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Do you like to eat out and treat yourself to delicious food? Many people are used to choosing hearty (丰盛的), fat-filled dishes and high-sugar desserts, which are not easily cooked at home, though they may be unhealthy.

According to Economic Daily, low-fat and high-fiber meals have become popular in China’s restaurants and online delivery platforms. The recent rise of light meals gives diners a smarter choice. Restaurants serving light meals have increased from just 600 in 2017 to more than 3, 500 in 2018. According to a report by Meituan, a major online food platform, the number of light meals ordered online also rose 75 percent from last year.

Having a light meal, however, doesn’t mean eating only vegetables. Different from the meat-free lifestyle, a light meal avoids oily, salty and spicy food. Instead, it contains things like boiled meat, whole grains, fruits and vegetables. Healthy nutrients (营养成分) are the theme of the light meal. These dishes are useful for keeping healthy and controlling your weight. That’s probably why so many people, especially millennials (千禧一代), are into them. Diners see it as “a great way to avoid getting fat”.

Zou Jing, a college teacher in Wuhan, shared a picture of her lunch: a mixture of beef, eggs, corn, mushrooms and cherry tomatoes. She told China Daily, “After eating several light meals, I felt my appetite (胃口) has shrunk. I now prefer light meals.”

These changes in eating behavior are connected to deeper changes in how people think about food. People are more interested in diet quality, not numbers, which is important for both weight control and health. So the next time you have a party with friends, try a light meal. It will satisfy not only your stomachs, but maybe your hearts.

5G will bring us much faster internet speeds, wider coverage and more stable connections (稳定的连接). Chinese tech company Huawei has more patents (专利) for 5G than any other company in the world. Here are some of the major things 5G can do.

High-tech Education Smart campuses (校园) are being built all over the world. With 5G, you can have classes outside your school as well. Students from poor areas can have the chance to study just like you do.

5G Roads

All of the forms of transport will be improved with 5G. 5G roads can tell electric car drivers where the nearest charging (充电) station is. It can also manage and control traffic lights and traffic flow. 5G makes self-driving cars safer.

Medical care

With 5G, doctors at the hospital can get the information from patients and have a video call to diagnose them. When people are ill, they may not need to go to the hospital. They can just see a doctor at home. Also 5G can make health care available to older people who live in the countryside.

Virtual reality (VR)

With the power of 5G, VR gamers will be able to see, hear, and feel virtual environments without experiencing any lag (滞后). You will be able to play VR games anywhere in real time with a headset. In 5G smart factories, workers can use 5G headsets to solve problems.

Smart home

Smart technology can turn any home into a nicer place to live: For example, a smart rubbish bin can keep track of the things you’ve thrown away and place an online order for new items. Smart fridges can create dinner recipes (菜谱) based on the vegetables that are being kept inside. Smart home can lower how much electricity you use overall too.

According to a research, more than 130 billion pounds of uneaten food go to waste in Laura’s country each year. That is about 30% of the yearly food supply（供应）.     46    Many families and homeless people are in great need of food.

When Laura saw her school dinning hall throw away food that was not eaten at all every day, she came up with an idea.     47    She gave away uneaten food to homeless shelters in her community. In the past three years, the same project has spread to other schools and some fast food restaurants throughout the city. The project is called Feed&Find.     48    

How does it work? Through an App, Feed Find matches local homeless shelters with school dining halls and restaurants that have eaten food to provide. When dining halls or restaurants have eaten food left, they can use the App to share the information about the food.     49    

Pretty cool, right? It’s not surprising that people in other cities have got in touch with Laura, hoping that she could develop similar projects for their communities.

    50     They think such food may not be clean enough. Still, this project is a clever way to help solve problem of food waste and it helps those in need.

The history of Chinese characters (字) is from ancient times, with a history of several thousand years. Hanzi began as simple pictures that ancient Chinese people drew, p    56     and carved to describe nature and lives.

The oldest Chinese characters are jiaguwen with 3, 000 years. They can give us k    57     about how ancient people saw the world around them.

About 80% of Chinese characters are m    58     up of smaller part which are mixed in different ways to develop thousands of hanzi. Chinese characters and Chinese culture are together. China’s writing system builds a strong b    59     connecting Chinese people and culture of the present with those of the past. Many international students are studying Chinese and are coming to e    60     China’s wonderful culture, as China takes its place in the international community.

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