Having Fun "Growing" and "Stealing"？
Recently, an Internet game has become a new fashion among young office workers and students．People can "farm" on a piece of "land" and "grow", "sell" or even "steal" "vegetables", "flowers" and "fruits" on the Net. They can earn some e-money and buy more "seeds", "pets" and even"houses".
Joyce interviewed some young people. Here are their opinions．
Harold：I don't quite understand why they are so mad about the childish game; maybe they are just not confident enough to face the real world.
Allan：I enjoy putting some "bugs" in my friends' gardens and we've become closer because of the game．Having fun together is the most exciting thing about it．
Laura：You know, people in the city are longing for(渴望) the life in the countryside．It reduces my work pressure(压力)；besides, it gives me the exciting experience of being a "thief"．
Ivy：  Well. it's just a waste of time．Teenagers playing the game spend so many hours on it that they can not focus on (专注于)their study.

     Shenzhen's fast development has made it become China's most crowded city!  Here are about 15 million people living on its 1,991 square kilometers. On each square kilometer averagely(平均地) live 7, 500 people. It is 1, 080 more than that in Hong Kong, and nearly 800 more than that in Guangzhou.

    Besides, Shenzhen owns 2 million local vehicles, and about 300, 000 vehicles from other places also run on the local roads every day. The total length of the city's roads is 6, 041 kilometers. It means each resident only owns 0. 58 meters of road!

    As a result, the city is facing serious environment and resource(能源) problem. One of the problems is water shortage. The amount of fresh water for each person of the city is only 25％ of the country's average. What's more, most of the water drunk by Shenzhen people comes from other areas.

    The government in China plans to end its one-child policy and let families have two children instead.

    The plan was announced on Thursday after high –level political meetings in Beijing. A Chinese Communist Party statement gave a number of reasons for the change in policy. The statement said the change is meant to balance population development, stop a falling birth rate(出生率) and strengthen the country's labor force(劳动力).

    China, with the largest population in the world, started the one –child policy in 1980. But the government allowed only a small number of couples to have two children. For example, some families in the countryside could have two children, if the first-born child is a girl.

    In 2013, the Chinese government gave other couples a chance to have two children if one of them was an only child.

    Jiang Quanbao, a teacher and population expert, explained how Chinese families react to the newest policy. “Too many young people in the cities are no longer interested in having a second child,” he said. “People in the countryside are more interested. But some of them are already allowed to have two children. ”

    At the end of 2014, China had a population of 1.37 billion people. A total of 800 million of them have jobs. But the labor market population will drop in 35 years. That is to say, the country will be in great need of labor by the year 2050. With the two-child policy, an increase in births can solve this problem.

    Boys and girls, what do you think of the two-child policy? Do you want to have a new-born brother or a sister?

    There are many different kinds of music in the world . Let's read some kinds of them .

Classical Music

    Classical music is a form（形式）of music needing high musical skills . If you wish to learn this kind of music , you have to go through proper training .

Metal Music

    Metal music came out after the Second World War . The melody（旋律）of the song is heavily influenced（影响）by the structure（结构）for it . It is also known as “ information music ”. While in metal music , songwriting is based on（以……为基础）a form .

Hip-hop Music

    This music always includes the use of instruments such as the guitar , violin , piano , bass , drums and so on . In this type of music , the bass is the main instrument . It was first played by a group of travelling singers and poets（诗人）of West Africa .

Opera Music

    It first appeared in Italy in the 1600s . It has a great mixture（混合物）of theatrical art and musical invention and is used to playing in the theaters .

Jazz Music

    This type of music has strong and complex（复杂的）melodies . The main musical instruments are comet , trumpet or violin , that help carry the melody .

    Besides these , there are many others such as the blues , new age music , Celtic music , religious music and chamber music .

    Some British and American people like to invite friends and colleagues(同事）for a meal at home. You should not be upset if your English friends don't invite you home. It doesn't mean they don't like you.

    Dinner parties usually start between 7 and 8 pm, and end at about 11.Ask your hosts what time you should arrive. It's polite to bring flowers, chocolates or a bottle of wine as a present.

    Do you want to be extra(特别的）polite? Say how much you like the room, or the pictures on the wall. But remember--not to ask how much things cost.

    You'll probably start the meal with soup, or something small as a “starter”(开胃菜),then you'll have meat or fish with vegetables, and then a dessert, followed by coffee. It's polite to finish everything on your plate and to take more if you want it. Some people eat bread with their meal, but not everyone does.

    Before they take out their cigarettes after the meal, most people usually ask, “Do you mind if I smoke here?” Did you enjoy the evening? Call your hosts the next day, or write them a short “thank you” letter. Perhaps it seems funny to you, but British and American people say” thank you ,thank you, and thank you” all the time.

    Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is also known as DuanwuFestival. It is one of the three most important lunar(阴历的)festivals in China, along with Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

    The date of the festival is said to be the date when Qu Yuan died--the fifth day of the fifthlunar month, so the datevaries from year to year, such as it is June 20 in 2015, June 9 in 2016, May 30 in 2017, June 18 in 2018, June 7in 2019, June 25 in 2020 and June 14 in 2021.

    Although the date is different, the custom is the same. With a history of over 2000 years, people celebrate it with all kinds of activities on the day. They hold dragon boat racing, eat zongzi, drink realgar wine(雄黄酒), wear sachets(香囊)and so on. But dragon boat racing is the most popular activity during the Dragon Boat Festival.