It’s time to stop talking and get walking. As a popular and    1    (grow) format of the game, walking football is aimed at encouraging older adults to play football again on a regular basis.

As simple as the name suggests, walking football is    2    (definite) just playing football at a walking pace. But don' t let that fool you. It carries all the emotion, passion and excitement of a regular game and still    3    (require) skills such as accurate passing, the good positional play and strong tactical(战术上的)knowledge.

The game is small-sided,    4    no running on or off the hall, very little contact and kick-ins instead of throw-ins. With less stress on the body and no real sudden change of direction or cutting movements, the game allows every    5    (participate)to play without anxiety.

It has become increasingly popular and is designed to help people keep    6    active lifestyle, as well as to support people who have stopped playing due to age    7    injury getting back to football.

Since Middlesex FA launched walking football in 2014, we    8    (have) over 300 players take part in the sport and now run over 20 sessions on a    9    (week) basis.

Ready to play?    10    (find) your nearest session using the map below.

What makes something a sport? Traditional definitions usually included several physical activities    1    show athletic ability or strength. But some sports can take the form of mental competitions. For instance, chess     2    (recognize) as a sport by the International Olympic Committee in 1999. Now, some people wonder    3    eSports should also be considered sports.

The word eSports is short for electronic sports. It is     4     form of competition in which professional players or gamers play video games either in teams or individually.     5    (typical), the winners receive prize money at the end of the competition.

The first eSports event was the one     6    (hold) by Stanford University in the 1970s, for the game Spacewar! Over the next 30 years, video games     7    (explode) in popularity. More and more countries, such as South Korea, China and the United States, started to develop eSports into an industry. In the 2000s, television broadcasts of the competitions,     8    (feature) games like Street Fighter III, StarCraft, and Counter-strike, became popular. In the 2010s, thanks    9    online streaming services, eSports grew rapidly with more worldwide tournaments, more viewers, and larger    10    (prize). In 2020, the industry made more than US$1 billion for the first time ever.

Going against the tide of flocking to well-known yet generally jam-packed tourist destinations on vacation, a     1     (grow) number of holidaymakers in China tend to spend their leisure time at lesser-known resorts to seek unique, relaxing holiday experiences.

In recent years, reverse tourism     2     (emerge) as a new trend among young holidaymakers in China. During the week-long public holiday, which ended on Oct. 7, large numbers of vacationers, especially young professionals who long to escape from busy city life,     3     (avoid) popular holiday destinations in order to get the beaten track and enjoy some peace and quiet. According to data from online travel agency Qunar, the number of rooms     4     (book) at hotels in less-traveled cities during the holiday was 30 percent up year-on-year. Besides crowds, some vacationers chose less-traveled places to save on the cost of trips to popular destinations,     5     often involve expensive tickets, meals and hotel stays. In addition, lesser-known attractions are not     6     “commercial” and “standardized” as developed ones and are able to offer more authentic experiences and natural encounters. And     7     (like) popular destinations, some underexplored places with little online     8     (expose) can offer more surprises.

Jiang Han,     9     senior researcher at the Beijing-based public policy think tank Pangoal, has said that reverse tourism will become one of the future directions for the market     10     is an opportunity for economic growth.

There have been a lot of arguments about the junk information that pops up in the form of game-related push notices on digital devices. In fact, that     1     (happen) because app developers use algorithms (算法) to get more     2     (hit) and reading counts, which they believe increase their data flow and trick users to visit their pages.

However, this kind of “smartness” is bad for users, for the information     3     (send) this way is rarely of any educational value and is     4     the recognition of children. Once they get trapped in this “information cocoon (罩)”, it is not     5     (benefit) to their development.

To prevent that from happening, market regulators need to strengthen     6     management of app algorithms. Fortunately, during the past decade some related laws     7     (make) so that smart phone apps don’t continue helping those advertisers     8     target is to make profit by spreading junk. Although increased data flow is intended     9     (attract) commercial advertisements, media outlets shouldn’t pursue profit at the cost of youngsters’ mental growth. Besides, children need to be taught how to tell junk from useful information to keep     10     (they) on the right track.

My wife is crazy about shopping on the Internet.    1    seems that she can’t control herself well. Let me tell you what happened last night. It was the fourth time she    2    (shop) online for hours. I had already had an heated argument with her before she    3    （buy） anything, but she ignored what I said and replied confidently, “With the New Year    4    (come), preparation is necessary.    5    , I haven’t bought things on the Internet for a whole week.” Hearing her words, I was     6    (real) speechless. In most cases, the things she has bought aren’t good value for money. Maybe she just enjoys    7     process of buying online.

Nowadays,    8    the development of technology, online shopping is becoming more and more convenient. Those    9    stay at home can buy whatever they want. In the meanwhile, it causes a series of problems. One of them is more spending than before, because people are    10    (easy) attracted by the discount and advertisement claims. So how to buy things that you really need is a lesson everyone should learn.