The whimsy (奇想) and inventiveness that helped Frank Lloyd Wright’s works stand out a century ago continue to attract new generations of architecture fans. Here’s why experiencing Wright sites can get your kids to look at the world with an architect’s eye.
Fallingwater in Southwestern Pennsylvania is Wright’s most famous building. “Kids are quick to notice they could climb on it,” says director of education Ashley Andrykovitch. She discourages anyone from treating the masterpiece like a jungle gym (攀爬架), but loves using the house as a jumping-off point for teaching children about the art of designing buildings. “A tour of Fallingwater makes them look at the built environment differently,” she says.
In the suburb of Oak Park, Chicago, there are 25 of Wright’s buildings. This is the best spot to see the architect’s creative world. On guided tours, visitors see the inventive spaces Wright designed for his own children. You can also take children on hunts for Wright buildings here, either on guided bike tours or using a brochure sold at the Home and Studio bookstore. “Tell them what to look out for and then see if they can discover all the properties created by the early 20th century legend, which is the most difficult but enjoyable part of the tour,” Kate Coogan, manager for education at the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust says.
To help kids appreciate what makes Wright’s creations so special, consider a sleepover (在外过夜) in a property he designed. Middle-school math teacher Shari Kagan and her two teenage sons spent a weekend at one of Wright’s buildings. After check-in, her kids eagerly explored every angle. “It was like they were searching for gifts on Christmas morning,” she says. After an exciting day, the Kagans sat on the floor in the TV-free family room to examine copies of the house’s blueprints (蓝图). Now the kids are noticing architecture wherever they go. “They’ll say, ‘Look at the lines on that house. I wonder what inspired it,’” Kagan says.
1. How can a visit to Fallingwater benefit kids according to Ashley?| A．It encourages them to travel responsibly. | B．It can excite their interest in architecture. |
| C．It encourages them to jump and climb for fun. | D．It can increase their environmental awareness. |
| A．Finding all Wright buildings there. | B．Traveling around the area by bike. |
| C．Designing a brochure inspired by Wright. | D．Drawing the playroom of Wright’s children. |
| A．They searched for gifts in the house. | B．They watched TV in the family room. |
| C．They studied how Wright designed the house. | D．They explored the mathematics behind architecture. |
| A．Architects. | B．Tour guides. | C．Museum directors. | D．Parents. |
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【推荐1】Haad Farang (Haad Sai Yao)
This small but attractive bay has waters free of riptides (激流), making it safe for families to play water in the sun. As its nickname implies, Farang is Thai for foreigners. You'll find a large concentration of backpackers here. Still, with only a couple of simple food shops, it's a far cry from the noise of Chaweng beach on Koh Samui or Kamala on Phuket.
Rent a sea kayak (皮艇) and go around the corner to Tham Morakot (the Emerald Cave), a winding cave that opens up to a bay walled by thick leaves and often visited by groups of monkeys. It is very inspiring, but to fully appreciate it, be sure to prepare a light to avoid knocking into cave walls and other kayaks. To avoid being crowded, make the trip in the late afternoon.
Where to eat
The Ko Yao Viewpoint Restaurant is the best place for tourists. Drink the sweet cock-tails and sit in the last rays of the day.
Where to stay
Lower prices of comparable quality are set slightly back in the forest, but if you want beachfront access, it's worth choosing one of the basic hotels at Koh Mook Charlie Beach Resort.
How to get there
Fly from Bangkok to Trang with AirAsia (from £30), then take a one-hour Tigerline ship from Hat Yao Pier (£19). Besides, a five-hour ship from Phuket at Rassada Pier (£41) goes directly to the island and will drop passengers at Haad Farang.
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1. What is the feature of Haad Farang?| A．Its food shops. | B．Its quiet environment. |
| C．Its riptides. | D．Its kayaks. |
| A．A light. | B．Some thick leaves. |
| C．A backpack. | D．Some sweet cocktails. |
| A．By bus and by ship. | B．By plane and by ship. |
| C．By plane and by bus. | D．By ship and by car. |
【推荐2】For tourists holding the Barcelona Card, the information below will be useful if you plan to admire some artworks or architectures there.
·Sagrada Familia
Opening hours: October — March: 09:00 — 18:00;
April — September: 09:00 — 20:00
Admission: $11, or $10 with the Barcelona Card
The project’s vast sale and its special design have made it one of Barcelona’s top tourist attractions for many years.
·La Pedrera
Opening hours: November — February: 09:00 — 18:30;
March — October: 09:00 — 20:00
Admission: $9.50 (Save 20% with the Barcelona Card)
It is a unique modernist building made of bricks and colorful tiles (瓦). Visitors can see the amazing 800 square meters attic (阁楼) with 270 brick arches that give you a feeling that you are walking inside the skeleton of a whale.
·Barcelona FC Museum
Opening hours: 6th April4th October: 10:00 — 20:00; the rest of the year: 10:00 — 18:30
Admission: $8.50 for entry to the museum and $17 for a guided tour
When you buy your ticket you have two options: a ticket for the museum to see the football stadium or a special one for $15 where you get to see the stadium and the scenes at the club.
·Picasso Museum
Opening hours: Check the website for details as they vary depending on the time of the year
Admission: $9 for main exhibition — extra for special showings (Save 50% with the Barcelona Card)
The museum has arranged Picasso’s paintings from his early days to his final works. Arranging the paintings in this way gives you a fascinating insight into the development of Picasso.
1. What do we know about the tourist attractions mentioned in the passage?| A．Picasso Museum offers only one exhibition. |
| B．Barcelona FC Museum may attract football fans. |
| C．La Pedrera is well-known for its colorful material. |
| D．Sagrada Familia is the largest building in Barcelona. |
| A．$25.5 | B．$32 | C．$34 | D．$42.5 |
| A．The Barcelona Card is a must for visiting them. |
| B．They are all famous for their architectural styles. |
| C．Their opening hours are changeable in different seasons. |
| D．Visitors can have a discount of 20% with the Barcelona Card. |
【推荐3】Now, a growing number of people like traveling. To make traveling a worthwhile experience, you need to know the following things.
First and foremost, when traveling in foreign countries, you have to respect their way of life.
Choosing proper time will make every penny count. High seasons are times when people travel in large numbers.
Please be nice to the people that you meet. You will get treated in the way you interact with them. Share information with them, and you may get a nice experience in return. They may teach you their language, customs, lifestyles and so on.
Don’t think of the next time, Enjoy the present.
| A．You had better cut down on your spending. |
| B．It requires you to see things from a different stand. |
| C．You should prepare yourself about your destination. |
| D．Besides, you may learn how they call certain foods. |
| E．Things change pretty fast, and you may have only one chance. |
| F．During such times, you need to pay lots of money for your flight. |
| G．Also, let them know your movements from time to time during the travel. |
【推荐1】A child who suffers bullying (霸凌) usually has low self-respect and their ability to learn and be successful at school is greatly lessened. Therefore, bullying must be stopped.
The best and most obvious way to stop bullying in schools is for parents to change the way they treat their children at home. Of course, this is much easier said than done and everyone treats their children differently. Bullies, however, come from homes where physical punishment is used and children have been taught that physical violence is the way to handle problems and “get their way”. Bullies usually also come from homes where the parents fight a lot, so they have been modeled on such violence. Parental involvement is often lacking in bullies’ lives and there seems to be little warmth.
Early intervention (干预) is truly the best way to stop bullying, but parents of the victims or therapists (治疗师) cannot alter the bully’s home environment. Some things can be done at the school level, however.
Most school programs that address bullying use a multi-faceted (多方面的) method to the problem. This usually involves the advice of some sort, either by peers, a school adviser, teachers, or the principal.
Hand out questionnaires to all students and teachers and discuss if bullying is occurring. Define exactly what constitutes (构成) bullying at school. The questionnaire is a wonderful tool that allows the school to see how widespread bullying is and what forms it is taking. It is a good way to start to solve the problem.
Get the children’s parents involved in a bullying program. If parents of the bullies and the victims are not aware of what is going on at school, then the whole bullying program will not be effective. Stopping bullying in school takes teamwork and concentrated effort on everyone’s part. Bullying also should be discussed during parent-teacher conferences and PTA meetings. Parental awareness is the key.
In the classroom setting, all teachers should work with the students on bullying. Oftentimes even the teacher is being bullied in the classroom and a program should be set up to teach about bullying. Children understand modeling behaviors and role-play and acting out bullying situations is a very effective tool. Have students role-play a bullying situation.
1. In the author’s opinion, bullies usually ________.| A．have extremely high self-esteem | B．don’t know the harm of violence |
| C．look forward to parental involvement | D．experience or witness violence at home |
| A．Know | B．Change | C．Remove | D．Compare |
| A．make a bullying program effective. | B．find the key to solving bullying at school |
| C．make parents aware of bullying at school | D．let parents know their children are bullies |
| A．How to stop bullying in schools. | B．What leads to violence in schools. |
| C．What parents can do to stop bullying. | D．How to comfort those who are bullied. |
【推荐2】Teenagers who spend more time on after-school activities and less than two hours of screen time after school are more mentally (心理上) healthy, according to a study published in the journal Preventive Medicine. The new study was carried out by researchers from the University of British Columbia.
The study used information collected from more than 28, 000 seventh-grade Canadian students between 2014 and 2018. The students first answered questions about their usage of screen time after school, including how much time they spent watching TV, Netflix or something else. Then, students reported how many days they had taken part in after-school activities such as sports or arts programmes. After that, researchers asked students to describe their state of mind. For example, when given a statement such as “I start most days thinking that I will have a good day”, they could choose to what level they agreed with it on a scale (等级).
Some of the results were expected, researchers said in the study. Students with no after-school activities usually had high levels of screen time, for example. And they expected girls would score higher on negative indicators (消极指标) of mental health, as earlier research had found that they tended to have higher levels of anxiety (焦虑) compared to boys.
What was noteworthy, researchers say, is that even among students who took part in after-school activities, 46% still went beyond the recommended screen time of two hours. At the same time, 67% of students who didn’t take part in after-school activities also had more than two hours of screen time. Together, this suggests high screen time among teenagers generally.
“The findings suggest that after-school activities are valuable for the happy growing of teenagers,” the study said. “While past studies have proved the importance of after-school activities for social and academic (学业的) development, the present study shows their importance for good mental health results.”
1. Which of the following came last when students took part in the new study?| A．Talking about their lifestyles. | B．Introducing their after-school activities. |
| C．Reporting their mental states on a scale. | D．Answering questions about screen time use. |
| A．They often have higher levels of satisfaction. |
| B．Few of them take part in after-school activities. |
| C．Anxiety has become a serious problem among them. |
| D．Too much screen time may be more harmful to them. |
| A．Earlier findings about screen time are wrong. |
| B．High screen time is common among teenagers. |
| C．No after-school activities mean no screen time. |
| D．Screens attract teenagers more than after-school activities do. |
| A．They are good for teenagers’ physical health. |
| B．They help to improve teenagers’ mental health. |
| C．They encourage teenagers’ social development. |
| D．They allow teenagers to become better learners. |
【推荐3】Habitat loss, pesticides (农药) and climate change are threatening insect populations worldwide. In 2019, Biological Conservation reported that 40% of all insects species are declining (减少) globally and that a third of them are endangered.
And while it may sound nice to live in a world with fewer bad insects, environmental writer Oliver Milman says that human beings would be in big trouble without insects. That’s because insects play important roles in pollinating (给……授粉) plants we eat, breaking down waste in forest soil and forming the base of a food chain that other larger animals including—humans—rely upon.
“It would be an extremely terrible place to live in—and certainly not something we should ever aim for.” Milman says of an insect free existence. “You would certainly have mass starvation and social unrest... It’d be a place where there would be smelly waste and dead bodies everywhere because insects that break down those materials would be gone.”
Milman charts the troubling decline of insects in his new book, The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. He says that while it’s impossible to know exactly what’s happening with every insect species in the world, the overall trends are not good: The butterfly population in North America has declined quickly in the past 40 years, for example, and a U. N. assessment done in 2019 found that half a million insect species are under threat of extinction, some in the coming decades.
“The world, our surroundings, would be far quieter, far duller without insects.” he says. “When you start kind of digging down into these figures looking at the research, it’s clear that there’s something seriously wrong... There is a straight decline in most insect populations, and that spells major trouble for them but also for us.”
1. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about insects?| A．Their classification. | B．Their importance. | C．Writers. | D．Junior editors. |
| A．It describes the worrying decline of insects. |
| B．It tells what’s happening with all insect species. |
| C．It shows half a million butterfly species will be in danger of extinction. |
| D．It explains why the number of butterflies in South America has increased. |
| A．Positive. | B．Worried. | C．Unconcerned. | D．Doubtful. |
| A．The introduction of the endangered insects. |
| B．The ways of increasing insects’ population. |
| C．The effects of the declining insects’ population. |
| D．The reasons of threatening insects’ population. |
