【推荐2】Here are some popular English magazines for children. It can be wonderful to read them in your time.

Instead of using the car for short journeys, why not walk or ride a bicycle? Walking is the most popular form of exercise—it’s healthy and it can save money. If you work nearby, try walking or cycling instead of driving. Walking your children to school gives them valuable road experience.

Bus companies are using new buses: some run on new fuels which produce less pollution; some have easier access（通路）for disabled and old people. There are special traffic lanes (行车道)to make bus journeys easier. So do something to help solve the pollution problem—let the bus take you to work and your children to school.

All car journeys, long or short, can be hard work. For some trips, it is wiser to take the train. Leave your car at home and walk, cycle or take a bus to and from the station. Train travel is fast, safe and comfortable. Train tickets are not always expensive.

【推荐2】For almost 100 years, the Winter Olympic Games have been a celebration for snow and ice sports around the world. They only happen every four years.

Although the Winter Olympics started with just five sports across nine disciplines (分项) in France in 1924, it now has seven sports across fifteen different disciplines and 12 countries across America, Europe and Asia ever hosted it. In 2022, for the first time ever in the Games’ history, Beijing became the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

China came a long way and achieved many goals after joining in the Winter Olympics for the first time in 1980. During the time, China won the first place in six skating events. Short track speed skating (短道速滑) has been an area of expertise (特长) for China.

China’s love for winter sports is growing. The Ministry of Education set a goal of building 5,000 special schools by 2025 to improve winter sports education. The government also asked primary and high schools to add winter sports to their subjects. Many provinces and cities already acted on this suggestion. In northern China, schools will set up classes to make students become more interested in winter sports. In southern China, schools can work together with ice rinks (溜冰场) and winter sports clubs. Beijing has already set a good example. Nearly 840,000 students in the city began taking winter sports lessons, like skating and skiing lessons.

【推荐3】Stephen Hawkins, one of the world’s most famous scientists, believed that humans will one day have to move into space.

Today, the United States, Russia, China, and Japan are all trying to send astronauts to the earth’s closest neighbor: the moon. Some of these countries want to create space stations there next 10 years. These stations would get ready for humans to visit and later live on Mars or other earth-like planets.

Robert Zubrin, a rocket scientist, thinks humans could colonize (开拓殖民地) space. He wants to start with Mars. Why? He thinks sending people to Mars will help us to learn a lot of things—for example, the ability (能力) of humans to live in a very different environment. Finally, we could create new human societies (社会) on other planets.

Space X is a company (公司) that builds rockets. Its CEO, Elon Musk, also believes we should colonize Mars. He hopes to put one million people on the planet if something bad happens to us here on the earth.

Not everyone thinks sending humans into space is a smart idea. Many say it’s too expensive. Also, most space trips are not short. A one-way trip to Mars, for example, would take at least six months. Also, these first people would find life very difficult in space. On the moon, for example, the sun’s rays (射线) are very dangerous. People would have to stay indoors most of the time.

Although there are still these worries, sending people into space seems certain. In the future, we might see cities or even new human cultures on the moon or other planets. First stop: the moon.

【推荐2】CHINA has built a biscuit factory to make food for its captive (圈养的) giant pandas, giving them a healthier diet (日常食物) than the usual steamed bread.

The special biscuits, developed by the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Centre, are shaped like bamboo so they will not seem unfamiliar to the pandas.

"The cream-colored biscuit, made of bamboo, is rich in vitamins and has 30 per cent more fiber (纤维) than normal bamboo," said Yu Jianqiu, who is in charge of the project.

Steamed bread, which is eaten by most captive giant pandas as well as fresh bamboo, loses much of its goodness when cooked, often causing bad health. What's more, it can only be stored for a short time, making pandas expensive to feed.

Thirty pandas have tried the biscuits since the factory was completed in October.

"They love our new biscuits," Yu said. "In time, all captive pandas will be given the new food."

Around 1,000 giant pandas live in the foggy mountains around the Sichuan basin (盆地) in southwest China, while about 140 live in captivity around the world.

The destruction of forests, a panda's natural home and major food source, is the biggest threat to the animal.

In 1998, China banned the cutting down of trees in panda-inhabited areas to help save an animal seen as a national treasure.

【推荐3】Your Internet experience is ruined when the net speed is too slow — it takes so long to open a web page and the reality shows you’re watching stops every few minutes. That can be very annoying.

But it could be a thing of the past. On June 3, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that China’s major telecom carriers(电信公司) would start to provide 5G services.

1 What is 5G?

The “G” in “5G” refers to the generation of mobile network technologies. 1G let us talk to each other, 2G let us send messages, 3G gave us mobile data and the Internet, and 4G made all of these things faster.

Now 5G promises much faster data download and upload speeds, and more stable connections. This means that you will be able to download an entire HD movie in seconds and only experience a short delay(延迟) between sending and receiving data.

2 What changes will 5G bring us?

With a 5G network, the short delay in information exchange will allow driverless cars to run more safely. Meanwhile, 5G-enabled wearable devices(设备) will be of great use in hospitals. Besides, VR games will become more popular with 5G. The short delay of 5G will make the games feel even more real.

3What are the disadvantages of 5G?

According to the BBC, __________, it will not be perfect.

For one thing, 5G will not“travel” far. On 4G networks, you can be 10 kilometers away from the nearest transmission base and hardly lose signal(信号). But 5G will only cover about 300 meters. And in order to use 5G, we will have to buy new products especially designed for 5G that are expensive at present. All in all, there is still much to be done before 5G’s popularization.

【推荐1】Traveling to work by car gets more expensive today. People can do nothing about the world's price of petrol（汽油）. They have to work hard to pay for petrol. However, some people are trying not to drive to work.

People have found out that it is good to ride a bike to work. More and more people return to bikes.

Children often go to school by bike. But now businessmen（生意人）are going to work by bike, too. "The bike is easy to use," says Molly, "and it is also very cheap. You can buy 300 bikes at the price of a small car. A bike doesn’t use expensive petrol. A 12-year-old child can learn to use a bike. And most bikes can be used for along time. "

Mr. Brown goes to his hospital by bike every day. He says, "A bike doesn't need a lot of money and bike riding is good for our health. Today most people get fat because they don't get enough exercise. So I tell my patients to ride bikes. What's more, in big cities it's usually quicker to travel by bike than by bus or by car. Drivers can’t do anything but get angry when there is a traffic jam. "

【推荐2】When I was young, my father often took me on short trips. On the way home from these trips, Dad often stopped at the Dairy Queen and bought me a 10-cent ice cream.

One day, we were on our way home and I was hoping Dad would do the same. And he did.

"Would you like an ice cream today?" asked Dad.

"That sounds great, Dad!"

But then he said, "It sounds good to me too, son. Would you like to treat me today?"

Twenty cents! I could afford it. But when it was my money, an ice cream just wasn't a good use of it.

Then I said those awful words to him, "Well, in that case, I guess I'll pass. "

My father just said, "Okay, son. "

But as we turned to go home, I realized how wrong I was. Why didn't I take it as a good chance to give something back to my father? Why didn't I think that he had bought 50 ice creams, and I had never bought him one? But all I could think was"20 cents"!

I felt awful for my ingratitude. Dad had done so much for me. Shouldn't I do something in return? Love is a two-way street. One must put into what he or she has taken out.

Dad and I went on another trip the next week, and as we passed the corner, I said, "Dad, would you like an ice cream today? My treat. "

【推荐3】An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old. She couldn't run quickly, and she could not bite （咬）, because she was so old. One day the old cat saw a mouse. She jumped and caught the mouse. But the mouse got out of her mouth and ran away, because the cat could not bite it.

Then the old woman became very angry because the cat had not killed the mouse. She began to hit the cat. The cat said, "Do not hit your old servant. I have worked for you for many years, and I would work for you still, but I am too old. Do not be unkind to the old, but remember what good work the old did when they were young. "