5 . A fresh and gentle wind on your face, soft sand under your feet and blue waters as far as the eye can see. Is there any other Olympic sport that is played in such pleasant conditions as beach volleyball？

“I’ve gone to a lot of beautiful places, and met a lot of beautiful people. That wouldn’t have happened if I had been playing another sport.” said Randy Stoklos, America’s most famous beach volleyball player.

The sport began as a four-a-side game on beaches in Southern California in the 1920s. The first recorded two-man game took place there in 1930, and the first tournament (锦标赛) was held in Los Angeles 18 years later. The winners were awarded a case of Pepsi. In the 1950s, women started playing and the sport soon spread to Europe and South America. Yet at that time, beach volleyball was more an entertainment show than a sport, with beauty contests included. The Association of Volleyball Professionals was founded in 1983 and beach volleyball developed into a fast, athletic sport. Its world-wide popularity won beach volleyball a place at the 1996 Olympics in Atalanta, where 24 male teams and 16 female teams took part. At present, the US and Brazil are the best in the world at beach volleyball.

The game came to China in the early 1990s and there have been national tournaments since 1994. It became an official event at the Eighth National Games in 1997. China’s You Wenhui and Wang Lu finished ninth in the women’s beach volleyball world championships in Brazil.

7 . Do you like running enough to make it a habit? Temey Wolfgram does; she has made running a lifelong career and isn’t stopping.

In February, the 16-year-old from Woodbury High School, Minnesota, US, competed at the 2020 US Olympic Trials. She finished the marathon (42,J95 km) with a tune of 2:42:47 as the youngest competitor in the race and ranked 76th out of 390 runners.

Then, in November, Wolfgram, who turned 17, broke the Women's American Junior marathon record with her time of 2:31:49. The old record was 2:34:32, which had stood since 1984. During the run, Wolfgram once hit a wall pretty hard, but she overcame it to finish. ^“I guess I can say I gave it my all,” she told Runner's World. “When I finished, all I was thinking was that I was super happy,” Wolfgram said.

This was only her third marathon. In 2018, when Wolfgram was 15 years old, she ran her first marathon just because she wanted to see if she was capable of doing it. “I believed that I would get faster as the distances got longer... and I'm still glad that I did it.”

When preparing for that first marathon, she ran up to 120 miles （about 190 kilometers） per week. Although her parents didn't have any background in running, they helped Wolfgram train. At first, her dad would take her out in the morning and run about 13 miles. The distance would gradually increase each day. On top of her runs in the morning, she would do cross-country practice after school.

Next, Wolfgram will think about attending the Olympic Games in 2024 after it's scheduled.

It is said that a course     1     (offer) at a university in East China will link students’ weight loss     2     (direct) to their marks in order to limit obesity (肥胖).

The course from Zhou Quanfu, a teacher at Nanjing Agricultural University in Jiangsu Province, aims     3     (encourage) overweight students to control their diets and increase their exercise. Zhou said 60 percent of a student’s grade will     4     (determine) by their weight loss. If they manage to reduce 7 percent of their     5     (origin) weight, they can pass the course.

One student     6     is unwilling to give her real name said that the students run on treadmills (跑步机) in the school’s fitness room and walk 10 kilometers every Monday and Friday evening. “We use mobile apps to record daily food intake,” added the student. Before

Physical fitness test data showed that between 2013 and 2014 around 13 percent of the students in Zhou’s university were obese. He hopes the course will help them lose weight and have more confidence in     10     (they) day by day.

Waking through a park in the morning, you'll see a series of beautiful movements performed in a slow, focused manner with deep breathing.    1    this may be a common sight for many, this practice was recently given outstanding recognition.

On Dec 17, China's taijiquan also known    2    tai chi was listed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)List of Intangible Cultural Heritage(非物质文化遗产)    3    (official).

The origins of tai chi can be traced to Wenxian county in Henan province in the mid 17th century. Now we    4    (spread) it to more than 150 counties and regions,    5    (attract) more than 100 million people to practice. Tai chi can be practiced any time and anywhere without    6    (equip). It is a practical way for one    7    (further)balance, body control and rhythm(节奏)of movement. However, for many, it is more than just exercise to make people fit. It also contains Chinese culture and philosophy(哲学)    8    people value peace and harmony. Marleni Calcina from Peru is    9    example of the many people who have found    10     beneficial to practice tai chi. She notes tai chi has taught her the value of “going slowly” and helped her “gain peace and inner harmony”.

China has named 24,126 primary and middle schools across the country specialist football schools     1    (lead) youth football development, according to the Ministry of Education (MOE). It's required that at least one football class     2    (offer) each week in these schools so that they can encourage their students to     3    (active) participate in football training and matches.

China aims to have 50,000 schools specializing in youth football by the end of 2025, said Wang Dengfeng, an official with the MOE,     4     (add) that to realize this goal, the ministry will take various measures that include building school football fields, training football coaches and providing extra funding and policy support.     5     those measures in schools, 47 football training camps have also been built in     6     effort to promote the sport among young people. And outstanding or     7     (talent) players will also have the chance to join inter-school teams for regional     8     (compete) and even national summer camps.

In the past four years, local education departments have trained about 40,000 football teachers, 8,000 of     9     have obtained coaching certificates. Moreover, the country     10     (step) up its efforts in promoting football in schools since it set up a seven-department joint task force, including the education, sport and finance authorities as well as the Chinese Football Association.