Boys and girls, what sports do you like? Do you like skiing (滑雪)? It looks very     1    , but Gu Ailing does it well.     2     was born (出生) on September 3rd, 2003, in the USA. Her father is from the USA     3     her mother comes from Beijing, China. Gu knows much about China because she     4     to China every year. Her grandma is her Chinese     5    . Gu thinks Chinese is very     6     because she wants to live in China.

Gu is a good skiing     7    . Gu gets two gold medals (金牌) in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. She is the     8     Chinese to do so. Now, she is a big star. She says, “I love skiing because I am happy when I go skiing. I can have new friends when I go skiing,     9    .” After the game, Gu says she wants     10     her family. Gu is right because family is everything.

Gu Ailing（Eileen Gu）is a freeskier（自由式滑雪运动员）with an American father and a Chinese mother. She grew up and still lives in the United States, but in June 2019, she     1     a Chinese citizen（公民）and chose to compete for China. Gu Ailing started to learn skiing in 2006, At that time, she was only three.At the age of nine, she was     2     to ski well and started to win gold medals（金牌）in some important competitions. In 2020, she won two gold medals for China at the 3rd Winter Youth Olympic Games（冬季青年奥林匹克运动会）, At the     3     of 2021, she won two gold medals for China at the X Games（世界极限运动会） in the United States. She is always trying hard to     4     herself. She won two gold medals and one silver medal for China at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.

Gu Ailing was hard-working at school. She often     5     questions with her classmates. She was a grade﹣A student and good at her schoolwork. In December 2020, she became a student at a famous American     6     .

In her free time, Gu Ailing has many     7    , such as running, riding horses and playing football. She is also interested in art.

At just 18, snowboarder（单板滑雪运动员）Su Yiming made history by winning China’s first gold medal in men’s snowboarding. He said it was     1     that he competed and stood on the podium（领奖台）with his childhood idols—Canadian snowboarders Max Parrot and Mark McMorris.

Su’s parents are both     2     of snowboarding. Su started snowboarding with them when he was just 4. At that time, his parents couldn’t     3     a proper snowboard for him. At the same time he showed interest in acting. But in 2015 after Beijing got the chance to host（主办）the 2022 Winter Games, he made a     4     to continue snowboarding. “    5     I was still in the primary school, I told myself that I would try to win for my country,” he said.

After Su won the gold medal, he was     6     excited that he wrote to President Xi. “While I     7     on the podium, I realized the importance of our country,” he said, “I really want     8     you from the bottom（底部）of my heart. I’ll keep working hard and never give up my dream.”

On Feb 24, 2022, Su got a very special letter     9     Xi. With warm words, Xi congratulated（祝贺）Su and other athletes. He hopes they can train harder and always have     10     dreams for the better future.

It was Mother’s Day. Nancy was 800 miles away from her parents, so she was a little     1    . In the morning she phoned her mother     2     her a happy Mother’s Day, and her mother told her about the beautiful flowers in the garden. Later that day,     3     she told her husband about the flowers, he said, “I know where we can find all that you want. Get our children Peter and Lily, and come on.” So they went, driving down the country roads. There on a     4    , they saw a lot of beautiful purple flowers. Nancy ran     5     to enjoy the flowers. Carefully, she picked a few here and a few there. And on their way home there was a big smile     6     her face. When they were passing a nursing home, she saw an old granny sitting in a chair. The granny had     7     children with her. They stopped the car and Nancy walked to the old woman, put the flowers in her hands, and smiled at her. The old granny thanked     8     again and again. She smiled happily, too.

When Nancy     9     to her car, her children asked her, “Who is that old granny? Why did you give our flowers to her?” “I don’t know her,” Nancy said, “But it’s Mother’s Day, and she is alone. But I have both of you, and I still have my mother. Just     10     how much those flowers meant to her.”

Ellen is a 15-year-old middle school student. She used to think she wasn’t good enough. When she     1     in the mirror, her look influenced her feelings a lot. She often felt she was useless (差劲的), so she kept silent most of the time.

She worked hard but her     2     were just so-so. Sometimes, she     3     failed in exams. When she tried to help her classmates, she ended up causing more problems.

One day, Ellen had to give     4     speech in class. She tried her     5     to prepare for it. Finally, the time for the speech came. On that day, Ellen was very nervous.     6     her surprise, when she finished the speech, everyone cheered. The teacher said she did a good job.

Ellen didn’t     7    . Her speech wasn’t perfect, and she said she made a few mistakes. After hearing her words, her teacher pointed out everything great about her speech. And the teacher also took     8     in it a lot.

That surprised Ellen. It also made her see herself in a different way. That day, she realized some things. She thought her classmates didn’t like her,     9     they actually did. Ellen also learned it’s OK to make mistakes because     10     is perfect. She felt very confident (自信的) about herself after that.

Max Burns, a 19-year-old British man, is very popular on the Internet because     1     his videos of making Chinese food.

Max’s parents worked in China for many years. So Max     2     his first thirteen years being immersed (沉浸于) in Chinese culture—learning the language and loving the food. When     3     family moved to Brighton, UK in 2017, Max liked Chinese food very much. He began to order takeaways from local Chinese restaurants at first.     4     the meals didn’t taste the same as they were in China. They     5     also very expensive. Then Max decided to try to make Chinese dishes at home.

Max found that many of his     6     didn’t know much about the real Chinese food. He wanted to do something. Then he made videos of making Chinese food and put them     7    . In his videos, Max shows others how to cook the real Chinese food at home. The videos have helped him win millions of fans all over     8     world.

“When people ask me where I’m from, I find it hard to answer because I     9     up in China and now I’m living in the UK,” he says. “I’m just trying to share Chinese and British culture with Chinese and British people, and build a cultural     10     between them.”