This is new to me and I don’t know what I will say really so I’m just giving it a try. I was always a runner and in pretty good shape for most of my life. Then I hit a bad patch and each day just couldn’t get myself out there to run. I put on weight, which just made me feel worse about myself.

I finally got the running back again after a few years but it was much harder than it used to be and I struggled to get through even the shortest, slowest jog.

I was out in a run the other day and I had almost convinced (说服) myself to give up when I heard someone say, “You can do it! It’s hard, but you can do it!” There was a lady walking the other way and had the biggest smile on her face.

Those words of encouragement at a time when I was ready to give up were like a perfect intervention (干预). I finished my run and now every time I feel like quitting I will hear her words in my head and they give me motivation (动力) and encouragement.

I’ve never seen her again so I’ve never been able to thank her and let her know the effect something as simple as a few words of encouragement from a stranger had and still has on me. It always encourages me in my life and has great influence on my life. I will never forget it and place it in my heart. I will tell it to others and make others believe encouragement is very important to us.

When I was in high school, most of my friends had bicycle. I hoped I could also have it. One day I saw a second-hand bicycle, that was only one hundred yuan. I asked my father the money, and he said he could only give me half of the money. I should earn the other half by myself. So I went to sell newspapers after the school. My father was pleasing when I showed him the money a month late. He gave me the other fifty. You can imagine how happily I felt when I ride to school on my own bicycle.

It is known to all that we today's students fix our attentions on our lessons, so we know little of society. A holiday was the best time and the best chance to make up that. Taking a part-time job is a good form of social practice. What we have learned in books or in class can't have the same important effect on us as which we have learned through personal practice. In social practice, we can surely make a progress in both knowledge and practical abilities. However, when we take a part-time job, we may get paying more or less to help our family. Thus, I will say senior school students should take part-time jobs in our holidays, if it's possibly.

Facebook and Twitter are just two of my favorite things. These websites help me keep in touch with my friends and family, find out what 【小题1】 (interest) events are going on and see and share photographs within my social circle. However, the more time I 【小题2】 (spend) online the less sleep I got, and the 【小题3】 (bad) I felt. I was tired and in low spirits, and 【小题4】 (focus) on classroom lectures and activities became 【小题5】 (increasing) difficult.

I began to wonder whether or not there could be a relationship between the hours I spent on the screen and the bad effects it had the next day at school. 【小题6】(answer) my question, I made some research. I surveyed local middle and high school students. Eight hours is 【小题7】 recommended (建议的) amount of sleep for teenagers. From the responses, I found that those who slept for less than eight hours had about three hours of screen time per day, 【小题8】 kids who got more than eight hours of sleep had about two hours of screen time. The kids who slept less were more likely to suffer 【小题9】 stress, sleeplessness and anxiety. They performed poorly in tests and showed more mood 【小题10】 (problem).