BRITISH PUB

Pubs are an important part of British life. Even very small villages nearly always have a pub. People especially men， will often go to the pub for a drink in the evening and at weekends. A man will usually go to the same pub， one which is closed by and which is called the local： I'm just nipping down to the local for a print. Women now go to pubs more than they used to， but usually don not like to go to a pub on their own. Children under 16 are not usually allowed into pubs， although some pubs have a children's room or a garden where children can sit.

　　Until 1988， pubs were only allowed to be open from 12：00 am to 2：00 pm alcoholic drink can be sold in a public place are called the licensing laws. Even though the law was changed so that alcohol can now be sold all day， many pubs still only pen at lunchtime and in the evening. When it is nearly time for the pub to close， the landlord or landlady shouts "last orders" and then "time".

　　Pubs often sell food or snacks as well as drinks. Food that is considered typical pub food is scampi （kind of shellfish） and chips （fried potatoes）， pie and chips， chicken and chips， and ploughman's lunch （bread with cheese）。

　　Pubs have names， For example: The Angel， The Black Swan， The Crown， The King's Arms， The Red Lion， The White Horse， etc. and people usually refer to the pub by its name： Turn left at the Rose and Crown. There is often a sing outside the pub showing the name with a picture.

　　Many pubs have two or more different bars. The public bar is usually plainly furnished and often has a pool table and dartboard. It is the bar usually used by the local people. The saloon bar is comfortable and well-furnished and is the bar that is usually used by men and woman drinking together.

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可以幫你寫，或者是翻一下我以前的演講稿。

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The time is now. Imagine your mother or father has suffered a heart attack. Deprived of its vital blood supply, a part of their heart is dying. Or imagine your grandmother or grandfather ly­ing nearly motionless in their nursing home bed. Advanced age, complicated by pneumonia, is about to end their lives. Or imag­ine a close friend has just entered the hospital with a massive system wide infection. AIDS has left their body ravaged by mul­tiple diseases.

For most people, these circumstances would herald the end of life. Today's medicine can no longer help them. But all of you may be able to meet again in the far future. Does this sound like science fiction? Perhaps. But it may one day be pos­sible. How? Through the process of cryonics.

Cryonics is the process of freezing human beings after death in the hope that medical science will be able to revive them in the future. Intrigued by the prospect of being cryoni cally frozen, I've spent some time researching the subject of cryonics. After reading dozens of newspaper and magazine ar­ticles, I would like to give you a brief overview of the history, methods, and future of cryonics. Let's start with the develop­ment of cryonics.

If only the head will be frozen, a slightly different proce­dure must be carried out. The head must be surgically detached from the rest of the body and preserved in a separate con tainer. You may be wondering, "Why would I preserve only my head?" The answer is, with some diseases the body is in a very poor condition. If this is the case and you choose to pre­serve your head only, you do so with the belief that medical science will be able to create a healthy new body for you in the future.

Once the head or body is ready for freezing, a liquid called a cryoprotectant, which works as an anti-freeze of sorts to help prevent cell damage, is circulated through the body or head. Over a 20-day period, the patient is prepared for long-term storage by cooling the body or head to a temperature of neg­ative 320 degrees Fahrenheit. When this temperature is reached, the patient is stored in a steel cylinder of liquid nitro­gen. According to an article in Omni magazine, 'At this tem­perature, biological function ceases and the patient will remain unchanged for hundreds of years."