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Looking back on three magical years
The summer holidays are on their way! That means an end to your junior high school life. What do you have to say now it’s all come to an end? Is there a special person you want to thank? Here’s what some of our readers will be saying.
Li Chaoze, 16, Taiyuan, Shanxi:
I really want to say thank you to my grandmother. My parents work in another city. So I am living with my grandmother. She encouraged me and told me not to give up when I was sad and had no more hope for my life. I did what she told me to do. Now I am full of confidence again!
Wang Jia, 15, Nantong, Jiangsu:
Lulu, my best friend, I have spent three years in junior high with you. I just heard that you will go abroad to study. I am sad I cannot study with you in the senior high school. But I know going abroad is your dream so I will also be happy for you. Wherever you go, just remember that we are best friends forever.
Zhang Jie, 14, Jinan, Shandong:
I want to say sorry to my parents. My father and mother did a lot for me over my three years in middle school. Sometimes I saw my mother crying when I got low marks （分数） in my exams. Please trust （相信） me, Mom and Dad. I will keep trying until the end!
Zong Ze, 15, Xiamen, Fujian:
I want to talk to Pan, the boy next door. Pan, you are my idol （偶像）。 You are so talented in English. I have worked hard for three years and I believe I will move up to your high school this year! We will be schoolmates. And I will join the School English Speech Competition next year.
Every night, Lin Zhengjiang has one hour spare after his homework. He spends this time on Sina Weibo.
He follows over 200 users, mainly pop stars and his classmates. He sends over 100 messages a week.
Micro blogs like Weibo are nothing new for the young Chinese. A newspaper in Chengdu did a survey last month. It found that 90 percent of junior high school students use micro blogs.
They give students an outlet （出口） for emotion （情绪）。 “I use micro blogs to record my life. I let everyone ‘see’ my feelings and complaints （抱怨），” said Liu Fangyue, 14, from Xiamen No 1 Middle School.
Or they have fun with classmates even after school. “I would send a message to praise someone who ranked first in the exam,” said Liu.
Teachers also join in the fun. “When I sit down to talk to my students, they may not tell me their real thoughts,” said Lu Dongping at Nanning No 2 Middle School. “But on micro blogs, they are more relaxed. They even make fun of me.”
You would be wrong if you think micro blogs are all about fun. Zhong Yun from Xiamen Haicang Experimental School see it as a tool （工具） to learn English.
The 13-year-old follows foreign stars such as Avril Lavigne and Justin Bieber.
“In order to understand their English posts, I have to check the dictionary and learn many new words,” said Zhong.
Micro blogs widen students’ perspectives （观点）， but there are rules to follow, said Shi Zhongying, a professor from Beijing Normal University.
“Manage your time, and don’t let micro-blogging affect your study and health,” said Shi. “Don’t give out your name, family address and phone number on micro blogs. You should also respect truth and other people’s privacy （隐私）。”
While many China-watchers fret about the consequences of a collapse of China's stock market, Wen Jiabao, the prime minister, seems more worried about the risk of social uest as a result of the rocketing price of pork. A 50% rise in the average nationwide price over the past year is causing squeals of alarm. Last week Mr Wen went so far as to visit a farm to show he is taking the issue seriously.
Mr Wen promised that the government would act to ensure adequate supplies of pork; if necessary, to stabilise prices it can release stocks from its strategic reserves of both frozen pork and live pigs. Pork is China's staple meat. The average person eats more pork than in any country other than Germany. But it accounts for almost 4% of China's consumer-price basket, against less than 1% in Germany. Rising pork prices could therefore push up China's inflation rate over coming months. Jiming Ha, chief economist at China International Capital Corporation, estimates that inflation will rise to 3.4% in May, from 3% in April.
What is it like being a film star? What’s it like in front of the camera? Students from Steamboat Springs Middle School in the US could tell you exactly what it’s like. They recently got a taste of the life of a star.
A local movie company decided to produce a film. All the actors in this film were to be students. Fourteen students were chosen from the school. The film, called Ruby vs Wolfgang, was based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood （《小红帽》）。 It came with a twist （改变）， however – the story was told from the perspective （看法） of the wolf.
Zoe Walsh, a seventh-grader, signed up to do behind-the-scenes work. But she soon found herself in front of the camera instead. She played a strange middle school student in the film.
“It’s just fun,” she told the Steamboat Today. “Just pretending （假装） that you’re someone else.”
But there were also difficulties. It was very cold during shooting. Students had to put up with snow and icy wind.
Lack （缺乏） of experience was another problem. The director Michael Staley said he tried to “help each student bring out the wolf – or whatever animal they were representing – in themselves”。
Erus Harrington, an eighth-grader, said he played a “nice, silly British guy”。 He learned the British accent （口音） all on his own.
“I just kind of taught myself how to do it by watching videos,” he said. “It makes me feel good after I do it because I’m proud of myself.”
The students will watch themselves on the big screen for the first time during the film festival at a local high school in May.
“I’m probably going to laugh at myself,” said Zach Walsh, the brother of Zoe.
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Thousands of years ago, people didn’t know that the Earth moved. They thought the sun really did move across the sky. The Greek god Helios was said to drive the sun around the sky with his chariot （战车）。 But now, these ideas have all changed. Nowadays, it is the sun that drives our “chariot” around the sky.
So what does all this mean? Well, quite simply, there is now a plane （or “chariot”） that is powered by the sun. It has special parts in its wings. These parts absorb power from the sun. They absorb so much power that they can carry on flying at night. In the Greek myths, Helios had to take a break at night. It seems we’re finally even more efficient than the gods themselves.
This plane is called Solar Impulse （“太阳驱动”号）。 It will fly across the US in May. This is very important for the future of the world.
So why is solar energy so good for us? Well, other kinds of energy cause a few problems. If you live in China, you’ve probably noticed the pollution. This is caused by burning coal or gas to make energy. The heat and chemicals （化学制品） from this make things work. But if we use the heat from the sun, we don’t have to burn anything, and there’s no pollution.
Solar energy is not all there yet. It needs to be improved. But the best thing about it is that, unlike coal and gas, it doesn’t run out. Solar Impulse could pretty much keep flying forever. Well, actually, the sun will run out too, one day, but not for another 5 billion years. That’s a pretty long flight.
（1） It's a sunny day. The girl and the goose get in the goat's cart. They are going for a spring outing.阳光明媚。小女孩和鹅上了山羊的马车。他们要一起去春游。
（2） Here are some cows. "Hello, cows," says the girl and the goat. The goose says nothing.他们看到许多奶牛。“你们好，”小女孩和山羊说。鹅什么也没说。
(3)Here are some crows. "Hello, crows," says the girl and the goat. The goose says nothing.他们看到许多乌鸦。“你们好，”小女孩和山羊说。鹅什么也没说。
（4） "Why are you so quiet?" the girl asks the goose. "Because I can't see anything," says the goose.“你怎么这么安静？”小女孩问鹅。“因为我什么都看不到，”鹅回答。
（5） The cart stops. Then it starts again. "Now I can see just fine," says the goose.马车停了。然后又出发了。“我现在都能看到了，”鹅说。
（6） They come to a pond. The goose swims. The goat drinks. The girl catches a fish. Then they let the fish go.他们来到一个池塘。鹅游泳。山羊喝水。小女孩抓到一条鱼。然后他们又放走了。
（7） After that, they sail a boat.之后，他们一起划船。
（8） The goose, the goat and the girl are tired. They take a nap on the grass. What a nice day it is!鹅，山羊和小女孩玩累了。他们在草地上睡了一会儿。多么美好的一天啊！