It’s eleven o’clock at night, four students still stayed up late playing computer games, although they knew they would have an English test the next day.

The next morning, they came up with an idea to get out of having to take their test. Each student put some dirt (土) on their face and hands, and then they went to the English teacher’s office. They told the teacher that they had a flat tire (轮胎爆胎) on the way to school, and they spent the whole morning pushing their car back to school. The teacher listened, and to the students’ surprise, he said that they could do the test in three days.

On the day of the test, the students went to their teacher’s office. The teacher put all four of the students in four different rooms to take the test. The students didn’t mind. They were just so happy because they had three extra days to study and prepare for the test. In fact, to get better grades, they review the lessons carefully. However, when they read the paper, the students found there were only two questions:

The first World Report on Vision (视力) by the World Health Organization (WHO) came out on October 10th, 2019. According to the report, near-sightedness (近视) is an alarming problem among young adults. In the United States, about 40% of young adults are near-sighted. But this situation pales compared with that of young adults in China.

China Daily reported more serious vision problems in China in 2019. In the report, 80% senior high school students are near-sighted, followed by 71.6% in junior high school, 36% in primary school and 14% of 6-year-olds in kindergarten. This is a shocking fact to the society. What causes this eyesight problem? Besides family history, there are some other reasons, such as not having enough outdoor activities, being short of enough sleep and too much use of electronic products.

However, many young people don’t take near-sightedness seriously. They think that it is easy to solve the problem with the help of eye drops, clever glasses, contact lenses or eye operations. And some young people even think that it is cool to wear glasses. But the real facts are not like that. Although glasses, contact lenses and other ways may help solve the problem of the near-sightedness, they are lifelong expenses. Not every family can afford them. What’s more, serious near-sightedness can cause other eye diseases in middle age, some of which can even cause loss of vision.

It is time for us to take action to protect our eyesight. Go out and do more outdoor exercise. Have enough sleep and useless electronic product. Good eyesight is priceless. So let’s try our best to take care of our eyesight.

“Music is where everything started,” Samirah Horton says. The 13-year-old girl from Brooklyn, New York, is known to the world as DJ Annie Red. She has been rapping (说唱) and performing since she was 6 years old. Through music, DJ Annie Red says, “I can express myself. I can let out my emotion (情绪).”

The rising hip-hop star uses music to share a message about bullying. “I was bullied (欺) a lot,” she says, “I am still bullied now, especially because of my voice.” DJ Annie Red has a deep and raspy voice. People have told her she sounds like a man.

But DJ Annie Red has found a way to rise above their insults. Instead of thinking of her voice as a weakness, she uses it to spread her anti-bullying message far and wide. She encourages kids of all ages, everywhere, to fight against bullying. “You’re never too young to make a change,” she says.

DJ Annie Red performs at events, festivals and games and posts her music online. She also performs at schools to teach students how to fight against bullying. She wants to help kids who are suffering from bullying feel like they’re not alone.

DJ Annie Red believes that standing up to bullying is more important than ever. That’s because people can bully others on social media while hiding behind a username (用户名). “You don’t have to show your face at all”, she says. “Someone could easily be influenced by that”.

But she sees a brighter future ahead. DJ Annie Red believes that kids of her generation (代) can make things better by finding their passions (爱好) and using those passions to make changes.

“That’s something I really enjoy seeing,” she says, “Kids are getting more confident in themselves and want to do something that they really enjoy doing. That encourages me to keep doing what I do.”