【推荐2】A new survey shows that young people in China much prefer making fresh food to buying prepared food. Mei Lin, a college graduate from Anhui, has stopped buying cheap food at the supermarket. “I would much prefer my own bowl of noodles with fresh vegetables to the packaged noodles I can buy in a store. “Mei Lin often goes jogging and plays tennis at the weekend, in addition to swimming and training for a marathon in Xiamen in the autumn. She believes her fresh food choices help her stay fit and active.

But the trend (趋势) isn’t one that only women are taking up. Su Bo, a 26-year-old computer programmer in Shenzhen, says that he has given up eating packaged meals except when he’s travelling for work. “For me, I have a very demanding job, and I need a sharp mind and strong body. It does take more time to go shopping, but I find my energy levels are higher when I eat fresh food. “Su Bo used to order many of his meals online, so that he could spend more time working, but he soon stopped this habit. “I realized it wasn’t good to never take a break from my job. “ he said. “Besides, the food often made me ill. “ For Su Bo, this meant cooking his own vegetables, eating less meat, and carrying fruit to work for lunch. Like Mei Lin, Su Bo insists that eating healthy food helps him with his fitness routine.

Both admit that in times of stress or busy periods at work, they do sometimes give in and eat fast food or packaged meals. But Su Bo always regrets it and almost eats healthy meals. “Because I live at home and my mother prefers to eat like I do, we often cook together. It’s my father who likes to eat fast food in front of the TV, “ he laughs.

When asked whether their eating habits are common among their age group, both Mei Lin and Su Bo say they are. Yet, it’s not clear whether this food trend will be adopted by other young Chinese people. Are Mei Lin and Su Bo unique or are they setting a new trend? It’s too early to say.

【推荐3】Music is a lot more than how it is defined.     1     It can be seen in any part of the world. It guides people so they would be able to find themselves. The world recognizes the importance of music, and here are the common reasons why:

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Music provides people a means to express their true personality through different patterns. Whether it be a singer, or an instrumentalist, sharing music with others, being in a band along with other people, you can the real you through music. Music is important since it provides people a means to show themselves.

2.It is a method of conversing how we feel

Music assists people in communicating their deepest feeling when they simply cannot find the right words to say.     3     However, with music, people can find the right words by either listening to songs or composing songs. Music is important, knowing that it helps us use the right words to represent what we want to say.

3.It brings people together

Music can amazingly bring people together in many ways. Whether through similar preference in music, or the enthusiasm to get something new and unfamiliar, or even doing music with other people.     4     Being a member of a band or choir is another approach that uses music to bring people together. Music is important, knowing that people are brought together because of it.

.4.It is present in everything

Music is present in any part of the world, and music associates with everything too. Music has been written in history ever since. It is also present in mathematics and science.    5     Music is most appreciated because it is felt everywhere.

【推荐2】Poetry4kids Memberships

Poetry4kids turned 25 this year! It has become the most visited children’s poetry website, thanks to you. Running a website with over 2 million visitors and 15 million views each year is quite expensive. So for years I’ve covered the costs by including advertising on the site. This isn’t an ideal solution, but a necessary one. However, I now have a better solution that 11 remove the advertising for you and give you many additional benefits: Poetry4kids Memberships.

In short, for a small monthly subscription fee, you can become a member of Poetry4kids and enjoy all of the following rewards:

Reader Level—$ 5/ month

● Ad-free access to poetry4kids. com

● Two free e-books: The Armpit of Doom and The Biggest Burp Ever

● Access to all poems on the website, organized by book

● Early access to new YouTube videos, including poetry-writing lessons

● Connect with me via a members only email address

Poetry Lover—$ 10/ month

● All the benefits of the Reader Level

● Two additional free e-books: My Cat Knows Karate and My Dog Likes to Disco

● Monthly live, interactive and online poetry- writing workshops, throughout the school year

Super Member—$ 20/ month

● All the benefits of the Poetry Lover and Reader Level

● One free online author visit for your class each school year

● Free and early access to all future e- books and audio books (有声书籍)

Your support will help me create new animated videos and fully- produced audio books!

To become a member of Poetry4kids, simply visit my Buy Me a Coffee page and click on the Join button for your selected level.

Thank you for your support. I look forward to the next 25 years of Poetry4kids with a lively community of teachers, librarians, parents, and other fans of poetry for kids!

—Kenn Nesbitt

【推荐1】Asian carp (鲤鱼) were introduced to American waters during the 1970s. Southern fish farmers began importing them to help clean their ponds. Asian carp are extraordinary cleaners.

Unfortunately, it didn't take too long for them to escape from these ponds, perhaps from flooding, and get into the Mississippi River. From there they have followed their natural tendency to swim upstream. This tendency may lead them into the Great Lakes and Canada, which worries fishermen.

Asian carp are large fish. One species, the silver carp, can grow to be 100 pounds. But despite their size, they feed from the bottom of the food chain. That means that they eat plankton (浮生物) and algae (海藻类). A one-hundred-pound fish can eat an awful lot of sea scum (浮渣), and some of it is toxic (有毒的). The carp are resistant to the toxins, but we aren't. Some Asian carp are risky to eat because they have so many algal toxins in their systems. They also have lots of tiny bones in their meat, which makes them difficult to prepare.

Introducing the Asian carp into waters that have not known them can cause a lot of damage. Beneath the surface of the water is a unique ecosystem. This system rests on a balance that has developed over millions of years. Then along come these big, hungry bottom feeders to mess up everything. They produce young rapidly and thickly populate the waters. Worse still, they compete with the native bottom feeders. The native bottom feeders are smaller. Larger, tastier fish like salmon (鲑鱼) eat them. The native bottom feeders are an important part of the ecosystem. When the Asian carp outperform them, the whole food chain suffers, all the way up to the people.

Not only do Asian carp mess up the food chain, they mess up people seriously. Remember that silver carp can be 100 pounds. There is a reason why they are also known as “flying carp.” This particular species of Asian carp has a tendency to jump when frightened. They can jump up to ten feet in the air when the sound of boat motors frightens them. In 2018 a woman jet skier bumped into one and broke her nose and back. She almost drowned. Many others have been injured by these flying carp.