If you have a list of destinations you want to visit, make your travel dreams a reality by taking a fully guided holiday with a travel agency. 【小题1】 For example, it’s ideal for anyone looking for stress-free experience especially in places where the culture or language may be unfamiliar.

【小题2】 With each trip created carefully around the needs of different travellers, a travel agency’s guided tours offer the best of each destination, which can ensure you don’t waste a moment. Their local, expert guides have a huge wealth of local knowledge. This local knowledge will make your travel unique.

Additionally, knowledgeable guides can make your holiday even better. Accompanying you throughout your holiday, they will offer useful tips about your chosen destination. They can share wonderful facts that only locals know, recommend the best restaurants, and introduce you to the most interesting local characters. 【小题3】

When you begin an adventurous trip, having a guided tour means you’re in safe hands. A travel agent takes care of everything from the start to the end of your holiday. It will also make sure every transfer and hotel check-in goes through smoothly. 【小题4】

Usually, the people you meet on holiday are the highlight of the entire trip. On a guided tour, you’ll have amazing memories of the shared experiences you had together. The holiday mood includes group where everyone feels welcome. 【小题5】 After the trip, it’s likely that you will arrange to meet up on another holiday through a travel agency!

Some students get so nervous before a test. They do poorly even if they know the material. Sian Beilock, a professor at the University of Chicago in Illinois, has studied these highly anxious test-takers. The students start worrying about the results. And when we worry, it actually uses up attention and memory resources.

Professor Beilock and another researcher, Gerardo Ramirez, have developed a possible solution. Just before an exam, highly anxious test-takers spend ten minutes writing about their worries about the test.

The researchers tested the idea on a group of twenty anxious college students. They gave them two short maths tests. After the first one, they asked the students to either sit quietly or write about their feelings about the upcoming second test.

Professor Beilock says those who sat quietly scored an average of 12% worse on the second test. But the students who had written about their fears improved their performance by an average of 5%. Next, the researchers used younger students in a biology class. They told them before final exams either to write about their feelings or to think about things unrelated to the test. Professor Beilock says highly anxious students who did the writing got an average grade of B+, compared to a B- for those who did not.

“What we showed is that for students who are highly test-anxious, and who’d done our writing intervention (干预), all of a sudden there was no relationship between test anxiety and grades. They were performing just as well as their classmates who don’t normally get nervous in these tests.”

But what if students do not have a chance to write about their fears immediately before an exam? Professor Beilock says students can try it themselves at home or in the library and still improve their performance.

Everyone has at least one bad habit. Whether it’s being frequently late, tapping your feet, or eating junk food, a bad habit can have a negative influence on your happiness, health and social relationships. 【小题1】 However, understanding the basic principles of behavior change can give you a head start on the process.

You can only change what you decide you want to change. Take some time to reflect on the trouble your bad habit may lead to. 【小题2】 The more honest you are with yourself about the nature of your bad habit, the more likely you will be to start on the path toward changing it.

Once you’ve decided to change, convince yourself you can achieve your goals. 【小题3】 Seeing other people change successfully is inspiring. But you need to see yourself as being able to make those changes in yourself.

【小题4】 Once you figure out what is driving your bad habits, you will have gone a long way toward changing them, By figuring out what’s causing the bad habit, you can also work on deciding how to control the outcomes of your behavior.

Set reasonable goals at first, since your bad habits have taken years to establish themselves. You’re not going to get rid of them in an instant. Decide on a realistic schedule that will work for you based on goals that you believe you can meet, Work out a schedule of time to go to the gym or on a run that will readily fit into your existing schedule. 【小题5】