假设你是李华，你在美国的好友Mike 听说了中国中小学生的劳动教育课，他对此非常感兴趣，并向你提了一连串的问题。请你以你校的劳动教育课为例，写一封电子邮件解答他的疑惑，内容包括：

You are right that almost every Chinese student need to take labor education. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

After hearing my introduction, how do you like our labor education class? Do you also have similar courses? Looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

Chinese TV drama Awakening Age (觉醒年代), which tells the story of how the Communist Party of China (CPC) (中国共产党) was founded in 1921, ended several months ago, but it remains a hot topic on social media, where the discussion shows that it has played a positive role in educating young people about China’s revolutionary (革命的) history.

The TV series celebrating this year’s 100th anniversary (周年) of the founding of the CPC has won high praise online. The stories of the young people in the drama—who devoted (贡献) everything, even their lives, to the revolution—have touched a large number of people. The storytelling in the show has also been praised for successfully showing the depth of the CPC’s history and spirit, as well as the warmth of China and every family in the country.

Many people who have seen the TV series thought the story was so moving that they began to find background information about it and said that this was their first time to learn the history about the founding of the Party and the country.

“I read many of Lu Xun’s novels such as A Madman’s Diary for the first time when I was in primary school, but I couldn’t understand why he wrote them or the angry feelings hiding in the characters. After watching the drama, I read them again and found that I could understand what they wanted to tell the readers,” said Li Lin, an 18-year-old student.

《觉醒年代》塑造了一批具有“正能量”的青年形象，他们在战火纷飞的年代克服重重困难，为国家的发展贡献力量。你身边也有 “正能量” 的人吗? 是疫情中一线的医护人员，还是自然灾害中负责救护的消防员、解放军、警察，抑或是身边敢于面对困难、笑对生活的同窗好友。学校现在举行以“正能量”为主题的演讲比赛，请你写一篇演讲稿。

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It’s my honor to be here to share my speech. In our lives, there are always some people with positive energy (正能量). Today I would like to introduce _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

If you think of the jobs robots could never do, you would probably put doctors and teachers at the top of the list. But in fact, in some situations, robots have already done better than doctors in finding illness. So could there be a place for robots in education, too?

British education expert Anthony Seldon thinks so. He even believes that by the year of 2027, robots will do the main job of the classroom while teachers will be like helpers. They will collect information of each student and provide more personal help. Smart robots will read students’ faces, actions and maybe even thoughts.

It’s still not sure if robots will replace teachers in the near future. One thing is for certain, though. A robot teacher is better than no teacher at all. In some parts of the world, there aren’t enough teachers. As a result, 9-16 percent of children under the age of 14 don’t go to school. That problem could be partly solved by robots because they can teach anywhere and won’t get tired.

Perhaps the question is not “Will robots replace teachers?” but “How can robots help teachers?” Teachers waste a lot of time doing non-teaching work, including more than 11 hours a week marking homework. If robots could cut the time teachers spend marking homework and writing reports, teachers would have more time and energy for the parts of the job humans do best.

Yesterday I read a passage about whether robots can replace teachers in the future. Now I would like to share with you my opinion about it. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Thanks for listening.