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Bees live in a house that is called a hive. There are three kinds of bees: workers, drones (雄蜂) 1queens. Only one queen bee can live in each hive. If she is lost or dead, the other bees 2 their work.

Workers are very clever and busy. They all join together3 small rooms called cells of wax for their honey. Each worker bee does its own work. Some go out and collect honey from the flowers; 4 stay at home and work inside the hive. The cells5have six sides are made by worker bees. Did you ever look into a glass hive and see them while at work? It is 6to see how busy they always are. Before winter comes, all the drones are driven from the hive7 they don't eat the honey they did not collect.

It is not safe 8 children to be too close to bees. Bees have painful stings they use in their defense (防御).

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    Nowadays, WeChat is becoming more and more popular in China. No matter where we are, we can sign up and send text or voice messages to our friends. We can also find a stranger to talk to by shaking the 1^. Another funny function is that WeChat can help to search for people  2 live nearby with the programme on. Many people like this function, 3 it can help them to find more people who they may know.

    In my opinion, WeChat is really4 useful chatting tool. It can help people 5 with their friends more easily.6 , it is also bad for people, especially for students .As you see, some people use WeChat 7 too long. It is not healthy to them .So I have some 8 on how to use it in a correct way. First, we should not use it when we are studying. We can't focus on our study if we use it. Second, we must be careful. We should neither show too much personal information9 trust strangers so much.

    We should learn how to use it properly. Remember, WeChat is not everything in your life.10depend too much on it.

    When talking about inventors, who do you first think of? Forget Thomas Edison. Meet the teenage 1 at the 24th Jiangsu Adolescents Science &. Technology Innovation Contest(江苏青少年科技创新大赛).

    Wang Xingyu, from Kunshan No. 2 Middle School, invented "a 2 line" in the zebra crossing. Wang often saw people running through

the red 3 , so he thought of an idea,

    "I 4 a spray tube(喷管) in the zebra crossing. When the light is red and 5 crosses, it sprays water. If the light is 6, it will not work," said Wang.

    But does it 7 water? "There's a water channel(槽) on the ground, so the water will be collected and 8 again," he said. Zong Hangchen, from Nantong Special Education Middle School, also got his invention idea from daily experience.

    Zong's 9 could only feel a little light. When he walked on the sidewalk for the blind, he often came across obstacles(障碍物). Once he 10 hurt his nose.

    11 help himself and the blind, Zong made something that has radar(雷达) and a loudspeaker. Users tie radar onto their knees and 12 the loudspeaker around their necks. When they meet obstacles, the radar will see them and the loudspeaker will make a 13 to tell the users.

    Chen Huijuan, an official from Jiangsu Association for Science and Technology, was 14 at these inventions.

    15 some ideas are simple, the creations are very good," she said. "Get inspiration( 灵感) from small things in life and you can be an, inventor, too.