Japanese table tennis Star Ai Fukuhara(福原爱)stopped playing as a professional (专业的) player on October 21, 2018.

    Fukuhara was born in Sendai, Japan, in November, 1988. She began playing table tennis at the age of three. She became a professional player at the age of ten. In 2000, she became a member of the Japanese national(国家的) team. She was the first person to be in the Japanese national team at such an early age. Because of it. people called Fukuahara "Child prodigy(神童)" in table tennis in Japan, As the Japanese young players are doing very well., She said she could now leave the team but still hoped to do something helpful to table tennis.

    Fukuhara went to China for training (训练) at a very young age and can speak good Chinese, She Spoke Chinese so well that people even thought she was born in China. In 2008, Fukuhara held the national Flag for Japan at the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. She and her partner won the third place, after South Korea and China. Jukuhara with her team—mates won the second place at the London Olympics in 2012 and the third place at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

In the US, about 400,000 students are learning Chinese. Chinese is getting more and more popular there.

Murray is one of the Chinese learners. He became interested in Chinese tea culture when he was 12 years old. To learn more about tea and find the best tea, he started to learn Chinese.

Murray spent two years learning Chinese at the University of Pittsburgh." Those two years of study life were very busy," he said. He went to a class at 8 a. m. on weekdays. All students needed to speak Chinese in class. Every Monday and Wednesday he went to a grammar class at 2 p. m. For Murray, Chinese grammar is easy because the Chinese language has no tense(时态). But the pronunciation is really a hard part of the language. To improve it, Murray needed to practice Chinese four tones(声调) every day.

I'm Jack. In my family, all of us like animals. I like pandas best. Pandas live in China. They are cute and lovely. They like eating bamboo (竹子). They are black and white. My father doesn't like lions, but he likes tigers very much. He thinks tigers are strong and the king of the beasts (兽中之王). My mother keeps some chickens, ducks and pigs in the yard. The chickens and ducks lay eggs (下蛋). They like to walk around in the yard. My grandfather keeps five sheep. They are white. After breakfast, my grandfather takes them out and goes back home in the afternoon. 

Do you like animals? I think you can keep some animals too. 

⒈完形填空

My name is Nina. I'll share my story with you. In my childhood, I was a fan of cartoons and I always dreamed of 1 my cartoon. So I decided to be an animator(动画师) 2 the age of 12. 

However, it didn't 3 like a good idea at that time, and being an animator was harder than I imagined. At 18, I found a 4 job in an animation studio. My work mainly 5 designing(设计) the backgrounds of different cartoon projects and using special tools(工具) to complete the cartoon. At first, I found it too difficult to work well because I was skilled in nothing. I could 6 paint at that time. But it was not 7 . So I tried to learn many new skills for the 8 of making my dream come true. I felt really tired but happy. That was because I believed that by doing so, I could get 9 to my dream. The people in the studio were really kind to me, and they always helped me when I met 10 . After half a year, I could finish the job on my own. 

This is how my career(生涯) in cartoons began.