Mom's eyesight was worse and worse, but I didn't know how bad it was. I didn't know it until one day I saw her1something off the floor. She could hardly see it so she tried hard but2. I saw what was happening.
Mother is in her late 70s, but she still3alone in the countryside. We haven't lived together since I left for college. She is always telling us that she really enjoys living a4life there. But it's5that she doesn't want to make me into trouble in my busy life, because she thinks we are unlike in so many ways.
I felt6these days because of Mother's eyeproblem. I decided to7my job and take care of my mother at home.
"You know," Mom advised me, "losing my sight isn't so bad, but losing your8is terrible. So you have to work. I'm OK."
A few weeks before Christmas Mother9in a quiet way. Only then did I know that Mother had serious heart disease. She didn't tell me the10because she just wanted me to concentrate on work.
Starting from September, 2016, the panda is no longer on the world's "endangered animal list".
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, there are about 1,850 pandas in the wild in China now. In 2003, the number was 1,600. So it takes the panda off the Red List.
China's hard work in the past 50 years to save the panda is paying off. China sets up reserves (保护区) and plants a lot of bamboo forests. Now, about two thirds of pandas are living in the 67 panda reserves.
How did Chinese researchers successfully increase the number of pandas? They put in money, science, time and love. Here are two examples of their hard work.
Bamboo is pandas' main food. And these guysare big eaters! A panda needs 12kg-38kg of bamboo a day. In the 1980s, without enough food, the number of pandas dropped to just over 1,200. To save pandas, China sets up 67 panda reserves and plants a lot of bamboo forests there.
But there is still bad news. Our earth is getting warmer. It's going to get too hot for the bamboo to grow. More than a third of bamboo forests could go away within 80 years, scientists say. It's still dangerous for pandas.
It's no secret that many students do not like to stay in classrooms and study all day. But there is another truth: quite a lot of them don't like outdoor P. E. classes, either.
"Our three P. E. classes every week are all run, run and run. It's for our high school entranceexamination (中考)", said Li Langjing, 15, a Junior 3 student from Xiamen.
Li is not the only one. Two months ago, Shanghai University of Sport made a survey from over 110,000 students. For junior high school students, their physical health score is 94. 1, which is quite good. But this doesn't mean they are active in sports because their willingness (意愿) to do physical exercise only scores 74. 8. In other words, many teenagers are forced to exercise, reported the Paper News.
Because of that, Shanghai decided to put more importance on the general physical quotient (体能商数) of teenagers. This means that schools should pay attention to not only students'health and sports test scores, but also their knowledge, skills and willingness to do exercise.
"We want to see sports become a lifestyle for teenagers, which can be good for all their lives," said Wang, and experts from Shanghai University of Sport.
Tom homework at home at that time yesterday.
要求：
1）中心突出，语意连贯，层次清晰；2）词数80左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：
城市生活：apartment, go out for a walk, join different clubs
农村生活：house with a large yard, grow rice and vegetables, do farming work
Dear Daniel,
I'm very happy that you are coming to China to spend your surmmer holiday. There are some similarities and differences between city life and country life.
I am looking forward to meeting you!
Best wishes!
Li Hua
