Most of your textbooks are single-use. After graduating (毕业), old textbooks are thrown away. 【小题1】

According to the National Press and Publication Administration, students across the country buy 2.8 billion new textbooks every year. If the following year’s students could reuse these textbooks, it would save over 20 billion yuan per year. 【小题2】

Primary and junior high school students in several Chinese cities are reusing music, arts, science and IT textbooks. 【小题3】 Therefore, they are suitable for recycling. However, these books only account for a small amount of the total number of textbooks. Most textbooks still end up as waste.

【小题4】 . “I’m among the first group of students to take classes after the recent curricular reform (改革), so I have to buy new textbooks that previous (之前的) students didn’t use,” Sun Run, a high school student from Hangzhou said.

【小题5】 In the US, book companies will come to schools and buy used books. They then resell them to new students the following year at a lower price. A high school textbook in the US can have up to eight owners (主人) before it is no longer in a good enough condition (状态) to be used, according to Xinhua.

There are always times when your children get bored with studying. There are also moments when you are looking for something educational yet funny and easy to do. With a few things and a little preparation, you can easily entertain（娱乐）and educate your children.

Do you read any magazines with pictures? Keep them. They can make a funny family game.

Sit with your children and look at the pictures. You can cut out interesting pictures and ask your children to lay them out. Use as many pictures as possible. For example, if it is a picture of a book, cut it out, even if it is an action, such as washing clothes, cut it out. Try to get as many different pictures as possible.

In this game, you are going to use the pictures to let your children make up their own stories. Then take any kind of table, even the kitchen table, and let your child lay out the pictures any way they wish. They don’t need to use all of them, just as many as they want.

After they have laid out the pictures, have them tell a story. If some pictures don’t fit in with their stories, don’t use them. If they find a different picture to add another part to their story, let them do it. The more pictures you have, the more creativity will come from your children.

Success in life often comes from your constant effort, and only self-discipline (自律) allows you to do that. 【小题1】

It’s up to you.

No matter what your goals are, there is one great law that you need to follow in order to be successful—No one else is going to climb the ladder of success for you. 【小题2】 Only you can choose how you spend your time, and how you make or break your life. So take responsibility for everything in your life.

Think life through in the long term.

Abraham Lincoln said, “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” If you wonder where you will be 10 years from now, look at your current life. What actions are you taking? 【小题3】 Are you putting in the effort necessary in your goals today? People often think that their lives will suddenly change through some magical events in the future, but that is not the case. Your life will only change if you change it.

Setbacks (挫折) are part of success.

In life, nothing worth having comes easy. 【小题4】 It is certainly true that there will be many setbacks, and anytime you get close to finally succeeding, there will be some more adversity (逆境) testing how badly you really want it. Only after passing one more test, and then another, will you be able to succeed. Many, however, fail the final test.

【小题5】 No matter how long it takes or how hard it gets, always remember the words, “It’s not over until I win!”

If you could build unbreakable self-discipline, you will succeed in anything you set your mind to. Maybe not immediately, but definitely.