The scientists from the Lockheed Space Company (公司) work in Felton, California, with the help of a computer....

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The scientists from the Lockheed Space Company (公司) work in Felton, California, with the help of a computer. But the computer is placed in Sunnyside, about 80 kilometers away. What the scientists input is sent by telephone lines to the computer, and after a time, copies of the designs are needed back in Felton as possible. Lockheed people have tried several ways of sending the prints (印刷品), but the most effective seems to be by pigeon (鸽子). Are pigeons really used to carry messages in these days? They are, and they send the prints faster and cheaper than any other way.
Human (人类的) messengers (persons carrying messages) are much more expensive and slower than the pigeons. The road to Felton goes through the mountains, and the driving is not easy. An electronic printout system(电子印刷系统) could do the work in Felton, but at a cost of 10 dollars a print. Pigeons carry the designs for about 1 dollar each.
Now Lockheed people have ten pigeon messengers. The pigeons do the work, and they have made Lockheed more famous. You can often read the news about the pigeons in the newspapers around the world

（1）、The story is mainly about .

A、Felton, California B、the scientists C、how to work with computers D、sending prints by pigeon

（2）、This story is unusual because pigeons .

A、don't like carrying things B、are often cheap to keep C、seem out of place in the space age D、aren't friendly to the scientists

（3）、Something that's effective（有效的） .

A、usually costs more B、is something that works C、is often unhappy D、is often don by animals

（4）、Which happened first?

A、Pigeons were used as messengers. B、Human messengers were used. C、What the scientists input was sent to the computer. D、Scientists got their designs.

（5）、Lockheed likes the pigeons because they .

A、do the work at low cost B、get their pictures on television C、understand the computer D、make the scientists pleased

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In a hanfu show in Changsha, Hunan, 20 models in beautiful hanfu won many people's hearts. They looked like they walked out of old Chinese paintings. The 20 sets of hanfu are a recreation(再现)of clothing in Yongle Palace murals (壁画). Zhang Zening made these clothes.

Zhang Zening is from Nanjing. When she got to know about hanfu, she fell in love with it. She has great interest in hanfu. But Zhang found that some styles she liked were not available on the market. So she started to learn to design(设计) hanfu herself.

In 2015, Zhang started to teach herself how to recreate hanfu. Zhang visited cities, studied museum murals and looked for information online to learn more about hanfu. Eight years later, Zhang recreated over 50 sets of hanfu from different times. She got ideas from murals in places like Yongle Palace in Shanxi, Fahai Temple in Beijing, Dunhuang in Gansu, and from paintings by Tang Bohu.

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When Mary was just seven, her family moved to a new city. She went to school by school bus. One morning there was something wrong with the clock. When she got up, it was too late to take the school bus. Her mother said she could go to school in her car.

"But how can you find the way, Mum?" Mary asked, "You went to our school only once. " "Yes, " her mother answered, "but you take the school bus there every day and you know the way. " "Oh, yes, " said Mary.

They started out and the car went around most of the city before getting there. When they arrived, her mother found that the school was not really far from their house.

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	Hi, I'm Bill. This is my classroom. Can you see my cup? It's yellow. That is my pen. It's a brown pen. The pen is on my ruler.

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