【推荐1】①African Americans added a lot to the history of music between 1900 and 2000. Blues, rocks and rap are all important.

②The blues is sad, slow music from America. Blues musicians are often African Americans. Blues songs often tell sad stories because Africans in America had difficult lives.

③Rock music comes from America too. It started in the 1950s. The slow, sad blues and American country music come together to make rock. It’s good for dancing. Blues musicians usually play alone, but rock musicians usually play together.

④Rap music comes from African American music. It first started in the 1970s when young African Americans played on the street of New York City. Many people now think that the words of rap music are really poems. Rap is very important in pop music.

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【推荐2】Do you want to celebrate your birthday in space? It would be very different from what you might do on earth. For example, your birthday cake would be flying. The candles could not be lit because astronauts cannot start a fire in the spaceship.     1     Voices are almost the only things that are not changed by being weightless, which means that everything has almost no weight in space.

    2     Some feel as if they have a cold all the time. That’s because without gravity (引力), the fluids (液体) in their bodies move towards their heads. Their faces look a little fatter. For the same reason, their waists (腰) get smaller and their chests get bigger.

And because gravity is not pressing on the spine (脊椎). The spine relaxes and stretches (舒展). Astronauts grow one or two inches in space.     3    

Since nothing has weight, astronauts can lift heavy objects easily.     4     However, it is harder to stay still in space than to move around, so the astronauts always hold onto something or tie themselves to something.     5    

How different life in space is from that on earth! Do you want to experience the life in space?

【推荐1】This year is the Year of the Tiger. Do you know anyone born in the Year of the Tiger? What’re they like? Are they brave, strong and tenacious (顽强的)? If so, they are typical “tigers”.

In Chinese culture, tigers are considered as the king of all animals. They are the symbol of power, energy, protection, generosity (慷慨). Tigers are regarded as fearless animals, so that’s why in China people often paint pictures of tigers on the walls of houses to protect themselves from danger.

▲ As tigers mostly live in Asia, they have become a cultural symbol of Eastern countries for people in the West. For example, in the book Life of Pi, Canadian writer Yann Martel chose a Bengal tiger as the partner for the Indian boy Pi on his adventure (冒险) in the Pacific Ocean.

In the West, tigers are also seen as very powerful animals. In English, if you want someone to calm down you can say to him, “Easy, tiger.” Another famous phrase is the “eye of the tiger”. People who have the “eye of the tiger” are usually confident and fierce (凶猛的).

Tigers are also one of my favorite animals. I first learned about the beauty of tigers as a child while watching animal documentaries. And my favorite toy while growing up was my toy tiger. As a young animal lover, I feel so sad that they are in danger of dying out and I want to help protect them.

【推荐3】When I was a child, there were many foods that I did not like to eat. But there is a kind of food that I always love: cheese and tomato soup. It always tastes great.

This kind of food is called comfort (安慰) food. Comfort food means simple, easy-to-make food that is delicious. Your parents may make it for you when you feel bad.

Different countries have different comfort foods. In France, French onion soup is a popular comfort food. It is made of cheese, onion and bread in soup. In Japan, many people eat ramen (拉面) noodles. And in Poland, pierogi, a kind of dumpling, is simple and delicious. I tried all of these foods and they’re all quite excellent.

Do Chinese people have their comfort foods? That’s for sure. Most of them enjoy noodles and dumplings. As for my Chinese friend, a kind of noodle which is called dandanmian is quite comforting. Chicken soup is another example of comfort food in China. It’s a simple soup made of chicken and some vegetables. When someone doesn’t feel well on a cold day, a bowl of hot chicken soup is always comforting.

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