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Where to Eat in Bangkok

Bangkok is a highly desirable destination for food lovers. It has a seemingly bottomless well of dining options. Here are some suggestions on where to start your Bangkok eatingadventure.

Nahm

Offering Thai fine dining. Nahm provides the best of Bangkok culinary(烹饪的)experiences. It's the only Thair restaurant that ranks among the top 10 of the word's 50 best restaurants list. Head Chef David Thompson. Who received a Michelin star for his Loodon-based Thai restaurant of the same name,opened this branch in the Metropolitan Hotel in 2010.

Issays Stamese Club

Issaya Siamese Club is intematoionally know Thai chef lan Kittichai's first flagship Bangkok restau-rant. The menu in this beautiful colonial house includes traditional Thai cuisine combined with modem cooking methods.

Bo.tan

Bo.tan has been makin waves in Bangkok's culinary sene since it opened in 2009. Serving hard-to-find Thai dishes in an elegant atmosphere, the restaurant is true to Thai cuisine's roots,yet still manages to add a wpecial twist. This place is good for a candle-lit dinner or a work meeting with colleagues who appreciate fine food. For those extremely hungry there's a large set menu.

Gaggan

Earning first place on the lates "Asia's 50 best restaurants" list, progressive Indian restaurant Gag-gan is one of the most exciting venues(场所) to arrive in Bangkok in recent years. The best table in this two-story colonial Thai home offers a window right into the kitchen, where you can see chef Gaggan and his staff in action. Culinary theater at its best.

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Terri Boltonis a dab hand when it comes to DIY(do-it-yourself). Skillde at putting up shelves and piecing together furniture,she never pays someone else to do a job she can do herself.

She credits these skills to her late grandfather and builder Derek Lloyd. From the age of six,Terri,now 26,accompanied Derek to work during her school holidays. A day's work was rewarded with & 5 in pocket money. She says:"I'm sure I wasn't much of a help to start with. painting the rooms and putting down the flooring throughout the house. It took weeks and is was backbreaking work,but I know he was proud of my skills."

Terri, who now rents abhouse with friends in Wandsworth, South West London, says DIY also saves her from losing any deposit when a tenancy(租期)comes to an end. She adds:"I've moved house many times and I alwsys like to personalise my room and put up pictures, So, it's been useful to know how to cover up holes and repaint a room to avoid any charges when I've moved out"

With millions of people likely to take on DIY projects over tha coming weeks, new research shows that more than half of people are planning to make the most of the long, warm summer days to get jobs done. The average spend per project will be around s 823. Two thirds of people aim to improve their comfort while at home. T fifth wish to increase the value of their house. Thouth DIY hsa traditionally been seen as male hobby, the research shows it is women now leading the charge.

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I was about 13 when an uncle gave me a copy of Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World. It was full of ideas that were new to me, so I spent the summer with my head in and out of that book. It spoke to me and brought me into a world of philosophy(哲学).

That love for philosophy lasted until I got to college. Nothing kills the love for philsosphy faster than people who think they understand Foucault, Baudrillard, or Confucius better than you - and then try to explain them.

Eric weiner's The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers reawakened my love for philssophy. It is not an explanation, but an invitation to think and experience philosophy.

Weiner stara each chapter with a scene on a train ride between cities and then frames each philosopher's work in the centext(背景)of one thing they can help us do better. The end result is a read in which we learn to wonder like Socrates, see like Thoreau, listen like Schopenhauer, and have no re-grets like Nietzsche. This, more than a book about undestanding philosophy ,is a book abour learning to use philosophy to improve a life.

He makes philosopical thought an appealing exercise that improves the quality of our experiences,and he does so with plenty of humor. Weiner enters into conversation with some of the most important philosophers in history,and he becomes part of that crowd in the process by decoding(解读)their mssages and adding his own interpretation.

The Socrates Express is a fun, sharp book that draws readers in with its apparent simplicity and grad-ually pulls them in deeper thoughts on desire, loneliness, and aging. The invitation is clear: Weiner wants you to pick up a coffee or tea and sit down with this book. I encourage you to take his offer. It's worth your time, even if time is something we don't have a lot of.

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Grizaly bears, which may grow to about 2.5m long and weigh over 400kg, occupy a conflicted cor-ner of the American psyche-we rever(敬畏) them even as they give us frightening dreams. Ask the tour-ists from around the world that flood into Yellowstone National Park what they most hope to see, and their answer is often the same: a grizzly bear.

"Grizzly bears are re-occupying large areas of their former range," says bear biologist Chris Servheen. As grizzly bears expand their range into places where they haven't been seen in a century or more,they're incresingly being sighted by humans.

The western half of the U.S. was full of grizzlies when Eurpeans came, with a rough number of 50,000 or more living alongside Native Americans. By the early 1970s, after centuries of cruel and continu-ous hunting by settlers, 600 to 800 grizzlies remained on a mere 2 percent of their former range in the Northern Rockies. In 1975, grizzlies were listed under the Endangered Species Act.

Today, there are about 2,000 or more grizzly bears in the U.S. Their recovery has been so suecess-ful that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has twice attempted to de-list grizzlies, which would loosen legal protections and allow them to be hunted. Both efforts were overturned due to lawsuits from conserva-tion groups. For now, grizzlies remain listed.

Obviously,if precautions(预防)aren't taken, grizzlies can become troublesome, sometimes killing farm animals or walking through yards in search of food. If people remove food and attractants from their yards and campsites, grizzlies will typically pass by without trouble. Putting electric fencing around chicken houses and other farm animal quarters is also highly effective at getting grizzlies away."Our hope is to have a clean, attractant-free place where bears ean pass through without learning bad habits," says James Jonkel, longtime biologist who manages bears in and around Missoula.

Many years ago, I bought a house in the Garfagnana, where we still go every summer. The first time we___41___there, we heard the chug chug-chug of a motorbike ___42___its way down the hill toward us.It was___43___called Mario, coming to ___44___us a box containing some tormatoes and a bottle of wine.It was a very nice ___45___ for him to make. But when we looked at the tomatoes, we were ___46___be-cause they were so misshapen:not at all like the nice, round,___47___things you get in a supermarket.And the wine was cloudy, in a funny old bottle with no label(标签)on it These can'tbe any___48___ , we thought. But we were___49___his kindness, so we___50___them.

What we discovered is that it's___51___to judge what you cat only by its___52___. Those tomatoes had___53___that reminded me of the ones my uncle used to grow when I was a child. Nowadays super-market tomatoes___54___perfect but taste of water. Nobody'sgoing to have a___55___memory of those. It's a surprise they haven't managed to grow square ones so that they can___56___them easily. Mario's wine may have been cloudy and come out of an old bottle, but it was___57___.

It's good to eat things at the correct time, when they're___58___,and as close as possible to where they were___59___What Mario had___60___us was the taste of the Garfagnana.

41A. waited B. met C. camped D. stayed

42A. making B. searching C. squeezing D. feeling

43A. customer B. neighbor C. relative D. passenger

44 A. lend B. send C. bring D. show

45A. choice B.comment C. promise D. gesture

46A. worried B.moved C. thrilled D.bored

47A. simple B. real C. shiny D.fun

48A. more B. good C. new D. easy

49A. sympathetic to B. thankful for C. cautious about D. interested in

50A. tried B. sold C. returned D. mixed

51A. unnecessary B. uncertain C. unwise D. unusual

52A. appearance B.quality C. origin D. price

53A. size B. shape C. color D. taste

54A. smell B. look C. become D. work

55A. happy B. vivid C. short D. vague

56A. clean B. check C. count D. pack

57A perfect B. useful C. convenient D. familiar

58A. on view B. on sale C. in season D. in need

59A. finished B. stored C. found D. grown

60A. cooked B. given C. bought D. told

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