That your kids are learning at home doesn’t mean you don’t have time to take them on field trips. When you can’t get away, your kids can still travel by taking virtual field trips. We have prepared our list of favorites to help you keep your kids engaged and entertained.
AirPano
AirPano has a variety of tours in China, Portugal, Switzerland and more countries. Children can visit Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge in China, an underwater cave in Indonesia, ski resorts in France, and more destinations around the globe. What makes this site so good is that it offers narrations (解说) of several tours and provides closeups through interactive actions.
Will-O-Crest Farm
This 45-minute tour of Will-O-Crest Farm in New York state walks through every step of work on the farm. It shows how calves are housed, how cow are milked and everything in between. The video is hosted by a narrator with a live instructor (employee) from the farm onsite.
Yellowstone
Yellowstone offers seven virtual tours appropriate for school ages. There’s a lot of written information along with the images, and the tours aren’t in video. However, the information is fascinating, and the photos are wonderful. These tours are a great way for kids to discover unique facts about America.
Slime (粘液) in Space
What happens to slime when it’s in space? That’s the concept behind the Slime in Space virtual field trip. Featuring real astronauts and celebrities (名人), the 15-minute video shows kids how slime and water react in a microgravity environment. Along the way, it answers burning questions like. “Is slime a solid or a liquid?” and “Can you slime a person in space?”.
1. Who is the text intended for?| A．Graduates | B．Teachers | C．Farmers. | D．Parents. |
| A．AirPano | B．Yellowstone. |
| C．Slime in Space | D．Will-O-Crest Farm. |
| A．Interact with astronauts. | B．Learn how to milk cows. |
| C．Appreciate great pictures. | D．Watch videos of live tours. |
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【推荐1】72 hours in Beijing
Traveling to China is no longer a luxury for many foreign passport holders. The Chinese government has permitted a 72-hour visa-free policy that offers access to visitors from 53 countries including the US, France and Austria. Let’s start with the capital of China, Beijing. Here’s the pick of the best in Beijing.
Mutianyu Great Wall
Your trip to Beijing isn’t really complete without seeing one of the “New Seven Wonders of the World”-the Great Wall of China. The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall is by far the most well-preserved of all. Taking a one-hour bus ride, Mutianyu would be your ideal location for a half-day of hiking away from the large crowds in the city. Also, the authorities have allowed tourists to paint graffiti on a specific section of the Great Wall since 2014. The Great Wall was designated (把……定名为) a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987.
Summer Palace
Located in northwestern Beijing, the Summer Palace is by far the city’s most well- preserved royal park. With its huge lake and hilltop views, the palace offers you a pastoral escape into the landscape of traditional Chinese paintings. The Summer Palace was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998.
798 Art Zone
This would be on the top of my list! Named after the 798 factory that was built in the 1950s, the art zone is home to various galleries, design studios, art exhibition spaces, fashionable shops and bars. You could easily spend half your day wandering around the complex, feeling the contrast of the present and the past.
Sichuan Provincial Restaurant
While in Beijing, apart from trying the city’s best-known Peking duck, the Sichuan provincial restaurant is one of places where you can enjoy regional delicious food. It offers one of China’s eight great cuisines, Sichuan cuisine, which ranges from Mapo tofu to spicy chicken.
1. When was the Summer Palace added to the UNESCO World Heritage List?| A．In 1950. | B．In 1987. | C．In 1998. | D．In 2014. |
| A．Mutianyu Great Wall. | B．798 Art Zone. |
| C．The Summer Palace. | D．The Sichuan Provincial Restaurant. |
| A．The foreigners to stay in Beijing for 3 days. |
| B．The tourists who prefer to travel for free. |
| C．The visitors coming from every corner of China. |
| D．The foreigners coming to Beijing for the first time. |
【推荐2】Four best day trips from Amsterdam: the ultimate travel guide
Zaanse Schans: a picture-perfect town of windmills
A trip to the Netherlands would be incomplete without seeing windmills-and there’s no better way to see them than in the historical town of Zaanse Schans. This quaint village gives visitors an accurate impression of Dutch living in the 17th and 18th centuries. From cheese and dairy factories to traditional windmills and historical museums, you’ll live, breathe, and experience the old Zaan style of living. Classic!
Travel time by car: 21 minutes
Transport fees: €4 for adults, €1.5 for children
Marken: a former island in the Zuiderzee
Residents of the town built wooden houses on artificial hills to prevent more flooding damage. To this day, these picturesque homes remain a popular cultural attraction. On your walk, you can visit the cosy town harbour or enjoy the scenic route of fields, forests, and the lakeshore.
Travel time by car: 27minutes
Transport fees: €4.5 for adults, €1.5 for children
Dordrecht: a historic trading port
Dordrecht is the oldest city in Holland (we mean the old province of Holland and not the so-called “country”!). There are plenty of cultural spots, including seven churches and several historical monuments-turned-museums.
Travel time by car; l hour and 5 minutes
Transport fees: €9.5 for adults, €2 for children (2-6 years old)
Schiedam; home to the world’s tallest windmill
While there are windmills all around the Netherlands,Schiedam has the tallest traditional windmills of all, standing at 26.6 metres. Schiedam is also known for being the Netherlands’ gin (杜松子酒) capital, with the city producing the most jenever (also known as Dutch gin) in the country. There are multiple bars museums where you can check out the production process.
Travel time by car: 55 minutes
Transport fees: €9 for adults, €3 for children
1. How much should a couple pay for a trip at least?| A．€3. | B．€8. | C．€9. | D．€9.5. |
| A．Zaanse Schans. | B．Marken. |
| C．Schiedam. | D．Dordrecht. |
| A．They’re both islands. |
| B．They both produce Dutch gin. |
| C．They’re both featured in windmills. |
| D．They’re famous for wooden houses, |
【推荐3】Expat Private Bike Tour
This 2.5-hour tour is the perfect introduction to Amsterdam! It is not hard to fall in love with this city and its romantic canals (运河), but it does require some guidelines on how to understand the Dutch way of living. During this 2.5-hour bike ride we will show the following highlights, combining them with the rich history of Amsterdam and practical everyday tips. During this private tour we will not only show you the beauty of the city, the wonderful parks, the cute coffee places, and the attraction of the city when driving over the UNESCO Canal Belt, but also where to get your fresh fruit, and where to find the perfect place for networking!
This tour is the thing to book, if you are a company working with foreigners, and aiming to offer your newcomers a warm welcome and as much information as possible on their new work and life environment in Amsterdam. Also, being a couple of friends, arriving new in this city, this tour gives you the advice that will persuade you to stay!
Tour highlights:
●Local markets to get fresh fruit and vegetables
●Fancy places to go networking
●Beautiful parks to enjoy your free time
●Tasting typical Dutch bites
●Flower market
Duration:
2.5 hours of biking with some stops in the middle
Availability (有效性):
Every day at 11:30 am
Pricing:
1—7 persons, 240 euro fixed price
8 or more, 35 euro per person
1. Why should a company working with foreigners book the tour?| A．To do some exercise. | B．To welcome newcomers. |
| C．To make more friends. | D．To create new work environment. |
| A．Visit art museums. | B．Do creative things. |
| C．Taste local food. | D．Experience farm work. |
| A．€35. | B．€40. | C．€210. | D．€240. |
【推荐1】Do you really need a new phone every 2 years?
If you’re looking to replace or upgrade your smartphone in the coming year, think it over.
Our desire to always have the newest smartphone comes at a high environmental cost. According to Swappie, which repairs and resells iPhones, 1.4 billion new smartphones forecast to be shipped this year will generate 146 million tons of planet-warming emissions.
What can you do ?
Resist the desire to upgrade. If your phone still works, get as much life as you can out of it. “The greenest smart-phone is the one you already own,” Stratton said.
Get it fixed. If your phone breaks, get it repaired directly by the manufacturer or take it to a store to repair your phone brand.
Sell it instead of throwing it. You can sell your used smartphone to specialized repairing companies like Swappie to give it a second life.
| A．Make it functioned. |
| B．Recycle it properly. |
| C．Do you really need a new phone? |
| D．Broken phones can still be valuable. |
| E．Where can you get a new smartphone? |
| F．83% of them come from producing, shipping and first-year usage. |
| G．A broken or out-of-order phone can often be fixed through easy repairs. |
【推荐2】Three-day－old Oskar Lunde sleeps in a small bed at an Estonian(爱沙尼亚) hospital.
Across the room, his father turns on a laptop computer. "Now we will register our child, "Andrei Lunde says as he lifts his identification card into the card reader. His wife, Olga, looks on. And just like that, Oskar is Estonia’s newest citizen. No paper. No time spent standing in a line.
Estonia has launched a project to make government administration completely digital. The goal is to reduce the size of the government work force, open up the decision-making process and fuel economic growth.
Need medicine ?Reach for a computer and send an email or text message to a doctor. Need help from the local government? Click on a link to the government websites…
Estonia has created a system that supports electronic authentication(身份验证) and digital signatures. It provides paperless communications for both the government and private industry.
However, there are a few things that one cannot do electronically in Estonia: marry, end a marriage or buy and sell property. That is only because the government has decided it is very important to show up in person for some big life events. When Estonia declared independence from the former Soviet Union in 1991, it had to build a new economy. Government leaders looked for an industry where the country could compete. They decided on information technology and the Internet.
When the poor country needed to replace a 1930s phone system, former President Toomas Hendrik Ilves rejected the offer of a free analog(模拟) system from Finland and argued for a digital one.
Last year, information and communications made up 5.9 percent of the economy. The government hopes to increase that figure with an "e-residency " program that lets businessmen around the world register their businesses in Estonia, thus gaining a presence in the European Union. More than 51, 000 people from 167 countries have registered at a cost of only 100 euros, or＄114 each.
1. What purpose does Paragraph 1 serve in the passage?| A．To provide background information of the topic. |
| B．To attract readers’ attention to the topic |
| C．To describe the daily life of an Estonian |
| D．To offer some basic knowledge of Estonia |
| A．Registering a newly born baby. | B．Registering a business |
| C．Purchasing a house. | D．Signing a name. |
| A．The "e-residency "program didn't work in practice |
| B．The "e-residency" program appeals to native Estonians |
| C．People register businesses in Estonia at very low prices |
| D．Estonia used to be a member state of the European Union. |
| A．Estonian Government Aims to End Paperwork |
| B．"e-residency" Program Fuels Estonian Economy |
| C．Estonia Is Becoming Stronger With IT Industry |
| D．Government Administration Is Going Digital |
【推荐3】If you find yourself checking your phone first thing in the morning, if you find you’re text-messaging while walking, checking your phone instead of working on an important assignment-you are addicted.
Don’t worry. The new NoPhone might be just the thing you need. It looks and feels exactly like a smart phone, but it does nothing. It’s just piece of plastic that you can carry around in your hand to fool yourself.
NoPhone is currently prototype(手机模型) that will cost only $12 once it hits the market. Its makers are trying to raise $30,000 in order to cover the production and marketing costs.
Dutch designer Ingmar Larsen, who helped create the NoPhone, said that he had the idea as a joke along with his friends Van Gould and Ben Langveld. To their great surprise, the idea received a lot of attention online and people from all over the world started placing requests for NoPhone of their own, so that’s when the three friends decided to raise money for mass production.
David H said, “I used to sleep with my phone in my hand, but my night terrors would cause me to throw it across the room in an unconscious panic. With the NoPhone, I can still enjoy the comfort of holding a phone in my sleep without waking up to a broken screen. Thanks, NoPhone.”
If you’re interested in NoPhone, but concerned about not being able to take selfies anymore, don’t worry. The makers do have an update at no extra charge--the mirror sticker (贴纸). That way; they say, you can enjoy “real-time” selfies with your friends whenever you want.
1. From the third paragraph we can infer that_________.| A．the users can stay away from the real world |
| B．NoPhone is a device made of high technology |
| C．NoPhone has not been on the market at present |
| D．The makers are raising money to improve their technology |
| A．people worldwide were interested in NoPhone |
| B．many people thought of the idea as a joke at first |
| C．people worldwide began to fund mass production |
| D．people in Dutch began to make NoPhone of their own |
| A．By updating at an extra charge. |
| B．By standing with your friends. |
| C．By taking photo of yourself with an APP. |
| D．By using the mirror sticker. |
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1. This website mainly provides users with _____________．
| A．free courses on traveling abroad |
| B．plenty of language resources |
| C．interesting conversations |
| D．1ots of amazing stories |
| A．Be Aware | B．The Water Car |
| C．The Business Trip | D．Interactive Stories |
| A．The Children of Kenji Takeuehi． |
| B．A New Life in Mosquito City |
| C．Hiromi’s Trip to Thailand． |
| D．Miyako’s Education． |
| A．you can read while listening |
| B．you can see a native speaker |
| C．you can record your own voice and listen to it |
| D．you can transcript every word of real speakers |
【推荐2】Best Compact SUVs for 2022
If you are looking for more interior and cargo space than sedans offer, compact SUVs can be a great choice. We highlight the best compact SUVs below to help get you started.
| 2022 Hyundai Tucson #1 in Compact SUVs Features & Specs SEATING:5 DRIVETRAIN: FWD, AWD HORSEPOWER: 187 |
The redesigned 2022 Hyundai Tucson ranks at the top of the compact SUV class, thanks in part to its composed ride and handling, spacious and upscale interior, user—friendly infotainment system, and long list of driver assistance features. The redesigned Tucson impresses with its spacious five-seat interior and large cargo area. And it's powered by a zippy yet economical four-cylinder engine. It's also backed by a 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty. | |
| 2021 Mazda CX—5 #2 in Compact SUVs Features & Specs SEATING: 5 DRIVETRAIN: FWD, AWD HORSEPOWER:187—227 |
The 2021 Mazda CX-5 challenges for a top spot in the competitive compact SU'V class thanks to its engaging handling and refined interior. The CX-5 doesn't have the most spacious cargo hold, hut it offers a sophisticated and elegant interior, comfortable seating, and a revamped infotainment system. The CX-5's solid combination of quality and value led us to name it as a finalist for our 2021 Best Compact SUV for the Money award. It was also named a finalist for our 2021 Best Compact SUV for Families award. | |
| 2022 Honda CR—V #3 in Compact SUVs Features & Specs SEATING: 5 DRIVETRAIN: FWD. AWD HORSEPOWER: 190 |
The 2022 Honda CR—V finishes near the top of our compact SUV rankings. It's among the class leaders in several areas, including passenger and cargo space and fuel economy. The Honda CR—V is a good SUV. It delivers energetic acceleration and a comfortable ride, and it gets good gas mileage. Because of its solid combination of quality and value, we named the CR—V a finalist for our 2022 Best Compact SUV for the Money. | |
| A．2021 Hyundai Tucson | B．2021 Mazda CX—5 |
| C．2022 Honda CR—V | D．2022 Hyundai Tucson |
| A．The three SUVs share the same seating and drivetrain. |
| B．The 2021 Mazda CX —5 is powered by a zippy four—cylinder engine. |
| C．The 2022 Hyundai Tucson doesn't have large spacious cargo hold. |
| D．The CR—V was named 2021 Best Compact SUV for Families award. |
| A．To detail some best compact SUVs for 2022. |
| B．To promote the best compact SUVs for readers. |
| C．To advertise for some car designing companies. |
| D．To guide readers to choose a SUV from rankings. |
【推荐3】Grant Village and West Thumb
Yellowstone National Park offers a range of engaging activities for families, nature lovers, and wildlife enthusiasts alike. From exploring the Grant Village and West Thumb regions to participating in interactive programs, visitors can immerse themselves in the park’s natural wonders and learn about its diverse wildlife and geological features.
Experiencing Wildlife in Yellowstone (May 26 to September 2).
Whether you’re hiking a backcountry trail, camping, or just enjoying the park’s amazing wildlife from the road, this quick workshop is for you and your family. Learn where to look for animals and how to safely enjoy your wildlife watching experience. Meet on the back porch of the Grant Visitor Center.
West Thumb Geyser Basin Walk (June 9 to September 2)
Take a guided walk along the beautiful shores of Yellowstone Lake while exploring the origins of glittering geysers, belching mud pots, and emerald hot spring s in West Thumb’s dynamic geyser basin. Meet at the West Thumb Visitor Information Station. Round-trip distance is 1/2 mile. Easy.
Junior Ranger Discovery Program (June 16 to September 2)
Investigate and discover the many curiosities of Yellowstone during this interactive program geared towards kids 4-13 years and up. Meet at the Grant Village Pavilion, located behind the visitor center along the edge of the lake.
Grant Village Evening Program (June 23 to September 2).
Learn more about Yellowstone’s natural and cultural history in this presentation highlighting one of Yellowstone’s wonders. Inquire locally and on bulletin boards for program descriptions. Meet at the Grant Visitor Center Amphitheater. Dress warmly and bring a flashlight.
1. Which program is suitable for a family to learn about safely watching wildlife in Yellowstone?| A．Experiencing Wildlife in Yellowstone. | B．Grant Village Evening Program. |
| C．West Thumb Geyser Basin Walk. | D．Junior Ranger Discovery Program. |
| A．Experiencing Wildlife in Yellowstone. | B．Grant Village Evening Program. |
| C．West Thumb Geyser Basin Walk. | D．Junior Ranger Discovery Program. |
| A．attend the Grant Village Evening Program. |
| B．join the Junior Ranger Discovery Program. |
| C．take a guided walk along Yellowstone Lake. |
| D．meet at the Grant Visitor Center Amphitheater. |
