Everywhere you look you'll find surveys and questionnaires （问卷） in magazines, newspaper articles, best-selling books, TV shows. . . all giving one clear message: women and men are different.

Clearly, we can't get along because we communicate too differently. We don't understand each other. Women think one thing, but men think another. A woman is willing to work together, but a man is competitive. Women are good communicators, and can relate to people well, while men are more driven by results. A woman can do several things at once, but a man prefers to do one task at a time. If you believe everything you read, women even have a stronger sense of smell and of touch. The list of differences goes on and on.

However, Dr. Janet S. Hyde claims （声称） that the differences between men and women are overstated. She reviewed 46 studies of gender （性别） differences, going back 20 years, and found that there are far more similarities than differences between men and women. In fact, Dr. Hyde's results show that there are very few differences in the way we think, act and communicate. What's more, she warns that claims of gender differences actually have a negative effect on women, both in the workplace and in their relationships with their husbands or boyfriends.

Girls also suffer the results of these claims. For example, girls studying in school are not always encouraged to think that they can succeed in math the same way that many boys are. This is because people often believe media claims that girls aren't as good at math as boys. Perhaps it's time to celebrate what brings us together, rather than focus on what divides us.

It's 7 a. m. and most teenagers are still in bed. But not Rene Gangarosa. She's already 1 and she's had her breakfast. She's 2 with her lacrosse （长曲棍球） team, and she's just 3 a goal!

16-year-old Rene lives for 4 : when she was three years old, she started judo （柔道）. Then, when she was five, she competed in tennis matches. She 5 lots of tennis competitions. But Rene's favorite sport isn't lacrosse, Judo or tennis. It's a sport that she plays with the boys. Rene loves ice hockey （曲棍球）!

Rene is really interested in ice hockey—she 6 her local team and her favorite player is Jaromir Jagr. However, ice hockey is a 7 game for a girl. The boys are 8 than Rene. When Rene joined the team, they were 9 —they didn't want to lose matches. But Rene has worked hard and today she's one of their best 10 !

Rene can compete in so many sports because her 11 help her. Her parents take her to lacrosse practice before school and to hockey practice after school. She's so busy that she hasn't got much time for 12 ! Rene does most of it at break times in school.

It's 10 p. m. now, and Rene has just 13 an ice hockey match. She's very tired! Has she ever wanted to stop 14 ? No, she hasn't! This is the price of 15 and she wants to be the best!

People try to make predictions about the future. But what surprises does technology have in store for us? The answer is nanotechnology （纳米技术）. 

Nanotechnology is the science of building tiny machines, so small that they are invisible. To give you an idea of the size of these machines, the difference between a nanometer and a meter two units of length, is the same as the difference between a rock and the planet Earth! Most scientists agree that nanotechnology will change our lives in the future—but how? At the moment it's difficult to predict whether this new technology will be like a wonderful dream, or a terrifying nightmare （噩梦）.

In the 1966 the film Fantastic Voyage, an inventor develops an amazing new way to treat diseases. He narrows a group of scientists and their machines and injects （注射） them all into a patient. They then travel around the patient's body, visiting the different parts of the body and repairing them. Of course, this is just a film—but the reality of nanotechnology is not very different. Scientists are already making nanobots, tiny robots that are very small. In the future, doctors might be able to inject these into a patient, and the nanobots will travel around the body and repair the diseased parts.

Some people are worried that nanotechnology could be difficult to control. Nanobots might come into the environment and damage people, plants and animals. Others have even more serious worries. Eric Drexler is a futurist, a scientist who makes predictions about the future. In his book Engines of Creation he predicted the invention of nanobots. He also described a special kind of nanobot that can make a copy of itself using the materials around it—and this is where the nightmare begins. In Michael Crichton's book Prey, nanobots reproduce themselves so quickly that they use all the materials around them and then look for more and more, and more, eventually "eating" the world. Some people are worried that this might really happen. The most serious predictions (that very few scientists believe) say that nanobots could destroy the whole planet in about three hours!

Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is the most celebrated traditional festival in China. Preparations for Chinese New Year begin well ahead of time. Families clean their homes to away bad luck and make way for good luck. People new clothes, share festive meals, and exchange Hongbao containing money for good luck. The highlight of the celebrations is the dinner on New Year's Eve, where family members to enjoy a big dinner. As midnight comes, fireworks light up the sky, and the atmosphere is with excitement. Chinese New Year is not only a time-honored tradition but also a reflection of the rich cultural heritage （遗产）, which it a truly special and pleasant time for people across the country.

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, is famous in China. It is the.  _sea bridge in the

world. It's called a bridge but in , it's much more than just a bridge. Can you guess what they are?

"We'rerestaurants，hotels and parks on the bridge. And the bridge will largely improvelife. " said Albert Lee, manager of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. 

The bridge cuts down the driving time from Macao and Zhuhai to Hong Kong. A trip from Zhuhai to Hong Kong will only. less than 90 minutes. 

Now the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is serving people in the three. . Every day, hundreds and thousands of tourists will take a visit to the bridge. It unbelievable to create such a sea bridge to stand on the sea area. However, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge showsthat it is possible, and it is the magic of the magicians. Who are the magicians?They are the Chinese engineers

How long does it often take to achieve a dream?It's hard to say. The modern"Yu Gong", Huang Dafa, spent 36 years making1 dream come true. 

So far, Huang, the 87-year-old man, 2 in a village called Caowangba in Zunyi, Guizhou Province. There didn't use to be water in, 3 village. Life was very hard there. "I decided 4 three things for the villagers:bring water to the village, build a road and make people use electricity, "

Huang said, thinking back to his early days. 

In 1959, Huang became a leader in the village. He found water which can be used in another village nearby, but the problem was that a mountain lay between the two 5 . It seemed that his dream would be6 . Some people even wondered. 7 he could make it, but he didn't give up. 

At the age of 54, he started to study water conservancy(水利)technology. His work paid off in 1995 when water rushed into Caowangba. 8 a 7, 200-meter main canal(水渠). 

On June 29, 2021, Huang became one of the 29 people who received the July 1 Medal(七 一 勋 章), 9 honor in the Communist Party of China. Now you can see, as long as you work hard, 

sooner or later, your dream. 10 !

CCTV made several TV shows for our children. They are cducational, mcaningful and uscful

The 19th Asian Games began on September 23, 2023. Hangzhou became the third Chinese city to hold the sports event Over the past two months, Asia's top-level sports competition has made us fecl excited. Off the field, the idea of a"grcen"and"smart"event has also received great attention from the public. 

Hangzhou tries to hold the first carbon-neutral (零碳)Asian Games in history. To reach the goal. all the venues (场馆)use green electricity, such as photovoltaic(光伏的)energy and wind power. What's more, thcre are a total of 56 venues for the Asian Games. Only 12 of them are newly built. The sports climbing center, for example, used to be an abandoned quarry(采石场)—which has already been given up. 

Digital (数字的)technology also plays an important role in the opening ceremony. For the first time at a large sports event, a digital torchbearer(火炬手) lit the main torch tower. Where did the digital human come from?It was actually part of an online program. The program invited all smarphone users to pass on digital torches on the Intcrnct. More than 100 million people have takcn part in the program since it began on June 15. At the opening ceremony, these pcople turmed their digital fames (火焰)into a huge digital human shapc. 

The 19th Asian Games make full use of the green ideas and high technology, and it brings us a historic moment in the Asian Games history. 

15 dead in building fire in East China

Xinhua|Updated:2024-02-2407:51

NANJING—15 people were killed and 44 seriously hurt after the building fire broke out on Friday morming , February 23, 2024, in Nanjing, the capital city of East China's Jiangsu provincc

At around 4:39 am that day, the local fire department received an alarm about the fre in a residential building in the Yuhuatai district, which has 6 buildings And the fire broke out in unit 2 of Building 6 with 256 households and 762 residents(居民). Immediately, the local government has ordered all-out efforts to save the injured(伤员)after the fire. 25 fire trucks and 130 firefighters have bcen sent to offer help. They have helped 516 people get out of the building. Unfortunately, 15 of them were dead and 44 were seriously hurt. At around 6 am the firefighters put out the fire which lasted more than I hour. All the injured are receiving treatment at hospital. 

It's reported an clectric bicycle parked on the first floor of building 6 caused the fire. In order to prevent similar fre accidents, the government should strengthen the standard management of electric bicycle parking and charging facilities(充电), and strengthen the fire safety education for residents. 

The fire again reminds us that fire safety is no small matter, we must always pay attention to our lives and property safety. 

Study tours have been more and more popular partly because of China's "double reduction" policy(双减政策). 

Hu Sixun, 27, is a study tour mentor (讲解员)in Tonggu County, a(n) 1 Red tourist place in East China's Jiangxi Province. "Many people think that my 2 is the same as a tour guide, but we are. 3 from them, "Hu said. "Our visitors are 4 from primary and middle schools. We not only. 5 as a guide, but also need to scrve as a teacher during trips to improve their learning and let them understand the 6 better, "she said. 

Gao Hongmei, a study tour mentor in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, said her duties include7 activities and courses according to children's needs and the scenic spots. "A study tour is not only interesting but also meaningful. Children can also learn a lot. We must. 8 to make the learning process more enjoyable in different ways, "Gao said. 

A mother whose last name was Song from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, said9 that her 9-year-old son is much happier than before because now he has 10 time for after-school

activities and she expects these to offer fun and educational experiences.