【推荐3】You know, not everyone will like you; not everyone will accept you or appreciate（欣赏）you. In fact, there will be many people who dislike you and who will judge you or criticize（批评）you, and that’s just the way it is. You can’t please everyone.

Now, certainly, we should think about others. We should respect others, and we should pay attention to our own behavior（行为）and if someone criticizes us, we may need to reflect on ourselves and see if there is something we can do to improve our behavior.

But even if you’re the kindest, sweetest and most respectful person in the world, you have to accept the fact that there are people who will find all kinds of reasons to dislike you.

If someone dislikes you, maybe you’ll try to change something about yourself. But no matter what you do, they’ll always find something else to criticize you. And you can’t please everyone.

All you have to do is admit（承认）that they have the right to think whatever they want to think. All you have to do is to respect（尊重）that freedom. And what matters is whether you like yourself or not, whether you accept yourself or not, and none of these should depend on what others think. You have to see for yourself.

【推荐1】Boys and girls, are you interested in keeping cats? It looks like there are more cats around us today. In fact, now there are about 44.12 million pet (宠物) cats all over our country.

Now China has the second largest number of cat owners in the world after the United States. Every year, more and more young people keep cats as pets. More cats also bring more special jobs. Many people now work at some pet shops and animal hospitals.

But there is also a big problem, too. When some people don’t want to live with their pet cats any more, they may send their pet cats outside. Then the cats lose their homes and nobody takes good care of them. They run around the city. They pass on diseases (疾病) and make people not feel well. And they hunt (猎捕) other creatures like birds and frogs.

In Japan and Australia, people try to take homeless cats to animal hospitals. There doctors do operations (手术) on them. So the cats can’t have babies. In this way, the number of cats will not go up. What do you think of it? Is it right to do operations on pet cats?

【推荐3】A lot of people like eating different kinds of things while they are watching TV programs. Some people think that people may eat more when they are watching TV programs. However, some people have different opinions. Does watching programs really have some influence on people’s eating habits? To know the answer, a study was carried out.

Scientists from Uppsala University in Sweden studied 18 women, analyzing them as they snacked and watched different kinds of programs. The women were shown a popular interesting Swedish comedy as well as a dull lecture program. The scientist also watched their eating habits carefully while the women were taking part in another boring activity—reading a text on insects living in Sweden.

Their findings have shown that when watching programs, the women eat more food than usual, which may increase the possibility that the women will snack on unhealthy food. While watching the boring lecture program the women eat 52% more food than during the interesting comedy. Compared with reading the text about insects, the women eat 35% less when watching the interesting comedy on TV.

Researchers have found that the more exciting a show is, the less likely women are to eat unhealthy food. A boring show, on the other hand, increases the risk of eating unhealthy snacks.

The findings have led the team of scientists to believe it is how exciting the TV show is, rather than the act of watching TV shows itself, that causes a person to eat more or less. “If the program is boring, you eat to kill time because you’re bored, said Aner Tal, a researcher at Cornell University’s Food Lab. But he suggested that you choose healthy snacks while sitting on the sofa for night in front of the TV. He added, “Use pre-portioned (提前分好份量的) snacks instead of endless bowls.” That means keeping the source of food out of sight to stop you from eating too much. If you know you have a habit of overeating while watching TV, just snack on something that’s better for you. Have vegetables as snacks instead of chips. Besides, next time you want to lose weight, try watching a nail-biting thriller.