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Once, there were two hard-working children, Che Yin and Sun Kang. They loved reading, but their families were poor and didn’t have enough money to buy lamp oil (灯油) for the children to study at night. How did they get over the difficulty? Here are their stories.

Che Yin’s story began on a hot summer night. He saw fireflies (萤火虫) flying and an idea came into his mind. He caught some fireflies, put them in a bag and hung it up as a lamp. He spent all of his summer nights reading like this.

The other story happened in winter. Sun Kang woke up on a cold night. He saw the moon shine so brightly (明亮地) on the snow and it made the night brighter. “I can read with it!” he thought. So he took his books outside and read, even though it was very cold.

Later, Che Yin and Sun Kang became successful. Their stories were turned into Chinese words “nangying yingxue”. Difficulties cannot stop young minds from learning. If there is a will, there is always light on the road to knowledge (知识).

A study shows that 12.9% of the students in the university are overweight (超重的). Being too fat is bad for students’ ________, so some of the universities are looking for ways ________ their students lose weight. Tianjin University is one of them.

Tianjin University has a special lesson. There are some differences between this lesson and ________. ________ the lesson, students can get two academic credits (学分). And they’ll also get new bicycles and swimming cards ________ they really lose some weight. “We have all kinds of sports classes for overweight students and they can ________ which one to have,” a teacher said.

“I ate too much ________ food in the past and I ________ exercised,” an overweight student said. He ________ to shake off (摆脱) the fat and become handsome (帅气的), so he took the 21-day lesson. He does exercise with other students every day. Although it is hard to keep on trying, ________ of the students give up (放弃).

These days, people show all kinds of things on the Internet like good food, nice clothes, wonderful vacations and so on. Now showing the number of steps is becoming popular.

Now more and more people find it important to be in good health. To keep healthy, many people go to work on foot. When they start walking, they open the step counter (计步) app on the phones to record (记录) how many steps they walk that day. After a day’s walk, some people show the number on WeChat or Weibo. This can make them learn from each other and keep exercising.

“This helps me to exercise much and keep a good habit,” Miss Liu said. “I can also talk about how to keep healthy with my friends on WeChat. We are in the same group to encourage each other to keep exercising.”

Mr. Wu likes to exercise. But in the past he was kind of lazy and didn’t want to exercise every day. “After I use the step counter app, everything is different. It is great to exercise with my friends. Sometimes there are prizes for those who walk more steps. I really like it,” he said.

Walking is a relaxing and useful way to exercise. Both the old and the young like it. Recording the steps helps people develop a good habit of walking and showing the number can make people more interested in walking. But don’t take the number too seriously.