A lot of students are having all kinds of sports on the playground. A football game is going on right now ______ Class 3 and Class 4. We don’t know which team will ______. Look at those people over there! Some students of Class 1 are practicing the ______ jump. One of them is the best high jumper in the school. He practices hard every day. Many people think he will ______ the school record (记录) in the sports meet next spring. Not far away from them, some girls are preparing for a race. They ______ have a 600-meter race in ten minutes. Now on the corner of the playground, you can see another group (群) of students. Their teacher is telling them ______ to throw discus (铁饼).

In schools, ______ students love sports now. Sports help people to keep ______. They also help people to live happily. And ______ doing sports on the playground, many people will ______ good friends, too. Do you think so?

My father is seventy-five years old this year. But he looks very young. He looks like a sixty-year-old man. Now he can do everything all by himself. For example, he cooks, washes clothes, does the housework and so on.

Every morning, my father goes out with a radio. He listens to the music or the news and goes to the park to play taijiquan. In the park, he talks and laughs with other old people. After coming back from the park, he begins to have breakfast and then he goes to the university (大学) for the old. He learns drawing there. In the afternoon, he plays on the computer for about one or two hours. After supper he watches TV and learns about the world. He goes to bed at about eight o’clock. He never stays up. He likes to share his ways of keeping healthy with others.

Are you healthy? If not, what do you learn from my father’s secret of keeping healthy?

Baseball is one of the favorite sports in the U. S. A. Children play baseball in sports fields or parks.

At summer picnic, there is often an informal（非正式） baseball game. Boys and girls, young and old take turns to bat. There are nine players on each team.

The baseball season goes from April to September. During this time, baseball matches are showed on TV and members of the important baseball teams become America’s heroes (英雄). At the end of the season, the two top（顶尖） teams play against each other. Many baseball fans go together to watch the game. Millions of(数百万的) others listen to the radio or watch the television. People seem（好像）to talk only about the game. Even long after it is over, they still（仍然） talk about the result（结果） and the players.

American football is perhaps the most popular sport in the U. S. A. The football season begins when the baseball season ends. More people are interested in football than baseball. When there is an important game, thousands of people sit beside radios or in front of television sets to get the result.

Do you know that man? He is my uncle. His name is David Smith. He is 48 this year. He is a worker. He works in a car factory (工厂). His factory is not near his home. So he gets up early in the morning and takes a bus to work. At about seven thirty, he gets to his factory. He works very hard. Everyone likes him and says he is a good worker. He has his lunch in the factory. After work he often plays basketball with his son. In the evening, he learns Chinese at home. His Chinese is good, too. Sometimes he helps me with my Chinese. I like my uncle very much.

There is an Asian (亚裔的) American     61     player in the NBA. Do you know who he is? Yes, he is Lin Shuhao. His English name is Jeremy Lin. He is another basketball star     62    Yao Ming. So many people call     63    the second Yao Ming. But he     64     like it. In the 1970s, his family moved to     65     from Taiwan, China. He is twenty-five years old. His elder brother is Josh and Joseph is his younger brother. He     66     at Harvard University (哈佛大学) from the year 2006 to the year 2010. His father, a fan of the NBA, taught him to     67     basketball when he was young. Now Lin Shuhao plays     68    the Houston Rocket (休斯敦火箭队). He works hard and plays very     69    . Now he is popular     70     many people.

Yours Liping