A teacher was giving a speech to his students on stress management. He held a glass of water and asked, "How 1 do you think this glass of water is?"

    The students' answers were from 20g to 500g.

    "It 2 how long you hold it. If you hold it for a minute, it is OK. If you hold it for an hour, you will 3 an ache in your arm. If you hold it for a day, your arm will become paralyzed (麻痹的). It is the same 4, but the longer you hold it, the heavier it will become," the teacher said. "What you should do is to put the glass down to 5 for a while before picking it up again."

    The students became silent, lost in thought.

    After a moment, the teacher 6, "The stresses and worries in life are like this glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit 7 and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel "paralyzed" and you 8 do anything."

    It's important to let go of your 9. You should put them down before going to sleep and wake up every day with a(n) 10 start.

    From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.

Exercise helps to keep us 1. Doctors say it's good to get 2 least 150 minutes of moderate(中等强度) physical(身体的) activity every 3. Many people 4 an exercise routine. They exercise for 5 minutes every day. So, getting those 150 minutes is 6. But what about those times when you are 7? If you do not feel well, should you keep following your exercise routine? Will physical activity 8 you to feel better more quickly or will it make it 9? Dr Edward R. Laskowski answer these and other questions on the Internet. He 10 that "moderate physical activity is usually OK if you have a common cold." But 11 you are seriously ill it should be different. "It is fine to exercise", he explains(解释), "if your illness is all above the neck(颈部之上), for example, a runny nose."12, he says, "you should take a rest from exercising if 13 illness is below the neck." And if you have a higher temperature or 14 really tired, you should stop exercising, 15. So exercise is wonderful in our life. But please take exercise at a proper time.

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Hello, my name is Laura. Nice 1 you. Look! This is a photo 2 my family. You can see eight people in it. 3 are my grandparents. They are my4 parents. They are in the middle of the photo. This is my father. 5 name is Eric. This is my mother, Linda. My parents have four kids(孩子), two sons 6 two daughters. Dale and Paul 7 my brothers. The girl in red is my sister Jenny.8 that woman in a white skirt(裙 子)?9 is my aunt. She's my father's sister. My dog is in 10 photo, too. What color is it? It's black.

Brian looked at the ugly gray walls of his bedroom. Soon the hated walls would be covered, but not with paint as he had first planned. Brian had been disappointed to learn that the house owner would not allow painting. For weeks he was unable to understand: without using paint, how could he cover the walls? But, as Grandmother always said, "Necessity is the mother of invention." So Brian did some thinking, and with a little help from his mother, he came up with a great plan.

This morning, Mom had needed to stop at the mall to buy a book and Brian went along. There, Brian noticed a large poster of Harry Potter and the Hogwarts School on the wall. Next to it was a poster showing the cover of No Arm in Left Field, a baseball novel that Brian had read several times. "This is it," Brian thought excitedly. "I'll cover the walls with posters!"

When he left the mall, Brian had an armful of posters and a box of tacks (大头钉). At home, he headed straight to his room. First he took out the posters and spread them out on his bed, his desk, and most of the floor. Next he found out the size of each poster, and then the walls. He wanted to cover as much of those ugly walls as possible! It took all afternoon to work out the best preparation. He drew it on paper, making changes until it was just right. When Dad came home at dinnertime, Brian was ready to tack up the posters.

"Come see my room, Dad," called Brian. "It's going to be great!" But when Dad came into the bedroom, he looked worried. "The house owner said we could not put any holes in the walls. You can't use tacks, Brian. I am sorry."

Brian's joy slowly disappeared. He would stay with the boring gray walls forever. Maybe there was no way to solve this problem after all. How could you hang posters without using tacks? After all, posters would not stick to the walls by themselves!

"What would stick to the walls?" Brian wondered. Then he smiled. Tape, that's what! Brian took a piece of tape and made it into a circle. He made sure the sticky part of the tape was on the outside. This would work, for sure!