Issue 480
Learning to program P(2)
Pre-reading
1. What do you do with your phone and computer?
2. Can you use the programs on them? What do you think of the programs?

While reading
Choose the answer:
1. What was the special week created for?
     A. To give students a chance to learn that coding is easy.
     B. To help students learn about coding in a fun way.
     C. To ask students to design games for kids.
     D. To show students that kids can program.
 
2. What law did Barack Obama sign?
    A. Coding can change everything in our life.
    B. Math and history become less important.
    C. Schools can develop computer programs.    
    D. Computer science is a subject in schools.
 
3. What does Professor Chen Yue probably agree with?
    A. Learning coding can help people become programmers.
    B. Computer technology will be more widely used in life.
    C. It is not hard to learn coding, especially for beginners.    
    D. Computer science will put extra pressure on students .

Post reading
1. Have you learned about coding in computer class?
2. Can you design some programs? What do they do?

Computers could learn like humans P (5)
Pre-reading
1. Are you interested in computer science?
2. What do you think of the technology development? it fast or slow?
3. Do you think computers could think like humans in the future?

While reading
1. What does the newly developed computer program enable computers to do?
____________________________
2.What kind of computer do scientists want to build?
 ______________________________
 
Choose the answer:
1. Computers today can do the following EXCEPT ____. 
     A. search for information very quickly
     B. recognize its owner’s fingerprints   
     C. think in a simple way like a young kid
     D. open a new world of amazing games
 
2. How do computers learn new things now?
    A. One or two images are needed to understand something.
    B. They work with numbers in different kinds of languages.
    C. They read the handwritten words and recognize them.
    D. A lot of information about images and data are pre-set.
 
3. What might happen if computers think like humans according to the passage?
    A. Computers can design programs by themselves.
    B. Technology will develop in a much quicker way.
    C. Everything in our daily life will need computers.
    D. Computers will defeat humans and control them.
 
4. What can we learn from the passage?
    A. Scientists have made great progress in computer technology.
    B. Computer is much smarter than a child.
    C. Science development will bring more good than harm.
    D. Computers will always be controlled by human beings.

Post-reading
1. What do you know about the movie I, Robot?
2. More movies about robots and humans
3. Discuss:
What can we do if robots want to fight with humans?

One kind act causes many P (6)
Pre-reading
1. How do understand the saying "Don't do nothing even if the benefit is little" (勿以善小而不为)?
2. What usually makes you do good deeds?

While reading
Choose the answer:
1. What problem did the writer meet after boarding the plane?
A. She didn’t get her boarding pass on time.
B. She and her daughter couldn’t sit together.
C. There wasn’t an empty seat left for her.
D. Kallie was too excited about the trip.

2. The correct order of the following events is _____.
a. The scout leader rearranged his group’s seats.
b. A man offered his seat to the writer.
c. The mom and her kids sat together.
d. The writer and her daughter got seats next to each other.
abcd    B. acbd     C. bdac    D. cabd

3. What is the author’s main purpose in writing this story?
A. To show that good deeds lead to more good deeds.
B. To criticize the coldness of some passengers.
C. To compare two different kinds of people.
D. To tell us that we should put children first.

Post reading
1. What can you learn from the story?
2. How do you spread good deeds?