The first Chinese actor captured the hearts of many Chinese in the USA. He read a letter by Zhuge Liang (181-234) to the emperor of Shuhan during three Kingdoms(220-280)period in the new season of Growling Remand Roaring Dragon（《虎啸龙吟》）

    The letter has been read by so many students. We would never have thought that the text written in old Chinese could be so beautifully read in another language. As a result, foreigners begin to show interest in Rommance of the Kindoms translated by C. H. Brewitt-tailor and Robert E. Hegel

    Earlier in November, 1 979, pupils in England were able to watch a new TV programme called Monkey. Most of them were hearing the story for the first time. However, the story of the Mokey King isn't new to Chinese Children in the traditional Chinese book Journey to the West

    As soon as the TV programme came out more than 30 years ago, western children became interested in reading this story because the clever Monkey King keeps fighting to help the weak and never gives up

    Chinese scholars should do a better job of introducing Chinese literature to the rest of the world. At the same time, we could encourage western schools to try something different.

    Reading international literature is an effective way of understanding other people in the world. And the more we understand each other, the more beautiful the world will be.

    In many English homes, people eat breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner a day. People have breakfast at any time between seven and nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs, or bread. Also they drink tea or coffee at breakfast.

    Lunch comes at one o'clock. The English people like take-away food. The most popular(最受欢迎的) food is fish and chips. They usually go to a fish and chip shop. They put the food in paper bags, and take it home, or to their work places. Some people eat take-away food in the park.

    Afternoon tea is about 4:30 in the afternoon. People usually drink tea with milk. And dinner is at about half past seven and it is usually a big meal. First they have soup, and then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After that they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. People often eat dinner at a restaurant or at homes, and they think all these meals are very necessary (必要的).

With devices (设备) that can be conveniently (便利地) controlled from anywhere, a smart home offers convenience to its owners. These devices can be connected with each other through the Internet, allowing the user to control functions, such as security access (安全访问), lighting and temperature. 

"Haitangxiaozhen", an Internet user from Xuzhou, Jiangsu, shared his experience of setting up a smart home. He first bought the service of "intelligent networking". It can be extended (延伸) to every room. He then can use an app to control various smart home devices. 

He said that he usually got off work late, ____. But now, cooked rice waits for him at home because he can turn on the rice cooker with his phone in advance. During summer, he usually turns on the air conditioner 30 minutes before getting home. He can also check the security camera at the door anytime through his phone in case he forgets whether he has locked the door or not. It's very convenient for him. 

During winter and summer holidays, when his child was alone at home, he used to worry about safety problems. For this reason, he specially installed a smart camera. With it, he can check if his child is OK at any time. His home also has a kitchen safety set, including smoke sensors (传感器), gas sensors and water sensors. 

And these devices are really smart. They come with self-learning skills so they can learn the home owner's timetables and make changes as needed. 

All these conveniences are making smart homes more and more popular both in China and around the world. 

"Smart homes are not yet perfect. They also bring problems. Every device has its own app, leading to a large number of apps for me to deal with." another user said. 

There are a great number of cool things in our modern society. They can make our life a little bit easier and much more fun than before. Let's take a look.

In most parts of the world, many students help their schools make less pollution.  They join the Environment Club.  In the club, people work together to protect the environment. 

No-rubbish lunches.  How much do you throw after lunch? The Environment Club asks students to bring their lunches in bags that can be recycled.  The students try their best to make less rubbish. 

No-car days.  No-car days were started by 35 cities in France on 22nd September, 1998.  They were started to protect the environment.  By now, more than 1,000 cities around the world have had a no-car day.  In China, more and more people are taking part in the activity.  On a no-car day, nobody comes to school in a car—not the students and not the teachers! Cars give pollution to our air, so remember: Walk, jump, bike or run! Use your legs! It's lots of fun!

Turn off water! Do you know that some broken toilets could waste 20 to 40 ml of water an hour? In a year, that will fill a small river! In the Environment Club, the members mend those broken toilets. 

We have only one Earth.  Let's work hard together to make our world cleaner and more beautiful. 

It's no secret that there is a space problem in Manhattan. People build up higher and higher buildings because there isn't much land left and there is no room to build out. So people have been building lots of tall and thin buildings. Developers are trying to build higher and higher buildings. However, the government has made laws that don't allow developers to build too high buildings. 

Oiio Studio thinks about things differently, "What if our buildings were not tall but long?" So the founder of Oiio Studio, Ioannis Oikonomou, designed a U-shaped building, the Big Bend. It would be a very thin building. It would curve(弯曲) at the top and return to the ground. Oikonomou said he thought of the great idea because he learned from a piece of news. It said that a company made a lift that could travel in curves. So he designed the Big Bend. He thought it as "the longest building in the world". It would be 4, 000 feet from end to end and would need a different lift system. 

"We can't change the law, ▲____. So if we can bend( 使 弯 曲 ) our building, we would be able to build one of the most amazing buildings in Manhattan, "Oiio Studio said. 

The Big Bend is just an idea for now. Oikonomou has sent the plans to a few companies, and is looking for developers. If successful, they will build the Big Bend around West 57th Street, just to the south of Central Park.