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The Formula 1 (F1) Chinese Grand Prix (中国大奖赛) 2024 took place in Shanghai in April. Zhou Guanyu, 25, was there. He is China’s first F1 racer (赛车手). He could not hide his joy and pride as this was his first time to race at home. His team is Alfa Romeo. In an interview, Zhou Guanyu talked about what made a great F1 racer.

A good racer must have a good body. Even though racers look still, their bodies are going through hard tests during races. Zhou does a lot of work on his neck. This is because the head and helmet become five times heavier when braking (刹车) and speeding up, according to the Motorsport Technology website. “You can see my neck getting thicker these years,” said Zhou.

F1 drivers like Zhou need to react (反应) quickly. F1 racers usually react to things in 100 milliseconds (毫秒), reported Motorsport Technology. That is two times faster than normal people. “Racing with the world’s top F1 drivers tests not only my driving skills but also my mind and reaction speed,” he told Hongxing News.

Speed is so important for a great racer. Besides driving skills, fast speed comes from the car itself. Zhou had trouble with his car at the Hungarian Grand Prix 2023. But he raced in April with a new car and better tires (轮胎), expecting to show his skills.

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【推荐1】English schools begin in September after a long summer holiday. There are two terms in a school year. The first term is from September to January, and the second term is from February to June. Most English children begin to go to school when they are five years old. When they finish high school, they are seventeen or eighteen years old.

High school students take only five or six subjects each term. They usually go to the same class every day, and they have homework for every class. After class, they do a lot of interesting things. After high school, many students go to college. They usually have to pay a lot of money. So they have to work after class to get money for their studies.

A standard American high school has several large buildings and enough space for about 1,500 students. Every students is given a locker(锁柜). When students arrive at the school, the first go straight to their lockers    1    American students usually take a yellow school bus or go to school on foot if they live close enough.    2    When they turn 16 years of age, most take a free driving class at school for one term. If students get passing grades in the class and also pass their state driver’s test, they can began driving themselves to school.

Each day, students take six or seven classes.    3    . They can choose art, clothes making and other classes. In some school students mus t take one or more of the classes: health education, physical education or foreign language studies.    4    

This is because each teacher has his own classroom. There is a five-minutes break between classes, to give the students the time to hurry to their next class.

    5    . After school more that half of the students take part in after-school activities.These activities include sports and clubs, such as basketball, baseball,soccer,speech, school newspaper and so on.

What does a typical day look like for a high school in the United States? Well everyone’s is very different. I can describe my normal day in high school for you.

Our school day usually went from 8: 30 a. m. to 5: 30 p. m. However, some days I had cheerleading (啦啦队) practice or play practice at 6: 30 a. m. If I had cheerleading practice I got ready at school, and if I had time, I ate breakfast at the school dining hall.

Then I would go towards my locker and get my books for the first period. Each class went for about 50 minutes and we had 4 minutes to get to the next class. We studied everything from science to match and Spanish to P. E. I played the flute (长笛) in band, so one of my class periods was used for that. Lunch-time would be at 12: 30 p. m. and then we had some time to hang out outside or by our lockers. At the end of the day there was a seminar (研讨会) period.

I could be used for studying or meetings. After school, I would cheer at a basketball game, be a lifeguard (救生员) at work or have speech practice. My family always tried to have dinner together at around 7 p. m., but there wasn’t always time. I would finally start studying at around 8 or 9 p. m. So there you have it! That’s my typical day in high school.

【推荐1】A man asked a master, “Master, how can I create a miracle(奇迹)?” The master replied, “Work seriously, hard and insistently and you will create a miracle.” Then the man asked, “Why?” The master replied, “Now burn and cook for me, and when you finish it, I’ll tell you why.”

Then he began to cook for the master. Half an hour later, the rice was cooked. The master asked, “How did you cook the meal?” The man answered, “I kept adding wood and fire, and then the meal was cooked naturally.” The master said, “When you began to cook, it was raw(生的) rice, so you kept adding wood and fire repeatedly, and the raw rice was cooked. Isn’t it a miracle?”

The man understood suddenly and said, “It isn’t mysterious to create a miracle.” Work seriously, hard and insistently and a miracle will appear naturally.

Coco is a small rabbit and he lives in a forest with his mother, Dabai. One morning, he can’t find his mother. So he goes everywhere to look for her.

Under a tree, he meets Wangwang, a dog. “Where is my mother? Do you know?” he asks the dog. “Oh, I play soccer here and I don’t see your mother,” Wangwang says.

Coco gets to the grassland. There he sees Jiajia, a horse. “Do you see my mother, Jiajia?” he asks. “Sorry, I don’t,” Jiajia says. “I eat grass here.”

He is very sad. “Where is my mother?” he thinks. Then he sees Mimi, a cat, near a river. “Hi, Coco,” Mimi says to Coco. “I know where your mother is. She thinks I’m her son. Look! She is looking for food for me near the river.”

At this time, Dabai sees Coco and knows what happens.

【推荐3】Abby's father was taking her to visit her grandmother. Abby was going to be away for three months. "I can't leave Tobias behind," she said. "You will have to," said her father. "You can't take Tobias into another country."

Abby thought it was a silly rule. "I will take him," she said to herself. So she put him in a sock and put it in her bag.

At the airport, Abby put her bag by the X-ray machine. Abbey felt her legs shaking as the bag was going through the machine. She hoped Tobias in the bag made no noise. The woman by the machine smiled and said, "Have a good flight."

On the plane, Abby waited until her dad and the woman next to her fell asleep. Then she opened the sock to look at Tobias. But he jumped out of the sock and landed on the woman's knee. The woman cried loudly, "A mouse!" Abby quickly put Tobias into the sock and back into her bag.

Before they landed, Dad filled out a form, choosing no to: Are you bringing any live animals into the country?

She saw the man frown (皱眉) as her bag went through the X-ray machine. She watched when he opened the bag and pulled out the sock.

"Come with me, please."

Abby followed her dad into a small room. There was a police officer and Tobias in the sock was on the desk. The police officer talked to Abby's dad. You have tried to smuggle (走私) an animal into this country." Abby felt fear came all over her body. "It's my fault (过错)," she said in a small voice. "I didn't want to leave him behind," "Have you ever been in trouble before?" the officer asked as he wrote "animal smuggler" next to her name. Abby opened her mouth but no sound came out.

Tobias had to be in quarantine (隔离) for six months, which cost a lot of money. And Abby wouldn't be able to visit her grandmother again. Now she learned there was a good reason for rules.