CCTV9英语新闻：中学身体健康更重要
时间：2019-02-05 作者：英语课 分类：CCTV9英语新闻2014年05月
Every five years, China conducts sample physical fitness checks on teenagers, across schools in different provinces. The checks take the form of physical tests. A new round of such checks are being conducted this year. But this time round, the checks are even more significant, as there are plans to include physical fitness test results in the entrance exams for colleges. But how this could signal a change in the exam oriented culture of education.
13-year-old is a middle school student in North-east China’s Jilin province. Being overweight, doing pull-ups is impossible for him. As a result, he scored "zero" in the test.
"I started to gain weight since the age of seven. My parents cook for me every day, and I don’t exercise." Xiao Lin said.
Students’ height, weight, lung capacity and performance in 50 meter and 100 meter races are measured as part of the physical tests. They are also graded for sit-ups and pull-ups. For male students five pull-ups are the qualifying mark in the pull-up test. Both Xiaolin and Xiaoyu scored zero in the test. But they were given fitness advice to improve their grades.
"My teacher asked me to do aerobic 1 exercises, jogging and body building exercises." Xiao Lin said.
"My upper body strength is poor, so I was advised to do some heavy lifting and work on the parallel bars." Xiao Yu said.
In the recent past, besides offering targeted exercise advice, the Jilin provincial 2 government has also been arranging for nutrition advisers 3 for every school, who offer tailor made solutions for students to improve their physical health. But officials say, plans are afoot to include the results of the physical test score in the high school and college entrance examinations.
"We will only increase, and never decrease the value of physical fitness in the high school and college entrance exams. So every student and parent can recognize that physical education is equally, if not more important than academic courses." Wang Dengfeng, director general of Sports Health & Art Education Division, Ministry 4 Of Education, said.
According to Wang, the reform measures for high school and college entrance exams will be released later this year. Physical education is one of the highlights of the reform.
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aerobic
adj.需氧的，增氧健身法的，有氧的
参考例句：
Aerobic exercise helps to build up stamina.有氧健身操有助于增强耐力。
Aerobic dance is conductive to the health.有氧舞蹈有助于健康。
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provincial
adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人
参考例句：
City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
3
advisers
顾问，劝告者( adviser的名词复数 )； （指导大学新生学科问题等的）指导教授
参考例句：
a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。
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ministry
n.(政府的)部；牧师
参考例句：
They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
- Aerobic exercise helps to build up stamina.有氧健身操有助于增强耐力。
- Aerobic dance is conductive to the health.有氧舞蹈有助于健康。
- City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
- Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
- a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
- She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。