Yours,

Han Mei

Guangzhou Shangri-la Hotel Service guide

We will make your stay here as enjoyable as possible. We hope we will give you the best service.

Room Service

We offer the service 24 hours a day.

Dining Room

You can have three meals a day in the dining room.

Breakfast: 8 a.m.---- 9:30 a.m. (Tips: The room waiter may bring breakfast to your room at any time after 7 a.m. If you need, please fill in a card and hang it outside your room before 6 a.m.)

Lunch: 12 a.m. ---- 2 p.m.

Dinner: 6:30 p.m. ---- 8:30 p.m.

Telephones

There is a telephone in your room. Dial “0” before you make a call. We will tell you to wait a moment if the lines are busy.

Shop & Coffee House

Business hours:

Shop: 9 a.m. ---- 5:30 p.m.

Coffee House: 12 a.m. ----2 p.m. 8 p.m. ---- 11:30 p.m.

Other Services

Swimming pool: Enjoy yourself at any time if you like. It’s free.

Hot water: It is offered 24 hours.

All Residents: Rules for Living in Parkrise Flats

We all want to live comfortably and safely here, so here are a few simple rules which we think all residents should follow.

Rubbish Rubbish collection is on Tuesdays. Please do not leave rubbish bags out before Tuesday as animals can break into them when they smell.

Washing There is a washing line for every flat in the garden next to the car park. Please only dry your washing on these lines, so it does not disturb people in the ground floor flats.

Cleaning The main stairs are cleaned twice a week by the Association, so please try to keep them tidy and clean and do not leave furniture or bags on the stairs or in the hallways.

Lights The main lights are on a timer and they stay on for five minutes when you press them. Please tell the Association if any lights are not working.

Noise Residents are asked to keep noise to a minimum. Loud music, etc. can disturb other people and the Association will get in touch with you if you make too much noise.

Safety Make sure the main outside door is always locked and do not let anyone into the main building unless you know who they are. Sometimes people try to get into the main stairs and then break into flats, so do not let people in unless they are coming to see you.

Parking   Each flat has one car parking space. These are numbered and are at the back of the building. Do not use another residents space. If you have more than one car, you will have to park it on the road. Do not park where you may block entrances.

Problems If you have any problems or questions, please call the Association at 0800 096 9000.

Parkrise Housing Association

   Joe was a boy with a special ability. He could make himself cry in less than a second. In this way, he could get almost everything he wanted.

One day, Joe met Pipo. Pipo had no family and was very poor. He was asking people for some money in the street. When people offered him some money, he would do something for them in return. Joe decided to help him make some money. He took off his hat, put it face-up on the ground and started crying sadly.

In a few minutes, Joe's hat was full of money, but when Joe gave Pipo the money, Pipo declined.

“It's much more fun making an effort to get things. Maybe I haven’t got everything I want, but I've done a lot of interesting things,” said Pipo. Joe walked away sadly. He had got everything he wanted, but he’d done nothing interesting the whole day. He hadn’t even enjoyed himself by spending almost all his time crying.

That evening, Joe wanted a piece of cake for his supper. When his mum refused, he wanted to cry. But he remembered what Pipo said. So he tried to get the cake in some other ways. To the joy and surprise of his parents, Joe spent the whole evening helping his mother with the housework. In the end, there was no cake. But that wasn’t so bad because Joe discovered it was much more fun doing all those things that evening rather than just sitting crying to get a piece of cake.

   New research suggests that climate change helped dogs develop from animals looking like cats to the way they are today. Scientists from Brown University in the USA believe that 40 million years ago, dogs were smaller and they looked like cats. They hid, ran after and killed other animals. As climate changed in the world, the physique(体型) and eatinghabits of dogs also changed. Thick forests that once covered North America started to become less thick as the earth became cooler.

The appearance of grassland made dogs have fewer places to hide to hunt for food. To get used to the environment, they changed their ways of hunting and slowly grew longer legs. The scientists studied how dogs have changed themselves by looking at the elbows (肘部) and teeth of 32 different species that lived from 2 million to 40 million years ago. The scientists said that the dogs' Bows greatly changed. Dogs from 40 million years ago had elbows that were more similar to those of cats.The function of the elbows was to allow the front paws (爪子)to catch what they could get and hold on to it. The elbows changed to allow dogs to become good runners and then they were able to run after other animals over long distances. Teeth in dogs also changed to be more useful. They became much stronger to be able to hold on to what they get.

   Last month some parents went to a pizza restaurant in Florida with their children. On the door, they _____ a sign in capital letters: "NO CHILDREN.” “Why can’t we bring our children?”,  “What on earth does the owner intend to do?" The parents were surprised and complained _____.

So why did the restaurant put _____ the sign on its door?

Troy Taylor, the owner of _____ pizza restaurant, found that______ parents couldn’t control their children and many children couldn’t have meals quietly, so they disturbed (打扰) _____ customers. Some people said that this was unfair. Mr Taylor explained why he did so. He said that the restaurant was near a busy road, so there might be some danger if the parents didn’t take _____ care of their children. _____ he made up his mind to ban(禁止) children from his restaurant.

Others supported _____decision. They said they were bored of noisy children in restaurants and now they ______ finally have a place for adults only.

In fact, many other restaurants have ______ met the same problem. Some have done nothing and others ______ to ban children during certain times of the day. There's one restaurant in Italy. It has been creative in ______ the problem. They reward well-behaved children with a family meal discount(折扣) ______ parents to control their children.

These methods may be ______ for a while, but it is difficult to solve this problem completely.

   Last week, I talked with a mother of a young teenager in my class. She was telling me how ______ it was for her son at school, because he was always in an old school uniform that didn’t fit him. Since her husband and she both ______ their jobs, they couldn’t afford(买得起)a new one. She told me that she was slowly trying to buy a(n) ______ shirt, then trousers, then shoes.

I knew that she didn't want to ask for help. She ______ asked for anything from me. She was just telling me the honest truth. I went to the ______ to take out some money. Then I put it into her pocket and told her to just go and ______ the uniform, and not to tell anyone I did this but her husband.

I also made it clear to her that nothing was ______ ---- no payback. “It's a gift. Take it, and I can enjoy ______, and that is all I need right now. " I told her she was doing me a favor. She felt too ______ to speak and we hugged. I really just felt happy that her boy wouldn’t continue to be ______ for his old uniform. I know what that is like, and as a victim(受害者)of school bullying when young, I can say for sure it hurts for a long time. I felt so good to be able to do this!