Hi, everybody. We are in front of the South Gate. Go straight on, ______ you’ll find the Panda House. Pandas are cute. They like to eat bamboo and ______ down all day long. Lots of visitors come here ______ them every year.

Walk along the road. ______ the north of the Panda House, you’ll find the lions.They are the kings of the animal world. Remember they are ______. _______ go near them.

______ left, and to the west of the Lions’ Area is the World of birds. They can make beautiful ______. To the north of it, you’ll find the ______ Forest. Monkeys are clever and ______. They jump ______ and make people ______.

Then turn right, and you can see giraffes. They are quite tall. Their long ______ help them eat the leaves from tress. Northeast of them there’s a bridge. ______ the bridge, and you’ll see the elephants. Their large ears ______ open fans.

Here you can see all kinds of animals. Have a nice trip.

Where’s your hometown and what do you think of it?

The days pass. Dorothy works very hard in the kitchen. She remembers (记得) Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas. She remembers her friends the Scarecrow (稻草人) and the Tin Woodman (铁皮人).

She’s very sad and she often cries. At night she goes to see the Lion.

The Witch (女巫) doesn’t give him anything to eat or drink, so Dorothy takes him food and water from the kitchen. Then she lies down next to him, puts her head on his warm body and sleeps until (直到) the morning.

The Witch watches Dorothy all the time. She’s waiting for the right moment to take the silver (银色的) shoes. Dorothy wears them all the time. She loves them. The only time she takes them off is when she has a bath. The witch doesn’t like water, so she’s afraid to go near the girl when she’s in the bath.

One day Dorothy is cleaning the kitchen and she slips on the wet floor. She falls over (摔倒) and one of the silver shoes comes off. The Witch is watching. She picks it up quickly and puts it on.

“Give me back my shoe!” Dorothy says.

“No! It’s my shoe now,” the Witch replies (回答道).

“You are a wicked woman!” Dorothy shouts. “I want my shoe!”

There’s a bucket (桶) of water near the door. The girl picks (捡起) it up and throws (洒) the water over the Witch.

“Aarrgh!” The Witch cries.

“Water is the end of me!” And she starts to disappear (消失) in front of Dorothy’s eyes.

“I am going,” she says. “Going, going, going.”

——adapted from the Wizard of Oz

Spring is coming! We can see another round of flowers blooming(盛开). The peach blossom(桃花) is one of those flowers. It usually blooms in March and April.

If you want to see peach blossoms, you can go to Pinggu in Beijing, Nanhui in Shanghai or Longquan in Chengdu. But the most special place to go is Nyingchi in Tibet. Under the blue sky, white snow covers green mountains, there are a lot of pink peach blossoms.

Chinese people love the peach blossom. Many people write poems (诗) about it. People often compare(把……作对比) the peach blossom with young women. As a famous sentence goes, “In this house on this day last year a pink face vied; In beauty with the pink peach blossom side by side” The peach blossom is like the flush(红晕) on a shy woman’s face.

Chinese people also say“To have peach blossom luck”. It means being lucky in love. Some people’s eyes are the shape of peach petals(花瓣). We call eyes like that“Taohuayan”. Those people may have peach blossom luck.

Do you know ChatGPT? It’s an artificial intelligence (AI, 人工智能) tool (工具). It can answer questions, tell stories and do much more. But it’s very “thirsty (渴的)”, said a new study.

ChatGPT has “homes” around the world in data centers (数据中心). When it works, the computers at the data centers get very hot. Workers then have to use water to cool them down.

Cold water goes into pipes (管道) near the computers. The water needs to be very clean. They can’t use seawater because it can eat away at the pipes.

When you ask ChatGPT 20 to 50 questions, it “drinks” 500 milliliters of water. Scientists used 700,000 liters of water to build ChatGPT. The water use is very big. People can make 370 cars with it.

ChatGPT is just one AI tool. You need data centers to do everything on the Internet. There are more than 8,000 data centers around the world. The number is still growing. We may have to “fight (斗争)” with AI for water in the future.

根据短文的内容，回答问题。（每题答案不超过八个单词）

Uncle Hobo is a traffic policeman. Now he’s working on Main Street. An old man comes to him. He says, “Excuse me. I want to go to the supermarket. Can you tell me the way there?” Uncle Hobo says, “Yes, of course. Walk along Main Street, go past the restaurant, the baker’s and the bank, and turn right into Station Street. Go down the street and then you can see a station at the end of the street. Your destination (目的地) the supermarket is opposite (在……对面) it. It’s far from here. You can take a bus there.” The old man says, “Thank you, sir. Is there a tea room near here?” Uncle Hobo thinks for a while and says, “Yes. It’s opposite the bank.” The old man thanks him and then leaves. Several minutes later, the old man comes to Uncle Hobo again. He gives a cup of tea to him and says, “Thank you, young man.”

76. 假设你是 Tom，五一假期期间你想邀请你的朋友David和你一起参加你们社区的志愿者活动。根据下列信息，用英语写一封邀请信。

May Day is coming. There will be a helping hands activity at our community centre during the holiday.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours

Tom