《圣诞颂歌》是查尔斯·狄更斯的最好作品。这是一个讲述自私的，忧郁的和脾气暴躁的，名字是史高治的老人。他相信那些无家可归的人应该被捉进监狱或者囚犯工厂里面。他讨厌圣诞节，而且他一点也不慷慨。
一个寒冷的夜晚，他被三个圣诞幽灵追赶。这三个幽灵是昔日圣诞幽灵、今日圣诞幽灵和来日圣诞幽灵。这三个幽灵准备给史高治一些教训。昔日圣诞幽灵展示了他已经丧失了人性的样子给他看。今日圣诞幽灵将别人身上的人性展示给他看。来日圣诞幽灵将如果没有人性的，将会发生什么情况给他看。
这本书试图教育我们要学会做一个慷慨的人，并享受自己已有的东西。它也鼓励我们要将时间花在家人和朋友身上。
这是一个关于救赎的故事。这个故事是关于一位自私、贪婪的人，他既得不到快乐也得不到亲属关系的人。他得到一个机会去弥补自己的过错，并过上有意义的生活。
这本书的语言风格风趣幽默，并且被改编成很多演出，电影和电视。
Student: 覃明利
A robot that kills Starfish with great efficiency. But why??
COTSbot, a robot designed by scientists would soon be on the killing spree. But the killing would be for a noble cause. It would be to save the Great Barrier Reef which is struggling to save its coral from the menace caused by hordes of Crown of Thorns Starfish.
It was five decades ago that the scientists warned about the destruction that could be caused by these spiny starfish. When they attack the reefs, they do so in large numbers. There have been three such attacks since the 1960s. Today, we are in the middle of fourth such attack. The damage caused by starfish is devastating. It is second only to cyclones.
Up until now, the task of killing the starfish was on human divers who killed starfish by using a cattle bile solution. Thousands of starfish have been killed by using this solution. But the Great Barrier Reef is big. The number of divers to wipe out the starfish is not enough.
That’s where COTSbot comes in. Designed by two scientists from Queensland University, the robot can work for 8 hours non-stop and get rid of 200 starfish in this duration. The robot is loaded with programs that helps in distinguishing starfish from other creatures. With many such robots in action, it will surely help in wiping the starfish.
《时间简史》是那些人一生只能创作出一次的珍贵作品之一。霍金以通俗的语言去探讨在整个历史长河中的先进的科学。这本书适合于那些热爱科学的人。这本书的语言十分幽默，而且通俗易懂。霍金以科学史开始，从亚里士多德到伽利略，最后到牛顿，谈论现代的进步。霍金通过他的个人魅力以及谦虚的写作风格来使你沉迷于这本书。他提及关于人择原理，量子力学，广义相对论，黑洞和不确定性原理一切理论。
这本书，《时间简史》已经成为一本标志性的作品，就像《哈姆雷特》和《奥赛德》。这本书将会成为你所阅读的书中最有趣和最有吸引力的书。这本书致力于使读者明白宇宙是如何运转的，以及是什么在引导我们的思维。这本书的后半部分大多在探讨围绕宇宙的理论，以及这些理论如何被创造。最终的目的是提出一个万物理论，这个理论他之后会给出。
Student: 东美真
保罗·科埃略的这本伟大的小说激励我们去追求自己的梦想。在作者看来，如果我们找到我们自己的“个人神话”和我们在地球上的角色，那么，我们就能真正找到“上帝”，也就是意志，成就，和快乐。
这本小说讲述了一个叫圣地亚哥的少年的故事，这个少年做了一个梦，在获得一些迹象后，他决定去追求自己的梦想。他开始了一段自己的旅程，在这个旅程当中，他探索新的事物，并且经历了一个自我认知的过程。
圣地亚哥在寻找宝藏的过程中，经历很多伟大的事情，同时也遇到很多了不起的人。他遇到了很多令人兴奋的人，例如国王，牧羊人等等。但是，当他达到旅程的终点，他意识到“宝藏就在心灵的归属地”。他也渐渐意识到这个旅程本身就是一个宝藏。
这本小说充满着积极色彩。它告诉你一个道理：没有什么事情是不可能的。所有事情需要的只是迈出开始的步伐。即使牧羊人告诉这个男孩“当你真的想要做成一件事情的时候，整个世界都会给你让路”。并且这句话是整个小说的核心思想。
科埃略鼓励他的读者去追求自己的“个人神话”，并且他说那些不这样做的人会度过悲惨的，没有成就感的，空虚的人生。
Student: 王国梁
1952年3月4日，海明威写信给他的出版商说他完成了他人生最好的作品。这本书就是《老人与海》。这本书使他获得诺贝尔文学奖，以及1953年的小说类的普利策奖。
这本书的语言风格十分通俗易懂，它讲述了一位叫圣地亚哥的渔夫的感人故事。很多人认为这位渔夫都不能再捕鱼。距离他上次捕到鱼已经有几个月了。他的徒弟，马诺林离开他去了一个更大的船上工作。这位老人很绝望，于是他到深海区域捕鱼。他很幸运，因为一个很大的金枪鱼被渔网罩住，但是这只鱼太大了以至于这个老人不能把鱼拉上来。
海明威展示了圣地亚哥在与鱼斗争过程中的熟练和能力。圣地亚哥给编制了一张很密的渔网，因此渔网不会破洞，但是他和他的小船一起被鱼拖着前行，在海上挣扎了3天之后，这条鱼疲惫了，于是它被圣地亚哥杀了。但是旅程并不在这里就结束了。圣地亚哥在海的中央，他必须要返航。他已经伤痕累累，并且一群鲨鱼跟在鱼后面。这位老人是如何活下来的呢？
圣地亚哥无疑是一位永不屈服和永不放弃的英雄，这个故事很短，但是十分经典，给读者留下很深的印象。
Student: 美容姚
Did you know from where the word “Computer” comes from? The word computer originally referred to a person who did the calculation very fast, without the need of any mechanical devices. The idea for computer began with people who wanted to make calculations easier. In between 1000BC and 500BC, the abacus was invented in Babylonia, and this made calculation simpler. It actually was a computer made of strings and beads.
The first automatic calculator was invented in 1642 by Blasie Pascal. However, none of these devices could be compared to the computer as they could not be programmed. The first step in the direction of computers was taken in 1801 when Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a punch card machine that could be used for weaving. The card made sure that the threads went through the right order. It used codes in order to work.
The first device that might be considered as a computer in modern days was conceived in 1822 by the British mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage. In Babbage’s time, mathematical tables were carried out by a group of mathematicians who worked day and night on primitive calculations. In 1822 Babbage proposed building a machine know as ‘Difference Engine’ to automatically calculate these tables. The Difference Engine was only partially completed, when Babbage thought of building an easier machine known as ‘Analytical Engine’.
In the year 1890, new light flashed on the idea of computers. Mr. Herman Hollerith designed the first machine known as ‘Punch Card Machine’. This machine punched holes on card to store data or information. In the year 1945, the first general all purpose electronic computer was invented. It was ENIAC, short form for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. ENIAC filled an entire room, weighed 30 tons, and consumed 200 kilowatts of power. Vacuum tubes, over 19,000 of them, were the principal elements in the computer’s circuitry. The second ENIAC invented could perform 5,000 additions, 357 multiplications or 38 divisions.
From 1945 to 1979, numerous computers were invented for different purposes. Vacuum tubes were replaced with the transistors in the second generation. In the third generation computers, integrated chip replaced transistors. In the fourth generation, thousands of integrated chips were built onto a single silicon chip known as microprocessor. Every year there is a new development in the field of technology. As a result, computer gained tremendous speed, accuracy and reliability. Even the size and cost have reduced.
Now a days super computers have been developed, which are the most powerful computers. The world’s fastest super computer is named as ‘Cray XT5 Jaguar’. It is a machine that performs over two thousand trillion calculations per second! Eka is the fastest super computer of India. It can perform 117.9 trillion calculations per second! It has been rated the fourth fastest by the internationally recognized Top500 listing’ projects.
Student: Manjur Ansari
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/TimeLine/TimeLine3/3.1.04-FirstComputers/FurtherImages.php
Beijing ‘100% covered’ by web of surveillance cameras
The city of Beijing has been shielded by an inclusive security camera system, actively recording footage of the daily livings of the citizens and tourist within the city, according to a police report.
The police department in Beijing published a report that every part surrounding the capital city is currently protected by the metropolitan surveillance cameras according to the report by Xinhua news agency.
The modernization, which has increased by twenty percent in the quantity of security cameras in the public areas of Beijing, is relatively a national “skynet” regulation necessary for the cities throughout China to reach full video supervision.
The officers in the city have instructed over four thousand three hundred police officers in controlling the local video surveillance network and surveillance coverage has been utilized to resolve over one thousand five hundred cases since 2014 according to Xinhua.
L. Mudie
我很喜欢在周末逛书店。一个普通的周末，我在“最畅销书”那一列看到理查德·布兰森写的一本名叫《管他的，开始行动吧》。我买下这本看起来十分有趣的书。
这本书里面，理查德·布兰森先生分享了一个他成功的秘密。这个男人有着传奇的一生。他十分平易近人。他的人生充满挑战和刺激。在这本书中，理查德·布兰森先生强调了“快乐的重要性”他分享了他的人生哲学：如果你热爱你所做的事情，那么你自然而然就可以挣到钱。如今，这个道理已经被无数的百万富翁验证。
这本书教会你要听从你内心的声音，始终专注于你想做的事情，并且探索你人生新的道路。理查德·布兰森先生通过挑战他的极限去探索他的人生，并且挑战极限带给他很多快乐。从儿童时期开始，他就十分自信。
他在书中分享了他在大西洋巡航的冒险经验以及他创办的维珍的巨大成功。很多次，他都与命运抗争，命悬一线。
Student: 明超
Whenever I saw kids walking home with obvious heavy bags full of tedious homework and test paper, refusing to go out with parents because of their ceaseless missions, and merely playing computer games instead of reading books as entertainment in their leisure time, I felt dismayed and puzzled. Then from an early age, I have always been thinking about what is the problem within the education in our country. As it turns out, it is truly complicated.
To begin with, I think the essence of the education is to guide students to see, feel, and know the world, to help them build complete sense and personality system, and to lead them to find out their dream, get close to, and achieve it. However, nowadays, innocent, curious children are taught together about the “positive power,” which is defined by the public, the tradition, the rooted culture. But I’m afraid that this “culture” has become a kind of chains, hampering the naive curiosity and creativity of children. Anyway, I never stopped believing that Chinese culture is brilliant in the blazing flow of history, although I do not agree that this could be used as a plea of stifling thoughts.
Second, people at present are too “conventional” to walk on their life, which leaves them an opinion that their kids should also follow the “integral” society, referring to others, ironically. However, kids should not be the one whose life are controlled and changed by the pretentious but shortsighted prior generation. The era needs new things, new ideas, which could not be achieved by merely following the past paths, or the present trend, nor by being stuck in a given circle, but by allowing the young generation walking their own way.
Last but not least, children need real guide, complete knowledge, which means what they really need to learn is not merely the academic knowledge used to fulfill the test, the scores, when they have not already known what they are after, when they do not even have a kind heart to others and desire to the whole world. As time goes by, is harder and harder for students under the era to apply for an advanced university, since the score increasingly becomes distant target, higher and farther to reach. So students have to focus on nothing but books, textbooks literally. The time for them to do voluntary work, to play sports, to care about their hobbies.
I do not think those are all the problems, but I also admit how to lead one’s life does not totally depend on the education system. Nevertheless, since it is much more beneficial for students not only at present but also in the future, why not fixing it out for a better socAfter I saw the news about murdering, stealing, and other crimes when I was twelve and focus on thinking about it for a long time, I realized what I have always found to handle the problem about the bad thing in the world is actually–education.
When looking at our world, I never refused that science is quite essential for us to lead a better life, to make everything more magnificent. But it could not solve issues related to one thing: love. Why would people steal things which do not belong to them? Why would some rush to the streets and shot or kill innocent people who has nothing to do with them? Why there are some parents who would reject reporting that they have been to the epidemic area, hoping to avoid being quarantined? The first two kind of people, in my opinion, are not rich, at least not rich enough. The third group are not caring, they are selfish. But why would they be so poor and selfish enough to do things harmful or potentially harmful to the society, to others? I thought it deeply, and it turns out to be that it is the lack of education that makes those people lose their kindness, makes them do not care about the world.
How could a young know the great love for the world when during all the life there is only poverty and sadness? And even though a long time later, he or she could make difference and live a great life, it is the education that rooted in the heart from an early age from parents, who experienced the same fate but worse. People could not be lenient to the surroundings only if they get convenient life on the base of intact education. As the base, education is more important than substantial affluence to some degree, since it is obvious that there are many rich men who are not kind, refusing to give their wealthy away to the poor, and even bulling them.
Education is complex, including not only the information and ability that people need to capture for daily life, but also, more importantly, the guide to kindness and greatness. It is not to say that every one needs to be as kind as saints, but I want to express that education does could change people, from inside to outside, from mind to heart. So if you want to practice in a field to make great difference and contribute to the world to a broadest degree, education is in its own right.
Qin Xuan Zhou
“同呼吸，共命运”。就在全民吐糟空气质量报表的时候，中国政府出台了一系列措施去改善空气质量，在全国范围内树立全社会“同呼吸、共奋斗”的行为准则。其中大气污染防治十条措施主要是从节能减排，促进新能源发展的角度来改善空气质量。
作为普通市民，我们可以从哪些方面为环境治理共享自己的微薄之力呢？
在笔者看来，我们可以做到的有一下几点：
“同呼吸，共命运”道出了每个公民应尽的责任和义务，保护好环境，就是保护我们自己的生命。
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