【推荐1】Toothpaste (牙膏) does more than just keep our teeth bright and white. It can be used wisely in many other ways. Here are some useful tips that can save us time and money. If you follow them, you will have a fresh smell of using toothpaste!

【推荐2】In the 13th century, the Italian traveler, Marco Polo, traveled a long way to China, During his stay in China , he saw many wonderful things . One of the things he discovered was that the Chinese used paper money. In western countries, people did not use paper money until the 15th century. However, people in China began to use paper money in the 7th century.

A Chinese man called Cai Lun invented paper almost 2000 years ago. He made it from wood. He took the wood from trees and made it into paper. He then put these pieces of paper together and made them into a book.

Now paper still comes from trees. We use a lot of paper every day! If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees on the earth. If there are no trees, there will be no paper. Every day , people throw away about 2800 tons of paper in our city . It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting nearly 48000 trees every day. Since it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow, we must start using less paper now. If we don’t, we will not have enough time to grow more trees to take the place of those we use for paper.

So how can we save paper? We can use both sides of every piece of paper, especially when we are making notes .We can choose drinks in bottles instead(代替) of those in paper packets. We can also use cotton handkerchiefs (手帕) and not paper ones . When we go shopping, we can use fewer paper bags. If the shop assistant does give us a paper bag, we can save it and reuse it later.

Everyone can help to save paper. If we all think carefully, we can help protect trees. But we should do it now, before it is too late.

【推荐1】Having the flu is a terrible thing, because it makes us feel so bad.     1     It means you may have the flu at a party or during a trip. So what can we do to fight against the flu?     2    

◆Keep away from sick people

Flu viruses (病毒) travel through the air.     3     Wear a mask (口罩) when you go out or hang out at the shopping mall. If someone in your family get the flu, try not to touch each other.

◆Wash your hands well and often

    4     Whether you’re at home, at school, traveling, or out in the neighborhood, washing your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds is the easiest way to stop the flu viruses.

◆Having good living habits

Clean your home every day when someone is sick. Don’t touch your eyes, nose or mouth. Drink more water, eat healthy food, get enough sleep, and take more exercise.     5    

The flu is terrible. But if you follow the advice, you don’t need to be afraid of catching it.

【推荐3】Different countries have different customs(习俗) in giving presents.

In China, you must never give a clock to a Chinese person, because the sound of the word “clock” is similar to the sound of “death” in Chinese. Moreover, don’t wrap(包装) a present in white , black, or blue paper, because these are the colours for funerals(葬礼). Don’t give a knife, because something sharp can cut a friendship.

In Russia, if give flowers as a present, we have to give an odd number of them (one, three, five, etc.) because even numbers of flowers (two, four, six, etc.) are for funerals.

In Germany, flowers are good presents to take to your hostess, but don’t take her red roses because it means you are in love with her. Don’t take thirteen of anything, either. Don’t wrap your present in white, brown or black paper.

【推荐1】Here are my three photos.

This is my friend, Wu Huan. She is a good girl. She is 11 years old. She is in ChongQing with her family. She likes vegetables and chicken. She doesn’t like ice cream or strawberries.

This is me. My name is Chen Ming. I am 12 years old. I am a middle school student in Suzhou. I like eating fruit and vegetables. But I don’t like eggs or carrots.

This is my friend, too. His name is Doudou. He is in Suzhou with me. He likes bones(骨头). He doesn’t like broccoli. He likes playing with balls. He is a nice dog!

You can receive your takeaway (外卖食品) at home without going to the restaurant these days. Maybe you and your parents even order pizza sometimes. But the first pizza delivery (递送) in history took place (发生) about 150 years ago in Italy.

In 1878, Queen Margherita became the first queen of Italy. As the story goes, the queen got tired of eating “fancy” meals and wanted to eat “common” food. Raffaele Esposito, the most famous pizza cook at that time, was asked to deliver a pizza to the queen. He prepared a pizza with red tomatoes, white cheese and green basil (鱼香菜) standing for the colors of Italy’s new national flag. As soon as the pizza was out of the oven (烤箱), he quickly delivered it to the queen himself. The queen had never eaten pizza before and said it was one of the best things she’d ever eaten. Esposito named the pizza after the queen, and it has been served in nearly every pizza restaurant in the world ever since.

Today, pizza is one of the world’s most popular fast foods. In 1973, US pizza company Domino’s Pizza promised to deliver its pizzas in “30 minutes or less” — if the pizza was late, it would be free. Little Caesars, another US pizza company, offers a “Hot-N-ready” pizza at all of its stores. These pizzas are cooked around the clock so that there are always fresh pizzas for customers. You go to the store, pay 6 dollars and walk out with a fresh pizza with no waiting time. Pizza, it seems, might be the real “fast” food.