当季新题26年9-12月

1 - 爱做手工的人

A person who is good at making things by hand

• Who the person is

  • Speaking of the person who is good at making things by hand, I want to talk about my childhood friend Amy who is really good at making pottery with her hands. She is super into pottery. Amy is one of my closest friends. She has a regular desk job, nothing related to art. Pottery is just something she does after work to relax. She has been making pottery for about two years.

• What she makes.

  • She has made many kinds of useful pieces for her home. For instance, she has made mnay kinds of plates or bowls that we once used for dinner in her home. She also has a set of figurines on her shelf. By the way, she usually gives us some mugs, some handsome mugs she made by herself.

• What material or technology she used to make.

  • Honestly, I don't understand the technical side of it. I just know it may take several hours for her to finish one piece. She uses an electronic machine that spins round and round, plus her hand, to shape the clay on top of it, and at the end, all things goes into an oven just like baking some bread.

• Why You think she is good at making things by hand

  • I think the reason she is good at pottery is that she is really careful and patient. When something goes wrong, she will just do it again instead of keeping the bad ones. It makes her really happy and proud when she finishes. I think it is a really good way for her to relax herself after a busy day.

2 - 经常做的浪费时间的事情

• What it is?

  • I want to talk about something that I almost do every day, but I think is really a waste of time: scrolling through short videos on my phone, mainly on an application called TikTok.

• When you usually do

  • I usually do this at night just before I fall asleep. I will just tell myself I only watch for five minutes, but somehow one or two hours just disappear.

• Why you do it

  • I do it mostly for relax and for funny. There are many kinds of art forms on tiktok such as gossip clicks and funny videos or even short dramas. I watch them without using any parts of my brain, so I can let my brain just relax deeply.

• Why you think it is a waste of time

  • The next morning, I usually forget everything I watched the night before, and I get very depressed because the time I go to bed is much later than I thought. I really think scrolling through short videos on my phone is a black hole of my time, and I gain nothing from it

3 - 做重要决定并且对结果满意

• 高考填报志愿来北邮

• What the decision was

  • I want to talk about the decision I made back in 2023, just after I finished my college entrance exam. At that time, I was applying to the university, and I ended up picking Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications to study computer science.

• Why you made the decision

  • The reason for it is quite simple. I have been quite into computers since my childhood, and I want to learn something about the computer field. For another reason, I have spent 18 years in the same city in China, which is also my hometown, so I really wanted to change cities for where I attended college. Therefore, I chose Beijing as my first choice.What's more, my grades in the college entrance exam were quite suitable for me, so Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications was my top choice.

• How easy it was for you to make the decision

  • Honestly, it wasn't hard for me to make that decision.First of all, I wanted to choose a city that's not very far away from my hometown, Tianjin. Beijing is one of the top cities on my list.Another reason is that my college, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, is quite suitable for my choice and my love for computers, because it fits in computer science.So, I made up my mind very quickly, in just a couple of days.

• Explain why you were happy with the results

  • Actually, I'm really happy to make this choice. There are so many parks in Beijing now, so I can easily find somewhere to just take a walk, or just sit there in some parks to stay away from my desk and just relax myself.And for other things, it's really convenient for me to go back to my hometown. The infrastructure here in Beijing is quite convenient, so it only takes me half an hour on a high-speed train to go back to my home. But most importantly, I have made many good friends here, and this is the best and the most important part that makes my decision worthwhile

4 - 一个快乐幸福的人

• Who the person is

  • Speaking of a happy person, I will speak of my childhood friend Amy , who I think is a happy and fulfilled person . Amy is a close friend of mine since my childhood and she has a regular job of with an average salary.But she lives her life more proudful and meaningful.

• What she is like

  • She is a really patient and careful person who has developed a fondness for pottery. Instead of caring about others, buying a house or cars, or getting promoted, she only cares about her own things. She likes making handcrafts with her own hands And really enjoys the whole process

• How she show happiness

  • What I notice most is is how she show happiness through small things she made. She use her machines to make many kinds of plates and bowls and she also love cooking. So we have had many good meals and have many good dinners at her home with her own made food and own made plates. What's more, she also love make some handsome mugs that he she always send me as some gifts or birthday gifts. The mugs she made are so handsome that I often use almost every day.

• Why do you think she is a happy person

  • I think Amy is a happy person because she can find happiness through small things instead of big satisfactions. She can find true love and true peace in her simple life, while others may need some very big issues or very big goals to Demonstrated themselves. As an old saying goes, happiness is always found in the simple life. She is the person I always want to get along with and try to learn her way of life

5 - 看名人被采访的经历

• Who the famous person was

  • The person was Eileen Gu, the famous freestyle skier at the Beijing Winter Olympics who competed for China.She was only 18 at that time, but after a few games, everybody in China knew her name

• What the interview was about.

  • It was the interview after the final jump, in which she won the gold medal. The reporter asked why she chose such a difficult jump as her last run, because she had never done that before. She said it's never about a gold medal, She just wanted to see how far she can push herself. That was really impressive.

• When and where did you watch the interview

  • I watched the interview on the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. I was watching the whole game live on TV, and the interview just came straight after the competition finished

• How you felt about the interview

  • I was astonished by how calm and how brave she was. She just finished the biggest challenge and goal in her life, winning the biggest gold medal for our country. But her answer was very clear and organized. She just sounds like she didn't prepare for the speech in advance, and she doesn't seem out of breath. That made me admire her more

6 - 学历史、爱历史的人

• Who the person is

  • I want to talk about my close friend Amy, who really likes learning about history. Amy was one of my close friends. We have met since childhood, and She has always been interested in history way more than anyone our age

• How she learn history

  • She learns about history in a few different ways. First, she focuses on reading many biographies that focus on different and specific periods. What's more, She also joins some online forums where she chats with other history lovers

• Why she love history.

  • I think she loves history because it feels like watching a drama that actually happened in real life. There are villains, heroes, and many big turning points in history, so it never boring for her. She once told me that when some historical events happened, it was just as exciting as any TV show.

• How you feel about her

  • I really admire her love for history. Despite a lot of people feeling bored with history, she makes it very exciting Whenever she talks about it. Spending time with her has actually makes me fond of history too.

7 - 有条理的人

• Who the person is.

  • I want to talk about my mom, who is the most organized person in my family.She takes care almost everything at my family

• What the person usually does to stay organized

  • Her main tool is a paper calendar that hangs on our kitchen wall. She writes everything on it: my father's business trip and her appointment, and she even uses different colors to identify different people. And she knows about everything in my family. She said everything has its own place, So it is really easy for me to find something that I need in my home.

• In what situation you notice that quality?

  • Not really one moment.Our house has just been like this since I was little and I never have to look for anything. I think I have picked it up from her too. I start making a list for everything now.

• Why do you think being organized is important to her

  • I think she does this mainly for the rest of the family. Both my parents work full time and there are a lot of things going on in my home, so if she didn't prepare for everything, things would fall apart very quickly.That is just how she shows cares about my family

8 - 喜欢去的城市自然之地

• 水上公园

9 - 吵闹的地方

• I'd like to talk about Kunming Airport — specifically the boarding area, which is probably the noisiest place I've ever been in.

• It happened last summer, right at the end of my holiday. I was flying back from Kunming to Tianjin, so I was just sitting at the gate, waiting to board. Everything was going smoothly until a storm started rolling in.

• The announcements kept coming over the loudspeakers and People were arguing at the desk with the staff. Moreover there were kids crying at the top of their lungs. So I tried to tune it all out and put my earphones on — but honestly, the noise still came straight through.

• I think that's what made it so bad: it wasn't just one loud noise, it was layer upon layer of them. The announcements, the arguments, the crying, all piled on top of each other, and there was nowhere to escape. And that's the thing about a noisy place — it doesn't just hurt your ears, it wears you down mentally. By that point I was genuinely irritated, and I could feel myself getting more and more impatient.

• In the end I waited an extra four hours with my earphones in. And honestly, even now, the sound of a busy airport makes me tense up.

10 - 合并组 - 小时候学的新技能&教你技能的人

• 复用pottery的Amy

• I'd like to talk about my childhood friend Amy, who taught me about how to make pottery

• Amy is one of my closest friends. We have known each other since we were kids. And she has been making pottery since then. Making pottery is a way for her to switch off after busy days. She has been at it for years now, and her home is full of things that she made: plates, bowls, and a whole shelf of little figurines. We even have dinner at her home using the plates she made on her own.

• We started with the simplest things, a small bowl. She used an electronic machine that spins round and round, plus her hand to show me how to shape the clay on top of it. At the end, she put everything into an oven, just like baking some bread, and after a few minutes, everything is done

• . I think she is a really patient and careful person. If something goes wrong when she is making a piece of pottery, she will do it again rather than just keeping the bad ones. She also sends some handmade marks that she made herself as a gift for me. I really appreciate it

11 - 爱拍照的人

• Who is he and how I know him

  • I want to talk about my friend Alex, who really likes taking photos. We met at university about three years ago. Now he is a part-time photographer, and some of his photos are bought by travel magazines and websites.

• Where he take photos

  • He goes to all kinds of nature places. Mountains are probably his favorite, but he also shoots lakes, forests, and coasts. Every year he travels to three or four different spots, and most of them are quite far away and hard to get to. Sometimes he drives for hours and still has to walk for a long time to reach the right place.

• How I feel him

  • I really admire him. He can go to the same mountain several times just to wait for the right weather. I think many people wouldn't do that. And I also think he is very lucky he can make the things he loves into the job he does. Maybe many people couldn't do what they love for a living, so I'm really happy for every photo he takes

12 - 比你年长的一个你崇拜的人

• 复用爱拍照的人 - Alex，讲成older两岁

• I want to talk about my friend Alex, who is two years older than me. We first met in our college, and we both participated in the same photography lesson. At that lesson, we teamed together, finished the tasks, and took some photos that are signed by our teachers.Both of us really like taking photos, so we have a lot of times driving hundreds of miles away and walking for a long, long time to get to the right spot to take photos. Once we get into an isolated mountain, just waiting for some photos, that's mainly about sun rising.He has recently become a part-time photographer, and I am really proud of him. I really admire him because he has made something he likes and loves into a job he makes a living on. What's more, he is very patient and careful. He can go to the same spot for six and seven times in a row, just waiting for the correct weather to capture the best moment.

13 - 听不感兴趣的话

• 大学演讲

• I'd like to talk about a lecture I had to attend at my university this term. It was supposed to be two hours long and, honestly, those two hours feels like a whole afternoon.

• The speaker was a professor from another university who had been invited to give a speech On the spirit of technology innovation. for me it was compulsory. I'm a party member, so attendance was required

• . And here's the thing: the only part I can understand clearly was the poems he yelled out at the end of each section. He yelled really loud and clear. By that time in the afternoon, I was struggling to stay awake every time I was about to fall asleep, booming voice woke me up suddenly. I think that happened several times.

• Honestly, it's really a disaster lecture. Those words he said, and that poetry he yelled, really made me feel threatened at that afternoon

14 - 收到好的服务

• 换成换小米手机比价格

• 。I'd like to talk about a Xiaomi home store that is Xiaomi official retail in a shopping mall not far from my campus

• . I went there on the 13th of November last year. Due to my old phone's battery being completely dead, I decided it was time for a new phone

• . When I arrived, staff there never introduced the most expensive ones to me, but instead they asked how I use my phone and introduced some very practical choices for me. And what's more, they helped me recycle my phone. There is a software on their phones that can compare many prices provided by many recyclers based on the condition of my old phone. They helped me save about 2000 Yuan then, and finally I got my new phone. They also helped me transfer the data and information from the old one to the new one. Honestly, I came away genuinely impressed. It was a clear and fast selling and recycling, and I really appreciated them

15 - 成功的运动员

• 复用谷爱凌

• I'd like to talk about Eileen GU. She is the freestyle skier who compete for China at the 2022 Peking Winter Olympics. By the end of those games, everybody in China know her name

• She was only 18 years old at the Beijing at the Olympics in 2022 and she grew up in a and she grew up in the United States, but with but with her mother from China so she can fluently speaking both English And Chinese

• I have never met her, so I can only judge her from the some TV shows and those games he performed. But the impression I get it is that she is very calm, clear hand, clear handed and clear head, clear headed and modest. She answered questions without any doubt and nothing she says ever sounds real pre preorganized

• But what really made me admire her was the interview right after that final jump. The reporter asked why she chose such a difficult jump for her last run and she said, It's never about the gold medal. I just want to see how far I can push myself he just achieved the biggest goal of her life, yet she was completely calm and organized, not even out of breath. I was genuinely astonished.

16 - 做困难的事并且成功的人

• 复用谷爱凌

• I want to talk about alin GU, who competed for China in 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics games

• She managed the most difficult moves in the final jump at the gold medal match. At that time, it was the last run for her, and she chose a trick that she never landed before, even in training. As you can see, the whole country was watching at her, and she picked a trick that she never succeeded at once. But she finally did it in the last run and took the gold eventually

• . I think there are two reasons for her to be successful. For one thing is the courage she equipped with. From her singing in the interviews after the competition, she summarized herself: "It's not about the gold medal, it's about how far I can push myself." She has the courage I never had ever before.

  And for another thing, there are years of training behind the golden medal. With that amount of training, she can perform her best at the final match.

• I was astonished by the performance she performed in the final competition and the calamity she showed on the interview really attracts me

17 - 存钱买的特殊物品

• 复用拍照用的相机

• 。The special thing was my camera, Sony A7 Mark IV, which is a full-frame mirrorless camera. It cost me about 10,000 Yuan, and I bought it in 2023 with the money I saved up myself

• . I have been into photography since I entered college, but at that time I only had my phone camera. That was very embarrassing for me, so I decided to buy a camera then. As a student majoring in computer science, I know how a device actually works. With a camera in my hand, I can take control of everything, including shutter speeds, even the ISO, and anything else

• . I save up my money. Each month, I will save about 1000 Yuan from my living allowance. That means I should eat less and not buy things online to save this thousand Yuan for my camera

• . I felt pretty excited when I bought the camera. I traveled around my country several times just to use the camera to take some photos, and I once visited the same mountain five times in a row, just waiting for the best weather to capture the best moment of it. It's really a fantastic moment for me to use this camera

18 - 拥挤的地方

• 复用吵闹的地方

• I want to talk about the Kunming international AirPort especially the brooding area, This boarding area is the most crowded space this boarding area is the most crowded space I have seen in my life.

• It was back to the last year, last summer holiday me and my parents, both my sisters went to take vacations on in Kunming and we were about to fly back to Tianjin to end this holiday. After we checked in there was a storm approached so many airlines was delayed. And soon the waiting terminal was quickly occupied by so many people. Many people had no choice but only to sit on the ground due to the limitation of the seats. Me and my family were lucky to find some seats at the corner.

• For the next four hours, we all put on our headphones and listened to some music. We all turned the volume up, just to avoid the noise of the announcements about delayed airlines there.

• Honestly, by the end I was exhausted and pretty tired. As soon as I got on my aircraft, I fell asleep. It was very crowded to get on board, and it was really a terrible memory for me

19 - 不喜欢的电影

• 大话西游

• I want to talk about a movie called A Chinese Odyssey. I watched it during the 2014 Spring Festival holiday when I was only in fourth grade in elementary school. That means I was nine years old. I watched it in a cinema that was very close to the Tianjin station. It's an old one, but very convenient to get to. There are seven people in a row.There are seven people of us together watching this film, including me and my mom, also my mom's colleagues and the kids of the colleagues.

  To be honest, I only watched the beginning of this movie for about 20 minutes. It was very scary for me at that time. There are plenty of jump scares and frightening moments in the beginning of this movie, but it's actually to be a Hong Kong Comedy in the end, and it's based on the tales in it, based on the formal books called 'A Journey to the West' in China.

• What I dislike most is the embarrassing feeling when I pulled my mother out of the cinema and rushed out of the station just to relax myself, while the other kids were still watching and stayed in the cinema. I pulled my mother out, leaving those five guys just watching by themselves. It's really embarrassing for me to show this impoliteness to my mother and in front of those kids

20 - 经常去但不喜欢的短行程

• 假期返校

• I'd like to talk about the trip from my hometown, Tianjin to Beijing, mainly for my university. It only takes about two hours door to door, but I really hate it

• . This trip often happens when a holiday finally comes to an end, just like the end of the winter holiday and the end of the summer holiday, or even the end of a long weekend. When I sit on the subway in Tianjin, it really means my holiday comes to an official end.It takes about 30 minutes on Metro Line 3 in Tianjin from my home to the Tianjin station. On the high-speed railway, it takes about 40 minutes from Tianjin to Beijing, and it also takes 30 to 40 minutes from the Beijing station to my university

• . I go to my college mainly because I'm a student. I have to leave my hometown and go back to my lessons there. This is my duty as a student

• . There are two main reasons why I don't like these trips. For the most important one, it means my holidays come to an official end. I have no choice but return to my classes. For another reason is that it means leaving my family behind, especially after a few weeks at home with my parents, my sisters and my grandma

• . I don't dislike our country's capital, Beijing, but I just hated the feeling when I come back to Beijing

21 - 受欢迎的人

• 复用Amy

• I like to talk about my close friend Amy. We have been met since we were kids, and she has been popular since then. Everyone who knows her likes her.She has a fond of pottery and really kind to the people who meet her

• . She is a very patient and careful person who always caters for her friends. What's more, she is also very nice to her friends. She often gives away some pieces of her own made potteries to her friends, like some plates, bowls, or even some mugs and figurines. Once, she and several friends had a dinner at her home with the plates she own made. It is really nice for her to have such a useful hobby

• . We have been friends since childhood, and we often chat on daily routines. She is now studying architecture in Tianjin, and I am majoring in computer science in Beijing, so it is quite a long time for me to see her. Maybe in a few weeks when I return to Tianjin, I will hang out with her for some time

• . She is really nice and kind to the people who meet her, so it is no wonder she is very popular among our friends. I really admire her.

22 - 读了让你开心的一本书

• WANDERING EARTH

23 - 爱去的一个建筑

• PRIMER ZHOU'S MEMORIAL HALL

• . I'd like to talk about the Memorial Hall of 周恩来 and 邓颖超. It is in Nankai District in Tianjin, right next to the park called the Water Park, and it is also about 10 minutes walk from my home

• . I knew it since I was a child. It is a part of my community, so me and my family often walk past it constantly. What's more, the Metro Line 3 in Tianjin is just next to the Memory Hall, so when I take the subway, I will take a glance at the gardens in there

• . It is a large and modern building, place stones on every wall, mainly for the memory of our primer Zhou.Its architecture styles showed a plain and simple love to our extraordinary primer Zhou

• . The main reason is not for the building itself, but for the respect and love to our Jordan re per Zhou. And it also connects to the park near it. Every time after I finish the memory, I will take some steps in the park nearby. It will allow me to embrace the fresh air and be closer to the local atmosphere

24 - 合并组 - 帮助他人&健康的人

• I want to talk about how I help my father and both myself lose weight back into 2021

• . It was just after the epidemic in 2020, so both me and my father put on some weight due to the epidemic restrictions, my father tried some ways to lose his weight, but he always failed to keep on after a few weeks. So I suggest we do it together, and I think we both need someone to keep on and cheer up. So, here it is.

• There are two parts in the whole process. For one part, me and my father often take some steps in the park near my home. It is called Water Park, just 500 meters away from my home. We took some steps in there and skip the ropes after walking. And for the other part, that is me and my dad. We both have had a good diet: we ate less rice, ate more vegetables, and there are no more late-night snacks

• . We managed to keep it for the whole year in 2021, and finally I lost eight kilograms and my father lost seven kilograms. That's really meaningful for both of us

25 - 合并组 - 和朋友度过的愉快夜晚&印象深刻的聚会

• . I want to talk about a party with my closest friends on the second of October, over the national holiday in China. It was held in a KTV in the Nankai district, just one kilometer away from my home. It is a karaoke place where you rent a private room to sing songs for several hours

• . It was basically a reunion of my best friends and buddies from high school. After we graduated, we ended up at different universities, and some of us even moved to other cities, just like me. So it was a precious time for us to meet together again

• . There are six of us, six buddies all in the same high school, and when we were 18 years old, we had the best friendship ever

• . What impressed me most was the last song the six of us all participated in that night: "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion. As you can guess, these guys were just yelling for the best part of that song, and it was a really precious memory for me and for my mates. We all like these songs, and it sounds too high for people like us, but we still enjoy it. Even our songs are really bad to listen to.