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Today’s story is about Zhu Hui, a student from Shenzhen. He’s now studying in the United States. He’s living with an American family in New York. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. It’s 9:00a.m. and Zhu Hui’s family are at home. His mom and aunt are making zongzi. His dad and uncle are watching the boat races on TV.
Is Zhu Hui also watching the races and eating zongzi? Well, it’s 9:00p.m.in New York, and it’s the night before the festival. But there isn’t a Dragon Boat Festival in the US, so it’s like any other night for Zhu Hui and his host family. The mother is reading a story to her young children. The father is watching a soccer game on TV. And what’s Zhu Hui doing? He’s talking on the phone to his cousin in Shenzhen. Zhu Hui misses his family and wishes to have his mom’s delicious zongzi. Zhu Hui likes New York and his host family a lot, but there’s still “no place like home”.
1.Where is Zhu Hui now?
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2.Why are Zhu Hui’s family watching boat races and making zongzi?
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3.What’s the mother doing ?
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4.Does Zhu Hui like his host family?
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5.What does he think about his home in China?
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A New Kind of Hero
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In the Olympics, star athletes always get public’s attention. In the past, the athletes who got the gold medal in Olympics were popular. But now athletes who are not the winner, such as Lin Dan and Fu Yuanhui, also become popular.
Fu Yuanhui, 20 years old, is a Chinese backstroke(仰泳) athlete. She became a popular star on social media(媒体) with her exaggerated(夸张的) expressions, instead of her bronze medal(铜牌) in the women’s 100- meter backstroke. After the semi- final, she was asked if she had saved some energy for the final. Fu answered with a shock face, “ I have been using my ‘ pre – historical’ power ( an online phrase in China which means the power of nature that can turn the world upside down).” This cute answer made her popular. Her happy personality (个性) won her millions of fans on the Internet overnight. People called her the “Pre – historical Girl”. She has become a new hero of Chinese people. She taught us a lesson: Sport is about the struggle (奋斗)and enjoyment, and most definitely not about gold medal.
Winning used to be everything for China’s Olympians. Athletes who got gold have fame and fortune(财富), while those who disappointed often got ignored even criticized (批评). Liu Xiang became a national hero at the 2004 Athens Olympics. But four years later at the Beijing Olympics, when an injury (受伤) forced him to give up running just before his first race, he was criticized.
Now, China is ready to welcome a sports star without a gold medal. Public attitudes toward competitive sports (竞技运动) and the Olympics have lifted to a higher level.
Information card
The kind of athletes that were popular in the past | 1. |
The age of Fu Yuanhui | 2. |
Fu Yuanhui’s achievement in the Olympics | 3. |
The name that people call Fu Yuanhui | 4. |
The change public attitudes toward competitive sports and the Olympics | 5. |