The weather is closely related(联系) to our life. It is all around us all the time. It is an important part of our lives. We cannot control it, but it often controls how and 1 we live, what we do, what we wear and what we eat. Read this passage and learn 2 about the weather.

      What is the weather?

The weather is just the state of the atmosphere 3any time, such as temperature, wind, 4 ,sun,etc.

      What makes the weather change?

As we know, not every place on the earth gets the same amount of sunlight. Some places get 5 sunlight, so it's warmer in those places. However, some places get little 6 no sunlight in winter. Then those places have colder temperatures. These differences in temperature make the air and water7 around the earth. The movement helps to take the heat energy from the sun across the earth. So the 8 changes.

     What's the difference between weather and climate?

    Climate is a place's weather over a long time. The weather changes from day to day and  9 from hour to hour. It can be sunny in the morning and cold and wet in the afternoon. But the climate changes very   10over lots of years. 

    You can certainly see sunrise and sunset from the moon surface,  1  you can't see them as  2  as you do from the earth.

Here on  3  earth, our planet's rotation(自转) carries us  4 daylight to darkness. That's true on the moon as well. But the moon's spin(旋转) is  5  slower than the earth's. An earth day lasts twenty-four  6  . A lunar day lasts about one earth month. That means  7 about two weeks between each sunrise and sunset on the moon.

    On the earth, when you watch sunset, you can see colored light for a while after the sun disappears. But if you watch sunset on the moon, you'll find it's  8  as midnight as soon as the sun  9 , because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere(大气层). And  10  , sunrise on the moon will come just as suddenly.

    What do you think of robots? Will they work for humans in the future?  Maybe we can't answer it.But robots have 1 an important part in our daily life for several years .But in some science fiction movies, the robots are just like humans. Now they help humans with the housework and do the most 2 jobs.

    Many scientists believe that there will be such robots in the future.3they agree it may 4 hundreds of years. Scientists are now trying to make robots look like people and do the same things as us.

    But robot scientist James White 5 He thinks that it will be 6 for a robot to do the same things as a person7 it's easy for a child to wake up and know where they are. Mr. White thinks that robots won't be able to do this. But other scientists disagree. They think that robots will be able to talk to people 8 25 to 50 years.

    Robot scientists are not just trying to make robots look like people. For example, there are already robots working in factories. They do many 9 over and over again. People would not like to do such jobs and would get bored. But robots will10 get bored.

    In the future, there will be more robots everywhere, and humans will have 11 work to do. New robots will have many different12. Some will look like humans, and13 might look like snakes. After an earthquake , a snake robot could help look for people under buildings. That may not seem possible now, but computers, space rockets and even electric toothbrushes 14 impossible a hundred years ago. With the 15of science technology. We never know what will happen in the future! Let's work much harder to make robots serve us better!

    It's March 12^th. Li Li and Lin Tao are digging on a hill nor far from their school. In China, people across the country plant trees1on this day.

    The idea of planting trees was first put forward in 1911 by Sun Zhongshan, the great2 in China's history. He said more trees were needed as a3against flood(洪水)and drought. In 1915, April 5^th was named as Tree Planting Day. Then, in 1979, the day4to March 12^th, to 5the date on which Sun Zhongshan died.

    "Everyone has heard of the Great Wall of China," says Li Li. "But have you heard of the Green Wall of China? That's the biggest tree planting 6 of all. "The Gobi Desert in the north of China was 7every year. So in 1978, a tree planting project was started to 8 Gobi spreading. The government and local farmers have been planting millions of trees to build a great green "wall" along the edge of the desert.

    "Tree planting has become a tradition in China now," says Lin Tao. "Almost everyone does it on March 12th. Many people also plant a tree on a 9 day. My parents planted a tree when started school. And my cousin planted 10 on his wedding (婚礼) day. We do it for the environment and for ourselves."

    There are many kinds of pollution around us, 1 air pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution and light pollution. They are bad 2 our health in many ways.

    Burning gas, oil and coal creates air pollution. It can cause some eye and breathing problems.

    With the 3 of pollution and the development of industry, litter is everywhere. It makes our environment dirty. People put lots of rubbish in the land. Farmers use too many 4 in the fields. They destroy the soil.

So soil pollution has become serious.

    Noise pollution can make people 5. For example, people may lose their hearing if they have worked in a 6 place for a long time. Too much noise can cause high blood pressure 7.

    Having worked for a long time in strong, changeable light 8 cause some kinds of illnesses. It makes people feel 9 and is especially bad for the eyes.

    With 10 pollution, our planet will become greener and our health will be better. Let's be greener people.

    Tigers are strong and dangerous. But now, the big animal is calling for our1.

    There were once eight kinds of2in the world, 3three died out during last century. In the last 70 years, the number of Siberian tigers(东北虎) has gone from as many as 300 to somewhere 418 and 22.

    WWF started a programme recently(最近) to put an end(停止) to tiger poaching(非法狩猎) and 5wild tigers. China, together with 12 other countries, has joined in.

    The Siberian tiger is already6of the world's most endangered(濒危的) animals. If the government doesn't take any action, it's quite7that there will be no more Siberian tigers in China in 10 to 20 years. Animals such as deer, sheep and wild boars(野猪) are the tigers' main food. There isn't enough8for wild tigers because of the hunting of these animals. So the 9 thing people can do is save the animals which tigers eat." To protect the tigers, we need to call on more people to 10 eating and hunting wild animals."