【推荐2】Should We Create More National Parks to Save Endangered Animals?

Don’t you find it worrying that more and more species of animals are in real danger of becoming extinct?     1     And I think the best way to do this is for governments to create more national parks.

    2     If this environment is destroyed — for example, when farmers clear a forest for new fields, or trees are cut down to make profits — many animals are unable to survive, and more species are likely to become extinct.

On the other hand, some people fight against the creation of national parks because they consider it is wrong to interfere with nature. They believe that wild animals are happier living in their natural environment.     4     They also point out that a few species are more likely to produce young animals in the wild than in national parks.

All in all, these disadvantages are far less important than the benefits of national parks.     5     As a matter of fact, they protect animals from their greatest enemies, that is, human beings.

【推荐3】Make Albertsville Shine

After a long and snowy winter, spring has finally come to Albertsville. The leaves are out on the trees, and the grass is green again. All around town, people are cleaning up their homes. They are pulling weeds and planting flowers. They are sweeping yards and washing windows. Before long, Albertsville will look as fresh and shiny as a new coin, right?

Definitely not. Just take a look at the streets and sidewalks around town. There is litter( 垃圾 ) everywhere: fast food wrappers, soft drink cans, plastic bags, and more. This litter is dirty and ugly. It takes the shine off our lovely town.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. In many neighboring towns, volunteer groups “adopt(认领 )” a mile of a street or road to keep clean. The groups include schools and clubs. Volunteers pick up litter, cut bushes, wash sidewalks, and even plant flowers!

Sure, the volunteers work hard, but they also get to enjoy the beauty of their town. Better yet, they feel proud of themselves for making their town a better place to live.

So what are the people of Albertsville waiting for? Talk to people in your school or club about adopting part of a street or road. Then get to work! If enough volunteer groups get busy, Albertsville really will shine this spring.

【推荐1】Whitehead is on his way to a larldmark place in African-American history in more ways than one. Three years ago, he published a novel, The Underground Railroad, which earned him fame in literature. With it, he became only the second writer of color and sixth writer ever to win both a National Book Award and a Pultzer Prize for the same novel. The book, which imagines an actual railroad for the transportation of enslaved（被奴役的）people in search of freedom, was also an Oprah's Book Club selection, sold over a million copies and earned the praise of President Obama. Barry Jenkins. the Oscar-winning director of Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, is adapting it into a limited series.

His another novel. The Nickel Boys, out July 16. follows two boys struggling through their sentences at an abusure reform school under the specter of segregation（种族歧视）in the 1960s,. It's a book that will further cement his place in the list of influential American writers.

He has Written seven books of fiction and two books of nonfiction over a 20-year career. And even before The Underground Railroad, he had earned prizes and become a best seller. Explorations of race and history have been a through line from his early works--his first and second novels, The Intuitionist and John Henry Days—to the present.

But Whitehead is unwilling to be boxed in by any school of thinking, any mode of creating. He has also written satire（讽刺文学）（Apex Hides the Hurt）, zombie horror（Zone One）and a humorous non-fiction book on poker（The Noble Hustle）, George Saunders, a popular contemporary, writes to TIME: "He is a splendidly talented writer, with more range than any other American novelist currently working—he can be furmy. Iyrical, satirical, earnest—whatever is needed by the work."

【推荐3】The Costa Book Awards consistently pick winners that are both of the moment and subsequently endure. It’s our pleasure to confirm this year’s Category Winners.

First Novel Award Winner

Book: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Author: Gail Honeyman

Eleanor is 31 years old; work finishes on a Friday and begins again on a Monday. Between, her only company will be two bottles of vodka and her own unique wisdom. It is an unexpected shared experience that suddenly opens the door to possibility. Challenging reader expectations with a living, breathing character, Gail Honeyman’s debut is a funny and moving diamond.

Biography Award Winner

Book: In the Days of Rain

Author: Rebecca Stott

The Exclusive Brethren was a closed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan. Into this is born Rebecca. Her father had been an influential Brethren Minister. As her father lay dying, he begged her to help him write the memoir. He wanted to tell the story of their family who for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect.

Poetry Award Winner

Book: Inside the Wave

Author: Helen Dunmore

To be alive is to be inside the wave, always travelling until it breaks and is gone. These poems are concerned with the borderline between the living and the dead—the underworld and the human living world—and the acutely intense being of both.

Children’s Award Winner

Book: The Explorer

Author: Katherine Rundell, Hannah Horn

Four children survive their aircraft plunging into the Amazon jungle, but for Fred and his friends, ifs only the beginning of a cruel battle for survival. Having a real command of character and incident, Rundell has few peers in superb children’s fiction.