Some people have no interest in sports. They think that sports make them _________ and smell bad. They say, “Why waste time playing sports?” To these people, I politely say, “You have not discovered the _________ of sports!”

Let me share with you a basketball game I played two weeks ago. Our parents and friends were there to _________ us. A lot of people were watching. We all wanted to _________ the game in front of so many people.

The game was _________ over and we were one point behind. Our coach called us together and said, “Okay, this is it! Either we score now or the game is over. Let’s work hard to score. Even if we don’t score, _________ we know that we have tried our best. So, boys, don’t think too much. It doesn’t matter if we lose. Just do it.”

Well, in the last _________ of the game, we truly scored and two teams tied (打成平局)! We went into overtime and we lost in the end. But after the game, the coach hugged all of us. He told us that he was _________ because he had never seen a team try harder than us.

To be honest, I _________ a lot of pleasure in playing sports. It makes me happy and comfortable. That’s why I play sports whenever I get the chance. So my __________ is to choose a sport and keep doing it. Your body will thank you and your mind will be ready to work well.

What’s a team spirit? Team spirit means the willing of people to work together and help each other as part of a team. With this spirit, people try hard ________ their team the best of all. It is quite often that one is not able to carry out a job by himself. He needs more people to ________ it together. China has an old saying, “Unity (团结) is strength”, which means the importance of teamwork. ________ there is no team spirit, a group of people will not be a whole unit (团体).

There are two kinds of team spirit. One kind is the connection between a team of people because their efforts and cooperation (合作) are necessary. ________ is people’s love and pride for their country, when a whole nation cheer for its country in competitions.

Team spirit creates various good influence. It creates friendship and trust between people who may not ________ with each other. There may also be bad influence. Too great team spirit may cause ________ or fights with other team members.

Anyone can show team spirit just by showing support for the goal. It means, we should train our ________ to cooperate with others. ________, the ability is based on our heart. Therefore, we must learn to work well in the team and let the team spirit guide us to success. ________ can we cooperate with others very well? The following ________ tips are the most helpful ones. First, be honest with others. Second, be humble (谦虚) enough. Finally, don’t be selfish (自私). All in all, team spirit is an important ability and skill nowadays. Let’s work hard to develop it for a brighter future.

In the West, the popularity of Chinese restaurants has risen greatly. Some Westerners can even use chopsticks well. But maybe they’re quite unfamiliar with Chinese customs. So it’s necessary to understand some Chinese ________ manners.

In China, when a foreign guest is invited to have dinner at a restaurant, he will not be ________ to know all the traditional table manners. But the guest ________ knows some of them will get “face” and give “face” to his host.

________, foreign guests will be forgiven (原谅) for not knowing dining etiquette (礼节). If they aren’t used ________ chopsticks, they will naturally be offered a knife and fork. Chinese food, however, seems to taste better when it is eaten with chopsticks.

Although western customs have influenced Chinese dining habits, most of the ________ traditions still live on. The guest of honor will usually be seated facing the ________ . If the host can’t decide how to give a proper seat to his guests, he will seat them according to age. The host sits ________ the door, as in the West, so that he is the nearest to the kitchen. ________ they have dinner in the host’s home, what will the host do? He’ll go out of his way to bring each dish to the table. Each guest will feel ________. The host will make them feel at home.

I have invented robots which improve the work of cars. My love of making things began ________ I was a kid. I really became excited about inventing after I learned about Thomas Edison.

One day in fourth grade, our ________ gave us a project in class. We had to write to a company and learn about the products. I thought and thought. ________ I chose the Thomas A. Edison Company. Soon after, the company sent me a book about the life of Thomas Edison. How I enjoyed reading and re-reading about his ________! I like the recorded sound and the electric light most. The inventions were clearly printed on my brain.

My dad noticed my interest in inventing and ________ me. He showed me how to turn my ideas into plans and then into new things. Once, I surprised my dad ________ a model plane I made. Later, we found a ________ model plane in a store. I learned that different inventors often invent similar things. It is not unusual for this to happen. I also learned that not all great ideas ________. Failure is a common part of the inventing.

As my father and I worked together, I began to realize that my dad was quite an inventor himself. He was always ________ a better way to do a simple job. His guiding hands, together with my ________ in inventing, led me to become an engineer and an inventor. Of course, I also thank Thomas Edison. He is my hero.

“Are you an I-person or an E-person?” Recently, this question has become an opening line for many people when they want to know more about ________ person they just met.

________ the Myers- Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), people can be divided into different groups through their qualities, habits and other features. The result will show ________ letters, and there are 16 kinds of results in total. “I” and “E” refer to “introverted” (内向的) and “extroverted” (外向的). Hu Yu is a middle school student who is interested in MBTI. After testing, Hu is an INFJ. On official website, MBTI is explained in detail: INFJ persons ________ as “quiet and mysterious, but very inspiring”. After reading the detailed description of the type, Hu believes the testing described her ________. “I am always ________ in a new environment. The test not only makes a lot of sense, but saves me from uncomfortable silences when ________ new people, Hu told Beijing Review. “Although being an I-person, I would like to make friends with “E” people who can ________ because they are often seen outgoing.”

It is said that “MBTI” attracts millions of people to discuss. However, the MBTI personality test may show something you don’t know about ________ and can even be a fun ice-breaker question when meeting new friends. And that’s all for ________ Knowing someone’s MBTI result doesn’t mean you really know this person. And those four letters of yours don’t define (定义) who you are.

That day, Sam was called to his teacher Jackson’s office. He was feeling down when he talked with his teacher.

“I feel as if I had no ________ of my life at the moment. My parents are telling me one thing, but my friends are telling me another. Everything keeps changing and I ________ my way.” Jackson nodded his head and left the room for a moment, returning with a chessboard. He set it down on the table between them and ________ Sam to start. They exchanged a few turns without any real purpose ________ Jackson spoke for the first time.

“In the game of chess, who are you?” Jackson asked. “I feel like a pawn (卒). I am limited (受……限制) ________ in my movement,” answered Sam. “Who would you like to be?” Jackson asked. “I’d like be the queen, of course. She can move in any direction and is the most ________ piece on the chessboard,” Sam said. “Are you sure about that?” Jackson added. “Of course! Isn’t it ________?” Sam answered.

Jackson sat back in the chair and said in a quiet, but firm (坚定地) voice ________ be the pawn or the queen. You should to be the player moving the pieces around. Stop being pushed around ________ others and take charge (掌管，负责). There are too many people around us whose lives are controlled by other people. You are better than them, so step up and take charge! We weren’t born to be pieces moved around on a chessboard. We were born to positively (积极地) ________ the world around us.”

Sam understood and smiled, “Checkmate (将).” With that, deciding to change the world in his own way.

An old woman had two large pots, one on each end of a pole (扁担). She carried the pole with the pots on her ________. One of the pots had a crack (裂缝) in it while ________ pot was perfect and always delivered (运载) a full pot of water. At the end of the long walk from the well ________ the house, the cracked pot arrived only half-full.

For two years this ________ daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was ________. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection (不完美).

One day, the cracked pot spoke to the woman by the well, “I am ashamed of myself ________ this crack in my side causes water to leak out (泄漏) all the way back home.”

The old woman smiled, “Did you ________ that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the perfect pots side? That’s because I have always known about your crack, so I planted flower seeds (种子) on your side of the path. And every day while we walk back, you water them. For two years I have been able to ________ these beautiful flowers to decorate the house. Without you being just the way you are, would not have this ________.

________ of us has our own cracks. But it’s these cracks that make our lives together so interesting and meaningful.

Peking Opera is one of China’s important traditional art forms. It is regarded _________ one of the national treasures of China. It was formed in the late 18th century and became completely developed in the mid-19th century.

_________ is Peking Opera so popular in China? The reason is that it shows rich _________ culture, _________ wonderful stories, paintings and clothes. It has _________ main kinds of performers called sheng, dan, jing and chou. Each of them has its own clothes and face-paintings. Face-paintings with different colors have different meanings. For example, young male (男性的) characters are known as Xiaosheng. Laosheng is an _________ role than Xiaosheng. Dan is a female role. Jing is a colorful face-painted role and chou is a male clown (小丑) role.

Peking Opera tells stories _________ singing with different movements. Some of them are from the history books, while most of them are from classical novels. The performance tells stories _________ have been passed down for thousands of years in Chinese history.

Peking opera has become _________ important opera form for Chinese audience. It has even made the people from Western countries interested in it. Nowadays more and more Western fans begin to learn the art. Some even come to China _________ in popular talent shows on CCTV.

When I was six years old, I was visiting my grandfather’s farm in Kansas. Grandpa sent me into the woods to gather pecans (核桃) for us to enjoy later.

Pecan picking was really _________ work and my little basket was only half full. I didn’t want to _________ Grandpa. Just then something caught my eye. A large brown squirrel (松鼠) was a few feet away. I watched as it _________ a pecan, hurried to a tree and disappeared in a large hole in the trunk (树干) . A moment later, the squirrel jumped out and climbed down to the _________ to collect another nut. Once again, it took the pecan back to his hiding place.

The hiding place was not so secret anymore, I thought. I rushed over to the tree and looked into the hole. It was _________ with pecans! Golden pecans were right there for taking. This was my _________ . Handful by handful, I scooped (勺) all of those pecans into my basket. Now it was full! I felt so _________ . I couldn’t wait to show Grandpa all the pecans. So I ran back and shouted, “Look at all the pecans!” He looked into the basket and said, “Well, well, how did you find so many?” I told him how I _________ the squirrel and took the pecans from his hiding place.

Grandpa congratulated me on how smart I’d been in watching the squirrel and his _________ . Then he did something that surprised me. He handed the basket back to me and put his arm gently around my shoulders and said. “But a good man should never take advantage of someone else’s hard work.”

_________ , I felt a bit sorry for what I did. There was only one thing I could do. I carried the basket back to the tree and poured all the nuts into the hole.

Zhu Yangzhu is the spaceflight engineer for the Shenzhou XVI task. He has loved the blue sky and flying ________ he was a boy.

When he was a middle school student, Zhu often did physical exercises about flying. Because of his ________ grades, Zhu could enter the College of Aerospace (航空航天) Science and Engineering in Changsha in the summer of 2005. And he ________ there for the following years. During studying, Zhu made great ________ and finished his high school life from the university with a doctor’s degree.

In the summer of 2018, Zhu heard about the news about China’s astronauts. He ________ to have a try to become an astronaut. In September 2020, Zhu was ________ chosen as one of the country’s third group of 18 astronauts, including six other flight engineers.

However, for an engineer who had no air flight ________, the astronaut training tasks presented a real test. For example, astronauts had to ________ for three days and three nights in a closed room, during which they had to do many tests on a computer. That ________ a lot of hard work. He not only completed the hard training himself, but also played a(n) ________ role in relaxing the team and helping others in his team.

Last year, all his hard work paid off when he was chosen to carry out the Shenzhou-16 task.

Ever since “Mother Nature” gave me life, I expected to grow tall and big.

As a young _________, I was well protected in the forest. I used to have a good time with my friends under the blue sky and along the river. Our only purpose was to stand high. My pal, Tim often said, “All I ask for is to be _________ the whole day.”

More than 300 days passed and we grew straight. Until one day, our _________ birthday, people came, moved us from the _________ and put us on their trucks. “I don’t want to go!” Tim cried.

After a long journey, we arrived in a completely different place with nothing green. Here we were planted in a line. Because the wind blew strongly, I could not even open my eyes to see Tim _________ beside me. So we needed enough _________ to grow thicker and higher to stop the wind.

As time went by, we finally _________ much stronger. I could keep my eyes open in the wind! I even found the blue sky was back!

This was no longer a no-man’s-land, and hundreds of visitors came here. A man took a picture of us with his _________, “Thank you. We can enjoy clear days without worrying about sand storms.” A young girl jumping up and down _________ and hugged me. “Thank you,” she said, “It’s you that have turned the desert into a green land!”

Tim and I smiled at each other, feeling __________. The sun was shining brightly in the bluer sky.

It was the last day of the school year. The classroom was filled with ____. When our teacher, Mr. Johnson, walked in, ____ a CD player, everyone’s face lit up with a smile.

“Please calm down and sit,” said Mr. Johnson, “I’m glad everyone’s here for the ____ reading test of the year.”   When everyone cried, Mr. Johnson ____ saying it was just a joke. Then he reminded us ____ we still had a job to do. “You need to clean out your desks and put all your things into your ____.”

As we began our task, Mr. Johnson ____ the CD player. The lively music made the room ____ a party. Some of us started singing along with the music, ____ were dancing around their desks while they were cleaning them out. After we finished ____, someone asked, “When is break time?” Mr. Johnson took out some balls and started playing with them. ____, he let the balls drop and said, “Break time starts…now!”

Just as we were about to rush out, our headmaster, Mrs. Miller, appeared at the door. “Mr. Johnson!” she cried out. A ____ of silence fell over the room as we thought, “Mr. Johnson might be in trouble.” However, to our surprise, Mrs. Miller couldn’t help ____ laugh and left us to enjoy our break.

During break time, Mr. Johnson ____ us with another treat. He went to the cafe and came back with ice creams for everyone. We all cheered for him!

As we walked back to the ____, we passed Mrs. Miller’s office. Someone joked, “Don’t play with the ice creams, Mr. Johnson!” We all laughed together.

Sirio Persichetti has become famous on social media. The seven-year-old Italian boy Sirio cannot ________ and cannot feed himself. He has a disease that influences movement in three of a person’s four legs and arms. His ________ is always open, which prevents him from speaking correctly or eating food. He is fed liquid nutrition like milk or soup ________ a pipe in his stomach. But he dealt with his condition with such a love for life that his mother, Valentina, decided to create a ________ for him. She also made accounts on Facebook to share his everyday life in hopes of ________ others.

In a short time, his videos on the website drew wide attention, especially from families living in ________ situations. And some were watched more than 115,000 times. “It was powerful and exciting, ________ we decided to keep going,” his mother said.

Valentina wants to ________ the unfair thoughts on disability. “We understand that it is necessary to talk about disability without pity, different from the ________ way,” she said.

Valentina wants to show that children with special ________ can still have fun and lead a happy life. She writes the descriptions that ________ each of Sirio’s videos. She does so by imagining the world as seen through ________ eyes. “Here I am arriving at the playground, fearless and proud while mama watches me like a (an) ________. It’s not easy trying to live a normal life when you have disabilities but I have ________ anyway,” reads one video description.

Valentina said she never ________ her son to become famous on social media. “But we realized that is useful,” she added, “it helps and is a necessary step to make the life of many people much more normal.”