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    Family celebrations, such as holidays and birthday parties, are always full of fun. When family members get together, they often 1 today, the past or the future.

    Here are some 2 to help you save your memories.

    It's never too 3 to start an album of family photos. You can ask family members to 4 some photos from their collections. When you all get together, you can make a slide show (幻灯片). People always 5 looking at old pictures.

    Cameras are 6 for recording videos of the family. Everyone can make a video from their own point of view. Videos are 7. They help you remember happy times.

    It's fun to make a family 8. You can use photos, too. When there is a new family member—for example, a new 9 —don't forget to add him or her to the family tree.

    If you can't attend a family celebration, don't worry about it. You can write everyone a letter or you can call them.

    Never 10 to stay in touch with your family.

    Do you know a little boy named Ryan Wang? If not, let me introduce him to you. Ryan Wang is from Vancouver, Canada. He made a1for himself with his fantastic music talent. On The Ellen Show, his2skills made everyone surprised. And then the talented and cute boy3became very popular and famous. People started to4him piano genius (天才). The small pianist gave a performance at the famous Carnegie Hall in March, 2013. He was only five years old then. When Ellen asked how he5playing at Carnegie Hall, he said, “I just love it, because I love to perform in front of many people.”

    It's hard to believe that Wang learned the piano6only 18 months. Wang's mother said, “I was thinking he was7young to play the piano. He cannot even8the notes (音符). But he liked it. To my9, every time he practiced playing the piano, he almost forgot10and put his heart into it. In a short time, he remembered music pieces and played the piano very well.”

    Everyone has something different from others. Maybe you're also Ryan Wang if you are hard-working enough and put your heart into it.

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    Even though the epidemic(流行病) continues to keep you at home, you still have to study. Luckily, online learning resources and platforms (平台) are here to help. Let's see how you can better learn from home.

    Kids all over the country are studying online now.

    The novel coronavirus might have stopped Chinese students from going back to school. But it hasn't stopped them from learning. Many of them are now studying at home.

    Most schools across China started their new semester (学期) online on Feb 17. They have moved offline (线下的) classes online. Students can have classes at home through livestreaming (直播) and recorded broadcasts (录播).

    Besides school courses, students can also find many free resources (资源) online to learn by themselves at home.

    On Feb 17, the Ministry of Education (MOE) made a national cloud learning platform for primary and secondary schools. The cloud platform covers all major(主要的) subjects, so 180 million students can keep learning even with schools closed. In some countryside areas, students might not have the Internet. But they can learn through their own educational TV channel (频道), according to Xinhua.

    Online education companies have also offered help. Yang Zhengda is the founder (创始人) of online education startup (初创公司) vipJr. He said that the company's recorded classes are all available for free online. The company has also helped several schools build a platform called Air Classroom. It can give students learning resources and question-answering services.

    Epidemic prevention and control efforts are also part of the online classes. According to the MOE's guideline (指导意见), students should learn about the novel coronavirus, as well as how to protect themselves and tell rumors (谣言) apart from facts. They can also get mental health advice online.

    In recent history, there have been some amazing inventions which have changed our lives. The plane has made international travel faster and easier. The Internet has brought people closer. And you must know the names of some famous inventors like Henry Ford or Steve Jobs. But there are many everyday objects which you probably don't notice and you don't know who invented them. Take for example Nils Bohlin who invented the modem-day car seat belt (安全带).

    Before 1959, only two-point seat belts were available, and the only people who often wore them were race car drivers. The two-point seat belt couldn't protect passengers from internal injuries (内伤) during serious car accidents.

    In 1958, Bohlin joined Volvo Car Corporation as a safety engineer. Then he came up with the three-point seat belt to keep passengers from flying out of their cars during collisions. The three-point seat belt used one strap (带子) across the chest (胸部) and another across the legs and then the two joined at me same place.

    Amazingly, this was a very simple idea which no one had tried before. The three-point seat belt was introduced on Volvo cars in 1959. For more people's safety, Volvo made the new seat belt design available to other car makers for free. Since then, engineers have worked to improve the three-point seat belt, but the basic design remains Bohlin's.

    At the time of Bohlin's death in September 2002, Volvo announced that the seat belt had saved more than one million lives since it was introduced.