【推荐2】17-year-old Yin Xiaowen comes from Tianjin. She is a great golf (高尔夫) player.

Yin inherited (遗传) her parents’ sporting talent. Her father is good at playing football and running, while her mother enjoys badminton, tennis and swimming.

Yin hit a golf ball for the first time when she was seven. “Golf gives me a different feeling from any other sport. I enjoy hitting the ball far very much,” said Yin. A few months after she started playing golf, Yin won a children’s event, Her passion for the game grew fast and then she decided to get more golf training.

At 10, Yin went to the USA for training. Two years later, she went to the Feng Shanshan Golf School in Guangzhou. Training became a big part of Yin’s life. Once Yin’s mother took her to Disneyland Park. At the end of the day, she asked her mother to leave early because she didn’t want to miss that day’s training. Years of hard work paid off. In 2020, Yin became the youngest winner in the history of China LPGA Tour (中国女子职业高尔夫球巡回赛). In 2021, Yin became the winner again.

【推荐3】

I’m Marina. Most days I finish my homework and then I have to play computer games for the rest of the afternoon. Yes, I have to! You see, I make money by looking for mistakes in games.

I’ve always been crazy about computer games. My dad is a reporter and my mum is a photographer, so there’s been a computer in the house since before I was born. I can remember playing very simple games on it when I was less than five years old and my dad told me to switch it off and go outside. I was online one day when I saw an advertisement from a video game company. They were looking for young people to give their opinions about some of their new games. I called them but I wasn’t old enough because I was 14.

Three years later, several companies now send me their games. I often spend hours on the same game. I have to play it from start to finish several times, look at all the menus and try all the different ways of playing it. While I’m doing this, I take notes and then write a clear email which the company can understand easily.

You have to work quickly because the company often wants to sell their new game as soon as possible. I may have to spend a lot of the weekend testing. However, I think I’m very lucky that my hobby has become a job. Most of the time, I love it!