If you’re lucky enough, you may find a bouquet (花束) of flowers when you travel around the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, the UK. Who ________ the beautiful flowers around the town? It’s Fay Trowbridge.

Fay is the ________ of a flower shop called Daisy Chain. She began leaving bouquets around Merthyr Tydfil five years ago. Since then, she has left 150 bouquets around her town. She hopes that her small act of kindness can ________ happiness. “________ I can only make one person smile, to me that’s better than none,” she said.

This year, Fay wanted to help ________ businesses by leaving bouquets outside different shops, parks and schools in her town. There was a ________ in. each bouquet. It read, “I am a   ________ bouquet left for you—by Daisy Chain. Please take me home for yourself or someone you ________. Then tell the world about me on www. facebook. com/faysdaisychain. ________ a picture or mention me. Have a pleasant day.”

Emma Munkley found the flowers on her way to Gwaunfarren Primary School where she works. “As a member of the staff (全体职工), it is ________ thought to be nice to put the flowers in the staff room to brighten our day up.” she said, “All of the staff loved them.”

Well done, Fay!

Nanjing Confucius Temple lies in the Nanjing City, at the north bank of the Qinhuai River. It was built in 1034 to show respect for Confucius, who was a great thinker and educator of ancient China. The temple was also a college. People considered it as a cultural center in the old times.

The whole temple covers a large area and includes a group of old buildings. For example, Gongyuan used to be an examination school. It was founded in the Song Dynasty as a place to choose officials.

Now the temple has turned into a popular place for traveling. Thousands of tourists come here to pay a visit. They can not only know much about the history, but also learn Confucius’s great ideas on education. Visiting the temple at night will give visitors a different feeling. It’s wonderful to take a boat on the Qinhuai River. The water looks more beautiful as the sun goes down. So do the ancient old buildings because they are all lit up by lanterns. What a nice thing to recite some Confucius’s sayings on the boat!

The temple holds many cultural activities during the Spring Festival. It’s a good chance for tourists to experience traditional Chinese arts, like paper-cutting and piyingxi. Besides, there are more than 100 kinds of   Nanjing dishes and snacks. If you go there, why not have a try?

Now, think back about your early years as a child and ask yourself what your earliest memory is. What comes to mind? Is it a special event? Is it a memory of someone special to you? Or is it a fun game: If you’re like most children, you probably have only a few special memories that stick in your mind from between the ages of three and seven. Why is that?

According to psychologists (心理学家), most adults can’t remember much about their early lives, which they call childhood amnesia (幼儿期健忘), psychologists still do not fully understand why childhood amnesia happens. However, some studies of children’s brains over the last twenty years have given researchers new ideas about what might be going on.

Early researchers believed that children did not have fully-developed parts in their brains to allow them to keep information. Over time, however, it became clear that children could remember many things, where they live, etc.

Now experts believe children at an early age don’t have episodic memory (情景记忆). The hippocampus (海马体), one part of the brain, the hippocampus can begin tying together several pieces of information into memories.

Although it would be cool to have memories from our earliest days, researchers believe things have worked out for the best. They believe that early episodic memory could be too distracting at an early age when we’re still trying to understand how the world works! After all, children at an early age have less attention compared with adults.

How late is too late to return a book to the library? For a library in California, USA, the answer is never. After a historical book was checked out 96 years ago.

According to Chris Kreiden, director of the library, the name of the book is A History of the United States and it was written by Benson Lossing.

So how did this book make its way back to the library nearly a century later? It started with a mystery: A man returned the book without leaving any information. In the book, a library worker found a library note with the date “February 21, 1927”. On the back of the book, “This book may be kept for two weeks. ”

What places had the book been to? Who had it been with? These questions didn’t stay unanswered for long. The mystery was solved after Kreiden shared the story with the local newspaper. That’s when Jim Perry who returned the book saw it was making headlines.

“I didn’t know how special it was.” said Perry. He explained that he found the book while cleaning old boxes in his house. He said the book had been in his family for five generations (代) and was probably checked out by his grandfather-in-law.

Now the book is kept inside a display case (展柜) at the library, sending people a simple yet important message: It’s never too late to return your library book.

Have you noticed that it is easy to find what you want when you go to the library? For that, you can thank Melvil Dewey. Melvil was born in Adams Center, in 1851. His parents, owned a general store. He was always interested in books and words. That interest continued when he went to Amherst College. In 1872, he began working at the college library.

Melvil thought that it was important to be educated and libraries could play a big part in teaching people, so he wanted them to be easy to use. At the time, it was hard for people to use libraries. Books were not organized. Instead, books on the same subject might be in several parts of a library. It was hard to find books on one subject because there was no good way to know which books in a library were about which topics. So he invented a new system of organizing books. That system is called the Dewey Decimal System (DDS). It is so successful that many libraries still use it today. It is an easy way to keep track of and find books people want quickly.

Melvil did more than invented the DDS. He wanted libraries and librarians to work together, so he helped found the American Library Association in 1876. He also founded the Library Journal. Melvil did a lot for librarians. At the time, there was no place for a person to learn to be a librarian. So librarians had to try their best to learn on the job. Melvil opened the world’s first school for librarians in 1887. He also set up the first traveling library. Today’s bookmobiles are based on that library. Melvil Dewey died in 1931, but his work still helps people use libraries today.