It’s not unusual for us to change friends, change schools or change the way we dress as we’re growing up. 【小题1】 That’s the life of Meilin Lee, the perfectly imperfect main character of Disney-Pixar’s new film Turning Red.

【小题2】 Set in Toronto, Canada in the year 2002, Meilin is a confident 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian girl who is going through puberty(青春) troubles. However, one morning, after a frightening dream, she discovers that she has turned into a giant red panda, later learning that her ancestors have a shared history with the species. Whenever she gets too excited or stressed, she turns into the red panda.

Actress Rosalie Chiang, 16, lends her voice to Meilin. “【小题3】 The panda represents her insecurity(不安全感) and fear,” Rosalie says. “The movie gives a new view on Asian family life.” Rosalie says Asians in films before have often been shown as examples of success. 【小题4】 Turning Red is hoped to have a good influence on other movies focusing on Asian characters.

Accept your insecurities. For Rosalie, that’s the message to take away from Meilin’s adventures. “All these insecurities and these differences are what make people who they are,” Rosalie adds. “【小题5】 ”

Turning Red was released on March 11, 2022.

Your English teacher has introduced a play to your class. Read the play.

Characters:

Sarah, student, 13 years old

Jason, student, 14 years old

Betty, student, 15 years old

Cindy, student, 14 years old

Time: One Sunday afternoon in spring

Place: Sunshine Park

(The four teenagers have just finished the picnic. They are tidying up. )

Sarah: Wow! That was a great picnic. I’m so full that I can hardly move.

Jason: That’s no excuse for not tidying up, Sarah. Come over here and help me pack up the leftover food. Betty, can you put out the fire, please? And clean up the place.

Betty: (Speaking unhappily to herself) How can I always get the dirty and difficult jobs? It’s not fair.

(Betty throws a bit of water on the fire. Then she picks up the ashes (灰) with an old newspaper and wants to throw them into the long grass. )

Sarah: (Sounding surprised) What are you doing, Betty? ★

Jason: Whoops…the paper has caught fire.

Sarah: And the grass…Jason, Cindy, help! Help!

(Jason and Cindy come over quickly. They help put out the fire completely. )

Betty: Oh, no. What have I done?

Cindy: You know that we should do everything carefully, don’t you?

Betty: (With her head in her hands) Yes. What have I done? What have I done?

In the movie The Day After Tomorrow, global warming causes a second Ice Age. The movie has led to a lot of discussion: Could another Ice Age really be possible?

On the first day when the movie was put on, environmental activist group MoveOn. org handed out thousands of leaflets outside theaters. Their message was, “Global warming isn’t just a movie. It’s your future. ” It is now widely accepted that the Earth is getting hotter.

One reason for this is the large amount of carbon dioxide in the air, caused by burning coal and petroleum（石油）. In Alaska, temperatures have risen by as much as 4.4℃ over the last 30 years, causing glaciers to melt（冰川融化）, and the sea level to rise. Some scientists say that the tide（潮汐） moves an average of three meters closer to the land each year.

This is seen in the Alaskan island village of Shishmaref, where houses are disappearing into the ocean. Soon, the village will be completely under water, and the people living there are already leaving to go to the mainland. However, most scientists believe that climate change could never happen as suddenly as the movie suggests, and that there is a danger that it might cause people to think that global warming is just the movie. But the movie’s director, Richard Emmerich, welcomes the discussion, saying that he wanted to make the movie show that global warming is not just science fiction, but a reality.