【轻松英文阅读】去上学的机器人

Chris Colaluca of Mohawk Junior High School in Pennsylvania is not your typical student. Chris suffers from spina bifida and is not able to attend class in person. But this does not stop him. He is able to take classes thanks to his robot. The robot

【轻松英文阅读】禁止早恋

Several Chinese middle schools have decided to snip young romances in the bud with the establishment of new rules for their students. In some cases, the rules can be quite vague. For instance, one school rule simply states that there can be no close

【轻松英文阅读】老年痴呆症

If you are reading this article and it is not in your native language, then you may be on the road to a healthier brain. According to new research learning to speak another language can delay the onset of dementia by five years. The research was carr

【轻松英文阅读】大脑训练

This post is a little different from my usual ones, but I thought you might enjoy these puzzles as much as I did. Before you begin you may want to go over the vocabulary in the list below. Also, please try these without writing anything down or looki

【轻松英文阅读】如何学好英文

Often readers ask me what the best way to study the material in this site is. As you may realize, there are many approaches and what works for some may not work for others. However, here is one way that many people have found to be effective. 1. Care

【轻松英文阅读】服务员手势的秘密

In a noisy restaurant when you want to get a refill or the check, have you ever used a hand signal to communicate with the waiter? Sometimes, it is just the best way to get what you want. Restaurant staff dont want you to know this, but they use hand

【轻松英文阅读】被人遗忘的小岛

There is an island in the Bay of Bengal between Myanmar and Indonesia. It is called North Sentinel Island but the inhabitants of the island dont know that. In fact, the Sentinelese people know almost nothing of the outside world. They have never seen

【轻松英文阅读】母亲节的由来

What did you do on May 12th of this year? If you are like most people in Japan and America, chances are you spent the day with your mother. (In Korea they celebrate Parents Day on May 8, in Norway Mothers Day is in February, and many other countries

【轻松英文阅读】冰岛广播电视台

Iceland Airwaves is a super hip, long weekend music festival that dominates the festival scene each year. Its been around since 1999 and the name comes from its first location an airplane hangar. Part of what makes this festival so special is the unt

【轻松英文阅读】炸树叶

Just north of Osaka, Japan, there is a wonderful location for enjoying the autumn colors. It is known as Minoh Quazi-National Park. park is best known for a beautiful waterfall, wild monkeys and an abundance of maple trees. And the maple leaves are m

【轻松英文阅读】PPAP

For more than 20 years, Kazuhito Kosaka was trying his best to make it as a Japanese comedian. He was successful enough to be in a 7-11 commercial, but he wasnt a major star. But his life changed in just 45 seconds. Kazuhito Kosakas stage name is Pik

【轻松英文阅读】下一个泰勒？

Grace VanderWaal was just like any other New York 12-year old until she and her mother decided to let her try out for the NBC television competition, Americas Got Talent. Grace had written songs since she was three years old, so unlike most child per

【轻松英文阅读】完美歌手

Want to know which of your favorite singers has the best set of pipes? The people at the site concerthotels.com (an online booking site for hotels near concert venues) have done the research and created a really cool interactive chart to show you jus

【轻松英文阅读】“流浪者”的感激

It was a very kindhearted deed, but not something that would be reported in the news Karine Gombeau, a French tourist visiting New York City, saw a homeless man looking through a garbage container. She had just left a restaurant and was carrying some

【轻松英文阅读】丰田新款能源车

One of the hottest cars at this years Geneva Motor Show is not a car. In fact, Toyotas i-ROAD concept vehicle could create a whole new category of vehicle. Toyota wanted to create a vehicle with the usability of a motorbike, but safer and more comfor

【轻松英文阅读】新的发现

You may have thought that the age of exploration was over. But you would be wrong. The world is a big place and even in this modern age we are still finding hidden cornersplaces untouched by humans. Thanks to our modern age exploring has become a lot

【轻松英文阅读】有史以来最炎热的夏天

Last year the world was hot like never before. That is according to international weather researchers. They say it was due to climate change. Weather researchers from the United States and Switzerland measured the temperatures around the world. They

【轻松英文阅读】北冰洋的垃圾越来越多

There are very few people living in the Arctic. You would not expect to find much garbage there. Recently, however, some German researchers have discovered a lot of plastic, glass and other waste in the sea there. They say that there is twenty times

【轻松英文阅读】杰克的毕业舞会

Jake Davidson is a typical 17-year old American high school student , preparing for his graduation . And in America, that means getting ready for the senior prom . But while Jake had a suit, a tie, and a car, the one thing he didnt have was a date .

【轻松英文阅读】十分巧合

Robin and Jordan are teenage girls. But they lived very separate lives until one day, when they discovered that they had something very special in common . This chance encounter occurred on January 9, 2013, at a high school track meet in Washington D