【推荐1】Millie is a little girl who is at the age of nine. She is a pupil in a primary school. She works hard at her subjects. In class, she takes an active part in all kinds of activities. She looks smarter than her classmates.

One day, she was doing her homework after supper as usual. Her father was not in. Her mother was taking a shower in the bathroom. After she finished her homework, Millie asked her mother to check it for her, but her mother didn’t answer her. A few minutes later, her mother was still in the bathroom. Millie felt strange. She knocked at the door. But her mother had no answer. She pushed the door open and found her mother lying on the floor. At the same time, she smelled something terrible. It was the gas. She quickly opened the window, turned off the gas and called 120 and 110 for help. Soon some doctors and policemen came and sent her mother to the nearest hospital. Her mother was saved at last.

Why did the little girl know how to do that? That was because she had learned how to save herself and others in danger in school.

In the year of 2020, China’s Ministry of Education began to ask all public schools to teach students first aid(急救) especially CPR as part of children’s health education. There are as many as 550,000 sudden cardiac(心脏的) deaths in China every year. About 60% of these deaths happen outside hospitals and the survival rate(存活率) of a patient who received the CPR outside hospital is less than 4.5% in China, compared with about 47.5% in developed countries.

In November 2019, in Taiwan Province, 35-year-old model-actor Godfrey Gao died after he suddenly fell while filming a reality show. He was rushed to the hospital and died from sudden cardiac arrest(骤停) after being rescued for nearly three hours. His death aroused(引起) a heated discussion.

Sudden cardiac death is increasing year by year due to many reasons. CPR is one of the first and most effective ways of treating cardiac arrest, according to medical experts. Most patients will begin to develop brain in damage(损伤) within four to six minutes after cardiac arrest, and then biological death within a few minutes. However, in China, besides medical workers if people who have received first aid training is only about 1% of the public.

As early as 1966, the US has advised the public to receive CPR training, including police officers, drivers, firefighters, teachers and students of colleges and high schools. In Europe, Switzerland requires all citizens(公民) to be trained in first aid, including CPR. And in Germany, every citizen must be trained before getting their driver’s license, which means about 80% of the country has received first aid training. 40% of people in France are also trained in first aid.

According to Guo Malong, a doctor in Henan, a CPR lesson can be completed in anything from 45 minutes to 2 hours depending on what’s included. Basic first aid lessons can be completed in just 30 minutes, which don’t cost students too much time, but will make a huge difference to others.

【推荐3】If you see someone fall down suddenly, perhaps as a result of a heart attack, what can you do while you wait for professional help?

Chen Wenqiaochu set a good example when he was fourteen. He performed CPR (心肺复苏术) on a staff person at his school, saving the man’s life in 2013. According to medical experts, there is a “golden period” — the first four minutes of a heart attack. During this time, CPR is best for saving the person’s life.

In August, 2020, all public schools nationwide were asked to provide CPR courses in China, as part of health education. CPR is not hard to grasp. All that one needs to know is how to watch and decide if a person has a heart attack, where to press on the patient’s chest (胸), and how to blow air through the mouth and into the lungs (肺) .

Unluckily, less than one percent of Chinese adults have mastered the skill of CPR, while many have never heard of it. A 2019 survey from China Youth Daily showed that although 64.6% of schools opened health education courses, the teaching results were not satisfactory.

Zhao Shengyu, a graduate from a high school, remembered her first time to be taught CPR in the class. “No model, video or practice was included. I realized the acts I had been taught had lots of mistakes after I was trained another time in a medical school,” she said. According to her own experience, Zhao said more professional CPR courses in schools were necessary.

Most countries have attached importance to CPR training. It was shown in a survey in 2017 that more than half of Americans had received CPR training. Switzerland, Germany, France and some other countries have also provided CPR training.

【推荐3】Letter One : From the Valley(山谷)

Letter Two:From the Factory

Letter Three: From the Restaurant

Letter Four: From… a House

【推荐1】It is often believed that we are always well protected by those who are brave. Zhong Nanshan, a well-known doctor, is one of them. Let's know something about him.

【推荐2】For over 1,300 years, this large rock has been in Mahabalipuram, a beach town in Southern India. The rock is on hill at a 45-degree angle(角).

The rock is popularly known as“Krishna's Butter Ball,” which means a favorite food, butter, fallen from the sky. The rock is 20 feet high and five meters in diameter(直径), and weighs over 250 tons. It 1ooks like it might slip(滑落) any moment and run down the hill, but it has stayed that way for several centuries now

Some say the rock is a natural formation(形成), but scientists think that's impossible because natural corrosion(腐蚀) couldn't produce such an unusual shape. Others, think that the rock might have been placed there by Gods from the sky, or the aliens who visited Earth thousands of years ago.

One of the earliest known attempts(尝试) to move the rock was made by Narasimhavarman, a Pallava king who ruled Southern India from 630 to 668 C. E. The strongest of his men could not move it at all. More recently, in 1908, Governor of Madras Arthur Lawley decided that he wanted to get rid of(除掉) the rock, fearing that it would slide down the hill. He used seven elephants to do the task, but much to his surprise, it did not budge.

Krishna's Butter Ball is now a popular tourist spot, attracting thousands of visitors each year. Visitors make their own attempt to move the rock-they fail, of course, but always come away with amazing photos!

【推荐3】Please have a look at this picture. It is about 35 meters tall and it's from Kelli Pearson and her husband, Pete Davis. They made the picture on the grass at a park to remember Kobe Bryant.

"The face was from two different photos, and the body was from a different photo," said Kelli Pearson. "It's a piece of art. I tried to get his beautiful smile (微笑)."

The picture only stayed in the park for a few days, but it was very popular online.

Kobe Bryant was a world-famous basketball player. He started to play basketball when he was a little boy. And he played for 20 years with the Los Angeles Lakers. Kobe worked very hard and became one of the world's top basketball players.

In 2016, Kobe left the NBA. He tried many new things. He wrote his first book, The Mamba Mentality: How I play. He wrote a poem (诗) Dear Basketball and it was made into a short cartoon film.   

Sadly, he lost his life in an air crash (空难) in California on January 26, 2020. His fans were very sad about it. They will always remember him.

【推荐1】A man in Germany may not have been in danger when he called the police on a baby squirrel running after him, but it all worked out for the best for the funny suspect.

Emergency services in the city of Karlsruhe got a call on Thursday from a man afraid that the tiny animal wouldn't stop following him around. The Guardian reported. Police arrived at the scene, where the squirrel finally stopped running after him by lying down and going to sleep.

It turned out that the squirrel actually needed help, the police said. ""It often happens that squirrels which have lost their mothers look for a replacement (代营) and then focus (集中) their efforts on one person, "the police spokeswoman Christina Krenz told The Guardian.

The squirrel, now named Karl-Friedrich, is in the care of an animal center. Karlsruhe police posted a statement on Facebook about the animal, including several lovely photos.

The baby squirrel chase is the second squirrel event to make international headlines this summer. Last month, a London woman called police after she heard loud noises in her home and suspected a burglar. The intruder turned out to be a squirrel, according to the police who came for help.

Although the government in the German case said the squirrel did need help, wildlife experts warn that before intervening (介入) in the case where you suspect a squirrel is orphaned (孤儿的),you should do your best to make sure the animal truly requires help. The Wildlife Centre of Virginia, which gets hundreds of calls every year about supposedly orphaned squirrels, published this handy guide to help decide whether such an animal really needs help and what to do if so. When in doubt, contact a local wildlife rescuer or animal center.

【推荐2】One day, I heard an American boy said to a Chinese girl student, “You speak very good English.” But the girl answered, “No, no. My English is very poor.” The foreigner was quite surprised at the answer. Thinking he had not made himself understood or the girl had not heard him clearly, he said. “Yes, indeed, you speak very well.” But the girl still kept saying “No.” In the end, the American boy could not understand and didn’t know what to say.

What’s wrong with the girl’s answer? She didn’t accept a compliment in the same way as the American people do. She should answer, “Thank you” instead of “No”. She really understood what the American boy had said, but she thought she should be modest. In the west, people will feel proud and confident when they are praised. So if someone says the dishes you have cooked are very delicious, you should say, “Thank you.”

In our country, we think being modest is a virtue and being proud is a bad thing, but in my opinion, being confident does not mean being proud, so sometimes you should be confident instead of being modest.

If you are modest and say “No, I’m afraid I can’t do it well” when working in a western country, the others may think that you really cannot do it. If you often say “No”, you will certainly be looked down upon by others. When asking for a job, if one says something like “Yes, I can certainly do it” instead of “let me have a try”, he or she will expect to get it. So in the west, you should be brave to show your self-confidence.

【推荐3】For over 1,300 years, this large rock has been in Mahabalipuram, a beach town in Southern India. The rock is on hill at a 45-degree angle(角).

The rock is popularly known as“Krishna's Butter Ball,” which means a favorite food, butter, fallen from the sky. The rock is 20 feet high and five meters in diameter(直径), and weighs over 250 tons. It 1ooks like it might slip(滑落) any moment and run down the hill, but it has stayed that way for several centuries now

Some say the rock is a natural formation(形成), but scientists think that's impossible because natural corrosion(腐蚀) couldn't produce such an unusual shape. Others, think that the rock might have been placed there by Gods from the sky, or the aliens who visited Earth thousands of years ago.

One of the earliest known attempts(尝试) to move the rock was made by Narasimhavarman, a Pallava king who ruled Southern India from 630 to 668 C. E. The strongest of his men could not move it at all. More recently, in 1908, Governor of Madras Arthur Lawley decided that he wanted to get rid of(除掉) the rock, fearing that it would slide down the hill. He used seven elephants to do the task, but much to his surprise, it did not budge.

Krishna's Butter Ball is now a popular tourist spot, attracting thousands of visitors each year. Visitors make their own attempt to move the rock-they fail, of course, but always come away with amazing photos!