Since the Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off on Feb 4, the mascot Bing Dwen Dwen has become an A-lister. “One Dwen at each family” has become a popular topic on Weibo, _________ about 600 million views.

Several months ago, Bing Dwen Dwen was chosen as the mascot for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The design came from 5,816 _________ from 38 countries and regions. Cao Xue, the chief designer said Bing Dwen Dwen started out life as a “Bingtanghulu”. _________ traditional Beijing snack consists of hawthorn（山植）coated in a sugar syrup, which later turns into an ice shell. _________, a simple snack couldn’t stand for a country by itself. Cao’s team tried many animals and plants and finally decided on a panda. “We don’t need to explain _________ to have it understood across different cultures,” said Cao.

Bing Dwen Dwen waves its left hand, _________ hello. It has two red hearts on its palms, showing _________ and love. A series of colored floating lines around its head look like the tracks on an ice rink（溜冰场）. _________ refer to Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval, known as the “Ice Ribbon”（冰丝带）. Bing Dwen Dwen wears a full-bodied “shell” _________ of ice. It looks like an astronaut in a space suit, showing a perfect blend （融合）of winter sports and modern technology. The ice shell also leaves space for __________ additional designs in the future.

The year 2022 will be a big year for sports in China. That’s ________ it will hold not only the 24th Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, but also the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou. It will be the ________ Chinese city to hold the Asian Games after Beijing and Guangzhou in 1990 and 2010.

The themes for the Hangzhou Asian Games are “green, smart, economical and civilized”.

On August 6, 2018, the official emblem (会徽) for the Hangzhou Asian Games was ________.

The emblem is called “Surging Tides (潮涌)”. It ________ six parts: a Chinese fan, the Qiantang River, a tidal bore (怒潮), a running track, the wifi symbol and the glowing red sun.

The mascots consist of three energetic robots. The first robot’s name is Congcong. It comes from jade cong. Its yellow color is the color of the earth and harvests. The name of the second robot is Lianlian. It is ________. Its name is from the lotus leaf. It stands for the West Lake. The third robot is called Chenchen. Its name is from Gongchen ________ which is over the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (运河). Its blue color stands for science and technology.

Eileen Gu, a Chinese-American skier (滑雪运动员), got two gold medals at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. However, she didn’t receive her _________ under the US flag. Gu competed for China.

Gu was born to an American father and a Chinese mother. She was _________ in San Francisco. She lived there for over ten years. The girl, however, has always been _________ that she has a Chinese root (根). She speaks Chinese well and calls herself a “Beijing girl”.

Gu _________ skiing when she was only three. She got her first _________ at the age of nine. Gu competed for the United States in that competition. Hoping to _________ tens of millions of Chinese children to love skiing, last June, the girl joined Team China.

Gu has already brought China medals. In August, she _________ the Australian New Zealand Cup. The young skier won two gold medals in the competition. Her _________ congratulated her online. After the competition, the number of them even _________ to 200,000. People called her—a “born skier.” Gu says she is only getting started. She won two gold and one silver medals for China at the 2022 Games. The ____________ makes us all excited and we take great pride in her!