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Top Hotels in Sydney
Hotel Location The hotel is located in the Rocks District, a charming historic area north of the Shangri-La Hotel Sydney Central Business District and northwest of The hotel has several meeting rooms. It has two bars, two restaurants, a peaceful indoor pool, and a modern The 565 rooms are among the most spacious(宽敞的) in the city. Free Wi-Fi is provided. Hotel Features(特色) Room Facilities Circular Quay. It's fitness center. It only a 9-minute also offers free walk to the Sydney laundry and Opera House and the babysitting Sydney Harbor Bridge. Situated in Mascot, This smoke-free this hotel is 4.6 km hotel has a Rydges from Marrickville All 318 rooms offer restaurant, a Sydney Metro and about 10 24-hour health club free Wi-Fi and free Airport km away from the wired Internet. and a coffee shop. Hotel University of Sydney and Marrickville It also has a 24-hour business service. Market. center, which provides busy travellers with an “office away from the office”． Located in Sydney Central Business District, this hotel is within a The Tank Stream 10-minute walk to Pitt Street Mall. It's not far from Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbor Bridge, about 20 minutes' walk. 3 restaurants and a Located in Sydney Central Business QT Sydney District, this hotel is about a 15-minute walk to Sydney Opera House. health club are available at this smoke-free hotel. All 200 soundproof rooms have free Wi-Fi. For a bit of entertainment, lot(fee required)． A restaurant, a gym and a coffee shop All 280 soundproof are available at this hotel. It also has a parking rooms have free Wi-Fi and coffee makers. It has car parking flat-screen TVs facilities(charges come with digital apply)． channels. ( )1. Which hotel is the nearest to the Sydney Opera House? A. QT Sydney. C. The Tank Stream.
B. Shangri-La Hotel Sydney. D. Rydges Sydney Airport Hotel.
( )2. What is special about Rydges Sydney Airport Hotel? A. It offers office service.
B. It has a coffee maker in each room. C. It provides laundry service.
D. It has the best restaurant in Sydney.
( )3. What can we learn about the hotels mentioned in the text? A. They have smoking areas. C. They have free parking lots.
B. They have sporting facilities. D. They charge the Internet users. B
Digging in the dirt may be a natural cure for depression according to recent research that shows a common type of bacteria found in soil can actually lift your mood. Of course, it could just be that “playing” in the dirt takes you back to those carefree days of summer years ago. Either way, it works.
Researchers at England's Bristol University injected samples of mycobacterium
vaccae(分支杆菌菌苗) into lab mice and studied the effects on their brains and
behaviour. They found that exposure(暴露) to this bacterium seems to make the brain produce higher levels of a substance that results in a feeling of well-being. In other words, this bacterium may lift your mood.
Lead researcher and scientist Chris Lowry says that to get regular exposure, we have to breathe in the soil dust — or swallow it. “That sounds ridiculous, but if you're eating fresh vegetables from the garden, then you're consuming bacteria.”
But Lowry admits that more research needs to be done. In any case, he says the bacteria probably only partly explain why working in a garden or hiking a wooded path can make us feel so good. Psychologist Heather Hadjistavropoulos points out that factors like sunshine and physical exercise are known to lift mood. So does that sense of accomplishment when your well-tended trees are all in flower.
And any activity that forces us to slow down and be mindful of our surroundings, like a nature walk, is very likely to be rewarding. “Most of us have very busy lives，” Hadjistavropoulos says. “A slow walk can be a time of renewal emotionally.”
Gardening expert Denis Flanagan adores playing in the dirt. “Gardening is a simple pleasure，” he says. “There's something very satisfying about being on the end of a gardening tool for a couple of hours and weeding a little bed out. It's very beneficial.”
Of course, breathing in a little mycobacterium vaccae in the process certainly isn't going to hurt. The bacterium has already been injected into UK cancer patients by other researchers to successfully reduce pain and nausea(恶心), and it is currently being looked at as a treatment for some immune disorders(混乱)．
( )4. What is the researchers' latest discovery about the cure for depression?
A. The smell of soil can lift the mood.
B. Digging in the dirt can help people recover physically. C. Mycobacterium vaccae in soil is beneficial to the mood. D. The smell of soil can make lab mice feel less depressed. ( )5. What Chris Lowry says helps us understand that ________. A. people can be injected with vaccae to lift mood B. working in a garden is a tiring job
C. eating fresh vegetables is the best cure for depression
D. mycobacterium vaccae is one of the reasons to make people feel good ( )6. In the future, mycobacterium vaccae will ________.
A. be obtained mainly by breathing B. be widely used in medical field C. not be used in labs
D. damage the immune system
( )7. What would be the best title for the passage? A. Go on! Get Down and Dirty!
B. Let's Get Together in the Wild!
C. Come on! Make Yourself Happy! D. Great Bacteria Found in Soil!
C
Eight years before his death in 1896, Alfred Nobel was surprised to read an obituary(讣告) in the local newspaper. This was a strange obituary, for it told Alfred Nobel, the man who was reading it, that he was dead. The newspaper had confused Alfred with his brother, Ludwig, who had recently died.
Nobel was shocked to read that he had passed away, and he was even more annoyed by the title of his obituary：The Merchant of Death Is Dead. Alfred was a very rich and successful armaments manufacturer(武器制造商)．
This incident got him thinking about his reputation. What would people think of him after his real death? Would they really say “That was a man who profited from killing”？ It was this thought that led him to leave his money—a huge amount of it—for the founding of the famous Nobel prizes. His aim was for his money to be used to support the ongoing quest(追求) for excellence in the sciences and literature, and the ideal of peace.Thousands of men and women have been honored since the first awards were given out in 1901. The awards let the world know about the developments that may have a huge effect on our lives.
However, the prizes are controversial sometimes. There is often protest(抗议)