Do you like playing basketball? Do you want to watch the games on the scene? Have you ever seen crazy fans waiting outside only     1     (take) photos of their favorite basketball stars? Here comes good news for basketball fans in Zhuji. According to Xinhua News, the 2020-2021 CBA games     2     (hold) in Zhuji next month.     3     doubt, it is one of the biggest events this year.     4     was reported that Qingdao, Suzhou, Shenyang and many other cities offered to host this event, and Zhuji won. Some may wonder     5    . The reasons are as follows.

First, Zhuji is a famous basketball city. People here, young and old, enjoy playing basketball very much. Of all the county-level cities，Zhuji had     6     (many) standard (标准) basketball courts-2,232 basketball courts in 2011. Second, Zhuji also     7     (succeed) in setting the Guinness record for the largest basketball-playing scale (规模) in 2011. On 2,199 courts, 26,460     8    (play) took part at the same time.

    9     Zhuji is just a small city to the south of the Yangtze River, Zhujinese’ great love for basketball has made it famous nationwide. Now, it is     10     (general) accepted that Zhuji plays an active part in basketball game in China.

【推荐2】Cars make our life more convenient． But they can also be a problem， especially fossil fuel（化石燃料）cars， which are a major cause of air pollution．

To improve the environment， many countries are d    1    electric vehicles（EVs， 电动车）． Among them， China is taking a leading role and has created the world's largest EV m    2    ， according to the Wall Street Journal．

Last year， over 40percent of the 753，000EVs sold worldwide were sold in China， more than twice as many as the number sold in the United States， according to the International Energy Agency．

Chinese drivers are already big fans of ECs． Chinese auto companies（汽车公司）i    3    BYD and BAIC（北汽集团）were among the top in the world in EV sales．

"Charging an electric car is cheaper than filling up a fossil fuel car with gas，"said a customer， who bought an electric car from BAIC this year．

However， there are still some problems． It is h    4    to find charging piles（充电桩）． The cars can't go far before they need to be recharged．

S    5    of these problems are being solved， In 2014， China had 31，000charging piles， according to Xinhua News Agency． Now China has the world's largest EV charging network， with more than 167，000charging piles altogether， according to the Economic Daily．

China is trying to make EVs p    6    to reduce pressure（压力）on its environment． The government promised to s    7    increasing carbon dioxide（二氧化碳）．"As China goes， so will the world's auto industry，"the Wall Street Journal said．

Dong Yuhui is a great livestreamer of East Buy. He used     1     (be) an English teacher at New Oriental Group. As a livestreamer, he became popular because of his     2     (humor) hosting style. He soon attracted a huge number of     3     (fan). And the number of them on Chinese short-video platform Douyin is surprising. They bought products from East Buy just because of     4     (he).

Dong was born     5     a small county in Shaanxi province. He said his father was his role model. He always tries his best to buy and read newspapers     6     he is a busy farmer. “I am just     7     ordinary person selling vegetables on Douyin. I     8     (real) hope that people do not pay too much attention to me. More focus should be     9     (give) to many of the ordinary people’s lives like street vendors (街头摊贩) and farmers.” Dong said.

In December, 2023, he     10     (make) a lecture in Tsinghua University and shared his experience of learning English. If you want to be successful, you need to work hard.

【推荐2】When every Apple fan was waiting for the next surprise, Steve Jobs, the founder (创始人) and former CEO of Apple, passed away on 5 October 2011, at the a    1     of fifty-six after a seven-year-long fight with cancer. What is Jobs best remembered f    2    ? Many of us would name some great products: iPod, iTouch, iPhone and iPad. They have c    3       the way we enjoy music, films and even books.

Actually, Jobs brought much m    4    to the world than these popular products.   As a s    5     businessman, Jobs’ passion (热情) and energy for work encouraged the world. He told us to do what we really love. He said, “The only thing that keeps me going is that   l    6     what I am doing.” He believed that people with passion can change the world for the b    7    . Jobs made computers interesting and e    8     to use. His iPhone, iPad and iTouch are popular around the world. People say Jobs sold dreams i    9     of products. As the US President Barack Obama said, “Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold (大胆的) enough to believe he could change the w    10    , and talented enough to do it”.