This is a song millions of Americans will hear this New Year's Eve. It is called “Auld Lang Syne(《友谊地久天长》)”. It is the traditional music played during the New Year's celebration. Auld Lang Syne is an old Scottish poem. It tells about the need to remember old friends.

    The words “auld lang syne” means “old long since”. No one knows who wrote the poem first. However, a version (译本) by Scottish poet Robert Burns was published in 1796. The words and music we know today first appeared in a songbook three years later.

    The song is played in the United States mainly on New Year's Eve. The version you are hearing today is by the Washington Saxophone Quartet. As we end our program with “Auld Lang Syne”, I would like to wish all of our radio friends a very Happy New Year! This is Buddy Thomas.

    Margaret Porter is a violinist and music teacher. According to her, the best age to start learning the violin is between three and six. She says, “It's the time when you are learning about the world.” Margaret, who was born in London, likes to take pupils at three and four. However, she has made lots of exceptions (例外) for five-year-olds. She started teaching the violin in 1972 and she taught her children's five-year-old school friends at first.

    In Margaret's opinion, it's important for one to know why music sounds the way it does. Without knowing it, one can't become a great musician at all. So from the earliest lessons, pupils in her class learn to play by ear. They do not even try to read music until they have been playing for several years. Margaret says that her method is not to produce great violinists. She always suggests that pupils should leave and study the violin using more traditional methods.

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    Dear everyone, this is a picture of our class. We are in Class 1. The name of our school is Bewsay Road Secondary School. Our English teacher's name is Mrs.

    Tanner. Can you see her in the picture? Our names are Sara, Emma, Tom, Ben, Nick, Peter and Mike. Can you see us in the picture? Sara wears a nice skirt and she can draw very well. Emma is her best friend. She plays the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} best in the class. Nick and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} are twins. They look the same! Sometimes we cannot tell which is Nick and which is Peter. Tom loves to play {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. He is No. 9 on the school football team. Ben stands next to Emma. He is a shy boy. But he can speak {#blank#}4{#/blank#} very well. Do you know why? He has a Russian mother! Send us a picture of your class and {#blank#}5{#/blank#} us about your group.

    As the Internet is developing fast, more and more new words and phrases have been created in Chinese. Here are some examples.

    One of the most popular words is Dianzan, which is often used when you quite agree with someone. Another example is Renxing. When you say somebody is Renxing, you mean that they will do whatever they like. The phrase Miaosha first came from online shopping, which means ou can complete your shopping orders before others. But now it's widely used when you achieve your purpose in a very short time. If you describe someone as a Tuhao, you mean that he or she is very rich.

    You can find lots of such new Chinese words. Keep learning and you'll know more about Chinese culture.

     Danny and Jenny are talking about their school science fair. They are very excited. Danny is ready for the big science fair next year. He hopes to win first prize. His project is about silk worms. She is interested in that. She made a video about silk worms. She has a small piece of old silk. She also has a silk worm for the visitors. She thinks silk worms are interesting. What's Danny's project about? It's all about donuts. He talks about the history of donuts. He will make ten different kinds of donuts. You can taste them if you go to the science fair.

    Amazing news! There are robot cooks in Hunan Province. They started cooking local(当地的) dishes at a restaurant in Changsha on May 1.

    The cooking robots get cooking skills and recipes(食谱) for 40 kinds of Hunan dishes. They are (A)a      to cook fried meat in two minutes. (B)We want our customers to enjoy the dishes and the amazing robot cooking." said Li Zhiming, the inventor of the robots and owner of the restaurant.

    Li hopes that Hunan robot cooking restaurants can open worldwide in the future, like KFC and Mc Donald's." In Changsha, the restaurants, which are similar to ours in size, need 8 to 10 cooks and kitchen helpers. (C)      we only need two kitchen helpers to help three robot cooks in our restaurant," said Li.

    Kitchen helpers at Li's restaurant put materials(材料) into special boxes, and press the button "ON", The robot cooks then begin to cook. It is not an easy job to invent these robot cooks. Li and his group spent round four years and nearly ten million yuan inventing such a robot cook. At present, Li's restaurant can sell more than 800 bowls of rice with Hunan local dishes on top per day. Li plans to open up brunches

(分店) in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and even abroad.