Xia Yuyu was born on April 22, 1998 in Bijie City, Guizhou Province. Now she is studying in Tsinghua University. Zhu Mingquan, Xia Yuyu’s P. E. teacher of primary school, was the person to ________ that Xia Yuyu was talented in sports. Then he invited her to join in the Track and Field Training team (田径队). During the training, Xia Yuyu was never ________ no matter what the weather was like. At first, her parents and uncle didn’t want her to train so much, because they thought that would ________ the way of her schoolwork. But Xia Yuyu never gave up and managed to communicate with her uncle and parents. Luckily, she passed every sports test and was allowed to enter the affiliated (附属的) Middle School of Tsinghua University. In this August, Xia Yuyu won the gold medal in the women’s 10,000 meters in the 31st FISU World University Games ________ was held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.

“Stars don’t ask passers-by, and time pays off those who have a heart. Your effort will be realized.” Xia Yuyu told the reporter. Difficulties are unavoidable in the process of achieving our dreams. ________, we should learn valuable lessons from the experiences so that we can improve ourselves.

In recent years, thanks to modern technologies, people’s lives are becoming more and more convenient. 5G, AI and VR are the best examples. However, what are they? What can they do? Do you know?

Starting from primary school and continuing through high school, reciting masterpieces (著作) of Tang Dynasty poets such as Li Bai and Du Fu has always been an integral part of Chinese children’s education.

This year, the film Chang An, directed by Xie Junwei and Zou Jing, has started a trend of Tang poetry. The film is set in the Tang Dynasty, an especially prosperous period of Chinese history from 618 to 907, and tells stories of famous poets, including Li Bai, Du Fu and Gao Shi in China. Seeing a child softly reciting the poems while writing the characters in the movie can be a familiar experience for Chinese audiences. Let’s enjoy one of these famous poems.

Hard Is the Road of the World

Pure wine in golden cup costs ten thousand coins, good!

Choice dish in a jade plate is worth as much, nice food!

Pushing aside my cup and chopsticks, I can’t eat;

Drawing my sword and looking round, I hear my heart beat.

I can’t cross Yellow River: ice has stopped its flow;

I can’t climb Mount Taihang: the sky is blind with snow.

I poise a fishing pole with ease on the green stream.

Or set sail for the sun and like the sage in a dream.

Hard is the way. Hard is the way.

Don’t go astray! Whither today?

A time will come to ride the wind and cleave the waves;

I’ll set my cloud-like sail to cross the sea which raves.

The writer of this poem is highly honored with the title “The Poetic Genius (诗仙)”. This poem expresses the writer’s anger to the life; at the same time, it shows his positive attitude to making the dream come true, too.

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Red, yellow, orange ... in autumn, green leaves turn into many different colors. How does it happen?

Inside a leaf, there are little colored “bags”. The green bags are chlorophyll (叶绿素). The yellow ones are xanthophyll (叶黄素). The orange ones are carotene (胡萝卜素). In summer, chlorophyll is busy. It makes food for the trees. It gets sunshine to turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar. There is more chlorophyll than other things in the leaves. So the leaves are green. In autumn, days are shorter and leaves get less sunshine. So leaves need less chlorophyll. The other colors, such as yellow and orange, come out. In all, the leaves don’t really “turn” yellow or red. They just lose their green.

How do we see colors?

We see colors because of light. Sunlight has seven colors inside. For example, you are wearing a red T-shirt. The light hits your T-shirt. Then the T-shirt sends back the red light and takes in the other colors of light. The red light then goes into your eyes. A black shirt is black because it takes in all the light. And a white shirt is white because it sends back all the light.

How do plants and animals use colors?

Call for friends: Bees visit flowers and take away pollen to make honey. And in this way, there will be more new flowers. They use their colors to call bees for help.

Talk to each other: Some animals have strong colors. They look dangerous to others. Chameleons (变色龙) can change colors to show how they feel.

Hide away: Some animals may look like things around them. Then they can go near their “food” and other animals can’t see them.

How much do you know about tea and coffee?

China is the home of tea. It is said that tea was invented by a Chinese ruler named Shen Nong     36     (accidental) about 5,000 years ago. Lu Yu, the saint of tea, wrote the     37     (one) book about tea. Nowadays, many provinces have their special     38     (type) of tea, like the West Lake Longjing tea in Zhejiang Province and Pu’er tea in Yunnan Province. Since the end of last year, a new trend called “stove-boiled tea (围炉煮茶)” has appeared among young people in China. It’s     39     popular way for young people to relax. It also shows that “stove-boiled tea” is changing young people’s     40     (understand) of drinking tea. Maybe more and more young people will fall in love     41     tea culture in the future.

Coffee     42     (be) around for over 11 centuries. According to a legend (传说), coffee was said to be discovered     43     an Ethiopian (埃塞俄比亚人) Kaldi around 800 A. D. When he noticed his goats had more energy     44     eating the cherry-red that contained the coffee bean. He tried the beans and soon felt     45     (he) energetic. Coffee drinking became popular in Yemen in the 15th century. By the 19th century people all around the world were drinking coffee. And this year, China Moutai and Luckin Coffee have got a hit with a new baijiu-flavored latte.