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BEIJING,Dec. 4 (Xinhua) — Three Chinese astronauts on board the Shenzhou-14 manned spaceship r to Earth safely on Sunday, after a six-month spacestation mission (任务).
Thecapsule, carrying astronauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe, touched down atthe Dongfeng landing site at 8:09 p.m. Beijing Time, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Soon after thecapsule landed, the ground search team arrived at the landing site. Medical team confirmed that the astronauts were in good h. Then they were carried out by ground workers and placed onto chairs in front of the capsule. They looked relaxed and waved to the ground crew. "Welcome back home," people cheered for them, as many raised their cameras to take photos of the historic m.
The three astronauts went to the space station on June 5. They completed many tduring their mission, including giving a live science lecture, and doing several sci-tech experiments.
The Shenzhou-14 astronauts helped accomplish many "firsts" in China's space history. The Shenzhou-14 mission is c a complete success, the agency announced.
This Saturday evening, Tom will have a birthdayparty. He has i some friends to his home. As his best friend, I wanted to buy him a g. So I went to the shops with my sister by bus. On the way, I offered my seat to a woman with a baby in her arms. She thanked me and pme, which made me feel really happy.
Later, we arrived at a toy shop. There were so many toys in the shop that I had no idea what to choose at first. Then my sister s that I should choose a toy car because Tom liked cars. Yes! I am c that Tom will like it.
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 is making the whole world crazy. It is the 22nd World Cup and the first championship in the Middle East. It is 1 the first soccer World Cupheld in winter. With just 29 days, the Qatar tournament is 2 World Cup in 44 years, which begins3 November 20.
4 , the tournament is not FIFA's "most important project". 5 official of the world soccerorganization states its top project6 Football for Schools. The plan is7 soccer balls to schools around the world so 700 million children can learn about the game. The organization wants to donate lots of balls and provide a mobile phone programor app so adults 8 teachchildren how to play. The program started in 2019 but was delayed 9 the COVID-19 pandemic. It started again this year with a budget of $100 million, which is one percent of10 Qatar spent building stadiums. Steve Pila 11 the project in South Africa for 3 years. He 12 calls it "the most important project in the world of football" because the coaching app for smartphone is really practical. Many schools do not have enough teachers 13 are trained in coaching soccer, but even the children in the most rural areas will enjoy14 by studying football from the screen. 15 good news it is!
I was always busy and had too many things to do. Whenever my daughter would cause me to change my plans, I thought to myself, "We don't have time forthis." So the two words I always said to her were: 1 .
The other day, the two of us rode to a2 near our home. After shopping, I bought her an ice cream, and she sat down at a table happily admiring the ice cream in herhand. Suddenly a 3 look appeared on her face. "Do I have to eat it up in a hurry, Mum?"
I nearly4 when hearing this — the pains of a hurried life influenced my poor girl so deeply! As she looked at me waiting to know if shecould take her time. I knew I had to make a 5 . I thought of the time when I rushed my child through life, I began 6 what really mattered in life...
"You don't have to hurry. Just enjoy it." I said gently. Her whole face brightened and she 7 her shoulders. We sat side by side talking about things that interested us.
When she got to the last bite, she held it out to me. "I 8 the last bite for you, Mum," she said 9 . As the icy taste put out my thirst, I realized I just got the present of a lifetime. I gave my child a little time and in return, she gave me her last bite and 10 me that things taste sweeter and love is easier to get when you stop rushing through life.
Many people travel to different places in the world by air. Usually it takes a long time, perhaps half a day, for passengers to stay in the plane. So airlines offer passengers food. But it is common that they feel bad about food taste.
To solve this problem, airlines try hard to improve their food. They would like to do so because they don't want to lose customers.
However, according to scientific research, part of the reason why plane food tastes bad is that at high altitude we can not taste things as well as we do on the ground. Also scientists have found that our noses become very dry even before a plane takes off. As the plane moves up, the change in air pressure reduces one third of the sensibility of our taste buds (味蕾). So our taste buds become senseless. The sad fact, however, is that our noses don't know it.
All of these help explain why food on the plane tastes so bad. They also help explain why airlines choose to offer passengers salty and spicy food. Without doing so, the food would be tasteless.
Now there are many researches on this. According to one of them, some volunteers are asked to lie with their feet higher than their heads for weeks. And scientists write down their feelings about food taste.
Though scientists try their best, it is not as easy as they thought. Because they can't deal with the special environment successfully, such as the change in air pressure, making food taste good is still hard for them.
Have you tried eating insects? "Although they look a little strange, they are crunchy (脆的). I eat them for their protein," Yang Xingyu, who likes fried insects, told China Daily.
A growing number of people are beginning to eat insects such as beetles, bees and grasshoppers. They can be fried, boiled with soup, or mixed with dessert. About 2 billion people have already added insects to their diets, according to a UN report.
Insects are rich in protein, vitamins and minerals. As professor Guo Jianjun at Guizhou University said, insects are known as "God's last piece of cake for mankind".
"Most of the fat in insects is unsaturated fatty acid (不饱和脂肪酸)," Guo said. "It's good for the heart and brain. Insects are sometimes used in medicines as well. Researchers have been looking at how eating insects can make humans' immune function better."
More importantly, insects are rich in number. They can play an important role in fighting the lack of food due to the growing population worldwide. According to the UN, the global population will rise to 8.5 billion by 2030, and about 10.4 billion by the 2080s. It is rising much faster than the availability of food, said Huang Dawei from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Developing new food sources is needed right away.
Eating insects helps with the environment, compared with traditional food sources. For example, pigs produce 10 to 100 times more greenhouse gases per kilogram than mealworms (面包虫), reported China Daily.
"We study insects which can be eaten to benefit our own health, animal health and environmental health," said Huang.
a. It is good for people's hearts and brains. b. It reduces the harmful insects.
c. It slows down population growth. d. It offers more food sources to society.
Twelve Dancing Princesses is a German fairy tale. It is included in the Children's and Household Tales (《格林童话》) by the Grimm brothers.
Tramper could feel the stony road through the holes in his boots. A newspaper blew by. Tramper picked it up and sat down to cover the holes in his boots with the paper.
A weak old lady stared at him.
"You think you have shoe troubles!" she said. "The King has twelve girls and all of them have holes in their slippers!"
The old lady's feet were bare (光脚的), cut and purple from the cold. Tramper felt sorry for her, so he gave her his shabby boots. To thank him, she gave Tramper her dirty cloak (斗篷). As she walked away down the road, she called, "Stay awake. Drink no drop. Taste no cup."
"A strange way to say goodbye," thought Tramper.
It rained. Tramper put on the cloak and tried to read what was left of the wet newspaper. As it fell apart in his hands he read：
"Why not?" thought Tramper. "I bet I could solve the mystery. I've got nothing to lose. I don't even have any boots." And when he looked down, his feet were gone too. His feet, legs and body had gone. He was invisible. "The cloak is magic!" he said.
The king's twelve daughters were a mystery. Each night they took off their silk slippers and went to bed. But each morning their silk slippers were full of holes, and the girls were tired out.
How could it happen? The girls' bedroom door was locked, so they could not get out.
How could it go on? (to be continued...)
While the COVID-19 has prevented people from traveling, there's a silver lining to that dark cloud: micro-tourism, or mini-vacations.
With the pandemic prevention and control measures making long trips less convenient, more and more Chinese people choose to take short trips instead.
But the pandemic meant that people had to adapt to a new travel style. Traveling along distance means people should take public transportation. To stay healthy, short-distance travel is the better choice.
Aftera long and tiring week at work, people like to invite three or four friends and drive to the suburbs on weekends. Other times, they just bring camping gear, a camera, some food and water, and walk around the mountains or parks. For example, in 2020, Shanghai launched a number of micro-tourism products for half-day and one-day tours, including exploring cultural heritage sites in the city, experiencing rural life and going hiking.
A. To adapt to the new trend, many cities also create more opportunities for tourists.
B. Sometimes people will have a hot spring gathering.
C. Before the pandemic, people preferred taking long trips abroad or going to see places of interest in other Chinese provinces.
D. But that would be likely to increase the chances of infection (感染).
E. Micro-tourism refers to short-distance travel in which people drive two or three hours to a nearby place and spend two or three days
