2019年2月11日，USAP中国站的比赛在成都拉开了帷幕。有来自全国各地学校的代表参加了这次比赛，大家都想金榜题名，为学校获得荣誉并争取美国赛的资格。
我先为大家介绍一下USAP是一个什么比赛？
USAP全名United States Academic Pentathlon 也就是美国学术五项全能，分别由数学，艺术，社科，科学和文学组成。USAP作为美国首屈一指的初高中生综合学术学术活动平台，已经拥有46年历史了，它能让青少年在这5个学术科目里充分开发潜力，而我们这次去成都参加的usap中国赛晋级的队伍可成功前往美国参加的USAP决赛。
在2018年的一天，我们接到教导处的通知，要在每个星期三的社团课时间到固定的教室里进行USAP赛前的校内练习。随后，我们在每个星期三的社团课时间都会按时抵达教室。在学校里，进行练习时都会有外教老师来帮助我们一起学习USAP书上的五项全能知识。有学校精心挑选的专业书籍，有外教们不辞辛苦地专注辅导，同学们也都更加认真地对待这次比赛！
转眼就到了比赛的那一天。赛前，大家都在调整自己的状态，互相说着“不要紧张”“发挥出正常水平就行”等加油的话，王主任也一直在旁边鼓励我们！可是，不紧张是不可能的，大家情不自禁地总想着再翻开书，再复习一下……比赛也在大家期待又紧张的氛围中开始了……
整场比赛中，我印象最深的是五项全能的超级问答环节，超级问答分为3轮，第一组是对答组，第二组是学者组，第三组是荣誉组。这个比赛分为3轮，每一轮共十题，总共30题，一题积一分，答对后，后面的裁判员会举绿旗，答错会举红旗。第一轮，我们组是由我和吴旭恒来做，前面连对了两道，后面开始连错了4道，我们的心态开始慌乱，我和吴旭恒泰然自若的表现背后是怦怦的心脏跳动声和开始冒细汗的手掌，紧张和压力向我们扑面而来，如果一直错下去的话，不仅成绩会和其他参赛选手拉开，更会给接下来参加比赛的队友们带来很多困难，但我们还是选择坚持到底，最终答对了4道错了6道题。我和吴旭恒比赛完都很沮丧，懊恼没有发挥出最好的水平，没能给队友争得更多的分数。不过，大家都没有抱怨，反而都在对我们说着“题目不简单，你们还打头阵，已经表现得不错了……”鼓励的话。瞬间我特别感动有这样一群互帮互助的好队友。我们为接下来即将参加比赛的队友赵树文等人说了自己参赛应对题目和调整心态的经验。接下来的比赛，果然不出我所料，他们答的时候，后面的裁判员基本上都举起绿旗，很少有红旗了，答题连连正确后更加鼓舞了我们的士气。最后，要轮到最强的荣誉组的人出场了，他们是龙悦和张屹昕，当时场下一片鼓励加油的声音，能听到我们团队的六年级所有人都在为他们鼓劲儿！又是一片飘绿，我们班的英语学霸唐诗和其他队友不负众望，对了7个，错了3个，我们3轮结束积了17分。尽管总分数并不突出，但我们都尽己所能地认真对待比赛，最终我们还得了一个最佳组织奖，整个团队由衷地爆出热烈的掌声，感谢学校老师们的谆谆教导，感谢队友们互帮互助，更感谢自己的努力付出！
对我来说，参加这次大赛本身就是自我突破的过程。并不擅长英语的我，迈出了第一步，给了我很多的鼓励，更让我受益匪浅。来自全国各地的参赛队伍同台竞争，让我感受到了比赛的残酷，更感受到了人外有人天外有天的现实。我感受到了自己外语运用能力的欠缺，通过赛前的准备复习也让我的语言能力有了很大的提高。而且在这次usap比赛里，我交到了两个其他学校的朋友，真是不虚此行！
通过本次活动，让我坚信不忘初心，方得始终，道路虽然艰辛，但一定收获满满。难忘的成都USAP之行，我们在参与中成长了！
Chengdu USAP trip, grow up in participation
On February 11, 2019, the USAP China Station competition will begin in Chengdu. Schools from all over the country have come to participate in the competition. Everyone wants to make a gold medal to win honors and qualifications for their school.
First of all, let me introduce to you what kind of competition USAP is. The full name of USAP is United States Academic Pentathlon, which is the American Academic Pentathlon. It consists of mathematics, art, social sciences, science and literature. USAP is the first comprehensive academic competition platform for junior and high school students in the United States. Now, it has 46 years of history. It can enable teenagers to fully develop their potential in these five academic fields. This time, we went to Chengdu to participate in USAP China. Advanced teams can successfully travel to the USAP finals in the United States.
One day in 2018, we received a notice from the teacher that every Wednesday, we should go to the regular classroom for pre-USAP practice. Then, we will arrive at the classroom on time for every Wednesday's class. In the school, we have foreign teachers to help us learn the five omnipotent knowledge in USAP. There are professional books carefully selected by schools, foreign teachers who spare no pains to concentrate on counseling, and students are also more serious about this contest!
Later, one day after another, it was the day of the competition. Before the competition, everyone was adjusting their state. We were all saying to each other not to be nervous, just to play a normal level. Director Wang also encouraged us! But it's impossible to be no nervous. I always want to open the book and review it again. The competition also started in a tense atmosphere of expectation.
In the whole competition, I was most impressed by the super quiz link of pentathlon. The super quiz is divided into three rounds. The first group is the answer group, the second group is the scholar group, and the third group is the honor group. This competition is divided into three rounds, each round has ten questions, a total of 30 questions, one question accumulates one point. After the answer is correct, the referee behind will raise the green flag and the wrong answer will raise the red flag. In the first round, Wu Xuheng and I did our group. In the first round, we got two straight lines and four wrong ones. Our mentality began to panic. Behind Wu Xuheng and I's calm performance, our heartbeat and palms started to sweat. Tension and pressure came to us. If we kept on making mistakes, we would not only get bad results but also will bring a lot of difficulties to the teammates who will take part in the next match, but we still persevered in the end, and finally answered four wrongd and six questions right. Wu Xuheng and I were very frustrated after the match, frustrated that we did not play the best level, and failed to win more points for our teammates. However, instead of complaining, everyone is saying to us, "The topic is not simple, you are still in the lead, and you are doing well..." Encouraging words. Instantly, I was particularly moved by such a group of good teammates who helped each other! For the next team-mate Zhao Shuwen and others who will participate in the competition, we said our experience in dealing with the problems and adjusting their mentality in the competition. The next game, as I expected, when they answered, the referees behind them basically raised the green flag, rarely the red flag, even more inspired our morale after the correct answer! Finally, it's the turn of the strongest honor group, who are TonyLongand Yixin Zhang. There was a voice of encouragement and cheering. We can hear all the sixth graders of our team cheering for them! It was green again. Our class grisliness English learner Sally and other teammates failed to live up to expectations. Seven of them were right and three were wrong. At the end of the three rounds, we accumulated 17 points. Although the total score is not outstanding, but we all do our best to take the competition seriously, and eventually we won a best organization award. the whole team heartily burst out warm applause, thank the teachers of the school for our earnest teaching, thank teammates for helping each other, but also thank our efforts!
For me, participating in the contest itself is a self-breakthrough, I am not good at English, I took the first step to give me a lot of encouragement, but also let me benefit a lot. Competition with teams from all over the country has made me feel the cruelty of the competition and the talent from outside. I deeply felt my lack of foreign language ability, and my language ability has been greatly improved through the preparation and review before the competition. Moreover, I also made two friends from other schools in this USAP competition.
It's a worthwhile trip! Let me firmly believe in not forgetting the first heart, and always, although the road is arduous, but will certainly harvest a lot! Unforgettable trip to Chengdu USAP, we grew up in participation.
