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Drones (无人驾驶飞机) can do lots of things, including taking pictures from the sky and watching wild animals. Now these small flying robots begin to change the way of farming.

Looking for sick plants

Drones can find bacteria (细菌) that are harmful to plants in the air from a few kilometers away. Farms can check the drones’ air samples (样本) and try to find ways to protect their plans before the bacteria get to them.

Counting cows

When flying over cows, drones can follow up the cows and find out which fences need fixing. There are also special cameras on drones. They can help farmers look for animals that could harm their cows.

Water watch

After watering the fields, we can often see some places may dry out faster than others. Other places might not get water at all. Drones can look over the field and make a 3-D map. Using the map, farmers can find out which parts of a field are dry or need improvement.

Spraying pesticide (喷洒农药)

Different parts of a field might have different altitude (海拔). Drones can check for this when flying above the land. Then, they change their height so that they can spray the correct amount of pesticide over each part of the field. This is more useful than traditional pesticide spraying. Drones can finish spraying a field much faster than with traditional machines.

A special exhibition (展览会) titled Life Is a Song–Wan Tongshu and Xinjiang Uygur Muqam Art (木卡姆艺术) was held from August 23 to 27 in Aksu, Xinjiang.

Through objects, pictures, sounds and other forms, the exhibition was held to remember Chinese musician Wan Tongshu because he helped protect Uygur Muqam art. The exhibition was divided into two parts: “Wan Tongshu’s life story” and “Protection and inheritance of Xinjiang Uygur Muqam Art.”

Xinjiang Uygur Muqam mixes songs, dances and folk and classical music. Of these, the Twelve Muqam is known by the most people, with the largest spreading area and the most complete structure (结构).

In the thousands of years of its history, the Uygur Muqam had been passed on by word of mouth which made it difficult to be completely remembered. By the 1940s, there were very few folk artists who could sing the whole Twelve Muqam, and the art form had been brought to the danger of being lost. Government-organized protection work started in 1950. In 1951, Wan Tongshu and his wife went to Xinjiang to help with the collection of Twelve Muqam, and published the collection “Twelve Muqam”. The collection was helpful for the following research and spread. Over the years, experts and scholars (专家学者) have tried hard to protect Xinjiang Uygur Muqam together with local folk artists.

For its cultural value, Xinjiang Uygur Muqam art was included as one of UNESCO’s Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity (人类口头和非物质遗产代表作) in 2005, and was listed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008.

Tom is my classmate. He is from England. He likes China very much. Now he is in Beijing. He is tall. He has a round face and big blue eyes. His hair is not black but yellow. His nose, mouth and ears are big. He likes blue. He is in a blue T-shirt and blue pants. Look at his hand. He has a toy in it. He often plays it after class.

My name is Ted. I am a middle school student. Two years ago, I had ________ bad habits. I ________ had breakfast because I often got up late. I didn’t like exercising. I often stayed ________ home all day. I only exercised once ________ twice a month. In the evening, I always ________ TV for a long time. Then I played computer games on the ________. I often stayed up ________ and I often felt tired the next day. My parents thought it was bad for my ________. They were unhappy.

One day, while I was playing games with my classmates, I ________ on the playground. ________ I woke up, I was in the hospital. The doctor told me my classmates sent me to the ________. He said I was too weak. Then he asked me ________ breakfast every day and to do more exercise.

From then on, I decided to ________ my bad habits. Now I get up early and go to bed early. I eat ________ on time every morning. I exercise for half ________ hour every day. I become strong and healthy. My parents and I are happy.