IMPROVE（改善）ON SLEEP

Good health needs good sleep. Going to bed before you’re tired. No eating or reading in bed.

Go to bed at the same time before midnight and get up at the same time. Your body likes routine（常规）for a good night’s sleep.

STAY FREE OF FLU

Wash all parts of your hands often with soap and water. Studies show that a cold or flu virus（流感病毒）can live on our hands for long. For more ways to stay free from flu, please call the Health Line at 1800-848-1313.

ORAL（口腔）HEALTH

Brush your teeth twice a day and visit the dentist at least once a year. The mouth is a mirror of disease（疾病）. The oral examination is not only for the health of teeth. but the whole body. For more of it. please visit www. mydr.com

FIT FOR LIFE

Studies have shown that many diseases have something to do with little or no exercise. Try to do it for 30 minutes a day, 5 days or more a week. For more information, please call the Health Line at 1800-438-2000.

Nobody seemed to care about Mary. She was born in India. Her father was a British official and busy with his work every day. Her mother, a beautiful woman, spent all her time going to parties. So an Indian woman, Kamala, had to take care of the little girl. Mary was not a pretty child. She had a thin angry face and thin yellow hair. She was always giving orders to Kamala. Mary never thought of other people, but only of herself. In fact, she was a very selfish（自私的）, bad-tempered（坏脾气的）little girl.

One very hot morning, when she was about nine years old, she woke up and saw there was a different Indian servant（仆人）by her bed.

“What are you doing here?” she asked crossly. “Go away! And send Kamala to me at once!”

The woman looked afraid. “I’m sorry, Miss Mary. She, she, she can’t come!”

Something strange was happening that day. Some of the house servants were missing and everybody looked afraid. But nobody told Mary anything, and Kamala still did not come. So at last Mary went out into the garden and played by herself under a tree. She pretended（假装）she was making her own flower garden and picked large red flowers to push into the ground. All the time she was saying crossly to herself. “I hate Kamala! I’ll hit her when she comes back!”

Just then she saw her mother coming into the garden with a young Englishman. They did not notice the child, who listened to their talk.

“It’s very bad, is it?” her mother asked the young man in a worried voice.

“Very bad,” he answered seriously. “Many people are dying in the town. It’s dangerous to stay in this town. You should go to the hills, where there’s no illness.”

“Oh, I know!” she cried. “We must leave soon!”

Suddenly they heard loud cries coming from the servants’ rooms at the side of the house.

“What happened?” cried Mary’s mother wildly.

“I think one of your servants died just now. You didn’t tell me there was illness here, in your house!”

“I didn’t know!” she shouted. “Quick, come with me!” And together they ran into the house.

Now Mary understood what happened. The terrible illness had already killed many people in the town, and in all the houses people were dying. In Mary’s house it was Kamala who had just died. Later that day three more servants died there.

—Adapted from Secret Garden

Ahh...aaahhhhchooo! That sneeze (打喷嚏) is uncovered, and the germs (细菌) fly through the air. But have you ever wondered about the germs in your body? They are small organisms (有机体) that live inside us. 【小题1】 It’s impossible to keep them out of our bodies. They are so tiny that we don’t even know they are coming inside our bodies. Only when we begin to feel uncomfortable, we know they have made us sick.

【小题2】 They come out in a sneeze, a cough, or a breath. They can also be spread by saliva (唾液), sweat (汗液), or blood. 【小题3】 For example, a person may touch his or her nose and then touch a tap in a public restroom. If someone else touches that tap right away,he or she may pick up these germs.

How can you protect yourself from germs? Washing your hands is the most important way. Soap and water are germs’ enemies. 【小题4】 This is why it’s so important to wash your hands often, and you’d better wash the hands for about twenty seconds every time.

【小题5】 This means getting enough rest and not being too tired. It also means eating good foods and exercising. These are germ-fighting secrets!