Life in the year 3044 is very different 1  life in the 21st century. We still do many of the things you do, but we do them 2  For example, we now have e-friends to help us and company us. An e-friend is a machine that looks just 3 a human being. It can walk and talk and can do almost 4 we human beings do. My e- friend is a lot like me and we have 5 fun together. She helps me 6 my homework and we often go swimming. She is programmed to take care of me if anything 7, so I always feel safe when we are together.  She can also send me messages, just like old-fashioned emails, and I can download information from her memory. It's great  8an e-friend--I am never lonely and I always have someone to talk 9.

    I would like to tell you more about life in the year 3044, but I have to send my e-friend to clean up my room. Maybe 10 I will be able to travel back in time and visit you.

    As we know, life today has many problems. One of the biggest is 1, such as water pollution, air pollution, 2 pollution and so on. Water pollution makes our rivers and lakes 3. It kills fish and pollutes our drinking water. Air pollution is the most serious kind of pollution. 4 bad for living things in the world. Noise pollution 5 us talk louder and become angry 6.

    The Earth is 7 home and we must save it. We can't 8 rubbish here and there. We should go to work and school 9 bus or with our friends in the same car. Everybody 10 save the Earth.

     Nowadays, many people drive their cars to work. There are a lot of cars in the street and the 1is very busy. So sometimes 2is not easy for people to get to work on time. When you are going to be late, you only dream of taking a plane there. Can your dream3?

Yes! You can take a plane only in months!

     Four engineers in Germany are4in making planes. They are making a newplane—Lilium jet. It doesn't look like a plane 5an egg. Many people think it looks funny and interesting. The great "egg" can take two people to the sky and 6three hundred kilometres in one hour. That's really great.

     Some people call Lilium jet "a flying car". Why?  Firstly, it's not difficult for people to learn to drive it. People can drive it just like driving a car. But it can go 7and farther than a car. Secondly, Lilium jet is not very big, only a quarter of a plane. So it doesn't need an airport. Only a small place is OK. It can stop8. In the future, the "flying car" will come into people's life and 9our ways of trip.

     Lilium jet will come on the market soon. 10you want to make your trip easy and funny, why not buy one?  I'm sure you will have a good time on it.

    Hi, friends!1 me! I2Africa. And now I live in a zoo in the south of China. People always3 that animals are their friends, but they don't treat (对待) us as true friends.

    Every day, many people come here to4me. It seems (看起来) that I can make them very happy. But I don't like to live here,5I don't have many friends. And people think sometimes I am dangerous, so I have to be in the same6all day. It's boring for me. And in my hometown (家乡), people7many of my friends for their ivory. They are in great8. I don't want to live here. I want to go back to nature (大自然) and9 a happy life. Do you know who I am? I'm a(n)10.

    Please come and save us.

    Many people like to watch TV. Watching TV is one of the most important activities of the day. TV1the outside world closer to people's homes. Some people say the world is smaller than before because of TV.

    What' s going2in other countries? How do people live in faraway places? Is there a good sports game somewhere? What's life like in the deepest part of the3? If you want to4these and other questions, just turn on the TV and watch it. Of course, people can also learn through reading or listening to the radio. But TV can help them learn better and more easily, because they can hear and watch, too. TV can give5new ideas. It's a wonderful thing.