【推荐1】Along with wheat, rice is one of the most important food crops in the world. It is a nutritious, healthy food. Each year, farmers grow millions of tons of rice.

【推荐3】Elephants are wonderful animals. They have very strong legs. Their legs are like trees.

They usually walk slowly because they are so big, but they walk very quietly.

The elephants living in the mountains usually stay together in big families. Usually one old elephant leads them. The others follow their leader. They like eating plants. Because they are very big animals, they need to eat lots of leaves, grass and tree bark. So they spend most time looking for food. When it is hot, they go to sleep under the trees or get into water. Elephants are kind animals. When one of them is hurt and cannot walk well,the other elephants will help it to walk.

Elephants have good memories; they never forget. If you are kind or bad to them, they can remember you.

【推荐2】Clean water is not only important for people to produce food, but also necessary for our life. However, many people in Asia and Africa don’t have enough clean water to use. The World Health Organization reports that almost 4, 000 children die each day because they drink dirty water or there isn’t enough clean water to drink.

Farmers use 70%—85% of the world’s fresh water to produce food. People usually don’t notice how much water industry (工业) uses, but you may be surprised to know that industry uses 59% of the water in developed countries.

Home use takes up only 8% in the world. But as cities grow, more water will be used. The local government has to try to make people use less water.

In 60% of European cities, people are saving water by using less. They even keep waste water for other use.

In Australia, the government has encouraged people to collect rainwater and recycle (再利用) water from showers for a second use.

The US Environmental Protection Agency has made a water saving program to encourage families and businesses to check their water use and save more water. Scientists and the UN are looking for good ways to make full use of water as the key to solving the problem. We can all work together to protect our fresh water in our daily life.

【推荐3】Every country has its favorite food. Italians (意大利人) like to eat pizza. Indians (印度人) like to eat hot food. Japanese (日本人) like to eat fish. In England, one of the most popular food is fish and chips. People usually buy it in a fish and chip shop. They put it in paper bags (纸袋), and take it home, or to their workplace (工作的地方). Sometimes they eat it in the park or on the road.

American fast food is the most popular in the world. In a lot of big cities in the world, you can find people eating hamburgers and chips.

Chinese food is also very popular in the world. In many cities you can find Chinese restaurants. Many people in the world enjoy Chinese food because it has different tastes (味道) and it’s usually delicious (美味的).