【正文】 like to help as the WWF suggests.”The carpet Rose agai nst and alm ost at once they were in a thi ck rai nforest. A m onkey Watched them as it rubbed itself.“What are you doing?”asked Daisy. “I’m protecting myself from mosquitoes,”it replied. “When I fi nd a m il pede i nsect, I rub it over m y body. It contai ns a powerful drug whi ch affect m osqui toes. You shoul d pay more attenti on to the rai nforest where I li ve and appreci ate how the animals live together. No rainforest,no animals,no drugs. ” Daisy was amazed. “Flying carpet, pl ease take m e hom e so I can tel WWF and we can begi n produci ng this new drug. Monkey,pl ease e and help,”The monkey agreed. The carpet flew home. As they landed,things begin to disappear. Two minutes later everything had gone the m onkey,too. So Dai sy was not abl e to make her new drug. But what an experi ence!She had l earned so m uch!And there was al ways WWF …… (2)Anim al exti ncti on Many anim al s have di sapeared duri ng the l ong hi story of the earth. The m ost fam ous of these anim al s are di nosaurs. They l i ved on the earth tens m il li on of years ago, l ong before hum ans cam e i nto bei ng and thei r future seem ed secure at that tim e. There were m any di fferent ki nds of dinosaur and a num ber of them used to l i ve i n chi na. The eggs of twentyfi ve speci es have ben found i n Xi xi a County,N anyang,H enan provi ot l ong ago a rare new speci es of birdli ke di nosaur was di scovered i n Country,li aoning sci enti sts i nspected the bones, they were surpri sed to fi nd that these di nosaurs coul d not onl y run l i ke the others but al so cli m b trees. They learned this from the way the bones were joi ned together. Dinosaurs di ed out suddenly about 65m il li on years ago. Som e sci enti sts thi nk i t cam e after an unexpected i nci dent when a huge rock from space hi t the earth and put too m uch dust i nto the ai thers thi nk the earth got too hot for the di nosaurs to l i ve on any obody knows for sure why and how dinosaur disappeared from the earth i n such a short ti m e. We know m any other wi l d pl ants, anim al s,i nsects and bi rds have di ed out m ore recentl y. Accordi ng to a UN report , som e 844 ani m al s and pl ants have di sappeared i n the l ast 500 years. The dodo i s one of them. It li ved on the Isl and of Mauri ti us and was a very fri endly anim al. Pl ease li sten to a story of the dodo and how i t disappeared from the earth. (3) The return of the mi lu deer My name i s Li nhui .I like to tel stori es about peopl e who work i s even better is when countries hel p each other and bui ld a good friendship. An excel l ent exam pl e of thi s happened when Bri tai n and Chi na worked together to bri ng the Mi l u deer back to Chi na. The Mi l u deer, a speci es wi th l arge horns, used to be m on i n Chi na l ong ago. Li ke other deer they l i ve together and eat grass and the soft parts of trees such as sm al l branches. Mi l u deer were often hunted for food or sport i n the past. The , Mi ng and Qi ng dynasti es di d not protect them and m any were ki l l ed. That i s how the Mi l u deer di sappeared from Chi na. Lucki l y before any longer. However, thi s reali ty al so worri ed m y desi gners. As ti m e went by,I was made sm al l er . Fi rst as a PC(personal puter)and then as a laptop, I have been used in ofi ces and hom es si nce the 1970s. These changes onl y becam e possi bl e as m y m em ory im proved. Fi rst it was stored i n tubes,then on transi stors and later on very smal chi ps. As a resul tI total y changed m y shape . As I have grown ol der I have al so grown sm al l er .O ver tim e m y m em oryhas devel oped so m uch that ,l i ke an el ephant, I never frt anythi ng I have been tol d !And my m em ory becam e so large that even I couldn’t believe it!But I was always so lonely standing there by myself,until in the 1960s they gave me a fami l y connected by a work .Iwas abl e to share m y knowl edge wi th others through the Worl d Wi de Web. Si nce the 1970s m any new appl ications have been found for m e . I have be e very im portant i n m unicati on, fi nance and trade I have also been put i nto robots and used to m ake m obi l e phones as wel as hel p wi th m edi cal operati ons. I have even ben put i nto space rockets and sent to expl ore the Moon and Mars . A nyhow, m y goal i s to provi de hum ans wi th a l ife of hi gh quali ty. I am now trul y fi l ed wi th happi ness that I am a devoted fri end and hel per of the hum an race ! AN DY—TH E AN DRO ID I’m part of an an android football team . About once a year we are allowed to get together to play a game of footbal. I’m as bi g as a hum an . In fact , I l ook li ke one n the footbal lteam I’m a striker so I have to be able to run very fast . My puter chips help me to mova and think like a human . For exampl e ,I have l earned to signal to my teamm ates i n puter l anguages to gi ve m e the bal l when I am open and have a good shot for a goal. My firat footbal l peti ti on was i n N agoya , Japan several years ago . Last year our team went to Seattl e , Washi ngton i n the won tsecong pl ace . Personal y , I thi nk the team that won fi rsy pl ace cheated . They had devel oped a new type of program just before the peti ti on. So we need to encourage our programer to i mprove our i ntel i gence are determ i ned to create an even beter system. In a way our programm et is l i ke our coach. She program s us with m oves to use i f a new si tati on ari ses. In this way I can make up new moves using my “artifical inteligence “. I would realy like to play against a human team,for I have been programm ed to act just li ke them . After al l, with the hel p of m y el ectroni c brai n whi ch never fets anythi ng ,usi ng m y i ntel i gence is what I’m al about! TH E SPO RTIN G RO BO T My nam e i s H ua Fei and I am a sporti ng robot of the 23rd century. I am an expert at high fl ying exerci