【推荐2】Do you use emojis（表情符号）? Do you know July 17th is the World Emoji Day?

Now we often use emojis when we talk with friends on the Internet（互联网）. These emojis can make our talks easy and interesting, so many people like using them. Some emojis have different meanings（意思）in different countries（国家）. In Japan, this emoji means "thank you" or "please"．But in the US, it means “praying（祈祷）”. What's more, for Americans, they like using food pictures so "chicken leg" emoji is their favorite. As for Chinese, they use "pandas" more often．

The first emojis came from Japan in 1999. They look very different. New emojis come out every year. In 2019, there are 230 new emojis. We can know things about the world from them. Some of them are about different kinds of people and animals. Some are about interesting things in the year. What is your favorite emoji？

Halloween is an autumn holiday that Americans celebrate every year. It means “holy (神圣的) evening”, and it comes every October 31, the evening before All Saints’ Day. However, it’s not really a church holiday, it’s a holiday for children.

Every autumn, when the vegetables are ready to eat, children pick large orange pumpkins. Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put candles inside. It looks like there is a person looking out of the pumpkin!

Some children put on strange masks (面具) and frightening clothes on Halloween. Some children paint their faces to look like monsters (怪物). They carry boxes for UNICEF (联合国儿童基金会). They ask for money to help poor children all around the world. Of course, every time they help UNICEF, they usually receive a treat (款待) for themselves, too.

The Globe Theater（环球剧场）in London is very famous because people can see most of William Shakespeare’s plays there. It has a history of more than four hundred years. At that time, the theater was an open air playhouse. Shakespeare wrote many plays for it. There were three floors in the theater. It had about 3,000 seats. And there was a pit for poor people. What was a pit? It was a place around the stage（舞台）. Its tickets were cheaper. People could pay only a penny to stand there to watch a drama. The seats in the three-floor building were for rich people because the tickets were much more expensive.

In 1613, a fire damaged（毁坏）the theater. Later people repaired（修复）it for some time. In 1977, a new globe theater came out. It is the same size as the old one. There is also a shopping center there. You can do some shopping before the plays start or after the plays end.

All around the world people are changing their daily habits and customs at work and at home to reduce the risk of contracting the coronavirus and prevent it from spreading.

In Beijing, red billboards tell people not to shake hands but to join their own hands together in a sign of greeting. Loudspeakers tell people to make the traditional gongshou gesture (a fist in the opposite palm) to say hello.

At a press conference in Rio, the health ministry has recommended that citizens not share the metal straws (吸管) traditionally used to drink the caffeine-rich South American drink mate. And a kiss, even if it is not on the mouth, is totally advised against.

In a sign of the times, German interior minister Horst Seehofer refused Chancellor Angela Merkel’s attempt to shake hands with him or hug him one Monday, smiling and keeping both his hands to himself. They both laughed and Merkel threw her hand up in the air before taking a seat.

The United Arab Emirates, as well as Qatar, are advising citizens to stop the traditional “nose to nose” greeting. It also said that people shouldn’t shake hands anymore or kiss. Greet each other “by waving only”, it said.

【推荐3】As we know, the used face masks must carry different kinds of germs (细菌) with the COVID-19. They shouldn’t be thrown away here and there because they may become a new source of virus.

It is not proper to mix polluted masks with household waste. The polluted masks and recyclable waste may cause a new danger to rubbish collectors. What’s worse, if a person throws a used mask on the street, someone picks it up or some people collect the used masks to sell second-hand masks for money. It will make us in danger.

So, it is necessary for the government to encourage people to make sure the used masks are safely recycled and dealt with. Special dustbin should be set up in communities for the used masks. If there is no special dustbin, people could spray disinfectant (喷消毒剂) (密封的) plastic bag in the dustbin. In order to promise the safety of others and ourselves, we have taken care of our used masks. This will help us make sure that the used masks cannot become a second source of the COVID-19.

Used masks are medical waste. However, in many places, medical waste cannot be dealt with according to the rules. For our safety, we must prevent used masks from being recycled. Each of us must do what we can to fight the disease to win the battle as early as possible.