Heartbeat of America1．New York—the Statue of Liberty, the skyscrapers, the beautiful shops on Fifth Avenue and the many theaters on Broadway. This is America's cultural capital. It is also her biggest city, with a population of nearly 8 million. In the summer it is hot, hot, hot and in the winter it can be very cold. Still there are hundreds of things to do and see all the year round.2．Manhattan is the real center of the city. When people say "New York City", they usually mean Manhattan. Most of the interesting shops, buildings and museums are here. In addition, Manhattan is the scene of New York's busy night life. In 1605, the first Europeans came to Manhattan from Holland. They bought the island from the Native Americans for a few glass- necklaces worth about $ 26 today.3．Wall Street in Manhattan is the financial heart of the USA. It is also the most important banking center in the world. It is a street of "skyscrapers". These are those incredible, high buildings, which Americans invented, and built faster and higher than anyone else. Perhaps the two most spectacular skyscrapers in New York are the two towers of the New York World Trade Center. When the sun sets, their 110 floors shine like pure gold.4．Like every big city, New York has its own traffic system. Traffic jams can be terrible. It's usually quickest to go by subway. The New York subway is easy to use and quite cheap. The subway goes to almost every corner of Manhattan. But it is not safe to take the subway late at night because in some places you could get robbed. New York buses are also easy to use. You see more if you go by bus. There are more than 30,000 taxis in New York. Taxis do not go outside the city. However, they will go to the airports. In addition to the taxi fare, people give the taxi driver a fip of 15 percent of the fare's value.5．Central Park is a beautiful green oasis in the middle of New York's concrete desert. It is surprisingly big, with lakes and woods, as well as organized recreation areas. New Yorkers love Central Park, and they use it all the time. In the winter, they go ice-skating, and in the summer roller-skating. They play ball, ride horses and have picnics. They go bicycling and boating. There is even a children's zoo, with wild birds and animals.6．Along the east side of Central Park runs Fifth Avenue, once called "Millionaire's Row". In the 19th century, the richest men in America built their magnificent homes here. It is still the most fashionable street in the city, with famous department stores.7．Broadway is the street where you will find New York's best-known theaters. But away from the bright lights and elegant clothes of Broadway are many smaller theaters. Their plays are called "off-Broad-way" and are often more unusual than the Broadway shows. As well as many theaters, New York has a famous opera house. This is the Metropolitan, where international stars sing from September until April. Carnegie Hall is the city's more popular concert hall. But night life in New York offers more than classical music and theater. There are hundreds of nightclubs where people go to eat and dance.The island of Manhattan was bought by the Hollanders from the native Americans_____.

Heartbeat of America1．New York—the Statue of Liberty, the skyscrapers, the beautiful shops on Fifth Avenue and the many theaters on Broadway. This is America's cultural capital. It is also her biggest city, with a population of nearly 8 million. In the summer it is hot, hot, hot and in the winter it can be very cold. Still there are hundreds of things to do and see all the year round.2．Manhattan is the real center of the city. When people say "New York City", they usually mean Manhattan. Most of the interesting shops, buildings and museums are here. In addition, Manhattan is the scene of New York's busy night life. In 1605, the first Europeans came to Manhattan from Holland. They bought the island from the Native Americans for a few glass- necklaces worth about $ 26 today.3．Wall Street in Manhattan is the financial heart of the USA. It is also the most important banking center in the world. It is a street of "skyscrapers". These are those incredible, high buildings, which Americans invented, and built faster and higher than anyone else. Perhaps the two most spectacular skyscrapers in New York are the two towers of the New York World Trade Center. When the sun sets, their 110 floors shine like pure gold.4．Like every big city, New York has its own traffic system. Traffic jams can be terrible. It's usually quickest to go by subway. The New York subway is easy to use and quite cheap. The subway goes to almost every corner of Manhattan. But it is not safe to take the subway late at night because in some places you could get robbed. New York buses are also easy to use. You see more if you go by bus. There are more than 30,000 taxis in New York. Taxis do not go outside the city. However, they will go to the airports. In addition to the taxi fare, people give the taxi driver a fip of 15 percent of the fare's value.5．Central Park is a beautiful green oasis in the middle of New York's concrete desert. It is surprisingly big, with lakes and woods, as well as organized recreation areas. New Yorkers love Central Park, and they use it all the time. In the winter, they go ice-skating, and in the summer roller-skating. They play ball, ride horses and have picnics. They go bicycling and boating. There is even a children's zoo, with wild birds and animals.6．Along the east side of Central Park runs Fifth Avenue, once called "Millionaire's Row". In the 19th century, the richest men in America built their magnificent homes here. It is still the most fashionable street in the city, with famous department stores.7．Broadway is the street where you will find New York's best-known theaters. But away from the bright lights and elegant clothes of Broadway are many smaller theaters. Their plays are called "off-Broad-way" and are often more unusual than the Broadway shows. As well as many theaters, New York has a famous opera house. This is the Metropolitan, where international stars sing from September until April. Carnegie Hall is the city's more popular concert hall. But night life in New York offers more than classical music and theater. There are hundreds of nightclubs where people go to eat and dance.Central Park is a good place where the New Yorkers can go and _____.

Heartbeat of America1．New York—the Statue of Liberty, the skyscrapers, the beautiful shops on Fifth Avenue and the many theaters on Broadway. This is America's cultural capital. It is also her biggest city, with a population of nearly 8 million. In the summer it is hot, hot, hot and in the winter it can be very cold. Still there are hundreds of things to do and see all the year round.2．Manhattan is the real center of the city. When people say "New York City", they usually mean Manhattan. Most of the interesting shops, buildings and museums are here. In addition, Manhattan is the scene of New York's busy night life. In 1605, the first Europeans came to Manhattan from Holland. They bought the island from the Native Americans for a few glass- necklaces worth about $ 26 today.3．Wall Street in Manhattan is the financial heart of the USA. It is also the most important banking center in the world. It is a street of "skyscrapers". These are those incredible, high buildings, which Americans invented, and built faster and higher than anyone else. Perhaps the two most spectacular skyscrapers in New York are the two towers of the New York World Trade Center. When the sun sets, their 110 floors shine like pure gold.4．Like every big city, New York has its own traffic system. Traffic jams can be terrible. It's usually quickest to go by subway. The New York subway is easy to use and quite cheap. The subway goes to almost every corner of Manhattan. But it is not safe to take the subway late at night because in some places you could get robbed. New York buses are also easy to use. You see more if you go by bus. There are more than 30,000 taxis in New York. Taxis do not go outside the city. However, they will go to the airports. In addition to the taxi fare, people give the taxi driver a fip of 15 percent of the fare's value.5．Central Park is a beautiful green oasis in the middle of New York's concrete desert. It is surprisingly big, with lakes and woods, as well as organized recreation areas. New Yorkers love Central Park, and they use it all the time. In the winter, they go ice-skating, and in the summer roller-skating. They play ball, ride horses and have picnics. They go bicycling and boating. There is even a children's zoo, with wild birds and animals.6．Along the east side of Central Park runs Fifth Avenue, once called "Millionaire's Row". In the 19th century, the richest men in America built their magnificent homes here. It is still the most fashionable street in the city, with famous department stores.7．Broadway is the street where you will find New York's best-known theaters. But away from the bright lights and elegant clothes of Broadway are many smaller theaters. Their plays are called "off-Broad-way" and are often more unusual than the Broadway shows. As well as many theaters, New York has a famous opera house. This is the Metropolitan, where international stars sing from September until April. Carnegie Hall is the city's more popular concert hall. But night life in New York offers more than classical music and theater. There are hundreds of nightclubs where people go to eat and dance.Fifth Avenue is the place _____.

Heartbeat of America1．New York—the Statue of Liberty, the skyscrapers, the beautiful shops on Fifth Avenue and the many theaters on Broadway. This is America's cultural capital. It is also her biggest city, with a population of nearly 8 million. In the summer it is hot, hot, hot and in the winter it can be very cold. Still there are hundreds of things to do and see all the year round.2．Manhattan is the real center of the city. When people say "New York City", they usually mean Manhattan. Most of the interesting shops, buildings and museums are here. In addition, Manhattan is the scene of New York's busy night life. In 1605, the first Europeans came to Manhattan from Holland. They bought the island from the Native Americans for a few glass- necklaces worth about $ 26 today.3．Wall Street in Manhattan is the financial heart of the USA. It is also the most important banking center in the world. It is a street of "skyscrapers". These are those incredible, high buildings, which Americans invented, and built faster and higher than anyone else. Perhaps the two most spectacular skyscrapers in New York are the two towers of the New York World Trade Center. When the sun sets, their 110 floors shine like pure gold.4．Like every big city, New York has its own traffic system. Traffic jams can be terrible. It's usually quickest to go by subway. The New York subway is easy to use and quite cheap. The subway goes to almost every corner of Manhattan. But it is not safe to take the subway late at night because in some places you could get robbed. New York buses are also easy to use. You see more if you go by bus. There are more than 30,000 taxis in New York. Taxis do not go outside the city. However, they will go to the airports. In addition to the taxi fare, people give the taxi driver a fip of 15 percent of the fare's value.5．Central Park is a beautiful green oasis in the middle of New York's concrete desert. It is surprisingly big, with lakes and woods, as well as organized recreation areas. New Yorkers love Central Park, and they use it all the time. In the winter, they go ice-skating, and in the summer roller-skating. They play ball, ride horses and have picnics. They go bicycling and boating. There is even a children's zoo, with wild birds and animals.6．Along the east side of Central Park runs Fifth Avenue, once called "Millionaire's Row". In the 19th century, the richest men in America built their magnificent homes here. It is still the most fashionable street in the city, with famous department stores.7．Broadway is the street where you will find New York's best-known theaters. But away from the bright lights and elegant clothes of Broadway are many smaller theaters. Their plays are called "off-Broad-way" and are often more unusual than the Broadway shows. As well as many theaters, New York has a famous opera house. This is the Metropolitan, where international stars sing from September until April. Carnegie Hall is the city's more popular concert hall. But night life in New York offers more than classical music and theater. There are hundreds of nightclubs where people go to eat and dance.For those play-lovers who are interested in what is unusual, the small theaters might be more attractive ____.

Heartbeat of America1．New York—the Statue of Liberty, the skyscrapers, the beautiful shops on Fifth Avenue and the many theaters on Broadway. This is America's cultural capital. It is also her biggest city, with a population of nearly 8 million. In the summer it is hot, hot, hot and in the winter it can be very cold. Still there are hundreds of things to do and see all the year round.2．Manhattan is the real center of the city. When people say "New York City", they usually mean Manhattan. Most of the interesting shops, buildings and museums are here. In addition, Manhattan is the scene of New York's busy night life. In 1605, the first Europeans came to Manhattan from Holland. They bought the island from the Native Americans for a few glass- necklaces worth about $ 26 today.3．Wall Street in Manhattan is the financial heart of the USA. It is also the most important banking center in the world. It is a street of "skyscrapers". These are those incredible, high buildings, which Americans invented, and built faster and higher than anyone else. Perhaps the two most spectacular skyscrapers in New York are the two towers of the New York World Trade Center. When the sun sets, their 110 floors shine like pure gold.4．Like every big city, New York has its own traffic system. Traffic jams can be terrible. It's usually quickest to go by subway. The New York subway is easy to use and quite cheap. The subway goes to almost every corner of Manhattan. But it is not safe to take the subway late at night because in some places you could get robbed. New York buses are also easy to use. You see more if you go by bus. There are more than 30,000 taxis in New York. Taxis do not go outside the city. However, they will go to the airports. In addition to the taxi fare, people give the taxi driver a fip of 15 percent of the fare's value.5．Central Park is a beautiful green oasis in the middle of New York's concrete desert. It is surprisingly big, with lakes and woods, as well as organized recreation areas. New Yorkers love Central Park, and they use it all the time. In the winter, they go ice-skating, and in the summer roller-skating. They play ball, ride horses and have picnics. They go bicycling and boating. There is even a children's zoo, with wild birds and animals.6．Along the east side of Central Park runs Fifth Avenue, once called "Millionaire's Row". In the 19th century, the richest men in America built their magnificent homes here. It is still the most fashionable street in the city, with famous department stores.7．Broadway is the street where you will find New York's best-known theaters. But away from the bright lights and elegant clothes of Broadway are many smaller theaters. Their plays are called "off-Broad-way" and are often more unusual than the Broadway shows. As well as many theaters, New York has a famous opera house. This is the Metropolitan, where international stars sing from September until April. Carnegie Hall is the city's more popular concert hall. But night life in New York offers more than classical music and theater. There are hundreds of nightclubs where people go to eat and dance.There are hundreds of night clubs where people _____.

Why We Need VacationsThe benefits of taking a vacation start long before the suitcases are packed.（26）_____ It may only be a temporary staging post but looking ahead to a vacation gives us the sense that, whatever’s happening at the moment, there's an end in sight. We somehow expect to feel differently afterwards and are usually proved right.It's no coincidence that companies sometimes use away-breaks to restore motivation and team relationships.（27）_____ If nothing else, noticing how your thoughts or mood can change on vacation proves that it's possible to feel differently. Yet taking a break is only part of the picture.People don't disappear while on vacation or go into suspended animation.（28）_____ What really makes the difference is not simply geeing a- way from the old grind; it's being able to do something else instead. We might speak to people we wouldn't normally meet, try spots we’d not do otherwise and discover interests we never knew we had.Vacations also allow us to focus on the present in a way that's hard to do at home.（29）_____ Sightseeing walks and other recreational activities keep our minds even more in the here and now. This does much more than provide a few pleasant experiences. Being "in the moment" is in itself one of the keys to relaxation, and this happens more naturally on vacation.Useful as they are in relation to the future, vacations can be even more important in relation to the past. Like major holidays and the change of seasons, vacations punctuate the year and give it a unique character.（30）_____ Vacations are one of these markers. You often hear people recall, for example, that "it was the year we went to Disneyland or "right after we got back from camping". Family vacations can be some of clearest memories people have from their childhoods and important parts of a family's shared history.26_____.

Why We Need VacationsThe benefits of taking a vacation start long before the suitcases are packed.（26）_____ It may only be a temporary staging post but looking ahead to a vacation gives us the sense that, whatever’s happening at the moment, there's an end in sight. We somehow expect to feel differently afterwards and are usually proved right.It's no coincidence that companies sometimes use away-breaks to restore motivation and team relationships.（27）_____ If nothing else, noticing how your thoughts or mood can change on vacation proves that it's possible to feel differently. Yet taking a break is only part of the picture.People don't disappear while on vacation or go into suspended animation.（28）_____ What really makes the difference is not simply geeing a- way from the old grind; it's being able to do something else instead. We might speak to people we wouldn't normally meet, try spots we’d not do otherwise and discover interests we never knew we had.Vacations also allow us to focus on the present in a way that's hard to do at home.（29）_____ Sightseeing walks and other recreational activities keep our minds even more in the here and now. This does much more than provide a few pleasant experiences. Being "in the moment" is in itself one of the keys to relaxation, and this happens more naturally on vacation.Useful as they are in relation to the future, vacations can be even more important in relation to the past. Like major holidays and the change of seasons, vacations punctuate the year and give it a unique character.（30）_____ Vacations are one of these markers. You often hear people recall, for example, that "it was the year we went to Disneyland or "right after we got back from camping". Family vacations can be some of clearest memories people have from their childhoods and important parts of a family's shared history.27_____.

Why We Need VacationsThe benefits of taking a vacation start long before the suitcases are packed.（26）_____ It may only be a temporary staging post but looking ahead to a vacation gives us the sense that, whatever’s happening at the moment, there's an end in sight. We somehow expect to feel differently afterwards and are usually proved right.It's no coincidence that companies sometimes use away-breaks to restore motivation and team relationships.（27）_____ If nothing else, noticing how your thoughts or mood can change on vacation proves that it's possible to feel differently. Yet taking a break is only part of the picture.People don't disappear while on vacation or go into suspended animation.（28）_____ What really makes the difference is not simply geeing a- way from the old grind; it's being able to do something else instead. We might speak to people we wouldn't normally meet, try spots we’d not do otherwise and discover interests we never knew we had.Vacations also allow us to focus on the present in a way that's hard to do at home.（29）_____ Sightseeing walks and other recreational activities keep our minds even more in the here and now. This does much more than provide a few pleasant experiences. Being "in the moment" is in itself one of the keys to relaxation, and this happens more naturally on vacation.Useful as they are in relation to the future, vacations can be even more important in relation to the past. Like major holidays and the change of seasons, vacations punctuate the year and give it a unique character.（30）_____ Vacations are one of these markers. You often hear people recall, for example, that "it was the year we went to Disneyland or "right after we got back from camping". Family vacations can be some of clearest memories people have from their childhoods and important parts of a family's shared history.28_____.

Why We Need VacationsThe benefits of taking a vacation start long before the suitcases are packed.（26）_____ It may only be a temporary staging post but looking ahead to a vacation gives us the sense that, whatever’s happening at the moment, there's an end in sight. We somehow expect to feel differently afterwards and are usually proved right.It's no coincidence that companies sometimes use away-breaks to restore motivation and team relationships.（27）_____ If nothing else, noticing how your thoughts or mood can change on vacation proves that it's possible to feel differently. Yet taking a break is only part of the picture.People don't disappear while on vacation or go into suspended animation.（28）_____ What really makes the difference is not simply geeing a- way from the old grind; it's being able to do something else instead. We might speak to people we wouldn't normally meet, try spots we’d not do otherwise and discover interests we never knew we had.Vacations also allow us to focus on the present in a way that's hard to do at home.（29）_____ Sightseeing walks and other recreational activities keep our minds even more in the here and now. This does much more than provide a few pleasant experiences. Being "in the moment" is in itself one of the keys to relaxation, and this happens more naturally on vacation.Useful as they are in relation to the future, vacations can be even more important in relation to the past. Like major holidays and the change of seasons, vacations punctuate the year and give it a unique character.（30）_____ Vacations are one of these markers. You often hear people recall, for example, that "it was the year we went to Disneyland or "right after we got back from camping". Family vacations can be some of clearest memories people have from their childhoods and important parts of a family's shared history.29_____.

Why We Need VacationsThe benefits of taking a vacation start long before the suitcases are packed.（26）_____ It may only be a temporary staging post but looking ahead to a vacation gives us the sense that, whatever’s happening at the moment, there's an end in sight. We somehow expect to feel differently afterwards and are usually proved right.It's no coincidence that companies sometimes use away-breaks to restore motivation and team relationships.（27）_____ If nothing else, noticing how your thoughts or mood can change on vacation proves that it's possible to feel differently. Yet taking a break is only part of the picture.People don't disappear while on vacation or go into suspended animation.（28）_____ What really makes the difference is not simply geeing a- way from the old grind; it's being able to do something else instead. We might speak to people we wouldn't normally meet, try spots we’d not do otherwise and discover interests we never knew we had.Vacations also allow us to focus on the present in a way that's hard to do at home.（29）_____ Sightseeing walks and other recreational activities keep our minds even more in the here and now. This does much more than provide a few pleasant experiences. Being "in the moment" is in itself one of the keys to relaxation, and this happens more naturally on vacation.Useful as they are in relation to the future, vacations can be even more important in relation to the past. Like major holidays and the change of seasons, vacations punctuate the year and give it a unique character.（30）_____ Vacations are one of these markers. You often hear people recall, for example, that "it was the year we went to Disneyland or "right after we got back from camping". Family vacations can be some of clearest memories people have from their childhoods and important parts of a family's shared history.30_____.