Our skin is like a bag that we live in．Inside the bag our bodies are mostly water．Our water is like the water in the sea．It is very salty．Also，like the ocean，we can lose our water．The wind and the sun could take it away．Our bag of skin keeps our body's ocean from drying up．
Our skin keeps out sunshine．Too much sunshine can hurt us．Skin also keeps out dirt．That's important because some kinds of dirt can make us sick．Our skin feels things．It feels warm things，cold things，things it touches，and things that hurt it．A campfire feels warm．A snowball thrown in our face feels cold and hurts us．A hug is the touch of another person's skin on our own．
Our hair is a special kind of covering．It helps us keep things out of our eyes，ears and nose．Hair is also good for keeping us warm．When we get goose bumps （鸡皮疙瘩），our body hairs stand up．Then the hairs hold air close to our skin like a thick blanket （毯子）．Hair keeps animals warm，too．
Some animals have more hair than others，so they have a better blanket for cold weather．
Our nails （指甲） are another special skin which are very hard．They help keep our fingers from
getting hurt．Our nails aren't as strong as the nails that animals have．But they are good for picking up coins．
Uncle Sam
Do your children enjoy interesting stories，funny games and exciting dances？Uncle Sam will be ready to teach children of all ages all these things at the City Theatre on Saturday morning at 10：00．Free．
Walking Tour
Forget your worries on Saturday morning．Take a beautiful walk and learn about local history．Meet at the front entrance of City Hall at 9：30．Wear comfortable shoes!
Movie Time
Two films will be shown on Saturday afternoon at the Museum Theatre．See March of the Penguins at 1：30．Kung Fu Panda will be at 3：45．For further information，call 4987898．
International Picnic
Are you tired of eating the same food every day？Come to Central Park on Saturday and enjoy food from all over the world．Delicious and not expensive．Noon to 5：00p．m．
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
It's October，and this Saturday night is your last chance to see the Redbirds this year．Get your tickets at the gate．It might be cold．Don't forget sweaters and jackets．
Do You Want to Hear The Zoo？
The Zoo，a popular rock group from Australia，will give their first US concert this Saturday night at 8：00at Rose Hall，City College．
Ray Charles，a black singer and pianist of the USA．He had won 12 Grammy Awards （格莱美奖） and performed at 10，000 concerts around the world．Many musicians called him simply"the Genius"（天才）．
Ray Charles was born into a poor family，without a father．When he was 5 years old，his younger brother died，and around the same time，Charles started to lose his sight．By the age of 7he was completely blind．He had already been learning the piano for a year，and when he went blind，his mother knew this would be the only way he would make any money in the future．All his life，Charles remembered her saying："Do it right，or don't do it at all．"
Later he went to a school for blind and deaf children．There the teachers also encouraged him to study music．Sadly，while he was still at school，his mother died．He left school and in the early 1950s Charles organized a group of players．He sang，played the piano and wrote music．
He made many classical CDs with famous artists such as Elton John and the Beatles．
In 2003 a film of his life Ray was made．The part of Charles was played by a younger actor and musician called Jamie Foxx．The film director brought Foxx to meet Charles．After they had been playing together for two hours，Charles，then aged 73，jumped up and said："He's the one…he can do it．"A year later Charles died aged 74．The film of his life has been as popular as his songs and means that the memory of Charles'music will live on．
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What will our world be like in 2050？We asked a group of experts to make their predictions about our future．
By 2050 we will have"clever"．We won't have so many accidents， they will be able to communicate with each other．Cars will slow down by themselves or stop in situations．Also，our cars will on electricity or water．
By 2050 our homes will be more eco﹣friendly （环保）．We will use solar （太阳的） energy，and we will clean and our water．There will be many more people in the world our houses will be smaller．Many houses will be underground and we will have to help clean，cook and do home shopping．
We won't die!We will put our brains onto computers and live ．The computers of the future won't look like machines．They'll look like humans．
By 2050 there will be too many people on the earth and 100 million people will be living on the moon and other planets．We will be able to travel to Mars and back in just three days．
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Everywhere in the world there are different ways of behaving．When we meet someone，everything we say and do expresses our cultural background．So if you want to get on with someone from another culture，it helps to understand something about these differences．
Even how we stand depends on our culture．English people talk to each other at an average （平均的） distance of 130 cm，while Italians chat at an average distance of 80 cm．So Italians can think that English people are unfriendly because they stand too far away!And English people can think that Italians are too close．
Touching is also cultural．The French touch much more than Americans．A French couple may touch 100times in half an hour while an American couple may only touch twice!And French teenagers touch each other much more than American teens．
A survey of young people around the world looked at their ideas of today's teenagers．It shows how different they are to those of their parents and grandparents．The survey wanted to try and understand the next generation （ 一 代 人 ） of adults better and these are some of the results．They show that there are many more （A） similarities between young people around the world than differences．
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Gap years （间隔年） between school and university are becoming more and more common．Today's teenagers want to travel to different countries and experience different cultures．They regard this as an important part of their character development．
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For most teenagers，family and friends are the most important side of life．According to the survey，60 percent of British young people said their relationship with their family was of the highest importance to （B） them ．
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75percent of teenagers in Western Europe expect to have enough money to live when they are adults．They are a happy generation．Eight out of ten believe they will have a good profession with a job they enjoy．They also expect that they will be happy and healthy．
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Young people now are hungry for all kinds of information on mass media.57percent of teenagers in the UK read at least one magazine every week，which is one of the highest totals in the world．
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C．Discoveringtheworld D．Familyandfriends
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Every year animals all around the world take part in some wonderful journeys．Here are the stories of two amazing animal travelers．
Humpback whales （ 座 头 鲸 ） prefer a slow journey．The humpbacks，
which travel over 10，000kilometers on their journey from Alaska to Hawaii，swim at a relaxing speed of about 1.6kilometers an hour．Although they don't swim fast，humpback whales travel farther than any other kinds of whale．
Every August a fantastic sight can be seen in the skies above Ontario and Montreal﹣millions of amazing Monarch butterflies （ 帝 王 蝶） beginning their 4，000﹣kilometer journey from Canada to Central Mexico．In fact，the journey，which takes about 3months，is longer than the average （ 平 均 的 ） life of the butterfly．Finally many of the butterflies reaching their final place are the great grandchildren or even the great great grandchildren of the butterflies who began the journey in Mexico the year before．
Humpback whales swim at a speed of an hour from Alaska to ．They travel slowly but among all whales．Monarch butterflies spend flying from Canada to Central Mexico．It lasts longer than their average life．The ones which arrive at the final place are or even the great great grandchildren．
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