Time flies. My summer vacation ended in the blink of an eye, but one thing is still on my mind. From July 25 to 27, I worked as a volunteer at the Wolong China Giant Panda Garden in Sichuan. I experienced the life of being a panda keeper.
My work included cleaning the pandas' home, feeding the pandas and making food for them. The panda I took care of was named Jingke. When I went to feed him, he would stretch（伸出） one of his forefeet out on a shelf that hung on the fence and wait for his food. He would quickly grab the food as soon as I brought it to him. Can you guess what would happened next? Jingke would lie down and begin to eat. I could hear him crunching（嘎吱作响地咀嚼） on his food and see him twisting his body around like a dancer. It was really cute. This was one of the most interesting things I saw when I worked there.
When I fed Jingke, I touched his fur（毛）. Most people think that panda's fur would be soft. But actually, panda's fur is very hard. I felt like I was touching needles. I looked at his teeth, too﹣ they were sharp and big. No wonder the panda keepers told us that pandas are not only cute, but also dangerous.
I am happy to be so close to the pandas. This experience lets me know that it is no easy to be a panda keeper.
Egypt is one of the oldest civilizations （文明） in the world. It has great culture and history． Let's take a look at some wonderful places in the country.
Arabian Desert
Do you think it might be fun to ride a camel in the desert? If so, you should go to the Arabian Desert. It is also known as the Eastern Desert. It takes up nearly one-quarter of Egypt's land. Riding a camel is fun. Camels kneel down to let you sit on them.
Luxor
If you want to see ancient palaces and buildings, Luxor is a great place to go. People there call it the "open-air museum of ancient Egypt". Many people visit Luxor every year. Some famous places there include the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens.
The Great Sphinx
The Great Sphinx is a statue of a lion with a man's head. It's very large. The Sphinx is about 240 feet long (about 73 m) and 65 feet high (about 20m). Its eyes are two meters high! For hundreds of years, the Sphinx has guarded(守卫) the Great Pyramid of Khufu.
Are you short﹣sighted? If you are, your parents might have tried to do something to fix it, such as having you get an eye massage（按摩）, take medicine or even get surgery（手术）. People who offer these services or products often say that they can reduce or even cure short sight.
However, you will no longer see advertisements like this before long. The government has issued a notice to ban（禁止） businesses from using words like "recovery" or "short sight cure" in their advertisements.
The notice says that short sight cannot be completely cured with current medical technology. Therefore, these advertisements could mislead children and their parents.
Young people can prevent and control short sight by spending more time outside and less time in front of books or computers. People who have sight problems should first go to a hospital and let a doctor decide what to do.
More than 450 million Chinese have suffered from short sight since June 2018. Short sight rates are around 30 percent for primary school students, 60 percent for junior high school students and 80 percent for senior high school students. This is likely because students spend a lot of time reading books and using electronic devices.
To reduce short sight among young people, the government made a new plan last August. The plan is designed to limit the amount of time children spend playing video games, as well as limit the production of new video games.
Wu Yue, a 14-year-old student at a Junior High School in Hangzhou, usually has lunch with his classmates in their dining hall. But one day, a newcomer, the school headmaster, joined them at the same table. They talked about the food that the dining hall offered and had a nice chat.
Wu is not alone. Many students across China have the chance to eat with their headmasters. The government issued a notice on food safety and nutrition（营养）management in schools, asking headmasters from kindergarten to high school to have meals with students. The rule took effect（生效）on April 1st.
Many schools now have seats for school managers when they eat with students in the dining Hall. After talking with them, the managers have to write reports and make suggestions to dining hall workers. Many students were asked about the food that they liked most. To their surprise, their favorite dishes appeared in the dining hall later. "It's not just about the food. It makes me feel that I have a say in school,"explained one student. "My ideas are valued."
Some headmasters regard these mealtime conversations as their main chance to communicate with students. And they notice that some students prefer meat to vegetables. "We are thinking about how to improve the dining hall's dishes and provide students with a healthy diet,"one headmaster said. As students become more familiar with the school managers, they begin to express their own points of view.
"It's important to understand students' requirements. Our practice shows the school's sense of responsibility," another headmaster said.
If you've ever stayed up late and then gotten up early the next day, you know what it's like not to get enough sleep. It's very uncomfortable feeling. In fact, for many years scientists .
（believe） that sleep is like food —if we don't get enough of it, we might get sick or even die. But now they （start）to wonder just how much sleep we need.
Researchers at Imperial College London did a study on fruit flies（果蝇）. They found that flies that slept for very short periods of time—about72 minutes a day—still 6 （live） about as long as flies that slept for normal amounts of time. One of the female slept for just 4 minutes each day on average. This has led the researchers to wonder if sleep is less necessary than we previously thought.
Humans are very different from fruit flies. Sleep（help）repair tissue（组织） when our bodies perform a lot of maintenance （维护）. Sleeping allows our bodies （get） well again from the stress we experience each day.
But can we really die from not seeping? No humans have died so far from（stay） awake for too long. The current（现在的）world record for sleeplessness （hold） by Randy Gardner from the US, who stayed awake for 11 days and 25 minutes in 1964.
Scientist have not yet found any animals that don't sleep at all. Even animals that only seep for short periods are not completely sleepless.
A young couple decided to go c in the mountains to celebrate their first year of marriage（结婚）. They took with them thetthey would need —warm clothes, food and a tent.
They went up to the mountains and fa fine place to set up their tent. Then they decided to go for a hike（徒步旅行）to see more of the mountains.
A a long hike, they went back to their camp, built a fire and cooked d. Finally, it was time to go to sleep.
Sometime in the middle of the n, the wife woke up her husband and said: "Look up at the sky. What do you see?"
Her husband answered, "I see m of stars in the sky."
His wife said："That's right. Wdoes that mean to you?
The husband said："Well, if there are so many stars out there, that means there might a be a planet just like ours. And if that's true, then there could be life on one of those planets. That's kind of e!"
His wife said："Your are wrong. It means that someone has stolen our tent!"
Most of you will enter high school this autumn. By that time, you'll find yourself immersed in（沉浸于）traditional Chinese culture. （3）The traditional Chinese culture can help students build cultural confidence. Nowadays, the education focuses more on the traditional Chinese culture.
At public schools, the students are called for to recite（背诵） 72 ancient poems or articles. Besides Chinese language, other subjects such a fine arts, music and physical education will also focus more on traditional Chinese culture. For example, fine arts will include new lessons on Chinese calligraphy（书法）and painting.
China has also seem a growing interest in traditional culture in the private（私立的） education area. It is reported that more than 3,000 traditional private schools have been built since 2004. They mainly teach traditional Chinese classic（经典）.
According to Fu Yan, a Chinese language teacher at Hangzhou Xuejun High School, learning about traditional Chinese culture is a good thing for students. （4）"At their age， the students may be too young to understand some classics." Fu told Qianjiang Evening News. "However, as their life experience builds up, they may develop their own thoughts about the wisdom（智慧）of the classics, which could be a driving force for their growth."
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Good morning everybody!
I'm Li Hua. Today my topics is "Good habits make me better"
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That's all. Thank you for your listening!
