I am Li Hua.

An animated giant panda named “Bing Dwen Dwen” and a red lantern baby called “Shuey Rhon Rhon” have been uncovered as the two mascots for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The giant panda, which will be the Olympic mascot,     1     (regard) as a symbol of China. Its name “Bing Dwen Dwen”,     2     helmet also stands for the snow and ice of winter sports, is a combination of several meanings in the Chinese language, with “Bing” the Chinese word for “ice”, and “Dwen Dwen”     3     (mean) health and liveliness. The Paralympic mascot choice of the lantern is seen as “symbolic of harvest,     4     (warm) and light”. In the name “Shuey Rhon Rhon”, “Shuey” is     5     Chinese word for “snow” and “Rhon Rhon” has the double meaning of tolerance and integration (融合).

The vivid red image is a perfect fit     6     the gala event, especially as the Games will take place at the same time with China’s Lunar New Year celebration in February and March 2022. The mascot     7     (combine) the best elements and     8     (characteristic) of China and the Chinese people. It will be a wonderful spokesperson for China and the Olympic Games Beijing 2022. It’s a mascot that not     9     (simple) represents a Chinese lantern, but represents the Chinese New Year. It’s a message of the future to the future generation of Chinese people who will be inspired by the     10     (amaze) faith of the Paralympic athletes.

4 . I’ll never forget a ride 20 years ago. Back then, I drove a taxi. One time, I was called at midnight to pick a _________. When I arrived, the building was dark except or one light in a window.

I walked to the door and knocked. A small woman in her eighties stood before me. By her side was a _________, I took it and we walked slowly to the street. She kept thanking me.

“It’s nothing,” I tried to treat my passengers how I want my mother to be _________.”

When we got into the taxi, she gave me the _________, and then asked me to drive through the downtown. But I told her it was not the shortest way.

“Oh, I’m in no hurry,” she said. “I’m on my way to a hospice (临终安养院). The doctor says I don’t have much time _________.”

I quietly _________ the meter (计价器). For the next two hours, she showed me the building where she had once worked, the _________ where she had lived, and the furniture shop where she had gone _________ as a girl. In the early morning, she suddenly said, “I’m tired. Let’s go now.”

We drove in _________ to the hospice. As I __________ two nurses were waiting for us. They helped her into a wheelchair.

“How much do I __________ you?” she asked, reaching for her purse.

I said nothing, leaned down and gave her a __________. She said, “You gave me a little moment of joy. Thank you.”

I squeezed her hand and then walked back, __________ believing I had never done anything more important in my life. We usually think that our lives are __________ by great moments. But I now realize that great moments catch us by surprise, because they often seem quite __________.

5 . When we are born, we are perfect. As we grow, we develop many complexities due to many influences in our lives. Our brain collects and saves all kinds of information from the moment we are born. Apart from our brain having memory, cells in our body have their own memory, meaning that our body stores memories, both physiological and psychological. We are complex emotional beings in nature compared with any other living things.

Apparently, physical and psychological memories strongly influence our emotions! Interestingly, we can create, store, and release emotions like energy. Moreover, if we do not process our negative emotions properly and suppress (压制) them for a long time, they can find a way out violently and unexpectedly. Unfortunately, we carry our guilt throughout our lives putting the ever-increasing burden on our shoulders.

Both guilt and anger are useless for us. Therefore, one may ask: is there a way to put down the burden from our shoulders? It is possible, indeed. Importantly, since our guilt and anger inside us are neither released nor given attention, they are stored. Actually, we should take action to address our negative emotions in order to remove them from our system. We cannot just wish them away.

In fact, by acknowledging their presence and providing a channel for them, we can dissolve our emotions gradually. Is there a better way to unload our burden? Luckily, we have a natural gift for processing our feelings and emotions-forgiveness.

Indeed, forgiving ourselves is a great way to dissolve negative emotions. Of course, we should also learn to readily forgive others, and when we learn to forgive ourselves, we also naturally forgive others.

In summary, it is no good carrying our years of emotional baggage. By forgiving, we can throw away the emotional baggage we carry for years. Forgive your past mistakes. The moment you start forgiving, you will feel relieved and years of heaviness will lift magically!

9 . We’ve all heard the stories of an actor’s struggles before a career breakthrough: living a hard life, working part-time, being a couch potato before getting that major role. Shelby, the star of “A Dog’s Way Home”, has an unfortunate tale that could top them all. Before her big break, she was living in a landfill, rooting through garbage for her next meal.

Shelby’s big break came in April 2017, when animal-control officer Megan Buhler was driving in Cheatham County, Tennessee. Out on an unrelated call, Buhler spotted and approached what she recalled was a noticeably scared puppy emerging from the dump. “I knelt down and just said, ‘Oh, come here, baby,’” said Buhler. “She was so scared, but she came right up to me, and I was able to put her in my truck.” They headed to the county animal shelter, where the staff began calling the new resident Baby Girl.

Buhler and others didn’t know that 3,200 kilometers away, Hollywood was looking for a dog to play Bella in a film written by Cathryn Michon. The find-a-Bella job went to freelance trainer Teresa Ann Miller. Her mission was to search shelters nationwide for a dog that could play Bella. One day, Miller spotted Baby Girl’s adoption photo. “Honestly, it was a really good picture, and she was flat-out smiling,” Miller said. Then she met Baby Girl, and assessed her on personality and the ability to respond to simple commands. After assessment, she adopted Baby Girl from the shelter, renamed her Shelby and took her to California for training. Miller and Shelby had trained for just over three months before filming began. Then they were together each day on the set.

Most of the film’s reviews have praised Shelby’s performance. Variety made the comments “an amazing dog, perfect performance!”

Shelby has come a long way from the garbage dump. But Buhler said when she saw Shelby recently she just needed only a second to compare the movie star with the dog she found from piles of trash. “She’s exactly the same,” Buhler said.