ABite of China

Are you aneating-lover? Do you want to eat every delicious food in the world? Then do youwatch the popular programA Bite of China?It's a TV program on Chinese delicious food which has been produced by CCTV. Isthere any holiday that isn't celebrated with special festival food? Here are severaltraditional Chinese foods:

Noodles are a symbolof long life in Chinese culture. They are as much a part of Chinese birthdaycelebration as a birthday cake with its candles lit in many western countries.Since noodles mean long life, it is considered very unlucky to cut it off.

Although westernerssometimes may be very sorry to see fish lying on the plate, in China a wholefish is a symbol of richness. In fact, at a party it is a tradition to servethe whole fish last, pointed towards the most valued guest. Fish also has aspecial meaning because the Chinese word for fish, yu, sounds like the word for richness or plenty, and it isbelieved that eating fish will help your wishes come true in the year to come.

A very popular dishduring the Dragon Boat Festival is Zongzi. This tasty dish is made of rice dumplingswith meat, peanuts or other delicious food in bamboo leaves. The tradition ofZongzi is meant to remind us of a great man, Qu Yuan in Chinese history.

How much do you know about the solar system? The following passage will tell you.

The earth is a planet. It as well as seven 1 planets goes around the sun. We call the 2 planets and the sun the solar system. The first planet,3 the sun, is Mercury（水星）. It is 58 million kilometres from the 4 . Venus（金星） is the second planet next to the sun, and our planet, the earth, is the 5 . It is 150 million kilometres from the sun.

Jupiter（木星）, Saturn（土星）, Neptune（海王星）and Uranus（天王星）are all 6 than the earth.7 Venus, Mars and Mercury are smaller than the earth.

Animals, trees and humans can only 8 on the earth. But the other planets in our solar system do not 9 air or water. Do any planets in other galaxies have 10 ? We don't know about it.

Since August，driverless taxis can run on roads in cities including Wuhan，Chongqing（科技） into reality，sad China Daily.

Why do we develop self—driving cars？

Self—driving cars give us many benefits（好处）.They use computers to sense（感知） the things around them and make better use of space.This means fewer traffic jams and better parking of cars.For disabled（残疾的），self—driving cars can also help them get around more easily.By using computers，they can avoid unskilled，careless or drunk driving and so on.This can cut down 90 percent of road accidents，said the website TechDim.

Is self—driving cars totally safe on roads？

Self—driving cars can't react（反应） as fast as a human driver could if something unexpected（意料之外的） happens.Also，it is difficult for self—driving cars to see clearly.The car's computer could also get hacked（非法入侵），making it crash（碰撞），technology companies are working on these problems.

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