Where to stay in Boswell? The following are some choices for you:

    First Hotel. 222 Edward Road. Tel. 414-6433. Number of Rooms: 120.

    Price: Single: $ 25; Double $ 35;

    Special attractions: Air conditioned rooms, French restaurant, Night club, Swimming pool, Shops; Coffee shop and bar, Telephone, Radio and TV in each room, close to the city center.

    Fairview Hotel. 129 North Road. Tel. 591-5620. Number of Rooms: 50.

    Price:  Single:$ 12; Double: $ 18;

    Special Attractions: Close to the airport, Telephone in each room, Bar, Restaurant, Garage, Swimming-pool.

    Orchard Hotel. 233 Edward Road. Tel.641-6641. Number of Rooms: 150.

    Price:  Single: $ 15; Double: $ 20;

    Special Attractions: Facing First Hotel, European restaurant, Coffee shop, Dry-cleaning, Shops, TV, Night-club.

    Osaka Hotel. 1264 Venning Road. Tel. 643-8206. Number of Rooms: 180.

    Price:  Single: $ 30; Double: $ 50.

    Special Attractions: Air-Conditioned rooms, Japanese and Chinese restaurant, Shops, Swimming pool, Large garden.

Recently, many e­commerce platforms, including Didi Taxi, Ctrip, Fliggy, JD and Taobao, have been uncovered that they are cheating their frequent customers. Their ways are pretty clever. When there are new users or conservative old users, they will give a quite appealing price to attract them into registering and buying goods. However, their big data is not that friendly to the stable users and frequent visitors. The system always offers them higher prices for the same products or services. How does this happen? According to the data analysis, the system knows clearly that although they feel the price is high, they will finally pay the bill. By collecting and analyzing users' profiles, buying habits and other information, big data recommends the same products to different users with different prices.

Companies also try other ways to make money, making online consumption far more worrying. For example, video websites always offer 120 seconds' advertisements, which drives people crazy. And even if you pay for the membership to get rid of the ads, you have to "enjoy" 15­second "private" ads. By broadcasting them, companies make huge profits — second to the membership fees. Also, owning 100Mbps network, you still put up with the slow speed when you are downloading a song. You have no choice but to become a VIP when you seek high quality services. Users seem to be lambs(羊羔) among wolves. Even though they say, "Since you have money, I'll charge you more", we can't do anything about it.

It pains us that we haven't figured out a way to deal with the problem. The only thing we can do is replacing our iPhones with Android phones if we want to buy a membership card, and applying for new accounts if we want cheaper hotels. Not finding a way to fight back, we can't do anything but accept them passively.

    Ever feel like you've been hit on the head after a bad night's sleep? According to scientists, the thought isn't as unbelievable as it seems.

    A study found going without sleep for just one night causes changes in the brain similar to those that occur after a blow to the head. The researchers said the healthy young men examined in the study showed a sudden increase in the same chemicals which indicate brain damage. Professor Christian Benedict, of Uppsala University, Sweden, explained that the chemicals NSE and S-100B are biomarkers for brain damage, such as concussion(脑震荡). He said, "What we found was their levels in the blood rose in the group that went without sleep for a night. This was not to the extent that would happen after a head injury, for instance, but it was still significant. During sleep, the brain cleans poisonous substances off itself."

    Benedict also said previous studies which linked a lack of sleep with increased risk of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis could applaud his study. The rise of the chemicals in the blood after sleep loss may suggest not getting enough sleep contributes to a loss of brain tissue, he explained. Benedict, whose study is published in the journal Sleep, added, "In conclusion, the findings of our experiment indicate a good night's sleep may be critical to maintaining brain health."

    A third of the UK population suffer from sleep-related problems, while the average person now sleeps for only seven hours a night, compared with almost nine a few decades ago. Many scientists believe irregular sleeping patterns lead to illnesses ranging from aches and pains to heart disease, while less than eight hours' sleep a night can lower the IQ the next day.

1）写信的目的；

2）提出具体的建议；

3）你的愿望。

注意： 1）词数80左右；

2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

    Most people can't live to 100. Those who do live so long can hardly walk, let alone take part in any activities. A few people, however, take part in dangerous activities even though they are more than 100 years old. They keep going and going! There is a great grandmother who likes challenging herself although she is 101 years old this year.

    Mary Hardison believes that people should always be cheerful and more importantly, take on all kinds of adventures while they physically still can. So, instead of celebrating her 101st birthday with a boring party, she decided to go paragliding（滑翔跳伞）﹣an idea she got from her 75﹣year﹣old son who recently took it up as a hobby.

    So on her birthday, cheered on by her big family, she tied herself up together with expert instructor Kevin Hintze, and jumped down fearlessly from the sky near her home in Ogden, Utah. And, it was not just a simple jump either. According to Kevin Hintze, the grandmother encouraged him to turn around, as they made their way down.

    This is not the first time that Mary has done something "wild" and "crazy". For her 90th birthday she rode all the adult rides at Disneyland. And, she is not done yet﹣ For her 102nd birthday she hopes to go down the 3,000 feet Alpine Slide at Utah's Park City Mountain Resort!

    Not surprisingly, this great action has made Mary Hardison very famous and also earned her a place in the Guinness World Records where she broke a 2007 record set by a 100﹣year﹣old British woman. What an amazing lady!

    I ran into a stranger as he passed by. "Oh, excuse me please" was my 1. He said, "Please excuse me too; I wasn't watching for you." We were very 2, this stranger and I. We went on our way and we said goodbye. But at home a 3 story is told.

    Later that day, when I was cooking the evening meal, my daughter stood beside me very 4. When I 5, I nearly knocked her down. "Move out of the 6," I said with a frown. She walked away, her little heart broken. I didn't 7 how harshly (严厉地) I'd spoken.

    While I lay awake in bed that evening, my husband said to me, "While 8 a stranger, you are polite, but with the girl you love, you are 9. Go look on the kitchen floor and you'll find some flowers by the door. Those are the flowers she brought for 10. She picked them herself: pink, yellow and blue. She stood quietly not to 11 the surprise, and you 12 saw the tears in her eyes."

    13, my tears began to fall. I quietly went and knelt down by her bed. "Wake up, little girl," I said. "Are these flowers you picked for me?" She smiled, "I found them out by the tree. I picked them 14 they're pretty like you. I knew you'd like them, especially the blue."

    I said, "Daughter, I'm sorry for the way I 15 today. I 16 have yelled at you that way.

    She said, "Oh Mom, that's okay. I love you anyway."

    1 said, "Daughter, I love you too. And I do like the flowers, especially the blue."

    I had got the world 17 again. I'd 18 to be polite to people in the street—good 19 make society work. But a stranger is someone we meet once and then never see again—and 20 is for life.

1）旅游的益处。

2）旅游也可能有麻烦，如天气变化，丢失钱物等。

3）旅游应做好准备。如天气、交通状况、结伴而行等。

文章必须包括所有要点，词数120-150； 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

    Young ladies with manners, social skills and style will be more confident in social settings and understand their potential better. This 4-week course teaches social etiquette(礼仪), table manners, personal grooming (打扮) and skin care. Classes are taught conversational style which involves everyone in discussion for easy learning.

    Curriculum.

    Class one: Self Introduction and Introducing Others — Handshaking, Eye contact, and Smiling — Please, Thank You and You're welcome —Making mistakes and Apologizing —Telephone Etiquette

    Class Two: Quick Review —Texting and Social Networking Sites — Gift Giving and Receiving —Attending a party — Thank- you Notes — Becoming a Skilled Conversationalist — Joining a Group and Exciting a Conversation

    Class Three: Quick Review —Three-Course Meal Instruction — Table skills and Dining Manners —Formal/Informal Place Settings —Use of Proper Utensils(用具) —American/Continental Style of Dining —Entering and Leaving the Table —Posture(姿势) and Conversation.

    Class Four: Quick Review —Grooming —Skin Care —Graduation Celebration

    Homework will be given at the end of each class.

    Class Dates and Pricing

    Class span(持续) over four separate days, and each class lasts two hours.

    Start Date: Jan 12th 2019

    Time: 1:00pm —3:00pm

    Price: $250.00/person

    If you are interested in taking a class or course, please fill out our form about yourselves so we may provide you with the best service. For more information, please email us at Info@itsallaboutetiquette.com or call 480-510-6346.

Mom had read about geraniums(天竺葵) in a magazine—pretty, easy to grow—and, she became possessed with a vision of a house flooded with flowers. She sprang into action and started to grow them enthusiastically. She could be like that: my mother always had sudden bursts of creativity.

Mom transformed the backyard into a flower factory, crowded with pots and plants and bags of soil. She called for my help, and we arranged the roots of the flowers in elegant containers. It was the ripe height of summer. Mom wore long gardening gloves over her hands. She had bought me gloves too, but I refused to wear them. She burst with annoyance. For half an hour she would not talk to me, but then she softened, so engaged in the completion of her project that she forgot my offence, or perhaps for fear that I might abandon the project altogether.

She needn't have worried. I wouldn't leave. It was a rare chance to spend time with my mother without the pressure of speaking to one another. We could crouch(蹲下) side by side, our attention on the plants. Although I was her daughter, we often struggled to communicate with each other as though we were strangers or beginners of a language. I wanted to learn her language, if only to better understand her and to increase the chances of her understanding me. There was so much I longed to tell her, but I also feared that if I started, other matters not meant to be spoken might leap out. Better not to risk the opening. Over the course of our three days, I would dream of seeing a great geranium with its root bared until my hands arrived full of soil to cover it back up.

When all the flowers were ready in their decorated pots, Mom spent a fourth day distributing them through the house, moving a wooden stand here and now there, there and now here, until at last every geranium was moved into the house and she collapsed onto the sofa. Flowers at every turn.