【推荐3】Thanks to China’s large population of Internet users, many foreign bloggers have seen their popularity grow in recent years. German influencer（网红）Pamela Reif is one such blogger. She rose to fame at the age of 16, when she started posting pictures of her lifestyle and fitness routine online.

In early June, Pamela uploaded her first video, “12-Minute Happy Sweat Workout,” on Chinese social media. Within just two months, Pamela gained nearly 1.5 million followers on Bilibili. To date, her online videos have been viewed over 20 million times.

In a recent interview, Pamela spoke about her journey from schoolgirl to influencer. “I was basically just a normal teenager at school. Instagram was becoming cool so I started uploading food pictures and gym selfies（健身房自拍）. I was just doing all this without any plan. It grew from there,” the 24-year-old said.

Pamela has shown us that training and diet go hand in hand when it comes to reaching your fitness goals. So what does she eat and how does she exercise?

In her daily life, Pamela follows what she calls the “right diet”. She wants people to think about sensible eating — not just for the body, but also for the globe. It is all about sustainability（可持续发展）. She points to the fact that eating meat puts huge pressure on the environment. While she does eat meat, she tries to keep the majority of her diet vegetarian.

Pamela also puts a lot of effort into health and fitness. She does this by targeting（以……为目标）specific muscle groups in her body. And best of all, she works out without using any gym equipment. This allows her to get the same quality workout wherever she happens to be at the time.

Henan with an area of 167, 000 square kilometers (64, 479 square miles) lies in the east-central part of China. It borders with Anhui and Shandong to the east, Shanxi and Hebei to the north, Shaanxi to the west and Hubei to the south. At present, Henan has a population of 9936, 5519. Henan has a warm-temperate climate. Dry and windy in winter and spring, the province is hot and rainy in summer and hot in strong sunlight during the autumn months.

The name of the province Henan comes from its geographic location. Henan means ‘the south of the river’, showing that the province lies in the south of China’s Yellow River. Given the higher location, Henan is an important traffic center. It is also the cradle of Chinese civilization since it had been the political, economic and cultural center of the country for more than 3, 000 years. More than 20 capitals were set here in history and the four great inventions of ancient China were all created from Henan.

A visit to Henan is like a talk with many historical places. While traveling to Henan, you cannot miss the Zhengzhou’s Shaolin Temple, Luoyang’s Longmen Grottoes, Sanmenxia’s Hangu Pass, and Kaifeng City Wall.

①Henan province whose location is on the Yellow River is considered the cradle of Chinese civilization because of its history and culture.②This rich historic heritage has leftitwith a large number of historic treasures, from earliest houses to earliest articles for daily use.③The remains of some of the earliest human homes have been discovered here, including the over 7000-year-old Peiligang Culture Site, the 6000-year-old Yangshao Culture Remains and the 5000-year-old Dahe Culture Remains.④All these cultural remains have great meanings in the history of Chinese civilization.

【推荐2】Here’s one scene. Say you are in heavy traffic and your car’s brakes (刹车) start to fail. If you keep going, you will go into the back of a truck and probably die. But if you turn sharply to avoid the truck, you risk hitting an elderly woman or a group of children. What do you do?

This is an extreme choice. But every day, drivers around the world have to make quick decisions to avoid accidents. Often, they react without even having time to think. But what would a driverless car do?

Self-driving cars are designed to deal with all sorts of situations, from understanding traffic rules to planning the easiest route that avoids construction. These programming decisions are direct and clear. Ethics (道德), on the other hand, is not. How do you program a car to decide what to do in the case of an accident? How do you choose which life is more valuable? And who gets to choose? This is a problem that ethicists, lawyers, and car makers are all wondering about.

Patrick Lin teaches robotics and ethics at California Polytechnic State University. He says that it might seem easy to say that self-driving cars must follow certain rules to minimize or reduce harm, but he says, “even that leads to morally murky (模糊的) decisions.” He gives an example: on one side of you is a motorcyclist wearing a helmet; on the other is a motorcyclist not wearing a helmet. If the car’s computer tells it to minimize harm during a necessary turn, that might mean hitting the person with the helmet. After all, they are better protected and so less likely to be hurt. But, Lin asks, aren’t you being unfair to the responsible (负责的) motorist?

According to Lin, any type of decision-making based on age, gender, or any similar factor would be discrimination (歧视) and therefore against standards of ethics. He explained that even the safest car runs the risk of having accidents, and that the responsibility for programming will lie with the car makers.

But some experts say we don’t need to worry about this problem. Bryan Casey teaches at Stanford Law School. Casey says that what a self-driving car does in a crash is not an ethical issue (问题) at all. Instead, it is a legal issue. If a driver has a crash now, the law decides if he was driving dangerously or if it was truly an accident. If the driver was dangerously careless, he faces punishment, often a fine or jail. If a breakdown caused the crash, the car makers might be at fault. Either way, laws exist to decide what is wrong, and who is responsible. Casey says that will not change with the arrival of self-driving cars.

We expect self-driving cars to be very safe, safer than human drivers because computers can react more quickly. And indeed, an autonomous vehicle should be well designed and slow down or speed up in relation to the actual case. However, accidents can always happen. This means that drivers, car makers, and lawmakers will need to deal with new problems as they appear.

The sun sets on a field in southern England. When it rises again the following morning, that field has been changed into a huge work of art. A large part of the crop (庄稼) has been pressed into a pattern of circles, squares and other shapes.

Farmers have reported finding strange circles in their fields for centuries. The earliest mention of a crop circle dates back to the 1500s. Crop circles, however, didn’t get attention until 1980, when a farmer in England discovered three circles in his field. The world first began to learn about crop circles.

By the 1990s, crop circles had become something of a tourist attraction. In 1990 alone, more than 500 circles appeared in Europe. Within the next few years, there were thousands.

Crop circles can come in many different shapes, changing in size. Most early crop circles were simple. But after 1990, the circles changed. Crops can be made to look like just about anything — smiling faces, flowers or even words.

People have long been wondering who or what is creating these crop circles. Possibly the most widely known idea is that crop circles are the work of visitors from other planets.

Probably the most scientific opinion says that crop circles are created by vortices (涡旋). They force the air down to the ground, which presses the crops down. Dr. Terence Meaden, an expert, says when the dust (沙尘) gets caught up in a vortex, it can appear to glow (发光), which may explain the UFO-like glowing lights many people have seen.

【推荐2】Meat can be tasty. It is often good for us and it has been part of our meals for hundreds of thousands of years. However, some organizations, such as the Soil Association, say meat should not be eaten every day, especially in schools. This is because farming animals for meat can be bad for the environment and lead to climate (气候）change. The Soil Association wants schools to have more plant-based meal choices that don’t have meat and that do not cause environmental problems. The Government already advises that schools have one no-meat day each week, but not all schools follow this advice. So what do you think? Should schools be made to have one completely no-meat day each week?

Yes - it’s important to protect the climate

Everyone needs to do their bit to help the planet, and eating less meat is a good start. Although meat can be healthy and is good for us in the right amounts, eating it every day means a lot of animals have to be farmed. This uses up valuable things such as water and land. The animals themselves add to climate change by producing a gas called methane. Besides, it’s not necessary to eat meat every day. There are many ways to get the nourishment we need to be healthy. We could eat foods like beans, nuts, potatoes and so on. What’s more, eating more plant-based foods will save schools’ money because they are cheaper than meat. This money could be used on books and school trips.

No-_____________

Students should be able to decide what they eat - it is a personal choice. Some students, for example, might eat a little bit of meat each day, but less overall. Besides, meat is full of healthy vitamins and nutrients needed for growth. If schools don’t serve meat, they might end up serving chips and junk food instead, which wouldn’t be healthier. It’s right to tell and educate young people about climate change and the results of the farming industry, but they should be encouraged to change their eating habits rather than being told that they have to. Making people change their habits doesn’t always mean people can change their minds.

【推荐3】Members of a native community in the arctic areas of Sweden say their reindeer (驯鹿) are facing possible starvation (饥饿) from unusual weather related to climate change. The Sami indigenous community takes care of about 8,000 reindeer throughout the year. The animals are moved between traditional feeding areas in high mountains near Norway in the summer and forests farther east in the winter.

Community member Niila Inga is worried about his reindeer. He said climate change has affected the area’s weather activity and created food shortages. “If we don’t find better areas for them where they can graze and find food, then the reindeer will starve to death,” Inga said. He demonstrated the problem by reaching down into the snow and pulling up a hard piece of ice close to the soil.

The area received unusual snowfall early in the fall, followed by rain that froze (结冰). Inga said this keeps the plants that reindeer eat under a thick cover of ice. Some of the hungry reindeer have now moved away from their traditional migration (迁徙) areas in search of food.

Community members say half the reindeer moved towards the east as planned. But the rest headed back to the mountains, where they face the risk of attacks by other animals or being caught in an avalanche. Older members of the Sami community say that in the past, they only encountered bad winters about once every ten years. But now, Inga says “extreme and strange weathers are getting more and more normal,” happening several times a year.

Snowfall is normal for the area. But as temperatures increase, rain can also fall, creating a “rain-on-snow” effect. When this happens, food stays underneath the ice where the reindeer cannot reach it. This causes the animals to grow weaker and struggle to make it through the winter. Weather changes have hit the Sami community hard.

Sanna Vannar is president of the Swedish Sami Youth organization. The group made an action to force the European Union (EU) to reduce human-caused greenhouse gases.

“We’ve said we don’t want money because we can’t buy better weather with money,” Vannar said. “We’ve said we need the EU to take action and they need to do it now.”