The Lunchroom Robot
"Robot! Tie my shoe!" A boy shouted.
"Robot! Clean up my mess!" Another sixth-grade boy poured his 1 on the floor.
Lee had a pain in his stomach as he watched the older kids 2 the lunchroom robot around. The robot did as it was asked, but it moved 3 , almost tiredly. When it rolled (滚动) from task to task, 4 head hung down. It almost seemed sad. Lee tried and failed to shake the bad feeling.
It couldn't possibly be...could it?
The school bell 5 that lunch period was over. The sixth graders left, laughing, as the robot continued to 6 the milk.
Lee collected his lunch tray (托盘), his eyes 7 on the robot. After it finished cleaning, it rolled up against the wall.
Lee walked toward the robot uncertainly. "Are you...okay?" he asked. The robot turned its head toward Lee. Lee looked into the raindrop-shaped cameras that served as the robot's eyes. They looked the same as always, but he knew there was something different 8 them.
Lee patted the robot's back panel. "I think I know how you feel," he said. "Those kids shouldn't 9 you that way. They should at least be 10 when you do your job."
The robot looked up at Lee, and the words "11 " appeared on the front screen in blue letters.
Lee smiled. "You're welcome."
The next day, the sixth graders were at the lunchroom again. One of them 12 mints (口香糖) across the floor. "Robot, pick them up!" he said.
13 Lee watched from another table, his face burned. He nearly stood up to say something, but the robot didn't move. "Robot!" the boy shouted angrily.
Suddenly Lee got up from his seat and walked over. All the sixth graders watched him with 14 . "Robot," Lee said. "Could you pick up the candy for us, please?"
Then the robot 15 sweeping up the mints. Lee turned to the sixth graders. "Remember to say ‘thank you,' too."
Silk is not only popular in China, but also gets a name in the rest of the world. Silkworms create silk which is used for clothes. Over 5000 years ago, Chinese people found the secret of silkworms. Silkworm raising and farming were two most important things in ancient Chinese life.
Now let's see the amazing life of silkworms There are four stages in a silkworm's life circle.
"Why did she spill the beans (泄露秘密)?" I wondered. I'll always remember that day when I was so surprised by all the strange looks everyone was giving me. Those thoughts will always stay with me. And I couldn't believe I would lose the friendship of the person I trusted the most.
Five years back, Sally was the new kid in class. I don't know what it was, but something special about her drew me to her. She was the friendliest person I had ever known. We started as classmates, but after a few months, we were like best friends. So, I never expected her to hurt me in such a big way.
I don't know what made me tell Sally about my personal life. She made the matter bigger than it was, telling everyone at school. It was like someone had stabbed (刺伤) me in the back. After she gave away my secrets, everyone at school started laughing at me, looking at me whenever I passed by! I had to change a school. Sally called me many times, but I didn't answer. My heart was broken.
I tried hard to heal (治愈,康复) from the pain she left on my heart. After five years, my life went back to the way it was, with new friends. But one day, I met Anna, my classmate from the third grade. She told me that it was Mary who brought my secrets to light. Mary was our school's big mouth who always wanted to stick her nose into other people's business.
I wished I could have asked Sally about this. I wished I could go back in time and fix my mistakes. From that, I learned a life lesson that we should trust those we love because one little mistake could really harm our lives.
A young boy is crying because his ear hurts. Then a man comes out of the forest. He carries some juice from a white fungus. Carefully, he drips the juice into the boy's ear. In some rainforest villages of South America, that's how earaches are cured (治愈)!
Rainforest doctors, called shamans, use many kinds of plants as medicine. They make tea from one type of red vine (藤蔓). It cures stomachaches. Yellow flowers from another plant are used to treat snakebite. Local shamans have used the curing power of plants for thousands of years.
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Today, scientists from all over the world want to learn what these shamans know about plant medicines. They are racing to find the secrets of the rainforest before the plants disappear for good. And the rainforests are disappearing fast. Every year, people cut down an area of rainforest as large as Florida. Sometimes they want to use the land for farms. Sometimes they cut down the trees and sell the wood.
Now the scientists travel by boat, air, and foot to tiny rainforest villages. Then they spend long hours making their way through the hot and humid jungle (丛林) with the local shamans. The shamans show the scientists which plants can be used as cures.
Saving the Rainforest
One U.S. company has already found an important new medicine. It comes from a plant found in the rainforests of Ecuador. This medicine may soon be used to cure lung infections in kids. Rainforest plants might cure many bad diseases, such as cancer and AIDS. So medicine companies are working to save the rainforests. When people buy medicines made from the rainforest plants, part of the money will go to help save the rainforests. If the rainforests survive, someday you may find cures in your home that were made from white fungus and red vines.
About 71 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water. Water in nature is saltwater and fresh water, but only three percent of that amount (数量) is freshwater. A lot of organizations are saying that people are running out of usable water, but few are taking this problem seriously.
Why should they? They see water everywhere. The average American family uses more than 1,140 liters (升) of water at home per day. However, in developing countries, nearly 900 million people do not have safe drinking water. Water shortages are, in fact, a bigger problem today than ever before. The human population has continued to grow and with it, its need for water. Global warming is making this problem more serious. Unless we all take it seriously, we will end up having to live on a blue planet without a drop of usable water.
From taking shorter showers to reusing water, there are many ways for you to save water. One more thing you can do is to reduce your use of "virtual water". Perhaps you have never heard of the idea of "virtual water." It means the water you use indirectly. We not just drink water and use it to clean all kinds of things; we also "use" it through the products we buy. To produce a piece of A4 paper, for example, we need about ten liters of water. The production of our food requires even more water. A cow needs to eat 1,300 kilograms of grain (谷物) for three years before it can produce 180 kilograms of beef. The grain requires water to grow, the cow needs to drink, and the farmer needs water to clean his farm. So behind each 230-gram steak dinner, there are nearly 3,600 liters of water!
It will make a big difference if you remove some meat from your diet and eat more fruit and vegetables instead. You are also saving water when you are writing on both sides of paper instead of just one. The world is running out of usable water. Every drop of it is valuable.
①The growing human population.
② The proper reprocess of water.
③ The great need for drinking water.
④ The increasing greenhouse effect.
Loneliness is not always being alone. It is a feeling that can control you even when you are sitting in the middle of a crowded room. Studies show that it is more dangerous to health to be socially alone than to smoke fifteen cigarettes a day.
Accept the feeling. The first step in overcoming anything is accepting. By accepting the way you feel, you will realize how loneliness influences your life.
Nobody can seem to get enough of social media (媒体). However, behind the screens, many of us are facing the same problems of loneliness but we do not like to show that side. If you feel like you are feeling lonelier by using social media, it is time to stop.
Exercise self-love. Accept yourself as you are, so that you will make healthy choices in life: Do what you love the most, learn to say no, eat healthily and fall in love with yourself before loving someone else.
There are many other ways to overcome loneliness. But whatever way you use, having the right person by your side matters the most. That's why you need to love yourself. If your loneliness has become too much to bear, don't wait to take some professional help.
A. Turn to someone for help. B. Keep from social media's control. C. This means your own happiness is very important. D. However, sometimes you yourself are the only right person. E. If you are trying to overcome loneliness, here are a few tips to help you. |
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What will you do to overcome loneliness?
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Jack: Hi, Julia! What are you reading? You'd better not read in the sun. It's bad for your eyes.
Julia: Oh, thank you. I'm reading about smoking in the newspaper. Does your father smoke, Jack?
Jack: Yes, he thinks smoking can help him feel .
Julia: But you know, smoking is bad for his health.
Jack: Yes, his teeth are yellow and he often .
Julia: That's too bad. Look, the article says smoking is bad for our lungs and it can cause cancer.
Jack: Oh! How terrible! I must ask him to smoking. May I borrow your newspaper and show it to my father?
Julia: Sure!
For thousands of years, rice has been the main part of the Chinese diet. All over the country today, most people begin their day with a bowl of rice porridge in the m. In fact, for many, especially those in Southern China, no meal is (完整的) without rice. These corns really have had a great (影响) on human lives across history and the world.
Rice (传播) from China to other parts of the world long ago. It is said that more than two thousand years ago, Xu Fu was sent by Emperor Qin Shihuang to search for the secret of long life. He took rice and brought it to the (岛屿) of Japan.
When rice (到达) Thailand, the country's rich soil and water allowed the plant to grow well. Today, Thailand is f for its own rice. In fact, rice is so i to the Thai people that the meaning of "to eat a meal" in the Thai language is "to eat rice".
When rice was introduced to Europe, it took root in many countries along the Mediterranean coast. It has become a main part of local food. Dishes such as Italian risotto and Spanish paella have become (象征) of these countries' food. And they are now popular a the world.
Isadora Duncan was the creator of modern dance. She was American pioneer of dance. She loved to dance, but she didn't like (tradition) dances. Isadora listened to the music and moved naturally. She walked, jumped, or just stood still and moved. No one had ever danced like that before.
Isadora was born in 1877 in California, and was (young) of four. Her father was a poet and her mother was a music teacher. , her parents' marriage ended when she was three. Their mother look after the four (child). The family was very poor.
Her mother (teach) her kids about music, dancing and the theater. Young Isadora believed this was (exact) what she needed. She said that dance is life itself and comes from the heart. She thought dancing should be an art, not just fun. In1900, she danced at London's Lyceum Theater. People there liked her dance and began to think of her as a great dancer. Unluckily, (she) life ended suddenly in 1927.
Isadora (call) "the mother of modern dance". She gave birth to a free kind of dance, dancing without shoes and she was the greatest dancer of her time.
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