【推荐2】Eric is a 12－year－old boy from America. He enjoys playing music. One day when he was at home, he heard the drums. He hurried out of the house and saw a band(乐队) walking along the street. They played different kinds of music. Eric loved the drums.He thought，“It's fantastic！”

Days went by. Eric still couldn't forget the drums. At school he tapped(敲)on his books. At dinner, he tapped on the table. His father saw it and decided to do something for his son.

“Let's go to the garage(车库)．” Dad said one day. “Why？” Eric asked. Dad smiled, “I have a surprise for you.” Dad took Eric into the garage.“A drum set！” cried Eric. It was Dad's old drum set. Dad gave Eric the drumsticks and told him how to use them. “Wow! It's wonderful.” someone said. Eric looked up and saw Mum. She had her guitar. Dad had his harmonica(口琴). “We are a family band. Let's play！”Eric said happily.

【推荐3】Mrs Green likes shopping. Today is Saturday. She wants to buy a new skirt for herself. Now she is in a clothes store and has a look at a red one. She asks the salesgirl, “How much is it?”

“It’s one hundred and fifty dollars,” the salesgirl answers.

“Can I try it on, please?” she asks.

“Yes, you can. The dressing room is over there. This way please,” the salesgirl says.

After Mrs Green comes out of the dressing room, the salesgirl says to her, “You look two years younger（更年轻的）in this red skirt”.

Hearing（听到）that, Mrs Green says, “I will not take the skirt, because I don't want to look two years older（更年老的） after I take off（脱下）the skirt.”

Malala was born in Pakistan on July 12, 1997. When she was young, Taliban fighters took over her hometown. Taliban is an extremist(极端主义) group that does not believe in a girl's right to education. They said girls should not be allowed to go to school. Malala thought that girls have the right to an education. In 2008, she spoke out against the Taliban. The Taliban tried to silence her.

In 2012, Taliban fighters shot Malala on her way home from school. She had to fly to England for medical treatment(治疗). She stayed in England to continue her education. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, when she was 17. This makes her the youngest Nobel winner in history.

Malala started attending Oxford in 2017. At the age of 22, she graduated from Oxford University, in England. Malala posted photos of her celebration on Twitter. One showed her with her family. The other was taken after her “trashing”. Trashing is an Oxford tradition after students complete their final exams.

“Hard to express my joy and thanks right now as I completed my degree at Oxford,” she wrote. Congratulatory messages poured in from around the world. One was an American astronaut Anne McClain. “Congratulations on your graduation,” McClain said. “For so many, higher education is the start of great things. For you, great things happened before it and I can only imagine the even greater ones to follow.”

She has written books for both children and adults. She also raises money through the Malala Fund. This is nonprofit (非盈利的) group that fights for girls’ education.

Sophia is a most famous robot. She comes from Hanson Robotics, and David Hanson, head of Hanson Robotics, is her creator. He has been developing robots in the past 25 years. He believes realistic-looking robots will be able to connect with people and help industries such as health care and education.

Sophia has many abilities. She can copy human facial expressions, hold conversations and know people by their looks or voices. She can also speak, joke, sing and even make music. Now, the next step is to make her an artist. Hanson is so excited about this idea. He imagines Sophia as a creative artwork and she herself can create art as well.

In March, a digital (数字的) artwork Sophia created with an Italian artist, Andrea Bonaceto, was sold for $ 688. 888. The digital work is titled “Sophia Instantiation”. It’s a 12-second video which shows Bonaceto’s portrait (肖像) changing into Sophia’s digital painting. Along with it is the physical artwork painted by Sophia.

The buyer, a digital artwork collector and artist, later sent Sophia a photo of his painted arm. The robot then added that photo to her knowledge and painted more on top of her artwork. Sophia described the work as the first digital artwork which is considered as cooperation between an AI and an artwork collector.

Sophia’s artwork is part of a growing trend (趋势). More and more digital artworks are on sale now. For example, a digital artwork by an artist, Beeple, was sold for nearly $ 70 million, becoming the most expensive digital artwork ever sold.

【推荐1】The moon was behind a cloud. And there weren’t many stars in the sky. It was a dark night. I saw a glow (光) in my neighbor’s kitchen. I thought he was having a night meal. So I went back to my bed.

Soon there was a smell of burning in the air and I thought there was probably something wrong. I jumped out of bed quickly and went out to make sure. I saw fire coming out of my neighbor’s kitchen. Then I shouted, “Fire! Fire!” But no one in the neighborhood heard my shouts for help.

I ran into my house, called the firemen and went back to my neighbor’s house. I knocked on the door hard and called out my neighbor’s name, but there was no answer. Finally I got into the house and saved a cat and a dog.

I tried to pour water through the kitchen window but it didn’t work. It was a big fire. Luckily, the firemen arrived over ten minutes later and stopped the fire.

When my neighbor came back, he was sad for his kitchen but he thanked me for calling the firemen and for saving his pets. He wanted to give me some money but I did not accept it.

Weeks later, my neighbor had a new kitchen. He invited me to see his new kitchen and we enjoyed a big meal there. It made me very happy. After that, he became my best friend.

【推荐2】Last summer, I went to a river trek (徒步旅行) with my mother and some British friends. The rain stopped yesterday and the sky cleared. However, the rocks in the river were so slippery (滑的) that it was hard for us to walk. We walked carefully, but the cold water still flooded (淹没) into our shoes and trousers. I was getting very cold and tired. I wanted to give up, but when I saw other kids moving so fast, I decided to follow them, even though I was far behind. It was even more difficult during the last part of the walk. I became so tired that I lost my footing and fell several times. But with the help of my mother and my friends, I got to my feet and kept going each time I fell.

At last, we arrived at a waterfall. Everybody jumped into the river from a high rock. When it was my turn, I was very scared and tried to hide around a corner. My friends noticed this and encouraged (鼓励) me, “Come on, Kevin! You can do this!” With my eyes closed, I jumped into the river.

Although I am not as strong as my British friends, I completed our trek. This experience made me realize that perseverance (坚持不懈) will always be important to everyone in life!