My name is Tom. I come from England. I like to have friends who are different from me. My best friend is Paul. Paul is funnier, more outgoing and athletic than me. He always tells jokes and makes me laugh. We also like different things. He likes going to the movies. He likes playing sports. He likes pop music. But I like reading books. He often asks me to go to the movies and gives me some interesting books. And I often give him CDs. We often help each other.

    "It looks so good on you," said my friend. I was trying on a bathing suit. Then the topic of conversation turned to going on a diet(节食).

    I wanted to become pretty and thin. So I decided to stick to the diet. I didn't eat my lunch. Some people asked me where my lunch was. I lied to them and made up excuses.

    I did the same with breakfast. I tricked(欺骗) my dad into thinking that I ate my bread, but I fed it to the cat. My weight dropped fast, but when I looked at myself in the mirror, I still thought I was not thin enough.

    Finally, dark circles formed under my eyes. I wore thick clothing in hot weather, but I was still cold. That didn't matter. I still needed to be thinner.

    About a month after I bought the bathing suit, I tried it on again, and it fell right off me. My mother told me to look in the mirror. I could see my eye sockets(眼窝). That was the day I realized how skinny I was.

    I went to see a doctor. My total weight loss was about twenty-five pounds in one month. It took one year for my body to start working normally again.

    Sometimes I want to go back to being thin, but I will never do what I did again. It's not worth it. Please don't go on a diet when you're young. You will regret it. Don't judge and compare yourself with others. Try to love yourself for who you are, not for what you look like.

Have you ever lived in a school dormitory (宿舍)? Some students think living at school is a piece of cake. Well, it's not as 1 as you might imagine.

Last year, my parents decided to let me live at school. I was 2 to hear this decision because I hadn't thought about it before. But I 3 this idea after they told me that they would be too busy to look after me for the following year.

However, when I first arrived, I got nervous about the strict 4 . We have to study from 7 a.m to10 p.m. every day. We are not allowed to play with cellphones or go back to the dormitory to take showers during this time. Also, I 5 one of my roommates. These things made me feel upset and homesick. I just wanted to go back home.

On weekends, I went back home. My mother comforted me, "Don't be afraid. Try to think about how to improve the 6 ." My mother's words cheered me up. None of my roommates had such problems. So I needed to solve them by myself.

The next week, I tried my best to calm myself down and focus on my work. And it did not seem too 7 . I talked with my roommates more 8 and made more friends. I realized the good or bad of things depends on 9 own attitudes (态度). I began to enjoy the dormitory life.

Every time I struggle (挣扎) with difficulties, I always think about this special 10 . It gives me the courage to overcome them. Perhaps I have grown up through this.

One day, Fu Tian put a short video of chopping firewood(劈柴) for his grandparents in TikTok, and suddenly got more than 200,000 likes. People call him 1 "The most handsome man".

Fu Tian is 19 years old this year and he is a college student in Kunming. For the2 vacation, he took the 3 from Kunming to Zhenxiong Station for four hours and then took a van(面包车)for more than one hour to go 4 to his hometown Yanxi Village. Because his home was too 5 , he had to walk for 6 40 minutes. During the winter vacation, Fu Tian didn't 7 late like other children, but 8 up at 8:00a.m. every day and 9 out with his grandparents to chop firewood until 6:00p.m. He totally chopped 350kg of firewood for his grandparents' summer life. This would 10 them feel his love in the 11 summer.

In Fu Tian's video, it says:"What I12 in the basket is not firewood, but my love for my grandparents." During the Spring Festival, Fu Tian only13 some relatives(亲戚) for a few days, he almost helped his grandparents with housework like chopping firewood and bought new shoes for them in town.

The story14 us that filial piety(孝顺)is not just 15 or food. It can be a small thing we do for our family in our daily life.