Jilly, a sixth-grader in Pennsylvania, like any other student, loves to talk with her friends between classes.

One school day, Jilly was talking to her friend Melanie. Their teacher Ms. Melissa walked by. She had emailed some homework to Jilly. She asked Jilly if it had _________. In fact, Jilly was really at home instead of in the classroom. She was   _________ with her teacher and classmates on an iPad.

The iPad is part of a   _________. The screen _________ at the top. There are wheels at the bottom. Jilly uses video chat to show up on the _________ . She _________ the robot with a computer to decide where the robot goes.

Jilly has an illness. Her body does not make enough _________ which human bodies use to do work. Jilly does not have a lot of energy so she is too _________ to go to school most days. A teacher was _________ to give her lessons at home. However, being taught alone made Jilly feel __________ and   sad. Last year, school leaders advised Jilly to try the robot. She and her family loved the idea. It lets Jilly be __________ of the classroom. She can take tests. She can have fun with friends. She can __________ go on field trips.

Jilly is not the only student who uses a helper robot. Paul works at a different school district.   He’s also too sick to go to school. The other students get used to the robot right away. They treat the robot __________ their friend. They __________ it from class to class. They even greet it in the hallway!

Recently, Jilly’s social studies class learned about ancient Egypt. The robot stood by her desk at school. Jilly sat in front of her computer at home working with her friends. They looked up facts about Egypt. They talked and laughed __________ they worked. On the iPad, Jilly gave a thumb up.

Once there was a beautiful horse. It looked unhappy every day and so he went to see the God and asked, “My God! I hear that you can meet everyone’s need. Can you help me?” “OK, my son. What do you need?” asked the God. “You have given me some advantages. I am very thankful to you. But now I wish you could make me more beautiful,” said the horse.

The God said, “I have no idea how to make you more beautiful. Tell me what you want to be like.” The horse said, “If you can make my neck a little longer, my upper body will be more beautiful. And if you can make my legs much thinner, then I will look more beautiful in my lower body.”

The God said, “Amen!” Then he made a camel( 骆 驼 ) appear in place of the horse. The horse was so sad that it started to cry, “Oh, God, I wanted to become more beautiful. Am I more beautiful now?”

The God said, “This is what you asked for. You have become a camel.” The horse cried, “Oh no, I don’t want to be a camel!”

The God said, “Never try to get more than I have given you. If you do, at every moment you will want more and more. But you have no idea what the result will be.”

People are playing video games everywhere these days, whether they’re riding a bus or sitting in a restaurant. Some of them enjoy these games so much that they can’t put them down.

But is this a healthy habit? The World Health Organization (WHO) doesn’t think so. In June, it recognized “gaming disorder (障碍)” as a disorder in mind in its International Classification of Diseases, CNN reported.

“Gaming disorder” refers to playing video games persistently(持续地) or recurrently(经常重复地) , whether online or offline. Of course, not everyone who plays video games has this disorder.   It has three main characteristics.

The first sign is when the player loses control over his or her gaming habits. The second is when playing games becomes more important than other activities for the player. The third is when the condition leads to serious problems in the player’s personal and family life. Many experts said that people all over the world should consider the condition as something to take seriously. It is believed that new services to treat this disorder will appear following the WHO classification.

In fact, some countries are already working to solve this problem. South Korea has introduced a law not allowing children under 16 to play online games between midnight and 6 a.m., USA Today reported. Chinese tech company Tencent is also setting limits on the amount of time that teenagers can play its games. Children between 12 and 18 years old can only play two hours per day.

If you have “gaming disorder”, you should ask for professional medical help. But if your condition is not that serious, you can use delayed gratification(延迟满足) to deal with it, according to the National Institute Of Education Sciences. For example, if you tell yourself not to play any video games on weekdays, you can allow yourself to play for three hours during the weekend. Or if you really want to play them after school, you can tell yourself that you cannot do so until you have finished your homework.

Deep Green Bush School is New Zealand’s newest and most unusual school with just eight students. The weather is so beautiful that the school day will start with fishing. After, the kids will eat lunch cooked on an open fire. Homework and classes? Canceled. Students spend most of the day outdoors exploring nature. They also learn about the plants and animals of their home. Students learn to read and write, but they do so at their own pace, when they begin getting interested, not when the teacher decides it is time to learn.

“We are called a school but we look nothing like any school out there,” says Joey Moncarz, who had been a teacher in more common schools for five years before he helped start the school more than a year ago. Being worried that common schools were not preparing children for the problems of the future, he began thinking about a very different kind of education, teaching kids the skills of survival.

Some parents saw their kids were unhappy and stressed in mainstream education and began to question whether it is normal or right for kids to come home stressed and unhappy. People have asked Moncarz to open similar “bush schools” around New Zealand, and as far away as Europe and China.

David Berg is a learning expert. He said schools like Moncarz’s are becoming more popular. However, he says, these schools need to be careful. Children need to learn traditional subjects so they can find jobs in the modern world. Berg said many people still feel it is important to spend more time in nature. People in the modern world need to have many skills and some of those can be developed outside.

Moncarz insists that the school isn’t an experiment( 试 验 ). For two million years, parents   have brought up their kids with nature, he said. “We don’t want to be one of a kind, we want to take the place of mainstream schools,” he said. “We are using the same method parents have used to teach their kids for millions of years. Locking kids in a classroom and driving them to learn just causes a lot of problems.”

Naples in Italy is a     61     city. I walked along the peaceful streets yesterday.     I took many interesting photos of streets and buildings. The people there were very friendly. They helped     62     find the best restaurant. The smell of delicious pizza in it was so good. I ate a lot. The ice cream made with fruit tasted pretty good,     63    . The train trip across Italy was fast and the countryside was nice. Now I am     64     another city. It is a great place for me to take a vacation. There are quiet mountains and a river. People can go for a walk by the river and take a boat trip. Here I am listening to     65     as I am having a hot cup of coffee, enjoying mountains and the river from my hotel window. How relaxed I am!

Here is a picture of a dog with a lantern in his mouth. Jock is his name. Carlo, his owner    66     him to be useful since he became a family member. The road in the town is full of holes. In fact, on a dark night, it is not safe for any person to go out without a light. So Carlo trained Jock     67     a lantern for him at night.   The dog can do it well. He never walks too far ahead but keeps near to his owner.

Carlo lives about a mile from the town. When he can not get home before dark, Carlo’s wife     68     Jock to pick him up with the lantern. “Come on, Jock, go for your owner!” This is her order. Jock always knows where to go.

But this evening, the dog couldn’t find Carlo at once. When he got to the town, he ran off to a house where his owner often was. Still holding the lantern, he     69     at the door with one of his feet. But someone came to the door and said, “Your owner is not here, Jock.” Jock quickly ran to one house after another, until he found Carlo. Then the two set off together for home. The dog, as usual,     70     ahead the man quietly with the lantern in his mouth when the feeling of happiness appeared in the man’s heart.

Do you have lunch at school? Do you like having lunch at school? “School dinners”（that means “lunch”）is a hot topic in the UK these days.     81    . Some people think that school meals are unhealthy, some people say that they are much better than those in the past and others say that midday meals should be free for all school children.

A typical school dinner costs about two pounds (about 17 yuan) a day for a secondary pupil in the UK. Parents usually need to pay for the typical school dinner in advance online. There is usually a main course, a dessert and a drink. And dinners must include food groups such as fruit and vegetables, protein and carbohydrate(碳水化合物).     82     For example, there are limits(限制) on number of fried food. Children are only allowed to eat small amounts of fatty or sweet food. Besides, three different kinds of fruits and vegetables must be served each week. More recently, online systems like “Parent Pay” give parents more control over what their children are eating at school.     83    

Martha Payne, from Scotland, started a blog called Neverseconds about her school dinners when she was just nine years old. She posted photographs of her lunch every day and gave the food a grade out of ten.     84     Many people read her blog and young people from all     over the world posted pictures of their school meals on Neverseconds.

Now, more than a third of British school pupils have school dinner. Some take a packed lunch, prepared at home. Others either have lunch at home or eat at nearby take-away restaurants.

There are also many plans to examine school dinners in the UK and look at ways to make them better. Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent started Leon, a chain of restaurants which sell healthy fast food. The British government has asked the two restaurant owners to collect information about school dinners and see how they can be improved.     85    

86. 同学们，生活是一份礼物，你的生活也应该是精彩的。除了在校的学习及活动以外，你也可以做些其他有意义的事情，例如：读书，艺术，运动……。请以 “Colorful Life” 为题，写一篇英语短文，谈谈你将如何把生活变得更加丰富多彩。

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