On March 23, 2024, Dong Yuhui and his team walked into Wuhan Mulan Cool Village. Last year, he became the _______ news on the Internet. Dong Yuhui was born in a _______ family in Shaanxi. His sister didn’t finish school _______ his family was poor. _______ in such a family made him more hard-working. In 2011, he went to college. He practiced English speaking all day _______ his life in college even he was ill. And he had to find a part-time job to pay his education.

In October 2014, his _______ year of college, he joined New Oriental. He was loved by many parents and students. When New Oriental faced a difficult situation, he made a _______ to stay there, even when most of the people chose to leave. He worked harder and harder, then he became the famous sellers _______.

Dong is knowledgeable and understanding. He is a book lover. While selling things, he _______ his time to teach knowledge and is a leader of the reading. In 2023, he sold over 100 million yuan of paper books. Because of these, he appeared on CCTV three times as a program guest.

Today, we need more role models like Dong Yuhui. His experience lets us know that success is not just _________ money. It’s more important to bring warmth to people.

We can use our smart phones to order our favorite books from the library and the book stores. They will be sent to our home in a few hours. The project is called “love to read at home.”

The Chengdu library has this service for readers. Readers can use a mini program to borrow books. They only need to pay a delivery fee (运费) of 6 Yuan for one to three books. And they will pay one more yuan if they want to borrow each additional (添加) book. Each user can borrow eight books every month. The readers can choose from more than 20,000 books.The most popular choices are history, educational books and earth science books.

These books come from twenty-two libraries around Chengdu. The program covers all the city. So far, more than 300 books have been sent out to readers.The farthest delivery reaches Dujiangyan, some fifty kilometers from Chengdu. Besides Chengdu, the service has appeared in many other cities. In Beijing, Chaoyang Library has a similar service, too.

The library’s new O2O (online to offline) way can cut down the “time cost” for readers. And it lets people know that reading culture in China is a necessary part of people’s everyday life. It is an important part to let all the people read.

Now, there are more than 3,300 public libraries and more than 100,000 book shops across the country. Chinese people’s interest in reading has been growing. The reading percent has grown from 76.3 percent to over 81.8 percent.

We’re eating more seafood than ever these days. Do you want to eat the “seafood” from Xinjiang? Xinjiang is far from the sea. In fact, 500 million years ago, the western part of Xinjiang was a sea. Now it is famous for its local “seafood”, such as shrimp (虾) and crabs (蟹). At the end of October last year, they hold a first-fishing festival in Fuye County, Xinjiang.

The most important thing for the “seafood” is water. Xinjiang has many rivers and lakes with cold, clear water. It is from the Tianshan Mountains.With the water, fishermen can build fish pools. As we know, land in Xinjiang has a lot of salt. This is not good for growing plants. But the land makes the underground water salty. People turn the salty water into “man-made seawater”. They then use it to feed shrimp and crabs and so on.

At present, some of Xinjiang’s “seafood” goes to many Chinese cities, like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dalian and so on. It also goes to countries in Southeast Asia.

Many people are afraid to eat the seafood because of sea pollution. Xinjiang’s “seafood” is becoming a new choice for seafood lovers.” “Fishermen” is becoming a new job for Xinjiang.

The mascots of the 9th Asian Winter Games in 2025 are “Binbin” and “Nini”. The name “Binbin” is taken from the word “Harbin”, while the name “Nini” comes from the sound of “Nin”. Therefore, the two names mean: “You are welcome to Harbin”. In the traditional Chinese culture, the tiger is a symbol of good luck, among them, “Being strong”and “Being brave” are the same as the Olympic spirit.

The emblem (会徽) of the 9th Asian Winter Games in 2025 was created by the team of Tsinghua University. It includes the shape of skaters, the flower of Harbin city and the sign of the Olympic of Asia. There are some Chinese cultures in it.

There is a Chinese character “九” in the emblem, which means nine and the 9th Asian Winter Games. The creation is also from the Chinese character “合”, which means being friendly. It shows the Chinese people’s hope for getting together, learn each other’s good points and a happy communication with Asian friends.

The slogan (口号) of the 9th Asian Winter Games —“Dream of Winter, Love among Asia” making Asian countries join together with ice and snow, making new growth of ice and snow economy (经济), and developing cultural communication between Asian countries. The Asian Winter Games are for the great development among Asian countries.

The 2024 Math Sciences Leaders Program at University     31     (最近) showed the list of members. Cui Xingjian is one of them. He is     32     16-year-old boy. He comes from Hangzhou Xuejun High School. When he heard the exciting news, he     33     (study) in the library with his friends.

In 2021, the plan started at THU’s Qiuzhen College to train the     34     (典型的) top math talents. Each year, it picks no more than 100 students in grades 9-12 across the country. If students succeeded, they didn’t need to try out for gaokao.

People often think these students have great talent.     35    , Cui believes that his success comes from his love for math. He works hard by     36     (he), not just depending on talent.

Cui got into math after finding an old algebra (代数) book in the school library. Then he realized his real interest in math. Even though algebra was hard, he didn’t give up. On the schooldays, he was used to     37     (stay) up late to study it. “I was solving problems while my friends were playing late at night, but each improvement gave me such a strong feeling of     38     (满足),” said Cui.

Cui has many hobbies. Besides math, Cui is also good at Chinese, history, science and sports. “Some students think math     39     (培训) is a good way to top universities,” said Cui. But he advises students     40     (enjoy) their real interest in math rather than just try to win the prize or get into a good university.

During the Festival, Liu Huimin and his team are preparing for the show called “Datiehua” (打铁花). It is the traditional art for more than 1,000 years—since the Song Dynasty. As its name suggests, the traditional art was created by the way of making iron (铁). It was seen as a form of celebration. When villagers open a business or get married, they invite Liu and his team to celebrate the big activity and hope the show can bring them good luck.

For Liu and the villagers in Shanxi, Datiehua is one of the most popular Spring Festival shows, just like the Yangko dance, and drum beating.

According to Liu, they need to heat the iron for nearly 40 minutes before the show starts and the temperature must be higher than 1, 500℃.

When night falls, the show starts. Using a big long spoon, a man takes out the molten (熔化的) iron. Then he hits the spoon with a piece of wood. Bang! Bang! The red-hot molten iron becomes beautiful “stars”. These shining “stars” light up the night sky. In some ways, they can be more beautiful. People sit or stand to watch the show with happy smiles on their faces.

Behind the wonderful show, however, has great danger. The artists wear hats and sheepskin coats as protection, but accidents still happen. During a performance in Henan province, Liu’s hair and face got burnt.

“People ask me why I’m still doing it when it’s so dangerous. I tell them that I’m just happy to bring joy to people.” Liu explained.

Abby’s father was taking her to visit her grandmother for three months. “I can’t leave Tobias behind,” she said. “You will have to,” said her father. “You can’t take a mouse into another country. It’s a rule.” Abby thought it was a silly rule. “I will take him.” At the airport, Abby put her bag by the x-ray machine. Tobias was inside it. Abby felt her legs shaking and her heart beating fast. But the woman by the x-ray machine just let them go.

On the plane, Abby waited until her dad and the woman next to her were sleeping. Then she opened up the bag to look at Tobias. But Tobias jumped out and was on the woman’s knee. The woman shouted. Abby quickly put Tobias back into her bag. The woman told people a terrible mouse was on this plane! But Abby said the woman was asleep. People thought the woman was just dreaming.

Off the plane, Abby’s dad filled out a piece of paper. He chose “no” to the question: “Are you bringing any live animals into the country?” But the man at the x-ray machine found Tobias. Abby was afraid. “Dad didn’t know I had Tobias.” The policeman asked, “Have you ever been in trouble before?”Abby opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

It was a real lesson for Abby. Tobias had to go into quarantine (隔离) for six months. Her dad had to pay a lot of money for it. Then she wouldn’t be able to visit her grandmother again.

Abby would be away for three months to visit her grandmother. At the airport, Abby felt ________ when she put her bag by the x-ray machine. Off the plane, when the policeman asked Abby, she opened her mouth, but said ________. Finally, Abby wouldn’t visit her grandmother again.