Good evening, everyone, welcome to watch Animal World. There are many different kinds of animals. Here are the lions. They 【小题1】 from Africa. They are very strong. They eat other animals for food, so they are very dangerous.

Here comes the kangaroo. It’s from Australia. It 【小题2】 a pocket (口袋) on the front of its body and the pocket is for its baby. It jumps very far 【小题3】 it has a strong tail (尾巴) and back legs.

Can you see the white and black animal there? Right, it’s the 【小题4】! It’s the favourite animal of people all over the world. It’s a cute animal and 【小题5】 favourite food is bamboo. It can eat thirty kilos of bamboo every day.

Now, you can see some emperor penguins (帝企鹅) here. They come from Antarctica, a very cold place. But emperor penguins are not afraid to be cold. They are 【小题6】 big. Each adult emperor penguin is over a meter tall. And they have thick furs (皮毛) to keep them 【小题7】.

Let’s come to the forest. There are many 【小题8】. They always live together. Look! Some are 【小题9】 in the trees and some are eating fruit. They often like playing 【小题10】 each other. They look so happy.

That’s all for today’s Animal World. See you next Friday!

Not everyone enjoys 【小题1】 talent shows. Some think that the 【小题2】 of the performers are made up. For example, some people say they are poor farmers, but in fact they are 【小题3】 actors. However, if you don’t take these shows too 【小题4】, they are fun to watch. And one great thing about them is that they give people a chance to make their dream 【小题5】 true.

Nowadays, phone calls and messages help us make regular(有规律的) contact(联系) with others. It means that we 【小题1】 write letters now. But a TV show, Letters Alive《见字如面》, is bringing back this old habit.

Letters Alive invites famous actors and actresses, but there are no 【小题2】 jokes or different competitions. Instead, it’s just one 【小题3】 walking up to a microphone and reading a letter.

The letters were written by people from 【小题4】 times in history. For example, in one episode(集), they read a letter written by famous writer Xiao Hong to her younger brother in 1941. The letter shows that Xiao Hong 【小题5】 her brother so much and had great hopes for his future.

“Every letter opens another world for us,” according to Guan Zhangwen, the director(导演) of the TV show. “It seems that we can 【小题6】 the real lives and feelings of the writers.” 【小题7】 its first episode on Dec. 5, Letters Alive has been widely praised. Many audiences(观众) said that it has provided a breath of fresh air to 【小题8】 TV shows.

Besides Letters Alive, some other cultural TV shows have 【小题9】 been well received by Chinese audience. They include Chinese Poetry Coperence《中国诗词大会》, a traditional Chinese poetry competition and Readers, a program that invites people 【小题10】 poems and articles they like or wrote. It suggests that cultural values and true feelings are becoming our interest.