Hot air balloons are very big balloons. They go high in the sky.

A big basket is under each balloon. A pilot and riders are in it.

熱氣球非常巨大，可以飛到高空。熱氣球下方有一個大籃子，搭載飛行員跟乘客。

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Taiwan has a new champion! He is a skateboarder. He won a silver medal! And he is eleven years old!

一名十一歲的台灣小男孩在亞洲錦標賽獲得了滑板銀牌！

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Do you like going to concerts? It is exciting to see your favorite singers!

你有去演唱會追星過嗎? 親眼看到喜歡的歌手會很開心!

But sometimes good tickets are hard to get. They sell fast! So some fans stay up late to get tickets online. Some learn to type fast. Then they can get tickets online fast!

熱門的票券經常很難搶，所以很多粉絲會想盡辦法弄到票。

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Every year, Taiwan has many Hungry Ghost festivals. It’s a very big, very old festival. Some say it’s more than two thousand years old! People honor the ghosts of family and friends who died.

台灣很多地方都會過中元節。 他大概有超過兩千多年的歷史。每年的中元節，大家會緬懷過世的親人。

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In India, people fly kites. They have been flying kites for hundreds of years. At festivals, thousands of colorful kitesfly. Some people fly them from the tops of buildings! Kites high in the sky are beautiful!

印度人喜歡放風箏，這項活動已經有好幾百年的歷史。每到節慶的時候，就能看到成千上萬個彩色風箏在空中飛揚，非常美麗！ 

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One day at a zoo in Kaohsiung, chimpanzees had newspapers and books! The chimps put them close to their faces. They looked and looked at them.

有一天，高雄的某一座動物園裡有黑猩猩在讀報紙和書！

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Narrator: Scientists around the world worry about blindness. When people cannot see, their lives are not easy. So one blind man ran a marathon. That is more than 42 kilometers! People gave him money for running. He helps blind people and scientists with the money.

當人們看不見的時候，生活會變得很困難。一位失明的男子決定挑戰馬拉松賽！許多人捐款給他，而他用這個錢來支持視障人士和科學研究。

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Some people can make pretty pictures... in coffee! They make them with very, very small milk bubbles. The pictures are called latte art.

有些人可以在咖啡的表面，用很小的牛奶泡泡畫出各種圖案，這叫做咖啡拉花。

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What makes seeds grow into plants?

是什麼讓種子長成一棵一棵植物？

We put seeds in water or the ground. We do this when the weather is good for them. We water seeds in the ground. Then we wait. The seeds start to grow.

天氣好的時候播種，把種子放進土裡或水中，並且替土裡的種子澆水。然後就等它發芽。

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Did you know our bodies can be younger or older than we are? Maybe you are ten, but your body is twelve!

你可知道，我們身體的年齡可能會比實際年齡年輕或者年老呢?

Our bodies' age shows how worn out our cells are. How do scientists know they are wearing out?

身體年齡從細胞衰退的程度可以看出來。那麼科學家怎麼知道細胞正在衰退呢？

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