Do you hear of Zhong Yetang? If not, let me tell you something about her. Zhong is a young girl who made videos and played them on Bilibili. In those videos, she cooked food from ancient (古代的) books and showed the battle-rapping (说唱) between ancient people. Such special videos brought the girl a number of followers.

Zhong said she wanted to bring ancient history back to life. “I don’t want people to see ancient culture as boring and far-off things. It can be cool and popular,” she said.

To make her videos, Zhong did a lot of work. She read at least five passages and books about the person because she wanted to tell his or her story. Then she thought of herself as these people in order to feel their feelings. She also went to markets to collect recipes (收集菜谱) from the old times.

“You also need to quickly know about hot things online,” Zhong said. There was an online talk about whether hanfu is from China or South Korea before. In one of her videos, she acted in handfu and told its history in English. “There is no better way to make them know than just showing them,” she said.

【推荐2】Cars for Kids

John loves his cars. In his room, he has toy cars (玩具车) of all makes, models and colors everywhere.

Near his home, there is a toy shop—The Magic Toy Shop. It is John’s favorite shop. John’s grandparents love their little boy. Every time they come to John’s home, they take him to the shop and buy some toy cars for him.

One day, John’s mom said, “You have too many toy cars, my boy. I have to give some of them to people in need.”

But John said, “No, Mom! PLEASE.”

Two days later, John heard about an earthquake (地震) in Sichuan. He felt sad for the kids there and wanted to help. So he picked out (挑选) some toy cars.

He put them into a nice box. Then he took out the money from his piggy bank.

He gave his toy cars and the money to kids in Sichuan.

She was a large woman with a large handbag that had something in it. It had a long strap and she carried it slung across her shoulder. It was about eleven o’clock at night, dark, and she was walking alone when a boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her handbag. The strap broke and the boy lost his balance, fell on his back on the sidewalk and his legs flew up.

The woman simply turned around, picked him up by his T-shirt and shook him hard. Sweat bathed the boy’s face and he began to struggle. Mrs. Jones dragged him up the street. When she got to her door, she dragged the boy inside, down a hall and into a room at the back of the house. She turned on the light and left the door open.

She said, “What is your name?”

“Roger,” answered the boy.

“Roger, go to the wash basin and wash your face,” said the woman. She let him go. At last, Roger looked at the door—looked at the woman—looked at the door and went to the basin.

“Let the water run until it gets warm,” she said. “Here’s a clean towel.”

“Are you taking me to police?” asked the boy.

“No. Have you been home to eat yet?”

“There’s nobody at my house,” said the boy.

“Then we’ll eat,” said the woman. “I know you’re hungry. So you tried to snatch my purse.”

“Sorry,” said the boy, bowing his head.

“Well. You didn’t have to do that.” added Mrs Jones, “You could have asked me.”

“Madam?” With water dripping from his face…

She heated some beans and ham, made the cocoa, and set the table. Then she cut him a half of her ten-cent cake.

Late at night, she led him down the hall to the front door. “Good night!” she said, looking out into the street as he went down the steps.

The boy wanted to say “Thank you, Madam” to Mrs. Jones. His lips moved, but he could not even say that as he turned at the foot of the steps and looked up at the large woman. Then she shut the door. And he never saw her again.

Hello, boys and girls! My name is David and I’m fourteen years old. I have a great sports collection. I have a volleyball, two soccer balls, three basketballs, five tennis balls and eight ping-pong balls. I have two tennis rackets and four ping-pong bats, too. I play sports every day.①I also watch soccer games on TV.

②Tom和Mary是我的好朋友。They like sports and have many sports collections (收藏品). Tom has 3 basketballs, 4 soccer balls and 5 volleyballs. He likes basketball and soccer. He plays them with his friends after school. Mary has 30 ping-pong balls and 20 ping-pong bats, 10 tennis balls, 8 baseballs and 10 baseball hats. But she doesn’t do sports. She only watches them on TV.