These days, there have been a lot of reports about tornadoes（龙卷风）. A tornado is a very _______ form of weather. In fact, it is a rotating tube（旋转管道）of _______. The tube touches the ground and a cloud at the same time. The reason why tornadoes are so dangerous is that they travel at _______ up to 300 miles per hour! Tornadoes are _______ when warm air and cool air meet in the sky. They can pick up cars, blow _______ trees, and knock over buildings.

It was early August. Jerry was at the same summer camp for a month. He didn’t like it and couldn’t ____ September when school would start.

He wrote to his mom and asked her ____ she would pick him up early, but he didn’t want his mom to tell his ____. She answered, “I can’t do that. I am always ____ with your dad. If you really want to leave, I will talk to him about it.”

Jerry was ____ about making his dad sad, so he promised that he would stay for the last two weeks and ____ to make the best of it. He asked his mom to make his favorite meal when he got ____.

During the last week, every time he ate a camp meal, he ____ he was eating his mom’s cooking. ____, the food didn’t taste as bad. When he went horse-riding, he ____ the advisor（顾问）that he wasn’t comfortable with the horse. Then he had another one, ____ he started to like horse riding. As for ____, he told his advisor that he would like to try sitting in the stern（船尾）. ____he was able to take on the role of the stern paddler（桨手）, he started to enjoy boating.

When Jerry’s parents came to ____ him up, he said to them, “This was the____ summer at camp ever.”

Every year Nichole goes to the country for some time. She stays at her uncle’s farm and helps him. She is busy but she likes it because she loves to work with her cousin Macy.

Every morning she wakes up at 6 o’clock, first she collects the eggs and feeds the chickens with her aunt, then she has breakfast at 7:30 and after breakfast, she helps her uncle water the vegetables for an hour.

After that, she can’t wait to spend time with her cousin Macy. They always have a great time together. They climb trees, pick fruits and flowers. They love being outdoors. They come back home before dark and get ready for dinner. After dinner, they go out and feed the animals, which they love most. Before they go to bed, they watch TV for a little bit or read books. Tired, they fall asleep quickly, but always with sweet smiles on their faces.

Modern Sichuan Opera（戏剧）:Young Chen Yi

The opera will be on at 3:00 pm, from July 1 to July 7, in Lezhi Theatre. Tickets are free, but people need to reserve（预约）. Tel:27985888.

Lemons for Sale

￥8 a kilo, fresh, good quality Anyue lemons. The more you buy, the better price you will get. Lemons can be delivered（快递）to you or picked by yourselves from the lemon trees in the fields from November to December. Call 27986933 for more information.

Music Teacher Wanted

Full-time in a private middle school in Yanjiang. Be able to do other work besides teaching music. Call 27980800 before June 30 if you want to apply（申请）.

Red Star Supermarket

The biggest shopping center in our city will open on August 1, and a big sale will be on. Everybody with today's Ziyang Daily will get a small present that day. Tel：27984321. Add: No. 6 Jiaozi Road, Yanjiang.

The Guiyang Medicinal Botanical Garden（中药植物园）started its yearly cherry（樱桃）flower festival on March 23. People from home and abroad are attracted（吸引）to the garden to enjoy the enchanting flowers.

The festival runs until April 8 and visitors can book the tickets online. During the festival, tourists can join in the fun by trying their hand. Making fans with dried flowers is one of the activities on offer. Visitors can also guess lantern riddles（灯谜）about traditional Chinese medicinal plants to win prizes at the festival. Both of the activities will be held from 2:30 pm to 4 pm on March 25, March 30 and April 5.

The garden is a national 3 A-level scenic area where people rush in to enjoy the plants and flowers all the year round. What’s more, the garden is also a good choice for school trips and students can learn a lot about traditional Chinese medicinal plants. However, the garden was set up mainly for medicinal plant protection and research.

If you think of the jobs robots could never do, doctors and teachers may be your answers. It’s easy to imagine smart cleaners and robot factory workers, but some jobs really need human thinking and creativity（创造力）. Nowadays, robots already do a better job than doctors in hospitals in some way. Could there be a place for robots in education?

British expert Anthony Seldon thinks so. He believes in 2027 robots will do the main job of passing information and teachers will just help. They can even read students’ faces, movements and brain activities. However, it’s not a popular idea and it’s impossible that robots will really connect with humans like another human can.

But one thing is certain. A robot teacher is better than no teacher at all. In some parts of the world, there aren’t enough teachers. That problem could be partly solved by robots because they can teach anywhere and won’t get tired or move somewhere for a better job. Perhaps the question is not “Can robots do everything instead of teachers?” but “How can robots help teachers?” If robots could help to save the time teachers spend on students’ homework and reports, teachers would have more time and energy（精力）for the parts of the job humans do best.

Start of Spring（立春）begins this year on Feb 3 and ends on Feb 17.
47．

Spring Festival.

According to experts, Start of Spring was used for the first time in books during the Western Han Dynasty（206 BC-24 AD）.
48． However, in 1913, the first day of the first month of the lunar（农历）year was chosen as the Spring Festival.

49．

Spring is the best season for kite-flying. As a traditional activity, it has a history of more than 2, 000 years. It can help build one's health and keep illness away.

Setting the egg up.

50． People believe that if someone can make the egg stand on the day, he will have good luck in the future.

For many Chinese people, Golden Fishing Hook（钩）is one of the most real and moving
51． of the Long March（长征）. As
52． true story in the history of the CPC, it has been taught to a great number of students in the country’s schools.

In the story, a group leader was asked to look after three
53． younger soldiers who were left behind the main walking troops（部队）. Because there was little food, the group leader
54． a fishing hook with a needle（针）and caught fishes to make soup. To help
55． get better, he gave all the fish and soup to the young soldiers and he himself
56． ate grass and leaves. In the end, the group
57． died from hunger during his
58． to fishing. The fishing hook was carefully
59． by the young soldiers and sent to a memorial（纪念馆）
60． the revolution（革命）succeeded.

Chess is called the game of kings. It has been around for a long time. People have been playing it for over 500 years. The chess we play today is from Europe.

Chess is a two-player game. One player uses the white pieces. The other uses the black pieces. Each piece moves in a special way. One piece is called the king. Each player has one. The players take turns moving their pieces. If a player lands on a piece, he or she takes it. The game ends when a player loses his or her king. There are a few more rules, but those are the basics.

Some people think that chess is more than a game, because it can make the mind stronger. Good chess players use their brains. They take their time and think about what will happen next. These skills are useful in life and in chess.

Chess is not just for people. Computers have been playing chess since the 1970s. At first they did not play well. They made mistakes and learned from them. In 1997, a computer beat the best player in the world for the first time. It was a computer called Deep Blue.

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注意：

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I am Li Hua and very glad to stand here. The topic of my duty report is “After-class services in our school”.__________________________________________________

Thank you for listening!