1 . Playing sports offers you more than just physical benefits (好处).     1     The benefits are the same whether or not you’re good at sports. If you are not good enough to play competitively on a school team, you can play sports with your friends.

Making new friends.

Playing sports enables you to create friendships you otherwise might not have formed.     2     You play together happily and gradually know each other. Many times, the friendships you create on the field remain strong when you are not playing sports.

Understanding the value of health.

Taking part in sports improves your health in many ways.     3     This gets you thinking about what to eat and how to treat your body so as to achieve the highest performance levels. Thus, playing sports can lead to better eating habits and prevent you from becoming too fat.

Building team spirit.

Sports provide children with the important lesson of learning how to work in a team.     4     By working together they will learn each other’s strengths and weaknesses and will be better able to decide and work out the best plan for the team. This will without doubt help them in their future lives and jobs as well.

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Playing sports requires a lot of time and energy. Some may think this would take students’ attention away from schoolwork. However, the opposite is true. Sports require memorization, repetition and learning — skills that are directly relevant (有关的) to schoolwork.

2 . I am a girl, but I was born to be a rebel (叛逆者). I like games that can be ________. Some of the sports I like, even boys won’t play!

Wrestling (摔跤) is ________ seen as a sport for men, but I ________ to see if I could do it.

Every Saturday morning, I got out of bed early to go and watch my brother ________.From morning to night, I would sit watching the ________ have all the fun. Since then, wrestling has been part of my       ________.

For three years, I ________ all the boys and became the best player in the team. My deepest memory of wrestling is when a boy walked off ________ because he’d lost to a girl.

My last ________ was at this year’s Girls’ State Wrestling Championships.

I was so excited. I was sure I would win. My heart was beating hard when the match started. I could see ________ but my competitor. When the final whistle(口哨) blew, I had ________ by four points. The cameras and ________ all turned to me: I was the new wrestling champion. But after a few minutes of enjoying being a champion, pain began to run ________ my knee. Because I hurt my knee, my ________     of being a national champion ended. Even so, I won’t lose heart and still want to wrestle next year when I go to college. I have ________ that you can do anything you want if you stay positive and put your heart into it.

3 . Before there was the written word, there was the language of dance. Dance expresses love and hate, joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything else in between.

    1    We dance from Florida to Alaska, from north to south and sea to sea. We dance at weddings, birthdays, office parties and just to fill the time.

“I adore dancing,” says Lester Bridges, the owner of a dance studio in Iowa. “I can’t imagine doing anything else with my life.” Bridges runs dance classes for all ages. “Teaching dance is wonderful.     2    It’s great to watch them. For many of them, it’s a way of meeting people and having a social life.”

    3    “I can tell you about one young couple,” says Bridges. “They’re learning to do traditional dances. They arrive at the class in low spirits and they leave with a smile.     4    ”

So, do we dance in order to make ourselves feel better, calmer, healthier? Andrea Hillier says, “Dance, like the pattern of a beating heart, is life. Even after all these years, I want to get better and better.    5     I find it hard to stop! Dancing reminds me I’m alive.”