Car pool(拼车)

    "Beep, beep," goes the car horn(喇叭).You've got dressed，but you've not had time to eat breakfast. You run out of the front door with your schoolbag, and jump into the waiting car. Inside, your Friends say "hey" as one of their parents drives you to school. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} 

    Car pools are a common way of transportation for many students in the US. You, along with many of your friends, can sit in one car.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} And your parents may take turns to drive you all to school {#blank#}3{#/blank#}  If you're late, you can eat that breakfast you don't have time for at home. If you're behind on your homework. this is your last chance to finish it before class. Some simply add to their sleep time before classes begin.

    Besides walking or cycling to class, car pools are green if you can't take the school bus. Instead of four cars taking four students to school each day, they can all squeeze (挤) into one. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} 

More importantly, car pooling teaches students valuable life lessons not taught in class. It can teach students about being on time. It can also teach them the bad influence of being late. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} 

    We often find that weekends and holidays feel so short while classes and work feel so long. Actually, though, we know that this is not true. But we still wonder where that strange feeling comes from.

    In fact, this is one of the ways that we're tricked by time, according to the website. All that S interesting. The website lists several wrong impressions (印象) we often have about time. Let's have a look.

    First of all, emotions affect (影响) our time-keeping abilities. Negative emotions (消极情绪). especially anxiety and boredom, make time seem longer because they make us concentrate (集中) more on the passage of time. However, when we are enjoying ourselves, we pay more attention to what we are doing and are likely to lose track of (失去对……的意识) time.

    Here is another example. In 2007, a group of scientists carried out a test. In the test, people fell 50 meters into a safety net and were then asked about their experience. Although the experience took shorter than 3 seconds, the people thought it was much longer than it actually was.

    This is because of the way our bodies reply to danger, according to the scientists. Our bodies produce a chemical called adrenaline (肾上腺素) when we are faced with danger. It allows us to concentrate better so that we can stay alive. As a result, we are able to remember far more details (细节) over a short period of time, which makes it seem like time is going more slowly.

    Another situation when we make mistakes about time is when we take afternoon naps (午觉). Have you ever had trouble telling what time it is after a long nap? That's because the best amount of time for a nap is 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, you enter a new stage of sleep called slow-wave sleep. If you wake up mid-way in this stage, it will take a while before you can correctly perceive (感知) time again.

    Yes, time can be mysterious (神秘的) and there is no way to control it. So, perhaps the best thing to do is to make good use of every minute.

I have always been fascinated by the animal world. Recently，I read a novel about animals called A Lion's Traveling. Chinese writer Shen Shixi wrote it. 

The book tells the story of five male lions. They are driven out of their home and begin their adventure. Unluckily，one is hurt by a giraffe. Another is killed by a hunter. The third one dies during a fight for water with a rhino（犀牛）. The fourth lion drowns（淹死），named Red Ribbon（红飘带），is still alive. After going through many difficulties

The story shows the love and care between friends，the life and death faced by brothers，the determination（决心），and the passion for life. The fact that the young lion finally becomes the king teaches me a great lesson：Those who cannot beat you will make you stronger. Everyone will face lots of difficulties during their lifetime. We should learn to stay strong and continue to find our best selves. 

The book is filled with exciting details about the lives of lions. Together with vivid pictures，it gives readers an impressive experience. You can not only read the great story but also learn a lot about the animals in the real world. I highly suggest reading it!

In the 1900s, Father's Day was created when Louise Smart wanted to show her deep {#blank#}1{#/blank#} to her own father, William Smart, who was lonely when his wife died at giving birth. Mr. Smart raised his six children on a rural farm in a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} state of America. When Louise grew up, she wanted to {#blank#}3{#/blank#} her love to her father. So, in 1909, she advised a day to honor her father in June (the month of her father's birth).

The {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Father's Day followed on June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge showed support of this becoming a national holiday. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, it wasn't until 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson officially announced(宣布) Father's Day a national holiday to be celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of June.

A European Union program is letting blind people experience famous paintings for the first time. It uses three dimensional（3-D） printing to recreate famous paintings so they can be touched. 

One painting printed with the new technology is Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss". It is a popular attraction at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria. The painting shows a man and a woman standing in a field filled with flowers. They are wearing gold robes（长袍） and have their arms around each other. The man leans down to kiss the woman. 

Klimt finished the painting in 

1908. Until now, people who had trouble seeing could not appreciate the artwork. But thanks to the reproduction（复制品）, they can touch the piece and feel the ridges（隆起） and depressions. Andreas Reichinger said this reproduction was his most difficult project because the couple's robes are so detailed. 

Dominika Raditsch is a blind museum visitor. She touched the reproduction. As she moved her hands around it she said, "Exactly, can you see these? There are so many details. " Raditsch said she could imagine what the original painting looked like when she touched the reproduction. "It's somehow round. You can feel it. It comes with it. And in many places it's so smooth. And then I think to myself — it probably shines, too!" Raditsch said. 

The Belvedere is not the only museum to have 3-D versions of its artwork. Some of the pieces at the Prado, in Madrid, Spain, have reproductions that can be touched. But the piece in Vienna has one special part: it is made with widely available 3-D printing technology. That means one day, blind art fans anywhere in the world could download the source files and print the reproductions themselves.