学进去

Cao Maoyuan was born in a village of Neijiang, Sichuan. When he was young, he liked watching action movies, and he was pretty interested in wushu. At the age of five, Cao started to practice wushu himself.

Cao’s father is a driver. One day, when Cao was practicing wushu quietly, his father and some other drivers saw him. They said Cao was talented in wushu. Then Cao’s father decided to send him to a sports school.

At school, Cao practiced hard every day. In 2007, he planned to take part in a wushu competition. Before it started, Cao broke his head. His parents and doctor asked him to give up, but Cao said no and went to finish the competition. The 10-year-old boy finally got a gold medal (金牌).

Cao wanted to join the Chengdu FISU World University Games. In 2023, his dream came true. On July 29th, he won the Men’s Nanquan of Wushu Competition. It was the first gold medal of the Games. On July 30th, Cao won another gold medal.

“I am going to try my best to develop (发展) Chinese wushu culture. I hope to make more and more people from all over the world know about wushu,” he said.

The start of a new year is a very wonderful time to take up something. Maybe that’s why so many people make New Year’s resolutions. People hope they’ll stop their bad habits and start good ones. However, a study shows that about 80% of people break their New Year’s resolutions before February. Why does this happen? That’s because they don’t make or keep their resolutions the right way. The following ideas may be helpful.

First, your resolutions should be specific (具体的). Don’t make a resolution like “I’m going to get healthy this year.” It doesn’t tell you what you need to do to become healthy. Make a specific one like “Get healthy by eating less and doing some running every morning.”

Second, just take it easy. It takes time to start a new habit. Never expect to reach your goals (目标) in just a few days or weeks.

Third, share your resolutions with others. Tell what your resolutions are to your family or close friends or join a group with the same goals as you. These people will help you to reach your goals when you want to give up (放弃).

You may know the song Happy Birthday very well. But do you know about its ________? It was written by an American girl.

When she was a child, she was very ________. One day, her friend invited her to her birthday party. She was glad but sad ________ she didn’t have enough money to buy a gift for her friend.

Later that night she was in bed, thinking about the ________ when the door opened and her grandma came in. “What happened?” her grandma asked. After hearing the girl’s story, she said, “Don’t ________. I think I can help you. How about ________ a song together? Happy birthday to …” What a nice song! They sang and sang. Suddenly she ________. It was a dream! She got up quickly and wrote it down at once. She was ready to sing ________ to her friends at the party.

When she sang the song at the party the next day, her friends were very happy. “What a ________ song you sing! I never heard such a beautiful song before. Thank you ________ giving me the nice gift,” said her friend. And they learned to sing it together. Later the girl became very famous in America.