B*News Bites 文字檔 (國中)
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Hi there, it's time for another episode of News Bites!
I'm Nancy Sun…
And I'm Hope Ngo.
In today's news:
What's a landline, how small can a sculpture get, and how many things do museums have?
All that and more, coming up next.
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台灣市話用戶數逐年下降
Landline Use Falls in Taiwan
When was the last time you used a landline (市話)?
A landline is a traditional telephone.
It's connected to wires (電線).
Government data shows that landline use is going down in Taiwan.
That means people are using traditional phones less often.
The data shows that on average, people use landlines for less than seven minutes a day.
And the number of people who have a landline is also falling.
The data shows that more people are now using smartphones.
Or, they use messaging apps to talk to each other.
The government says many people are choosing to cancel their landline service.
And these people often say that they are making calls with their cellphone instead.
許多人選擇取消市話的原因，是因為行動電話可以直接取代。
But officials say some people still prefer (比較喜歡) landlines.
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針孔裡的雕像
An Ant-man Smaller than Ant-man
Art comes in all shapes and sizes.
Sometimes it is big, like the ceiling (屋頂) of the Sistine Chapel.
Or sometimes, art can be tiny.
A museum in the UK is showing some tiny art.
It will show 20 sculptures (雕像).
They are made by a famous artist named Willard Wigan.
These sculptures are very small.
They are so small, that they fit into the eye of a needle.
這些雕像非常小，小到可以放在針孔中。
Some of these sculptures show famous people, like William Shakespeare and Albert Einstein.
Some show story characters (角色), like Pinocchio and Robin Hood.
There's also a sculpture of Ant-man.
A sculpture of one person that fits in the eye of a needle is already amazing.
But how about 13 people?
The museum will also show Willard's sculpture of "The Last Supper" (最後的晚餐).
The sculpture shows Jesus and his 12 disciples (門徒) sitting together at a table…
And they all fit in the eye of a needle!
To make his tiny art, Willard uses needles, and pieces of broken diamonds (鑽石).
And he uses an eyelash (睫毛) as a paintbrush.
He uses a microscope (顯微鏡) to do his work.
And Willard says he works on his sculptures "between heartbeats".
That's because every heartbeat makes his fingers move.
And that could cause him to make a mistake!
Willard once made a motorcycle sculpture that fit into a hollowed-out hair (挖空的毛髮) from his neck.
But that's not his smallest sculpture.
His record (紀錄) is a sculpture of a baby that he made from a fiber (纖維) from his carpet.
And he put that sculpture inside a hollowed-out piece of his hair.
That sculpture holds the Guinness world record for "smallest handmade sculpture".
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全球自然史博物館有逾十億件珍藏品
Natural History Museums Have 1.1 Billion Things
Museums hold many amazing things.
And there are museums all over the world.
Have you ever wondered how many things are held in museums?
It turns out more than a billion things!
73 natural history museums (自然歷史博物館) in 28 different countries counted the things they show or hold.
That's not exactly all the museums in the world…
But it's quite a lot.
And, they learned that together, the museums hold 1.1 billion things!
世界各地的73個自然歷史博物館總共擁有11億件物品。
There are big things, like T-rex skeletons.
And there are small things, like mosquitoes, or even grains of pollen (花粉).
Knowing this helps museums plan (計畫).
It helps them know what things they can share, and what they should collect (收集).
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So, in today's News Bites:
Government data shows that landline use is going down in Taiwan.
That means people are using traditional phones less often.
The data shows that more people are now using smartphones.
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A museum in the UK is showing some tiny sculptures.
They are made by a famous artist named Willard Wigan.
These sculptures are so small that they fit into the eye of a needle.
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And,
73 natural history museums in 28 different countries counted the things they show or hold.
And, they learned that together, the museums hold 1.1 billion things!
There are big things, like T-rex skeletons, and small things, like mosquitoes, or even grains of pollen.
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And that's today's episode of News Bites!
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