1 . 假如你是李华，请你给某英文报社的“城市风采”栏目写一篇短文，介绍我们伟大的首都——北京。要点如下：

1. 基本概况：人口约2, 000万，面积16, 000多平方千米，位于华北平原北部；

2. 气候：四季分明，夏季炎热多雨，冬季寒冷干燥；

3. 历史与文化：有3, 000多年的历史，政治、文化中心，著名大学很多；

4. 交通与旅游：交通便利，有很多旅游景点。

注意： 1. 词数80左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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Yours,

Wang Ming

5 . Invite your kids to see polar bears up close, step into American history or catch their very first fish: family vacations are a great way for children to explore the world and experience new things. If you’re planning a getaway(短假) with the whole family, America’s most kid-friendly attractions are the perfect place to start.

Each great kid-friendly vacation in our list is filled with amazing children’s attractions and things to do, but family vacations also go beyond water parks, museums and zoos. These getaways are designed for kid-friendly exploring. You never know what you—and your kids—might discover!

From secret handshakes to favorite desserts, every family is different, and every family vacation should be, too. Because there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all trip, we find some of the best kid-friendly attractions and places for vacation in the U.S. There are many great places to go with kids in America’s cities, mountains, islands and small towns. Since the best family vacations are as unique as your kids are, some of these spots might even take you by surprise. Whether you’re looking for educational fun, wild roller coaster rides or just some laid-back beach time, all you need to do is pack your bags, hit the road and get ready to share the memories of a lifetime.

6 . Woven Wonders: Indian Textiles (纺织品) from the Parpia Collection

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) members at the Family level and above are invited to reserve tickets for an art-making activity led by a teaching artist. This edition is inspired by the exhibition—Woven Wonders: Indian Textiles from the Parpia Collection Learn the special dyeing (染色) process and bring home a naturally dyed headdress of your own as a reminder.

This exhibition, open from 11 am to 6 pm on Saturdays, takes place in the classroom close to the Hirsch Library on the lower level of the Beck Building.

In order to reflect India’s countless regional traditions, the Parpia Collection shows the extraordinary beauty and technical diversity of Indian textiles. Ranging from folk textiles to valuable court textiles, the objects go through the 14th century to the early 20th century. The collection shows the wonders of textile arts from India throughout history with examples of hand-painted and hand-block-printed cotton and other traditional cloth crafts.

Choose your one-hour time when you book your tickets. Activities are specially recommended for children aged 4 to 12, with adult supervision.

Woven Wonders: Indian Textiles from the Parpia Collection is organized by MFAH. Special exhibition programming is made possible by a fund. If you are a current museum member, please sign in to access your tickets. If you are not a member, join today.

A walk along the Beijing Central Axis (中轴线) , joining the Drum Tower, the Nanluoguxiang, the Jingshan Park and the Forbidden City—this was Zhao Xianghan’s     1     (one) city-walk journey in the spring of 2022. Since then, the 21-year-old student from the Beijing Foreign Studies University     2     (remain) a city-walk lover, believing it to be the best way to “rediscover a city”.

“I visited Beijing on a group tour before the start of my college life here, during     3     going to tourist destinations and taking photos was a big thing. It gave me the     4     (impress) that Beijing was a noisy place,” said Zhao, “yet now a city walk allows me     5     (see) a whole different side of Beijing.”

With more and more travel options,     6     (tradition) group tours can no longer satisfy people who are looking for a personalized and different travel experience. Compared     7     tightly-scheduled travel tours, city walk     8     (focus) more on the free side of a travel experience. The city-walk culture to experience urban life with no transportation means other than one’s legs and feet has also been     9     hit online. On a video-sharing app, a recent video about city-walk routes in Guangzhou has gained more than 171,000 likes.

“City walk is all about doing whatever you want in your own exploration of a city, and it is     10     (actual) a kind of slow-paced lifestyle that I love so much,” said Zhao.

8 . Western Australia may soon be home to the world’s tallest wooden building, after authorities plans for a 191.2-meter-tall tower constructed using mass wood. Perth’s Metro Inner-South Joint Development Assessment Panel (JDAP) approved the developer Grange Development’s proposal for the tall building.

The tall building, currently named the C6 building, would stand nearly twice as high as the current record holder. The developers say 42% of the building will be constructed from wood, with the columns and core made of concrete (混凝土). If completed, the high-rise will go beyond the current world’s tallest wooden building, the Ascent tower in Wisconsin, America, which stands at 25 stories or 86 meters. The structure, located in South Perth, Australia, will also be taller than the coming wood Atlassian Headquarters in Sydney, which is expected to claim the record from Ascent but is yet to be completed.

Like Atlassian Headquarters, the C6 building will combine wood beams (横梁) with a steel supporting structure to support the whole structure. According to Grange Development, the 50-story building will contain more than 200 apartments.

It will be Western Australia’s first carbon-negative residential building. Grange Development’s director, James Dibble, said, “Our desire with the building is to shift the focus towards a more climate-conscious approach.” The building will use 7,400 cubic meters of wood harvested from 600 trees. “We can’t grow concrete,” Dibble said, calling the plan “a new open sourced blueprint that uses construction methods to balance out the CO₂ within our built environment, which is the single biggest trigger to climate issues”. “This is our opportunity to show that we genuinely care about the climate crisis we are doing very little about as an industry,” he added.

Philip Oldfield, head of the University of New South Wales’ School of Built Environment, said, “Typically we build tall buildings out of steel and concrete, Concrete is responsible for 8% of all CO release. So by replacing concrete and steel with a biological material such as wood, it is going to reduce the environmental impact of the building quite significantly.”

In today’s lecture we will center on the people who lived five thousand years ago in the Sahara Desert. Most of these desert people moved across the countryside throughout the year. But if the journey was long, extra food and tools were sometimes stored in caves. One of these caves is now an exciting historic site. Even though the cave is very large, it was certainly too dark and dusty for people to live in, but it was a great place to hide things. And huge amounts of food supplies and daily tools have been found there. The food includes dried fish and nuts. Some decorations were also found in the caves. There are necklaces, earrings, and so on. Most of them are made of bone. From the above talk, we can see that there are really a lot of differences between ancient people’s lives and our lives today.

Welcomes all school groups to explore technology and the natural environment on a field trip designed to meet the learning needs of the students.

You can visit the museum from Monday to Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Groups must have at least one teacher for every ten students. Students must be supervised at all times, and teachers are responsible for their behavior inside the museum. Unsafe behavior is not permitted and will result in the entire group being asked to leave.

No backpacks, headphones, candy, gum, or lunches are allowed inside the museum. Lunches may be eaten outside in the park. We regret that the museum is unable to provide a place to have lunch indoors. In the event of bad weather, please plan to eat in your vehicle.