Tom Jenkins enjoyed fishing and spent most of his time1the river. He enjoyed being in the fresh air and being on his own. The time always passed happily for him.
2, he was not a very good fisherman. He either fished in the wrong place, used the wrong bait（鱼饵）3 pulled in his line too quickly. Whatever the reason was, he never caught anything big enough 4.
However, he did not like to admit this to his wife. He thought she would 5 if she knew he was wasting his time. 6, on the way home from the river he always visited the local fish shop and bought7. Then he told his wife he had caught it and they had a good fish for their dinner.
One evening, after yet another day's 8 fishing, Tom stopped at the fish shop as usual on his way home. "I'll have three perches（鲈鱼）, please, " he said to the shopkeeper. "And throw them to me, as usual, so I can tell my wife I caught them. "
The shopkeeper laughed and said, "I suggest you take a nice salmon（鲑鱼）9 . "
"Oh why?"
"Your wife came in an hour ago and said, 'When Tom comes in, 10he 'catches' a salmon. '"
These days many people enjoy playing video games so much that they can't put them down. But it isn't a healthy habit. The World Health Organization（WHO）considered "gaming disorder（障碍）" as a mental（精神的）disorder.
"Gaming disorder" means the lasting or repeating video-gaming behavior, whether online or offline. It has three main characteristics（特征）. The first sign is when the player loses control over his or her gaming habits. The second is when playing games becomes more important than other activities for the player. The third is when the condition leads to serious problems in the player's personal and family life,
Some countries are already working to solve this problem. South Korea made a law preventing children under 16 from playing online games between midnight and 6 a. m. And children under 12 have to be watched by their parents while using the Internet.
| The red beans grow in southern land； How many loads（枝条）in spring the trees? Collect them till full is your hand； They would recall sweet memories. （ Translated by Xu Yuanchong and simplified by the editor） |
Love is a popular theme in Chinese poems. What symbols do you think best stand for love? The heart, rose or chocolate? This time we are going to look at a classic Chinese poem, Love Seeds. It was written by Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei who had a different understanding of the symbol of love.
In the first two lines, the poet expresses his feelings of missing his friend, who lives in southern China, by describing the growth of red beans in spring. In classic Chinese poems, poets prefer to express feelings in an indirect or symbolic way. When describing the natural environment or showing some symbols, Chinese poets always mean more than what's described on the surface.
In Chinese culture, red beans are seen as "love seeds", which have a strong cultural meaning. Because they are often hard, come in a heart shape, and can be stored for a long time, those beans have long been used as a symbol of love and loyalty（忠诚）between lovers.
In the last two lines, the poet wishes his faraway friend to collect as many red beans as possible, as the beans will bring back his friend's memories to the poet.
Instead of showing love to others by directly saying "I miss you" or using flowery language, this short poem can make readers feel deep love.
Lisa, a 14-year-old girl, from the USA, used an app to make her dream come true. She tried it out on a childhood photo of her mother. Guess what? In the old photo, her mother, a little girl at that time, began to smile at her. It sounds like Harry Potter's moving photos, doesn't it?
It's not magic, but a real thing. The app that Lisa used is called My Heritage. By using an AI（人工智能）technology, the app allows users to animate（使……成为动画） still photos. The technology is the work of D-ID, an Israeli（以色列的）company. At the beginning, they designed it to bring photos of people in history to life. This means you can see them blink（眨眼）, and even turn their heads. Now Americans find it fun and many are giving it a try with their old photos. Millions of users have watched their loved ones come to life in old photos.
The service is easy to use. First download（下载）the app. Next, click（点击）on the menu and choose "photo" from the list. Then upload（上传）the photo you wish to animate. The AI technology will take around 20 seconds to work its magic on the photo. Then it's done!
Cassandra Naud was born with a brown birthmark（胎记）under her right eye. It covers a large part of her face. Her parents were given a chance to remove the birthmark right after her birth. But they were worried that it might be dangerous for her, so they refused it.
Cassandra experienced a hard childhood in primary school. Her schoolmates often laughed at her. She was heartbroken with what they said and had to cry in corners. She was even afraid of how she would be treated when she went to high school.
At the age of 13 she took an important decision to have her birthmark removed. Her parents were surprised at that but they respected her decision. They immediately invited a great doctor to operate on her. But the doctor said that she might face the risk of being left with a lazy eye（弱视）. So she finally decided to keep her birthmark.
Cassandra dreamed of being an excellent dancer. She realised that the birthmark would make her more memorable and popular among the dancers. From then on, she began to love her birthmark, instead of trying to hide it, and she also learnt to face the world with bright smiles.
Do you believe plants can talk with each other? Modern research has found something amazing.
When a plant gets attacked by insects, the plant gives out chemicals from the leaves that are being eaten. When another plant gets the chemicals, it starts to give out its own different chemicals. Some of these chemicals drive insects away. Others attract the wasps（黄蜂）! The wasps kill the insects that are eating the plants.
People can't hear these sounds; but plants are making them. Some plants make noises with their roots. Some trees make clicking noises when there is not enough water.
Most surprisingly of all, plants have an amazing system of communication that can link nearly every plant in a forest. The wood wide web is linked underground by fungi（真菌）. It links the roots of different plants to each other. It is in some ways similar to the Internet we use. Using the wood wide web, plants can share information and even food with each other.
All in all, the discovery is a great thing.
A. Almost everyone likes plants.
B. Plants do communicate with each other.
C. Scientists call this system the "wood wide web".
D. Plants use chemicals to communicate with each other.
E. More surprisingly, plants also use sounds to communicate.
F. It's dangerous for us to know that plants can communicate with each other.
G. Maybe the more we learn about it, the better we can use it to grow our crops.
