Long long ago, there was a spider. She found a beautiful farm. She liked the farm and decided to live there forever.

    One day, the spider caught a little bug. When the spider ate it, the bug said, “If you let me go, I will tell you an important thing. The thing will save your life.” The spider stopped and listened.

    The little bug said, “You'd better get out of the farm. The harvest is coming! If you stay here, you will be killed by the farmer's machine.”

    But the spider didn't listen to the bug and ate it for lunch. The next day when she was sleeping, the farmer came to have a harvest. The spider was killed by the machine.

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      Mobile phones are very popular with people. They are becoming smaller and more convenient.

Now the scientists in Canada made a smartphone (智能手机）from electronic paper. The PaperPhonc is flexible. People can control it by bending it or writing on it with a pen.

      Though the PaperPhone is only millimeters (毫米）thick, people can do many things with it. For example, people can use it to make phone calls, read books, watch movies and play music. So many people use it as a computer.

The scientists think there will be no paper in the office. And people can store what they want in the PaperPhone.

The scientists from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada said the PaperPhone would be in style in the future. It may be the end of paper and printers.

To make people be interested in this kind of mobile phones, the scientists will make it more beautiful. People will see the PaperPhone on May 10th this year.

     George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. When George was fourteen, he became his father's helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines. On holidays, he often took one engine into pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write.

      He began to learn the English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young teacher.

      On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from one place to another, we will think of this great man—George Stephenson.

一 What a great man he is!