2 . Football is the most watched and played sport in the world. English teams like Manchester United, Liverpool,and Chelsea have a global appeal that has_________ them some of the most valuable brands in sport.

While the Premier League is one of the most popular league competitions in the world,the Champions League claims the _________ as the most-watched annual sporting competition. Estimates sayit attracts _________between 300 million and 800 million viewers each year.

This is all a far cry from football just 50 years ago. Here's _________ the sport has changed in the last half a century.

Replica Shirts(仿制球衣）

If you're old enough to remember when England won the World Cup back in 1966,you may_________ that most football fans attended matches in a shirt and jacket, many even wearing a tie.

Today, it is completely_________. Go to any football game, at almost any level of the sport, and you'll see almost every fan wearing the colors of their team. _________will even spend a lot on a replica shirt.

That _________ started in the 1970s, as sportswear brands began to sign exclusive contracts with teams to produce kits and sell replicas,though it took until the early 1980s for adults to begin regularly wearing replicas to matches and they were still in the_________

It became more popular through the 1990s after clubs began to spot the____________ opportunity to sell merchandise(商品）to fans.

TV

For a long time, the only way to watch football was at the stadium, though through the 1980s,more and more games were shown on TV. However, it was the birth of the Premier League that really____________ this, ____________Sky Sports agreed to pay significantly more than any other broadcaster to air games in the UK.

Since then,TV money has helped to fund huge____________in new talent, stadium upgrades,and other ____________ to the sport. For example,the perfectly green grass is partly a result of wanting to make the game look better on television, and wasn't commonplace back in 1970. Instead,patches of mud were very ____________on pitches(球场）．

3 . Yoga for Teens

It's almost impossible not to see a headline about the benefits of yoga (瑜伽) on a magazine cover in the supermarket. Yoga studios are _________ in communities around the country.

Is our interest in this ancient practice a passing trend? Or will yoga prove to be a(n) _________ that offers a boost (增强) to kids' health? As the child of a yoga-skilled mother, I decided to_________further.

According to a report, 8.4 percent of kids practised yoga in 2017. That is almost three times _________than the amount in 2012.

The Yoga and Meditation Center in San Diego, California,has seen this _________ first-hand.＂I enjoy teaching teenagers _________ I feel that I understand the pressure of being a teen,"said teacher Laura Brown. "Yoga can increase your confidence, _________ stress, and improve both mental health and physical health."

After talking with Brown, I sat down with the founder of the institute,Shashi Pottathil.He has been practising yoga for more than 40 years. "Many people _________yoga with a religion or culture," he said. But he had a_________ explanation.

＂Yoga is the management of many __________ in our body—respiratory (呼吸的)，digestive(消化的), nervous, muscular, and immune(免疫的),＂Pottathil explained." Yoga can __________ affect memory, speed and balance."

Pottathil thinks that today's teens can __________ greatly from the practice of yoga. "They're not using their brain's full potential," he said. "Teenagers are messing up their body when they look down at their phones. They're not moving enough, which is __________their body." He passionately believes that his goal of teaching yoga is to__________crisis (危机）before it happens.

Indeed, after my first class, I immediately felt__________.Have your tried yoga yet?

4 . When Najla Imad Lafta, 14, plays table tennis, her torso turns as smoothly as a dancer’s to meet the ball and she returns it so fast.

She just _________ her fourth silver and her fourth bronze medal from an international sports tournament for _________ people in Egypt in June.

“In fourth grade, I was _________ I was different from the other girls,” said Najla as she sat in a narrow _________.

Najla was 3 when a bomb magnetically _________ beneath her father’s car went off. In a matter of seconds she _________ one of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis seriously _________ in the civil war that followed the American invasion in 2003. Civilians young and old were _________ in the crossfire, crippling (使残疾) them physically and _________.

Najla’s life had been turned upside down and could do nothing but try her best to __________ to her new life with the __________ of a wheelchair.

__________ at his daughter’s struggles, Mr. Lafta __________ a friend of his from the Iraq Paralympic team for help to give her daughter some training lessons.

Najla worked on her __________ for a couple of days at home - her family bought a playing table that took up almost all the space in one of the compound’s rooms - barely __________ enough space for her to play with her sisters.

The Paralympics committee recently bought prostheses for Najla, and these were far better than the ones she had before but they were still not the kind made for __________.

__________, Najla has made the __________ from playing in a wheelchair to standing: a remarkably rare progression in the sport, when most players do the opposite.

“To be honest, nothing compared to __________ legs and arms, but at least I am __________ with what I have done.”

5 . 36-year-old Andy decided to return to his favorite high school hobby—skateboarding. The only _______ he expected to encounter was his own ability to get back into the sport after so long. _______, the 340-pound skateboarder soon realized that was the least of his problems.

Andy's challenges began even _______ he stepped on a skateboard. He couldn't find any resources, like the type of boards to try, for _______ skaters. What Andy did find instead was a (an) _______ belief that plus-sized people should not be skating.

Determined to change people's _______ of plus- sized people in sports, Andy founded Chub Rollz—a skateboarding community for fat skaters. He knew not only did he need to get back into skating to prove people _______, but he needed to _______ a safe space where others can show themselves as well.

To inspire plus-sized people to _______ the fun sport, Andy made a list of recommended products for them and also hosted skateboarding classes to _______ beginners. The ________ to Chub Rollz was incredibly positive.

Following an article about his initiative in the San Francisco Chronicle (纪事报), Andy, received numerous messages from ________ expressing gratefulness for giving them the ________ to stand up to critics.

For those ________ to go after their desired activity due to their body size, Andy has this to say: “Never let others' opinions and self-doubt ruin the chance to ________ something new.”

6 . It’s my dream. I’m nine years old now, but have been _______ competitively since I was six. I love it, because it makes me feel good. I have a lot of _______   to use up and I can do it by just moving my legs.

One recent Sunday morning, my mum drove me to a 5km race in Minnesota.

The starting line was _______   because there was also a 10km race. That morning, I was running confidently and feeling _______   . At one point, I came to a _______ in the course. A woman who was directing us _______ the route I thought I was meant to take and told me to go the other way. I was confused, but I had to follow her _______.

After a while I saw route directions for a 10km race. I was worried, thinking I was _______, but had to keep going. My body started to get _______. I said to myself, “You’re almost there. Just keep __________.”

__________ I saw the finish line. I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t even know I was running a 10km and I had __________ it. I didn’t do this on purpose. It was a __________. I felt happy and proud. It was my first time running such a(n) __________.

It has made me want to do more 10km races. I hope my story __________ other people to run, too.

7 . The Tokyo Summer Olympics will not begin in late July and instead will be held "by the summer of 2021," Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Tuesday. The delay comes after an increasing number of _________and sporting federations _________ the games to be delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic (流行). It is the first time an Olympics has been_________, though the games were canceled three times, because of World War I and World War II.

Abe _________ the decision to journalists moments after speaking by phone with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach. The prime minister's office said via Twitter that "the two have agreed that the Tokyo Olympic Games would not be cancelled,_________ the games will be held by the summer of 2021."

The IOC and Tokyo organizers released a joint statement _________ the games won't be held in 2020 in a(n)_________"to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community."

While Japan has _________ from great efforts to _________ the coronavirus, the ______________ is spreading quickly in other areas. And health experts warn that it will likely be months ______________ people can return to the ______________ routines of everyday life.

In announcing the ______________ to delay the Tokyo Games, the organizers said the Olympic______________, which recently reached Japan after being lit in ______________ will ______________ in Japan until the postponed games are held. They also said the name of the games, which is plastered (粘贴) on signs, toy sand all manner of branded materials — will not change. ______________ being held in 2021, the upcoming Olympics will retain (保持) the formal title of "Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020."

The organizers say they hope that______________, "the Olympic flame could become the ______________ at the end of the tunnel ______________ the world finds itself at present."