Signing up for a digital TV service provides you with access to over 200 channels from all over the globe. However, television today is dominated by adult language, making it hard for concerned families to find channels suitable for young eyes. Therefore, most movie channels are automatically removed from the list of TV channels for an entire family. The following are some good ones based on popularity on a global scale.
Discovery Channel
Discovery and its many channels can be considered as the founding father of informative channels on television While National Geographic does in a scholastic (学术的) manner, Discovery tries to do in an entertaining manner—educating the masses about anything and everything.
Fox Family
Finding a movie channel that broadcasts pictures suitable for teenagers and kids alike is very difficult unless your service operator offers you Fox family movies. This channel screens most movies before it broadcasts them. ensuring the no movie shows unacceptable material for young eyes.
Nickelodeon
A channel very similar to Cartoon Network, it mostly shows US programs. However, their shows are sometimes a bit more mature for younger kids and better suited to kids aged 5 and up.
ABC Family
ABC started the ABC family channel in an attempt to introduce family-centered shows and serials to the public in the USA. The need for this channel was felt after ABC observed the lack of proper family type US channels.
Living
If travelling is a family hobby and better living is the motto then there is no better channel than Living. Kids can see never-seen-before sights, learning about new places while adults can practice their cooking and learn amazing things about motorbikes.
It was a village in India. The people were poor. However, they were not unhappy. After all, their forefathers had lived in the same way for centuries
Then one day, some visitors from the city arrived. They told the villagers there were some people elsewhere who liked to eat frog's legs. However, they did not have enough frogs of her own, and so they wanted to buy frogs from other places.
This seemed like money for nothing. There were millions of frogs in the fields around, and they were no use to the villagers. All they had to do was catch them. Agreement was reached, and the children were sent into the fields to catch frogs. Every week a truck arrived to collect the catch and hand over the money. For the first time, the people were able to dream of a better future. But the dream didn't last long.
The change was hardly noticed at first, but it seemed as if the crops were not doing so well. More worrying was that the children fell ill more often, and there seemed to be more insects around lately.
The villagers decided that they couldn't just wait to see the crops failing and the children getting weak. They would have to use the money earned to buy pesticides (杀虫剂) and medicines. Soon there was no money left.
Then the people realized what was happening. It was the frog. They hadn't been useless. They had been doing an important job—eating insects. Now with so many frogs killed, the insects were increasing more rapidly. They were damaging the crops and spreading diseases.
Now, the people are still poor. But in the evenings they sit in the village square and listen to sounds of insects and frogs. These sounds of the night now have a much deeper meaning.
Payment platforms run promotions to boost WeChat and Alipay, two major online payment platforms in China. and call for consumers to go cashless and cardless in their daily life in August. Cashlessness is a new Chinese characteristic. In a recent report by Tencent, the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, and French market research firm Ipsos, 84 percent of Chinese were "comfortable" going out with only mobile phones, no cash.
Gao Jingwen, in her 20s, can hardly recall when she last paid in cash. "I do not need cash in a restaurant, seeing a doctor, paying electricity and water bils. I cannot think of any place I cannot pay with my smartphone," she says.
The new payment pattern has won over Chinese consumers with its convenience and flexibility, squeezing the market share of card and cash payments. It has also helped improve the outdated, time-consuming services at government offices and public sectors (部门).
Alipay or WeChat? This is he question often asked when a purchase is made in China. Cards and cash, the once major purchasing methods, have become a second option in less than half a decade. "Mobile payment companies were worried about their future just four years ago, but the spread of technology has gone beyond the imagination of almost everyone," says Li Gang, a professor at the Tencent Research Institute.
Data from the People's Bank of China showed a total of 157 trillion yuan of payments were made on mobile devices in China last year, more than 200 times that in the United States in the same period. The figure is expected to continue expanding by 50 percent each year, it said. It is no accident that mobile payment has expanded so fast in China . According to a report by eMarketer, China's lack of" credit card culture" has somewhat fueled the popularization of mobile payments, especially in small cities and underdeveloped areas.
Both the internet giants have actively expanded their services overseas since last year. Alipay can be used in Several hundreds of thousands of shops in over70 coumtries while WeChat has landed in 19 countries and regions , including Japan，Thailand and Republic of Korea一most popuar destiaions among Chinese tourists，"The door to a new world has opened, and a promising future awaits, "Jia says.
Something in chocolate could be used to stop coughs and lead to more effective medicine, say UK researchers. Their study found that theobromine, found in cocoa, was nearly a third more effective in stopping coughs than codeine, which was considered the best cough medicine at present.
The Imperial College London researchers who published their result online said the discovery could lead to more effective cough treatments. "While coughing is not necessarily harmful it can have a major effect on the quality of life and this discovery could be a huge step forward in treating this problem. "said Professor Peter Bames
Ten healthy volunteers were given theobromine, codeine or a placebo, a pill that contains no medicine, during the experiment. Neither the volunteers nor the researchers knew who received which pill. The researchers then measured level of capsaicin, which is used in research to cause coughing and as a sign of how well the medicines are stopping coughs.
The team found that, when the volunteers were given theobromine, the capsaicin needed to produce a cough was around a third higher than in the placebo group. When they were given codeine they needed only slightly higher levels of capsaicin to cause a cough compared with the placebo.
The researchers said that theobromine worked by keeping down a nerve activity (神经活动), which causes coughing. They also found that unlike some standard cough treatments, theobromine caused no side effects such as sleepiness.
People have always wanted to know what the future will look like. Then, how can we? The world has changed a lot in the last 150 years, but we humans are driven by the same basic needs as we were 150 years ago, Such as food, sleep, the feeling of being appreciated and loved. No. in addition, generally speaking, the inventions for the last 150years have been a human effort for freedom and communication, to be able to get in control of the time and world. Since there is still much to do in this area, this will be the focus at least for the next 150years.
But why do we need to predict the future? Predicting the future is important for two reasons: First, we need to start to think about what kind of future we would like for ourselves and to pass on to the next generation.
How about the virtual worlds? It might be in the future to experience the sand between your toes and hear the waves just lying in your bed at home. So. even if a great invention is there for an affordable price, it'll never take the place of the common experience if it is not real.
What we'll see in the next 50years is the transition（过渡)from an oil- dependent society to a new society. Here there'll be new me dine, continued exploration of space, challenges in the climate change, and new inventions that make life a little easier.
A. So what will the future look like then?
B. Will this change in the next 150 years?
C. Predicting the future can help us in many ways.
D. However, you'll never get the feeling of being there.
E. Well, to understand the future, you must know the past.
F. However, no matter how real the experience will feel, it doesn't happen for real.
G Then we need to know what decisions we need to make that will give the best result in the future.
Once upon a time there was one storyteller. After getting1of telling old fabricated (虚构的) stories, he left his house 2a real life story.
He reached a village and took a cottage for rent. After wandering in the village throughout the month, he couldn't3one. 4, he decided to stop his search.
The next day, while sitting in the cottage，he5heard a voice— a woman was yelling (吼叫)6someone. The voice was coming from the big wall behind his cottage. He tried to hear the conversation; it7like the woman was abusing (辱骂) her daughter-in-law. The storyteller didn't like it 8he was happy to finally get his story.
Listening to the conversations each day he9 them to his story. 10 he couldn't see the characters of his story, he started11the mother-in-law, as she seemed to be a villain (坏人).
Now it was time to 12the story. But before he did, the storyteller wanted to13the characters once with his own eyes, so he climbed up the wall. There he saw the mother-in-law sitting in a wheelchair. It seemed she was disabled and that the daughter-in-law was resting nearby. He saw the old lady trying to get some food lying on the table near her chair. But because of her14, she couldn't15 it and it looked like the daughter-in-law was enjoying the old lady's16. Suddenly the old lady fell from the chair and started abusing her daughter-in-law.
The storyteller went back and quickly changed the 17of the story. He was surprised at 18 different it was compared to what he originally thought it would be.
Truly he had found both a real life story and a real life 19never judge a situation 20you know all the aspects well.
We think that life in Chinese high school is an adventure in which we have to survive mountains of homework and exams. Yet would it be (surprise) if I tell you that high school life in the US is almost as stressful and demanding as it is in China?
In US high school, everything (record) and graded, including your grades on quizzes, tests and final examinations. Failing (turn) in your homework on time will directly affect your grade for a certain course. Perhaps contrary to we used to think of the US high school students, they pay great attention to their (academy) performance to try to get into distinguished university. , they'll be disappointed after graduation from high school.
Like university students, the US high school students have the (free) to choose the courses that most interest(they). Even a 9th-grader can sit the same classroom as 12th-graders. But this also means he or she has to work very hard, because the teacher will not treat him or her differently just because he or she is a few years (young).
删除∶把多余的词用斜线（N）划掉。
增加∶ 在缺词处加一个漏字符合（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。
修改∶ 在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出改正后的词。
注意∶1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2）至允许修改 10 处，多者（从第11 处起）不计分。
My school holds a sports meeting in every October. We all looked forward to it, for it is a time for us to reduce stress and it always brings us lots of unforgettable memories. It usually last for three days, during which time we have no classes. All the student go to the playground to watch or joining in games. The part I like most is the relay race. With race going on, our excitement grows. All of them yet out "come on" to the athletes, watching them competing aggressive. The most breathtaking moment is that the athletes are getting to the finishing line. Somebody can tell who is the winner until the last minute.
1）说明写信的事由。
2）提出活动安排∶8:30在校门口列队欢迎；9:00 观看艺术表演，参加学生社团活动;11:00在操场进行和澳大利亚学生代表队的篮球比赛。
3）表达欢迎之意。
要求∶1）词数 100词左右；2）可以适当增加细节，使行文连贯。
Dear Mr. White,
How are you?
……
Best wishes!
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
