Today there are policemen everywhere, but in 1700, London had no policemen at all. A few old men used to protect the city streets at night and they were not paid.

    About 300 years ago, London was starting to get bigger and more and more people began to live there. The city was very dirty and many people were poor. There were so many thieves who stole money in the streets that people stayed in their houses as much as possible.

    In 1749, Henry Fielding started to pay a group of people for stopping thieves. They were like policemen and were called "Bow Street Runners" because they worked near Bow Street.

    Fifty years later, there were about 120"Bow Street Runners", but London had become very big and needed more policemen. So in 1829, the first Metropolitan (or London) Police Service was started with about 3, 000 officers. Most of the men worked on foot, but a few rode horses.

Today, London police are quite well—paid and for the few police officers who still ride horses, the pay is even higher than for the others.

Useful Technologies

Recently, a primary school in Jiangsu, brought out a new policy(政策) about homework. Students should stop doing homework at 9 pm, even if they haven't finished all of it. They don't need to make it up the next day. This is to make sure that students have enough sleep time. Do you think it's a good idea?

You can see many different kinds of food with different colors in life. Doctors and your parents always ask you to eat lots of green vegetables, because they are healthy for you. It's also good for you to have food of other colors. For example, you can have red food like tomatoes, yellow food like bananas and orange food like carrots. 

But what about blue food? 

A food company (公司) did a test. It put the color blue to its candies. Children like the color blue a lot, so would they like the blue candies? The test found that children didn't like them at all. They still liked red, green, brown, yellow and orange candies. 

How many blue fruits, or vegetables do you know? You can see little blue food in your life. People may think blue is not a food color and it's not safe or healthy to eat the food that is blue. This is why people don't often use blue for drinks, cakes and other food. 

Hi! My name is Grace.  I'm a student in Sunshine Middle School.  My school is beautiful.  There are 2,000 students and teachers in my school. 

I'm in Class Five Grade Seven.  My classroom is on the second floor of the classroom building.  There are forty desks and forty chairs in our classroom.  You can also see a big desk.  The big desk is for our teachers. 

There is a small office next to my classroom.  There are three desks and three chairs.  They are for Mr.  Wang, Mr.  Zhang and Mr.  Li.  Mr.  Wang is our Chinese teacher.  Mr.  Zhang is our English teacher and Mr.  Li is our math teacher. 

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