What tools do we Chinese eat with? Chopsticks! They look like ________ beautiful short thin sticks. They are made ________ many different materials. The materials that are made into chopsticks ________ wood, bamboo, plastic, iron, silver and even gold. Though there are so many different ________ of chopsticks, I think the best ones are bamboo chopsticks ________ bamboo grows fast and it is easy to get. They are much cheaper. Wood chopsticks are also very good, but a tree needs to grow for many years ________ it can be used to make chopsticks. Using bamboo chopsticks is ________ for the environment than using wood chopsticks. Silver chopsticks can ________ to not only eat food but also examine food. In the old days, the emperors and the rich people used ________ to check if the food had poison (毒) in it. If the food has poison, the silver chopsticks ________ black.

Try chopsticks and have a different experience.

There are different types of maps. Let’s have a look at their uses, and you will get more knowledge.

Tourist maps, for example, have signs to show places of interest in an area. When tourists read these maps, it is easy for them to find where to go and what to see in a place, and it is easy for them to find their ways to these places.

Road maps show large areas so that people can plan long routes. Different roads have different numbers. For example, if you want to go to Wood Green, you just follow the No. 621 Road and keep looking at the road signs.

Distribution maps use different colors or signs to show facts about an area. For example, in this map, you can see where the four kinds of agricultural products (农产品) are grown in Lake-side and how big each area is.

Some maps like railway maps use straight lines to show everything. This is easy for people to read. Trains are fast. People just need to know main places they go past.