Bobsledding (雪橇运动) is a fast and exciting winter sport. A bobsled has a two-person team or a four-person team and it goes at about 100 kilometers an hour. When a bobsled team goes down the course, the other teams wait and watch. Then each team tries to go down faster than the others. Each team can try several times. In the end, the fastest team wins the. prize.

    This is a true story about a bobsledder, Eugenio Monti from Italy. The year was 1964. The place was the bobsled course at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria. The two best teams were Eugenio Monti's Italian team and Tony Nash's British team. After their first two runs, these two teams were equal (同等的). Then the Italians made their third run, and it was the fastest of all. The British team got ready for their third run, but suddenly a bolt (螺栓) on their bobsled broke. The British bobsled could not go down.

    When Monti heard this, he took a bolt from his bobsled and sent it to the British team. The British team put the bolt on their bobsled. They went down very fast and won. The British team got the gold medal (金牌), but everyone talked about Monti. They called him a great sportsman. He also got a special prize, the 1964 International Fair Play Trophy ( 国际公平竞赛奖杯). Many people think this trophy is a greater prize than a gold medal. It was new then, but now it is given every year to a great sportsman or sportswoman.

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Whenever my child caused me to change my schedule, I thought to myself "We don't have time for this. "

Therefore, the two words I most commonly spoke to my child were: "Hurry up. " But my promise to  1 was made almost three years ago, and I began my journey to grasp what 2  in life. 

My younger daughter is my living reminder of why I must keep trying to slow down. 

The two of us had taken a bike ride to the supermarket.  After buying an ice cream for my daughter, she sat down at a table 3 looking at the ice cream she held in her hand.  Suddenly a look of worry appeared upon her face. "Do I have to rush, Mama?"

I nearly cried. Perhaps the pains of a  4  life don't ever completely disappear, I thought sadly.  As my child looked up at me waiting to know whether she could take her time, I knew I had a choice.  I could sit there in sorrow thinking about the number of times when I told my child to rush through life  5  the fact that today I'm trying to do things differently. I chose to live in today. 

"You don't have to rush," I said  6 .  Her whole face immediately brightened and her shoulders    relaxed. And so we sat side-by-side talking.  There were even moments when we sat in  7 just smiling at each other. 

When she got to the last bite, she held out the ice cream for me.  "I  8  the last bite for you, Mama. "My daughter said proudly. I realized I just got the deal of a lifetime.  I gave my child a little time. 

9 , she gave me her last bite, also reminded me that things taste sweeter and love comes 10 when you stop rushing through life. 

Once there was a teenage boy who was known as a fast runner in his village. He only cared about winning every race and becoming more successful.

One day,the boy took part in a running race in his village. He won the 200, 100 and 50-meter races without any problem. He was proud of himself and received great applause (掌声). But his grandfather stepped in and challenged him to a race with two unexpected competitors, an old man and a blind girl. The boy thought it was unbelievable but accepted. In the race, the boy finished first, while the old man and the blind girl were still at the starting line. With joy, he waved his hands at the crowd. But they kept silent.

"Why are people not cheering for me like before?" he asked his grandfather.

"Start the race again with them. But this time, all of you should cross the finish line at the same time," the grandfather replied.

The boy was surprised but agreed to the race. During the second race, the boy took the hands of the old man and the blind girl and walked slowly with them to the finish line. The crowd gave them a standing applause.

The boy asked his grandfather, "For whom are the people cheering? Is it for me, or them?" The grandfather smiled and said. "The crowd did not cheer for any one of you. They cheered for how you all ran the race together. Facing the race of life, what matters is not just winning, but how you run the race."

Orion Jean，a little boy in the United States，has a big goal.He wants to s {#blank#}1{#/blank#} kindness to as many people as he can.

It all started in August 2020.Jean r {#blank#}2{#/blank#} ＄500 in prize money after winning the U.S.National Kindness Speech Contest.He could have spent the money on Legos，but he quickly realized that it was not e {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to just speak about kindness.The boy set up the "Race to Kindness" project.

Jean started off by helping children in hospital.Because of the COVID﹣19 pandemic，these children were not able to see their family members very often.Jean wanted to put a s {#blank#}4{#/blank#}on their faces.He used his money to buy as many toys as he could while calling on people to do the same.In only a month，he had c {#blank#}5{#/blank#} 619 toys.The boy sent them to a local children's hospital. "It is one of the best e {#blank#}6{#/blank#} of my life，" he said at the time.

Not long after，in October 2020，Jean s {#blank#}7{#/blank#}the ambitious goal of donating 100，000 free Thanksgiving meals to poor families.With the help of a local charity，he was not only able to reach his goal but to go beyond it.As a book lover {#blank#}8{#/blank#} can change a person's life.Last May，after discovered the f {#blank#}9{#/blank#} that two out of three kids from poor family had no books of their own，they boy decided to collect 500，000 book for them.

Will he t {#blank#}10{#/blank#} a break after this？ "Who knows？Maybe something even bigger will come，" Jean says. "Maybe we'll do a 'race' to a million."

A: Hello, Lingling. Long time no see. How was your winter holiday?

B: {#blank#}1{#/blank#} I had a goodtime in Harbin. 

A: How did you get there, by train or by plane? 

B: {#blank#}2{#/blank#} It's much faster than by train.

A: {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

B: I went there with my cousins.

A: {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

B: Yes, I did. My cousins took quite a few photos of me when I skating. 

A: Can I have a look at them? 

B: {#blank#}5{#/blank#}