【推荐1】Have you heard of breaking（霹雳舞）? Do you like it? If your answer is yes, you’ll be glad to hear this news. Breaking will be an Olympic sport at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on December 7, 2020. It will be the latest modern sport to be added to the Olympics.

IOC President Thomas Bach said they made the decision because they hope that more young viewers will watch the event. “This sport is particularly（尤其）popular among the young people,” Bach said.

Breaking, or breakdancing, was from New York, the US, in the early 1970s. Performers danced along to hip-hop music while using different kinds of body movements. About five years later, it quickly became popular among young people in big cities across the country.

The Paris Olympics will have 16 b-boys and 16 b-girls competing in one-on-one battles（较量）. The dancer with the greatest skill will be the winner. The dancer also needs to be creative. The breaking event should be interesting and exciting to watch. It will make the Olympic Games “more youthful（青春的）”, according to the IOC.

【推荐2】Do you know that Asian Games are held every four years? Did you watch the 19th Asian Games in 2023? On September 23, Asian Games were held in Hangzhou. Do you still remember who won the first gold medal (金牌) for the Chinese team?

On the first day of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, the Chinese team did very well in the women’s lightweight double sculls (女子轻量级双人双桨) and got the first gold medal in less than 10 minutes.

From the 2002 Asian Games in Busan (釜山) to now, the Chinese team has been the first one to win the first gold medal in six Asian Games. This time Zou Jiaqi and Qiu Xiuping defeated (击败) the other players, finishing at 7′06.78″, about 10 seconds earlier than Team Uzbekistan in second. Indonesia won the third place.

Zou, 22, a Hangzhou girl, got a gold medal in her hometown. Qiu, 24, is from South China’s Guangdong. After joining hands, they won a lot of great results. In 2022, they finished second at the World Rowing (划船运动) Cup in Belgrade. Now the two are already able to go for the Paris Olympics through the 2023 Rowing World Championships (锦标赛).

In men’s lightweight double sculls, Chinese rowers Fan Junjie and Sun Man won another gold medal for China. Chinese players tried their best at the Asian Games.

【推荐2】"What? You too? I thought I was the only one. " Have you ever said this to someone? If so, you may have ended up becoming friends.

It seems that similarity often helps form（形成） a friendship. Aristotle once said, "Some define（给……下定义）it (the friendship) as a matter of similarity(相似点); they say that we love those who are like ourselves. "

Now, there are some scientific explanations for this idea. The scientists from the University of California said friends have similar brains, Scientific American reported.

The scientists invited 42 university students to take part in a scientific test. Each student watched the same set of videos. At the same time, the scientists scanned（扫描）their brains and recorded their brain activities.

According to their study, friends who watched the same videos reacted（作出反应）in similar ways. Similar parts of their brains lit up while watching the videos, especially the parts that were connected with motivation, learning and memory. However, people who weren't friends had different reactions to the same videos.

"Having close friends whose brains react like ours may be rewarding because it reinforces（加强）one's own values, opinions and interests," lead scientist Carolyn Parkinson told Business Insider.

But brain similarity is not the only thing that can result in a friendship. Scientists from the University of Leipzig, Germany, found that a friendship is also based on how physically close you are to someone.

They did a scientific test on first-year college students who met in class for the first time. In this test, students who sat next to each other were more likely to become friends.

【推荐3】If you have dinner with people in the west, I think you must pay more attention to the table manners. Here are some good table manners for you.

When you eat something, try not to make a noise or burp (打嗝) at the table. Because people think that is not polite. People will say “Excuse me”when they want to burp.

Talking with food in the mouth is very rude. So you must eat the food quietly and slowly. If you eat too fast, people think you are rude too. Do not talk with others when you have food in your mouth.

It is good to eat all the food on your plate. This means you like the food very much. Remember to say the food is nice. And this can make the host (主人) very happy. When you finish eating, you can place your knife and fork together.