【推荐1】Henry: I find the Internet is very good for shopping. I use it more and more for buying books and CDs, and I even bought some clothes over the Internet. The other thing I can do is to book tickets over the Internet. I booked a cheap flight once. It was very easy, and it was really good.

David: I use the Internet for games. I play chess with people all round the world. Last night I had a game with someone from Japan. I also download games from the Internet, so I can have any game I want.

Peter: I use the Internet for anything I need to help me with my school work. I use the online dictionaries, encyclopedias (百科全书) and magazines. It's great because I can download pictures or articles and use them with my homework. It's very easy to use and it's free, so I like it.

Tony: Well, the main thing I use the Internet for is to e-mail. I usually write to my customers (客户) by e-mail, and my customers answer me by e-mail, too. We probably send and receive four or five hundred e-mails a month. But of course, I also use e-mails to keep in touch with friends and family. My daughter is in Australia and we send e-mails to each other every day.

【推荐3】People can use the phone to talk with others almost anywhere on the earth. But when you use the phone, you don’t see the person you are talking with.

Today some people are using a kind of telephone called the picture phone or vision phone. With it, two people who are talking can see each other.

Picture phones can be useful when you have something to show the person you are calling. They may have other uses in the future. One day you may be able to ring up a library and ask to see a book. Then you’ll be able to read the book right over your picture phone. Or you may be able to go shopping through your picture phone. If you see something in the newspaper that you think you want to buy, you’ll go to the phone and call the shop. People at the shop will show you the thing you’re interested in right over the phone. You’ll be able to shop all over the town and never even leave your room!

【推荐2】Riding a Mobike on the street, you might see a Sichuan-style restaurant. After walking into a store, you might see Huawei smartphones are on sale.     1     Recently, many similar things like always happen in lots of foreign countries. Chinese products can be seen all over the world.

Chinese food has been popular in Western countries for a long time.     2     “One example is the meal.” said Yin Hang, a Chinese student in Australia. “We like to eat meat with the bones(骨头) in. But people here don’t like them because they are lazy to spit(吐) them out. So the local Chinese restaurants provide big pieces of meat without bones, even for fish.”

    3     In many cities in Europe, many stores sell TCL televisions, Haier fridges and Lenovo computers. And more than half of American brand Protocol drones (无人机) are not only made in China, but also designed and developed in the country.

In the past, most Western people thought the products of Chinese brands were cheap and unreliable (可信赖的). But now, things have changed greatly.     4     “They are beautiful and offer something special that American phones don’t have,” an article on CNN once said about Chinese smart phones.

As we can see, Chinese government is trying its best to improve its national brands to meet the needs of modern life around the world.

【推荐1】Glacier National Park is a popular tourist attraction that attracts many tourists. Patti, a grandmother who lives near the park, noticed that there were a lot of speeding cars on her road. “Drivers always forget to slow down. Many people in my community are unhappy with the traffic. They can’t walk or ride a bike.” said Patti.

Worried about the safety of her grandchildren and the community, Patti decided to take matters into her own hands. She sat alone on the side of the road with a hairdryer (吹风机) in her hand. The hairdryer looked very much like a speed radar gun. So Patti tried to act as a traffic police officer doing a speed check.

What Patti did worked. The drivers began to slow down. They thought it was strange and funny to see a grandma sitting there with a hairdryer. One day, her son took a picture of her while she was “at work” and shared it online. Soon, the grandmother with a hairdryer became the talk of the town. More and more people started paying attention to the traffic problem.

Later, her effort even caught the attention of the local government. An officer named Noah Pesola gave his heartfelt thanks to her for her creative effort to make the road safer.

No one could have imagined that Patti’s simple act would have such an influence.

【推荐2】Do you know Miyazaki Hayao(宫崎骏)? He is a Japanese manga artist(漫画家) who was born on January 5th, 1941. Even if you haven’t heard of his name, you must know his cartoons. One of his most popular cartoons is Spirited Away(《千与千寻》). It was such a successful cartoon that it once won the Oscar Award as the best cartoon.

He is not only a manga artist, but also the greatest maker of animated(动画的) films. Many famous people in Hollywood are his fans, for example,James Cameron—the director of Avatar (《阿凡达》).

Miyazaki Hayao doesn’t finish a story before he starts a film. He and his team don’t even know the ending of the story. They just work on the film as it develops.

Miyazaki Hayao loves all of his films very much and he regards them as his children. When a foreign company(公司) wants to release(发行) his film, Miyazaki Hayao doesn’t let anyone make changes to it.

When we talk about Miyazaki Hayao’s films, we must also talk about Joe Hisaishi(久石让). Joe Hisaishi made music for nine of Miyazaki Hayao’s films.

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【推荐3】One Monday morning, Paul and his classmates were in the science laboratory for their chemistry lesson. The students were going to work in pairs to do an experiment. Before they began, the teacher gave them this description of the different stages of the experiment.

Stage 1: Prepare the equipment: a test tube, a crucible（坩埚）, a Bunsen burner（煤气灯）and tongs（钳子）.

Stage 2: Weigh 5 grams of baking soda (小苏打) and put it in a crucible.

Stage 3: Heat 10 ml of hydrochloric acid (盐酸) in a test tube.

Stage 4: Pour the warm acid onto the baking soda and continue to heat the mixture.

Result: The acid reacts with the bicarbonate（碳酸氢盐）to form water, carbon dioxide gas and salt.

The hotter the mixture, the quicker the reaction. Continue to heat the mixture until the water evaporates（蒸发）, leaving the salt in the crucible.

Paul and his partner followed the instructions and set up their equipment. Paul went to the cupboard to get a bottle of hydrochloric acid. He found that there was only one bottle in the cupboard so he took that. There was no label on the bottle and Paul didn’t check with the teacher if it was the right solution(溶液).

He measured the liquid and poured it into a test tube. Using tongs to hold the test tube, he heated it over the Bunsen burner. That’s when things started to go wrong. The liquid in the test tube was not hydrochloric acid. When it was heated, it formed a thick cloud of white gas. Soon the room was full of this strong smelling white gas.

All the students started coughing and their eyes hurt. The teacher immediately opened the windows and ordered the students to leave the laboratory at once. She realized that the liquid was acrylamide (丙烯酰胺) and that it is poisonous.

Fortunately, nobody was injured in the incident. However, it taught the students and the teacher a good lesson.