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　　英語課外閱讀1

To breed snails well, you need to spray water to thecontainer every morning and evening, change soilevery two weeks, and feed them with bok-choy andsweet fruits -- this is what Sun Youxiang, a fourth-grade primary school student in Hangzhou, capitalcity of east China's Zhejiang province, concludedafter breeding snails for one year.

爲了養好蝸牛，你需要每天早晚往容器裏淋水，每兩週換一次土壤，用小白菜和甜果餵它們--這是中國東部浙江省省會杭州市的四年級小學生孫悠翔，在養了一年蝸牛後總結出來的。

From three white jade snails at the very beginning tomore than 60 snails of four generations now, he has done a great job in his assignment for hisScience class.

從一開始的三隻白玉蝸牛，到現在四世同堂的60多隻蝸牛，孫悠翔在自己的科學課作業上做得很出色。

Witnessing the reproduction of animals is a precious experience for kids. Their creativity, patience, and respect for life will be stimulated as they learn to take care of animals on theirown.

對於孩子們而言，目睹動物的繁殖是個寶貴的經歷。在學會自己照顧動物的過程中，他們的創造力、耐心和對生命的尊重將會被激發。

Sun's teacher said the assignment served as a good example of life education. Practice is anessential step in learning, which will benefit the kids for a life time.

孫悠翔的老師表示，這個作業是生命教育的一個很好的例子。實踐是學習的一個必要步驟，將會使孩子們終生受益。

Life education allows kids to know how to live with nature and creatures in a friendly way.

生命教育讓孩子們懂得如何以友好的方式與大自然和生物相處。

Starting from this year, Science will become an equally important subject as Chinese and Mathin primary schools, which aims to improve students' knowledge about the surroundings

從今年開始，在小學裏，科學將會成爲與語文和數學同等重要的學科，旨在提高學生對周邊環境的認識。

Drawn by curiosity, more kids will be willing to observe and think through practicing, whichwill add to our recognition of the world in the long run.

在好奇心的驅使下，更多的孩子們願意通過實踐來觀察和思考，從長遠來看，這將增加我們對世界的認識。

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China has become Asia's most popular destinationfor overseas students, said Li Hai, deputy directorof the Department of International Cooperation andExchange of China's Ministry of Education, at a pressconference last month.

教育部國際合作與交流司副司長李海在上個月的一場發佈會上表示，我國已經成爲亞洲最大的留學目的國。

According to Li, China has stepped onto a new stageof two-way student exchanges. A total of 545,000 Chinese students studied overseas in 2016, while 443,000 international students came to China, up 36.2% and 35.1%, respectively.

據李海介紹，我國已經在雙向留學上邁上了新臺階。2016年，出國留學的中國學生達54.5萬人，而來華的國際學生則有44.3萬人，這兩個數字分別增長了36.2%和35.1%。

In addition, the country saw 433,000 overseas returnees in the last year, and they havebecome a major force that promotes China's education, economy, and culture.

此外，去年共有43.3萬海歸回國，他們已成爲提升我國教育、經濟、文化的重要力量。

By the end of 2016, China established cooperative partnerships with 188 countries andregions, and signed agreements of mutual recognition of degrees with 47 countries andregions.

截至2016年年底，我國與188個國家和地區建立了教育合作關係，並與47個國家和地區簽署了學歷學位互認協議。

The country has also built high-level cultural exchange mechanisms with Russia, the U.S., theU.K., the European Union, France, Indonesia, South Africa, and Germany.

此外，我國也已經與俄羅斯、美國、英國、歐盟、法國、印度尼西亞、南非、德國建立起了高級別人文交流機制。

Cultural communication is now one of the three major diplomatic pillars, together withpolitical mutual trust and economic cooperation.

人文交流現在已與政治互信、經貿合作一道，成爲了我國外交的三大支柱。

Now, more than 170 countries offer Chinese courses, 67 of which have incorporated Chinese intotheir national education systems. The number of non-native Chinese learners has reached 100 million worldwide.

現在，共有超過170個國家開設了漢語課程，其中67個國家將漢語教學納入國民教育體系當中。在全世界範圍內，母語爲非漢語的學習者的人數已經達到了1億人。