Do you like eating chocolate chip cookie？Thanks to Ruth Wakefield, they were invented by accident in 1930.

    Ruth and her husband owned a restaurant called the Toll House. As manager and cook, Ruth kept very busy. One day in 1930, she was making some chocolate butter cookies．It was required that she should melt chocolate into the dough (面团)．However, she found that she had run out of baker's chocolate. So she had to break some semi­sweet chocolate (半甜巧克力) into small pieces and added them to the dough. She hoped these pieces of chocolate to melt.

    After the cookies were baked (烤), to her surprise, the chocolate had not melted into the dough, and her cookies were not chocolate butter cookies. They smelt delicious. They tasted sweet and crispy．

    They were named Toll House cookies after Ruth's restaurant and are the most popular cookies in America today. About seven billion chocolate chip cookies are eaten every year, and nearly half the cookies baked in American homes are chocolate chip cookies.

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    Do you know Chen Yixun? He is a great singer from Hong Kong. He has a lot of beautiful songs, so many people love him. This year Chen Yixun gives concerts (演唱会) in some cities in China. And on November 7 the concert is in Jiaxing.

    Chen Yixun wants to give great concerts, and he does a lot of work for that. First, he practises singing every day. And he always drinks warm water. There are also dances at the concerts, so he needs to practice dancing, too. It's a hard job. Then, he also needs to do exercise like running and swimming. He has to be healthy and strong for the concerts.

    “I have a busy life, but I love it. I enjoy singing and I wish to give great shows to people,” says Chen Yixun. Wish him good luck!

    Plants are very important. Plants can make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air, water and sunlight. Animals can get their food by eating plants and other animals. Man gets his food by eating plants and animals, too. So animals and man need plants in order to live. This is why there are so many plants around us.

    There are two kinds of plants: flowering plants and non­flowering plants. Almost all the trees around us are flowering plants. You can know some trees from their flo­wers and fruit. Non­flowering plants do not grow flowers. You can not see many non­flowering plants around you.

    If you look carefully at the plants around you, you will find that there are many kinds of plants. Some plants are large and some are small. Most of them are green. Thanks to the plants around us, we can live on earth.

The 4K edition of The Legend of Sealed Book hit cinemas on 5th November 2021, It is a Chinese cartoon film from 38 years ago. The story comes from a Chinese old story. Yuangong, who comes from heaven, finds a book with amazing skills and lets the boy Dansheng practise them. Film workers borrowed cultural elements(元素) from opera and painting. The looks of many characters come from Peking Opera face makeup(装扮).Lovely Dansheng looks like wawasheng, roles for kids in Peking Opera. A fox wears huadan makeup to make her more attractive. Huadan is the young female role in Peking Opera. "Funny and beautiful"— these are what the artist worked hard for, according to the film's director Qian Yunda.

Another cartoon, Little Tadpole Looking for Mummy was drawn with ink and brush. The designers learned from the great artist Qi Baishi. The black tadpoles (蝌蚪), pink flowers, yellow chickens and red goldfish… all come to life! Cartoon artists painted in both realistic and poetic(富有诗意的) styles. They used simple and thin lines to paint character, but they used the ink wash painting style to paint mountains, trees and water.

These cartoons give us a taste of Chinese culture. They have a real Chinese style."Classical Chinese cartoons show us how colourful and rich our cultures are. I respect the artists who made them,"said an actor.