Hainan is in the south（南方）of China. The weather there is different from that of other areas of China. There is no winter in Hainan. It’s not cold all year round. Many people go there in winter, because it’s cold in the north（北方）of China. In summer, it’s very hot. It’s usually sunny, but it often rains. So people often take a pair of sunglasses and a raincoat at the same time. People can enjoy many kinds of fruits like bananas and coconuts(椰子) there, too.

Hainan is a good place to go for holidays and have fun. People can go fishing, boating, swimming and so on. When we want to have a rest, we can walk on the beach (海滩) and enjoy the fresh air and white clouds. It’s so interesting.

Would you like to go to Hainan?

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   According to the World Happiness Report, people who live in Denmark(丹麦) are the happiest in the world. Why? Because they know the secret to happiness—“hygge”. But what is “hygge”?

The Danish（丹麦的） word“hygge”（pronounced“hoo-ga”） is often translated in English as“coziness”．But coziness paints only part of the picture．It's also about spending peaceful time in a quiet environment with no calendar．It's about spending time alone or spending time with family．

Danish people are very good at“hygge”．For example，they create a“hygge”environment by burning candles in classrooms，kitchens，bedrooms，etc．According to some reports，Danish people burn more candles every year than people from any other European country．

However，“hygge”isn't just about creating a nice and warm environment； it is best enjoyed with family members and friends．With up to 17 hours of darkness every day in winter，Danish people spend more time indoors as a result，and they often get together for a meal or hot drinks，without the distraction（使人分心的事物） of technology or the stress of daily life．

Still can't understand what“hygge”is？If you're reading this in a comfortable chair，with a few candles around you，that sense of coziness you're feeling might just be“hygge”．

①play computer games till midnight  

②spend more time indoors as a result

③stay up late to work in their own rooms 

④often get together for a meal or hot drinks

Many daily American expressions are based(以……为基础)on colours.

    Red is a hot colour. Americans often use it to represent heat. When they say "red-hot", that means they are very angry about something. Loud music is popular with many people. Some may say  that such music is red-hot.

    Pink is a lighter kind of red. People sometimes say "I'm in the pink" when they are in good health. The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the 20th century. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink colour that shows that they are in good health. Blue is a cool colour. The old Blues music in the United States is the opposite of red-hot music. Blues is slow and sad. Someone who is "blue" is very sad.

    The colour green is natural for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural colour for humans. A person who has an upset stomach may say "I'm feeling a bit green". A person on a boat who is feeling very sick from high waves can be said "look very green". Sometimes a person may be very jealous because he does not have anything as nice as someone has, like a fast new car. That person may say  "I'm green with envy". Some people are green with envy because someone has more dollars or "greenbacks''. Dollars are called greenbacks in American slangs because that is the colour of the bottom of their bank notes.

    The colour black is used often in expressions. People may say "it's a black day'' when everything goes wrong on that day.

    In some cases, colours describe a situation. Blackouts were common during the World War II. All the lights in a city were turned off at night to make it difficult for enemy planes to find their aims in the dark.

    The National Gallery

Description:

  The National Gallery is the British national art museum built on the north side of Trafalgar Square in London. It has a collection of more than 2300 examples of European art, from 13^th-century religious paintings to more modern ones by Van Gogh.

Layout(布局):

  The modern Sainsbury Wing on the western side of the building houses: 13^th-to15th-century paintings, and artists include Duccio, Uccello, Van Eyck and Memling.

The main West Wing houses: 16^th- century paintings, and artists include Leonardo da Vinci, Cranach, Michelangelo and Veronese.

  The North Wing houses: 17^th-century paintings, and artists include Caravaggio, Rubens and Vermeer.

 The East Wing houses: 18^th –to early 20^th –century paintings, and artists include Canaletto, Goya and Van Gogh.

Opening Hours:

  The Gallery is open every day from 10am to 6pm (Fridays 10am to 9pm) and is free, but charges apply to some special exhibitions.

Getting There:

  Nearest underground stations: Charing Cross (2-minute walk), Leicester Square (3-minute walk), Embankment (7-minute walk), and Piccadilly Circus(8-minute walk).

In January, 2016, a three-episode TV documentary, Masters in Forbidden City, was broadcast on China Central Television. It soon became popular – the first episode alone has been watched nearly 1 million times so far on the video website bilibili.com.

       Now the documentary has been made into a film, and came out on Dec 16, 2016. It is about how professional antiquity restorers (文物修复者) in the Forbidden City repair ancient paintings, calligraphy, clocks and bronze pieces. It may not sound exciting, but the restorers’ patience and their 100 percent focus on even the smallest things is enough to impress people.

       In fact, many of the restorers are young people. It has also made the documentary popular among their peers(同龄人), as it has shown them possibility of a different lifestyle. After Masters in Forbidden Citywas broadcast, about 20,000 people applied to work in the Forbidden City. Most of them were new college graduates.

       The job has become popular. So have the restorers. But was it difficult to be part of a documentary? “It was only supposed to be difficult for the director, not for us. We simply did our jobs, paying no attention to anyone else around.” said Shi Liancang, one of the restorers, when asked during the film’s premiere(首映) in Shanghai. To make the documentary, the production team also did five years of pre-research and four months of uninterrupted(连续的) filming in the Forbidden City.

       Indeed, these restorers keep this peaceful state of mind and devote themselves to doing the same thing they deeply love day after day. As the poster for the documentary says, “Choose a career and do it for a lifetime.”

Piggy banks have been around for a long time, but did you ever wonder why people liked to make their banks in the shape of a pig?

Pigs have nothing to do with money. They don’t store food like a camel or a squirrel. So how did we end up using a pig as the style of a bank? Believe it or not, it happened by mistake.

During the fifteenth century, metal was very expensive. Dishes and pots were made of a type of inexpensive orange clay called pygg, which was pronounced just like pig. At this time, there weren’t banks like we have today, so people would store their money at home.

When people had extra coins to save, they would place them in clay jars or pots. Since the type of clay was called pygg, people called the jars pygg banks. Over time this evolved （发展）into piggy banks.

After a few hundred years, people forgot that the word pygg referred to the clay the banks were made from. The English language was also changing and the word pig was more commonly used. So in the nineteenth century, when English potters began to make piggy banks, they thought their customers were asking for banks in the shape of pigs, not banks made from pygg.

Today piggy banks are made from all kinds of materials, and they also come in a variety of shapes and animals. But the term piggy bank is still used.

①materials     ②price    ③colour      ④shapes

What is your zodiac (生肖) animal? According to the Chinese lunar calendar (农历), 12 animals mark 12 different years. It is the basis of the Chinese zodiac. Nowadays, Chinese zodiac animals have worldwide fame and are increasingly popular among western people.

The zodiac is an important part of Chinese culture. People believe that the characteristics (特点) of a zodiac animal influence the personality of every person born in that year. For example, people born in the Year of the Tiger are considered powerful and brave.

 Zodiac animals also have some social functions. When people think it is not proper to ask: “How old are you”, they may change their question to “What is your zodiac animal?” With this question, you can figure out roughly which year someone was born and the person’s age.

 Zodiac animals are not special to China. Many countries share a similar zodiac culture with China. For example, in the Japanese zodiac, a wild boar (野猪) takes the place of a pig and the Vietnamese (越南的) zodiac has a cat instead of a rabbit.

 But have you ever wondered how these 12 animals were chosen to represent each year? According to legend, the Jade Emperor (玉皇大帝) invited all the animals to join him for Chinese New Year. Only 12 animals went to see him. As a reward he named a year after each one in the order they arrived. The ox would have been the first to arrive, but the rat sat on his back and jumped off just before they arrived to come in first place.

I’m sure you know the song “Happy Birthday”. You must sing this song to your family and your friends many times on their birthdays every year. But do you know who wrote this song? And who was it written for?

Archibald Hill from Louisville, the USA, could tell you the story.

More than one hundred years ago, two of Archibald Hill’s aunts, Miss Patty Hill and Miss Mildred J. Hill were asked to write some songs for a book. They were both kindergarten(幼儿园) teachers then. They loved children very much and wrote many beautiful songs for the book. One of them was the well-known song “Good Morning to You”. This song was very popular at that time among kindergarten children, but many adults didn’t know it. A few years later, little Archibald was born. Miss Patty sang the song “Happy Birthday” to the melody(旋律) of “Good Morning to You” to her little nephew(侄子).

Miss Patty Hill and her sister never thought that song would become so popular, but it really did. People all over the world like the song.

Built from 2011, Shanghai Disney Resort is the sixth Disneyland park in the world, and the first one on the Chinese mainland. Like other Disneyland parks, the one in Shanghai will have classic Disney characters and stories. But it will also have new attractions designed for Chinese people. It is open to the public now in 2016.

Enchanted Storybook Castle(奇幻童话城堡)

Located at the heart of the theme park, the Enchanted Storybook Castle will be the tallest and largest Disney castle yet. Inside the castle, there are spaces for entertainment, dining and performance. There you can meet all the Disney princesses.

Treasure Cove(宝藏湾)

This is the first pirates-themed(海盗主题的) land in a Disney park. The land will have a major attraction, which is a high-technology boat ride attraction. The attraction will bring visitors along a pirate adventure. Are you ready to jump on the boat?

Garden of the Twelve Friends

In almost every other Disneyland park around the world, there is a “Main Street, USA” at the entrance. But Shanghai Disneyland park is the first without that attraction. Instead, it has the Garden of the Twelve Friends. Each friend stands for the 12 animal signs using popular Disney characters.

Toy Story Hotel

Living experience is also fun inside the park. Toy Story Hotel features the characters of the film Toy Story. There are about 800 rooms for visitors to stay. In the restaurant of the hotel, you may even see characters walking around and take photos with them.

Would you like to experience what the school was like in the late 1800s? To start with, everyone shared only one teacher and one classroom.

    In the 19th and early 20th centuries, most American students attended a one-room schoolhouse. A singleteacher would have students in the first through eighth grades, and she taught them all by herself. The number of students varied(变化) from 6 to 40 or more. The youngest children sat in the front, while the oldest students sat in the back. The teacher usually taught reading, writing, history, and geography. Students memorized and recited their lessons.

    The classroom of a one-room schoolhouse probably looked like your own. The teacherˈs desk may have been on a raised platform(讲台) at the front of the room, and there would have been a wood-burning stove（火炉）in the classroom. The bathroom would have been outside in an outhouse.

    In Honeoye Falls, New York, there is a one-room schoolhouse where kids today can experience what it was like to be students in the late 19th century. For a week during the summer, they wear 19th century clothes and learn the way children learned more than a hundred years ago. What else has changed about school since the 19th century?