Can you imagine going to the zoo five days a week? In Cincinnati, the US, some kids ________ do. That’s because their school is at the zoo!

The Cincinnati Zoo Academy is a public school that holds its classes at the Cincinnati Zoo. It ________ in 1975. It is a special high school for students in grades 11 and 12. The teenagers who go to school there all want to work with ________ when they are older.

Students at the Cincinnati Zoo Academy meet in a classroom at the zoo for part of their school day. They study normal (正常的) ________, such as maths and science. But each day they also spend time learning about the animals at the zoo.

There is a lot to ________! The Cincinnati Zoo has hundreds of species (物种) of animals. Students at the school learn by helping the zookeepers ________ these animals. For example, they feed hawks (鹰), clean out snake cages (笼子). Then students take ________ to test their knowledge of zoo animals.

There are bad days at the Cincinnati Zoo Academy too. For example, animals sometimes run after the students. But the zookeepers make sure that the students are always ________. At graduation (毕业典礼), the students get a fun ________. An elephant gives out their diplomas (毕业文凭)! After graduation, most students go to college to ________ animal science. Many of them come back to Cincinnati later to work at the zoo!

Chuck and Chan were twins (双胞胎), but they had never met before. They had been adopted (收养) into different families. Chuck grew up in Montana. He liked to travel and paint. Chan grew up in Baltimore. He liked to cook and read.

When the boys were twelve, both of their parents sent them to camp in Virginia. Chuck was excited about the camp, but Chan was apprehensive. He worried about making new friends. The boys were assigned (分配) to the same room. When they met, each one felt that he was looking at himself in a mirror (镜子).

The other boys couldn’t believe it either. “You have to be twins,” one of them said.

Chuck and Chan didn’t believe it at first. But they had the same birthday. “We are twins!” they decided.

They wrote emails to their parents. They wanted to know the truth. As they were waiting for their parents’ replies, the boys got to know each other better. Though Chuck was outgoing (外向的) and Chan was quiet, they had a lot in common. They both liked comedies and action movies. They both hated onions (洋葱) on their pizzas. Neither of them could swim. Then, the emails from their parents arrived. The boys were brothers.

When their parents came to pick them up a few weeks later, the boys introduced their parents to each other.

“We want to stay in touch,” Chuck said.

“We’ll write emails,” Chan added.

“How about if we send the boys back here to camp every year, so they can spend every summer together as brothers?” Chan’s father suggested. Chuck’s parents agreed, and from then on, that’s what they did.

You don’t have to be old to be an inventor. Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle when he was just eleven years old. One winter day in 1905, after a day of play, he left his drink outside with the stir stick (搅拌棒), he found his drink was frozen like an icicle (冰柱). Frank tasted it and found it was delicious. And it became a hit with his friends.

When he grew up, Frank Epperson sold land and houses for a living. By 1921 he had to make a living for his wife and five children. But Frank never forgot the frozen treat (冰品) that he had discovered. He decided to continue with it. He soon started a business—selling the frozen treats in seven flavours (口味). He named the ice on a stick “Epsicle”. His children didn’t think that was a very good name. They called the frozen treat “Pop’s sicle”. The name was later changed to “Popsicle”. In 1924 Frank got a patent (专利) for his frozen treat.

During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the United States went through hard times. Many people lost their jobs. Twin ice pops (双棒棒冰) with two sticks were invented. They were just five cents and two children could share them.

Today millions of Popsicles are sold every year. They come in thirty flavours. The most popular flavour is cherry. Now whenever we enjoy ice pops in summer, we have Frank Epperson to thank.

Look around you—how many plastic things can you find in your house? Most homes today are almost full of plastics, from water bottles to clothes, chairs, and even computers. Regretfully, so are our rivers and oceans.

According to the report, about 583 billion plastic bottles were produced in 2021. That is 100 billion more than just five years ago. This year, five trillion (万亿) plastic bags were used.That was 160,000 every second. Americans alone use half a million drinking straws (吸管) every day.

However, very little of the plastic that goes into recycling bins (垃圾箱) can make it through the recycling process (过程). Experts (专家) think that only around 9% of plastic is recycled. About 16% is burned for electricity or heat. The rest ends up in landfills or bodies of water.

So how do you make sure plastic things you use are recycled? Begin by making sure the things you put in your recycling bin can be recycled. And in most cases, plastic things can’t be used again if they have more than one kind of plastic in them. That’s because some plastics can’t be mixed together.

How about those plastic things that are able to be recycled at a recycling centre? First, workers make sure that each plastic is clean. After that, the plastic things are made into small pieces. At last, they are melted (融化) and used to create new things. One of the commonly seen products is new plastic bottles. Recycled plastic can also be used to make clothes, pens, and building materials!

Over the past twenty years, Shi Yanchun has helped restore (修复) more than 1,000 cultural relics (文物) in Shanxi Province.

Born into a folk (民间的) art family in Liaoning Province in 1970, Shi is the fourth generation (一代人) of his family to work with painted clay sculptures (泥塑). He has shown an interest in traditional Chinese art s    55     he was a child and learned from his grandfather, a famous painted clay sculpture folk artist. With hard work and talent (天赋), Shi made progress q    56    .

In 1990, Shi b    57     to work on painted clay sculptures across the country. “During the process (过程), I had the c    58     to learn more from local artists and workers. It helped improve my abilities,” Shi said.

In 1998, Shi and his father were invited to restore a painted sculpture at the Faxing Temple in Changzhi, Shanxi. To improve his understanding of the ancient artwork, Shi v    59     lots of places with ancient sculptures. Finally, the father-and-son team’s work turned out to be a g    60     success.

According to records, there are more than 2,000 painted temple sculptures in Changzhi that were made between the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. “They are great t    61     in China,” Shi said. To do more r    62     on them, Shi decided to live in Changzhi in 2006. Over the following y    63    , he spent most of his time restoring sculptures and studying the ancient art and its skills. And in 2010, he set up the Shanxi Changzhi Painted Sculpture Art Research Institute. He also gave a lot of speeches across the country.

“I hope I can help s    64     traditional Chinese culture to every corner of the world, as well as passing down the skills of restoring painted sculptures,” said Shi.

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