【推荐1】The world's oceans make life possible on this planet.They help regulate the global climate, absorb carbon dioxide and provide food and livelihood for billions of people.

But even though they cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface, our oceans are being ruined by lots of plastics, overfishing and increasing temperatures brought about by climate change and if there is one message this year's World,'s Oceans Summit tries to send it's that something must be done now to protect them.

The news that we have had from our scientists is that we are marching into a very hazardous situation.It's pretty obvious what is required is not just short-term change sometimes soon -these advocates are calling for complete change now.

But we have still got time over the next 10 years to lower our greenhouse gas emission(排放) to a level at which we will not reach that 2 degree warming stage.As you would know, once we get to 2 degrees, we lose all coral reefs in the world,for example.We're now training towards 3 degrees.

The biggest declaration to come out of the summit is the Blue Prosperity Coalition, which has the ambitious goal to ban 30% of the world,s ocean fishing by 2030.We've over-fished the oceans, and we have five to ten years to really reverse the trends as before or it's going to be too late.

We rely on the oceans for so many things, livelihoods, the food we eat and the air we breathe The oceans absorb a ton of carbon and if we don't fix the oceans now, it's going to be too late.

The coalition needs a lot more support from world governments and coalition members say with smart management they can achieve their goals while keeping fishing production without causing much economic hardship.

【推荐1】Films for you!

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving（1973）

A true classic，this Peanuts cartoon gives many viewers a sense of nostalgia（怀旧）．Return to the iconic moment when Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown right as he's about to kick it．Life is hard，but in this animated film，sweetness wins when the Peanuts group prepares a Thanksgiving feast，complete with jelly beans．

Planes，Trains and Automobiles（1987）

This John Hughes comedy starring Steve Martin and John Candy is already a Thanksgiving classic for many．Neal ends up rerouting the plane because of a snowstorm．Ashe struggles to find a way home for Thanksgiving，he gets stuck with extremely positive Del．

One True Thing（1998）

Meryl Streep was nominated（提名）for an Academy Award for her performance in this movie as a wife and mom who struggles with cancer．Renée Zellweger plays the grown daughter who has to come home to help with the holiday．The two try to hold the family together，especially during a tense Thanksgiving meal when guests get all the attention．

The Gold Rush（1925）

Charlie Chaplin as the Little Tramp eats his shoe for Thanksgiving dinner while trapped in a snowstorm in this endearing silent film classic fro m 1925．Watch this one if you're in the mood to see a leather shoe prepared and eaten as if it were a delicious turkey．It makes you grateful for what you have!

【推荐2】I passed my driving test at the fourth attempt. You might think that means I’m not as safe as someone who passed for the first time. But would you feel safer with no driver at all? Maybe not, and it’s for this reason that automotive firms have included driver-assist functions in their prototype (原型) driverless cars. This allows the human driver to take over if there is a problem.

Google is one manufacturer that has prototype driverless cars. These have been equipped with steering wheels and conventional controls to allow normal driving. But this is just a stage — the vision is to have fully automated cars very soon. The director of Google’s self-drive project, Chris Urmson, hopes his 11-year-old son will never have to take a driving test. To achieve that, the cars need to be on the roads in five years. He says driverless cars will greatly reduce accidents and traffic jams.

According to Chris, “about 1.2 million people are killed on the roads around the world each year. That number is equivalent to a jet falling out of the sky every day.” He thinks gradual changes to existing car designs are not enough to deal with the problem. “If we are really going to make changes to our cities and get rid of parking lots, we need self-drive cars,” he says.

Google’s prototypes have covered over a million kilometers on the road. They have also had to deal with unexpected situations, such as a child driving a toy car in the road, and a woman in an electric wheelchair chasing a duck. In each case, they reacted safely.

Some are not convinced. Seven Beiker of Stanford University thinks driverless cars will still need human input in extreme circumstances. He also worries that people may forget how to operate their vehicles if they do not do it regularly. “I guess I shouldn’t throw away my driver’s license just yet,” he says.

【推荐3】Thanksgiving Day is a special holiday in the United States and Canada. Families and friends gather to eat and give thanks for the blessing.

Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival. This is why it is celebrated in late fall, after the crops are in. But the first thanksgiving in America had nothing to do with a good harvest. On December 4,1619, the Pilgrims(新来移民) from England landed near what is now Charles City, Virginia, where they knelt down and expressed thanks for their safe journey across the Atlantic.

The first New England Thanksgiving did celebrate a rich harvest. The Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. They had a difficult time and the first winter was cruel. Many of the Pilgrims died. But the next year, they had a good harvest. So Governor Bradford declared a three-day feast. The Pilgrims invited Indian friends to join them for their special feast. Everyone brought food.

As time went by, other colonies(殖民地) began to celebrate a day of thanksgiving. But it took years before there was a national Thanksgiving Day. During the Civil War, Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded Abraham Lincoln to do something about it. In 1863, he announced the last Thursday of November as a day of thanksgiving. Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth Thursday in November. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day in much the same way as their American neighbours. But the Canadian Thanksgiving Day falls on the second Monday in October.

Thanksgiving Day is observed by church services and family reunions; the turkey dinner is a reminder of the four wild turkeys served at the Pilgrims' first thanksgiving feast. There are slight differences in Canada's and the United States' Thanksgiving in dates but the tradition is very similar. Other countries celebrate Thanksgiving Day as well.