【推荐2】Do you often have a cold, headache or sore back? If your answer is“Yes”,your health is a problem. Healthy food is good for our health, Tofu is a kind of healthy food. It is also traditional Chinese food. We often eat it in China. Now, many people in other countries think tofu is good for health, too. They also like eating it.

Milk is another kind of healthy food. You should drink one or two glasses of milk every day.

Vegetables are important, too. You should eat lots of them. There are vitamin（维生素)   A. B. C. D. E and other vitamins in them.

Of course, it's important to eat a balanced diet. You need some pork, chicken or beef every day. But you shouldn't eat much of them.

【推荐3】Do you like ice cream? It is enjoyed by most people as a kind of dessert throughout the world.     1     Of all the people across the world, more ice cream is eaten in Australia than in any other country: 16. 6 litres (升)per person per year.

A form of ice cream was eaten in China about 4, 000 years ago.     2    

Ice cream was brought to Europe in the l6th century, but at that time only the super-rich could afford it. When the Italian princess Catherine de Medici married the future King Henry II of France in 1533,a different kind of ice cream was served every day for a month!     3    

Ice cream was introduced to America in the1700s, but mostly enjoyed by the wealthy.

Around 1800 special ice houses were invented and ice cream became an American industry.     4     In 1946, they ate more than 20 litres of ice cream per person.

World's most popular flavour（味道）is vanilla（香草）, which was produced from vanilla beans. 80% of the world's vanilla beans grew on the island of Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa.     5    Ice cream is bought almost every day!

【推荐1】Mars (火星) is a planet. It is the fourth planet from the sun and is more than 200 million kilometers from it. That is a very long way. Mars is also a very long way away from the earth but sometimes you can see it clearly at night. Most stars are white. Mars is a bit red.

It is not a very big planet. It is about half the size of the earth. The earth has one moon. Mars has two moons. They are called Photos and Deimos.

Long ago, the only way to study Mars was just to look at it. People with good eyes could see somethings but not everything.

Later on, it was easier, because scientists had telescopes. They could see Mars more clearly. They learned much more about Mars this way.

In the 20th century things got even better. First of all we had spacecraft(宇宙飞船). They flew close to Mars and sent back information. Then, they sent spacecraft to fly in orbit (轨道) around Mars. Finally, spacecraft landed on Mars. Maybe one day a man will walk on Mars.

A man named Jamie works for NASA with the team sending a spacecraft to Mars. “We landed a rover(探测车)on Mars” he says. “It is called Curiosity.”

What is a rover? It is a machine that looks like a car. It can move about on Mars. It has cameras to take photos and it sends them back to the earth. It can study the rocks and air of Mars. It sends all this information back to the earth.

【推荐2】Each country has its unique (独特的) rules. When in a foreign country, we should obey the rules. When in Rome, do as the Romans do! Now let’s learn about some manners (礼仪) in four different countries.

Manal, from Saudi Arabia

The traditional greeting between men in my country—grasp (抓住) right hand, place left hand on his right shoulder and kiss each cheek (面颊), if you like some food, you can let out a noisy burping (打嗝), it’s rude if you don’t do so.

Razdan, from Malaysia

We greet people by shaking hands. But the handshake lasts 10 or 12 seconds. Often, both hands are used. In my country, we never use the word “No”. In Malaysia, “Yes” means “I agree” and “Maybe” means “No”.

Tony, from Germany

Always shake hands when introduced to a man. The handshake is accompanied (伴随的) with a nod of the head. Remember to be on time every time in Germany.

Paulo, from Brazil

Brazilians don’t like speaking Spanish. Be sure to speak either in Portuguese or in English. For greeting, women often kiss each other on the cheek: twice if they are married, three times if they are not.

【推荐3】Born in the 2000s, you are called the oh-ohs. Then what do you think of your generation （一代人）? Maybe you feel proud of yourselves—young, creative, connected, global, smart, or maybe good-looking? But what do other people think about your generation?

Some adults worry that you’re more interested in the phone than the world around you. They see you as the “face-down generation” and wonder how you will deal with school, friends, and family. Are today’s teenagers too busy texting and taking selfies（自拍）to become successful in real life—or “IRL”, as you would say?

Other adults worry that today’s youth are spoiled and don’t want to face the challenges of adult life. Many children born in the 1990s and 2000s were raised by “helicopter parents” who were always there to guide and help their children with a busy schedule（日程表）such as dancing, painting and so on. With parents doing everything for them, today’s young people seem to prefer to live like teenagers even when they are in their 20s or 30s.

Does the face-down generation need a heads-up? Well, probably not. The fact is that many of today’s teenagers are better educated and more creative than past generations. They also seem to be willing to become leaders. More young people than ever volunteer to serve their communities. There are also brave young people such as Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for pushing girls’ rights to go to school.

So if you are one of them born in the 2000s, there’s reason to be hopeful about the future. Things are looking up for the face-down generation. It’s possible that you will do great.

Food is thought to be the most important way to communicate in some places, so some people often order too many dishes to eat up. Chinese government “asks” the public not to waste food anytime.     1    

The managers of some restaurants are doing what they can to help people to reduce (减少) food waste. For example, if customers order more than they can eat, the waiters should remind them to reduce the number of dishes kindly.     2    

Zhong, a famous woman, said, “I think we should order just enough food.     3     “Zhong usually ordered only half a Beijing Duck and some vegetables. She believed that saving food didn’t mean losing face.

    4     We call it “cleaning the plates”. Xu Jun has done it for years. He said, “There are still a lot of people who don’t have enough to eat.     5    ” Cleaning the plates is not only to save food, but also to protect the environment and our health.

【推荐3】We all love food. But when you can’t finish your meal, how do you feel? You may think that wasting (浪费) a little food isn’t serious (严重的).

But when a whole school began to save food, there was a big change. At Hengyang No. 1 Middle School in Hunan Province, students don’t take more food than they need. “Two years ago, they wasted about 100 kg of food every day. But now, the amount of waste is down by 75 percent,” said the principal.

In China, people waste 35 million tons of food each year. That’s enough to feed the people in South Korea for a year.

Food waste is a big problem around the world. According to the United Nations, 820 million people are living in hunger today. But every year, the world wastes 1.3 billion tons of food. That’s one-third of all the food we have.

【推荐3】Welcome back home! On Sept 25, Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer(首席财务官) Meng Wanzhou, 49, arrived in Shenzhen, Guangdong after being illegally(非法地) held for nearly three years in Canada, Xinhua reported.

“After more than 1,000 days of suffering, I finally returned to the motherland,” Meng said after she got off the plane. She described the motherland, the Party and the government as the shining light that led her on the long journey home.

On Dec 1, 2018, Meng was held in Canada because the US charged (指控) her with fraud(欺诈). The US wanted to take her to the US for trial (审讯). Meng pleaded not guilty(不认罪) to the charge and finally was free to leave Canada on Sept 24 local time.

“This is a political case trying to break Chinese high-tech companies.” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said. On Sept 25, Meng’s safe return shows that the Chinese government has the will and ability to protect the rights of Chinese people and companies, according to Hua.

“A strong China under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China will always be the strong backing of each one of us,” said Hua. She added that China’s development will not be stopped by any force.