Is there life on Mars? We don’t know.

We’re sure that people on the earth are not able to live on Mars. People need oxygen to breathe. There is almost no oxygen on Mars.

Living on Mars would be like living on a very high mountain. There would be little air.

The temperature might be 50 degrees above zero at noon and 140 degrees below zero at night. Many people think there may be plants on Mars. We know that on Mars there is carbon. This is a kind of material found in all plants and animals on the earth. Through a telescope, Mars looks red. In some places, it seems gray. At times the gray color turns gray-green, then brown, then gray again. The gray-green color may be a kind of plant life changing color with the seasons.

Will men go to Mars one day? If they do, they must take their own oxygen, food and clothing with them.

Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are busy trying to make money in order to pay for my brother' s education and mine. They don't act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV. For them, "I love you" is too difficult to say. Even sending flowers to each other on some special days is hardly ever seen.

One day, my mother was repairing a quilt(被子). I silently sat beside her and looked at her. "Mum, may I ask you a question?" I said.

"What?" she replied, still doing her work. "Is there love between you and Dads" I asked her in a very low voice. My mother stopped her work and looked at me in surprise. She didn't answer my question at once. Then, she bowed her head and continued to do her work.

I was afraid that I had hurt her feelings. I felt so embarrassed that I didn't know what to do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words:

"Look at this thread(线). Sometimes it appears, but most of the time, it hides in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt strong and durable. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere or anytime, but it's really there."

I couldn't understand her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked very pale. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my   father walk slowly on the country road. My father had never been so gentle. The doctor had said my father would recover in two months. But after two months he still couldn't walk by himself. All of us were worried about him. "Dad, how are you feeling now" I asked him one day. "Susan, don't worry about me." he said gently. "To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mum. I like this kind of life. Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.

Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. But from this experience, I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

【推荐2】We all know that recycling rubbish is very important. But sometimes it is not so convenient （方便的）when we can't find a recycling bin anywhere.

Now a team of middle school students from the US has solved that problem by designing their Recycling Bin app (应用程序).This app encourages people to recycle. It provides users with a map of local recycling centers. And it allows them to save places as favorites on it. This app also reminds (提醒) users to recycle.

The group of nine sixth-graders is from STEM Center Middle School. They came up with the idea as part of a school project for the Verizon Innovative App Competition. Their school provided after-class app training. It gave 10 teams Samsung tablets (平板) as prizes.

The competition wanted to develop students' interest in science. In this competition, students showed an app design that could solve a problem in their school or city. The nine students came up with the idea for Recycling Bin when they saw a need for more recycling.

We thought that this would really help a lot of people”, Jaden Hilkemann, 12, told Time For ids.

They kept their design easy so that anyone could use it. Now the free Recycling Bin app has been put into use in the Google Play store for Android phones or tablets.

I was so excited when it went up at the app store," Seralyn Blake, 12, said, “A lot of my family members downloaded our app. It was pretty cool."

【推荐3】Do you like roosters? The map of China looks like a rooster. Rooster is the tenth of Chinese 12 zodiac signs(生肖). 2017 is the Year of the Rooster. It’s from January 28^th, 2017 (Chinese New Year) to February 15^th, 2018. The Years of the Rooster are 1921, 1933, 1945, l957, 1969. 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017, 2029…

Long long time ago. people don’t have a clocks so roosters can tell people the time and make them get up. Also, we know chicken is great food for people before and now.

The China Post Group(邮政) makes a nice stamp(邮票) for the year. Red and yellow are the colors of it. It will bring good luck to people. The rooster stamps are on sale from January 27th to the last month of the year.