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Enjoy creative inventions Every November, Time magazine picks out "The 25 Best Inventions" of the year. These are the things that have made our lives different. TEENS has chosen three of the most interesting ones on the list. If you want to know more, please click Here. |
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Ember Mug | It's hard to always keep coffee at the right temperature, especially in winter. It's too hat to drink at first, but before we know it, it gets too cold and loses all its taste. According to Time, the perfect level of warmth for a cup of coffee only lasts for 37 seconds, which makes the Ember Mug a great invention. It keeps your coffee or tea at a certain temperature, anywhere between 48℃ and 62℃, once you set it through a smartphone app. |
| Tasty One Top | TV cooking shows make it look so easy, but it's almost impossible to get the recipes to look the same as how the professionals make them. However, the Tasty One Top DIY cooking helps. Developed by Buzzfeed, the cooker can be connected to a smartphone app, which has more than 1,700 recipes and videos. You choose a recipe and the app will let the cooker know what to do. For example, it'll tell you when to turn your steak or when to add certain ingredients. |
| Jibo | Smart speakers from companies like Amazon and Xiaomi have added a lot of fun to our lives. Though they're still faceless speakers. However, Jibo, developed by MIT professor Cynthia Breazeal, has brought smart technology to life. Said to be "the world's first social robot for the home", Jibo looks like a cartoon character, a round head and a voice that sounds like a 10-year-old boy. Inside its "head", there are different sensors and cameras, which allow it to recognize (辨认) faces and speech. Jibo will move to face you whenever you talk to it. It can also set alarms, remind you of important things, tell you the weather and read news or messages from your friends and family. |
One day, while I was waiting for my father, I saw a little boy, around two years old, running freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been set free from some sort of prison(监狱) . The boy would then fall to the grass, get up, without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened.
At that moment, I thought to myself, "Why aren't most adults this way?" Most adults, when they fall down, make a big deal out of it and don't even make a second attempt. They would be so embarrassed that they would not try again if someone saw them fall. Or, because they fall, they would find a good excuse for themselves that they're not fit for it. They would end up being too afraid to attempt again for fear of failure(失败) .
However, with kids, when they fall down, they don't consider their falling down as a failure, instead, they treat it as a learning experience. They try again and again until they succeed. The answer must be that they have not connected "falling down" with the word "failure". What's more, they probably think to themselves that it's quite okay to fall down and that it's not wrong to do so. In other words, they allow themselves to make mistakes, so they remain energetic.
I was deeply impressed by the boy's persistence(坚持不懈) and the manner in which he did.
The lyrebird (琴鸟) is one of Australia's best-known birds. It has a small head and long, strong legs. Its body is dark brown or gray. The female has a long brown tail behind her but the lyrebird is remembered because of the male's extremely beautiful tail. It has sixteen feathers and is about one metre long. The two outer feathers of the tail are golden brown and curved. This curved shape reminds people of a musical instrument — the lyre. The other surprising thing about the lyrebird is that it can copy perfectly any sound around. It can remember the songs of about twenty other kinds of birds. These days, lyrebirds have been heard copying the sounds of car alarms and crying babies!
Lyrebirds are found in wet rainforest. Because they are not great flyers, they spend most of their time on the floor where there is plenty of food. They use their strong claws to turn over rocks to find something to eat.
After growing into an adult, the male makes a space in the forest, or builds a hill, and he dances on the hill. He spreads his tail forward over his head and shakes it, jumping and moving slowly from side to side. The male sings wonderful songs. How could any female refuse his love?
The female builds her own nest in an old tree or on some rocks. It is a round nest with a hidden side entrance which helps to protect the eggs from other hungry animals. She lays a single egg and brings up her chick alone.
When in danger, lyrebirds will try to run away. They can use their wings to fly onto low trees and rocks. They also use strange sounds they can make to scare away their enemies.
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These days, more and more Chinese people enjoy sending and receiving messages on the phone. It can help them to get the latest news and communicate with friends. But I think I should read more books. Of course, it can also help me to get good grades. Do you know how to read more and learn more? Here are some tips for you.
Before you start reading, ask yourself why you are reading this book. Most people read for two main reasons, pleasure or knowledge. Knowing it can help you choose the right book, so you will keep reading and complete the book faster.
No matter what you are reading, it is important to enjoy what you read. Your friends may tell you the books they love, but those books might not necessarily be the ones you enjoy.
Give up books that you don't enjoy. You may have chosen books that you are interested in. But while you are reading them, there may still be some books that you don't enjoy reading. So please give it up.
Set a reading goal. It is interesting that I read the books borrowed from libraries faster than those I though. So before you read each book, ask yourself what time you need to complete this book by.
A. Remember reading shouldn't be a chore.
B. Read only what you are interested in.
C. It can open my eyes and improve my language skills.
D. The reason is the books I bought don't have deadline!
E. Clear your purpose for reading.
I was never very neat (整洁), while my roommate Kate was well organized. Each of her things always had its1, but I was always looking for something every minute. Over time, Kate got neater and I got messier. She would push my2 clothing over, and I would lay my books on her tidy desk. We both got3 of each other.
We broke out one morning. Kate came into the room. Soon, I heard her shouting. "Take your shoes away! Why under my bed!" Then, I saw my4 flying at me. I jumped to my feet and started yelling (叫嚷), but she yelled off even5.
The room was filled with6. We could not have stayed together for a single minute but for a phone call. Kate7 it. From her end of the conversation, I could8 right away her grandma was seriously9. When she hung up, she quickly crawled (爬) into her bed, under the covers, sobbing (抽噎).
Clearly, that was something she should not go through10. All of a sudden, a11 feeling of sympathy (同情) rose up in my heart.
Slowly, I collected the pencils, took back the books, made my bed, cleaned the shoes and swept the floor, even on her12. I got so into my work that I even didn't notice Kate had13 up.
She looked at me in surprise, reaching out her hands to get hold of mine. I looked up into her eyes. She smiled at me. "Thanks."
Kate and I14 roommates for the rest of the year. We didn't always15, but we learned the key to living together: giving in, cleaning up and holding on.
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Peggy is a lovely girl, she is only ten but she likes reading and thinking. One evening, while mom was preparing dinner, Peggy came into the kitchen and , "Mom, what is puberty (青春期)?"
When mom heard the question, stopped cooking and looked at her daughter in surprise. She wasn't sure how to answer the question. Mom thought for a few and then she said to Peggy kindly, "Peggy, why not look the word in the dictionary? After that, we can talk about it, OK?"
Peggy agreed and left the kitchen . Half an hour later, she returned with a thick dictionary in her hand. Her mom asked her what the dictionary said.
"Puberty ," answered Peggy, "the earliest age at which a girl is able to bear ."
"What do you think of that?" her mom asked.
"I'm not sure really," Peggy replied. "I have always been able to children. It's adults who I can't bear at all."
In English, the word "bear" can have several meanings. in the dictionary, "bear" means "to give birth to a child". But clearly, Peggy was thinking about its other meaning — to endure (忍受) something.
More and more people are using mobile phones now. Smart phones used as televisions, cameras, and music players. They are also used for sending e-mails or surfing the Internet. If someone talks mobile phones, many Chinese will think of Huawei.
In China, even in the world, Huawei is a wonder. Ren Zhengfei built up Huawei company in 1987. The company sold 58.4 million smart phones in the first season of 2019. Huawei has got second place at he mobile market.
Now, Huawei has been the leader in 5G field. has more than 75,000 top engineers and scientists on research. They try their to bring digital and high technology to every person and place. It's more convenient for modem people to live in a rapid way. What a useful technology 5G is!
A: Hi, Linda. Did you have a nice time during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
B:. I visited my grandparents in a village, and it was so much fun.
A: Sounds good. You remember it for such a long time.?
B: It was rainy, but it was very cool.
A: Well,?
B: I made mooncakes with my grandma, watched the moon and chatted with my family.
A: Oh, nice.?
B: I visit my grandparents once a term. What about you? How were your days?
A: Terrible! I stayed at home and did my homework all the time you know, the test is coming.
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A: What you said sounds right. We should work hard to have a good future. See you.
B: See you.
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1）题目补充完整，短文词数100左右。
2）语言流畅，内容连贯，书写规范，卷面整洁。
