complete everything.这些小小的陶泥艺术品表达了中国人民对生活和美的热爱。These small pieces of clay art show the love that all Chinese people have for life and beauty.
保罗：嘿，罗伊，Hey Roy,这次我们学校的项目任务主题是“改变世界的小发明”。 the subject for my school project is “small inventions that changed the world.” 你能帮我想一个发明吗？ can you help me think of an invention?
罗伊： 我很乐意！with pleasure!让我想想?嗯?有啦！拉链！Let me think^ hmm^ I know! the zipper! 保罗：拉链？the zipper?它真是这样一项了不起的发明吗？is it really such a great invention?
罗伊：想想在我们的日常生活中会多么频繁地使用它吧。think about how often it’s used in our daily lives.你能看见拉链在裙子、裤子、鞋子、背包上?几乎无处不在！you can see zippers on dresses, trousers, shoes, bags^ almost everywhere.
保罗：看来你说的确实有点道理。well, you do seem to have a point.
保罗：当然！of course!我想到它是因为我上周看了一个网站。I thought about it because I saw a website last
week.不同发明的创始者都被列在上面。the pioneers of different inventions were listed there. 比如说，它提到拉链是在1893年被惠特科姆贾德森发明的。for example, it mentioned that the zipper was invented by whitcomb judson in 1893.不过那时它并没有被广泛利用。but at that time, it wasn’t used widely.
保罗：真的吗？那它是什么时候开始流行的？ really? so when did it become popular?
罗伊：1917年左右。around nineteen seventeen. 一项偶然的发明an accidental invention
你知道茶，作为世界上最受欢迎的饮料（仅次于水），是一项偶然的发明吗？did you know that tea, the most popular drink in the world(after water), was invented by accident?许多人都认为大约在5000年以前就开始了饮茶。Many people believe that tea was first drunk about 5,ooo years ago. 据说一位叫做神农的中国统治者最早发现了茶可以饮用。it is said that a Chinese ruler called Shen Nong was the first to discover tea as a drink.一天，神农在户外的炉火上烧水， one day shen nong was boiling drinking water over an open fire.茶树上有几片叶子掉入水里，过了一会，some leaves from a tea plant fell into the water and remained there for some time.散发
出怡人的香味，于是神农品尝了这褐色的水，it produced a nice smell so he tasted the brown water.它非常香醇，it was quite delicious,就这样，世界上最受欢迎的饮料之一被发明了。and so, one of the world’s favorite drinks was invented.
数千年后，“茶圣“陆羽在他的茶经一书中提到了神农。a few thousand years later, Lu Yu , the “saint of tea” mentioned Shen nong in his book Cha jing.该书描述了如何种植茶树和泡茶，the book describes how tea plants were grown and used to make tea.它还讨论了什么地方出产最好的茶叶，而且应该使用什么样的水来泡茶。it also discusses where the finest tea leaves were produced and what kinds of water were used.
人们认为茶是在公元6至7世纪传播到了朝鲜和日本。it is believed that tea was brought to Korea and Japan during the 6th and 7th centuries.在英国，大约知道1660年茶才出现，in England, tea didn’t appear until around 1660.但不到100年的时间里，茶已成为国饮。but in less than 100 years, it had become the national drink.从中国到西方国家的茶叶贸易始于19世纪。the tea trade from china to western countries took place in the 19th century.这使得茶树和茶叶传播到世界上更多的地方，使之深
受欢迎。this helped to spread the popularity of tea and the tea plant to more places around the world.虽然现在有很多人都了解一些茶文化，但毫无疑问的是，中国人才是最了解茶之本质的人。even though many people now know about tea culture, the Chinese are without doubt the ones who best understand the nature of tea. 你知道篮球是什么时候发明的吗？Do you know when basketball was invented?
篮球是一项许多人都喜爱的积极运动，它既有趣又能健身。basketball is a much-loved and active sport that is enjoyed by many for fun and exercise.篮球有100多年的历史，而且有200多个国家，超过10亿人都在玩篮球。It is over 100 years old and is played by more than 100 million people in over 200 countries.普遍认为1891年的12月21日是历史上第一场篮球比赛的日子。it is believed that the first basketball game in history was played on December 21, 1891.然后再1936年的柏林，篮球成为了奥运会比赛项目。Then in 1936 in Berlin, it became an event at the Olympics.
篮球是由一名叫詹姆斯.奈史密斯的加拿大医生发明的，他出生于1861年。Basketball was invented by a Canadian doctor named James Naismith.当他在大学任
