Date: 20 November 2020
Source: South China Morning Post
Title: To reduce obesity, more weight is being put on
sport in China’s high-school entrance exam
Link: https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/healthwellness/article/3110547/reduce-obesity-more-weightbeing-put-sport-chinas-high
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Summary:
This article is about China’s education ministry put more
weight on sport in the school entrance exam, because
they recognize that many people are physically inactive
and overweight. In general, sports tests are usually
easier to pass than other subjects’ tests, even an
obesity student can pass the sport tests easily.
Therefore, this plan can make people to put more
attention in sports.
Commentary:
After reading this article, I think it is important to put
more attention on the problem of obesity, I also agree to
put more weight on sport in China’s high-school
entrance exam. The sports tests are very easy to pass,
and the weight of sports tests are low, so many people
can pass them. Thus, these tests become useless.
Putting more weight on sports tests can make the
students spare no efforts playing sports and breed their
interest in sports.
Many people are overweight, not only the elderlies,
children are overweight too, especially the children in
town. They study all the time so they “don’t” have time
to exercise, also they eat a great deal of junk food. Why
I emphasize the word “don’t”? Because they are not
really busy, they are lazy in fact.
I like sports, I always play sports, however I only play
sports twice a week in school’s days. Because of the
Covid-19 pandemic, I reduce it to once a week,
sometimes I even do not play sports in a whole week. I
feel more tired when I do exercise for a longer time.
Moreover, I always sit down therefore my weight is
higher gradually.
We can’t neglect obesity, we need to have a healthy
body. Overweight and obesity can bring many diseases
to our health, such as high blood pressure, high blood
sugar, increase risk of heart disease and more. We
should balance our food and drink, eat more vegetables
and less junk food, moreover the essential one is do
more exercises and sports. Let us have a healthy body to
do what we want!