I was doing some last-minute Christmas shopping in a toy store. A nicely dressed little girl was 1 the teddy bears beside her father 2 she saw a little boy walk in and stop in front of the Pokemon toys. His jacket was obviously too small. He had money in his hand. However, it looked no more than five dollars at most. He was with his father, and kept picking up the Pokemon video games. Each time he showed 3 to his father, his father shook his head, "No".

    Rather disappointed, the boy gave up the video games and chose a book of stickers 4. After they walked away, the little girl ran over to the Pokemon video games. She excitedly picked up one 5 on top of the others, and ran toward the check-out. I picked up my purchases（购买物）and 6 the girl and her father.

    Then, much to the little girl's satisfactory（满意）, the little boy and his father got in line 7 her and me. After the video was paid for and bagged, the little girl handed it back to the cashier（收银员）and said something to her in a low voice. The cashier smiled and put the 8 under the counter（柜台）. I was putting things in my bag when the little boy came up to the cashier. The cashier said, "Congratulations, you're my hundredth customer today, and you win a prize!" and she handed the boy the Pokemon game. The boy could hardly believe his ears. It was, he said, 9 what he had wanted! The little girl and her father had been standing at the doorway, and I saw the biggest and prettiest smile on that little girl I have seen in my life.

    I suddenly understood that the world is not 10 into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn care and be cared.

There is a great plan to build a "wood (木材) city" of 2,000 homes and 7,000 offices in Sweden. The work in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, will be the world's largest wood construction (建造) plan. Stockholm Wood City, in the south of the city, will cover 250,000 m². It will have restaurants and shops.

Wooden buildings can help the environment. As they grow, trees take in CO₂from the air. CO₂is a greenhouse gas. It keeps the sun's heat (热气) in the air, making temperatures (温度) go up and the weather become hot. Using wood to build houses is good for our world.

However, to build wooden buildings, we should get wood from forests. Workers cut down trees, but later, they have to plant new trees to replace old ones. Wooden houses are safe if we build them correctly (适当地), but there are also worries that wooden buildings are in danger of fire (火).

Construction will start in 2025 and the first buildings should be ready in 2027. Annica Anas works for the company to run the project. She says the wooden buildings are special and that it is important for them to "make a good difference".

ChatGPT, a smart AI chatbot (聊天机器人) tool, has swept the education world recently. So artificial intelligence (AI) leads to a heated discussion. Here we'll explain the advantages and disadvantages of AI to give you a better understanding of this subject.

Avoiding mistakes

Although people have much wisdom, they still make mistakes. However, AI could serve us much better. Once algorithms (算法) are set up, computers will keep doing the same task over and over again without making mistakes.

Saving time

This powerful tool allows you to use your time more effectively (高效地). Type in "A cat wants to go to space" and ask ChatGPT to write a bedtime story. Just one second later, you'll get the character called Max, who tried his best to get over difficulties and flew the rockets to the moon. Creating a story in this way greatly saves time, or you would have to spend several hours making up a good one.

Inviting laziness in humans

There were many inventions that were first introduced to help us, but we ended up depending too much on them. The same is true of AI. It keeps serving you unless it's turned off by you. As computers become smarter, humans would like to turn to them when facing problems instead of making full use of their own abilities.

Resulting in losing jobs

With the increasing influence of AI, finding a job will be much harder. People use ChatGPT to write emails, translate languages, and answer all kinds of questions without the help of others. AI may not take the place of humans, but it can certainly lead to more people losing jobs.

My Favorite Day at School

提示：上学的日子既忙碌又快乐。从周一到周五，总有你比较喜欢的一天。你为什么会喜欢这一天呢?或许在学校里有你喜欢的老师和学科，或许有你喜欢的午餐和美食，又或许有你喜欢的课外活动……，这些都会让你喜欢在学校的时光。请你以My Favorite Day at School为题,用英语写一篇短文，介绍你喜欢的一个上学日及感受。

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Students usually go to school in different ways. In our school, most students get to school between 7:30 and 8:00 in the morning. Some arrive on foot, and some take the bus. However, eighty percent of the students arrive in their parents' cars. The entrance to the school is crowded and dangerous. I think cars are the main problem. I think there are a few things we can do.

First, we should encourage students to take the bus or walk to school. Taking the bus can help cut down air pollution. Walking is healthier, too. Next, what should parents do if their children have to come to school by car? I think their parents should park their cars far away from the school entrance. For example, they can park their cars at the end of the street. Finally, in my opinion, when parents park dangerously in front of the school entrance, they will be punished and have to pay some money—a fine. This way, they will be cautious and think twice before parking.

In a word, cars are making it dangerous for students to enter the school safely. Therefore, encouraging students to walk to school, or asking parents to park away from the school gate could solve this problem.

What colour is the sea? It's blue. What colour is the grass? It's green. What colour are the strawberries? They're red. Everything in the world has its colour. Our art teacher tells us that red, blue and green are three primary colours (三原色) if we put red and green together, we can get yellow; if we put red and blue together, we can get purple. We all live in a colourful world.

Different colours can give us different feelings and different colours have different meanings. The same colour also has different meanings in different places. In China, people like red very much because we think red can bring good luck (好运) to us. But in some European countries, it means anger (愤怒). In most countries in the world, people like green, but people from England and Japan don't like it. In Australia, people think that black cats can bring them good luck, but in America, people think the white cat is a lucky cat.