At this moment in different places of the world people are doing different things. In Beijing itˈs early morning. People are sleeping. In London people are leaving work to go home. They are waiting for buses or running for trains. Some people are driving their cars. Some are having afternoon tea at home or walking to the pubs(酒吧) to have a drink. In Moscow(莫斯科) itˈs evening and people are having supper at home or in restaurants. Some are going to watch a ballet(芭蕾舞). Some are drinking in the pubs. In Los Angeles(洛杉矶) itˈs morning. People are working in their offices. Children are starting their lessons. New York is midday now. People arenˈt working but having lunch. They are eating hamburgers or hot dogs and drinking coffee or Coke. Some people are seeing friends or shopping

Finding nutrition（营养）in wild plants was very important in ancient times. But nowadays, edible（可食用的）wild plants are delicious food on the tables of people living in cities. Russians have gotten a lot of experience in looking for a bite（一口）of nature.

In the old days, Russian farmers dried or pickled（腌制）wild vegetables in the winter, since the cold made it difficult to grow crops. In hard years, for some poor families, quinoa（藜麦）, nettles（荨麻）, burdock（牛蒡）and other wild plants, which are common in the mountains, became the main food.

Wild vegetables are also found in Russian literature. In A Sportsman’s Notebook by Ivan Turgenev, the author mentions making soup from burdock.

The days when most people feared starvation（饿死）are gone. Today, looking for vegetables in the wild has become an adventurous（冒险的）social activity in the country. In the spring, many Russians might bring their tools to gather wild vegetables with their families, noted the Global Times.

Among them, mushrooms（蘑菇）are some of the most popular.

“Calling yourself a mushroom hunter is like calling yourself a pizza eater. You just do it,” Julia Schelkunova, a Moscow-based Russian translator and guide, told The New York Times.

According to Nicolas Courtois, the chef（厨师）at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow, one can explain the Russian love of mushroom hunting by the simple fact that the mushrooms found there are some of the best in the world. For him, mushroom hunting season is “one of the things that make Russia worth living in,” he told The New York Times.

Canada is a very large country. It is the second largest country in the world. By contrast it has a very small population. There are only about 29 million people there. Most Canadians are of British or French origin(后裔), and French is an official language of Canada as well as English. About 45% of the people are of British origin, that is, they or their parents or grandparents, etc, come from Britain. Nearly 30% are of French origin. Most of the French­Canadians live in the province of Quebec.

Over the years, people have come to live in Canada from many countries in the world. They are from Europe and also from China, besides other Asian countries.

However, Canada was not an empty country before the Europeans began to arrive. Canadian Indians lived along the coast, by the rivers and lakes and in forests. Today, there are only about 350，000 Indians in the whole country, with their own languages. In the far north live the Inuit. There are only 27，000 Canadian­Inuit. Their life is hard in such a difficult climate.