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Alex is very good at climbing. He climbs rocks and walls. He climbs with no ropes. This way is called free solo.Alex 很會攀岩。他可以不用繩索攀爬岩石跟牆面。這種攀爬方式叫做「徒手獨攀」。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Long ago, there were many kinds of dinosaurs. T. rex is the most famous. But experts say there are thousands we do not know about! They always look for new kinds.很久以前，地球上有很多種恐龍。除了最有名的暴龍之外，還有上千種恐龍沒有被發現！因此，專家一直在找新種的恐龍。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Every country has too much trash. Singapore does too. Singapore is very small. Fifty-two Singapores can go into Taiwan! And it has more than six million people. There is almost no space for trash! 垃圾問題讓很多國家頭痛，新加坡也不例外。新加坡是個小國家，卻有六百萬人口，實在沒有地方放垃圾。Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

Narrator: Have you seen this teddy bear? It is light brown. It is wearing a school uniform. Its shirt and tie are blue and white. Its shorts are dark blue. It fell from very high in the sky. What?你有看到一隻穿著學校制服的泰迪熊嗎? 上衣跟領帶是藍色跟白色，短褲是深藍色。這隻熊是從天上掉下來的。Click HERE for the full transcript!

More than sixty years ago, some fishers were on a boat. They were near Iceland. They saw black ash! It went up nine kilometers! It came from a volcano in the ocean! It was scary!六十多年前，一群漁夫在漁船靠近冰島時，目睹黑色火山灰從海裡衝上雲霄，高度達到九公里! 那是海底火山爆發!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Long ago, there were no cameras. But there were portraits. Portraits are art. They show people. 很久以前沒有照相機，但是有人像畫。人像畫是重要的藝術。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Plastic bags and bottles are a big problem in the ocean. But the ocean has a bigger plastic problem. It is "ghost gear."很多人都知道，海洋中有大批塑膠垃圾。不過更多的其實是幽靈捕魚工具。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Narrator: There is a dairy farm in the UK. It has many cows. The farmers want a lot of milk. Most goes into bottles. Some is used to make butter, yogurt, and ice cream!英國一所畜牧場養了許多乳牛。生產出來的鮮奶會裝進容器裡面出售，或是做成奶油，優格，跟冰淇淋!Click HERE for the full transcript!

Do you want to do something new? Sometimes it is hard to do new things. It is easier to do new things with help at first.你想嘗試新的活動嗎？有時候想做點新鮮事並不容易，假如有人在幫忙就會輕鬆很多。Click HERE for the full transcript!

Narrator: Mosquitoes like to live in warm and wet places. But most places in the world have mosquitoes. Some kinds of mosquitoes can live in cold places.蚊子喜歡住在溫暖潮濕的地方，但全球大部分的地區都有蚊子，有些種類的蚊子甚至可以住在寒帶地區！Click HERE for the full transcript!