In American schools there is something called Homecoming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most important thing of the year except graduation of commencement day(毕业典礼日).Students plan Homecoming Day for many weeks in advance(预先).

    Several days before Homecoming，students start to decorate the school. There are signs to wish luck to the team，and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come to Homecoming twenty or thirty years after their graduation.

    The members of school clubs build booths(摊位)and sell lemonade，apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome the visitors.

    During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.

    Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over，the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student as Homecoming Queen or King. It is a great honor(荣誉)to be chosen.

    Homecoming is a happy day，but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses，the students still enjoy Homecoming Day. Some stay at the school to dance，and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering.

    Visitors to London often eat in restaurants. The owners and workers in them are all from other countries. The visitors say in these restaurants they don't feel they are in England. Most English people eat at home as much as they can. Sometimes they themselves will think they are in another country when they are in restaurants. When an Englishman goes out of a restaurant, he may find that he doesn't understand why everything is written in French and Italian.

    Most English people think it is better to eat at home, because it is cheaper. They don't want to spend much money on food and they like cooking at home. They like fast food. But for Christmas, they will spend two or three weeks getting ready for it, because they want to have good food.

Waste sorting (垃圾分类) has come. It's so important to us humans. We do waste sorting before throwing rubbish away. We are happy to see some fine examples. However, it is not easy for everyone to do this. Some people may spend so much time deciding the kind of the rubbish. Luckily, the twin sisters front Beijing developed an app (应用程序) to help solve the problem.

The app is easy. When users need to throw away their rubbish, they open the app first. In the app, they can find the names of different rubbish. Then, they choose a kind of rubbish in the app, and the right rubbish bin (箱) will open. The app is also helpful. It makes use of speech recognition (语音识别) technology. Then users can just speak out the name of the rubbish, and the rubbish bin will open. 

In fact, waste sorting isn't difficult, but we need some time to get used to it. Of course, technology can help us to do it better.

 Do you know Zhuque-3 test rocket(火箭)? On Wednesday, it goes straight up and down for I0 km. It is a big step in China's commercial space industry(商业航天领域).

 In reusing(重复使用) rockets, China has a long way to go. However. the Zhuque-3 test shows its team can reuse rockets and can also save a lof of money. The Zhuque-3 rocket's maker is LandSpace, a commercial maker in China. The test means LandSpace can make more rockets and then China's commercial space industry can send more rockets into space in the future: It also tells us its technology(技术) works well and the

rockets are ready for later long flying in the future.

 It can be easy for people to go to space, just like taking a plane to different places today. And Chinese people could be among the first to make that dream come true.

In ancient(古代的)China, people have three names: their last name, first name, and courtesy name(字). Do you know Li Bai? His last name is Li. his first name is Bai. and his courtesy name is Taibai. 

People use their first names when they are with their family or friends. And your elders like your grandparents and parents call your first name at home. But people use their courtesy names when they work. 

Boys get their courtesy names when they are 20 years old. Girls get their courtesy names after they get married(结婚). 

People's courtesy names have something to do with their first names. For example, Zhuge Liang's first name is Liang. It means "bright". His courtesy name is Kongming. And the meaning is "very bright". 

 Soy sauce was invented by the Chinese over 2,000 years ago and is still used in Chinese cooking every day. Nowadays people don't give much thought to the traditional way of making soy sauce, as they mostly buy the soy sauce produced in modern chemical methods.

 Little known to the outside world, a century-old factory in Xianshi town, Luzhou city, Sichuan, still uses the natural method to produce soy sauce. It simply puts the soybean mixture in big jars under the sun. It takes up to three years to complete. Since 1893, the company has been making soy sauce for more than 130 years.

 Water, salt and soybeans are needed to make soy sauce. Natural bacteria(菌群) and old jars make it taste better. The process (工序) allows the beans to naturally produce oil, making a full taste. It is the most special thing of this soy sauce. The factory can only produce about 2,000 jars of soy sauce every year. Also, it takes over ten times longer to finish the whole process in this traditional way. As a result, the factory has faced many ups and downs.

 Luckily, the traditional method of making soy sauce in this factory became an intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产) in Sichuan province in 2007, and was an intangible cultural heritage of China in 2014. "I had the idea to give it up, but I usually said to myself that good things never come easy, just like our soy sauce." the factory owner said.