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                                                                                                              老师的泪
       初二时，我竟莫名其妙地喜欢上了我的语文老师。
       老师姓杨，爱穿白色的裙子，她在讲台上讲蓝蓝的天，青青的草，像一片白云飘来飘去，轻盈极了。
       她有一双大而明亮的眼睛，笑时，便成了甜甜的弯月……
     “齐玉。”杨老师叫我。我发怔。
     “为什么走神？”她停止讲课，走到我面前。
       云飘到我眼前……可我仍愣愣的。“我，我喜欢看你的眼睛。”我说。同学们爆发出哄堂大笑。在笑声中，她的脸红红的，（A）美丽的眼中似乎还有泪水——她刚从师范大学毕业呢。
      “你——你请出去。”
       我懊丧地走出了教室。她从没发过火，这一次一定真生气了。
       第二天，杨老师叫我们写周记。我花整整一个晚上，把心中的苦水倾倒出来：“美丽的妈妈死了，爸爸根本就不管我，整天就知道玩麻将、赌博，被公安局抓走，判了三年徒刑。我冷了、饿了、怕了、病了，也没人知道。那时我常常一边哭，一边看妈妈的相片；可现在我长大了，是个男子汉，我不哭，把泪水咽在心里。我只有恨，恨我爸。我毕竟是个孩子，需要爱护，需要有人听听心里话。我选择了我的语文老师。因为，她像妈妈。”
       不久后的一天，杨老师把我叫到她的宿舍，我诚惶诚恐地走进她的房间，只见她眼睛红红的。“原谅老师，好吗？”
       泪水涌出我的眼睛，尽情流淌。在同学面前，甚至在爸爸面前，我从不流泪，可在她面前我做不到。我哭了，尽情地哭了。
       她等我哭完，便为我擦干泪水，轻轻地讲了一个姑娘的故事：
     “一个小姑娘上中学时，父母在一次车祸中双亡，只剩下她孤苦伶仃一个人。当小姑娘绝望时，是她的老师收养了她，给她生活的勇气和无微不至的关怀。后来，小姑娘考上了师范大学，可老师不行了。弥留之际，小姑娘跪在老师的床前，哭着说：‘妈妈，我还没报答您呀！’老师却含笑地说了一句：  给你未来的学生吧……’”
      （B）杨老师泪水盈盈。我明白了：“杨老师，你也……”
      她擦了擦眼泪，微笑着扶住我的双肩：“你是个男子汉，对吗？”
      我呜咽着点点头。
    “你恨爸爸，这不好。男子汉不这样，男子汉是笑着对待整个世界，真的。笑一笑，你笑一笑。”我咧了咧嘴。
    “我会帮助你的——像我的老师一样。”她眼中突然滚出了泪水，洒落在我的额头上。
    “记住你是个男子汉，做个乐观正直的人！”
      我狠狠地点点头。
      在以后的日子里，我觉得我额上有着圣洁的印迹。我永远也忘不了。

    Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We are surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically (心理) and physically.

    Diet products greatly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the amount of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale(秤) instead. All we have to do is to recognize the word “diet” in food labels.

    On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don't have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without struggle.

    The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because eating them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients. Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemicals that go into diet products are possibly dangerous in the future.

    Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.