Now there are about 32 million deaf children around the world. Deaf children often have problems in ________ to read. And smartphone maker Huawei, wants to help them out ________ a new app called StorySign. It is powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

Parents and teachers can use the app to help deaf children learn ________ to read. It is easy to ________ the app. Just open the app and ________ on the chosen book from the StorySign Library. Hold the phone up to the words on the page, and the AI Star will then sign the words as the printed words are highlighted (照亮).

Users can also ________ a book from the app’s book library. The first book on the StorySign platform is the popular children’s book Spot the Dog (《斑点狗小玻》).

The app start with a ________ called The Silent Child. The film sees a young girl Star reading ________ with her father on Christmas Eve. Later that night when she goes downstairs to look at her presents, she is filled with ________ to see Father Christmas who hands her a book as a gift. When Father Christmas ________ that the little girl is deaf, Santa begins to sign the book to her.

The developers specifically design the product to make the app’s main character Star ________ with both boys and girls by making her an elder sister or friend. They will help the deaf children read and understand the book. Star’s facial expressions and hands are able to fully ________ the “perfect”sign language. Star also wears a hearing aid (援助). This way, not only are the deaf children learning to read, but they are also happy.

“We created StorySign to help make it ________ for families with deaf children to enjoy an enriched story time,” said Andrew Garrihy, Huawei’s CMO for Western Europe. ________ many deaf children make an effort to learn to read, there are no resources that connect the differences between sign language and written text. The app can be downloaded from app stores in 10 different ________ including English, French, German, and Italian. It perfectly gives them this tool to make it easier for them to read.

Inventions make the world better, smarter and—in some cases—a little more fun.

I had the meanest (最刻薄的) mother in the world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal and eggs. When others had Coke and candy for lunch, I had to eat a sandwich. But at least I wasn’t alone. My sister and two brothers had the same mean mother as I did.

My mother knew where we were at all times. She knew who our friends were.

We had to wear clean clothes and take a bath every day. The other kids got to wear the same clothes for days.

We had to be in bed by 9:00 p.m. and up at 8:00 a.m. We couldn’t sleep till noon like our friends. So while they slept, our mother gave us work to do. We had to wash dishes, make beds and learn to cook. I am sure she lay awake at night thinking up mean things to do to us.

Through the years, things didn’t improve a bit. We could not lie in bed “sick” like our friends did in order to miss school.

My mother was the meanest mother. Out of four children, a couple of us went on to higher education. None of us have ever done bad things. She forced us to grow up into educated and honest people. I am trying to raise my children like this. I will feel proud when my children call me mean, because, you see, I am so glad I had the meanest mother in the whole world.

“Life’s a long, long journey,” so we are told, and most of us would not set off on a journey, even a short one, without some ideas of where we wanted to go. Yet many people travel on life’s journey with no sense of direction at all.

Setting personal goals (目标) can give your life a sense of direction. Goal setting is used by sports players, successful business people and achievers in all fields. Before you set personal goals, think about what you want to achieve with your life.

Try to set goals in some of the following categories (类别):

Education—Will you achieve the educational goals after finishing high school? Are you still growing and learning?

Family—What kind of relationship do you want with your parents and other family members?

Creative—Do you want to achieve any artistic (艺术的) goals?

Career—What job do you want to take when you grow up? What do you need to make your dream come true?

Public Service—Do you want to make the world a better place?

Physical—Are you fit enough to do the things you want to do?

Pleasure—How do you want to enjoy yourself?

Write down the goals and think about them carefully. Are they realistic? When will you be able to achieve them?

To help make the process more manageable, divide your goals into smaller tasks. For example, if you want to reach a main goal in five years, set a three-year goal, a one-year goal, a three-month goal and a one-month goal. Then create a daily To-Do List of things that you should do today. When a goal is achieved, take the time to enjoy your success. This helps you build the self-confidence.

Remember, your goals can be changed as time goes on. But be sure your goals are the things you hope to achieve, not what your parents, family or teachers want.

The Qingming Festival is an important festival in China. It falls in early April every year. The Qingming Festival is a traditional day to visit the cemeteries (墓地), so people also call it the Tomb-Sweeping Day. Chinese people have it to remember their ancestors (祖先).

The Qingming Festival came from the Hanshi Festival during the Spring and Autumn Period. It was for Jie Zitui, a loyal minister of Jin. The festival later became a more general day to remember ancestors in the Tang Dynasty. It became a public holiday in 2008. People have one day off for that day.

Of course, the main activity of the Qingming Festival is tomb sweeping. Generally, people visit their family cemeteries and offer food, flowers and favorite things of the dead. Chinese people also like to fly kites during the Qingming Festival. That’s because people believe that the kite can send their greetings to their ancestors and it can also bring them good luck. Nowadays, many young people do tomb sweeping online, because of their busy work and being far from their hometowns.

Yangzhou Fried Rice(扬州炒饭) is a simple homemade dish, made from cold cooked rice and egg. It is so named b    61     its beginning can be dated back to Yangzhou.

It is said that people along the Ancient Yangzhou Canal s    62     to eat egg-fried rice during the Spring and Autumn Period (770 - 476 BC). They usually fried the leftover (剩下的) rice together with egg. Later, local cooks added many materials like green peas and mushrooms i    63     the rice. This is the earliest Yangzhou Fried Rice.

Yi Bingshou, the Yangzhou Taishou (太守) during the reign of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, added shrimps and diced meat when c    64     the dish. And he introduced the dish to South China. Since then, Yangzhou Fried Rice started to be popular. Nowadays, it appears on the menu of many Chinese r    65    .

Yangzhou Fried Rice has different kinds, the most famous of which is “gold wrapping silver (金裹银)”. “Gold wrapping silver” means that the rice is c    66     by golden egg. To make “gold wrapping silver', rice, first fry the rice in the pot and then cover the rice with egg. After cooked, the exterior (外部的) is golden while the rice inside is w    67    .

Today, Yangzhou Fried Rice is a household (家喻户晓的) n    68     in many countries. Many foreigners like eating egg-fried rice, but they have no i    69     about what Yangzhou is. In their minds, Yangzhou is not a name of a city, but the w    70     of cooking rice.

Welcome to Yangzhou and enjoy Yangzhou Fried Rice.

76. 时间在不经意中从指尖划过，转眼我们即将从母校毕业，愉快的暑假也即将来临了，同学们可曾思考如何度过一个多彩的暑假呢？根据以下思维导图的提示，以”My summer holiday plan”为主题的写一篇暑假计划的英语短文。

My summer holiday plan

Summer holiday is coming._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________