Our guide was excellent! He walked us through all the local villages and took extra time at the end to enjoy a local dinner. He stayed with us longer than he was obliged (迫使) to and made this a fantastic experience.

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Travel is all about the street food these days, and why not？It's fresh, fast, cheap and a great way to crack into the local scene. Join this Hanoi tour to source the best street eats from markets, food carts, street cafes and other hard-to-find-but-totally-worth-the-effort secret spots.

Highlights

Sample delicious Vietnamese cuisine just like the locals do—on the street

Stroll through hidden alleyways and bustling markets of Hanoi's charming old quarter

Learn more about Hanoi's unique food culture

Try local specialties with influences from French and Chinese cuisine

Take in a spectacular night view of Hoan Kiem lake from a secret cafe

Schedule details

Duration: 2.5 hours

Meeting point: Sacombank ATM Machine﹣No.1 Dong Xuan street (front entrance of Dong Xuan Market, Corner of Dong Xuan St with Cau Dong St)

Starting time: 5:00 PM

Ending point: Café Pho Co-11 Hang Gai St, Hoan Kiem

Modern humans have a hard time controlling their desire to eat. Often you eat not because you are hungry, but because you are affected by many other things. How much you eat is strongly affected by how much those around you eat. People eating alone eat least. People eating with one other person eat 35 percent more than they do at home. People dining in a party of four eat 75percent more. Eating with overweight friends? You'll eat more. Is your waitress overweight? You'll eat more. Wide variety of food? You'll eat more.

Plates can decide how sweet dessert tastes. If people ate it off a paper plate, they'd say, "This is good." If they ate it off a fancy silver plate, they would say, "This is the greatest cake I've eaten in my entire life."

Your knowledge about what makes food good or bad also affects how much you eat. You tend to eat more when you think the food is good, and less when you think it is bad. So Grandma's cookies always taste better than other cookies. "Good food" even has a "health halo(光环) effect". If we're eating something healthy, we feel that everything in that meal is healthy. Due to this, people often believe that a cheese cake with a salad has fewer calories (卡路里) than the cheese cake alone. That's perhaps also why eating organic (有机的) food might turn you into an annoying guy. Your brain may use anything that makes you feel good about your own morality to excuse your immoral behavior.

Food and hunger affect your judgment too. Hungry judges give more serious sentences. Kids who don't eat breakfast behave worse than kids who eat their breakfast. People who have low blood sugar are more likely than the average person to have trouble concentrating and controlling their unpleasant emotions.

Researchers in the US say they might have discovered how to fight against and even reverse some processes of ageing, at least in mice. Injecting the blood of young mice into the older ones improved their brainpower, a study found. Scientists at Stanford University plan to carry out trials in people in the hope that new treatments for dementia(痴呆症) can be developed.

"There are factors present in blood from young mice that can recharge an old mouse's brain so that it functions more like a younger one," says Dr. Tony from Stanford University School of medicine. In the study published in Nature Medicine, mice aged 18 months were given injections of the blood taken from mice aged 3 months. The injected mice performed better on memory tests than mice of the same age that had not been given the blood. Dr. Tony said it was not known whether the same was true of humans, but a trial was planned.

A research center in UK said the treatment restored certain aspects of learning and memory in mice, but was of unknown importance to humans. The research, while very interesting, did not test the type of brain damage that was seen in dementia, which is not a necessary consequence of ageing.

Meanwhile, two similar studies by a separate team have thrown more light on how young blood may benefit the old, in mice at least. A substance in the blood of mice previously shown to have an anti-ageing effect on heart muscle also improved brain cells, according to a Harvard team. The research, published in Science, found the blood factors encouraged the growth of brain cells in old mice, and restored their sense of smell. The same chemical also improved muscle power of aged mice, the researchers found.

Photography (摄影) has been my interest ever since I was old enough to pick up a camera, but today I want to share with you the 15 most treasured (珍贵的)photos of mine, and I didn't take any of them. In fact, most of them were taken by random (随机的)tourists.

My story begins when I was in New York City for a speech, and my wife took a picture of me holding my daughter on her first birthday. We're on the corner of 57th and 5th. We happened to be back in New York exactly a year later, so we decided to take the same picture.

Well you can see where this is going. Approaching (临近) my daughter's third birthday, my wife said, "Hey, why don't you take Sabina back to New York and make it a father-daughter trip, and continue the ceremony?" This is when we started asking passing tourists to take the picture.

So these photos are far more than representatives (代表) for a single moment, or even a specific (具体的) trip. They're also ways for us to freeze time for one week in October and reflect on (反思) our times and how we change from year to year, and not just physically, but in every way. Because while we take the same photo, our viewpoints (观点) change, and she reaches new milestones (里程碑) and I get to see life through her eyes, and how she communicates with and sees everything. This very focused time we get to spend together is something we value (重视，珍惜) and expect the entire (全部的) year.

You cannot choose your child's friends for him, but you can help him learn to choose friends wisely. Here are a few ways to help your child make friends.

•Build your child's selfconfidence.

When he succeeds or has made a great choice, tell him you're proud of him. Your middle school student is going through many changes and may feel like he isn't"good enough". Building his selfconfidence will help him feel more confident and will make it easier for him to form healthy friendships.

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Give him your full attention when he talks, and really listen to what he has to say.

•Discuss the qualities in a friend with your child.

Discuss with your child the qualities that matter most, such as being reliable and kind, and making good choices when it comes to avoiding alcohol and tobacco.

•Get to know your child's friends.

It's more important to talk with them and find out what they like to do. Allow your child to invite his friends over and get to know them better.

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Afterschool clubs and sports programs are good places for meeting new people. Be open to exploring different activities with your child to find something that he enjoys.

A. Friends are very important for us.

B. Introduce your child to new groups of people.

C. Talk with your child every day and listen to his concerns.

D. Try not to judge your child's friends based on how they dress.

E. When he does not succeed，help him feel better and keep trying.

F. You can teach him ways to find friends who will have a positive influence on him.

G. There are many types of friends and we should be careful when making our choices.

Rolling, dark clouds covered much of the sky. The warm wind suddenly became cold and picked up wildly, sending some dead leaves flying 1across the sky. A few drops of rain mixed with ice began to fall, then into heavy 2

Doug, my older brother, and I first rode the bus to a bus stop. Then we3off and began our long walk home. The wind was 4the snow around us like a huge blanket, making it5to see clearly. The only sounds we heard were the6of the wind as well as the crunch of our footsteps on the snow. Slowly but 7, my brother and I were8to death. Looking to my left, I saw a pine tree and squatted(蹲下) down.

"What are you doing here, Bud? Come on!" said Doug, "There's no 9behind this little tree. If we rest here, we will die from the freeze."

"You go on, and I'll 10soon." I replied.

Doug was 11for a moment. Then he spoke, "Bud, do you remember the four pine trees at the side of the road? 12we get there, we can rest a while and get warm. You just stick your hand down the back of my13, keep your head down and hold on."

As we struggled through the snow, my hand 14from my brother's belt and I fell to my knees.

"Where are the trees?" I said, as the snow 15up around me like a feather bed. Once again, Doug pulled me to my feet.

"Just a few more16and we'll be home and warm," he said.

As the darkness closed around us, we approached home, 17 I only heard a worried shouting not in the distance. Then someone took my hand and 18me into a warm, bright light. And then I survived.

Now, I still think about the lesson learned from our winter 19story: Never20, no matter what the odds and whatever to come.

California is the Pacific coast of South America.(attract) people from all over the world , it is the most multicultural state. The first people (arrive) in this land were the native Americans.the difficult times, they lived a happy life the Europeans arrived. They were killed, or forced into slavery or died from the diseases., some survived and lived in we call America now. once it belonged to Mexico after the people of Mexico gained their (depend) from Spain. Later arrivals included countries from all over the world. It was the (build) of rail network that brought large numbers of Chinese to Canada.is believed that in the future there is a mixture of many races and cultures in California.

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A person who we should learn from doesn't need to be rich and famous. It could be the person we live with them. For me, it is my father.

I still remember the days I was a child. Although he had plenty of works to do, he still stayed with me and plays children's games with me. With time goes by, I am in senior two now. It is me who have no time to stay with him now! However, he is still behind me and try his best to make a better life for our family. How handsome and selflessly he is! I am really very grateful for him.

In my mind, he is not only my father, but also a hero with me.

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Dear Editor,

I'm a senior high school student.

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua