Susan was a shy but clever girt. She1 thick glasses, which were often made fun of by her classmates. The   2 thing was that Lewis had started calling her “Four Eyes”, and the nickname had become very 3. Now everyone knew her as “Suzy Four Eyes”.

    One day, the class went to visit some famous caves. When walking to the caves, Lewis put his right4in a hole and slipped(滑倒). While5 , he caught Susan, who was walking next to him, and they both fell into the hole.

They 6 in a dark cave. There was only a ray of light coming from the cave roof. Susan and Lewis shouted for help,7 no one came. Sitting together in the cold, dark cave, they 8 a long night.

    The next morning, they still hadn't been9. Lewis continued shouting for help,10 to look for a way out. But nothing was found.

    Hours later, Susan noticed that the light was 11into the hole in a straight line. Quickly, she gathered some leaves.12her glasses as a magnifying glass(放大镜), she focused the 13onto the leaves until a little flame came out. Lewis watched all this with 14and excitement.

    15the light from fire, they began to explore the cave.
    16, they found a way out and Lewis gave Susan his sincere thanks. Now he17 having named Susan “Four Eyes”,18after seeing that it was her glasses that had 19them both. Lewis told everyone20had happened and said, “I couldn't have been with a better friend than Laser Light Suzy!”And from that day there was no longer any Four Eyes at their school, but Laser(激光)Light Suzy instead.

    My head was so full of digital noise that my brain was about to explode. As a writer, I was 1 to admit my love of books had been replaced by a brain that simply could not sit 2. So, this year I 3 to return to books before the Internet broke my brain.

    My goal was 52 books. It seemed like an impossible 4. A 400-page book will take the 5 person around eight hours to read. Finding the time to read was a challenge but I 6it anyway. I treated my mind like a misbehaving child who needs some rules laid down. Then I read for an hour or two at a time without 7 each day. It was something I hadn't done in years.

    In The Distracted Mind, Larry Rosen says that the more we 8spending time away from our electronic devices, the 9and more focused we become. And this is what I found. Again, I would 10 bring myself back to the page, 11 the urge to reach for that screen. I took inspiration from a book On Quiet, in which the author 12 how buying a safe（保险箱）to lock away her family devices for long periods had opened up a space to reflect.

    For me, finding that quiet time 13 finding time just to read. It was a  14  moment between me and my book when I ordinarily would have reached for my15. I read on the tram, in bed at night and on lunch 16.

    With my re-gained 17 for books, I created a space 18 I could press pause and find inspiration, knowledge and 19. In our fast-paced world, reading for the sake of reading is not selfish but a powerful way to 20 and be ourselves.

    I still remember that the year when I started university. It was a very 1 time for me. Like many other new students I missed my mother's cooking and my friends, got quite homesick and 2 thought of leaving university and going home.

    The 3 me for many students was getting letters from home, and at first my mailbox was full. But 4 the letters gradually became fewer and finally the day came when I found my mailbox was 5. It made me feel quite miserable. Then one day while I was waiting for the postman I saw that I had a postcard in my box. Happily I sat down to read it, 6 that it was from one of my friends. 7 it was 8 of a young woman called Annie and her new baby. I took the card back to my room, put it into my desk drawer and 9 all about it.

    Several days later, I 10 another postcard. This time it was about Antonio, Annie's cousin. Soon later, another card came and then another, 11 full of interesting information about people I had 12 met. I began to really look forward to them,13 to see what the writer would 14 next. They made me feel 15 unhappy with my own life and I even began to smile. 16 while the cards 17 coming, I joined some societies and made some new friends. At last I was beginning to enjoy 18life. The postcards had made me feel happy and helped me begin a new life so I 19 all the cards and even now bring them out 20 I feel miserable.

    A lawyer and a woman were sitting next to each other during a long flight. The lawyer asked her if she would like to play a fun game. The woman was1and just wanted to take a nap(小睡), so she politely refused.2, the lawyer continued to explain how the game3, "Now I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you4me..."

    Again, she politely refused and tried to get some5. The lawyer thought he would easily win the game, so he made another6, "If you don't know the answer you7pay me ＄5, but if I don't know the answer, I will pay you $50."

    This8the woman's attention. Figuring that there would be no9unless she played, she finally10to play the game. The lawyer asked the first question, "What's the distance from the earth to the moon?"

    The woman didn't say a word, reached into her purse, pulled out a five-dollar bill and11it to the lawyer. Now it was the woman's12. She asked the lawyer, "What13a hill with three legs and comes down with four?"

    The lawyer looked at her with a(n)14look. He took out his laptop computer and began15. Disappointed, he sent e-mails to everyone he knew, with no16. After one hour, he17at last. He woke the woman and handed her $50. The woman took the $50 and turned away to get back to sleep.

    The lawyer18the woman again and asked, "So what is the19?"

    Again without a(n)20, the woman reached into her purse for a bill. She handed the lawyer $5, and went back to sleep.

China has set new rules limiting the amount of time children can play online games. The rules limit children to just three hours of online game playing a week. That is one hour between 8 p. m. and 9 p. m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday most weeks. 

Li Zhanguo has two children aged 4 and 8. Even though they do not have smartphones, they enjoy playing online games. Like many other parents. Li is happy with new government rules. But experts say it is unclear if such policies can help prevent addiction to online games. Children might just get addicted to social media instead. In the end, experts say, parents should be the ones to set limits and support good practice. 

There has been a growing concern in China about gaming addiction among children. Government reports in 2018 found that about one in ten Chinese children were addicted to the Internet. The new rules are part of an effort to prevent young people from spending too much time on unhealthy entertainment. That includes what officials call the "irrational fan culture" 

Under the new rules, the responsibility for making sure children play only three hours a day as largely on Chinese gaming companies like Net Ease and Ten cent. Companies have set up real-name registration systems to prevent young users from going past game time limits. They have used facial recognition technology to check their identities. And they have also set up a program that permits people to report what is against the law. It is unclear what punishments gaming companies may face if they do not carry out the policies. And even if such policies are performed, it is also unclear whether they can prevent online addiction. 

A specialist treating Internet addiction expects about 20 percent of children will find ways to break the rules by borrowing accounts of their older relatives and find a way around facial recognition. In his opinion, short-video alps such as Douyin and Kuaishou are also very popular in China. They are not under the same restrictions as games.

The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), China's leading aircraft maker, created the country's first fully solar-powered drone (无人机). The large drone, Qimingxing 50, took off at 5:50 pm on September 3rd, 2022, from an airport in Yulin of Shaanxi Province and stayed in the air for 26 minutes before landing on the same runway. AVIC said that all systems of the unmanned plane functioned well on its first flight.

Powered by six electric motors with solar batteries, the drone is designed to conduct long-time operations in near space. Near space is that part of Earth's atmosphere at altitudes of 20 to 100 kilometers. It is above the top altitudes of commercial airliners but below orbiting satellites.

Qimingxing 50, also called "quasi-satellite", features high operational efficiency and eco-friendliness and will be tasked with high-altitude reconnaissance (侦察), forestry fire monitoring, atmospheric environmental inspection, aerial mapping, communication signal relay and other operations.

"Thanks to its capability to conduct very long endurance flights in near space, the drone can essentially become a substitute for satellites," a Chinese aerospace expert said. Satellite services are not always available due to the limited number of satellites and relatively fixed schedules of overhead passes. In time-sensitive missions, near-space drones can offset these disadvantages, the expert said, noting that satellite services could also be damaged in wartime, so near-space drones could replace them in this occasion.

The successful first flight of the Qimingxing-50 lays a solid foundation for the development of key technologies in the country's new energy field, the composite (复合的) material field, which will enhance China's ability to perform tasks in near space and over far oceans. AVIC will seize the opportunity to increase investment and speed up the development of large solar-powered unmanned aircraft.