Liu Mingxiao, 13, is a pretty and smart girl. She comes top in her class. But many students try to stay away from her because her mother has AIDS(艾滋病). Liu’s father has died of AIDS. But Liu didn’t get it.

AIDS means fear(惧怕)for most people. “Nobody wants to play games with me. They call me bad names behind my back. Even a teacher who used to like me turns her back on me now. It makes me feel sad.” said Liu.

Liu’s mother didn’t know what happened to her daughter until one day Liu came back home with her nose bleeding(流血的)，“ She fought with a boy who said something bad about her father.” said Liu’s mother. “My heart really hurts. My daughter did nothing wrong!”

For many of these children, the biggest problem they now face is how other people look at them. Many of them have to drop out of school(辍学)because they can no longer stand others’ indifference(冷漠).

“People are afraid of AIDS because they know little about it,” said Wang Chongrun, head of a group to help children living with AIDS. Wang went to the villages and gave lessons about AIDS to the people there.

“Many of these children are just as healthy as others,” Wang said.

Recently, Flu (流感) widely spreads from one person to another. This is especially true to people who are weak. If you are weak, you are more likely to catch flu easily. Do you know how you can avoid flu?

The best treatment to illness is a good health. You can eat everything you want but (A) ________ that your diet is healthy. The healthier you are, the better it is for you to avoid any type of illness around. Most doctors suggest plenty of fresh fruit juice and water in order for one to avoid flu.

If a member of the family or a friend has flu, stay away from him/her (B) ________ he/she is well. Flu is very communicable (传染的) and you can catch it by going with the person with flu. Wearing a mask and avoiding using things that the person with flu is necessary to keep away from flu.

Exercising will make you stronger, which means a stronger immune (免疫的) system too. (C)经常运动，这样你就会保持健康。 It doesn’t matter what kind of exercise it is. What is important is that you are making your body stronger to stop illness from attacking (攻击) you.

Happy people are healthy people. (D) Their life is quite free and comfortable, so they can keep away from illness easily. If you are unhappy, which affects your immune system, you will easily get sick.

Avoiding the flu is easy. Just boost (增强) your immune system and it will take care of the rest.

Wuhan is the capital city of Hubei. It is a beautiful, large and very important city in China. During last Spring Festival, the city received much tons of attention because a novel corona-virus (新型冠状病毒) appeared there and spread around the country. Several days before the Spring Festival, Wuhan was locked and the city became quiet and still.

A big fight against the novel corona-virus was going on there. The doctors and nurses there became brave warriors (勇士) in masks (口罩), glasses and protective suits. Many of them had to work over ten hours every day, drinking little or no water. They risked their health and even lives to treat the patients. Thousands of doctors and nurses from other cities and provinces in China went to Wuhan to support them. There is no doubt that they were all heroes in the fight.

Besides doctors and nurses, everyone in our country was doing their own part in the fight against the novel corona-virus.

That Spring Festival was not as fun as it usually is. It even brought us to tears many times. However, we will never forget those difficult days, not only for the awful virus, but also for the efforts we made together and the lessons we learned.