A: Hi, Mike! You're reading the novel again.
B: Yes, John. I've never been tired of it.
A:
B: Three times. Every time I read it, I can learn something new.
A: Really?
B: Charles Dickens. I think he is a great English writer.
A: He is also my favorite foreign writer. Please let me have a look at it.
B: OK, here you are! ... What do you think of this novel?
A: I haven't seen such a novel for long. Where did you buy it?
B: In the Xinhua Bookshop.
A: I don't know where it is.
B: No, only 10 minutes' walk from here, next to the People's Cinema.
A: Oh, I see. I'm going there to get one, too. Thank you!
B: You're welcome!
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A. I have already finished reading it. B. Who wrote it? C. How many times have you read it? D. So do I. E. Have you finished it yet? F. Is it far from here? G. It's exciting. |
What is the population of China? There are more than a billion and three hundred million people in China. It is almost one fifth of the world's population. How to control the population growth is a big problem. Some people think 1 control the population growth. But I don't agree 2 them, because where there's a will, there is a way.
The question is that we should make it 3 how serious the population problem is. Our farmland is becoming less and less to everyone. We have already got too many mouths to feed. 4 we control the population growth, many people will die 5 hunger. Too fast population growth has been and will be bad for our nation. Though laws(法律) have been 6 to control the population growth, in some places 7 is done to carry out the law. We should make people 8 that it is foolish to bring too many children into the world. They should 9 do what they have been doing for many years.
We are fighting against the rapid population growth. Yes, the fighting won't end 10 everyone knows its importance and does something for it. Let's go on working hard on it together.
| The TAJ 100 years of pictures THEN AND NOW See the Taj in history from 19：00 to 20：00 Photography Show City Art Museum 720 High Street Tuesday to Sunday 10 a．m to 5 p．m | AFRICAN SAFARI PARK A Driver-through Zoo Drive in your own car or take the special bus． See lions, elephants, tigers without cage Open every day 9-4 Special tickets＄35 for 4 people |
| BELL TOWER TRIPS Great scenery from the trip Climb 439 steps or take the lift Learn the 300 year history of our city Sundays only 8 a．m．to 3 p．m． No children under 5 | HARRY POTTERMAGIC SHOW MAGIC SHOW See magic performances the quiet bell the clever boy the terrible message two full hours Saturday morning starts at 9:30 The Grand Cinema 741 High Street |
Have you ever stayed in a hotel? Most Chinese hotels often provide guests with things like disposable(一次性的) toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo and slippers.
Many guests like the idea because they don't have to bring their own. But if you travel to Beijing, remember to bring these things of your own. That's because some hotels in Beijing have no longer provided guests with these disposables (一次性用品). Many disposable things are made of plastic. People throw them away after only using them once. It's a waste of natural resources (资源) and is very bad for the environment.
In Beijing, people throw away about 19,000 tons of plastic bags and 1,320 tons of lunch bowls every year!
Plastic can take 100 to 400 years to break down. So the less plastic we throw away, the better environment we will have.
So, wherever you travel, bring your own things and use them again and again. Back at home and school, you can also do something to make our world a better place. Try to do these things in your daily life:
Use cloth shopping bags, not plastic ones.
After using a plastic bag, wash it out and let it dry. Then use it over and over again.
Do not use paper cups.
At your school canteen (餐厅), use your own bowls and chopsticks instead of disposable ones.
AI(人工智能)makes our lives easier and better. Let's see the amazing AI.
Cool driverless bus
A bus door opens and you get on. Wait! Where is the driver? Here is a new kind of driverless bus called Apolong. It has 14 seats and doesn't need a driver. The bus follows traffic rules. It stops as soon as it sees a stop light.
Your close friend
Hi, everyone. I'm Xiaobing, a chatbot (聊天机器人). I speak like a 17-year-old girl. If you feel lonely, you can talk with me. I'm talented at singing, writing poems and telling stories. I want to be your friend!
World's first AI anchor (主播)
Hey, look! The famous Chinese anchor Qiu Hao is reporting the news for us. But, is "he" really Qiu Hao? The answer is "no". This is the world's first Al anchor. It looks and speaks just like a real person. It can work 24 hours and doesn't make any mistakes. You might see it on TV soon.
Popular AI artist
This beautiful painting was at an auction(拍卖)in 2020. The painting is worth about 3, 000000 yuan! But it is not a work by a famous painter, such as Vincent van Gogh. It was painted by an AI arts. Three Frenchmen created the Al artist It studied over 15, 000 paintings. In this way, it learned to paint.
Have you ever dream ed of traveling in space? To travel in space, we first have to work out where our food will come from.
Today's space travellers don't go to the Moon or Mars. They go to the International Space Station (ISS). There, the spacemen live for weeks to months.
If you visited the ISS years ago, nearly every kind of food you ate would have come from the Earth.
In 2014,scientists sent the ISS a space garden with some vegetable seeds（种子）. With water and some light, the vegetables in the garden grew. Those were the first foods being grown on the ISS. But the spacemen couldn't eat them and had to send them back to the Earth. The next year, after scientists made sure they were safe, the spacemen grew a second crop. This time the vegetables were ready for the spacemen to eat.
Gardening is different in space than it is on Earth. Without gravity, plants don't know which way is up. But they learn how to grow. They send their leaves in the direction of light and their roots into the soil.
The spacemen also have grown vegetables as well as flowers. It's important to know a plant can flower in space, because flowering is part of how some plants make fruit.
While the space garden is small for now, hopefully it could one day help provide people with food on long﹣time space trips.
Marco Polo was born in Italy in 1254. When he was 17, he travelled along the Silk Road with his father, who wanted to do trade with the Chinese. Finally, they arrived in Beijing. They were guests at the Emperor's Palace. Although Marco was young, he was very clever and could speak four languages. The Emperor was impressed by him and they became friends. The Emperor asked Marco to help him and sent him to do many important jobs all over the country.
Marco was amazed by how great China was. He was impressed by the Emperor's Palace which he described as "The greatest palace that I've ever seen". The walls were covered with gold and silver and the hall was so large.
Marco was also attracted by lots of strange things in China. Marco was surprised to see Chinese people using paper money in the markets. In Europe, people paid for goods with gold and silver. He could not understand how people paid for food and valuable things with paper! He was also puzzled by the black stones people used to burn to produce heat. The black stones were coal, but Marco had never seen coal before!
After he served the Emperor for 17 years, in 1291, Marco returned to Italy. He had a lot of money then. A writer wrote down all the stories that Marco told him in a book called The Description of the World, which became one of the best-selling books in Europe.
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Marco Polo and China |
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Before in China |
He was born in Italy in 1254. At the age of 17, he travelled to China along the Silk Road with his father. |
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During his living in China |
He made friends with the Chinese Emperor. He helped the Emperor do many jobs around China. The beauty of China him. He described the Summer Palace as the greatest palace that he had ever seen. Some things which he never saw before attracted him. Paper money was used in the markets. The Chinese used coal to produce heat. |
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After returning to Italy |
He became very . A book was about his travelling experiences. |
