I'm Leo. There is an artist in my family. She is Lisa. Lisa likes drawing a lot. Here are her three drawings (图画).

    There is an animal in the first drawing. It has two big eyes, a big mouth and two small ears. It has long arms and long legs. It is black and white. There are some apples in its hands. It looks very happy. What is it? I don't know, but Lisa says it is a panda.

    There is a woman in the second drawing. She is thin. She has straight blonde hair, a small mouth, a big nose and two big eyes. She looks angry (生气的). Who is she? Lisa says she is our mom. But Mom has curly blonde hair, small eyes and a small nose.

    There is an animal in the third drawing, too. Its head is an apple. Its hair and tail (尾巴) are leaves (树叶). It has a long mouth, and it is a banana. Its four legs are carrots. What is it? Lisa says it i s a horse (马), but it doesn't look like a horse.

    Lisa is really a great artist, isn't she?

    Roger, a young man from China, has taught Chinese in a primary school in England for 3 years. A lot of children like his class and he enjoys teaching them very much. All the pupils are quite interested in what Roger teaches them. They learn quickly and do everything carefully.

    One day he said to the children, “People in a lot of Asian countries wear white clothes at funerals (葬礼), but people in America and in Europe wear white in the weddings because white means purity and happiness. What colour does an English woman wear when she gets married?”

    Mary said, “White, sir, because she is happy.” “That is good, Mary,” Roger said. “You are quite right. She wears white because she is happy.”

    But then one boy in the class put up his hand. “Yes, Dick?” Roger said, “Do you have a question?” “Yes,” Dick said. “Why do men wear black in our country when they get married, sir?”

Li Hua and Wang Tao are two students of Class 4, Grade 7. They both like sports. Li Hua is a basketball fan. His favorite sport is playing basketball. Yao Ming is his favorite basketball player. He wants to be a basketball player like Yao Ming when he grows up. Li Hua is on the school basketball team now. Every Friday afternoon, Li Hua plays basketball with his classmates after class.

Li Hua's friend Wang Tao isn't good at basketball, but he is very good at soccer. Ronaldo is his favorite soccer player. Wang Tao is on the soccer team. He plays soccer with his teammates (队友) every Tuesday afternoon.

Can you imagine what the human body in the future will be like? Our class had a discussion about it. Tiantian, an AI (artificial intelligence人工智能) robot, also joined us. Here are our guesses.

{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Humans are now ten centimeters (厘米) taller than 150 years ago. So, in the future, people will probably be even taller. Why? Because most of us today have much better food than those in the past.

You must say that people will be stronger according to the first guess. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} With the development of science and technology, we won't have much physical work to do. If people get used to this kind of lifestyle, we will probably lose most of our muscles (肌肉).

Next, let's come to our hands and feet. We are already using our feet less, and our hands more. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} At the same time, our fingers and our eyes will both get better because they'll have to do more work together.

Here comes the most interesting one—it's very possible that people will have four toes (脚趾), not five. The little toe really isn't needed anymore. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Let's wait and see.

Last but not least—people won't have as much hair on their bodies as now, since we don't need it to keep ourselves warm.

What do you think of our guesses? {#blank#}5{#/blank#} With the rise of AI, will we lose the ability of thinking independently?

A. But you're wrong.

B. Will all these things happen?

C. Let's start with people's height.

D. Will it still be there in the future?

E. So we can expect our legs will get shorter and our feet smaller.