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Look! A girl is cycling quickly, then jumping off her bike, and running towards the front door. 1． Her mother says with a long face, “Grace, you’re late again.” What has happened? Read more.

Grace is the main character in the book Grace and the Double Life. She is a schoolgirl. 2． Why? Because she goes to practice with her band—the Garage Girls. She teams up with two girls, Zadie and Holly, and they want to perform on a TV talent show. Grace plays the bass guitar (电低音吉他) and is also the singer of the band. She is fantastic. 3． This is because her mother, Harriet, is very strict. She wants Grace to play the piano, while Grace wants to be a rock star.

After many weeks, Grace and her teammates luckily get a chance to audition (试镜) for the TV show. How exciting! But here comes the bad news; the piano exam is held on the same day as the audition. 4． Her mother gets very angry...

Grace and the Double Life is really a great book. The story of Grace and her friends may remind us of little things that sometimes happen in our daily lives. 5． You must be curious (好奇的) about what Grace’s mother will do and whether Grace will have a happy ending. Read the book and find the answers yourself.

The 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou came to an end. It was 1． a wonderful event that it won many people’s hearts. However, it could hardly be so 2． without the hard work of many frontline (一线) workers. Here, three of them shared their experiences 3． us.

Shi Futian is a sports reporter. He said he 4． very lucky to be part of the big event. He interviewed (采访) sports players from different 5．. In this way, he hoped people could know more about the players and the stories behind them.

Hu Chuangang 6． in the dining hall that served meals to sports players. “I got over 30 pins (徽章) from different countries. Most of them were gifts from players to show their thanks for our food 7．,” Hu said happily.

Li Guanlin was a volunteer on a basketball court. His job was to keep the court clean and to stop players from 8． down or getting hurt. “We learned that our job was 9．, so we had practiced a lot before the Games. And we were surprised and happy that people were interested in our work,” Li said.

We might not look at those people when we watched the Games. But we should 10． that they are just as great as those excellent sports players.

On May 15, 2023, a 16-year-old girl from Changsha, Hunan Province made new history. Xu Zhuoyuan became the youngest Chinese girl to succeed in reaching the top of Mount Qomolangma. What makes it more meaningful is that the year 2023 marks the 70th anniversary (周年) of the first human being achieving the impossible dream.

Mountain climbing is one of the world’ s most dangerous sports, and one of the most popular places for this is Mount Qomolangma. It is about 8,848.86 meters 4①________ and so it is very dangerous to climb. 4②________ clouds, heavy storms and freezing weather conditions make the climbing more difficult. However, these difficulties didn’t scare Xu away. She wanted to challenge herself. She has been training hard to make her dream come true.

On April 15, she left Changsha for Nepal (尼泊尔). On April 28, she arrived at the base camp and made preparations for the huge task. At 10 p.m. Beijing time on May 14, Xu began her journey from Camp 4. The climbing was very hard, and it took her 10 hours to reach the top.

The girl’s love for climbing comes from her father Xu Jianglei. Xu Jianglei is the first man from Hunan to get to the top of Mount Qomolangma. Although she is quite young, Xu has already 4③________ five mountains over 5,000 meters in China. When she was 12 years old, she said on Hunan TV, “I will climb Qomolangma.” Four years later, she kept her promise. 5 Her spirit shows us that we should challenge ourselves in the face of difficulties. It also shows that we should never give up trying to achieve our dreams.

Growing Up with Books

Do you like reading? Reading books does a lot of good to us._________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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