北京英語家教多少錢Apartments for people in wheelchairsshould be on the ground floor unless there is an elevator;When his father died in 1761, Banks was only eighteen years old.Many young men in his position would lead a cosy life, but young Banks had an appetite for knowledge.Despite his wealth, he worked to make a career in science.He made a first journey to study wild plants in 1766.His next expedition was the great voyage with James Cook to Oceania.In 1768, the Royal Navy appointed James Cook as the commander of the Endeavour to take members of the Royal Society on an expedition to Tahiti.According to the instructions given to Captain Cook,the expedition had three goals.The primary goal was to study the passing of the planet Venus across the sun.This would give astronomers a change to calculate the distance between the earth and the sun.Secondly the purpose of the expedition was to record, classify and describe all plant and animal life observed during the trip.Thirdly, Captain Cook received secret instructions to search for an unknown southern continent.As astronomy was one of the most important branches of science,it was the British government that paid for all the equipment and expenses for that of the expedition.Since the government would not pay for such a new field of science as botany, Joseph Banks,at the age of 25, had to supply about10,000 of his own money to equip the expedition.On their three-year voyage, Joseph Banks did not only study and describe new plants he found,but also looked out new economic species: plans that could be grown in England or other parts of the world to produce crops that could be sold.Banks was the first to move crops from one continent to another on a large scale,helping to develop local economies with these new imports.Some plants that were spread over the globe in this way include cocoa, hemp and tea.The Endeavour, returned to England in 1771.The voyage had been a great success.Wonderful discoveries had been made of strange new lands, cultures, animals and plants.After that Captain Cook made two more voyages around the world, but Joseph Banks never undertook another.From behind his desk, however, he was involved in enterprises such as the exploration of Africa and the settlement of Australia.In 1778, Banks was elected president of the Royal Society, a position he held for 42 years.During these years Banks helped to develop the royal gardens at Kew into one of the greatest botanical gardens in the world.He accumulated a great deal of knowledge about plants and agriculture.In growing strawberries Banks went back to the abandoned practice of spreading straw under the fruit to reduce the necessary amount of watering.He also built a greenhouse to experiment with growing pineapples.It was Joseph Banks who made Kew a centre of scientific and economic research.INTEGRATING SKILLSReadingWILDLIEF AND GRARDEN ROSESIn his youth Charles Darwin enjoyed all the freedom to experiment and do whatever he liked.The study of physics, chemistry, and later botany, was his hobbyAt the age of 22, Darwin was invited to join the scientific expedition on the Beagle.if there is an elevator,it should be large enough and easy to operate.The interior of the aparments should also be designed properly.Light switches,electrical outlets,door handles,sinks and other fixtures should be placed at a convenient heightso that someone in a wheelchair can reach them.Bathrooms,kitchens and hallways should be large and wide enoughso that a wheelchair can be turned around.Special features,such as doorbells that use light rather that sound,must be used in apartments for people with hearing difficulty,and there should be wiring that makes it possiblefor people to use text-telephones and other aids.perhaps most important,we must provide equal Intellectual access for disabled people.That means that everyone, disabled or not,should have equal access to schools,universities,jobs and political organisations.Providing equal access requires thought,work and money and may seem expensive.We must remember,however,that the cost of not providing equal access in far greater.Unit 18 InventionsREADING WHAT WILL YOU THINK OF NEXT?Throughout history,great thinkers have used their creativityand imagination to change to world.How do they come up with ideas for new inventions?Thinkers who have changed the world do not seem to have much in common.They come from different cultures and have different backgrounds,and only some of them did well at school.Creativity is not about getting hight test scores,having a hight IQ or being smart.Instead,it seems that creative thinking,which is one of the most highly valued skills in society,is a matter of habits.By thinking about the way we think and practising good thinking strategies,we can become more creative.THINK OUTSIDE THE BOXKnowledge and learning are important if we want to be successful,but we must also realise that what we knowand what we have learnt may also limit our thinking.Tothink outside the boxis to try new ways to solve a problem.Inventors often rephrase a problem to allow for creative solutionsand also tryimpossibleor crazysolutions.If we look only for the correct answerand reject ideas that do not provide a complete