The kangaroo is the world's largest living marsupial (有袋动物). It was first found on the island of southwestern Australia. The animal was given its name by a famous English tourist in the 18th century.

    The kangaroo may be 7 feet(2.1m) tall when standing upright and the male can weigh as heavy as 200 pounds(90kg). The female (雌性) is smaller and lighter than the male. The kangaroo's head is small, but its ears are large, and its fore feet are really small. The animal has strong back legs and long tail.

    The kangaroo usually covers from 5 to 10 feet(1.5 to 3m) with each jump. The female is usually faster than the male. The mother kangaroo has a pouch (育儿袋) in its abdomen (腹部). The baby kangaroo grows up in the mother's pouch slowly.

    The kangaroo lives on grass and other plants. It is always moving from one place to another, lying down to sleep on the ground during the night. It likes to enjoy the warm sunshine. When it's in danger, it can use its back legs and strong tail to protect itself.

    Answer the following questions with No more than 6 words.

    Rubbish is a major kind of environmental pollution. Each person produces about 2kg of rubbish a day. We are making waste products faster than nature can break them down. And we are using up resources(资源)faster than they can he replaced(取代).

    This adds up to trouble for the environment. Where does all that rubbish go? What can be done to help dispose of(处理)rubbish? How can we make less rubbish?

    Rubbish isn't just the smelly rotting fruits, vegetables or meat that we throw away(抛弃) in our homes Those are only a small part of all tile stuff we throw away. We create other kinds of waste, in construction, mining and in our factories.

    Did you ever wonder what happens to your rubbish? Most is burned(燃烧)or buried in landfills(垃圾填埋场). Less than a quarter of our waste is recycled(回收).

    With a population of 1.3 billion(十亿), rubbish is a big problem for China. Chinese city create around 148 million tons of rubbish every year. The amount is growing at around 10 percent each year.

    Once we used about 3 billion plastic shopping bags everyday in China. The result was a great waste of resources and serious pollution. So we did something about that. Now we use more cloth bags and shopping baskets when we shop.

    In the coming years China will build waste-to-energy plants in cities to clean up the rubbish. But there's a lot more that needs to be done. And you can play a role.

    A new camera made by a company named Netatmo has facial recognition software(面部识别软件). It can tell parents at work that their children have returned from school, or that a package has been taken to their home. It can also tell them if a stranger has entered their home.

    Janina Mattausch is the product marketing manager for Netatmo.

    "The common security(安全)camera at present are not that smart. They can tell if something is moving but they don't necessarily know if it's a human being or, ah, if it's your kids. They don't know the difference, so they will warn you all the time."

    When family members enter a home, the new camera "recognizes(识别)" them and sends information to the owner's smartphone. The owner can choose to see the video then or later. But if an unknown person enters a home, the camera will send the warning that will cause an alarm to sound on the owner's smartphone.

    That is what happened recently to an owner of the smart camera named Damien, He lives in Paris.

    "On a Friday I was at work, attending(出席) a big monthly meeting when my phone warned. At first I told myself, 'Oh, it must be a mistake, maybe I have to set the system again.' But the notice on my phone was telling me that there was a movement in my flat and also a face that the software did not recognize."

    He watched the video and was very surprised by what he saw. "I was watching it live on video. So I felt totally unbelievable and frozen. I asked a workmate to take me back home as fast as possible and I called the police on the way."

    With the help of the video, the police found the intruder(闯A者) later that day.

Kids' Health

The flu(流行性感冒) is a common illness. Children easily catch the flu in winter months. It can pass from one person to another very quickly. Sometimes, the flu is just like a common cold. In fact, it can cause serious illnesses. But don't worry. Most people can be all right without any problems.

Symptoms(症状):

◇a fever ◇a cough ◇a headache

◇a sore throat ◇feeling tired

What to do if your child gets the flu:

Make him or her have a rest.

Ask him or her to drink more hot water.

Take his or her temperature often.

Don't give medicine to children under 6years old. Go to the doctor first.

When the following happen to your child:

His or her illness gets worse.

He or she has a severe cough or a bad headache.

He or she has trouble breathing(呼吸).

He or she has a fever and is 3 months old or younger.

You must take your child to the hospital right away.

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Are you an"I"person or an"E"person？People have talked about it a lot online these days. The ideas come from a popular personality（性格） test called MBTI. They test the personality in eight ways. Each way uses a letter to show the meaning. After the test each person will get a four﹣letter result to show the personality. In all, there are sixteen kinds of personality in the test. 

Why do people want to take the MBTI test？Here are the survey results from three people by Life Week magazine. 

"People want to learn about themselves and others, "Guo Yongyu, an expert said. "When they know themselves and others better

Gao Yanyi, a middle school student from Shanxi, thinks that the MBTI test can help her find friends with similar MBTI results. She adds

Ma Ruina, from Beijing No. 4 Middle school, took the test once. He doesn't want to use it in his life again. It made him feel like it's limiting（限制）, "everyone is different, and it's not right to put people into simple groups. "He says. 

The MBTI personality test may show something you don't know about yourself and can even be a fun ice﹣breaking question when meeting new friends. But that's all it is —for fun. Knowing other's MBTI result doesn't mean you really know this person. And those four letters of yours don't decide who you are.