【推荐1】Betty is not a traditional American beauty. She is unfashionable, has thick red glasses, untidy hair and large metal braces（牙套） on her teeth, But this hasn’t stopped her from becoming one of American’s favorite TV characters. So how did she manage to do it?

The answer is that charm （魅力） can be more attractive than beauty. Betty is the main character in a TV show Ugly Betty. The show is about her life as an office worker at a fashion magazine in New York.

The TV show has just started. Betty has many exciting experiences and romantic stories. Betty is often looked down on and laughed at by the people around. But she manages to do better than others with her hard work, charm and wisdom. The show tells about how a girl goes from an ugly young duck into a beautiful swan.

Though you may know the ending of the show from the beginning and the story is familiar （熟悉的） to many of us, it has still been a big success in the USA. It has attracted a large number of viewers and won two Golden Globes Awards （金球奖）, one of the highest honors for a television program in the USA. “I think you can see a bit of Betty in all of us , and I mean men as well, because it’s about the underdog （弱者）,” says Ashley Jensen, who plays one of the characters on the show.

The program is so successful also because of the good performance of the 23-year-old actress America Ferrera, who plays the role of Betty. She brings the character alive on the screen.

【推荐1】The rockets take astronauts and man-made satellites(卫星)into space. The satellites are used for communication, weather checking and research. But how do satellites stay up without falling down?

There are two opposite forces influencing the satellite. One of them is the force of gravitation(地心引力), which tries to pull the satellite towards the earth and is like a rope which keeps the satellite from flying away. The other force is created by the turning of the satellite around the earth. This force tries to take the satellite away from the earth. With these two forces, the satellite goes round and round.

Everything that goes up has to come down. It is only a matter of time before a satellite comes back to the earth. As time goes by, the satellite loses its speed, which makes the force pulling it towards the earth stronger than the force pulling it away. This makes the satellite fall down to the earth.

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In the small villages of Kenya, Africa, most kids want to read books. But no roads lead to their homes, only miles and miles of sand. Cars and trucks are useless. So library books arrive on the backs of camels. Camels can deal with the sand and the books. Two camels, a camel driver, and a librarian walk to the villages. One camel carries about 400 pounds of books, and the other carries a tent. At each village, the librarian sets up the tent and displays the books inside. Two weeks later, the camels return with new books.

Some people in the mountains and forests of northern Thailand get books in a different way. Their “libraries” are carried by elephants. These strong animals can deal with the difficult journey. Because of their size, they can carry heavy lots of books in metal boxes. The metal protects the books from the heavy rains that fall in the area.

Indonesia has its own problems. This country is made up of over 17,000 islands. Therefore, most people travel by boat, and so do their library books. A wooden library boat holds about 500 books packed in boxes. Boxes of books are left in villages and are traded for new books a few weeks later.

For people who live in an area faraway and can’t get to a library, a library that comes to them brings more than books. It brings a whole world of information.

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