【推荐1】AI(人工智能) makes our lives easier and better. Let’s see the amazing AI.

Cool driverless bus

A bus door opens and you get on. Wait! Where is the driver? Here is a new kind of driverless bus called Apolong. It has 14 seats and doesn’t need a driver. The bus follows traffic rules. It stops as soon as it sees a stop light.

Your close friend

Hi, everyone. I’m Xiaobing, a chatbot (聊天机器人). I speak like a 17-year-old girl. If you feel lonely (孤独的), you can talk with me. I’m talented in singing, writing poems and telling stories. I want to be your friend!

The world’s first AI anchor (主持人)

Hey, look! The famous Chinese anchor Qiu Hao is reporting the news for us. But, is “he” really Qiu Hao? The answer is “no”. This is the world’s first AI anchor. It looks and speaks just like a real person. It can work 24 hours a day and doesn’t make any mistakes. You might see it on TV soon.

Popular AI artist

This beautiful painting is at auction (拍卖) in 2022. The painting is worth about 3,000,000 yuan! But it is not a work by a famous painter, such as Vincent van Gogh. It is painted by an AI artist. Three Frenchmen created the AI artist. It studied over 15, 000 paintings.

【推荐3】For more than 300,000 years, human beings have paid much attention to developing technology to make our life easier, faster and more comfortable with the help of machines and tools.

Thanks to the modern technology, humans live longer and more healthily, and are able to get better food, medicine and shelter. We can be proud of this progress. In the past, many poor people died from hunger and diseases. But now many diseases can be cured successfully.

We need “more”, more food, more shelters, more medicines, etc. And up to now, technology has been used in various fields in the city, including intelligent(智能的) education, intelligent medical treatment, intelligent tourism, smart transportation and especially the field of 5G. Recently, Central China’s Hubei province has built more than 300 5G base stations(基站) and achieved full 5G signal coverage(信号覆盖) in some of its cities. A dozen 5G experience centers have been completed in cities including Xiaogan, Yichang and Jingmen.

With the development of the high technology, our living conditions have already been improved a lot. But we still have a long way to go. So, we ought to face all the challenges positively to make it serve us better.

【推荐1】Hundreds of years ago, no dandelions(蒲公英)grew in North America. Then people came from Europe. They had dandelion seeds on their clothes. The seeds fell from their clothes onto the ground. Since then, dandelions have spread all over.

Most people believe that dandelions are weeds. They do not want them in their gardens. But some people think that dandelion flowers are pretty. And others think that dandelions taste good. They cook dandelion leaves or put them into a fresh salad. The leaves must be picked before the flowers come out or they will not taste good. Some people make dandelion flowers into wine.

Dandelions do not die easily. If the winter is not very cold, their leaves may stay green. When the spring arrives, their flowers come out. Each night their bright yellow flowers close up. When the sun shines the next day, they open up again. Dandelion flowers are very unusual. They do not have to get pollen(花粉)from another dandelion flower in order to form seeds. So after several days, the yellow flower turns white and soft. A tiny brown seed forms at the bottom of each white petal(花瓣). When the wind blows, the petals float away. Each white petal carries a seed away. This lets the dandelions spread their seeds all over. New dandelions grow where the seeds land.

【推荐3】Bamboo (竹子) is one of nature’s (自然) most surprising plants. Many people call this plant a tree, but it is a kind of grass.

Like other kinds of grass, a bamboo plant may be cut very low to the ground, but it will grow back very quickly. A Japanese scientist reported one bamboo plant which grew 1.5 metres (4 feet) in 24 hours! Bamboo grows almost everywhere in the world except Europe. There are more than 1,000 kinds of bamboo.

Not all bamboo looks the same. Some bamboo plants are very thin. They may only grow to be a few centimetres wide while others may grow to more than 30 centimetres (1 foot) across. This plant also comes in different colours, from yellow to black to green.

Bamboo has been used to make many things such as hats and kitchen tools (厨房用具). Because it is strong, bamboo is also used to build buildings.

Many Asian countries have used bamboo for hundreds of years. They often use bamboo for buildings and supporting (支撑) new buildings and bridges while they are being built.

In Africa, poor farmers are taught how to find water using bamboo. These African countries need cheap way to find water because they have no money, and their fields often die from no rain and no water. Bamboo pipes (管子) help poor farmers bring water to their thirsty fields without spending a lot of money.