Last year my wife wanted to take me to the hospital to get a check-in. I was not feeling sick, but I listened to her.

I liked sports very much, and I did exercise every day. So when I went to the hospital, I didn’t think the doctor would bring me any bad     1    . But he told me I had got diabetes (糖尿病).

Diabetes can be very dangerous if we don’t treat (治疗) it in time. It is one of the main     2     of death in the United States. My doctor told me that I did not need to have medicine. He suggested I should start reading some books     3     healthy eating.

One day,     4     I was reading a book, I found a passage written by Jay Kordich. He said that drinking the juice of fruit and vegetables could help a lot to keep     5    .

I was so     6     in the information about juice. I picked up the phone and     7     my first “Juiceman” juicer (榨汁机). And that day was the     8     day for my health y eating habits.

Today I can say that I am in good health. I feel great. I sleep     9    . People tell me that I do not look my     10    .

Tom is a middle school student. His grandfather’s name is Mike, and he is a great doctor in China. He gets an honor (荣誉) in helping people to be healthy. A lot of patients (病人) want to thank     1     for his great work.

Mike has healthy eating     2    . He likes vegetable salad. It’s his favorite. For breakfast, he has eggs, bread and milk. For lunch, he has     3     fish and beef. For dinner, he doesn’t     4     much. “That is     5     for our health.” He says, “I want to be     6    . That’s very important (重要的)!

Mike is 87 years old, but he still     7     hard. He meets patients in the hospital every week. He sees about ten patients on one afternoon.

    8     one day’s work, he is tired (劳累的), but he still does sports. Mike loves doing     9    . He likes playing basketball very much. He can play it well. And he is a key basketball team     10    . Tom loves his grandfather very much.

“World record broken!” On the     1     day of August, 17-year-old Ma Jiajun from Jilin excitedly posted this on social media, with a picture of him holding the certificate(证书) from Guinness World Records.

He has     2     a new world record for “the most consecutive jump rope triples(连续三摇跳绳)” with 701 times. The last world record     3     423 and it was created 35 years ago. You know what?A Japanese person made it. Ma was short and thin in the past. To build a much     4     body, he took part in the school’s jump rope team. At 9, he competed in a national game and     5     broke a record. His coach said he was     6     in the sport and suggested that he should fight for it. So he joined a jump rope club and trained for six years. The training was really hard. He needed to     7     every day for at least four to five hours. Every night when he lay on his bed, his abs(腹肌) and back were in pain.

After breaking the record, Ma caught lots of     8     attention. “I hope more people could     9     jump rope, because it is very good for our health and full of fun,” Ma said. Now he is preparing for next year’s gaokao.     10     next goal is Beijing Sport University.

Tom is a middle school student. His grandfather’s name is Mike, and he is a great doctor in China. He gets an honor (荣誉) in helping people to be healthy. A lot of patients (病人) want to thank     1     for his great work.

Mike has healthy eating     2    . He likes vegetable salad. It’s his favorite. For breakfast, he has eggs, bread and milk. For lunch, he has     3     fish and beef. For dinner, he doesn’t     4     much. “That is     5     for our health.” He says, “I want to be     6    . That’s very important (重要的)!

Mike is 87 years old, but he still     7     hard. He meets patients in the hospital every week. He sees about ten patients on one afternoon.

    8     one day’s work, he is tired (劳累的), but he still does sports. Mike loves doing     9    . He likes playing basketball very much. He can play it well. And he is a key basketball team     10    . Tom loves his grandfather very much.

Are you the only child in the family? If so, you are the most important in your family. Parents are the closest people to you in the world. But a lot of middle school students have a     1    . They feel they’re not as close to their parents as before. They even think their parents are unfair to them.

Some students complain that their parents say a lot to them,     2     they never listen to them. Some of them even say it     3    , “My parents don’t allow me to play computer games, but other classmates are doing that.” Others say, when they are making phone calls to friends, their parents like to ask if they’re speaking to a boy or a girl. These make them very     4    . Some students even decide to leave home. But they don’t know running away may bring them some more problems. Show your parents you’re growing     5    . Then they’ll feel you’re no longer a small child. If you follow the advice, you will have a happy life and never think of running away.

Many kids help parents do chores in the house. They may empty the dishwasher （洗碗机）, put laundry     1     or take out the trash. In return, some kids get money or other rewards （奖励）from their parents     2     20 minutes to play computer games.

But some people do not think that kids should get rewards for doing chores. One of them is Susie Walton, a parenting educator（育儿教育家）and family coach. She believes     3     kids get rewards, they will think that work isn’t     4     doing unless you get something in return. For example, kids won’t sweep the floor if they see it is dirty. But they     5     the floor if their parents reward them for it.

“Every house is a team effort,” Walton said. “A home is a living space for everyone in the family. It’s important     6     kids to see that we all have a responsibility （责任）to keep our home clean.”

Other people hold different opinions. They believe that money or other rewards encourage kids to do more chores. It also     7     them real world lessons. They can learn about how we need to work to earn（挣得）money.

Now, there are also apps that encourage kids to do chores. The apps give kids points and digital（数字的）gifts that can     8     either online or in life.

With the app ChoreMonster, kids earn digital points after doing chores. Kids can exchange their points for real rewards, such as time to play video games     9     a trip to the mall.

“Our goal is to encourage kids so they can earn rewards,” says Chris Bergman, founder of ChoreMonster. “Kids need positive power to make them     10     chores.”