During the Spring Festival, I ate delicious meal almost every day, so that my weight gained a lot and my body looked fatter.
春节期间，我几乎每天都吃了好吃的饭菜，因此我长胖了很多，而且身材看上去更肥了。
When I came back to school in the new term, all my classmates are so surprised to see my huge body and round face.
当新学期回到学校的时候，我所有的同学看到我肥胖的身材和圆圆的脸蛋都感到很惊讶。
I finally realized that I must lose weight. And then I made a plan.
我最终意识到我必须减肥了。接着我就制定了一个计划。
To begin with, I must eat less for breakfast and supper than before. At breakfast, I drink milk and have a piece of bread and an egg.
首先，我早餐和晚餐要比以前少吃了。早餐，我喝一杯牛奶，吃一块面包和一个鸡蛋。
I have a bowl of soup and some fruits for dinner. I do not eat sugar anymore, because it will make me fatter.
晚上喝一碗汤和吃些水果。我不再吃糖了，因为它会使我更胖。
Besides, I keep doing exercises everyday. I go to running after school or play basketball with my classmates.
此外，我坚持每天做运动。放学后我去跑步或者和同学打篮球。
At weekend, I often go to swim. After a month of hard work, I lost five kilograms, but it's not enough.
周末，我经常去游泳。经过一个月的努力，我减掉了5公斤，但是这还不够。
I still have to stick to my plan and lose more weight to an appropriate number.
我仍然需要坚持我的计划，减掉更多以达到一个合适的数字。
Dear Dick,
亲爱的迪克，
How nice to hear from you again! You want to know what is going on in schools in china. In short, things havebegun to improve since we called on school to reduce learning load. I don’t know about the others, but I used to have to do works even on weekends by doing endless homework and attending classes as well. Now, I have more free time. I can follow my own interests, such as reading books, visiting museums, and taking computer lessons. In the evenings, I can watch news on TV or read newspapers. What’s more, I can go to bed earlier. As far as I know, everyone is happy about the new arrangement of things.
非常高兴能够收到你的回信。你想知道关于中国学校的事情。自从我们呼吁减负以来，学校在这方面有了许多改善。我不知道其他学生，但是我以前会在周末上课，还要写写不完的作业。如今，我有了更多的业余时间。我可以做一些我感兴趣的事情，例如读书、参观博物馆、上网络课。晚上，我可以在电视上看新闻，或是读报纸。更重要的是，我可以早些睡觉。我对现在的安排非常满意。
Best wishes!
祝好，
yours,
敬礼，
Li Hua
李华
Lightening the burden
减压
Senior middle school students were heavily burdened with all kinds of homework. Because of varies examinations, they spend about six and half hours in the class in a day. At home, about three and half hours were spent on the homework and therefore, most of them got less than seven hours sleep a night. With only about three hours free time for other things. As a result, their health was badly damaged. Now things are getting better, about five hours spending in class and an hour for homework are shortened to about two. So they have two more hours sleep and also two more hours free time to do whatever they like.
高中学生课业繁重，他们容易产生压力。由于各种各样的考试，他们每天要花上6个半小时的时间学习。回到家后，他们也要花费3个半小时的时间写作业，所以许多学生的睡眠不足7个小时。学生的课余时间只有3个小时。所以，这严重影响了他们的健康问题。现在事情变好了，以前5个小时的上课时间，以及两个小时的作业时间缩减到了两个小时。这样，他们就有更多的睡眠时间，还有额外两个小时的休息时间。
The moment I stepped in high school, I have made up my mind to study hard for the purpose to enter a good university. In the first year, I made a lot of new friends. All of them were so excellent that I wanted to learn from them. As the second year has come, I felt great pressure. My scores went up and down and I felt so worried. I told myself that I should find a way to relieve pressure. Listening to music was a good way. I would sing with the music and shake my body, which made me forget everything but the joyous music. Second, I would like to talk to my friends, because they understood me. We would have some tea in the shop and then shared our secrets. When we laughed out loudly, all the annoyance would disappear.
为了进入一所好大学，我踏进高中的那一刻起就下定决心要努力学习。第一年，我交了很多新朋友，他们都很优秀，我想要向他们学习。第二年的到来，我感到了巨大的压力。我的成绩不稳定，我感到很担心。我告诉自己，要找到缓解压力的方式。听音乐是一个好方法，我会跟着音乐唱歌，晃动我的身体，这能使我忘记一切，享受着音乐的欢乐。第二，我会和我的朋友们聊聊天，因为他们能够理解我。我们会在店里喝点茶，然后分享我们的秘密。当我们大声笑出来时，所有的烦恼都会消失。
Natural disaster is one of the biggest problemsthat the current world has to face with. Its damage is beyond our imagination. Ithas great influence on the suitable development of economic and society; evenit will threaten the survival of mankind. People have to pay attention on it. Recently,people have suffered lots from it. For example, Ya An earthquake, Englandflood, Chile seaquake and so on. All these natural disasters have causedserious tragedy, leading a plenty of people hurt or died. However, the cause ofnatural disaster is the behavior of human beings. Just like, mankind chop down tressand then causing the appearance of debris flow. If we make great effort on it,we can reduce these natural disasters. There will be more people be saved withless natural disaster. The International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction isaiming at proposing everyone stop doing the things that will cause naturaldisaster.
自然灾害是当今世界面临的最大问题之一。其危害是超出我们想象的。它对经济和社会的可持续发展有着严重的影响，甚至会威胁到人类的生存。使得人们不得不对它特别关注。近期，人们已经遭受了很多的自然灾害。例如，雅安地震，英国洪水，智利海啸等。这些自然灾害已造成严重的悲剧，导致很多人受伤或死亡。然而，引起自然灾害的原因是人类行为。就像人类砍伐树木，从而引发泥石流的出现。如果我们能够付出努力，我们就可以减少这些自然灾害的发生。自然灾害少了，很多人会因此而得救。国际减少自然灾害日就是旨在提倡大家停止做会导致自然灾害的事情。
I am a high school student.I am very disappointed not to be able to go to see a film with my friends to play my favorite musical instrument or to watch TV with my family in the evening. I have to sit at desk and do my homework which can not be finished until midnight I'm tired of doing much homework get bored at taking so many exams and lose interest in studying.
我是一个高中生。我为不能和朋友一块去看电影，不能弹奏我最喜欢的乐器，不能在晚上与家人一块看电视而沮丧。我不得不坐在桌前做作业，作业直到午夜才能做完。我讨厌这么多的作业和如此多的考试，对学习失去了兴趣。
Teachers please get rid of homework and examinations. Examinations are nothing but anxiety-makers. Homework is nothing but interest-killers.
老师，请取消作业和考试吧，考试只是焦虑的制造者，作业则是兴趣的抹杀者。
Teachers we can learn more outside the classroom. Classroom gives us limited kinds of information. We can only learn some dead knowledge from the books.Teachers please set us free and let us learn more outside the classroom from the environment from TV from private study or from our friends.
老师，我们从教室外能学到更多的东西。教室给我们的是有限的信息;我们只能从书上学到一些死知识。老师，放了我们吧，让我们从教室外——环境、电视、自学和朋友那里获取更多的东西。
My dear teachers can you hear me? Please lighten the burden on students.
我敬爱的老师，你们听到我的呼吁了吗?减轻学生的负担吧!
I am very disappointed not to be able to go to see a film with my friends, to play my favorite musical instrument, or to watch TV with my family in the evening. I have to sit at desk and do my homework, which can not be finished until midnight, I'm tired of doing much homework, get bored at taking so many exams, and lose interest in studying.
Teachers, please get rid of homework and examinations. Examinations are nothing but anxiety-makers. Homework is nothing but interest-killers.
Teachers, we can learn more outside the classroom. Classroom gives us limited kinds of information. We can only learn some dead knowledge from the books.Teachers, please set us free, and let us learn more outside the classroom
from the environment, from TV, from private study or from our friends.
My dear teachers, can you hear me? Please lighten the burden on students.( 150 words)