【推荐1】The winter holiday is usually a good time to sleep in. But Gao Yuqi, a 14-year-old boy from Jiangsu, got up at 7 am.

    1     Gao was not alone. Many schools across the country asked students to exercise during the winter holiday. Part of the reason is that physical education test scores are now worth more on the senior high school entrance examination. In Jiangsu, the score is now worth up to 40 points.     2    

Because of this, Gao’s school asks students to run on sunny days and exercise indoors if the weather is bad.     3     They must make a plan for it. They have to skip rope(跳绳) for two minutes and do three sets of sit-ups each day. Their parents sign off on their plans after they finish exercising.

This has been a big challenge for many students, but has also helped to make exercise a bigger part of their lives. Huang Zhicheng, a 14-year-old student at the same school as Gao, used to hate running.     4     “I have decided to keep doing this in the future,” he said.

Luo Zikun, a 12-year-old student, fell in love with exercise during the holiday.     5     “I didn’t exercise a lot in the past. Now it’s time to catch up!” he said.

【推荐3】Do you love running? Try the new running trend (趋势)—the Color Run. You can have the most color-filled day of your life with family and friends.

A lot of people like doing shopping through the Internet now. Why is it so popular? There are many reasons. First, more and more people have their own computers and their computers can be joined with the Internet(联网). So it is possible for many of them to do shopping through the Internet. Second, people can spend less money buying things that they like. Third, people don’t need to go to the shop. They can buy things at home. It can save them much time. Because of these good facts, many people can’t refuse it.

But some people don’t like this kind of way to go shopping. They can only see the pictures on the computer. They can’t know the products(产品) well. People can’t enjoy the pleasure(快乐) of shopping in the large supermarkets or the wonderful shopping centers.

Do you like shopping through the Internet? What do you think of it?

【推荐2】Children are talking about the best ways to protect the environment.

【推荐3】Fear may be in the heart as well as in the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the chance of someone feeling fear.

Tests on healthy volunteers found that they were more likely to feel a sense of fear at the moment when their hearts are contracting (收缩) and pumping blood around their bodies, compared with the point when the heartbeat is relaxed. Scientists say the results suggest that the heart is able to influence how the brain reacts to a fearful event, depending on which point it is at in its regular cycle of contraction and relaxation.

Sarah Garfinkel at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School said: "Our study shows for the first time that the way in which we deal with fear is different depending on when we see fearful pictures in relation to our heart."

The study tested 20 healthy volunteers on their reactions to fear as they were shown pictures of fearful faces. Dr. Garfinkel said, "The study showed that fearful faces are better noticed when the heart is pumping than when it is relaxed. Thus our hearts can also affect what we see and what we don't see-and guide whether we see fear."

To further understand this relationship, the scientists also used a brain scanner (扫描仪) to show how the brain influences the way the heart changes a person's feeling of fear.

"We have found an important mechanism by which the heart and brain 'speak' to each other to change our feelings and reduce fear, "Dr. Garfinkel said.

"We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is dealt with and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for anxiety (焦虑) disorders, and also for those who may be suffering from serious stress disorder."