A kind of little cars may take the place of today's big ones many years later. If everyone drives such cars in the future, there will be less pollution in the air. There will also be more space for parking in cities, and the streets will be less crowded.
      The little cars of the future will cost less. Driving will be safer, too, since these little cars can go only 65 kilometers an hour. The cars of the future will be fine for going around a city, but they will not be useful for a long way. Little cars will go 450 kilometers before they need to stop for more gasoline (汽油). If big cars are still used with the small ones, two kinds of roads will be needed in the future. Some roads will be needed for the big, faster cars and other roads will be needed for the small, slower ones.

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    This year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine is from Japan. According to his research, cells (细胞) sometimes "eat" themselves to keep healthy. In other words, cells can break down old ones and use the useful parts to make new cells, or to fight off viruses (病毒). This new finding could help scientists fight many diseases.

Small machines

    Three scientists from France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands (荷兰) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on small machines. How small? Well, they are a thousand times thinner than a strand (缕) of hair. We can't see them with only our eyes! This technology will open a whole new world for us. For example, we could make very small robots in the future. A doctor could put them into our body. Like policemen, the robots look for the ill parts in our body, and send the medicine right there.

Super-state

As teachers said in your physics class, most things in the world are in three states: solids (固体), liquids (液体) and gases . But at very low or high temperatures, things can turn into a strange state. For example, break down things to their smallest pieces and we get "atoms" (原子). Like Lego building blocks, atoms usually add up to become a 3-D thing, like a box. But atoms in the strange state don't. They stay together and become a flat thing, like a piece of paper.

    This is a new finding of three British-born scientists. And they won the Nobel Prize in Physics this year. They hope to use things in this strange state to make new materials.

About the Prize

    The Nobel Prize was started by Swedish inventor, Alfred Nobel in 1895. It gives prizes to great science research and the people behind it. Every year in October, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decides who wins. It includes six prizes: chemistry, physics, physiology (生理学) or medicine, peace, literature (文学) and economic. This year each winner gets a medal and prize money of more than 6 million yuan.

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    Over 80G of the ancient forests have already been destroyed. Thousand-year-old trees are cut down just to make everyday goods. More and more wild animals are in danger now. Wild animals are our friends, and we cannot live without them. If we take no action, more and more wild animals will disappear in the future. It is time for us to save and protect endangered animals. Then what can we do? Here are some steps.

    Step one: Find out what animals are living near your place. Spend some time learning about the animals.

    Step two: Help to build more nature reserves and other wilderness areas. Protecting the living areas of wild animals is one of the best ways to help protect endangered animals. You can raise money for them or spend some time helping build nature reserves.

    Step three: Buy foods and goods that are made from materials which do not harm endangered animals or their living areas.

    Step tour: Join a local Wild Animals Club. You can take action to protect wild animals. There are many global groups that try to call on people to protect the environment by changing people's ideas and behaviours. Children, teenagers, teachers and schools from all over the world can help to save the animals. Everyone can do a little to help them, and every little bit of help is important!

My dream job is to become a professional (职业的) baseball player. I'm in the school baseball team now, but I'm not one of1 players in the team. However, playing baseball is something l like to do. Every day, I play baseball2 my teammates after school. I also join a baseball club. In3 club, I can learn a lot about baseball.

These days many people want to be a baseball player. Some want to be a baseball player because of money, but some want to do that because they really love baseball. Alex Rodriguez is4 great baseball player that many people around the world like5 .

For me, I would like to be a baseball player like Alex Rodriguez, not because of money, but because I really enjoy every minute while I6 the sport.

I feel I'm the luckiest person because I'm working hard for my dream. It is a dream that7 people will try their best to realize. Yes, baseball players8 make a lot of money, but money isn't what I want. 9 I have the chance to be a professional baseball player, I will be very glad. I will practise harder10 my dream come true.

Asha looked out of the window on the plane. What a1 ! The buildings were so tall. The city was large, much larger than her small town. 

Asha was on vacation in New York City. She was very2 as she had always wanted to come since she was young. She read stories about it and studied its3 . She knew how the island of Manhattan was bought from native Americans 300 years ago. She4 knew people from all over the world came to live here. These people, like Asha,5 a new life in New York.But Asha was only staying for fourteen6 . She thought of these two weeks as a time to7 herself to move back to New York. She would return to her small8 , stay for one year, and then come to live in New York forever. So she had to plan this vacation9 .

In New York Asha wanted to do10 things. First, she wanted to look for a job. Next, she would find a place to live. She knew it was expensive to live in New York and that finding a good place to live was11 . And the third thing she wanted to do was to12 her English. She had studied English for 12 years but didn't know13 she could understand "real" English.

Before leaving, her friends told her that New York was a14 place.But Asha wasn't worried. She had studied New York carefully. She believed she would be safe.

15 Asha saw the Statue of Liberty! The plane flew around it, and then began to slow down. Soon Asha was on the ground, getting ready to leave the plane to meet her future.

 In the Chinese-speaking world, there are some things that everyone knows about and has in common. A good example of this is Jin Yong and his great works.

 Jin Yong is the pen name of Cha Leung-yung. He was one of the most important and famous martial arts novelists(武侠小说家) in China. He passed away at 94 years old in Hong Kong. During his lifetime, Jin Yong wrote 15 martial arts novels. So far, more than 300 million copies of his books have been sold all over the world. It's just as the well-known saying goes,"Wherever there are Chinese, you will find Jin Yong's novels easily". His books have a great influence on Chinese, especially teenagers.

 With his books, Jin Yong created an imaginary world called Jianghu. In Jianghu, fighting heroes practice martial arts hard, protect the weak bravely and build up good examples for the young. But Jin Yong also used some stories from history and traditional Chinese culture to make this amazing world. His stoểes took place in different dynasties. He used Chinese poems and legends in his books as well. This makes his books rich, colorful and attractive,

 Jin Yong touched people's hearts through more than just his books. All of his novels have been made into movies, TV shows or video games. Most of them have been big hits. Lots of actors and actresses became famous because of his works.