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.

Famous for carrying his tennis rackets in a bamboo basket, Wang Fa, a 14-year-old dark horse,     1     won the U14 boys’ singles title in the Guangzhou stop of the 2022 ASICS Tennis Junior Tour, has become     2     internet sensation.

Wang, a Chinese Wa ethnic(佤族)boy, started to learn tennis after he was selected by Zhang Xiaohong, head coach of a tennis club in southwest China’s Yunnan Province in 2016. Over the years, Wang and his peers     3    (put) tremendous efforts into advancing their skills and acquiring knowledge. “    4     for tennis, I would still be helping out my family with farm work back at home, ” Wang said. “We always carry a bamboo basket when we work in the field. We all regard     5     as a typical farming tool of the Wa ethnic group. I carry my rackets in the basket     6    (primary) to honor my hometown, ” he added.

Home for Wang is a mountainous area named Cangyuan Wa Autonomous County.     7    (locate) in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, the county, composed     8     67 villages with a population of more than 40, 000, was lifted out of     9    (poor) in 2019. For Wang,     10    (win) this title is just the beginning of a promising future. The rising star said he would head to the top spots in the professional arena.