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).

Life is often a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. Sun Yang was the first Chinese man     1     (win) an Olympic gold medal in swimming. That moment     2     (come) last month, when he won the men’s 200-meter freestyle event at the Asian Games.

Sun has accomplished a Golden Grand Slam, having won the 200, 400 and 1, 500-meter freestyle events at the Asian Games, World Championships and Olympic Games. His     3     (patient) and persistence have paid off. The 26-year-old swimmer told Xinhua News Agency, “Not many swimmers could have waited for eight years over three Asian Games like me. My dream has     4     (final) come true.”

While Sun stood on a podium (领奖台)     5     (listen) to the Chinese national anthem (国歌) along with the silver and bronze medal winners, a technical problem caused the medalists’ flags to drop to the ground. Sun jumped off the podium, walked over to the officials and demanded that the flags again.     6     the end, the officials held the flags up themselves as China’s national anthem played a second time.

Many Chinese Internet users thought Suns reaction to the incident to be an act of patriotism (爱国主义). “    7     is great to win the championship, but    8    (see) our national flag go up again is also very important. Winning the title is an achievement     9     will be remembered, but raising the flag again is also of great     10     (important).”

During his life, Dr. James Naismith worked as a doctor, taught P. E. and wrote several books.    1    he never thought it very important, Dr. Naismith is today best known for one thing---he was the    2    (invent) of basketball.

    3    (bear)in Canada in 1861, he first worked at a special sports school in the USA.

One day the school principal told James he was having a problem with the students. Because of heavy snow, the students could not go outside. He told James that they needed a sport that the boys could play indoors and gave him two weeks to think of something.

It was    4    the very last day that James came up with his idea. The “birth of basketball” is said to be on December 21, 1891,    5     two teams from the school played the     6    (one) game. It was quite different from the basketball games of today. It had nine players on each team, and footballs    7    (use) instead of basketballs. Soon after, the game changed to five players on each side,    8     (play) special “basketballs” on the court.

    9    (unfortunate), Dr. Naismith did not live to see basketball become the worldwide game as it is today. However, in 1936, just three years before his death, basketball became     10    Olympic sport at the games in Berlin.

Chinese Women's Volleyball Team once achieved great honor in the last century,     1    inspired so many people throughout the whole country. But during the last decade, as the old volleyball players retired     2    the new ones were not strong enough, the team met with various     3    (difficult). After     4     (win) an important match, Chinese Women's Volleyball Team announced     5     (they) return. Chinese Women's Volleyball Team had a very important match     6       Brazil team in the Rio Olympic Games. The hope to win was very little, because Brazil team was the champion of last two Olympic Games and Chinese team only won one match for the last 18 records. What's more, almost all the audience     7    (support) Brazil team. It seemed that to win the match was     8     (possible) for the Chinese team, but under the guidance of coach Lang, the girls were very strong and determined     9       (fight) for the last minute. Even when they lost the first game, they never gave up.Especially for the last two points, they were so brave and     10    （final） won the match.

Gao Tingyu thrilled the home crowd by becoming the first Chinese man to claim an Olympic gold medal in speed skating,     1    (win) the 500 meters on Saturday.

“Gao has conducted an     2    (extreme) fast and excellent performance at the Speed Skating Oval. And the March of the Volunteers will be played again inside the stadium.” said the message from the General Administration of Sport shortly     3    the competition. This was also the fourth gold medal for Team China at the Beijing Olympic Winter Games     4     the first Olympic gold in the country’s speed skating history.

In 2018, the highly potential Gao already got a bronze medal at Pyeongchang Olympics in South Korea, as he said after the win in Pyeongchang: “I feel like that my capacity has reached the point     5     I can compete for Olympic medals. As long as I’m in a stable state of mind, I think for me the opponent is only     6    (I).”

Ever since he     7    (admit) into China’s speed skating team in 2015, Gao has won championships in competitions     8     (hold) home and abroad. He has suffered from severe back     9    (injury) and had an eight-month break before competing in the China Speed Skating Championship in 2021.

Gao was also the     10    (nation) flag bearer of the opening ceremony of Beijing 2022 on February 4.