If you go to a fast food restaurant, you will probably see a lot of teenagers（青少年）. Today, many teenagers are fat, and some of this is because of their bad eating habits. Most teenagers love food with a lot of fat, oil, salt and sugar. People often call this kind of food “junk food”. But bad eating habits are worse than fast food. We find many teenagers have bad eating habits. Some don’t have breakfast before they go to school. During the day, some don’t have a right meal for lunch. In a recent study at one school, scientists find that more than two-thirds of the students don’t have a healthy diet. They don’t like vegetables, and many of them don’t like to eat fruits. They like to eat food with a lot of salt, sugar, or fat（脂肪）better.

Parents today also worry about their children’s diet. Some doctors give the following advice:

★ Teenagers shouldn’t eat too much junk food.

★ Teenagers shouldn’t eat food with too much salt. Salt can cause high blood pressure（高血压）in the future.

★ Teenagers should eat food with less fat, oil and sugar.

★ Teenagers need to eat some fruits and vegetables every day. There are a lot of vitamins and little fat in fruits and vegetables.

★ Teenagers need to drink more milk. Milk will help their bones grow.

★ Teenagers need to eat breakfast every day. This is good for their body and mind.

“Come and have a look. My things are really good and cheap!” The sounds are from a middle school in Hunan. It is the school’s flea market（跳蚤市场）. Students like it very much. And they have it on the fourth Friday every month.

At the market, the buyers and sellers are the students of the school. There are books, bags, clothes and many other things on sale. Many students like to go to the market to buy what they need.

The organizers（组织者）think it can help students learn how to get on well with other students. One of the organizers of the activity（活动）says, “On the one hand, our school is a closed-in（封闭的） school. Students at school don’t have what they need sometimes. On the other hand, some students have some things that they don’t need any more. So we want to open this market.”

But some people don’t think it is good for the students. They think the students should study hard and activities like this waste（浪费） students’ time.

What do you think of this?

Your schooldays should be good and happy days of your life. How can they be useful to you? You can do these things.

Be active (积极的) at school. Don’t always say things are difficult or boring to your school life and your school subjects. Join lots of activities (活动). Put up your hands quickly in class. When you are in the school please be with a big smile.

Form (养成) good habits. If you don’t eat a good breakfast, you will be thinking about food in class. If you go to bed late and don’t have enough sleep, you will be sleepy in class. Play enough sports every day in order to (为了) keep your body strong.

Face the problem. Do not say you will do things tomorrow. You cannot finish the race if you rest all the time. Everyone fails (不及格) some exams, and has bad days. Don’t make small problems very big and important. Don’t forget to ask for help. You are young, and no one thinks you must do everything quite well!

Don’t spend time lying (躺) in bed on Saturday or Sunday. Go and play sports, get together with friends in the park, it is relaxing. If you don’t want to go out, you may read a book, practice English or help your mom with housework.

People say that family is the first school of life, and parents are a child’s first teachers. On October 23, the Law on Family Education Promotion (《家庭教育促进法》) was passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (全国人大常委会). It was carried out on January 1, 2022.

The law says that parents should be responsible (负责的) for family education. For example, the law prevents parents from placing too much stress on their children. Parents should carefully organize time for children to study, rest, play and exercise, and make sure children don’t become addicted to (沉迷于) the Internet.

Also, it says that society should provide guidance, support and services for family education. In fact, 50 percent of parents said they did not know how to educate their children, according to a survey by All-China Women’s Federation.

The law encourages schools to organize family education guidance and practice activities. Local governments are asked to help schools and families to better communicate with each other.

The law also gives special mention to children of migrant workers (外出务工人员) in the countryside. They may be alone when their parents have left to work in cities. And it asks the local governments to keep a close eye on such families, and help the parents get jobs locally so that they can be responsible for their children’s education.

Where does your food come from? How is it made? These days, many people worry about food safety. But food safety is not a new worry. In 1906, Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle. The book is the story of a poor family in Chicago. It is also about the dangerous ways that food was prepared. People were so worried that the U.S. started testing food.

These days,most food in the world is safe. Laws control(法律控制）where food comes from.

They also control how food is managed and prepared. Laws are important. But it’s more important to make sure people follow the rules . A good food safety system（系统）keeps people safe. It also helps them eat healthy food. Labels（标签）on food give people important information. Then they can make good choices about their food.

Although food safety systems usually work, there can be problems. Sometimes mistakes are made. For example, a truck might carry eggs and then ice cream. The ice cream could make people sick when the truck isn’t cleaned after carrying eggs. Other problems are not mistakes. Sometimes companies break rules to make more money. When this happens,people don’t know if their food is safe.

As we all know，food is closely related（和……有关联）to our daily life. We should take actions to make food safer!

China is a country with a very long history and it has pretty rich and valuable culture.

Chinese Food

Food plays an important role in Chinese culture. Different foods have special meanings. The most obvious (明显的) difference is that Chinese people eat their meals with chopsticks. One of the main foods in Chinese culture is rice. Tea is a favorite drink and is popular in the market.

Chinese New Year

The Chinese calendar is called a lunar calendar (阴历). It is not the same as the one used in other countries. New Year’s Day is in late winter. It is also called the Spring Festival. It has a big celebration of letting go of the old and bringing in the new. It has special food and traditions. For example, sweeping the floor before New Year’s Day sweeps away all the old year’s bad luck.

Chinese Zodiac (生肖)

The Chinese zodiac, known as Sheng Xiao, follows a twelve-year cycle (循环). Each year is named after an animal. These animal signs are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, cock, dog and pig. For example, the year 2022 is the Year of the Tiger.

Chinese Language

Chinese is a complex (复杂的) language. Chinese writing developed almost 4, 000 years ago and might even be older. Chinese writing has thousands of characters. A character stands for a word and also meaning. Unlike English, there are no spaces in Chinese writing. Besides Standard Chinese, or Putonghua, Chinese people speak six other forms of the language, and there are many kinds of dialects (方言).

【推荐3】The Great Wall of China is one of the greatest wonders of the world. 1.about, it, long, miles, is, 5,500. The ancient Chinese began to build some walls around 600 B.C. Qin Shihuang, the first emperor of China, joined the old walls together. From then on, people regarded the Great Wall as a symbol of the Chinese nation. Every year, many people find great pleasure in visiting the Great Wall. 5.But some sections of it are falling down. So people recently began to protect and repair the Great Wall.