9/11 Memorial and Ground Zero Walking Tour

In remembrance of the events that took place on September 11, 2001, take this 2. 5­hour walking tour. Walk through the space of the former World Trade Center in New York City (NYC). A guide with a personal connection to the events of that day shares stories of tragedy and heroism. Please wear comfortable shoes.

Lower East Side Food and Culture Tour

Take a deep dive into the food culture of Manhattan's Lower East Side during this 3­hour guided small­group tour. Follow your guide to hidden treasures for tastes of everything from pancakes to Chinese dumplings. Along the way, your guide will cast light on the neighborhood's rich, varied food culture, which helps you understand NYC as a whole. Children aged 5 years or younger are welcome at no charge. The tour runs rain or shine.

Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Tour

Get up close and personal with Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty on this 4. 5­hour tour. Listen to the live narration from your guide and learn about the history of both spots. Jump the queue and enjoy access to the reservation service boarding the ferry. Then take in the amazing views of southern Manhattan as you cross New York Harbor. Foods or drinks of any kind are not permitted.

Big Apple Helicopter Tour

It might seem impossible to see the highlights of NYC in just 15 minutes. But this helicopter tour makes it a reality. Listen to commentary from your pilot as you fly by the Statue of Liberty, Central Park and other landmarks. You'll see more of the city on this tour than an entire day of exploring on foot. Reservations are required.

Recently, my husband and three kids were playing in Mediterranean (地中海), swimming and floating in the picture­perfect sea. It was ridiculously beautiful in Majorca, Spain. The way the sun danced across the water and how the blue horizon was dotted with storybook sailboats were such beautiful scenes.

My husband and I always dreamed about taking our kids on a trip around the world. It was one of the things we talked at length about. When we imagined our life with the children, we hoped we would have.

Fourteen years later, we had three boys who were growing up faster by the day. It was time to make good on those plans. We renewed our passports, and then packed our bags. We showed our kids the world. It was about experiencing the dozens of flights and trains and taxis together. We showed them how wonderful, how diverse, and how fascinating the world is. We wanted them to learn all that we had learned ourselves, through our own travels.

But there was something more than that: What we really wanted is to slow down time. We wanted the days to last a bit longer, and the weeks to take their time. The years with our children are going too fast. We wanted to put the brakes on our busy lives for a year, and just be with our kids. We wanted a break from the daily morning routine of making lunches, eating breakfast and going out the door in time for school. We needed family time out.

It was the wonderful two months in Europe, full of incredible moments. When we look back at our lives, I know we'll be glad we did it. I know we'll be happy that this is a chapter of the story of our family.

Germans have a word "wanderlust" which translated into English would be the desire to wander. Nowadays the opportunity to travel is endless. Thanks to low­cost airfares, travelling all over the world is very accessible and sometimes it's even cheaper to fly out of the country than to travel within your own.

I have always had the feeling of wanderlust. As a young girl it started from me wanting to explore my local woods at the back of my garden. With me growing up, I have a sense of adventure. And I found my local woods being replaced with the Brazilian wetland, Pantanal, where I went last summer in search of jaguars, snakes and crocodiles.

The thing with travelling is always different. Even if you go to the same country, to the same town and stay in the exact same rest house, it would be a completely different experience. The people you meet will be different, and they will tell you their own travelling stories: stories of holiday romances, holiday horrors and stories that seem so suspect that you can hardly believe them until something ridiculous happens to you and you find yourself becoming one of those people telling your tales. Or maybe the difference is yourself.

When you travel you are forced to be in harmony with a new culture. Whether it's eating a strange food, or staying with a family, where neither of you speak a common language and you have to communicate through hand movements and smiles, the experience gives me itchy feet to do it all again. And although wanderlust is originally a German word, the English idiom reflects a similar idea. Someone with that needs to leave or travel. This feeling to explore is found not only in language but in us.

A tiny Alaska village has experienced a boom in tourism in recent years as polar bears spend more time on land than on Arctic sea ice.

More than 2,000 people visited the northern Alaska village of Kaktovik in 2018 to see polar bears in the wild. The far north community lies in an area where increasingly higher temperature has sped up the movement of sea ice, the primary habitat (栖息地) of polar bears. As ice has gradually moved to deep water beyond the continental shelf, more bears are remaining on land to look for food.

Polar bears have always been a common sight on sea ice near Kaktovik, but villagers started noticing a change in the mid­1990s. More bears seemed to stay on land, and researchers began taking note of more female bears making homes in the snow on land instead of on the ice to raise their babies. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists began hearing reports of the increasing number of polar bears in the area in the early 2000s. As more attention was given to the plight (困境) of polar bears about a decade ago, more tourists started heading to Kaktovik.

The village had fewer than 50 visitors annually before 2011, said Jennifer Reed, of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. "Today we're talking about hundreds and hundreds of visitors, many from around the world each year," Reed said. Most tourists visit in the fall, when bears are forced toward land because sea ice is farthest away from the shore. Bruce Inglangasak, a local hunter who sometimes offers wildlife­ viewing tours, said he's been offering polar bear tours since 2004. Most of his clients (客户) are from China and Europe, as well as from the lower 48 U. S. states. Many tourists stay several days in the village, which has two small hotels. The villagers have benefited a lot from that. In turn, they provide more effective protection for polar bears with financial support from tourism development.

My father was born in a small town in the US. He wasn't sure what he wanted from 1, but something told him to 2 and begin a new adventure.

He began that adventure traveling to cities in the US before going on to Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. He took my mother and us three daughters with him and went wherever the road 3 him.

It's easy to feel4 when you're on the road. We made lots of new friends on our trip — most of them are mechanics, since we often 5 hours in repair shops. But that was a way much6 than sitting by the roadside while waiting for the engine to 7 when it was 40 ℃ outside.

Getting along well sometimes seemed 8. There were always a lot of 9, especially among us back seat passengers about who had to 10 in the middle. But even if it was hard, we learned a lot about 11. When we were traveling in the Philippines, we drove to Quezon City one day. It should have been an hour's drive but was nearly three thanks to bad roads and 12 traffic. "Did you put our suitcases in the car?" my father asked my mother as we arrived there. From the back seat, we saw her 13 turn toward my father. "No," she said. "I thought you did." That was how a seven­hour car trip turned into a 16­hour one, which was mostly spent in 14.

On occasions like that, we had to learn to let go of our anger because we were 15 in a rolling box with the same people for the rest of the 16. Even if I sometimes felt like opening the car door and 17 one of my sisters out, I kept my feelings to myself.

This is why road trips were like 18 universities to us. We 19 our PhDs (博士学位) in how to get along with other people just by traveling in our old car.

If we were 20 given a second chance at life, we would do it all over again. Only this time would I put the suitcases in the car myself.

Everybody has some goals in life. If you are not acting in a way that will help you achieve those goals, your confidence may be less.

Take real action.

Lack of action. Watching TV isn't an action. Eating isn't an action, too.  It can be a side hustle, a hobby . . . Something that you want! Of course, when you set goals for life, you should be able to put them together, and make practical goals.

If you aren't proud of yourself, how can't you be in low spirits. The quickest way to overcome your situation is to win more often. Both are strong hormones (荷尔蒙) that push you to do more.You'll get more confidence from winning. This is how you get started — win.

Face up to true selves.

We should know ourselves very well and judge ourselves fairly. Instead of thinking about your own physical imperfections, or always comparing yourself with others' advantages, you should believe that you have bright spots, and that everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses.If we would just accept and trust ourselves, confidence might be much stronger.

A. A real action is something that you want.

B. Calm down and think positively.

C. Keep normal relationships and make more warm­hearted friends.

D. If so, you need to read the following tips.

E. There is no such thing as a perfect person.

F. Once you start to win, you will always go for more winning.

G. High confidence comes with pride.

Nowadays, time travel is just about everywhere you look, films to TV shows and even literature. Our society has become obsessed with the idea of traveling through time.

However, that wasn't true just 150 years ago. The gate was opened by H. G. Wells' novel, The Time Machine, which  (publish) in 1895. In this book, Wells describes a man who builds a machine that enables him  (move) throughout the course of history and into the future. The story is important because it views time as something  (flow).

Before this book came out, time was  (basic) viewed as a one­way street. You could only go forward, and only at one speed. In this way, Wells'  (create) account transformed the way people viewed time and time travel.

It was so successful largely because it came out at the end of 19th century when tremendous change was in the air. As the  (twenty) century dawned, people were becoming incredibly excited for the future. It was a period of huge technological as well as scientific  (grow) and, for the first time ever, people were living in a way that was dramatically different from  generation before them.

In other words, it was the first time that the past, future and present would be entirely different. This simple historical moment is made time travel so fascinating.

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This summer, I visited Hangzhou, and this journey had impressed me deeply.

Being a capital of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou lies in the southeast of China. There are a lot of place of interest. Among them the West Lake is the best­known attraction, where water seem to melt into the sky by the distance. Besides, there are several museums locating in Hangzhou that show its unique culture. What's more, you can enjoy many kinds of deliciously local food such as West Lake Fish in Vinegar Sauce and Dongpo Pork. The people there are friendly and kind, but they are working hard make the city more beautiful.

What attractive and inviting Hangzhou is!

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1）词数100左右；

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