Our world is full of tourist traps and crowds of people. What if you could get out ahead of the crowded people and visit a place before it started swarming with crowds of people? Jose lgnacio, Uruguay Only about 300 people actually live here, but in winter, Latin famous stars like Shakira gather here. A new luxury hotel named Bahia Vik is in the process of opening, and JoseIgnacio is preparing to host an international art festival. You can enjoy art atmosphere here and eat steaks at La Huella restaurant. Koh Rong, Cambodia Visiting this Cambodian island is like stepping into a screen saver. With only a few houses and some fishing villages, many people say it's like Thailand 20 years ago when tourists landed the untouched beaches. Ferries started regularly shuttling tourists to Koh Rong only a few years ago, but things are still pretty quiet until someone plans to build an airport. Riga, Latvia Latvia is Europe's best kept secret, but all has changed now since Riga was named the European Capital of Culture in 2014. The city also ranked as Europe's cheapest destination for backpackers this year, with an average cost of just $33 per day for food, lodging, transportation and entertainment. Hurry up and peruse Old Riga and St. Peter's tower, and get fancy at the Latvian National Opera. Puglia, Italy With food travel on the rise, Puglia is becoming a household name. Under the Italian cultural influences, the Mediterranean diet takes one of its purest and most delicious forms: food is locally purchased and restaurants are quaint and are of high quality, which have good reputations. What can we know about Puglia? A) Its diet enjoys wide popularity. B) Its food price is rising rapidly. C) It has the most delicious food in Italy. D) It has a luxury hotel named Bahia Vik.
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Most of the stories are written by young,unpublished writers.And the audience undoubtedly will relate perfectly to the tales told in the book.The editors have organized this collection into nine categories :Relationships,Friendship,The Power of Love,Family,Lessons,Difficult Stuff,Overcoming Obstacles ,SelfDiscovery,and Growing Up.You'll be comforted to know that you're never as alone as you think. This book is written to help teens to deal with the problems that they face every day,from first love to heartache,from best friends to enemies.This book will help guide you through the difficult times and add happiness to the great times.The best part of this book is that there is something for everyone in it.The variety in this book is great.From the cartoons to the poems,you will never get bored of reading it. Most of the works in Chicken Soup are written by _ . A) teens B) adults C) famous writers D) college students
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Ques: Just weeks after a special memorial voyage to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, an Australian billionaire has announced plans to build an exact replica of the Titanic, which is just as similar to the original one as possible. The Titanic replica will make its first voyage from Southampton, England to New York in 2016. The Titanic is a famous ship that sank in 1912. The attractive story of the ocean liner has made millions of people interested in it around the world. It was believed to be an unsinkable ship but it hit an iceberg and sank on its first voyage. More than 1,500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic, which at the time was the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner. When fully built, the Titanic II will be 270 meters (886 feet) long and capable of holding 1,680 passengers. Unlike the original Titanic which was powered by coal-fired boiler and steam engines, the Titanic II will have modern diesel and electric engines. Also unlike the first Titanic, the Titanic II will have more than enough lifeboats to accommodate everyone on board if something should go wrong. When asked whether the new replica would sink, Mr. Palmer replied: "Of course it will sink if you put a hole in it. He also added "It will be designed as a modern ship with all the technology to ensure that doesn't happen." When Mr. Palmer was asked if he expected hisTitanic to be successful, he simply said: "At my age, you don't really worry so much about whether you'll make money or lose money on something, but I believe that it is worth building it." What is Mr. Palmer's attitude towards his Titanic II replica? A) It will sink with a hole in it. B) It will definitely be a great success. C) It is worthwhile to build it. D) It will make him lose money.
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When you think about math, you probably don't think about breaking the law, solving mysteries or finding criminals. But a mathematician in Maryland does, and he has come up with mathematical tools to help police find criminals. People who solve crimes look for patterns that might reveal the identity of the criminal. It's long been believed, for example, that criminals will break the law closer to where they live, simply because it's easier to get around in their own neighborhood. If police see a pattern of robberies in a certain area, they may look for a suspect who lives near the crime scenes. So, the farther away from the area a crime takes place, the less likely it is that the same criminal did it. But Mike O'Leary, a mathematician at Towson University in Maryland, says that this kind of approach may be too simple. He says that police may get better clues to the location of a criminal's home base by combining these patterns with a city's layout and historical crime records. The records of past crimes contain geographical information and can reveal easy targets -- that is, the kind of stores that might be less difficult to rob. Because these stores are along roads, the locations of past crimes contain information about where major streets and intersections are. O'Leary is writing a new computer program that will quickly provide this kind of information for a given city. His program also includes information about the people who live in the city, and information about how a criminal's patterns change with age. It's been shown, for example, that the younger the criminal, the closer to home the crime. Other computer programmers have worked on similar software, but O'Leary's uses more math. The mathematician plans to make his computer program available, free of charge, to police departments around the country. The program is just one way to use math to fight crime. O'Leary says that criminology -- the study of crime and criminals -- contains a lot of good math problems. "I feel like I'm in a gold mine and ,"... O'Leary is writing a computer program that _ . A) uses math to increase the speed of calculation B) tells the identity of a criminal in a certain area C) shows changes in criminals' patterns D) provides the crime records of a given city
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