仁爱科普版初中英语八年级上册Unit 2 Keeping H...

—Wow! I also decided to care more about ________ physical health.

—No, you ________. You can do it tomorrow.

It is hard to imagine how a person is to spend the whole life when only the head and hands are able to move.

Xu Ruiyang, an 18-year-old student from Kunming, has suffered（遭受）from spina muscular atrophy（脊柱肌肉萎缩）1she was 2 years old. At that time, the doctor said that most children with spinal muscular atrophy will only live a few years.

The family did not give up, or even just2. To help Xu Ruiyang live with dignity（尊严）, her parents3her living and learning skills strictly. Opening a book or raising hands, some very easy actions for common people,4, are big challenges for Xu. She had to use her head or5to work together with hands to finish these actions.

When she started learning to write, she couldn't even6a pen. But she never gave up. Once she lost the pen, she picked it up and7writing. Xu finally could write 500 Chinese characters before becoming a primary school student, after8thousands of times.

Over the past few years, Xu has overcome（克服）many problems, including the9caused by the disease. Her parents worried about her health and10her to drop out of school, but Xu's answer was no."11I read a book and do my homework, the pain is gone," said Xu.

When asked by reporters on how to deal with difficulties, Xu calmly said, "Patience. When you can't change anything, crying is useless, so just be12."

In Xu's opinion, her sunny and self-confident13comes from the love of her parents.

"If we are not able to make her live longer, we can make her life wider," said Xu's father. They travelled across China and more than 2014over the world, including Italy, Thailand and Singapore. During these trips, she developed an interest in learning a15language. "I think it's cool to learn about other countries' culture and express your feelings to others," said Xu.

Last June, she finished China's Gaokao and received an offer from Sichuan International Study University.

For kids, it's very important to stay healthy. Kids should pay more attention to their lifestyle and help themselves have healthy life habits. Here are some tips on staying healthy for kids.

Kids hardly care about basic hygiene（卫生）, and they share everything from drink to snacks. So it is important for kids to know the basic hygiene habits such as washing hands before eating, brushing teeth at least twice a day and so on. Similarly, kids should protect themselves from other kids with different kinds of infections（传染病）.

Healthy eating helps to live a healthy life. Kids should pay attention to the eating habits. Encourage themselves to eat healthy food such as fresh fruit and vegetables. And eat different kinds of food at different ages. Kids should know junk food is bad for health and try to eat less junk food.

You can take different activities to teach kids the importance of staying healthy. Some simple reading materials can let the kids know about their bodies. Also, playing games about brushing teeth, having meals is very useful and funny for kids. Certain group games and activities or even funny street plays can also help the kids understand the importance of staying healthy.

Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia is the largest, deepest freshwater lake in the world. Every winter when the lake freezes (冻结) over for half the year, 80-year-old Lyubov Morekhodova straps (用带子系好) on the same ancient skates she's worn since the 1940s and glides (滑行) across the ice wherever she needs to go.

Lyubov has been using the ice to travel around her faraway home for her whole life. As a child, she skated about 2.5 miles each way to school and back. She once fell through the ice and was luckily saved by her classmates.

Now Lyubov lives alone in a small house on the shores of Lake Baikal. Her children and five grandchildren seldom visit her because they live five hours away by car. She has to look on a group of dogs, cows and chickens as her friends. Luckily, she has the ice to help her feel free! "For me, ice means being able to go anywhere and everywhere," the grandmother said.

Every day, she skates half an hour each way to the local village to do her shopping. With temperatures often reaching lows of-40 C, it's hard for an old woman to live a normal life! But Lyubov says that her daily skates are the secret to her long life span (寿命). "People keep telling me I should slow down, but I just can't!" She said with a laugh. "I don't have time to be bored; there's too much work to do."

Up to now, Wood has published more than 60 diaries, and he still updates the diaries frequently on social media websites. In his first diary, he mentioned, "News is going around about a bad cold virus in Wuhan, but I feel worlds away from me and few people wear masks in public."

He recorded in his diaries that thousands of medical workers from different provinces and cities went to Hubei to help with the anti-epidemic (抗疫). Restaurants and shops were closed down, while supermarkets checked people's body temperatures. And community workers across the country took strict action, asking people to stay at home and helping the old buy daily necessities.

"People in some countries said these measures could cause panic among the public. However, my experience in China shows these efforts are useful and effective, which finally removed people's fear," Wood said.

Wood's diaries soon attracted the world's attention. Over 10,000 people left him messages online, and he was interviewed by Canadian CTV which later showed his diaries on its website.

"I also received greetings from my family and friends in Canada. They said they were inspired by the efforts the Chinese have made," he said. "People from some countries thought the Chinese overreacted, and that the Chinese government had overdone in epidemic prevention and control. However, since more countries and regions have been infected (感染) by the virus, more and more people came to realize how proper and important China's control and prevention measures are."

Wood is working with the New World Press, which plans to make his diaries a book named The Invisible War. In this book, he hopes to share China's anti-epidemic experience with more people across the world so they can build confidence to fight against the virus.

Do you often have a cold, stomachache or backache? If your is yes, your health is a problem. Healthy foods are good for our health. Tofu is a kind of healthy food. It's also a Chinese food. We often eat it in China. Milk is kind of healthy food. You should drink one or two glasses of milk every day. Vegetables are , too. You should eat a lot of them. Of course, it's necessary to eat a balanced diet. You need some pork, chicken or beef every day, you shouldn't eat too much of them.

A: Hi, Alice! You weren't at school yesterday.

B: Oh, I had a terrible headache.

A: Sorry to hear that.

B: Yes. My mother took me to the hospital. The doctor said I was under too much pressure.

A: You should have a rest and relax yourself.

B: I think so. Would you like to go with me?

A: Sounds great. The weather will be fine.

B: Gupo Mountain. It is a good place. Getting to the top is my dream. I will shout out my trouble on the top.

A: That's great. A great weekend! I can't wait!

B: Yeah! I hope Saturday can come sooner!