The Hunger Games is a book by an American author Suzanne Collins. It came out in 2008 and has sold millions of copies. You can buy it in 26 different languages.

    The story happens in the future, after the destruction（毁灭）of North America. There are twelve poor districts governed（统治）by the rich Capitol.

    The Capitol organizes the Hunger Games every year. One boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 in each of the twelve districts are chosen to fight. Only one person will live. The whole country must watch the games on television.

    The story is about Katniss Everdeen, a sixteen-year-old girl. Her younger sister, Prim, is chosen, but Katniss volunteers to go instead. She has to fight with a boy named Peeta.

    Where did the idea for The Hunger Games come from? One night in 2003, Suzanne Collins was watching TV. At that time, there was a war between the US and lraq. The only programs she could find on TV were "reality" programs and news about the war. Suzanne says that the two things started to mix together in her head and she had the idea for The Hunger Games.

    Some parents in the US have complained about the violence（暴力）in the book. But Suzanne says she is very worried about how much violence we see on TV nowadays. Suzanne is also worried about the amount of reality TV we watch." We put too much of our lives on TV, "she says." And we care less for people because of this." She says that writing about death and violence in the story was the hardest thing for her to do and she hopes it will make people think about what they watch in the future.

    The famous fat and lazy cat Garfield is coming to China. Garfield, the movie opens in cinemas around the country on Friday.

    In this American movie, Garfield acts with real actors. He makes trouble and dances like a star. He will make you laugh with his clever and funny words.

    Drawn by American cartoonist Jim Davis since 1978, Garfield has fans all over the world. He likes eating, sleeping and watching TV. He hates doing exercise! "I'm lazy and fat. But I'm proud of it," he says.

    Garfield always sits in front of the TV eating lasagna(烤宽面条), his favourite dish. Sometimes, he's rude to his owner Jon Arbuckle.

    One day, Jon brings Odie, a homeless dog, into his home. Odie is cute. He gets all Jon Arbuckle's love. This turns Garfield's world upside down. Garfield wants the dog out of the house, and his life.

    One night, he kicks Odie out of the house. But later Garfield finds that Odie has been kidnapped(绑架)by a TV star! The man wants to use the dog in his shows.

    Garfield feels sorry for Odie. He sees he has done something wrong. He wants to make up for(弥补)it. So Garfield gets off his favourite chair to try to save his friend.

Have you ever heard of the term "children of the stars"? It's a special name for children with autism (自闭症). April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day. It was started by the United Nations to help people know more about autism and offer better care and support to those who have it.

Autism affects how a person grows and learns. It usually starts to show in the first three years of life. The official name for this condition is "autism spectrum disorder (自闭症谱系障碍)."

Doctors use a handbook called DSM-5 to diagnose (诊断) autism. It talks about two main autism signs: problems with talking and being with others and doing the same things over and over again.

"When I talk to my daughter or ask her to do something, she won't pay attention to me," said MengLingdi. Her daughter was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2. "She doesn't make as much eye contact with people as other kids do."

Children with autism also feel physical pain. "Many of them have epilepsy (癫痫) because their brain activity is different from that of other kids," said Sun Zhongkai at Beijing Stars and RainEducation Institute for Autism (Stars and Rain).

We don't know exactly what causes autism. But scientists think it might be a mix of things like how we grow, our genes (基因), and our environment. If a family has a child with autism, the chance of their other children having autism is about 10 times higher than usual.

Saving the Earth shouldn't be so difficult if we can do the following things. 

First，we should take our time. There is no need to hurry like doing 100 things a day to save the Earth. Let's start from easy things. For example，we can walk or ride a bike to work. 

Second，we should open the windows more often. Don't turn on the air﹣ conditioner all day. In this way，we can have the fresh air and save the energy. 

Third，we should enjoy cooking at home and having meals at our dinner table. So we can use our own bowls and chopsticks，not the plastic ones. 

Fourth，we should spend our weekends and holidays in the park playing games or just riding a bike around. 

Fifth，we should learn how to make good use of old things in the house，in the garden

Lastly，no one really has a mountain or a sea. Don't throw rubbish here and there. 

All in all，saving the Earth could be easy. Let's take actions to protect the Earth. 

Domestic drama film Better Days (《少年的你》) led the Chinese mainland box office nowadays. It tells the story of two high school students whose fates were changed by an accident. Seventeen-year-old Nian meets Bei, a tough street kid. Nian is the subject of cruel bullying (欺凌) at high school. The film is heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. The movie is set before College Entrance Examination. It offers thoughts of competition between teenagers and national issues of school bullying. 

Bullying is a sad reality that has affected many kids. What is worse about it is that bullying can lead to more result s such as lowered self-respect, poor performance and self-harm among kids. Here are a few anti-bullying dos and don'ts for you. 

·Walk away from a bully and tell an adult. It's OK to be scared and ask for help. 

·Don't look down when a bully says something. Stand tall and look into the bully's eyes. 

·Take a moment to calm down before responding to a bully. It is tough to think straight, and recall the reply you've practised with your parents, if you're scared. 

·Speak clearly without making the bully angry, say, "I want you to stop laughing at me"

·Use your best poker face (扑克脸). The less scared or affected you look, the less the bully will do. 

·Get between a bully and his/ her target. Go and stand beside a child who is being bullied. Turn him/ her away from the bully, and walk with him/ her towards an adult. 

·Avoid being alone with a bully. Bullying usually happens where adults are not present, so you should avoid empty hall ways, bathrooms or areas of the playground with bad sight lines to an adult. Try to sit near the front of the bus, and be near the cafeteria manager at lunch time. 

Hello! My name is Gao Shan. My 1 name is Gao. My English 2 is Joan. I'm 14, 3 I'm in Nanjing, China now. My phone 4 is 246-8901.

I have a happy family. My mom is Sally and my 5 is Paul. They are 40 years old. They' re 6 in a middle school. They teach English. I have one brother and one sister. 7 are John and Anna. John is 18 and Anna 8 16. They' re 9 but I'm not. 10 things are everywhere--on the bed, on the sofa and under the chair. I always ask my mom to 11 me look for things.

 Mary is my good 12 . She is in Beijing with her grandparents. Mary is in her room now. She is 13 tidy girl and her things are always in the right places. She likes 14 and there are many books in her bookcase. Her maths is good. She always helps me work out difficult 15 .