【推荐1】What kind of apps on the phone do people use the most often nowadays? Here are some apps to make your daily life better and easier.

	Sleep Cycle helps your body get an ideal rest by monitoring your sleeping patterns and waking you up when it senses that it’s the best time. The app is free for the basic functions but you should pay for some other services
	Coach. me is a kind of app that allows users to connect and encourage each other to keep new habits. This app enables anyone to have many responsible partners while forming new habits. The app is found both on Android and Apple Store for free.
	Khan Academy is an app for all parents wishing to give their children good education from a young age. The app offers different topics ranging from science to maths. The app is free to download on your iPhone, iPad or Android smartphone.
	Daily Yoga is an app to help you fit in a few minutes for simple yoga exercises. You may spend ten minutes or so and do a few yoga poses as instructed by the app. It is free on the Apple Store.

【推荐2】We all know that bridges go over rivers, lakes, and highways. They can take cars（木头）and rope? The rope stretched across the river for people to hold. Later, people used the stones and steel（钢）to build strong and big bridges. The first steel bridge came out 254 years ago. It was just like the ones we see today.

There are names for different kinds of bridges. A bridge over a road called overpass. A bridge for us to carry water is called an aqueduct. You can drive a boat on an aqueduct! A long high bridge for people carry a road is a viaduct. And a long bridge over a sea is called a causeway. People can take a walk on a causeway.

Building a bridge is not an easy job because it usually takes many years, costs much money and needs hundreds of workers. For example, workers must build supports（支撑物）first under the water. And after that workers must spend a lot of time building piers. They are like the legs of the tables so they can hold up the bridge. This job can be really difficult in summer.

Today, bridges become a symbol of a city’s culture. Many people around the world come to San Francisco and Hebei to visit the Golden Gate bridge and Zhaozhou Bridge.

【推荐3】Yuan Longping is a great scientist who is the first person to develop hybrid rice. His research greatly solved the problem of the food shortage in the world.

Yuan Longping started the research in 1964. He put forward the idea of hybrid rice, did experiments（实验）on the farm, and succeeded in 1973. The new technology was tested in many areas of South China in 1974, and then he continued to test it in other areas. China has become the first country that can produce hybrid rice. Yuan made it possible to grow hybrid rice in large amounts, and he is called “Father of Hybrid Rice”.

Besides being a respected scientist, he is also a romantic husband and a caring grandfather.

Yuan’s granddaughters remembered that when he traveled to Hong Kong, he wanted to buy his wife a new watch, but it was too expensive, so he bought a candy instead. When he was 90 years old, his family held a birthday party. Hundreds of people came to the party. There was a moving moment: Yuan cut the first piece of cake and immediately gave it to his wife. They also said that their grandfather paid much attention to their English and math studies. No matter how tired he was after work, he would still ask about their studies.

Yuan Longping loved playing the violin, swimming and driving. What’s more, he had a special habit—playing Mahjong（麻将）with friends for an hour every evening to train his brain. Just like common people, the scientist laughed when he won and didn’t hide his disappointment when he lost. When his requirement to build a research center was agreed to, he was very excited.

This is Yuan Longping: an ordinary person who made great achievements.

【推荐1】“The delivery driver (送货员) has your food and is on his way.” This is a message you might receive after placing a take-out order. But in the near future, a self-driving car may bring food to your door instead of a human driver.

Baidu and Meituan are now working together to use self-driving technology to deliver food. They will be experimenting with this in the Xiong’an New Area, Beijing Evening News reported. The self-driving cars will mainly be used to send group orders. They won’t deal with the single orders that are usually sent by delivery drivers.

Sina Tech noted that using self-driving cars would be considered as a revolution (革命) in the food delivery industry, for it will eliminate (消除) the cost of labor (劳动力). Online food delivery services have developed rapidly in China. Almost 300 million users have used online services to order food, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

In the first half of 2019, Meituan Waimai ranked highest among all food delivery companies in terms of total orders, with Chinese food delivery company Eleme ranking second. Self-driving delivery services will promote (促进) the development of the industry. But that doesn’t mean that delivery drivers will lose their jobs. There are still some problems to be worked out. There are other safety-related problems that must also be solved before self-driving cars can be used.

【推荐3】The computers changed our lives in the 1980s, the Internet changed our lives in the 1990s, and the robots will change our lives in the new century. Do you think there will be robots in people’s homes? It’s NOT a dream that every home will have a robot.

Now robots are not only able to help people do the housework, but also able to help the doctors do the difficult operations, play chess with people, play the piano and so on.

A new cooking robot is used in Beijing. It can cook all the dishes on the menu, and you only need to wait two to four minutes. In the future, the robot will be a nurse, a security guard (保安人员) or a partner in your life.

Experts believe robots will be used everywhere, from the industrial (工业的) robots to service robots. In the future, robots will become part of the family, and provide close service for people. We all look forward to the new robot age.

【推荐2】Do you have healthy habits?