“Can I get a light?”This question is the commonest among smokers. What if this question is to come from an unusual source? The National Health Promotion Foundation uploaded an anti-smoking advertisement onto YouTube. The anti-smoking ad has quickly been known as the“most powerful anti-smoking ad”.

The anti-smoking video, called the “Smoking Kid”, features children walking up to adult smokers asking for a light. The children in the ad are actors but the adults smoking are unsuspecting participants in the project.

The video begins with the statement “Adults know that smoking is harmful, but don’t remind themselves of this fact”. Once a “smoking kid” approaches the adults, every adult asked is shocked that the child with a cigarette in his hand is asking for a light. The first adult starts by saying “I’m not giving it to you” and the video goes on to state “every adult filmed said no and reminded the children that smoking is bad”.

Before going away, the kid hands each adult a booklet after being turned down for a light. The booklet says, “You worry about me, but why not about yourself?”Each adult looks around for the child as their faces are filled with confusion and discomfort.

The video shows that a few of the smokers quickly throw away their cigarettes or put their cigarettes away, showing that this experiment was effective at that moment.

The most influential element in the ad isn’t the use of children or the responses from the smoking adults. It comes down to something much simpler than that. Why is it that we worry about other people, forgetting to worry about ourselves?

What Is Emotional Eating?

Emotional eating is when people use food as a way to deal with feelings instead of satisfying hunger.【小题1】Have you ever finished a whole bag of chips out of boredom or downed cookie after cookie while preparing for a big test? But when done a lot — especially without realizing it — emotional eating can affect weight, health, and overall well-being.

Not many of us make the connection between eating and our feelings.

【小题2】One of the biggest myths about emotional eating is that it’s caused by negative feelings. Yes, people often turn to food when they’re stressed out, lonely, sad, anxious, or bored. But emotional eating can be linked to positive feelings too, like the romance of sharing dessert on Valentine’s Day or the celebration of a holiday feast. Sometimes emotional eating is tied to major life events, like a death or a divorce. 【小题3】

Emotional eating patterns can be learned: A child who is given candy after a big achievement may grow up using candy as a reward for a job well done. 【小题4】It’s not easy to “unlearn” patterns of emotional eating. But it is possible. And it starts with an awareness of what’s going on.

We’re all emotional eaters to a degree. But for some people emotional eating can be a real problem, causing serious weight gain or other problems. The trouble with emotional eating is that once the pleasure of eating is gone, the feelings that cause it remain. 【小题5】That’s why it helps to know the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger.

Next time you reach for a snack, wait and think about which type of hunger is driving it.

Yours,

Li Hua

   Around the world more and more people are taking part in dangerous sports and activities. Of course there have ___________ been people who have looked for adventures —those who have climbed the _______ mountains，explored unknown parts of the world or _______ in small boats across the greatest oceans. Now，however，there are people who look for the immediate _______ from a dangerous activity which may only last a few minutes or even _________.

I would consider bungee jumping to be a good example of such an activity. You jump from a high place about 200 meters above the ground with an elastic（有弹性的）rope ___________ to your ankles. You _________ at up to 150 kilometers an hour until the rope stops you from _________ the ground. It is said that 2 million people around the world have now _______ bungee jumping. Other activities，which most people would say are as __________ as bungee jumping，____________ jumping from tall buildings and ____________ into the sea from the top of high rocks.

Why do people take part in such activities？Some psychologists（心理学家）say that it is __________ life in modern society has become safe but __________ .In the past，people's lives were constantly under __________. They had to go out and hunt for __________，and life was a continuous battle for survival.

Nowadays, ______________ many people, life offers little excitement. They live and work in relatively safe conditions; they ____________ food in shops; and there are doctors and hospitals to take ____________ of them if they become ill. The answer for some of these people is to ____________ danger in activities such as bungee jumping.