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Photo: Students at Shandong Normal University make a final rush to prepare for the national postgraduate entrance examination set to be held in three weeks. Due to limited classrooms, some of them have to study outside with self-prepared table lamps and chairs despite the cold weather.

Bilingual news: The simple exercise of sitting down and standing up again without holding onto anything could suggest how long you have to live. This is the belief of a group of physicians, who came up with the "sitting-rising test" to measure a patients' flexibility and strength. They developed a scoring system for the test and found that people who scored three points or less out of 10, were more than five times as likely to die within six years, as those who scored more than eight points.

Buzzword: "Underhappy" refers to a mood that is not as happy as one ought or would like to be. The phrase is coined to describe an in-between state between being happy and unhappy.