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广西壮族自治区百色市田阳区2023-2024学年八年级下学期英语期中考试试卷
A video of a girl dancing at a pork shop gets popular on the Internet. In the video, her mother is busy cutting up pork while the girl is dancing.
The girl is Wu Gangyun. She lives in Naduo Village of Yanshan County (县) in Yunnan. Wu's father is a train driver and her mother has a pork shop. Wu loves dancing and she dreams to be a dancer. She starts to learn to dance at the age of six. She just teaches herself by watching online videos. Every day after school, Wu goes to her mother's shop practice dancing.
Seeing their daughter's love of dance, Wu's parents want her to go to dance classes. But they can't pay for them. Luckily, Zhang Ping and Guan Yu, two teachers from a dance school, see Wu's video. They have a program (项目)—"Colorful Cloud Program" to help children in villages change (改变) their lives. They think Wu is good at dancing and they want to teach her. Wu learns a lot from the teachers. In 2019, she gave a show on CCTV.
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