Both Lang Ping and Michael Jordon have made a great    1    (impress) on the people all over the world with their determination and mental strength. Lang Ping led China women’s volleyball to    2    (medal) at world championships and the Olympics while Michael Jordon, known    3    “Air Jordon”, changed basketball with his graceful moves and jumps. Their spirits tell us that everyone    4    (fail) at something, but we should accept trying     5    never give up.

3 . A study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology took a closer look at music in sports, specifically how listening to music could affect one’s overall performance.

Researchers asked 150 volunteers to throw a ball into a basket. For the first stage of the study, participants threw the ball from a fixed point. They threw the ball while listening to music of their choice, while not listening to music, or while listening to music that the researchers selected. For the second state they were able to choose where to stand when throwing the ball and performed the same activity with the various music choices.

The study found that listening to music, whether it was music of the volunteer's choice or a song chosen for them, did not make the participants more or less likely to get the ball in the basket. It had no effect, What it did do was increase self-esteem and make the study participants more likely to take risks, especially for males who were allowed to choose their own music.

The results suggest that music many pump you up. And it may even help you workout harder and longer than you would without it. But no matter what song you listen to, it's not going to help you get that ball into the basket.

Another study look a detailed look at how music pace might affect exercise. Researchers found that listening to high-pace music makes people feel like they're working less while also benefiting their bodies more.

Listening to high-pace music while exercising resulted in the highest heart rate compared with not listening to music. This means that the exercise seemed like less effort, but it was more beneficial in terms of enhancing physical fitness.

The study found that the beneficial effects of high-pace music were greatest for people who were walking or running and were felt the least for those who were doing high-intensity exercises such as weightlifting.

4 . For most people, growing older means getting weaker. But this is far from the case of this 83-year-old woman Ernestine Shepherd, one of the world’s oldest female bodybuilders. Born in 1936, she is still exercising and working out, keeping up her strength, and looking absolutely fit!

Her journey to fitness all began when she turned 56. “I seldom worked out—you couldn’t get me away from chocolate cake. But that day, my sister and I went shopping for swimsuits. I looked in the changing room mirror and realized that I was getting out of shape and needed to start exercising,” she told BBC.

She started with simple training and eventually shifted to bodybuilding and weight lifting. She then decided that she should try to get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest bodybuilder on the planet.

Though the idea seemed big, it was something that was worth working towards. Ernestine trained harder. At the age of 71, she took part in her first bodybuilding competition and won the top prize! Her dream finally came true—Guinness contacted her and officially honored her as the world’s oldest female bodybuilder. A year later, she lost the title but remained to be one of the world’s oldest female bodybuilders.

She is now retired from competing but she is still into bodybuilding. Her extraordinary diet includes egg, chicken, and turkey. She has inspired so many people with her journey, and many come up to her and ask for advice. She also started working as a personal trainer and has published her own book, “Determined, Dedicated, Disciplined To Be Fit”. Ernestine is living proof that it is never too late for anyone to achieve their goals!

5 . The 2022 Winter Olympic, also known as Beijing 2022, is scheduled to take place from February 4 to February 20, 2022, which is in the Chinese New Year period. Beijing, the first city to host both the summer and winter Olympics, is partnering with Zhangjiakou to host the winter games.

Dates

February 2–3: preliminary competitions for ice hockey, curling, and freestyle skiing

February 4: Opening Ceremony

February 4–20: events, competitions, and finals

February 20: Closing Ceremony

Events

A total of 109 events are set to take place in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Seven new events have been added, including ski jumping mixed team, snowboard cross mixed team and short track speed skating team relay. For the first time, a female athletes percentage of over 45.44% to attend the winter games has been reached, making Beijing 2022 probably the most gender-balanced Winter Olympics to date.

Tickets

On Sep. 30, the International Olympic Committee announced that tickets will be sold exclusively to those living in China’s mainland. Ticket booking hasn’t yet started. According to the report sent to IOC, there would be three types of tickets, tickets for the opening ceremony, tickets for events competitions, and tickets for the closing ceremony, costing from 50 to 4,882 CNY per ticket. The highest ticket prices are for the opening and closing ceremonies, from 732 to 4,882 CNY. Tickets for popular events are about 149 to 1,464 CNY, and tickets for general events are around 50 to 490 CNY.

I tried to join the school football team,    1    the coach told me that I didn’t play well enough.    2     (obvious), I was unhappy, but I won’t quit. I’ll find a way    3    (improve) on my own so that I can make the team next year.

9 . During the summer before third grade, Patty decided to try a new_________. Patty and her friend Darla got_________from their parents to join. The neighborhood was offering a tennis class.

On Monday morning, Mrs. Cane, the tennis coach,_________the basics. By the end of the week, Patty was really making_________. Mrs. Cane commented that Patty had lots of potential. Darla was struggling. The other girls were having a_________time of it, also.

That weekend, Darla_________her parents to hit with her, Patty wasn't really_________. She was such a "natural" at tennis that she felt she really didn't need to_________So, Darla was out in the August heat, practicing her serves (发球). Bу the end of the summer, Darla was_________to get the hang of (掌握……的要领) it.

Darla decided to join the neighborhood junior tennis team.____________would be every Thursday. Patty wanted to join, but she didn't want to____________the Youth Troop TV show. Several weeks passed, and Patty went to one of the matches one Thursday. She was really____________with the way the girls were hitting. Patty____________she had joined. But it was too____________, now. Patty was far behind the rest of the girls. All of that "natural talent" really, got her____________.That was one of the best lessons of her life.

10 . Each year, the women of Olney and Liberal compete in an unusual footrace. Dressed in aprons (围裙) and headscarves, they wait at both towns’ starting lines. Each woman holds a frying pan with one pancake inside. At the signal, the women flip (轻抛) pancakes and they’re off!

This “pancake racing” tradition is said to have started on Shrove Tuesday, 1445, in Olney. Shrove Tuesday is the day before the Christian season of Lent (大斋戒) begins. During Lent, many people decide to give up sugary or fatty foods.

Legend says that in 1445, an Olney woman was making pancakes to use up some of her sugar and cooking fats before Lent. She lost track of time and suddenly heard the church bells ring, signaling the beginning of the Shrove Tuesday service. Realizing that she was going to be late for church, she raced out the door still wearing her apron and headscarf and holding her frying pan with a pancake in it. In the following years, the woman’s neighbors imitated her dash to church, and pancake racing was born.

The rules are simple. Racers must wear the traditional headscarf and apron. They must flip their pancakes twice - once before starting and once after crossing the finish line. After the race, there are Shrove Tuesday church   services. Then Liberal and Olney connect through a video call to compare race times and declare a winner.

In both towns, the races have grown into larger festivals. Olney’s festival is an all-day event starting with a big pancake breakfast. Liberal’s festival lasts four days and includes a parade, a talent show, and contests that feature eating and flipping pancakes. Although the women’s race is still the main event, both towns now hold additional races for boys and girls of all ages.