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An extreme sport like BMX (Bicycle Motocross) may not be the first thing that comes to mind to help overcome a mental health condition. However, that is 1  what enabled Nikita Ducarroz to fight her fears.

As a child, Ducarroz spent every 2  moment on the soccer field. But at 13, the talented athlete began to suffer from 3  anxiety attacks that made it hard for her to leave home. When her mother told her she had to continue playing a sport, Ducarroz found BMX as a way to 4  that rule. Little did she know that BMX would soon 5  every aspect of her life, and become the reason she would push through her fears one step at a time.

The tale began when a BMX video on YouTube inspired her to try the extreme sport. She saved up for a bike. Then she began practicing 6  in her driveway. Soon, her excellent skills brought her enough 7  to ride at the local skate park. With that confidence, Ducarroz was 8  to ride in the competition in 2016, and she has not looked back since.

"The bike made me get out of the house, go to the skate park, and 9 get on a plane," said Ducarroz. "It 10 me to overcome all my fears."

The 26-year-old is now one of the world's best female BMX freestylers. Ducarroz now has her 11 set on the 2024 Paris Olympics. She says, "My goal in Paris is another medal. I can get that done with the training."

Though she still suffers occasional 12  attacks, Ducarroz now knows how to manage them. To help others with mental health conditions, Ducarroz has started an Instagram page called MindTricks. It is where people discuss their fears 13 .

"MindTricks started because of my own 14 that I was making on Instagram about mental health," she explained. "And I thought, ‘Why don't we create a place where others can do the same, a central spot where everyone can read about these stories and also feel 15 to share their own stories?'"

How to Build a Natural Swimming Pool

Whether you like to practice your dolphin dives or idle away the day on a raft, swimming is one of summer's perfect pleasures. With a minimum of materials, you can create a cooling summer retreat in your backyard.

Though common in Europe, natural swimming pools, are in their early stage in the United States. You can ask most American swimming-pool contractors (承包商) to build a backyard pool.It may include rebar (钢筋), gunite (压力喷浆), fiberglass, and a filtration (过滤) system.

But in recent years, a few builders and a growing number of homeowners have learned how to build pools.They've found it's possible to construct pools that are more about building with nature and blending into the natural landscape. Natural swimming pools use stone and clay in place of concrete or fiberglass, and aquatic plants instead of harmful chemicals and complicated mechanical filtering systems.They also support beneficial bacteria that consume potentially harmful organisms, and give habitat to frogs, dragonflies, and other water life.A natural pool can be built for as little as $2,000 if you do it yourself, while conventional pools can cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Natural swimming pools requiring no harmful chemicals, are fairly low-tech. You won't have to drain the pool each autumn. Except for topping it off now and then, you'll fill the pool only once.

A．The plants enrich the pool with oxygen.

B．Chances are that they will roll out a long list of goods.

C．You can make your pool as shallow or as deep as you want.

D．And once established, they call for only a bit of management.

E．It is the most ecological and economic way to build a conventional pool.

F．The result is an ecological system that is relatively inexpensive to construct.

G．They don't rely on a mass of manufactured materials and chemical additives.

Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking would kill us but the doubters insisted that we didn't know for sure? That the evidence was inconclusive, the science uncertain? That the anti-smoking lobby（游说） was out to destroy our way of life and the government should stay out of the way? Lots of Americans bought that nonsense, and over three decades, some 10 million smokers went to early graves.

There are upsetting parallels today, as scientists in one wave after another try to awaken us to the growing threat of global warming. The latest was a panel from the National Academy of Sciences, enlisted by the White House, to tell us that the Earth's atmosphere is definitely warming and that the problem is largely man-made. The clear message is that we should get moving to protect ourselves. The president of the National Academy, Bruce Alberts, added this key point in the preface to the panel's report: "Science never has all the answers. But science does provide us with the best available guide to the future, and it is critical that our nation and the world base important policies on the best judgments that science can provide concerning the future consequences of present actions."

Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting that the science about global warming is incomplete, that it's OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure. This is a dangerous game: by the time 100 percent of the evidence is in, it may be too late. With the risks obvious and growing, a prudent people would take out an insurance policy now.

Fortunately, the White House is starting to pay attention. But it's obvious that a majority of the president's advisers still don't take global warming seriously. Instead of a plan of action, they continue to press for more research — a classic case of "paralysis by analysis".

To serve as responsible stewards of the planet, we must press forward on deeper atmospheric and oceanic research. But research alone is inadequate. If the Administration won't take the legislative initiative, Congress should help to begin fashioning conservation measures. A bill by Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, which would offer financial supports for private industry, is a promising start. Many see that the country is getting ready to build lots of new power plants to meet our energy needs. If we are ever going to protect the atmosphere, it is crucial that those new plants be environmentally sound.

The recent reports of a 4-year-old girl on a Shanghai beach have gone viral on social media platforms, raising debate about whether China should criminalize neglect(疏于照管) in child supervision.

The father of the little girl claimed that he left her alone on the beach for about 12 minutes to fetch his phone. However, she was nowhere to be found when he was back. Surveillance (监控) videos show that she waited for about 10 minutes before walking toward the water's edge alone, and then disappeared into the water. Two weeks later, her body was discovered about 100 kilometers away in neighboring Zhejiang Province.

The core issue in this case is the father's leaving his young daughter unattended on the beach, causing her tragic death. Should such behavior, when it causes harm to a child, be seen as a criminal act? In an online survey, more than 90 percent of respondents insisted that the father be held legally responsible and face criminal punishments.

Nevertheless, according to Liu Chunquan, a lawyer, it may not satisfy the criteria for criminal neglect, since the primary focus of Chinese criminal law is on extreme cases of parental neglect, such as physical abuse and mental ill-treatment. Rarely do legal authorities charge parents; instead, they are just likely to face punishments consisting of warnings and fines.

In 2022, a 2-year-old baby drowned in a cesspool while in the company of his father. The court ruled shared responsibility between the father and the cesspool's owner, with a 7:3 proportion. The owner was ordered to pay 20,000 yuan to the child's family. Unluckily, similar cases do exist nationwide. Roughly, 100,000 children lose their lives in accidents annually in China, which is largely due to neglect, such as parents leaving their children unattended, either in locked cars or at home. Besides, drowning is now the main cause of death for children aged 1 to 14 years old.

It is no wonder that an increasing number of netizens request that specific laws and regulations be passed to ensure the safety of children and their well-being. Hopefully, criminalizing child supervision neglect in China can serve as a warning and precaution.

However, downsides of introducing such legislation may also emerge. For instance, it's difficult to distinguish between a regrettable accident and criminal neglect so that over-criminalization can arise, in which well-meaning parents making honest mistakes are charged with a crime.

Therefore, a more balanced approach to addressing the issue of child safety should involve a combination of new legislation, education and support services. The ultimate objective is to prevent similar tragedies in the future. We must recognize that children are not only their parents' offspring, but also the nation's future.

About a decade ago, Lawson was at a beach in Virginia watching his kids build castles right next to the waves.

"I kept trying to get them to come back because I thought it was a terrible idea," he remarked. He wanted them to build their sandcastles closer to the dunes. But they found it more exciting to build right where the waves hit, seeing their sandcastles get destroyed, and then rebuilding them with whatever debris washed up from the ocean. "It seemed so symbolic, somehow, of how life works more than just building your perfect sandcastles," said Lawson. When he decided to turn that sunny day into a children's book, the idea came to just use pictures. "It seemed like it would work beautifully without words," he said.

A Day for Sandcastles is illustrated by Qin Leng. It's the second wordless picture book for Lawson and Leng since 2021's Over the Shop. Leng's illustrations stay pretty true to real life. Three siblings spend the day building sandcastles and watching them get destroyed by a flying hat. "To me it's a celebration of childhood and the simple joys of life. These are the things I like to capture," said Leng.

Leng spent part of her childhood in France, and she was inspired by European comic books "What I love to do when I illustrate a picture book is add side stories to the main storyline. I always think about the readers and the longevity of the book, and I want them to be able to discover something new every time they revisit the book," Leng explained.

At the end of the day, the sleepy-eyed kids pile into the bus that will take them home. "Those last pages are some of my favorite. They capture that feeling like at the end of the day on the beach, when it's getting dark and you feel completely exhausted," Lawson said. It must be a universal childhood feeling: happy with sand, sticky from the salt, hot from the sun, and ready to fall asleep the moment you get into the car.

Canada is diverse and vast, and the festivals celebrated there reflect this. Here are some exciting ones that attract visitors worldwide. 

Vancouver Celebration of Light

The largest fireworks competition in the world is held every summer in Vancouver. It consists of concerts, food stalls, and the Seawall Challenge, a popular urban adventure race. The festival, which lasts about a week, makes for a great way to get to know the city from a local standpoint. 

Edmonton Folk Festival

From its humble beginning in 1980, Edmonton Folk Festival has grown to be one of the world's famous folk festivals. Held each August, the lineup of the 10-day-long festival is always outstanding and ticket prices stay reasonable. Edmonton is also a gateway to Jasper and the Canadian Rockies, about two hours away in case you have extra time to explore after the festival.

Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is one of the leading film festivals in the world, ranking closely with Cannes and Sundance. Films such as Hotel Rwanda, American Beauty, and The Big Chill made their premieres (首映) at this famous star-filled event held each September. The 11-day-long festival is also known as the kick-off of awards season, with many films that make their first public performance at TIFF going on to get nominated for Oscars and Golden Globe awards. 

Montreal Comedy Festival

Since 1983, Montreal Comedy Festival, or, Just for Laughs as it is more commonly known, has been inviting people to get together just for fun, just for entertainment-just for laughs. The festival, which takes place every year for two weeks in July, has grown in popularity and reputation and today features some of the world's greatest comedians and it also resulted in a television show that is broadcast internationally.

In a specially designed studio theater in Hangzhou, a latest Yueju Opera production, New Dragon Gate Inn performed by Xiao Bai Hua Opera troupes (剧团), has emerged  an immediate hit. It not only showcases a traditional art form that definitely (deserve) more attention, but also wins younger audiences who are usually not opera-goers.

The name of the adapted work is the same as that of the 1992 classic martial arts film.  (wise), the Shaoxing Opera captures the interest of a younger audience by combining traditional Chinese opera with modern theater models and dramatic concepts. The audience sits very close to the performers, engaging with them and immersing themselves in  unique and fascinating viewing experience.

Through her cross-dressed role Jia Ting, 31-year-old female performer Chen Lijun has suddenly risen to fame due to her gorgeous appearance, elegant air  skillful performance. A livestream of the opera in August attracted millions of viewers and sparked heated discussions online, (earn) over 14,000 comments. Clips of her performances, such as a scene she effortlessly spins the landlady around with just one arm, went viral on various social media  (platform).

In addition to the bold and innovative  (adapt), the marketing approach has also been a new experiment that has turned out successful. This is a positive step in the revival of this ancient art. The success of New Dragon Gate Inn signals a  (promise) future for other traditional Chinese art forms.

My father was a restaurant owner. My name is Vincent Lim. I'm a chef and restaurant owner. Running a Chinese restaurant is one of the hardest and most1 things in my life.

When we first arrived in Australia, my dad2 a Chinese restaurant. I would go there on a3 basis to help him out. And slowly I developed my4 for cooking. The hard work that my dad put into Chinese food makes me feel so proud that I am lucky enough to learn from a5

The first dish that I ever learned to cook was the fried rice, which is the easiest but also the 6 one to get right. From years of experience, I can7 you the difference between a good fried rice just from the feel and from the smell, without even taking a bite.

To lots of Chinese immigrants like us, the restaurant isn't just a business. It's a sense of 8 . The wok hei (锅气)9 every ingredient in the wok, producing an appealing smell. The fragrances of the food10 the air and lingered around so much longer. Those memories, they become nostalgic (乡愁). The sense of home is what makes a11 good dish taste.

In 2017, my dad passed away. I reaized that my love of cooking dishes from my childhood. I 12 the restaurant that I own today. Cooking was a13 way to my dad. I wanted to 14 everything that he taught me. Cooking15 all the hard work and memories that we had.

Not everyone is excited about birthdays. There are many people out there who never feel excited about it. Going to office, wrestling with crowded public transport, having lunch in set duration, everything goes with the normal routine.

 What exactly makes them feel nothing special on the day of their bith?

This may be common in those who are in their 50's, 60's, the 70's... For some people in this age, life becomes a journey that is going on and on and on at a faster pace. They feel like losing control of their time and every passing year doubles the fear of dying soon. This is not good as it is negative.

Some people do not like to come to the notice of others due to any possible reason on this earth. You may feel amazed about this nature. But they like to remain as part of the crowd.  Because they bring people in sudden attention. They prefer to remain silent and follow the normal routine of daily life.

Here comes another part of the population that thinks it is a waste of money. This also includes people who are in debt and have multiple obligations. For instance, mostly a mess of short-term debts contributes to act strangely and expense restriction.

Instead of aiming for a perfect day, set realistic expectations for your birthday.

A. They don't like it either.

B. But they can't help doing so.

C. Birthdays are contrary to this feeling.

D. What makes them act so indifferent after all?

E. Everyone wants to know the plans of the birthday.

F. They do not spend on those who do not help earn money.

G. Nothing in their routine changes in the name of celebration.

Anyone keen to view from on high the prosperous cityscape of Guangdong, may soon can do so from the cabin of a flying taxi. On October 13th the Civil Aviation (航空) Administration of China (CAAC) awarded a "type certificate" to the world's first electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL)taxi. And the small two-seater, called the EH216-S, was also permitted to fly without a pilot on board.

The EH216-s is made by EHang, a company based in Guangdong. It looks like a large consumer drone with a passenger bubble installed on top. Propulsion (推动力) is provided by 16 small rotors (转子), installed on the tips of eight arms that fold away when the vehicle is not in use, allowing it to park in small spaces.

The CAAC gave its approval after EHang had conducted more than 40,000 test flights, including with volunteer passengers in 18 cities across China. It also monitored the EH216-s to structural analysis and crash tests, and checked its ability to keep flying if one of its rotors fails. Regulators (监管机构) also inspected the wireless network EHang uses to link its flying taxis to a control centre on the ground. That allows backup pilots to land an aircraft by remote control if there is a problem.

EHang says its pilotless eVTOLs will be quieter than helicopters and much cheaper to operate, thanks to the ability to swap out an expensive pilot for a second paying passenger. The firm also thinks that doing away with pilots will make things safer. A computer's attention never swings, and its reaction operate at a high speed. And it is much easier to automate than driving,for there are fewer barriers and unexpected situations to navigate.

EHang has ambitions beyond China, too. It has carried out demonstration flights in Amèrica and Europe with the aim of obtaining type certificates in both markets. But their regulators both have signalled that they will allow autonomous flights only after the vehicles have proved themselves safe in human hands.

Jim Curry lights a stove in the parking lot of Christ Episcopal Church in Guilford. It'll get up to 2,000 degrees, hot enough to soften the metal of shotgun parts so they can be reshaped.

A crowd is watching, and Curry picks out a 9-year-old named Oliver to help him. "This is really magic," Curry says. "Right before your very eyes, you're gonna see Oliver transform this gun, this instrument of potential harm, into something that could never be a gun ever again. It's gonna be a trowel (泥铲), which could be used to plant flowers in a garden."

"It is exciting," Oliver says. "I love the fact that you can take metal that's random and shape it into something useful."

Curry, a retired priest, is a co-founder of Swords to Plowshares (犁) Northeast, the organization putting on this event, which helps police departments manage their gun buyback programs and repurpose the weapons into gardening tools.

The finished tools are donated to community gardens and agricultural high schools and the harvested vegetables donated to soup kitchens and homeless shelters, according to the group's website.

Retired priest Mary Ann first volunteered with Swords to Plowshares when a family member fell victim to gun violence. She helps collect guns through police buybacks. "When there's such despair now in our country, people need to know that we can change. There is hope," she says.

Curry wears a constant reminder of that hope around his neck. It's two large pieces of metal molded into the shape of a cross. "It's made out of pieces of an AK-47 used for killing", he says. "But God's love breaks it apart, reshapes it, then transforms it into the sign of greatest hope — the cross. And that's why I wear it."

Family dynamics in the animal kingdom are as different as the animals themselves. In the animal world, there are advantages to be gained from being part of an extended family.

Chimpanzees

Chimpanzees are the world's largest living primates. These creatures are peace-loving and may live together for a lifetime. The dominant male has many wives who may stay with him for most of their lives, which can cause everyday conflicts. It is the male who settles the conflicts by a warning stare or hitting the back of the offenders' heads.

Elephants

Females stick together in the elephant world, living in herds under a stateswoman. The experience and knowledge of this elder one, who may be 60-years-old, are of great benefit. She will remember, for example,the location of water holes and seasonal food supplies. In times of danger, the group bunches around the young and it is the stateswoman who decides whether to flee or confront the threat.

Lions

Lions are the only cats to live in a large family group guarded by a pair of powerful males. Family life is relatively harmonious and baby lions may be fed by any mother with milk, so orphaned babies do not starve. Males live in the wilderness for some years before seeking their own pride by challenging resident males in a bloody battle. The male lion protects his pride from other males and enemies.

Ostriches (鸵鸟)

Ostriches travel in bands of 10-50 individuals, the most remarkable birds being the eight-foot-tall males. The largest birds in the world, ostriches cannot fly, but run fast. The wives of the male ostrich all put their eggs in the same nest. A primary female will then join the male to hatch (孵化) the eggs and she will push away other eggs on the outside to ensure her own are in the middle.

Chinese calligraphy is called the art of lines. Practicing calligraphy helps a person to achieve relaxation and inner peace. In the past, children  （train）at an early age to practice writing. Great attention is paid 

 calligraphy today with exhibitions and competitions among both the young and the old.  （learn）calligraphy, one will need a brush, ink, paper, and ink stone, which  （be）commonly recognized as the Four Treasures of Study. As Chinese culture spreads throughout the world nowadays, calligraphy is enjoying  （great）popularity than ever before. Many foreigners are practising it now.  calligraphy uses Chinese characters （汉字）as a way of expression, one does not have to know Chinese to admire its beauty.

1. 语法填空

The 53-year-old craftswoman Ji Yulan, an inheritor （继承人）of the intangible heritage （非物质遗产）of paper-cutting from Xinjiang, has engaged in the art for over 40 years. 

She made paper-cuts of people from all （walk）of life. One of her pieces showed a nurse with long, beautiful hair, wearing a mask and a protective hat. The craftswoman was deeply （impress）by female medical workers cut their long hair to better fit into the protective suits while fighting in the front line against the epidemic. "Women are attractive in long hair and takes a lot of courage to cut it," Ji said. So she created a paper-cutting work to show the image and named the piece The Angel in Harm's Way.

Ji has 12 students, aged from 3 to 

23. She often encourages her students to create works based on a younger mindset. "I am （extreme）positive about the future of the craft. The younger generation have a real sense of responsibility to protect （culture）heritage."

When a thought has found words

Poetry is the forgotten child of literature. Few people read it for pleasure. In Western high schools, poetry is seldom taught because it is considered to be out of date and have little to do with the life of today's students.

However, compared with the situation in the West, poetry is still an important part of the curriculum （课程）in China. Recently, the Ministry of Education has increased the number of ancient Chinese poems for students to memorize and recite, from 14 to 

72. Why is it important to learn poems? 

First of all, poetry is a necessary part of learning traditional Chinese culture. It is a path to understanding your history and your society. It is also the key to understanding the thoughts and feelings that are common to everyone but that we may be unable to express, the joy of Li Bai dancing with the moon, for example. Everyone has feelings of joy, love, loneliness, sadness and even anger, and a good poem can put those feelings into words and bring us self-understanding. 

Poems can also express beauty. In a few short lines, even something common can become beautiful. Here is a poem called Fog by Carl Sandberg: The fog comes/on silent haunches （弓腰）/and then moves on. Yes, a fog does move smoothly, silently and like a cat, and Sandberg catches that feeling and image, and makes it beautiful. 

Of course, to really enjoy poetry, it has to be read aloud. After all, a poem is really just a song without music. Most ancient poems, like Homer's Epics （《荷马史诗》）and China's Book of Songs, were spoken for hundreds of years before they were written.

The American poet Robert Frost said, "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." You are lucky that you now have seventy-two poems to learn!

You throw a flying disc （飞盘）. Your friend catches it. Well done! 

Flying discs are fun toys. They are becoming popular in China. On the Internet, there are more than thousands of posts about disc games, talking about things like rules and dress codes. 

Flying discs are very beginner-friendly. It is easy for anyone to throw a disc almost anywhere they want to, from a field to a beach. No special skills are needed. Boys and girls can also play together, making it a good activity to socialize.  

For those who want to compete, there are many choices. They can try the team disc sport called "ultimate". There are no judges. You must overcome your desire to cheat. Put simply, it makes us better people. In another game called "disc golf", players try to hit faraway targets with a disc. Like in golf, the lowest number of throws wins.

 They started with pie tins （烤盘）, which inspired the birth of the toy. After enjoying the pies, some university students soon found that the empty pie tins could be tossed （扔）around. They had great fun with them in the 1930s. In 1948, a man named Walter made a plastic disc with his partner Warren.  The discs quickly became popular. 

A. It could fly farther and higher than a pie tin. 

B. Flying discs have a history of nearly 100 years. 

C. Unlike other games, it encourages honesty and fair play. 

D. All these make the flying discs popular with young people today. 

E. In fact, young people enjoyed this fun activity almost a century ago. 

F. Social activities like attending parties will improve your communicative skills. 

Most people agree that honesty is a good thing. But does Mother Nature agree? Animals can't talk, but can they lie in other ways? Can they lie with their bodies and behavior? Animal experts may not call it lying, but they do agree that many animals, from birds to chimpanzees （大猩猩）, behave dishonestly to fool other animals. Why? Dishonesty often helps them survive.

Many kinds of birds are successful at fooling other animals. For example, a bird called the plover sometimes pretends to be hurt in order to protect its young. When a predator （掠食动物）gets close to its nest, the plover leads the predator away from the nest. How? It pretends to have a broken wing. The predator follows the "hurt" adult, leaving the baby birds safe in the nest.

Birds called cuckoos （布谷鸟）have found a way to have babies without doing much work. How? They don't make nests. Instead, they get into other birds' nests secretly. Then they lay their eggs and fly away. When the baby birds come out, their adoptive parents feed them.

Chimpanzees, or chimps, can also be sneaky. After a fight, the losing chimp will put out its hand to the other chimp. When the winning chimp puts out its hand, too, the chimps are friendly again. But an animal expert once saw a losing chimp take the winner's hand and start fighting again.

Chimps are sneaky in other ways, too. When chimps find food that they love, such as bananas, it is natural for them to cry out. Then others chimps come running. But some clever chimps learn to cry very softly when they find food. That way, other chimps don't hear them, and they don't need to share their food.

As children, many of us learn the saying "You can't fool Mother Nature." But maybe you can't trust her, either.

Those who make great discoveries must often overcome many challenges along the way—as was the case with the explorer Christopher Columbus. Columbus was born in a port city of Italy in 

1451. As a teenager, he loved sailing, and he showed great interest in geography, which inspired him to begin his career as a seaman. 

Columbus stuck to searching for a direct sea route to the East Indies by sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. After trying many times, he received financial support from the King and Queen of Spain. On 3 August 1492, he set off from Spain with three ships carrying about 90 crewmen. His adventure was full of challenges: it took longer than expected, they faced the lack of food, and one of the ships was leaking badly, which put everyone on this ship in great danger. The men on board were in panic. Although they faced so many challenges, Columbus managed to keep everyone out of danger with his knowledge and bravery across the ocean. Finally, on 12 October, the crew found land in the distance. Columbus called the natives living on the islands Indians because he believed that he was in the East Indies. However, the shores they had reached were of the Caribbean, not the East Indies. 

Between 1493 and 1504, Columbus found more land over the course of the following three voyages. The major contribution of this great explorer is that he "discovered" the New World. His discovery encouraged explorers such as Captain James Cook to explore and discover more vast areas of the world. His voyages opened a new chapter of the Age of Exploration.

Henry remembers the day well. It was a day that would change his life. He was sitting at the kitchen table, watching his ten-year-old granddaughter, Sophia, do her homework. She had asked him a question about history and was now 1 him with big brown eyes, waiting for an answer. Henry looked at the kettle and then out of the kitchen window. Henry can still hear himself say, "I'm sorry, my dear. I don't know."

Henry had spent forty years working as a librarian in a school. He was now 2  and spent his days looking after Sophia. However, he felt that he should be doing more with his life, though he was in his seventies with grey hair and 3  wrinkles in his forehead （额头）. As Sophia continued her homework, he read an article in the newspaper about the health 4  of older people going back to university. The article said that it kept the brain 5  and helped prevent loneliness. He made the 6  there and then. The next morning, he would go to Birkbeck, University of London and take a 7  in history. 

After four years, Henry got his degree in history. "8 the course has given me such a sense of achievement," he says. "It has also made me 9 about doing all the other things that I've never had the courage to try before. It's 10 too old to learn."

Zhang Shuo became a winner of Labor Day Medal of this year. Before that, he was 1 with the title of "the Most Beautiful Worker" on April 30,

2022. 

Zhang Shuo got a job of designing advertisements in Harbin in 

2015. Two years later, he decided to return to his hometown, Dongsheng Village in Hegang, to help his aging parents with their rice farm. He started his job as a food deliveryman （快递员）in 

2018. "I just wanted to use the off season of farming to 2 some money, and I didn't plan on it becoming a permanent （ 长 期 的 ）job," he said. "I found the 3 development space, so I decided to 4 and do better."

Zhang Shuo was always attaching more importance to the quality of service than the quantity of orders. In late December 2018, a snowstorm 5 deliverymen to take food to customers on foot. To prevent the food from getting cold, Zhang Shuo 6 the food with his coat. Around two hours later, the customer received his food and it was still 7 . Every time Zhang Shuo finished a（n）8 , he would take away the rubbish outside his customer's door, which brought him lots of good reviews.

In June, 2019, Zhang Shuo became the manager of the delivery operations of Meituan in Hegang City. Since then, he began to find more ways to help young villagers get out of poverty （贫穷）and increase their 9 . "I hope to recruit （招募）more excellent young people and double the size of my team in the future," he said. "10 , I hope to lead more local people to a better life."