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Rome can be pricey for travelers, which is why many choose to stay in a hostel (旅社). The hostels in Rome offer a bed in a dorm room 宿舍 for around $25 a night, and for that, you'll often get to stay in a central location (位置) with security and comfort.
Yellow Hostel
If I had to make just one recommendation for where to stay in Rome, it would be Yellow Hostel.（虚拟语气） It's one of the best-rated hostels in the city and for good reason. It's affordable, and it's got a fun atmosphere without being too noisy. As an added bonus, it's close to the main train station.
Hostel Alessandro Palace
If you love social hostels, this is the best hostel for you in Rome. Hostel Alessandro Palace is fun. Staff members hold plenty of 许多 bar events for guests like free shots 自由射击, bar crawls 串酒吧活动, and karaoke 卡拉OK. There's also an area on the rooftop for hanging out with （hang out with sb 和...一起玩） other travelers during the summer.（hold events 举办活动）
Youth Station Hostel
If you're looking for cleanliness and a modern hostel, look no further than Youth Station. It offers beautiful furnishings 家具陈设 and beds. There are plenty of other benefits, too; it doesn't charge city tax; it has both air conditioning and a heater for the rooms; it also has free Wi-Fi in every room.
Hotel and Hostel Des Artistes
Hotel and Hostel Des Artistes is located just a 10-minute walk from the central city station and it's close to all of the city's main attractions. The staff is friendly and helpful, providing you with a map of the city when you arrive, and offering advice if you require some. However, you need to pay 2 euros a day for Wi-Fi.
B
By day 白天的时候, Robert Titterton is a lawyer. In his spare time 在他空闲的时候 though he goes on stage 上台 beside pianist Maria Raspopova — not as a musician but（not...but...不是...而是...） as her page turner. "I'm not a trained musician, but I've learnt to read music so I can help Maria in her performance."
Mr. Titterton is chairman of the Omega Ensemble but has been the group's official page turner for the past four years. His job is to sit beside 坐...旁边 the pianist and turn the pages of the score 曲谱 so the musician doesn't have to break the flow of sound by doing it themselves. He said he became just as nervous as those playing instruments on stage.
"A lot of skills are needed for the job. You have to make sure you don't turn two pages at once and make sure you find the repeats in the music when you have to go back to the right spot," Mr. Titterton explained.
Being a page turner requires plenty of practice. Some pieces of music can go for 40 minutes and require up to 50 page turns, including back turns for repeat passages 乐段. Silent onstage communication is key, and each pianist has their own style of "nodding" to indicate a page turn which they need to practice with their page turner.
But like all performances, there are moments when things go wrong. "I was turning the page to get ready for the next page, but the draft wind（draft wind = draught wind 穿堂风）from the turn caused the spare pages to fall off the stand 演奏台," Mr. Titterton said. "Luckily I was able to catch them and put them back."
Most page turners are piano students or up-and-coming 有前途的 concerts pianists, although Ms. Raspopova has once asked her husband to help her out on stage.（help sb. out with sth.）
"My husband is the worst page turner," she laughed. "He's interested in the music, feeling every note 音符, and I have to say: 'Turn, turn!' Robert is the best page-turner I've had in my entire life."
C
When the explorers first set foot upon the continent of North America, the skies and lands were alive with an astonishing variety of wildlife. Native Americans had taken care of these precious natural resources wisely. Unfortunately, it took the explorers and the settlers who followed only a few decades to decimate 严重破坏 a large part of these resources. Millions of waterfowl (水禽) were killed at the hands of market hunters and a handful of 少数 overly ambitious sportsmen. Millions of acres of wetlands were dried to feed and house the ever-increasing populations, greatly reducing waterfowl habitat (栖息地).
In 1934, with the passage of the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act (Act), an increasingly concerned nation took firm action to （take action to do sth 采取措施做某事） stop the destruction of migratory (迁徙的) waterfowl and the wetlands are so vital to their survival.（be vital to sth 对...至关重要） Under this Act, all waterfowl hunters 16 years of age and over must annually purchase and carry a Federal Duck Stamp. The very first Federal Duck Stamp was designed by J.N. "Ding" Darling, a political cartoonist from Des Moines, lowa, who at that time was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as Director of the Bureau of Biological I Survey. Hunters willingly pay the stamp price to ensure the survival of our natural resources.
About 98 cents of every duck stamp dollar goes directly into the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund to purchase wetlands and wildlife habitat for inclusion into the National Wildlife Refuge System — a fact that ensures this land will be protected and available for all generations to come. Since 1934, better than half a billion dollars has gone into that Fund to purchase more than 5 million acres of habitat. Little wonder the Federal Duck Stamp Program has been called one of the most successful conservation programs保护项目 ever initiated.（one of the +最高级+名词复数）
D
Popularization 普及,通俗化 has in some cases changed the original meaning of emotional (情感的) intelligence 情商. Many people now misunderstand emotional intelligence as almost everything desirable in a person's makeup 性格，构成 that cannot be measured by an IQ test, such as character, motivation, confidence, mental stability, optimism, and "people skills 交际能力". Research has shown that emotional skills 情感技能 may contribute to 有助于 some of these qualities, but most of them move far beyond 远超于skill-based emotional intelligence.
We prefer to 更喜欢 describe emotional intelligence as a specific set of skills that can be used for either good or bad purposes（either ...or...要么...要么...）. The ability to accurately understand how others are feeling may be used by a doctor to find how best to help her patients, while a cheater might use it to control potential victims 潜在受害者. Being emotionally intelligent does not necessarily make one a moral person.
Although popular beliefs regarding emotional intelligence run far ahead of what research can reasonably support, the overall effects of the publicity have been more beneficial than harmful. The most positive aspect of this popularization is a new and much needed emphasis (重视) on emotion by employers, educators and others interested in promoting social well-being. The popularization of emotional intelligence has helped both the public and researchers re-evaluate the functionality of emotions and how they serve people adaptively in everyday life.
Although the continuing popular appeal of emotional intelligence is desirable, we hope that such attention will excite a greater interest in the scientific and scholarly study of emotion. It is our hope that in coming decades, advances in science will offer new perspectives (视角) from which to study how people manage their lives. Emotional intelligence, with its focus on both head and heart, may serve to point us in the right direction.
