【推荐1】Do you know what punk rock music is? I love punk rock music so much. Now let me introduce punk rock music to you. Punk rock music started in the late 1960s in the UK. Punk rock music is a way to express（表达）the singer’s thought and anger with society（社会）.

The earliest punk rock bands that formed in the early 1970s were Ramon’s, Black Flag. Then in the late 1970s, more new punk rock bands were formed such as the Clash, the Damned, Iggy Pop. Their songs were formed by some simple notes（音调）and their methods（方法）of singing were loud and they sang with anger.

Why did punk rock music develop that fast? Because the people in that time needed some ways to express themselves. There are lots of punk rock bands nowadays, such as Distillers, the Cure, Green Day. The biggest difference between the old and newer bands is their clothing. The old punk rock bands did not really focus on（关注）their clothing, but the newer punk rock bands do focus on their clothing when they are out for functions（演出）.

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OrCam is a device（设备）that reads text loud to people who are visually impaired（视觉受损的）or blind. What the people have to do is to connect the device to their glasses, point it at a text and the device will speak the words into their ear.

Wearers can also program the OrCam device to make out goods, personal items and people’s faces. For example, if you want your device to remember a person’s face, you only need to stand in front of that person, push a button and say that person’s name.

From then on, the device has known them, memorized who they are, and every time you turn your head and look at that person, it will tell you his or her name.

The device has a base unit and a head unit. The base unit is about the size of a pair of glasses’ case and can fit in a pocket. The head unit weighs less than 0.03 kilo and has a mini camera and a speaker to offer clear speech to the user.

The OrCam device can take a picture of the text, send it to the processor（处理器）which will then turn it into words and then the words will be spoken out aloud within a few seconds.

This kind of technology is life-changing to those who have conditions that cannot be corrected by glasses or operations or those who have to depend on cumbersome（笨重的）devices to read books, newspapers, menus and signs.

It’s like having a friend read to you, said Moshe Fischer, who has been blind from childhood. “Reading the newspaper has become a really relaxing experience now. I’m able to sit back and read it in a comfortable easy chair.”

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【推荐2】China has accepted Western fashion and technology as it has developed these years, but a lot of young people are turning to the past for their clothes choice and putting on traditional “hanfu”.

As the government encouraged the renaissance (复兴) of traditional culture, hanfu is getting more and more popular with the teenagers. Every year, we can enjoy different hanfu shows around the cities. These shows bring us back to ban Dynasty. We learn more about the history, culture and beauty from them.

Hanfu hasn’t been in the same style since ban Dynasty. However, this kind of clothes has something in common. They all have large soft robes (袍子), with sleeved (衣袖) that hang down to the knees, so the hands can’t be seen.

In modern China, the hanfu lovers are from history fans, cartoon fans to clothes fans.

“Clothes are the basic part of culture, so both the traditional clothes and modern clothes play the same role in culture,” said Zhang Jun, a famous reporter. “If the people and the country do not even understand our traditional clothes or don’t wear them, how can we talk about other important parts of our culture?”

【推荐3】Do you want to eat delicious food in the world? Then do you watch the popular show A Bite of China(《舌尖上的中国》)?     1     Is there any holiday with no special festival food? Here are some traditional Chinese foods.

    2     They are part of Chinese birthday celebrations like a birthday cake with candles in many Western countries. Noodles mean long life, and they can bring good luck.

Western people sometimes may be very sorry to see fish on the plate.     3     The fish has a special meaning because the Chinese word for “fish", "yu", sounds like the word for richness.     4     The dish can often be seen on Chinese's table during any big event.

A very popular food during the Dragon Boat Festival is zongzi.     5     The tradition of eating zongzi helps us think of a great man, Qu Yuan.

【推荐1】① Could you imagine being in a car driven by a computer, not a human? Recently, China has made a big step toward self-driving technology.

②Self-driving cars give us many benefits. They use computers to sense the things around them and make full use of space. This means fewer traffic jams (堵塞) and better parking of cars. For disabled or blind people, self-driving cars can help them get to the destination (目的地) more easily and safely.

③ According to US Centers for Disease control and Prevention, each year, more than 1.35 million people are killed on roads around the world. “Self-driving cars could reduce road accidents by 90 percent and save governments a lot of money”, said the website TechDim. The main cause of car accidents is human mistake. By using computers, self-driving cars don’t make wrong decisions or lose focus like humans do.

④ However, self-driving cars aren’t perfect. If something unexpected on the road happens, self-driving cars can’t react as fast as a human driver could. Also, in a bad air condition like heavy snow, self-driving cars would have difficulty seeing the lines on the road. It might lead to a serious accident. Besides these, the car’s computer system could also get hacked by someone. When this happens, some people will break into the car’s computer system through the Internet and make your car disobey the traffic rules. What’s worse, they may make the car change its destination.

③ It’s clear that there is a lot of work to do to make self-driving cars a common and safe sight on our roads. And China is taking the lead in making this happen. In the near future, more and more self-driving cars will be seen in the streets of China.

【推荐2】A sandstorm is a kind of strong wind that blows over the desert. It raises sand and dust into the air and makes it difficult to see the sun and it reducesvisibilityof most to zero. It is also known as a dust storm. Some storms are usually the result of convection currents（对流气流）caused by the strong heating of the ground. Then wind is usually strong enough to move a small hill of sand. It can make travel very difficult and can even destroy roads in flat dry areas such as those in the United States.

The Simoom is the strong hot wind that comes across the Sahara and Arabian desert. This wind is the reason for much of the dust in the air over Europe. Evidence（证据）of the dust from Simoom wind has also been found at the bottom of the sea at a long distance from the shore.

Alasksi is the strongest sandstorm. It can destroy all the things in his way. It is very dangerous. It has killed more than one hundred people in the area. The Haboob is a sandstorm that often happens in the area of Sudan around Khartoum. Sandstorms, the height as 5,000 ft (1,525m), also happened, although not often in the United States. It is stronger than the Simoom. One that appeared near Tucson, Arizona, on July 16, 1971, was widely proved by meteorologists.（天文学家）。

【推荐3】We can see lots of parks around the world. Do you know what the world's first national park is? It's Yellowstone National Park in the USA. It is a large and beautiful park. Lots of people dream of traveling there, especially in summer.

Yellowstone National Park was set up on March 1, 1872. The main part of Yellowstone National Park is in the state of Wyoming. Yellowstone National Park is very large. It has an area about 8,983 square kilometers.

In Yellowstone National Park, you can find waterfalls, lakes, forests and grasslands. The park also has hot springs. It has more hot springs than any other place in the world. What's more, you can also see some wild animals in the park. If you go to Yellowstone National Park, you can see some wild animals walking around.

Why is it called Yellowstone? The reason is very simple. There are many yellow rocks in the park.