4 . Educators in China have long struggled with the problem of overworked schoolchildren. Attempts to do away with some test oriented teaching often face resistance from parents, who worry that their offspring could lose out in the race to get into a good university. Some officials are taking a new approach. In the south-western province of Yunnan, they have not only revised the PE( Physical Education) test in the zhongkao, an examination for entrance to senior secondary school. They have also given it the same grades in the exam as all-important subjects like maths and Chinese. Eight provinces have joined Yunnan too.

These reforms are in response to demands by the central government for a more well-rounded approach to education. In 2017 primary and secondary schools were ordered to hire only specialists to teach PE and art. In October they were directed to organize daily gym classes, and now to include PE and art in the zhongkao. The government says it wants to foster a “lifelong habit of exercise” .

The government worries about how many youngsters are in poor shape. In 2017 officials in Guangzhou found that only 2.6% of local children were in “excellent” health. Half of pupils surveyed there had myopia(近视). Today one in five Chinese children is overweight, up from just one in 20 in 1995. The state news agency, Xinhua, summed it up with a headline: “Why good times produce weak children”.

But parents do not want their children to be distracted from their books. They are used to pupils getting full marks in PE with hardly any effort, partly because examiners have tended to grade generously to avoid “unfairly” punishing hard-working students, says Mr Zhu. Schools often cancel PE and art classes in favour of other subjects. This will change with the new reforms. But parents are already complaining that PE will be just one more source of stress. Mr Zhu sighs over the use of exam pressure to get people’s attention. Still, he hopes it is a giant leap towards greater fitness.

I live in a very urban area. I enjoy sitting in my yard and listening to children     1     (laugh) as they play flashlight tag when night falls The shouts of my neighbor reminding the noisy kids     2     (stay) off her grass are common occurrences.

In recent years, however, this type of activity     3     (fade) away. The sounds of children have given way to the ping of     4     incoming text and of a new Facebook notification.     5     (sad), I might not hear the typical sounds of summer communication the same way     6     I experienced when I was young and making friends.

The rise of modern technology has meant the decline of true friendship. Parents should show what     7     means to be a true friend to a neighbor. If parents value     8     (important) to friendship, so will children. This social skill of developing friendships may become a     9     (lose) art

if parents don't intervene (干预) right now. As Dr. Rosen put it, “A hug feels six times     10     (supportive) than an emoji.”

7 . South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, is _________ trying to rebuild after years of conflict (冲突).

South Sudan had the _________ literacy (读写能力) rate of any country worldwide. To fight the problem, officials have launched thousands of adult education classes across the country. In one class, 47-year-old Rebecca Nyankiir Deng is learning English with her daughter. Deng has been illiterate (文盲) for _________ of her life. When Deng was a child, civil war in what is now South Sudan _________ her from going to school. Today she earns money by making and selling jewelry. But the amount Deng earns is so little that she _________ to pay for her daughter’s schooling. Now the teenager can study _________ her mother. “We are studying here because they are teaching us _________.” she said. “If I had to pay for school, I wouldn’t be here.”

Deng is one of a(n) _________ number of South Sudanese adults who see the _________ peace as a chance to get an education. Deng Hoc Yai, South Sudan’s education minister, says adult literacy is a main concern because it helps pull people out of __________ and prevents conflicts. “At the __________ level, at the level of a community, at the level of a country, with communities that have a lot of __________ people, they will all be working, they will all be __________ better health. They will be more peaceful __________ people who are illiterate.”

The Education Ministry told a reporter that a little more than 208,000 South Sudanese adults are now taking classes on how to read and write. __________ the current peace in South Sudan holds officials expect those numbers will continue to grow.

8 . An eagle is a large bird that has great difficulty training since childhood. Generally for at least a month or two after birth, the chicks _________ their mothers to eat, but falcon's (猎鹰) children are completely _________.

Just a few days after birth, the female falcon _________ food for the child, but she doesn’t put the food _________ in the child's mouth. She stands at a _________ from his child on the cliff. Now the child is hungry, and it has to get out of the nest while _________ with full force. Falling, the child has to go to his mother for _________ In this struggle, the child may _________, but the mother's heart doesn't _________ . After a few days of training, the mother carries and takes her child to a 11 -kilometer height in the sky and then ____________ it down from the height. This is really the ____________ test. The child starts falling down. When he is about 1,000 meters from the ____________, he starts spreading his wings in ____________; otherwise, he is going to die. Only then does the mother closely ____________ the child, in case of danger. Due to the ____________ training, a falcon can take his double-weight prey (猎物).

As parents, we all love our children very much, but always ____________ that we should teach them to "fly" and keep on ____________ them so that they can make their own personality and have their ____________ for a living. We need to tell them they'll have to struggle to ____________ something. If you serve them all on the plate, then they won't know the ____________ of hard work, and they won't be able to move forward.

9 . Gina Camelli didn't set out to be a hero. In fact, she didn't even mean to be recognized for her efforts. Instead, Camelli's task was simple: to give back to the community where she was raised. And that's just what she did.

Warren, Ohio, lies just thirteen miles north of Youngstown, the former center of steel production, and now one of the poorest cities in the country. Thirty years ago, Camelli was a student at Warren High School where she now teaches Advanced Placement Psychology. As the economy took a fall, Camelli started to notice that not enough students had access to basic necessities, such as food, clothing and personal daily products. This economic uncertainty can have a lasting influence on students — affecting everything from the way they learn, to their ability to deal with social and emotional issues. Knowing this, Camelli decided to organize Paw Pantry.

Whether it's for food, clothes, school supplies or personal daily products, students and their parents can register for the district's website and fill out a request form for Paw Pantry products. From there, they can choose to pick their goods up and have them delivered to their schools or homes. Over a year has passed since the Paw Pantry began. Camelli has collected a lot of food, clothing, lunch boxes, backpacks, school supplies - even home goods including a refrigerator, a washer and a stove, which she received from Hardee's, the fast-food chain. Still, Camelli tries to satisfy more than just her students' needs; students also respect Camelli for her emotional support.

For Camelli, this dedication just comes with the job. "Teaching isn't just something you do in the classroom, " Camelli explains. "I think of my kids as my responsibility, and I would give the shirt off my back for my students," she says. Camelli is a community activist, a mental health advocate', and by many people's standards, she's most certainly a hero, but she doesn't see herself that way. She just thinks of herself as a teacher.