We always think classical (古典的) music fans are quiet and shy, and lovers of rap (说唱音乐) are outgoing.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}According to a study in Edinburgh, it is.

    Professor North, who did the study, says that people often show their personalities through the kind of music they listen to. More than 36,000 people from around the world joined-the study.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Here are some of the results:

Western and country music fans are hard-working and not shy.

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Classical music fans are quiet.

Rap fans are outgoing.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#} People think heavy metal fans are very sad and unhappy. But like classical music fans, they are in fact easy-going and creative, and not very outgoing.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Heavy metal fans in Sweden have more in common with heavy metal fans in Brazil than with Swedish fans of pop.

    Marco Polo was from Venice, Italy. In 1271, at the age of 17, Marco went on a trip with his father and uncle to China. Today people often travel to different places around the world. But it was very hard for people from Europe to visit China then. After three and a half years, the Polos reached China in 1275.

    While he was there, Marco Polo worked for Kublai Khan, the emperor of China. He was able to learn and experience many things that were new to Europeans. In his diary, he wrote, "Kublai Khan's palace is the greatest I've ever seen. The streets of the new capital, Dadu, are so straight and so wide." Paper money also took him by surprise, since it was not yet in use in the West at that time. Homes were heated with "black stones… which burn like wood." Those stones were coal, and most of the Europeans knew little about it then.

After 17 years in China, Marco and his family finally returned to Venice. After he returned home, Marco completed a book called The Travels of Marco Polo, full of facts about his wonderful experiences in China.

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    I'm Zhao Kai. I have a good friend. His name is Ben.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}He comes to China because(因为) his parents work in China.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}He speaks English very well, but his Chinese isn't good. I often help him with his Chinese and he helps me with my English.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}He has many friends in our school. Ben often plays with his friends.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}His favorite food is jiaozi. I often invite(邀请) him to my home for dinner.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} Do you want to be Ben's friend?

A. We help each other.

B. He comes from America.

C. So he is very happy.

D. He likes to eat Chinese food.

E. Now Ben is in my class.

    These days, a new kind of restaurant is becoming popular. People who go there can not only enjoy their meals, but also enjoy playing computer games and chatting on the Internet. Wink is the restaurant's name. It is in Los Angeles, and it's about fun and food.

    In Wink, there are no waiters or waitresses around you. The screens have replaced(取代)them. You can order the food you want by touching the screen in front of you and runners will bring it to the tables. You can also play video games with the people at the next table .The screens can show music videos, movies and so on. But mainly they are used to show video games.

    It's an interactive(互动的)restaurant where you will control your meal and your time. The service is fast and the runners know clearly where to go. There will be no waiting for a waiter and no misunderstandings(误解)in the kitchen. Different kinds of food are served at any time of the day. Wink is a place which hosts “room games”, where every table in the restaurant can have a video game competition at the same time.

    The owner of the restaurant hopes that Wink can make it easy for people to be interactive having fun and enjoying a delicious meal.

    Waste sorting(垃圾分类) is a big matter worldwide. In order to sort the rubbish properly and protect the environment, people in different countries are using different methods to sort their waste.

    UK A UK company invented a "smart bin" to help with waste sorting. People just need to drop their waste into the bin(垃圾箱). A camera and sensors(感应器) in the bin can tell what type of rubbish it is and correctly sort it. The bin also compresses(压缩) the waste so it takes up less space.

South Korea South Korea is using a method called "Pay For Your Waste" to encourage its people to reduce food waste. When throwing away rubbish, people have to separate their food waste from their other rubbish and put it in a bin. The smart bin then weighs the food. People have to pay for their food waste by scanning(扫描) a barcode(条形码) on the bin. If they throw away more rubbish, they will pay more.

    Japan Japan is leading the world in waste sorting. They sort waste so carefully that even plastic bottles and their caps go into different bins. Different types of paper products have their own bins.

    China China is improving its waste sorting efforts. Shanghai has worked with Alipay to create a "green account(账户)"service for its residents(居民). The city is asking all of its residents to sort their waste into four groups: wet, recyclable, harmful and dry.

    There was once a stone(石头) in the center of the garden of a family. Whenever the family passed through the garden, they would always make a detour(绕路) round the stone.

    One day, the son said to his father, "I hate that stone. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}"The father said, "It was there when your grandfather was alive. It is so big .I'm afraid we can't move it. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}"

    Twenty years later, the son grew up and had his own son. One day, his son said to him, "There is a big stone in the garden. Shall we move it?" He said, "That stone is too heavy. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}"But the son made up his mind to move it.

    One morning, the son brought some tools(工具) to the garden. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} He thought it would take him the whole day to move the stone. To his surprise, he spent only ten minutes before the stone was moved. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}