Xiao Qiang, a 12-year-old Chinese boy, has too many activities. His father 1 him away from school four afternoons a week and drives him across town to practice. " I do most of my 2 in the car when we are 3 to practice, and I have to do the rest(剩余的) when I get home. I am too tired, and I just want to sleep." he said.

    "More and more kids aren't 4 because(因为)they have too many activities to do," said Mr Wang, an expert(专家)of Children Development, "41% of the children aged 9-13 said they felt 5 most of the time, and more than 75% of them said that they wished they had more 6 to play."

    "Over-scheduling(过量的课程安排)is a growing problem for Chinese families," said Mr Wang. It is not good for both kids and their parents. More families eat dinner 7 or often eat fast food 8 their way to drawing or music lessons. We all know it is important for kids to learn how to relax(放松).If they don't learn that now, it will be more difficult to learn when they get 9 . Kids need time to relax. Parents should 10 about what is right for kids.

    Every day I can watch a little girl 1 basketball from my kitchen window. One day I asked her why she practised so 2 . She said: “I would like to go to college. The only way is 3  a scholarship(奖学金). I like basketball and I want to be the 4 player in college. My dad told me: ‘If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.' ” She  5 changed her mind. I watched her through those junior high years and into senior high school.

    One day before she graduated 6 high school, I saw her sitting on the grass 7 . I asked her what was wrong. She told me her coach said she was such a 8 girl that she couldn't be a good basketball player, so she should  9 dreaming about going to college. She was heartbroken and it 10 made me feel sad. Then she smiled and told me her father said that coach was wrong. He did not understand the power of dream. Her father said to her: “If you really want to 11 the scholarship of a good college, nothing but you 12 can stop your dream.”

    The next year, she and her team went to a big game. She 13 by a coach of a famous college team and was offered a scholarship to the 14 basketball team of their college. She was about to get the college education that she had dreamed 15 and worked towards for all those years.

    “If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.” It is true.

    Most people like to make some new year's plans at the beginning of the year. Jack is a student of a middle school in Longwan, Wenzhou. He usually makes his new year's 1 on January 1st .He wants to have a(an) 2 start. This year he wants to keep 3,because he is too heavy and he likes 4lots of fast food . So he is going to 5 and eat healthy food . He likes football and he is good at it , he is going to join the school 6 team . He wants to be captain of the football team . He also wants to be able to speak English well, so he is going to  7 English aloud every morning, and he is going to listen to English music after school every day. He says he is going to be an English teacher 8  10 years.

    9are your new year's plans? Are you going to look after yourself well? Are you going to do something for 10 parents? Are you going to make more friends? Work hard for it every day and I'm sure your dream will come true one day.

    Cui Qingtao is a 17-year-old high school student in Yunnan Province. He was mixing mortar(灰浆)at a building site with his 1when he received his acceptance letter from Peking University which is widely2as a top university in China.

    In this year's college entrance examination, the3adult from a low-income family scored 669 points and applied as a4in the School of Journalism and Communication.

    Cui's home is in a small village. He is the eldest son, with a younger brother in high school5a sister in the fourth grade. To help his family earn more money, he spent his vacations with his brother. And he6at 3 o'clock in the morning to work in the greenhouses.

    7a Sunday, Cui's family was doing building work at the site of a new home when they were told to take the letter from a university. Cui and his family were excited as they8received the long-expected acceptance letter. When his mother9the acceptance letter to his father, who cannot read, a big smile appeared on his father's face.

    In an interview, Cui Qingtao said he worked about 11 to 12 hours a day at the building site in order to help his parents. When asked about his plan for the future, he said, "Now I'm going to leave my home village for college, but I'll 10 and someday change the poor conditions of the village." His words got many praises on the Internet.

    Maria is my friend. She had bad 1 two years ago. She got up late and had 2 for breakfast. She disliked doing school activities. After getting home from school, she usually played computer games and 3 watched TV. She hardly ever drank milk, and she ate junk food three 4 five times a week. Then one day, she got sick. She had to be in hospital 5 .It made her feel that she 6must herself well.

    Now Maria has 7 habits. She gets up early and 8 every morning. She usually runs for about an hour. Then she has a(n) 9 breakfast. At school she plays all kinds of sports. She hardly ever plays computer games or watches TV. She drinks a glass of milk before going to bed. These good habits 10her keep healthy and study well.