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Mt. Huangshan Highlight Tour
People from all over the world aren’t willing to miss Mt. Huangshan when they travel to China. In the morning, you will climb up the mountain by cable car to have your exploration and enjoy the amazing landscape at Mt. Huangshan. Lunch and dinner will be served at the restaurant on the mountain. They are at your own expense. Stay overnight at the top of the mountain.
Get up early, and you may enjoy the fantastic sunrise in the midst of a sea of clouds in the summits. Then, you will be driven back to explore the unique Huizhou merchant culture, characteristic architectural style and enjoy local snacks by visiting Hongcun Village and Xidi Village.
Your accommodations
| Hotel Class | Group Size | Nov.~ Mar. | Apr.~Oct. |
| Economical Hotel | 2~3 persons | $456 | $635 |
| 4~5 persons | $556 | $596 | |
| Comfortable Hotel | 2~ 3persons | $ 708 | $758 |
| 4~5 persons | $645 | $870 |
Your preparations
●About the luggage: Don’t take too much luggage when you take Mt. Huangshan tour. It’s better to bring a backpack and prepare some food and water, because everything will be more expensive on Mt. Huangshan. Go to Beihai Scenic Area if you really have to buy something.
●About wearings: Heavy solar radiation on the mountain, ensure a good protection for your skin. Wearing hiking shoes and sport clothes.
●About accidents: If you have heart disease or high blood pressure, don’t travel alone. If you are really upset when on the mountain, a stretcher (担架) is offered on the mountain.
【小题1】What can tourists do on the mountain during their tour?| A．Enjoy free nice meals. | B．Visit Hongcun Village. |
| C．Explore Huizhou culture. | D．Admire the grand sunrise. |
| A．$758. | B．$708. | C．$1516. | D．$1416. |
| A．Always travel with your friends. | B．Wear suitable shoes and clothes. |
| C．Buy food in Beihai Scenic Area. | D．Take a stretcher with you in case. |
The storm swallowed the horizon whole. Waves like blackened teeth bit at the broken boat, each crash sending shakes through Marco’s water-filled boots. Salt covered his eyelids, but he kept them narrowly open — to blink was to give in to the dark.
Three days without sleep. The compass lay somewhere at the bottom of this floating coffin, but north meant nothing here between walls of water that rose taller than church towers.
His fingers, blue and sore, still gripped the tiller (舵柄). A child’s hands, the fishermen had laughed when he’d signed on. Sixteen winters didn’t make a man, they said. Let them see him now. Let them watch as he pressed his hip against the rocking wood, taking the sea’s blows like boxer absorbing hits. Every wave that didn’t kill the boat fed his resolve.
No food. No charts. Just the knife at his belt and the stubborn rhythm of his heart pounding “alive, alive, alive” against ribs (肋骨) that ached with each breath,
When the wave came — the mountain, the killer, the thing without mercy — Marco didn’t pray. Prayer required hope, and hope was a currency the sea didn’t honor. Instead, he bent his knees as Old Tomas had taught him. “You don’t fight the water, boy,” the grey-haired sailor had said, tobacco flavouring his words. “You let it think it’s winning until it gets bored.”
The deck disappeared beneath him. Cold knifed into his lungs. For three seconds, he was nothing but a grain of sand in God’s boot.
Then the boat rose to the surface like a dying whale, and Marco was still there. Still holding. Still bleeding. Still being.
He laughed then, a sound torn between madness and victory. The storm hadn’t killed him yet.
And if it hadn’t, it wouldn’t.
【小题1】What does the underlined phrase “this floating coffin” in Paragraph 2 refer to?| A．The sea. | B．The boat. | C．The compass. | D．The boot. |
| A．His physical pain discouraged him from operating the boat. |
| B．His determination grew with each survival challenge. |
| C．His inexperience was ignored by the fishermen. |
| D．His youth left him at the mercy of storms. |
| A．He followed Tomas’s advice. | B．He fought the water directly. |
| C．He abandoned the tiller. | D．He prayed for rescue. |
| A．Waves like blackened teeth. (Paragraph 1) | B．Boxer absorbing hits. (Paragraph 3) |
| C．A grain of sand in God’s boot. (Paragraph 6) | D．A dying whale. (Paragraph 7) |
Here’s an all-too-familiar situation: You packed the night before for your week-long beach trip with enthusiasm. Luckily, you remembered all the essentials: socks, underwear and a phone charger, etc. But upon arrival, you realized that you had forgotten to grab your toothbrush. Actually, you can avoid this sort of awkwardness next time by using electronic devices, including smartphones.
In a new study, researchers suggest that offloading important to-do items for example by setting reminders on your phone could bring glad tidings to less important items like your toothbrush. This practice can free up your memory for additional minor things.
To demonstrate this, researchers developed a memory game to be played on a touchscreen computer. The test was undertaken by 158 volunteers aged between 18 and 71. Participants were shown up to 12 numbered circles on the screen, and had to remember to drag some of these to the left and some to the right. The number of circles that they remembered to drag to the correct side determined their rewards at the end of the experiment. One side was designated (指定) “high value”, meaning that remembering to drag a circle to this side was worth 10 times as much money as remembering to drag a circle to the other side.
Participants performed this task 16 times. They had to use their own memory to remember for half of the trials and they were allowed to set reminders on the digital devices for the other half. The researchers found that participants tended to use the digital devices to store details of the high-value circles. And, when they did so, their memory for those circles was improved by 18%. “What is unexpected is that their memory for low-value circles was also improved by 27%, even in people who had never set any reminders for low-value circles,” said senior author, Sam Gilbert.
However, when the researchers took those reminders away, the participants remembered the low-value circles better than the high-value ones. “We need to be careful when backing up the most important information — if a memory tool fails, we could be left with nothing but lower-importance information in our own memory,” Gilbert concluded.
【小题1】What can be inferred from the situation described in paragraph 1?| A．Our memory is easy to decline. |
| B．Our memory is inaccurate occasionally. |
| C．Our memory has an order of importance. |
| D．Our memory has a preference for familiar things. |
| A．Add up to. | B．Take advantage of. |
| C．Be favorable to. | D．Be dependent on. |
| A．People tend to prioritize resource-consuming tasks. |
| B．Digital reminders harm our brain ability if used improperly. |
| C．People offload high-value information on to external memory |
| D．Digital reminders also enhance memory for low-value content. |
| A．Have a change of memory tools regularly. |
| B．Never rely too much on external memory aids. |
| C．Remember to choose memory tools that suit us fine. |
| D．Learn to sort high-value items from low-value ones. |
When Jagadish Mahendran heard about his friend’s daily challenges navigating as a blind person, he immediately thought of his artificial intelligence work.
“For years I had been teaching robots to see things,” he said. Mahendran, a computer vision researcher at the University of Georgia’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence, found it ironic that he had helped develop machines — including a shopping robot that could “see” stocked shelves and a kitchen robot — but nothing for people with low or no vision.
After exploring existing technology for blind and low vision people like camera-enabled canes or GPS-connected smart-phone apps, he came up with a backpack-based AI design that uses cameras to provide instantaneous alerts.
“The camera data is processed right away as it’s captured,” he said.
That data makes it to a Bluetooth-enabled earphone that warns the user of any obstructions or route changes. Along with a backpack, the user also has to wear a vest and fanny pack, which houses the AI equipment, sensors, camera, and GPS.
Currently, the vest includes hidden Intel sensors and a front-facing camera, while the backpack and fanny pack house a small computing unit (运算单元) and power source. The Luxonis OAK-D unit, located in the vest and fanny pack, is an AI device that processes camera data almost instantly to interpret the world around the user.
Mahendran’s AI backpack isn’t for sale, but he says he is going to start a GoFundMe to equip any blind pedestrians who want to use the system.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “instantaneous” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?| A．Intelligent | B．Immediate |
| C．Accurate | D．Effective |
| A．He thinks artificial intelligence is of little use to blind people. |
| B．He was not successful in helping people with eyesight trouble at first. |
| C．The AI backpack that he has developed is the best. |
| D．His AI backpack will be put on the market soon. |
| A．What is a Luxonis OAK-D unit? |
| B．How is the AI backpack developed? |
| C．How is the captured data transferred to a Bluetooth-enabled earphone? |
| D．What does the AI backpack device consist of? |
| A．To prove that a helping hand is everywhere. |
| B．To explain the new trend of AI |
| C．To introduce a new AI device. |
| D．To give suggestions on how to help the blind. |
Are all the emails and social media notifications making you anxious or getting you down? Is having to learn yet another new piece of software stressing you out? Are the boundaries between family life and work life unclear because of technology?
Though many people may not be familiar with technostress, they probably are familiar with the feelings of having too much technology in their lives. Technostress can be broken down into a few subcategories including techno-overload, techno-complexity and techno-invasion.
Technostress may make people feel down or burned-out and even suffer from depression. Some may feel tension in the body, which can lead to headaches and back pain.
Taking time each day to get outside is also a great way. By all accounts, there’s almost nothing that aids in stress management so much as a few hours spent in the park, the woods or the mountains.
| A．All of them can have significant effects on health. |
| B．It’s not a medical problem but can lead to diseases. |
| C．Such time is one ready resource available to most people. |
| D．In the connected world, most people continuously multitask. |
| E．You may be experiencing a phenomenon known as technostress. |
| F．Engaging in activities that are grounding and centering is helpful. |
| G．The first thing to do is to accept that it’s normal to have stress from technology. |
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