the huge number of flights flying between Croydon and Paris, he chose “mayday”, as it sounds similar to the French word “m’aider”, which means “help the”.

Facing an emergent situation, pilots are required to repeat the signal three tithes in case of radio interference(干扰) or loud background noise.    19    Once they receive a reply, more information, including the code of the flight, their current situation and the number of the people on board must be reported. Sometimes pilots are directed to a nearby airport or location where they can make an emergency landing.

While mayday signals indicate a life threatening situation, they do not always end in death.    20    

Though Armenia isn’t exactly ready for groups of foreign hikers, the country rewards those who make the effort. When my son recently finished graduate school, I seized the_________to spend a week hiking_________him in my own father’s homeland. Not long ago, no outsider would have considered such a_________through the former Soviet Republic. But we_________the paths with hikers from Australia, Canada, England and France,_________we left hoping to return.

Armenia isn’t for every_________. “You often will not find marked trail heads, and if you find a map, it will_________be written in Armenian — which doesn’t_________the Latin alphabet.” We couldn’t find a guide until we arrived in the country, and then we had to_________. After spending a day in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, we visited the Dilijan National park. In the forested national park, we__________, the ruins of a 1,000-year-old monastery (修道院)__________in a mountain top clearing. That__________me of the people who hiked to the site to__________when it was built. “It seemed such a very different__________from driving to a church parking lot these days.”

Marc and I never did reach the summit (山顶) of Aragats, Armenia’s__________mountain. That would have__________the climbers to cover 6,000 feet in one day. and when a storm__________, we settled on the mountain’s secondary peak.__________so, “we weren’t disappointed.” A mountain doesn’t always__________to a climber’s first attempt, and a country doesn’t reveal all its treasures in a week. Our adventure, we know, had “only scratched the__________.”

Zhong Nanshan,    41    84-year-old leading respiratory disease specialist, who became a household name for “daring to speak” in the fight against SARS seventeen years ago,    42    (be) the public face of China’s effort to control a new virus COVID-19.

In 2020 before the Chinese Lunar New Year, a terrible unknown disease broke out in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province. Despite his    43    (advance) age, Zhong immediately took a high-speed train from Guangzhou to the front time Wuhan,    44    he and the other professionals, started to look into the new virus. He was the first man    45    (announce) that the new virus could spread between humans. He suggested strict control of    46    (move) in and out of the city to stop the spread of the virus.

Zhong    47    (admire) for his integrity(正直) and sense of responsibility ever since the outbreak of SARS. Obviously, he has acted as a role model for millions of teenagers. Zhong was presented the Medal of the Republic, the    48    (high) state honor by President Xi Jinping    49    September 8th, 2020 in Beijing.    50    (receive) the award, he said he was very excited and would do more for people’s health.