In a faraway place, there was a village. The village was1in potatoes than anywhere else in the country. At the end of every growing season,2potatoes were dug out of the ground, and readied for market. In each home, men and women would3divide the potatoes into three groups: large, medium and small.

    One year, there was a young man4received his share of the potatoes. As the other villagers5, he walked around the village laughing and talking.6villagers thought he was lazy, and they worried that this man would never get7potatoes ready in time. When it was time for the villagers8to market, they were greatly surprised to find that the man's potatoes9perfectly into three groups.

    After10the man how he did it, they understood he was not lazy,11very clever. He had put all his potatoes in a cart and pulled it along the village's rough dirt road. As the cart moved up and down over the road, the potatoes moved12. The small potatoes moved to the bottom, the larger potatoes rose to the top and the medium potatoes rested13the middle.

    Life14like this too. The rough roads we travel along can also15us.

    Every four years, in a different country around the world, there is a big sport competition. It is like the Olympics but only for one sport—the most popular sport in the world! What do you know about the history of the World Cup?

    The first World Cup was in 1930, in Uruguay (乌拉圭). In the final game Uruguay beat Argentina and became the first World Cup winner. 13 countries played in the first World Cup. Now there are 32 countries in the competition.

    The first time people saw the World Cup on TV was in 1954 when Switzerland held the competition. Now about 3 billion people in countries all over the world watch the World Cup on TV.

    Until 2002 the World Cup was always in a European or an American country. South Korea and Japan held the first Asian World Cup. The first African World Cup was in 2010 in South Africa.

    The 2018 World Cup was the 21st one. It took place in Russia from 14 June to15 July 2018, after the country had been awarded (授予) the hosting rights in December 2010.

    It was the first World Cup held in Europe since the 2006 tournament (比赛) in German, and the first ever to be held in Eastern Europe. All the places for this big game are in European Russia.

We should do something to worries.

    These days people are crazy about Wu Dajing. He broke his own world record in men's 500m short—track speed skating (短道速滑)!

    When he was young, he noticed two Chinese speed skaters on TV and then he decided to take up this sport. Wu started to learn to skate in 2004, and six years later he became a member of the national team.

    On February 22, 2018, Wu won the men's 500m short-track speed skating with a time of 39.584 seconds and became the first Chinese to win an Olympic short track gold. " I'm happy to win China's first gold here and I look forward to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics," Wu said.

    In fact, it is not the first time Wu has shown his talent in skating. He has won many medals at many world championships (锦标赛). Wu believes that as long as he works hard, he will succeed.

—You can give them away to poor children.

a man as he deals with you.