Have you heard of STEM education? STEM 1 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. It means students can learn these 2subjects in one class. And they work on many projects to practice 3 they learn STEM education is very 4 in the US.

    Now more than 600 5 middle schools bring in STEM education, according to the paper, en. Beijing, Yuying School is one of them.

    The school 6 the course in May. It invited college teachers to teach more than 80 students programming, robotics and other interdisciplinary(跨学科}的) knowledge.

    The teaching style is quite 7, Once teachers finish teaching basie knowledge, studentes will practice it 8. For example, after learning about electrie circuits(电路),students are required to design one that could control three lights 9.They have many projects to improve their hands-on 10 as well. Once, they had a "smart home" model design project. All the students competed to design a 11 model and make it "smart" .Liu Tianyou, 12, with 12 teammates, used computer programs and sensors to finish it. "If you open the door of the house, the lights will 13 automatically, "he said. Their work won the third prize.

    The class, develops students' creativity as well. 14 Learning mechanies and programming in the class, Zhao Hngyi, 14, made a Lego robot himself in eight 15.From assembling(组装)to testing he finished it on his own. The robot can catch things and walk on certain tracks under orders. " It's cool to make my idea come to life," he said.

    When you hear the word "scientist", what do you think of it? Many people think scientists are people in clean white coats, working in labs( 实验室). Some scientists do work in labs. But there are 1 scientists working in woods and jungles(丛林).  These scientists are called " animal behaviour (行为) scientists", and they study animals as they live in nature. Why don't these scientists catch animals and study them in zoos? The 2 is in the word "behaviour". Animal behaviour scientists want to learn 3 animals behave in their wild homes. When animals live in cages or in zoos, they do not act 4 as they do in the wild. They may fight (打架) 5each other, or they may not eat, or they may not raise (抚养) their babies as they usually do. To see real animal behaviour, scientists must go to the places 6the animals live. So animal behavior scientists go into the jungles, the woods or the deserts. There, 7most important tools are their eyes and ears. They watch and listen to the animals very 8. They write down everything that happened in notebooks. Though they live near the animals, the scientists are careful not to frighten them. If the scientists are 9, the animals will pay no attention to them. Then the scientists can see how the animals really live.

    The animal behaviour scientists hope what they've learned about animal behaviour can provide clues(提供线索) 10people learn to live with animals together more happily.

    There was a small village near the mountain. There were a lot of trees in the mountain. People in the 1always got something from the mountain, such as animals and trees. When they wanted to 2a house, they cut down the trees. And they also killed the animals for 3. Trees were very 4in their daily life. They made tables, chairs 5beds by cutting down the trees. In addition, when they 6meals, they still used some trees for wood. However, they only cut down trees but 7planted new trees. So the trees were fewer and fewer and the animals were becoming 8as well.

    One summer, it rained 9in the village. The rain lasted for about a week. The soil and the stones on the mountain fell down and soon 10the whole village. They finally realized they couldn't only cut down trees but also needed to protect them.

    Animals are our friends. There are many zoos in the 1It's good to 2 animals in zoos. Zoos have many advantages, I think.

    Firstly, zoos are places for people to see 3 kinds of animals. Without zoos, most people would4see a real bear or tiger.

    5 , zoos can take good care of animals. Zoos give 6 to animals and. clean them on time every day. In the wild, it is not always easy for an animal to find food. So sometimes it goes 7. But animals in zoos never go hungry.

    Thirdly, people protect the animals in zoos and offer them safe places to live 8 Animals are living in zoos safely and happily. In the wild, some kinds of animals are 9 and endangered. But zoos give these animals a chance to live. Without zoos, there would be 10 kinds of animals in the world.  People should do more things to protect animals.

    Hello, human friends. My name is Nick. I am a turtle (海龟). I have lived in the 1 for over half a century. In general, turtles can 2 to be more than 100 years old. 3many of my friends are now dying from one thing: plastic(塑料).

    Human beings use too 4 plastic. When you throw plastic away, it doesn't just disappear. Over 90 percent of the world's plastic doesn't get recycled(回收). A lot of plastic 5in the ocean. Most of my friends do not know the danger of plastic. They think it is 6. But in fact, plastic is 7. Around 30 percent of my friends have plastic in their body. I have plastic in my body, too. Plastic is also 8 other sea animals. Last month, one of my friends died after eating 80 plastic bags. I feel so 9 about it.

    My human friends, please 10 using too much plastic. Maybe one plastic bag or one coffee cup won't make a difference. But when seven billion people all start to use less plastic, it will make a big difference.