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2/5/2024 (#30 this year)
My daughter’s birthday was last week. She is eleven years old now. I know that doesn’t
have anything to do with the school, but it is my news. She is getting taller. My dadthinks she will be taller than me one day, but I doubt1 that. What do you think? Do you
remember when you were eleven years old? The junior high school students probably
remember more easily than the high school students because they are closer to eleven.
What about the teachers that read this? Do you remember when you were eleven years
old? I don’t. I remember my tenth birthday and my thirteenth, but not my eleventh. My
memory is getting bad these days.
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Last week’s answer

Something you didn’t know about Ferris Wheels2
1. The Ferris Wheel was invented in 1893 by George Washington Gale Ferris, which is
why it is called a Ferris Wheel. He was a bridge builder and he made the first Ferris
Wheel at the Chicago’s World Fair. He wanted to build a structure that would rival3
the Eiffel Tower, which had been made for the 1889 World’s Fair4 in Paris.
2. The first Ferris Wheel had 3000 of Thomas Edison’s new lightbulbs5 on it.
3. The world’s tallest Ferris Wheel is in Dubai. It is 250 m high.
4. The fastest Ferris Wheel was built in 1984. It was 55 m high and it made 1.5
revolutions6 every minute.
5. George Ferris sadly died of typhoid fever7 when he was only 39 years old.

A Spokeless Ferris Wheel
South Korea is about to start building the world’s first spokeless8 Ferris
Wheel. A Ferris Wheel is sometimes called a big wheel because it is a very bigwheel that you can ride on. They have cars hanging9 off the wheel that you
can ride in. You get on at the bottom, do one revolution, and then get off again.
The spokes are the metal bars that go from the center of the wheel to the edge
to support it. You can see spokes if you look at your bicycle wheel. If yourbicycle wheel didn’t have spokes, the wheel would collapse10. All Ferris Wheels
have very large and strong spokes that go from the center of the wheel to theedges11. Well, South Korea is going to build the first Ferris Wheel that doesn’thave spokes. The Ferris Wheel will be called the Twin Eye and it will be 180
meters tall. For comparison, the Sapporo TV Tower is 147 m tall. The Twin Eyewill have two large rings that are connected for support. Each ring will have arail inside it and the Ferris Wheel cars will travel around on this rail. There willbe 64 capsules and the Twin Eye will be able to carry 1,400 people at the sametime. The Twin Eye will be finished by 2028, so, if you are planning a vacation,
you can think about going to Seoul. They are also going to make a new part oftheir subway line so that you can get there and there will be a zip line runningfrom the top of the Twin Eye. That sounds pretty scary. What do you think?

1.doubt～を疑う 2.Ferris Wheel 観覧車 3.rival 競争する 4.World’s Fair 世界博覧会 5.lightbulb
電球 6.revolution 回転 7.typhoid fever 腸チフス 8.spokeless 輪止めがない 9.hang つるす
10.collapse 倒れる 11.edge 端One thing we can do to help the environment

World record
Do you like Formula 1 racing? I do. The drivers drive their cars around a track that isusually about 6 km long and they do about 60 laps. They cannot carry enough fuel1 forthe whole race and their tires won’t last that long, so they have to stop once or twice
during the race to change. They come into the pit2 and this is called a pit stop. The pit
stop teams practice over and over to be able to change the tires and refuel the car as
quickly as they can. How long do you think it takes them? For example, it takes me about
one hour to change summer tires to winter tires on a car. The team McLaren pit crew
managed to change the tires and refuel their driver’s car in 1.8 seconds! 1.8 seconds!! Ittook me longer than 1.8 seconds to type 1.8 seconds!!!!

Don’t find fault , find a remedy :anyone can complain .
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45– Henry Ford

#15 Eat Less Meat
This one is something I don’t think I will be able to do. I know that beef cattle
are a huge cause of global warming gases, but I love meat so much. There
are several reasons why meat, especially beef, is bad for the environment.
The first reason is because of where it is grown. A large number of the cowsthat end up in our hamburgers are farmed in countries like Brazil. They are
more profitable6 than the rainforest, so the trees are cut down to makespace to graze7 the animals. That is not the only problem. 36% of all of thefarmland in the world is used to produce the food that feeds all of theanimals that we eat. As the world population goes up, we will need that land
to feed people. Cows also need a lot of water. To make 500 g of meat for ahamburger takes 2,271 liters of water. On top of that, there is the CO2 used
when transporting the animals and the meat. And, of course, cows releasea large amount of methane8, which is a greenhouse gas. So, we should cut
down on meat. If, like me, you don’t want to give up meat, there are some
options that are appearing. Many companies are trying to make meat fromvegetables and other products. One company has made a burger that theycall the impossible burger. It is made of plants, but it also contains heme9,
which is the molecule10 that makes blood red and makes meat taste likemeat. I really want to try this burger and cut down on meat.

1.fuel 燃料 2.pit ピット 3.find fault 欠点を見つける 4.remedy 解決策 5.complain 文
句 6.profitable 利益になる 7.graze 草を食う 8.methane メタン 9.heme ヘム
10.molecule 分子