【推荐1】Eileen Gu, a Chinese-American skier, ________ brightly at the Beijing 2022 Winter Games.

Gu was born to a(n) ________ father and a Chinese mother. She was raised in San Francisco. She lived there for over ten years. The girl, however, has always been ________ that she has a Chinese root(根). She speaks Chinese well and calls herself a “Beijing girl”.

Gu ________ skiing when she was only three. She got her first ________ at the age of nine. Gu competed for the United States in that competition. Hoping to ________ tens of millions of Chinese children to love skiing, in June 2019, the girl ________ to compete for China in the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Gu has already brought China medals. In August, she ________ the Australian New Zealand Cup. The young skier won two gold medals in the competition. Her ________ congratulated her online. After the competition, the ________ of them even increased（增加） to 200,000. People called ________ a “born skier”.

Now she’s an Olympic champion, a fashion model, and going to Stanford University this fall. ________ can she achieve so much? “ Only 1 percent of it came from my ________,” said Gu after her Olympic win, “People don’t see how I train, ________ and make mistakes every day.”

If you have a goal, go for it! ________ work never cheats you.

【推荐2】

China’s 15 -year-old Chen Ye won gold in the Men’s Park Final of Skateboarding at the 19th Asian Games.in Hangzhou on Sept. 25, 2023.

Chen started ________ this sport in 2016. “I remember one day I went to a sports store, and ________, I saw a skateboard. I decided to give it a try,” Chen told China Youth Daily. ________ it was really challenging to stay on the board at first, Chen found it very interesting. “Every time I did some difficult tricks, I felt the joy of making breakthroughs (突破). What a(n) ________ feeling it was!” said Chen.

Gradually, Chen needed a better skatepark for ________. To meet the need, his father decided to make a skate bowl himself. “He would work on it late into the night, sometimes until three or four in the morning,” said Chen. “I’m really ________ for my father’s support.”

As a junior high school student in Huizhou No. 1 Middle School, Chen needed to find a balance ________ his schoolwork and skateboarding. His only “privilege (特权)” was being ________ from PE classes, during which he would do schoolwork because he needed to practice in his own skate bowl for hours after returning home. He trained in the morning, studied in the afternoon and sometimes had to have extra (额外的) classes with the teachers’ ________.

Looking at the seven years of learning skating, Chen said this experience made him stronger and more ________ to do something he truly loves.