【推荐1】Did you know that tea, the most popular drink in the world, was invented by accident? Although tea wasn’t brought to the western world until 1610, this beverage (饮料) was discovered over three thousand years before that.     

According to an ancient Chinese legend (传说), the emperor Shen Nong discovered tea when he was boiling drinking water over an open fire. Some leaves from a nearby bush fell into the water and remained there for some time. The emperor noticed that the leaves in the water produced a pleasant smell. Later he decided to taste the hot mixture. It was quite delicious. And in this way, one of the world’s favorite drinks was invented.

【推荐2】If wearing Google Glass- a pair of smart glasses—on your face isn’t cool enough, you might want to take a look at Nokia’s new skirt. It’s made of 80 mobile phones! It’s believed to be the world’s first smart skirt and has been shown at London Fashion (时装)Week. The smart skirt was created by the mobile phone company Nokia, fashion designer(设计师) Fyodor Golan and creative design house Kin.

It’s not easy to make a smart skirt. It took three months to complete it. The biggest challenge in making the skirt was getting all of the mobile phones on the skirt, and allowing all the mobile phones to work together. The screens are all connected to a computer. As the skirt moves, the screens change color and the skirt looks like silk. That’s not the only trick. The mobile phones are also connected to a hidden camera in the wearer’s hat. The screens can show what the wearer is seeing.

Unsurprisingly, the skirt won’t be making its way to shops. Instead, it’s more of an art piece. Nokia said they wanted to find a way to connect the smart technology and fashion together. “We used drawings, 3D printing, and programming languages to ‘build’the skirt, ” explained Nokia.

On a very hot day, it is hard to know what to do to feel good. Are there things you can do to feel good and have fun when you’re hot?

Perhaps (也许) playing in water is a good choice (选择) to make you cool down. Taking a cool bath or shower, or even washing toys in a pan of cool water can also make you feel good on a hot day. Besides (此外), you can read stories or paint in front of a fan.

Also, it’s important for you to drink water. On hot days, you can lose about 16 glasses of water in one day. Most of the time, you feel thirsty because you are already short of water. So don’t wait for thirst before you start to drink. You should try to drink as much water as you lose every day.

The food you eat also makes a difference in how you feel in hot weather. Cold meals can cool down your bodies. Fruits and vegetables are also helpful to stay cool. So, plan a healthy menu (菜单) for a hot day!

This is Mike’s bedroom. You can see a desk and a bed in the room. On the desk, there is a backpack and three books. One is a Chinese book, the other two are English books. There is a clock on the desk, too. You can see a baseball under the desk. On the bed there is a box. Can you guess(猜) what’s in the box? Ah, it’s a new computer game. It’s the present(礼物) for Mike’s seventh(第七) birthday.