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    Language students often think they have memory problems. They worry because they can't remember words. In fact, the problem usually isn't with their memory. The problem is with how they study.

    To remember words better, you need to understand how memory works. There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term. When you see, hear, or read something, it goes first into short-term memory. But short-term memory lasts for only a few seconds. You will only remember something longer if it goes into long-term memory. Your long-term memory is like a very big library with many, many books. And like a library, it's organized (有条理的). When you put away a book – or memory – you can't just leave it anywhere. You have to choose a place where you can find it again.

    How can you do this with vocabulary? The answer is to work with the word and think about the word in new ways. You can do this by writing new sentences that include it. Even better, you can invent a little story about the word, with people or places that you know. Another way is to make a picture in your mind with the word. For example, if the word is height, you can think of the tallest person you know and try to guess his or her height. All of these activities are good ways to think about words. They make the meaning of words stronger in your long-term memory. And they give a way to find a word when you need it.

    Animals are natural resources that people have wasted all through our history. Animals have been killed for their fur and feathers, for food, for sports, and simply because they were in the way. Thousands of kinds of animals have disappeared from the Earth forever. Hundreds of animals are on the danger list today. About 170 kinds in the United States alone are considered in danger. Why should people care? Because we need animals, and because once they are gone, there will never be any more. Animals are more than just beautiful or interesting. They are more than just a source of food. Every animal has its place in the balance of nature. Destroying one kind of animal can create many problems. For example, when farmers killed large numbers of hawks, the farmers' stores of corn and grain were destroyed by rats and mice. Why? Because hawks eat rats and mice, with no hawks to keep down their numbers, the rats and mice multiplied quickly.

    Luckily, some people are working to help save the animals. Some groups raise money to let people know about the problem. And they try to get the governments to pass laws protecting animals in danger. Quite a few countries have passed laws. These laws forbid the killing of any animal or plant on the danger list. Slowly, the number of some animals in danger is growing.

    We live on Earth. It's our home. But how much do you know about it? Let me tell you something about our Earth.

    The Earth is like a huge ball. Like the other seven planets, the Earth is running around the sun. It's the third nearest one to the sun. It takes the Earth about 365 days to run around the sun. At the same time, the Earth is going around itself. If you are in space, you can see lots of white clouds over the surface of the Earth. Through the clouds, you can see the blue colour of the oceans, and the brown colour of the land. About 70% of the Earth is covered(覆盖)with water.

    Why do we have day and night? When the half of the Earth is facing the sun, it's daytime. As the Earth turns, and this half is away from the sun, night is coming. And it's daytime(白天) for the other half.

Put Your Own National Culture on

Wang Tata, a post-1990s office clerk from Shanghai prefers to wear hanfu. She told China Daily that each suit has its own historic background and learning about the traditional clothing gives her a better understanding of our traditional culture. Qing zhi, a law student from Beijing, is used to wearing hanfu. "It gives me endless inspiration every day. I can discover a new self every single day," Qing zhi told CGTN.

Documentary About Dunhuang Online

The Master of Dunhuang, a documentary, is set to debut on Tencent Video. It follows the staffers who have spent years popularizing Dunhuang's centuries-old heritage. The first episode features Li Bo, a restoration expert. He teams up with his students. The second one is about Zhang Xiaoyang, who works at Mogao Cave 254. She is facing a hard choice—to continue the research with an uncertain chance of becoming successful or accept a new offer from a college.

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Dian cha is a tea art from the Song Dynasty. In 2019, it was listed as an intangible(非物质) cultural heritage of Jiangsu Province. The Shanghai designer Han Zheming has been fascinated by dian cha since childhood. "My mother loves traditional culture and I have been learning toward it under her influence," said Han. To spread dian cha culture, Han put the process on social media platforms, including Xiaohongshu, Bilibili and Douyin, attracting more than 20,000 followers.

假设你是李明，你的学校正在策划一次郊游活动，向学生征集活动方案。请你以A Wonderful Trip in the City Zoo为题，写一篇短文，介绍你推荐的地点the City Zoo。

内容包括：1. 动物园与学校的距离，采用何种交通工具，所需要的时间；2. 动物园里的一位动物明星（来自哪里，外表和特点）；3. 游客须遵守的规则（如禁止喂食；禁止喧哗等）。

作文要求：1. 不得出现真实姓名和校名；2. 词数80词左右（已给出的开头不计入总词数）3. 卷面工整，逻辑清晰。

A Wonderful Trip in the City Zoo

The school trip is coming. I think the City Zoo is a good place to have fun. 

Thomas, a businessman, arrives at a foreign airport. He doesn't 1 his passport. Instead,a machine in the wall 2 the computer chip(芯片) in his arm. It has the 3 about him: his name, age, and ID number. He exits the airport, and a car 4 opens when it"sees" him. The car takes him to the 5 . His room"knows" he has entered the hotel and"reads" his body. He is cold, so the room becomes 6 . When he goes to bed, the room plays music to help him sleep. It 7 the music when it"sees" him asleep.

8 , this machine doesn't exist. But it might be 9 soon. In five to ten years, computing and communications are going to be free and everywhere, in your walls, in your car, on your body. Scientists has this big idea: to create better relationship between machines and people. The dream is that computers will 10 learn to understand what people want.