In August, 2021, some new rules came out to limit(限制) young people’s online game time. People under the age of 18 can only play online games three hours a week. They   are very ________ with teachers and parents.

According to the rules, online game providers can ________ only one-hour service to young people from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

Wu Ping, a high school teacher in Tianjin, thinks online games are a ________ of time, and are bad for students’ studies. At school, students aren’t allowed to use their phones, so they play online games at home, and their parents often find ________ hard to prevent them from doing so. Spending too much time playing online games can make students’ grades fall quickly. What’s worse, online games might make students ________ developing friendships. “Students who become seriously addicted（上瘾的）to online games often find all kinds of excuses to play them. They also spend little on food or clothes to ________ their money for online games. So I think it is really necessary for the government to take action,” said Li Zimeng, a teacher in Guangzhou.

Mrs Chen, a mother of a high school student in Beijing, used to have difficulty keeping her son away from online games, so she felt really ________ when the new rules came out. Her son became addicted to online games when he was 14. ________ she tried to stop him playing them, he got really angry. “For several months, he even ________ to talk to me. Only when I placed fewer restrictions (限制) on his game time could our relationship ________,” said Mrs Chen.

Thanks to the rules, students can have more time to take up new hobbies. To make sure that students develop healthier interests, schools, teachers and parents need to work closely to help young students find proper hobbies, and organize different after-school activities for them.

During the Beijing Winter Olympics, people around the world saw many young players shine on the biggest stage for winter sports. Let’s take a look at three Olympic Medalist (奖牌获得者) who debuted (首次亮相) in Beijing.

	At just 18, Su Yiming won China’s first gold medal in men’s snowboarding. He took the gold medal in the men’s big air. Also, he won a silver medal in the slopestyle (坡面障碍技巧). Su started snowboarding when he was just 4 years old. Su set his heart on snowboarding in 2015 after Beijing got the chance to host the 2022 Winter Games.
	Gu Ailing’s two gold medals in both big air and halfpipe (U型场地), and a silver medal in slopestyle brought her to an even wider international audience. Gu was born in 2003 in the USA. She started to ski at 3 and began professional training at 8. Now she’s an Olympic champion, a fashion model, and going to Stanford University this fall.
	Li Wenlong is a 21-year-old skater. This was his first Winter Olympics. In the men’s 1, 000m short track speed skating, Li skated behind his teammates as a team tactic (战术). He tried to help his teammates to win. With his help, teammate Ren Ziwei won the gold medal. And Li himself crossed the line in second place. Li started to skate at age of 11. He is a good team player and always willing to support his teammates. He sees the team as more important than himself.

As a kid, I walked to the library several times a week and stayed up late reading. I checked out so many books and returned them so quickly that the librarian once snapped, “Don’t take home so many books if you are not going to read them all.”

“But I did read them all,” I said.

In college, when I created my online dating (约会) profile, in the “favourite books” section I put One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Moveable Feast, White Fang and so on. But I realized I hadn’t read most of those titles for two years.

David was my first online date. David read about a book or two a week. When we compared libraries, we had only four titles in common.

On our seventh date, David and I visited the library.

“I have a game,” he said, taking out two pens and Post-its (便利贴). Let’s find books we have read and leave reviews in them for the next person.

We stayed there for an hour.

Before leaving, I said, “I will tell you something. I have only read one book this year.” “But you like books,” he said. “You like bookstores. You like libraries. Read a book!”

Back home, David’s charge to “read a book” echoed in my head. I bought books whenever I got the chance, but I hardly read them. They sat on every surface until my house appeared to wear books the way one wears clothes.

I picked up one. Whenever I wanted to give up on it, I thought of David. I felt him pushing me to be more of the person I used to be.

“How’s your day?” David texted.

“ Good. A little tired,” I replied. “I stayed up late and finished my book.” The last time I pulled an all-nighter to read, I was 12 and the book was Little Women.

David advised us to visit the library again. He pulled a book from the shelf, dropped to one knee, and opened it. Inside, his Post-it read: “Karla, it has always been you. Will you marry me?”

His proposal had rested in the book for over a year.

While the mobile Internet is changing the way we live, more and more old people in China are getting in on the digital world, though they still have some trouble.

Yang Su, a 61-year-old professional micro vlogger ( 专业微博博主), is among them. With more than 2.3 million followers on China’s famous short video app “Douyin”, his videos have been watched by over 1 million times.

“Three years ago, my son put a short video of me playing the piano at home on ‘Douyin’, and hours later it was played over 1 million times,” Yang remembered.

After graduating from the Shanghai Conservatory (⾳乐学院) of Music, he was a pianist of the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra (交响乐团). The Internet has opened a door to a whole new world for him. For the past three years, he has filmed over 700 short videos and opened an official account on social platform WeChat to share articles and offer online piano lessons.

It’s not easy for him to learn how to film a video, something that might not be easy even for young people. Spending a long time staring at the sheet music (活⻚乐谱) always causes eye soreness, and he needs to play through the music since he doesn’t know how to edit (编辑) and cut clips. His child helps him a lot later. “The Internet has opened the door to a new world,” Yang said. “I always keep myself busy and feel very young at my age.”

However, do other old people get used to the digital world like Yang? Ding Qiulin is a 73-year-old man from Hunan. “I got my smartphone more than one year ago, but I only use WeChat for video calls,” he said. Ding finds it hard to learn to use other apps.

▲ Luo Xu, a post-90s volunteer, joined a non-profit organization in Beijing nine years ago to teach old people how to use the Internet. “While I am helping people aged between 50 and 90 years old, I have a strong feeling of satisfaction,” Luo said.