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Weald & Downland Living Museum

Fun fact

Over 50 historic buildings from across the Weald and Downland area have been dismantled (拆除) and then reconstructed across a lovely 40-acre site in the south downs national park.

The collection of buildings represents almost a thousand years of rural life in south-east England: furnished just as they would have been in the past-complete with the homes, farms and public buildings. There's a sense of exploring a real village as you wander between them along green paths, stopping to climb the stairs of a 17th-century craftsman's (工匠) cottage to lie on the straw bed or sheltering from a shower in a smoky, 14th-century hall.

Getting there

The Stagecoach 60 bus service from Chichester to Midhurst stops just five minutes away at Grooms Yard, Singleton. The nearest railway stations are Chichester (2 miles) and Haslemere (7 miles). The museum is on Town Lane in Singleton, reached via the A286 from Chichester to Midhurst. Parking is free and there are disabled parking spaces opposite the museum shop.

Value for money?

Yes. It's not cheap but it's a special experience that easily fills a day. Plus it's a valuable cause worth supporting. Adults £14 children 5—17 and students £6.50, under-4s free, family £38 (two adults and two children) or £25 (one adult and three children).

Opening hours

Daily 10 a.m.—5 p.m. (last entry 4 p.m.).

Leek Town Warriors was a girls' football team which used to get routinely defeated every time they turned out, until James Henry stepped in two years ago. He tended to transform the team's fortunes and then took the job when the previous coach quit. With the help of his assistant Andy Austin, they started training hard in April 2020.

Some players had never kicked a football before joining the team, so training them took hours of hard work and patience. After a good few weeks, they got down to training and really started to take it in what the coach wanted. "I insist on doing the basic stuff well and letting the girls decide what they feel they need to work on." James said.

James' first season was ruined by the pandemic, which forced him and Andy to get creative with training. They organized team-building activities with the girls to help them bond on and off the field. James then spent the sessions they could hold focusing on the basics of football like passing and shooting, bringing the girls up to a good standard.

James watched the girls develop over the course of last year, and in September they played their first match of the new season. They won the game, and since then went on an unbeaten run of eight games. The team's star player, 15-year-old Chelsea, has also impressed the audience individually, becoming the top scorer in the league with incredible 30 goals.

James said, "All the effort that the girls, us coaches and parents have put in to get this point has been enormous. If I hadn't had the support of Andy helping me every week, this would have been an impossible task. So I'm incredibly grateful to have him on side. All we want is to bring more girls into the game and show that it's not all about having the best players; it's about hard work and giving everyone the chance to play."

Generation Z is different. As a whole, Americans born between the late 1990s and early 2000s are less likely to have work or look for it: their labour-force-participation rate is 71%, compared with 75% for millennials (born between 1980 and the late 1990s) and 78% for Generation X (born in the decade or so to 1980) when each came of age. As a result, they make up a smaller share of the workforce. With graduation ceremonies behind them, the latest group of diploma-holders are entering the job market. What they want from employers is also not quite the same as in generations past.

Although Gen-Z employees felt more lonely and isolated than their older colleagues at the start of the pandemic, the ability to work remotely has brought new possibilities. The benefits go beyond working in your pyjamas. Many are taking calls from beach chairs and hammocks (吊床) in more comfortable places or fleeing big cities in search for cheaper or larger homes.

This has big implications. Industries with jobs that cannot be done from home are falling out of favour with recent graduates. A study by ManpowerGroup, an employment company, suggests an inverse relationship (反比关系) between talent shortages and flexible working policies. The sectors which are either less able to offer remote work or have been slower to embrace it-including construction, finance and manufacturing-have faced some of the biggest skills gaps for all types of jobs.

That in turn has accelerated a pre-existing trend of young employees trading Wall Street for Silicon Valley. Now technology bosses are more willing than their opposite competitors in finance to let employees work from home (or anywhere else). Annual rankings of employer desirability by Universum, a graduate-staffing consultancy, bear this out. In 2008 the list of best employers graded by American graduates was dominated by big banks and the Big Four consulting firms. By 2021 seven of the ten highest spots were occupied by tech and media giants.

A team of psychologists led by Dr. Karen McComb at the University of Sussex in the UK have discovered an effective way for humans to communicate with cats through slow blinking (眨眼睛), similar to how cats interact with each other.

Dr. McComb and her team conducted two experiments to study this phenomenon. In the first study, owners were instructed by researchers Tasmin Humphrey and Andrew Wood to slowly blink at their cats from a distance while being recorded. Humphrey and Wood found the cats were more likely to respond with slow blinking of their own compared to when no interaction took place.

To follow up on these findings, McComb, Humphrey, and Wood designed a second experiment without considering the exsisting relationship between humans and cats. Researchers, including McComb, performed the same slow blinking action. Like in the first experiment, the cats in this study also responded more favorably to slow blinking by returning the gesture and more readily approaching an extended hand, according to Humphrey's analysis.

The slow blink expression involves partially closing the eyes briefly, copying a relaxed, friendly facial expression in humans. McComb notes that for cats, it appears to signal good intentions as constant staring could be seen as threatening. Wood says that cats may have developed this language to acknowledge humans who react positively to the signal. Being able to effectively communicate acceptance in this subtle cat way seems to strengthen the bond between cats and their owners, McComb adds.

McComb, Humphrey and Wood hope their findings can provide insight into cat behavior and thinking. They also aim to apply this knowledge of cross-species communication to evaluate cat health in various places like veterinary (兽医的) clinics and shelters, according to Humphrey. A deeper understanding of how cats interpret and respond to humans can improve our ability to properly care for household and outdoor cat populations, McComb concludes.

You'll make new friends in each stage of your life. Some of them will come and go, while others will last for the rest of your life. .

. According to experts, many people regret not keeping friendships going and end up living a life with no close friends or even enduring mental and physical sufferings. So making time for your friendships is vital to a healthy life. People who have healthy friendships tend to enjoy life more and may even live longer.

If you are lacking in good friendships, it's not too late. There are a lot of ways to make new friends that can stay with you for the rest of your life.. If you have kids, join a mom's group, or sign your child up for classes where you'll naturally meet other parents. It is also a wise choice to make friends with people you work with..

Sometimes it's a good idea to let a friendship go, even if you've been friends for a long time. If one party isn't making an effort to keep things going, it can lead to feelings of hurt and betrayal.. While this can be sad, it can actually improve your quality of life. Besides, it can encourage you to focus on the partnerships that are healthy and where both of you are committed to keeping it going for your entire life.

A. Look for people who share things with you.

B. Friendship can help you get through mental and physical sufferings.

C. There are many benefits of having strong friendships.

D. It might be time to let things cool off and pursue other friendships.

E. Lifelong friendships are what most people desire.

F. This toxic friendship may bring you nothing but hurt.

G. You can get built-in opportunities to spend time with each other.

Three years ago, I spotted a video of someone making resin (树脂) art. He 1 poured and mixed colors together. I couldn't 2 thinking about its beauty for nights. Less than a month later, I ordered a beginner's resin kit to 3 .

When I was a kid, my artist grandmother taught me to 4 , and I've always enjoyed getting 5 and making things with my hands. The resin art videos 6 me to relight the childhood creativity that I had lost while working in London.

But it's more 7 than it looks. Resin s a heavy liquid that when applied can't be completely controlled. It was in those tougher moments that I 8 my artist grandmother, and our valuable moments spent painting together. Resin art was a 9 for me to honor her.

After I first 10  a picture of my work on my phone, my friends began 11  me for resin art. So I had an idea to make my artworks to be sold to the public and developed a resin art website. After 12  the first ones, I quickly sold out of them. Within a year, I had made over $2,600 13 , which I donated to charity. I even had my first display in Devon. I never thought it would turn into a life-changing 14 .

As long as there are people who'd like to buy my work, I'd like to make it. I pour colors from memories of beautiful places into my art, and I hope my grandmother would be 15 that I chose a life filled with more creativity.

When I left for the United States to study, I had butterflies in my stomach. My mind was full of (anxious) because I was going to a new place with new people and new customs. I couldn't even understand(they) language. Everything was (true) different from my own country. There was nobody that I could talk to and I just had my husband, made me feel lonely and had no confidence my new life.

was a sad moment when I had to say goodbye to my family and friends. I didn't want to leave my hometown because I grew up there and had (impress) and wonderful memories of the place. So, (think) about all these changes made me nervous and I was frightened to face them. My friends recommended that I (take) part in some outdoor activities. I had to continue and accept the challenge, hoping to get used to it. There was a lot (explore) when living abroad. I looked forward to visiting my family in the summer vacation.

Everywhere survivors looked, there was but ruins. Nearly everything in the city was destroyed. About 75 percent of the city's factories and buildings, 90 percent of its homes, all of its hospitals were. Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves, no wind could them away. Most bridges had fallen or were not to cross. The railway tracks were now pieces of metal. Tens of thousands of cows, hundreds of thousands of pigs, and millions of chickens were dead. Sand now filled the wellsof water. People were in shock — and then, later that afternoon, big quake shook Tangshan again. Even more buildings fell down. Water, food, and electricity were hard to get. People began to how long the disaster would last.

The parents suggested sleeping in a hotel room but their kids    camp out during the trip.

I will have to study harder as a senior high school student and get used to    a lot more.

Amazingly, he is   several foreign languages, such as English, French and German.

Let's start right now and do a little bit every minute!

Young children have a limited attention span and can't one activity for very long.

Global warming is     on hundreds of plant and animal species around the world.

What disappointed him was that his son    surfing the Internet.

It is so warm that it looks     spring already.

I   in the street  I suddenly saw an old man fall off his bicycle.

She     me when we met in the street, which really upset me.

I must watch TV now. I    know which team will win the match.

Parents and children should communicate more to    between them so that they can understand each other better.

They now help in a local school as  three days a week.

The workers the glasses and marked on each box "This Side Up".

There's your room key and you should before 12:00.

要求:1.词数100左右；2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。

参考词汇:homesick 想家的

Dear Linda,

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Yours,

Li Hua