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Lang Ping was a Chinese professional volleyball player when she was young and she brought honour and glory to China. Years later, she led the China women’s volleyball team     1     medals at world championships and the Olympics as a coach. And as a person, she     2     (love) by fans at home and abroad. During the preparation for the 2015 World Cup, she faced     3     great challenge: losing two important players. But Lang didn’t lose heart but     4     (hold) on to her belief.     5     (final), they became the world champions.

       Michael Jordan was known as “Air Jordan” and changed basketball with his graceful moves and jumps. His skills were     6     (impress), but the mental     7     (strong)   made him unique. Jordan always seemed     8     (find) a way to win in the final seconds of a game. He owed his success to learning from failures,     9     taught him to practise harder and never give up. In life, he also tried his best to help others. The Boys and Girls Club he started was a great try to help young people,     10     (make) him more popular among the young.

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When it comes to volleyball, we can’t help     1     (think) of Lang Ping. Lang Ping used to be a     2     (fame) player. Now she is also known as a coach who brings honor     3     glory to our country. Led by her, Chinese womenvolleyball team won the world championship in 2019,     4     made the whole nation excited.

Lang Pingwas born in Tianjin in 1960. She began playingvolleyballas a teenagerand     5     (final) joined the national team in 1978. Her height made    6     possible for her to play volleyball well. Lang Ping and her teammates playedsowell that theywon goldmedalsseveral timesin    7    1980s.

In 1995, she returned to China to work as a coach. When the Chinese team was preparing for the 2015 WorldCup, her determination     8     (test).Her teamwas fallingapart， as she lost two important players. But Lang Ping did not lose heart. She     9     (face) difficulties before, and she knew that her young players could win if they worked together as a team. Two weeks later, they were world     10     (champion)!

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Su Bingtian of China set a new Asian record when he clocked 9.83 seconds in the men’s 100-meter sprint(短跑) semifinal at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics.     1     he ranked sixth in the final, he     2    (clock) a respectable 9.98 seconds, 0.18 seconds behind winner Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy.

Besides     3    (set) the shortest time record for Asia, Su is also the first Chinese to make     4     to the men’s 100-meter Olympic final. He has done remarkably well, considering that at 32, he is much older than his     5    (compete), who are mostly in their 20s or even younger. Also, his 172 centimeter height is not     6     one would call a dream height for a sprinter.

The spirit of going beyond himself and the Olympic motto inspired Su     7    (deep), who continued even though most of his teammates retire by the time they turn 28. When Chinese athlete Liu Changchun participated in the men’s 100-meter and 800-meter events at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, the entire Chinese team     8    (make) up of just 6 persons, and Liu had to rely     9     donation from local Chinese-Americans to pay for his return fare.

For the moment, the days of weakness has long been a thing of past, and we hope Chinese sportsmen realize more glorious achievements in the days     10    (come).