Ne Zha 1 in 2019 surprised everyone with its funny story and beautiful pictures. Ne Zha 2gives us more surprises with a deeper culture. In Ne Zha 2, many things like clothes look cool. The ideas are from real ancient Chinese treasures（文物）. Did you find any" treasures" in the movie?
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| Barrier beasts（结界兽） The beasts are cute and lively with large heads. They look just like the golden-faced human head from Sanxingdui culture. |
| Seven-colored sacred lotus（七色宝莲） Taiyi Zhenren uses this beautiful lotus to rebuild NeZha and Ao Bing's bodies. The lotus looks like the Boshan censer（博山炉）. Ancient Chinese used it for burning incense（香）。 | |
| Dragon tooth blade（龙牙刀） This cool blade is used by Ao Guang, Ao Bing's father. The idea is from the blade in the Shang Dynasty (16th century—11th century BC). |
Warning: this article may make you want to sleep. Why? It's because we' re looking into the world of sleep cycles（周期）。
Our bodies sleep in 90-minute cycles, experiencing five to six each night. Each sleep cycle has several stages（阶段）. At first, you enter a light stage of sleep. Your body temperature drops, and the heart rate slows. Next comes deep sleep. It's difficult to wake up during this stage. This is when your body repairs from the tiredness in the daytime and builds up energy for the next day. Finally, you get into the rapid eye movement（REM, 快速眼动）sleep stage. It is when you will have lots of dreams. After REM sleep, the cycle starts again.
Waking up in the morning in the" wrong" stage can make you feel especially tired. An app called Sleep Calculator can help you stop this from happening. It's a tool that can work out the perfect bedtime for you.
It's also worth noticing that you shouldn't just start your sleep cycle whenever you want. Many young people go to bed late and get up late, such as sleeping from 2 am to 10 am. They think as long as they have 8 hours of sleep, everything will be fine.
But in fact, our bodies can tell the time, especially by using light and temperature. That's why sometimes we feel even more tired after oversleeping.
①From friendships to trouble in work, more Chinese people are now using AI tools（工具）like Deepseek to talk about their problems. They share feelings with the chatbot（聊天机器人）and get warm advice. This is called" AI therapy（疗愈）", which is becoming popular online. But can robots really do the work of human therapists?
②Around the world, 45% of people who needed mental（心理）health care in 2024 did not get it because it was too expensive or there weren't enough doctors, according to Huntington Psychological Services. Daniel Lowd, at the University of Oregon, believes AI could help with this problem. "It will be wonderful if people can find some help and ideas by talking to ChatGPT or Deepseek, " Lowd told Newsweek. Li Yong, a doctor at the Jiangsu Province Hospital, agreed with Lowd, saying that AI meets people's needs for mental help in some ways.
③However, AI has its difficulties. Human therapists understand feelings deeply through face-to-face talks and make special plans to help—something robots can't copy. Another problem is safety. AI might act like a therapist without the right training or rules. So something dangerous may happen during the treatment.
④ ▲ For example, Wysa, an AI mental health app, follows strict rules in the UK. As AI becomes part of daily life, finding a middle ground between its advantages and risks is important. While AI offers quick help, it still cannot copy human connections. There's still a long way to go.
As Ken's father, I've watched him search parks and schools with his litter picker and gloves in the past week. He would pick up whatever litter caught his eye, rain or shine.
This all started after we visited a beach last week. Ken said he felt bad for Earth, so the next day, he woke up and decided to clean the litter on the beach. However, the beach was so far so we went to a park near our home. That day, Ken also cleaned the streets on the way to and from the park.
When I asked Ken, "What do you want to do tomorrow?" he answered, "Can we go to a different park?" I couldn't say no to him. I said, "Well, we could clean the schools, " and that's what we did. He's really made up his mind and I'm not going to let him down.
In just one week, Ken has cleaned every park, school and public space we could get to near our home. Even when we went for an afternoon walk, Ken picked litter up to clean the streets. It seems that cleaning has become second nature to him and litter is the trigger（诱因）。
Ken said he wanted to do this every day over the summer. My wife and I are very happy even though he's just doing something so easy. It surprises me that at 6-and-a-half years old, he decided to do something, all by himself. That's what we grown-ups should learn from him—try our best to do something good from little things.
Mars might be the next planet where we can live. ___ Will they come true? Or are these just ideas from sci-fi movies（科幻电影）？
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To live on Mars, humans need water, food, a place to live, and a warm environment with enough oxygen（氧气）. There's very little oxygen on Mars, so it is very cold at night. NASA has shown that it's possible to solve this problem, but it's not easy.
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To grow food on Mars, we need soil（土壤）, but there are many harmful things on the ground of Mars. One idea is to clean out the harmful things to help plants grow. On Earth, scientists are trying a create a place for food with an environment like Mars. But the scientists still have a hard time getting things just right.
How to build homes?
Buildings on Mars could be 3D-printed, but they would need special protection until Mars'environment becomes more like Earth. However, there are many more challenges. For example, unlike Earth, Mars doesn't have a magnetosphere（磁场）which means harmful radiation（辐射）can get to it. ___
But no matter what happens, such work to make Mars more like Earth is not a waste of time. For example, work on 3D-printing to make homes on Mars is being used to help print homes on Earth and solve the problem of not having enough places for people to live.
A. Is there enough oxygen on Mars? B. Do people like the homes on Mars? C. Can we make it a safer place to grow food? D. There are many ideas to make life on Mars work. E. So it's important to create a safe magnetosphere. |
What do you think of living on Mars? Why?（不超过20词）___
One day, a student put a paper on Mark's 1 . The paper said, "I'm stupid（愚蠢的）. " He 2 the other classmates not to tell Mark. All the students started 3 him, but didn't tell him 4 .
In the afternoon math class, Mrs White wrote a 5 problem on the blackboard. No one was able to solve it,6 Mark.
He walked to the 7 with the laughter from others. He solved the problem 8 . Mrs White asked the class to give him a big hand and then removed（移除）the paper 9 his back.
Mrs White said to Mark, "It seems you didn't know about the 10 your classmate put on your back. "
Then Mrs White turned to the rest of the class and said, "Let me tell you 11 things. First, at some point, other people will label（贴标签）you 12 they don't want you to succeed. The most important thing is don't pay attention to these labels and keep learning, growing and improving. "
She continued, "Second, it seems 13 of you are true friends with Mark, because no one was14 enough to tell him about the paper. You'd better hope you have good friends15 , or you might be the one with a paper stuck on your back someday and no one will tell you. "
Hearing this, the students felt sad with their heads down and they went to say sorry to Mark after class.
humorous, hero, create, make a mess, fight |
Jack liked watching cartoons about ___ like Superman and Spider-Man, and he decided to ___ such a hero himself. After finishing his drawing, he named him Xman and made up a short story about him. Xman was___ and kind. He was also brave and strong, always ready to ___ against the bad when needed. However, Xman also made silly mistakes. For example. When making a cake, Xman mistook salt for sugar, and ___ in the kitchen. After Jack finished the story, he told it to his parents. They couldn't help laughing.
The wind was strong. Zhou Jian's long hair waved in the air. He often heard voices from ___（陌生人）, "Is that a boy or a girl?" "He looks so ___（难看的）!" Sometimes they laughed at him.
But Zhou Jian felt ___（自豪的）of himself. "Just one more month! Everything will be OK!" He___（数着）down the days. Zhou Jian has kept his hair long ___（自从）two years ago. Day after day, his dream grew together with his hair.
Finally, the time came. Zhou Jian ___（到达）a barber's shop. He took off his hat. As he sat down, everyone looked at him. They thought it is ___ （不可能）for a boy to have such long hair. After the barber's work was ___ （完成的）, Zhou Jian carefully put the hair into a bag and sent it by post.
A week later, he got a letter from ___（德国），"DearMr Zhou, We've received your gift.___ （也许）this is enough hair for three wigs（假发）! Thank you for helping kids with cancer!"
Do you often hear birds singing in your school or neighbourhood? ___ do you feel about it?
In the great outdoors, some sounds can really touch our ___ (heart). The sounds of ducks, frogs, or birds are able ___ (draw) pictures in our minds. Many of us might not live with these animals, ___ their sounds stay in our memories.
Nature sounds are everywhere if we take the time to listen. They are not just made by animals or birds. Some people may like to hear the wind dancing through the treetops. Others may enjoy ___ sound of a stream（小溪）flowing over rocks.
___ (listen) to nature sounds can make us feel calm and is also great ___ our minds and bodies. A study shows these sounds can make some changes in our brains to keep other thoughts out. So they help us relax much ___ (good).
To fully enjoy nature sounds, we need to go outside and sit ___ (quiet). If you listen to the beautiful music of nature, you ___ (forget) about your worries.
注意：(1)文中不得出现真实人名和校名等相关信息；(2)词数：100词左右。开头已给出，不计入总词数。
★What did you do? ★Why did you choose it? ★How did you feel? |
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In April, our school held lots of sports activities.
