Philip is the bravest boy I know. His friends and family are all very ______ him.

Ten-year-old Philip was born with an ______ which means that he is always breaking his bones（骨头）. Although he has such a serious illness, Philip ______ playing sports. In January last year he ______ wheelchair racing. He came second in his first ______, and since then Philip has won every other race!

In order to look for a new challenge（挑战）， Philip ______ to take part in the London Wheelchair Marathon（马拉松）. ______, five days before the race Philip got sick. He didn’t want to ______. He finally made up his mind to take part. Philip was given medicine by his doctor and guess what? He not only ______ it, but he also finished in first place!

Philip is very ______ and never gives up. That’s why he has been chosen to be the Bravest Child of the Month.

Have you ever taken part in a marathon? A marathon is 42km long. It is the longest race in the world. To make the runner’s body work, hard training is quite necessary. A runner should start to prepare for a marathon at least three months before. Preparation may include many hours of running at different speeds and changes in diet (饮食). During the training time the runner must eat a fit diet. The diet should have lots of things needed in training.

In the early days of training, runners run 80km per week. The running is increased every two or three weeks.

Two weeks before the marathon, the training programme becomes less, from 100km per week down to 60km and then to 30km in the final week. On the last two days they may not run at all.

Breakfast should be eaten at least three hours before the race. Easily digested (消化) food such as cereal (麦片), toast (烤面包) and scrambled egg (炒蛋) is the best, with as much fluid (液体) as possible. Runners should drink water about half an hour before the race to keep up the body fluid.

As a teenager, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize; or they can be small—you may just want to become the best student in your class. Once you find a dream, what do you do with it? Have you ever tried to make your dream come true?

Andrew Matthews, an Australian writer, tells us that making our dreams come true is life’s biggest challenge. You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects or it is impossible for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts stop you from achieving your dream. In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is. Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster because a big dream is made up of many small dreams.

You must also never give up your dream. There will be difficulties on the road to your dream. But the biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important.

Without dreams, you won’t make up your mind to learn more skills and new interests.

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There are many ways for us high school students to relax ourselves. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua