Sending packets, shopping for everyday goods and even building a house, these are new skills that new robots show at the World Robot Exhibition.

    The earliest maps were probably drawn in the Middle East. Some of these maps have1and they show us the people at that time thought the earth flat(平的).As time went by, the pictures became more detailed and maps were more2made. Later on, ancient Greeks(希腊人)used their3of math and science to make maps. Greek maps tell us the Greeks knew the world was 4.

    From simple pictures, mapmaking has turned into a science. Maps are made5 surveying(勘测)land. In the1900s, people around the world started to share information to make6maps. With the help of the photographs taken from the sky and space, maps are now more exactly made than ever.7the world is always changing, we will always need new maps.

    There are many types of maps, but almost all use8and pictures to describe what a place is like when the map is made. A map usually tells what the pictures 9. Some maps may show the whole world. A road map will help you know the10from one place to another. Other maps may use pictures to show the temperature and population in different places.

    David Beckham opened his London football academy (学院) in 2005. The academy welcomed boys and girls aged 8 to 15. It accepted 15,0001a year, 10,000 of them free. In America, football is a2sport.3, American football is quite different. Players sometimes kick the ball but they often throw the ball and4with it. They try to take it to the other end of the field. They have four chances to5the ball ten yards (码). They can6and throw it. If they move the ball ten yards, they can try to move it7ten yards.8they move it to the end of the field, they can get six points.

    It is difficult to move the9. Eleven men on the other team try to stop the man with the ball. If he doesn't move the ball ten yards, his team kicks the ball to the other team.10university wants its own team to win. Thousands of people come to watch. They all shout for their11teams.

    Young men and women come on the field to help the people shout more. Each team plays 10 or 11 games each12. The season begins in September and ends in November. If a team is very good, it can play another game13the season ends. The14teams play again on January 1st, the first day of the New Year. Many people go to see these games and many others watch them15TV.

Films at the Museum

Two European films will be shown on Saturday afternoon at the Museum Theatre. See Broken Window at 1:30. The workers will be at 3:45. For further information, call 4987898.

Captain Good Fellow

Do your children enjoy interesting stories, funny games, and exciting dances? Captain Good Fellow will be ready to teach all these things to children at the City Theatre on Saturday morning at 10:00, free.

International Picnic

Are you tired of eating the same food every day? Come to Central Park on Saturday and enjoy food from all over the world. Delicious and not expensive. Noon to 5:00 p.m.

Take me out to the Ballgame

It's October, and Saturday night (7:00～9:00) is your last chance to see the Red Birds this year. Get your tickets at the gate. It might be cold. Don't forget sweaters and jackets.

Do you want to hear "The Zoo"

"The Zoo", a popular rock group from Australia, will give their first U. S. concert this Saturday night, at 8, at Rose Hall, City College.

My cousin Sandy is an English girl. Her {#blank#}1{#/blank#} name is White. She is {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. In her room, her books and tape player {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in the bookcase. She always puts pencils, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}, rulers and erasers in the pencil box. Now the pencil box is on the desk, her schoolbag is on the desk, {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. Two baseballs are {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the desk, but they' re not Sandy's. They' re her two brother's. {#blank#}7{#/blank#} father gave(给) them. Sandy {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a computer. It's on the table. There is a photo on the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}. Two girls are in the photo. Do you know {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the two girls are? Well, they are Sandy's good friends, Mary and Anna. 

 You and your family are planning a picnic for tomorrow. But you want to 1 the weather forecast(预报) first to see whether there will be rain or not. Your father turns on the television and the family listens to the2 make the weather report.

" It will be partly cloudy tomorrow morning,3 clear by early afternoon. The highest temperature tomorrow will be 25 degrees."

As there will be no rain, the whole family feels 4 . Without the weather forecast, you would not know this, and you would just have to take your 5 . But now, you can plan your picnic 6 worrying whether it will rain or not.

The man you can 7 for this is Cleveland Abbe. He is known 8 the father of the weather bureau(局). He was the first person to publish(出版)9 weather forecasts in the United States. Abbe began his daily weather bulletins(简报) in 1869. He was the first 10 forecaster of the US Weather Service. Because he often forecast probable storms, Abbe earned the nickname of" Old Probabilities".