The term “extreme sports”, which we might have seen on a magazine or a website,     1    (be) becoming more and more common as the concept of extreme sports gains     2     (popular). But what are extreme sports on earth?

During the 1970s and 1980s, the term was used for sports with high risks     3     (involve). Today, however, the sports also include activities that give a feeling of adventure without    4    (necessary) putting a participant’s life in danger. For every extreme sport, there is professional equipment that has been developed     5     (protect) your body, improve your performance and give you    6     advantage in the competition.

Extreme sports cover a wide range. Some     7     (develop) from familiar activities so far, like mountain biking, climbing and drag race. Some may not be well known. For instance, bouldering is a kind of rock climbing     8     no rope is used.     9     usually takes place in an area with large rocks or in climbing center.

Nowadays, such sports have become more popular     10     young people all over the world than ever before.

“There is a long, long story    1    Tai Chi and me,” says Jose Gago, 61, a Spanish man who has taught Tai Chi in his hometown for almost 36 years.

Although the first martial arts school    2    (found) in 1982 in Ourense, Spain, Jose did not make the trip to Yongnian, China until 1994    3    (further) his study of Tai Chi. Since then, he    4    (travel)to China over 20 times. For Jose, Tai Chi is not    5    (simple)a sport. What attracts him most is the Taoist philosophy rooted in Tai Chi, of which the main elements consist in the principles of “softness, slowness, balance and rootedness”.

His martial arts school, which provides introductory programs for    6    (begin), has approximately 150 students,    7    (range) from children under the age of 5 to senior citizens over 70. He has trained thousands of students in Spain, many of    8    have won awards in many tournaments.

Jose's hometown has hosted    9    number of free Tai Chi community classes and Tai Chi is acting as an important bridge for    10    (culture) exchange.

For 34 years, thousands of runners     1    （take）on the Marathon des Sables, a 140-mile race through the Sahara.     2    (consider) the world’s most difficult race, des Sables takes place over the course of six days through Morocco’s unforgiving Sahara.

At 46, Amy Palmiero-Winter is not what most picture when they think of     3     athlete, but for her, running has been a lifelong passion: an escape, a comfort, a calling. So, when a careless driver crashed into her motorcycle 25 years ago and damaged her left leg, she did everything she could     4    （save）it.

She couldn’t imagine not running. But three years and 25 operations later it became obvious that her leg would never     5    （true）recover. But hardships couldn’t keep her from running. In fact, they may have pushed her     6    （close）towards it. “When something bad happened to me, I went out for a run. It kept me from any darkness.” Palmiero-Winter said. After recovering from her amputation, she tried running again. Struggling     7    low-tech artificial legs, in 2004 she placed second in the Silver Strand Half Marathon. Today, she holds 11 world records and countless awards,     8    （include）the James E. Sullivan Award and others,     9    recognized her as the world’s top amateur athlete nearly a decade ago.

But as her latest     10    （achieve）at the Marathon des Sables shows, she’s nowhere near done.

Is there a Chinese soccer team at the Qatar 2022 World Cup? No. But one can’t miss Chinese elements in and around the stadiums there. One can drink water from ponds,     1    (dig) by Chinese engineers,take a nap in a“mobile hotel”, built by Chinese engineers,    2    take a shuttle imported from China to move between hotels and stadiums.

Did we forget something?Yes,even some stadiums are built by Chinese construction    3    (company),while the souvenirs one can buy there, too,     4    (make) in China.

That’s     5    China has participated in this world Cup and earlier tournaments, and may do so in the upcoming ones too, thus     6    (impress) the world with its technology and products. While “Made in China” has left its stamp on     7    (early) soccer World Cup World Cups and other sports events , what makes the Qatar     8     unique one is the kind of technology China is providing. For example, the Stadium 974, built by Chinese enterprises, is the first     9    (move) “green stadium” that can recycle rainwater for future use and make the garbage collected from the stadium into fertilizer.

I think the reason why Chinese firms perform well in the World Cup is that China has registered good economic     10    (grow) during a global recession.