Every person has his birthday. People in different countries spend their birthdays in different ways. Here are four people from different countries. They are talking about how they usually spend their birthdays in their countries.

Jack comes from Spain. "My twenty-first birthday is on a Saturday , " he says. " I'm going out with my friends. To wish me a happy birthday, they will pull on my ear twenty-one times, once for each year. It's an old habit. Some people pull on the ear just once, but my friends are very strict! "

Mr. Sato is from Japan. He's going to be sixty tomorrow." In my country, people call the sixtieth birthday Kanreki, " he says. " It's the start of a new life. The color red is for a new life, so they always have something red for the sixtieth birthday. "

Phillip, from France, smiles and says, "I'm going to be thirty next week, so I want to ask three very good friends out to have dinner. In France, when you have birthday, you often ask people out with you. In some countries, I know it's opposite- people usually take you out. "

Li Xiao is a Chinese girl from Beijing. She is happy and tells us, " Tomorrow is my sixteenth birthday. It's a special day. So we're going to have a family party. l can get some money in lucky envelopes(信封)from my family. My mother will cook noodles that are for a long life. "

It is said that Chinese people have"one thousand"ways to cook vegetables.In fact，Chinese people don't just love cooking delicious vegetable dishes.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Chinese people have grown vegetables in their backyards for centuries.Now，they have also grown them in the Antarctic，and even in space!Why do they have deep love of vegetables？Here are some reasons.

●Suitable natural conditions are necessary.

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●Eating and planting vegetables has a long history.

Most of today's vegetables were once wild plants.Chinese people started to eat and plant them quite early.The Book of Songs 《诗经》，written about 2，500 years ago{#blank#}3{#/blank#} Potatoes，peppers and tomatoes were all from other places，but Chinese people planted them

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In ancient times，Tao Yuanming，a Chinese poet（朝堂）.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} Planting vegetables is a good way to get away from the hustle and bustle（拥挤喧嚣） of city life.

Deadly flooding has swept China s northern provinces this summer，causing many losses such as a number of people died and houses were destroyed（破坏） by floods. Like many other natural disasters，floods can happen with little or no warming. Finish floods move quickly and have strong currents（水流）. They are known to bring down trees and take down buildings. Besides，floods can cause power cuts （停电），traffic jam and other problems. But the food itself isn't the only problem to deal with. After the flood，it may have deadly results，as it may not be easy to send food and water to the area. 

So In the face of a flash food，how should we save ourselves？

*Don't use bridges that rapidly﹣moving water is crossing，as floodwater can cause bridges to break. 

*Listen to emergency broadcasts （应急广播） for more information. If told to move to another place，do so. 

*Stay inside the car if the car Is caught in the fast﹣moving water. Only get out if the water begins to food the car itself，and then move to the roof（项部） of the car. 

*Stay away from power lines （电线），as they are knocked down during the strong storms. Besides，here is something to keep in mind after a flood. 

*Do not use floodwater to wash food or drink it. 

*Return to your home only after the government has said it is safe to do so. 

*Use only bottled or clean water for drinking cooking are nothing. 

The polar bear lives inside the Arctic near the North Pole. It has a very warm coat because the weather is cold at the north of the Arctic. A grown﹣up polar bear is usually about three metres long，and weighs 450 kilos. The food of the polar bear i{#blank#}1{#/blank#}fish，seals and other sea animals. It can stand up on its back legs because it has very wide feet. It can use its front legs like arms. The polar bear can swim very well. It can e{#blank#}2{#/blank#}swim 120 kilometres out into the water. Some people kill the polar bear for its beautiful white coat. S{#blank#}3{#/blank#} are calling on people to protect polar bears. The governments of Canada，the USA and Russia say that n{#blank#}4{#/blank#} is allowed to hurt﹣polar bears now. They say that these beautiful animals are d{#blank#}5{#/blank#} out. 

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According to a research, more than 130 billion pounds of uneaten food go to waste in Laura's country each year. That is about 30% of the yearly food supply(供应). It is a sad fact, especially when you consider how many families and homeless people are in hunger.

When Laura saw her school dining hall throw away food that was not eaten at all every day, she came up with an idea. She started a project to help her school dining hall to give away uneaten food to homeless shelters(庇护所) in her community. In the past three years, the same project has spread to other schools and some fast food restaurants throughout the city. The project is called Feed & Find, and has already fed thousands of people in her city.

How does it work? Through an app, Feed & Find matches local homeless shelters with school dining halls and restaurants that have uneaten food to provide. When dining halls or restaurants have uneaten food left, they can use the app to share the information about the food. A truck driver working for the project is then sent to pick it up and take it to a shelter.

Pretty cool, right? It's not surprising that people in other cities have got in touch with Laura, hoping that she could help develop similar projects for their communities.

Some people, however, have concerns about the safety of the uneaten food. They think such food may not be clean enough. Still, this

project is a clever way to help solve the problem of food waste and it helps those in need.