Many students get ill easily in autumn.     1     What can we do to keep ourselves healthy? Here are some tips.

Enough healthy food.     2     Some students don’t like to eat breakfast. They make a big mistake. Breakfast is a very important meal in a day. If you want to be healthy, you should eat less fast food. Vegetables and fruit are delicious and healthy. We’d better drink 500 ml milk every day.

    3     Doing exercise is another way to make you healthy. So you should do some sports after class. Doing sports can make you strong.

Enough smiles. Smiling is the best way to make you healthy. Try to find the things that can make you laugh and you’ll be happy every day. You should try to be optimistic (乐观的) about life.     4    

Enough time of rest. Don’t stay up! Students usually go to bed at 10 o’clock.     5     There is a famous saying, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy,wealthy and wise.” It tells us enough time of rest is important.

【推荐2】Some animals can easily find their way home after a long journey. How do they make it? Scientific research shows that they are born with certain unusual abilities for direction.

A certain kind of ants, for example, can count their steps to avoid getting lost. They can go as far as 110 metres and bring food home. These ants live in the open desert, so they have nothing to guide them along the way. It’s like someone walking six kilometres through a dark forest.

Some fish have an unbelievable sense of smell. They can smell even a single drop of their home water in a large sea area. Some sea birds have a similar ability. They are able to make a smell map of their flying area.

Some animals can sense the earth’s magnetic field (磁场), while humans can’t. This magnetic field guides a certain kind of fish when they swim a long way to a place and then back. How can this kind of fish do that? It is still a mystery. Scientists have no good answers yet.

However, animals with such unusual abilities still have difficulty dealing with environmental changes caused by human activities. For example, many birds depend on stars for direction, but they get lost easily at night when city lights are kept on all night. To solve this problem, we can simply turn off some lights at night. Clearly, one small act of humans may mean a lot to animals.

【推荐3】People all have problems. If we don’t deal with（处理）these problems, we can easily become unhappy. Worrying about our problems can affect how we do at school. It can also influence（影响）the way we behave with our family. So how do we deal with our problems? There are many ways and here is one of them.

Most of us have an experience of being angry with our friends, parents or teachers. Perhaps they said something you didn’t like, or you felt they were unfair（不公平的）. Sometimes people can stay angry for years about a small problem. If you stay angry for a long time with your friend, good friendship may be lost.

When we are angry, we are usually the ones affected. We may not be able to work or sleep well after getting angry. Perhaps we should learn something from young children. Children like to play together, but sometimes they have disagreements（分歧）, and they decide not to talk to each other. However, this usually does not last for long. This is an important lesson for us to learn.

【推荐1】Chinese traditional painting and dance are two important parts of the art world. But what about when they meet each other?

In 2022, a dance program named Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting (《只此青绿》) was on CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala and became popular.

According to CCTV, A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains (《千里江山图》) has to do with the dancing program. Song Dynasty painter Wang Ximeng painted the 900-year-old painting. The painting is amazing in its big size, rich colors. It shows a blue-green picture of land: “mountains, cloudless sky and water”.

The dancers acted as mountains and their clothes were green and blue. When the dancer swung, audiences seemed to look at the moving mountains and rivers. “Huge mountains and rivers are coming to life!” Internet user Mo Weisha wrote in Weibo. “Green mountains and rivers still excite people. Some people even decided to watch the dance again in the theater.”

In recent years, more and more shows pay attention to Chinese traditional culture because of people’s great love for traditional culture. “The younger people grow up with a more open mind. They love Chinese culture and are proud of it.” The director (导演) Yao Wei, told China Daily.

【推荐2】“It hurts me more than you,” and “This is for your own good.” My mother used to say so years ago when I had to learn Latin, clean my room, stay home and do homework.

That was before we entered the permissive period in education in which we decided it was all right not to push our children to achieve their best in school. The schools and the educators made it easy on us. They taught that it was all right to be parents who take a let-alone policy (不干预政策), We stopped making our children do homework. We gave them computers, turned on the television, left the teaching to the teachers and went on vacation.

Now teachers, faced with children who have been developing at their own pace for the past 15 years, are realizing we've made a terrible mistake. One such teacher is Sharon Klompus who says of her students-“so passive”- and wonders what happened. Nothing was demanded of them, she believes. Television, says Klompus, contributes to children's passivity. “We're talking about a generation kids who've never been hurt or hungry. They have learned somebody will always do it for them. Instead of saying 'go look it up', you tell them the answer. It takes greater energy to say 'no' to a kid.”

Yes, it does. It takes energy and it takes work. It's time for parents to end their vacation and come back to work. It's time to take the car away, to turn the TV off, to tell them it hurts you more than them but it's for their own good. It's time to start telling them “no” again.

【推荐3】Why are some people just 1.5 meters tall, while others reach 2 meters? Studies have found that genes (基因) decide one’s height. There are about 4,000 genetic variants (变异体) that play an important role. Each of them might make a person’s height taller or shorter.

Now scientists in the US have found the most important genetic variant for deciding the height so far. This genetic variant causes people to be shorter. Each piece of this genetic variant can make a person’s height 2.2 cm lower more or less. If people have two pieces from their parents, they will be 4.4 cm shorter, more or less.

These findings were developed from a study of people in Peru. A According to the research, the height of men is about 1.65 meters, while women are about 1.52 meters. Scientists said people in Peru whose family are native Americans have this genetic variant.

Scientists also found that the living environment might have an impact on one’s height. People in Peru who live by the sea have more genetic variants than those living in mountains or rainforests.

One more question: why can’t we keep growing taller? We grow taller because our bones (骨头) grow. Bones increase in length because of the growth plates inside them. However, when we are about ten years old, the growth plates become fully grown. When we are about eighteen years old, they stop growing. So we can’t grow taller anymore.