Your schooldays should be good and happy days of your life. How can they be useful to you? You can do these things.

Be active (积极的) at school. Don’t always say things are difficult or boring to your school life and your school subjects. Join lots of activities (活动). Put up your hands quickly in class. When you are in the school please be with a big smile.

Form (养成) good habits. If you don’t eat a good breakfast, you will be thinking about food in class. If you go to bed late and don’t have enough sleep, you will be sleepy in class. Play enough sports every day in order to (为了) keep your body strong.

Face the problem. Do not say you will do things tomorrow. You cannot finish the race if you rest all the time. Everyone fails (不及格) some exams, and has bad days. Don’t make small problems very big and important. Don’t forget to ask for help. You are young, and no one thinks you must do everything quite well!

Don’t spend time lying (躺) in bed on Saturday or Sunday. Go and play sports, get together with friends in the park, it is relaxing. If you don’t want to go out, you may read a book, practice English or help your mom with housework.

Starting from the coming fall term, students in primary and middle schools will have at least one lesson every week to learn simple but necessary housework skills such as cleaning and cooking.

Labor（劳动）lessons cover mainly housework, productive labor, and services. The lessons are good for students’ character.

Primary school students in first and second grades need to do simple but necessary cleaning, wash vegetables and peel（剥皮）fruit, and learn to raise one or two kinds of plants or small animals. Third and fourth graders should clean their classrooms, wash their underwear, socks and shoes, and know how to make cold dishes. Fifth and sixth graders should know the skills of cooking two or three common dishes. For middle school students, they are encouraged to cook three or four dishes by themselves, learn how to make one or two kinds of traditional handicrafts（手工艺品）and experience one or two types of industrial labor（工业劳动）, new technologies, modern service or volunteer work.

People welcome such lessons and say it’s necessary to teach young students housework skills. Yang Jianping, a mother of a first grader in Beijing, says she supports teaching students such lessons, because they can help students learn some necessary labor skills. Her son’s head teacher asks the students to clean the classrooms. She likes it very much.

From the passage above, we learn that from the new fall term on, both primary and middle school students will have at least one labour lesson a week. We are also told what kind of labour students in 【小题1】 grades must take on. For example, primary school students are mainly asked to do some simple 【小题2】 such as cleaning and cooking while middle school students are expected to do more. They are encouraged to take on some work 【小题3】 home so that they will get some skills in traditional handicrafts, industries and new technologies. They are also encouraged to work as 【小题4】. Finally, we know that people show great 【小题5】 to the labour course because they believe that it will help develop children’s character as well as life skills.

With her eyes always feeling tired as she prepared for an exam, 16-year-old Sun Run went to the hospital with her parents in January. She was shocked when she found out that her eyesight dropped from 5.0 to 4.6. (A)”A few of my friends have had the same experience lately,” Sun said.

In fact, poor eyesight among Chinese primary and high school students rose from 59.2 percent to 70.6 percent in the first six months of 2020, according to the Ministry of Education.

To protect students’ eyesight, the Chinese government has worked out new requirements for school supplies and equipment that took effect (生效) on March 1, according to the requirements, the size of text in students’ textbooks should be no smaller than nine-point (小五号).

Teachers should also avoid using projectors (投影仪) or other multimedia equipment (多媒体设备) that are too bright.

There are also requirements for desk and classroom lights. (B) For example, these lights should give off as little blue light as possible.

Blue light is bad for our eyes, as (C) it can kill the photoreceptor cells (感光细胞) we need for vision, according to Harvard Medical School. Many of the electronic devices (电子设备), including our phones and computer screens, give off blue light.