Earth is our home. It has air that we can breathe(呼吸). It has water for us to drink. It has plants and animals that we can eat. Earth is not too hot or too cold for us. It has everything we need to live.

    We are on earth, but we call see things that are not on earth. Early in the morning, we can see the sun comes up. All day, the sun seems to move across the sky. Later in the day, we can see the sun goes down. But the sun is not really moving around us. We are the ones who are moving. Every morning, we turn towards the sun. Every night, we turn away from it. Every year, we go around it. Earth is our spaceship. All of us in the spaceship are riding around the sun.

    At night, we can often see the moon and stars. From earth stars look like little points of light because they are so far away. But stars are really big. A star is a great mass of burning gas. It gives off light and heat. Our sun is a star.

    There are eight planets moving around our sun. Earth is the third planet around the sun. Some of the planets have moons. A moon goes around a planet just as a planet goes around a star. Earth has only one moon. Some planets have more.

    A rich woman began to learn painting（画画）. When she was sixty years old, she loved it very much. She painted and painted. ①十年之后，在她的工作室(workroom)里有许多画。And she thought they are very good.

    One day, the old woman is badly ill in bed, but she doesn't forget her pictures. She says to his grandson, Hand, “②I want to give my pictures to a school, then the students will remember me__But which school do you think is the best, my dear?”

    “Well,” says the little boy, “You'd better give ③them to the blind school!”

    Wang Yaping taught Chinese primary and middle school students on Earth physics problems in the zero-gravity environment(失重环境).She prepared for the lecture for a long time.

    Wang, born in January 1980, is from east China's Shandong Province. She was a pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force(空军)with experience of 1,600 hours of flying.

    The world's first teacher in space was Christa McAuliffe, a 37-year-old middle school teacher from the United States ,but the Space Shuttle Challenger（挑战者号）disintegrated(崩裂)after 73 seconds into flight on Jan.28,1986. McAuliffe and other six members were killed.

    “Wang's lecture was a pleasant surprise,” said Zhang Xiaguang, an astronaut in the three members of shenzhou 10 spacecraft.“________________(她无论做什么都很优秀).Sometimes we'd like to give her a helping hand ,but she just would not take the hand in help,”said Nie Haisheng.

    Like many young Chinese people, Wang likes photography, music and basketball. She said ,“We are all students in facing the universe(宇宙)。We are looking forward to joining our young friends to learn and explore the mystical(神秘的)and beautiful universe.”

    A forest fire that burned 55 square kilometers was finally brought under control on Wednesday morning. The fire started on Sunday in Black Bear State Park and quickly spread to nearby areas.

    On Monday, police evacuated (疏散) the small town of Lawson and asked the people to leave their homes. The fire destroyed 20 homes in the area and caused heavy damage (损坏) to 40 others.

    Nobody was hurt. Officials said the damage to homes and cars was between $l million and $2 million. The fire spread quickly in the hot, dry weather. Firefighting was difficult because of strong winds. Firemen from 55 fire departments in the state joined the National Fire Service to put out the fire. Some kept fighting for 24 hours. Fire engines (消防车) and helicopters (直升机) dropped water onto the fire. In order to control the fire, firemen cleared a way around the fire.

    Police closed King Road to traffic on Tuesday because of heavy smoke. Thousands of tourists had to drive an hour north to Queen Road to pass the fire area. Local police think open fires left by tourists might be the cause of the accident and ask tourists to follow the rules in case such accidents ever happen again.

    Look! Here comes a bus. It looks like a panda with black ears and big eyes. It can carry(载)22 people and is about 12 meters long. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} Smart Panda Bus uses AI technology(科技). It can do a lot of things. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} It can drive by itself. Don't worry! It's very safe. When you get on the bus, you can swipe (刷) your hand. The bus will read your handprint (手纹)and know who you are. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} You can talk to them and ask them for help. If there is a bad person on the bus, the bus will call the police.

    People in some cities, such as Changzhou in Jiangsu, Jinan in Shandong and Deyang in Sichuan, can take the bus. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} More cities in China plan to put the bus into use. I think soon you can take the bus in your city.

    On the bus, there' s a vending machine(自动售货机). {#blank#}5{#/blank#} This can save you a lot of time.