Freestyle skier Gu Ailing, 18, is one of the superstars of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Born to an American father and a Chinese mother, Gu decided     1     (compete) for China in the 2022 Winter Olympics in June 2019. Just two     2     (month) later, she bagged her first gold medal for China at the Australia New Zealand Cu. Her strength     3     (continue) to grow as she won one bronze and two gold medals at the International Ski Federation(FIS) Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in March.

People say she is    4     (talent). But Gu says that talent counted for “only 1 percent” of her wins. “    5    counts is my hard work”, Gu adds. While going to school in San Francis-co, Gu could only practice on weekends. She spent eight hours    6     (go) to the ski hill and back, doing her homework on the way and making full use of her time at the hill to practice skiing.

Gu says she wants to encourage more girls in China to try skii ng and other extreme sports, many of which only     7     (know) there for 20 years, according to the Olympics website. She says skiing gives her “freedom and creativity”,    8     (especial) when she perfectly controls her body and does tricks that others cannot do.     9    February 8th, she claimed her first Olympic gold medal in the women’s freeski big air of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics as a full-time athlete. “I’m not skiing just for medals,” Gu once said. “What’s more important is to bring out my own style, enjoy the game     10     love the sport.”

3 . As a little girl growing up in Colombia, Diana longed to explore the universe and gain more understanding of it. Her dad thought that being able to speak a second language would give her an advantage. He suggested she live with her aunt in Miami while going to school. Only 17 years old at the time, she accepted his suggestion.

With just $300 in her pocket, Diana took a series of housekeeping jobs to put herself through community college and later the University of Florida. In addition to learning English, she studied aerospace engineering. Sometimes she had to take six buses just to get to class. Other days she was cleaning bathrooms to continue her studies. But Diana saw everything coming her way as an opportunity.

Diana applied to the NASA Academy in her senior year of college, and was the first immigrant Latina woman in the academy. NASA hired her that year, and in 2009, she became a telecom systems engineer for the Curiosity Rover (探测器) that landed successfully on Mars in 2012. During this mission, she developed a dust removal tool to help scientists better explore the Mars’ surface, which earned her recognition as one of the 20 most influential Latinos (拉丁族裔) in the technology industry. Since then, Diana has only kept setting the bar (设定标准) higher. In her second mission, it took her team of engineers two years of long days and nights to create the robotic arm for the Perseverance Rover that would bring back soil samples from the Red Planet to learn whether there once was life there.

Right now, her mission is to help more Latina women realize they, too, can be successful in the exploration of science and technology. Last week, she hosted NASA’s first-ever Spanish-language live broadcast for Perseverance’s arrival on Mars and it gained more than 2.5 million views on YouTube.

It can be easy to miss the wonderful performances of Klay Thompson if you watch at the Golden State Warriors (金州勇士) team in the NBA.

NBA Most Valuable Players Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant tend     1    (get) most of the attention, while Andre Iguadola     2     (watch) closely as well. But then Thompson, 26, does something to make you suddenly remember how special he is, too.

His 60-point game against Indiana on Dec. 5 was an excellent game in     3     has already been an amazing season. Scoring 60     4     (point) in a game is one thing, and it has only happened 66 times in the history of the NBA. But to do it in less than three quarters of play — 29 minutes —    5     (be) something very special indeed.

Even    6     (hard) to believe was the fact that Thompson only dribbled (运球) the ball 11 times and held it in     7     hand for just 88 seconds during the whole game.

“I am going to watch the tape of this game and see what I did well and     8     (obvious) celebrate this tonight, because it’s something I never thought I could do while     9     (grow) up,” Thompson told reporters after the game.

Klay Thompson already knew a lot about basketball early in his life. His father Mychal Thompson, the 1978 No 1 overall pick (选秀状元) in NBA, had a lot of influence     10     him while he was growing up.

6 . Most 5-year-olds are just learning their ABC’s. Kindergarteners are just learning to read and write but one little girl from the UK has actually written a book that was published in January 2022.

Bella-Jay Dark from Weymouth, is the world’s youngest female to be published and was awarded the title by Guinness World Records. Her book, The Lost Cat tells the story of Snowy, a cat who got lost after going outside alone at night. She hopes the book will teach children not to go outside at night alone. The book was published by Ginger Fyre Press and has sold over 1,000 copies.

While many adult writers find inspiration for their books from life experiences, Bella’s creative vision actually came from one of her drawings. Bella’s deciding to write a book wasn’t much a surprise to her mom Chelsie Syme who said that her daughter has been writing short stories since age three. Bella spent around five days writing the story and did all of the illustrations except for one picture that her older sister Lacie-May drew.

Syme was surprised that the book turned out as well as it did. But how do you get a child’s homemade book published? Syme and her husband took Bella’s book to a book fair and found a publisher willing to take a chance on it. Syme helped Bella with proofing copies and making necessary changes.

To earn the Guinness World Record title of The World’s Youngest Published Author, female, the book has to be published by a commercial publishing house and have at least 1,000 copies printed and sold. Bella’s book met the criteria. The record was previously held by 6-year-old Dorothy Straight in 1964. The youngest boy to publish a book is Thanuwana Serasinghe from Sri Lanka who was only four when his book Junk Food was published in 2017.

Lonely Warrior, the theme song of the film Arcane: League of Legends,    1    (come) out last November, the lyrics by Tang Tian and the singer Eason Chan. It has become    2    (particular) popular among Chinese children.

One woman began singing the song on the street, and dozens    3    children spontaneously began singing with her. In another instance,    4    kindergarten teacher set the song as an alarm, and children    5    were taking a nap woke at the same time when it began playing.

So what’s the secret to this song’s    6     (succeed)? Not only does it have a    7     (move) melody (旋律), but also heart-touching lyrics. It seems that these inspire children,     8     (empower) them to overcome difficulties. One child wrote in relation to the song: “Who said heroes can’t be ordinary souls?I’ll be a man like a lonely warrior and defy life’s storms.”

     For Tang Tian the song is autobiographical. When she was 29, she was diagnosed with cancer of the nose and larynx. She had a passionate desire    9     (hear) Chan, her idol, sing one of her songs. Not only was that desire    10     (fulfill), but Tang beat the cancer and regained her health.