JOHN HANCOCK OBSERVATORY
Boston is a city of contrasts. Old and New. City and Country. Land and Sea. And nothing serves up more of Boston, more breathtakingly than the John Hancock Observatory. Towering 740 feet above the heart of Boston, it is the tallest building in all of New England. Nationally acclaimed for its award-winning design, the John Hancock Observatory is a must see for the entire family.
HOURS
Monday--Saturday 9: 00 a.m. to 11: 00 p.m.
Sundays (May--October) 10: 00 a.m. to 11: 00 p.m.
(Nov--April) 12: 00 a.m. to 11: 00 p.m.
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Open daily except Thanksgiving and Christmas
ADMISSION PRICES
Adults $4.25
Children (5 - 17 yrs.) $3.55
Senior citizens $3.55
Group rates are available for ten or more.
Admission hours are subject to change.
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The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarilyfrightened, Even worse, it(26)______our kids.
Al Gore famously depicted how a sea-level rise of 20 feet would almost completely flood Florida,New York,Holland,and Shanghai,even though theUnited Nations says that such a thing will not even happen, estimating that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that.
When(27)______with these exaggerations, some ofus say chat they are for a good cause, and surely there is no harm done if the resultis thatwe focus even more on tackling climate change.
This(28)_____isastonishingly wrong.Such exaggeration do plenty of harm.Worrying(29)_____about global warming mean e that we worry less about other thing,where we could to so much more good.We focus, for example, on(30)_____warning's.impact on malaria(疟疾) -which will put slightly more peopleat risk in 100 years-instead of tackling the half a billion people suffering from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that are much cheaper anddramatically more effective than carbon reduction would be.
(31)_____ also wars out the public a willingness to tackle globalwarming.If the planet is doom,people wonder,why do anything A record 54 % of Americanvoters now believe the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. A (32)_____of people now believe-incorrectly-that global warming is not even caused by humans.
But the worst costof exaggeration, I believe, is the(33)_____ alarm that it causes particularly among children. An article inTheWashingtonpost cite nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibilityof mass animal(34)_____from global warming.
The newspaper also reported that parents are searching for "productive" outlets for their eight-year-olds' obsession (忧心忡忡) with dying polar bears.They might be better off educating them and letting them know that, contrary to common belief, the global polar bear population has(35)______and perhapsquadrupled(成为四倍) over the past half-century ,to about 22,000.Despitediminishing--and eventually disappearing summer or Arctic ice, polar bears will not become extinct.
A.terrifies
B.excessively
c.unnecessary
D.argument
E.extinction
F.Exaggeration
G.confronted
H.doubled
I.majority
J.global
K.equipped
L. disgusts
M.ignorantly
N.suppresses
o.urgent
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