1 . Janela, a judge for Guinness World Records (GWR), says it was the most fun he’s had since joining the GWR organization in 2009. As a judge, Janela has traveled the globe____ record- setting events. He has dealt with everything______ the largest number of people making     sandwiches at the same time.

Each year, Janela judges between 15 and 20 __________. Of course, Janela’s job isn’t all ______ and games. “To become a Guinness World Records____, I had to receive several months of ______ and take tests,” he says. “To do well in this role, you need a real depth of _________ - from food to sports - because you can___ anything.

Then there’s the record tracking. There are more than 50,000 Guinness World Records entries in the organization’s database. Each week, more than 1,000___ are received from people ____to break an exciting record or establish a new world record category.

As the U.S. content manager for GWR, Janela works with a team of 10_____researching records, establishing rules for new records and organizing record categories.

As_____as it can be to see new world records set, the biggest_____to Janela’s job is being factual and fair.

“Sometimes it’s_____to see a person or group trying hard to break a record but not coming close,” he says. “But remaining_____is always our No. 1 goal in record keeping.”

2 . 15 years ago, when I was playing basketball in one of Australia’s premier basketball leagues, I remember a sports psychologist we had for the season. As young professional athletes with high egos (自我价值感), the team were not quite convinced the techniques of psychology would ____   performance, especially when it didn’t involve using the physical strength and endurance needed to _____ the weeks of training and games. I, ____ , was interested.

We were trained in a visualization technique used before games. It involved moving ourselves into a meditative (冥想的) state and taking ourselves on a journey into the ____ to recreate the experience of a game, From ____ home, getting to the stadium, being in the change room, walking out onto the ____ and then finally visualizing how we would play and see ourselves ____ . The most important part of the ____ was to bring to life the vivid details of each stage, while also focusing on the ____ that came with it. We were trained to ____ fear, doubt and learned to go beyond them, so that by the time we got onto the court, we were grounded, ____ and ready to play.

What I learnt most from this technique was that winning games was important but how we ____   to play was even more vital. And ____ visualization was a powerful way to see through to the ____ , there were absolutely no ____ in the hard work of getting there.

3 . Who do you think came up with the idea for the Paralympics (残奥会)? The man who organized the sporting events which became the Paralympics Games_______was a doctor, Ludwig Guttmann.

In his teens, Ludwig was always interested in medicine and worked as a _______in a hospital. Then he_______ from medical school and became a doctor when he was 25 years old.

Guttmann _______ a successful career for the next few years._______ , because Guttmann and his family were Jews, in Germany was becoming very _______ for them. In 1938 Guttmann _______ to the UK with his family where he continued his research _______ the best way to treat patients.

The Second World War was going on and there were a lot of soldiers_______in the fighting. Often they   __________ the use of their legs and needed __________ and help. The disabled soldiers were often __________ and angry for they couldn’t really live a normal, useful life. Guttmann used his new __________ to look after their injuries but he also tried to give them emotional strength.

Guttmann __________ taking part in sport could help a person’s body as well as their mind and began to use __________ as a treatment to help his patients. He wanted to give them back their self-respect and dignity and __________ them to take part in sports.

In 1948 the hospital held a sporting event called “The International Wheelchair Games”. By 1952 the event began to __________bigger with disabled athletes from other countries attending. By 1960 the games were called the International Stroke Mandeville Games and they were held in Rome alongside the __________ Summer Olympics. By 1968 there were 750 athletes from 29 different countries. Guttmann himself died in 1980, even__________ the games were called “Paralympics”, but there is no __________ that he is the founder and father of the Paralympics Games. It’s thanks to his hard work that we are all able to enjoy the Paralympics.

After my speech about how everyone can benefit from football, Michael, a short and thin boy, approached me. Although I told him about our_______ and his weakness, every effort was_________He was_______   joining us. I knew he would probably not_______ it, but by the_______   of my speech, I allowed him to have a go.

On the opening day of practice, we started a one-mile jog around the track. Repeatedly Michael fell, each time _______ himself up. The same thing happened for weeks. Gradually, Michael gained strength both socially and _______. He began to laugh and made friends with most of the teammates. By the last week of practice Michael could run the mile without _______ One day after practice, the team captain, Steve, came up to me. He was _______ but kind of lazy. Steve pointed to the field where Michael was ________ all alone and asked me why he was still out there. I told Steve to ask him. The next day, I was ________ to see Steve exercising right next to Michael.

Our big game came. At first, we were losing ________ twelve points. I could see that some kids had already ________. But Michael was playing as hard as he could ________ the team to keep trying. Finally, we ________ the game in the last ten seconds.

At our celebration dinner, we always gave a big award to the most ________ player. Steve had scored the most points that season, and everyone ________ as he received his award. " There's someone who ________ it more than I do," Steve said," Everything I accomplished, and everything the team accomplished this season, is________ one person. " The entire team cheered once more as Steve turned the ________ over to Michael.

5 . Every time I passed boys who were playing basketball, I stopped to silently watch them. I really envied them. But as a girl, I once thought that I could_______play basketball.

I like playing basketball though I’m not good at it. I’ve had a basketball _______I was a child. At first, I could play freely because no one__________when I was just a kid. But as I grew up it seemed harder and harder for me to enjoy basketball.

At school, it was always the boys who played basketball during PE classes. The girls were_______ allowed to play volleyball or badminton.

My parents did not________me play basketball at home. “Basketball is not fit for girls,” they said. _______I went to play basketball with my friends, boys _______ at me on the court as if I were an alien.

I was feeling________ and had lost hope of playing basketball. _______, something changed the first day of high school. I made some friends who also enjoyed playing basketball. They________ me to get back on the court.

One of them told me with a smile, “Go your own _____ , let others talk.” This girl would always play basketball with me. Even the boy who sat next to me in class talked about   ________   with me almost every day.

I was inspired by them. Confidence and passion_______to my heart. I am ready to stand up and play. I will play as well as I can, ________for me, even the sky is boundless (无限的).

Basketball has become an important part of my_______. I am interested in it. I watch matches and enjoy playing almost every day. Through basketball, not only do I feel happy and confident, but also_______a lot.

I’ve heard the NBA star Tracy McGrady say, “Nothing is impossible.” It is from an advertisement on TV. I have________to realize that life is just like playing basketball. You should have an_______. After that, just be confident and_______ going. Never give up and you’ll make it sooner or later.

I love the motto of the NBA. It can______ my strong feelings for basketball, “I love this game!”

6 . When I was in elementary school, I entered an Easter card design contest. The_______ was supposed to get 200 dollars as a reward and his or her design would be made into an actual Easter_______. I was so _______ that I didn't even realize I never got the dollars _______to me by the game organizer or _______ my card in stores. It was _______ but I was just happy to have won such a contest, my first one in effect. _______, I really enjoyed making the card, so_______ weren't that important. I realize that playing to win will always leave me feeling empty. Life is a lot more_______ if we play games for fun rather than victory.

Later on, I entered another contest. All I had to do was color a picture. This was what I loved to do: display my __________ in something others could enjoy. Luck __________ me, and I managed to win once more. When I saw the prize, a pair of paper glasses, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. __________, if I were to find those same glasses now, I would think they counted for nothing.

Then, I started to enter contests with no prize, such as the lottery. I no longer minded__________ because the event itself was meaningful. The key to happiness is to put less thought into the__________ but more focus on making the journey unforgettable.

       In most of my experiences, the results didn't__________ my expectations because I idealized them. I just need to remember what my earliest contests have__________ me. Now my goal is to enter college, but I am not striving for good grades so that I can gain __________. Education is about learning, not just a necessary __________ to the next stage in my life. I'm studying hard __________ I' m eager to learn, and the__________ follow. I'll do my best to make college worth the struggle it requires.

7 . I was always the girl who managed to stay moderately fit through an active lifestyle. I relied on my brain but largely ______ my body.

Then, due to a mixture of ______ and overwork, I found myself no longer the ______ and happy person I had been. I couldn’t find ______ in the things I loved. I was unwell and needed to find a way to get better.

I added ______ to my schedule, along with more time outdoors and reducing my ______. I didn’t expect to enjoy it, and knew that I would need a one-to-one trainer to ______ me to exercise regularly. I ______ a personal trainer. I explained that I wasn’t aiming to lose weight. I had no ______ of shifting my anxiety on to the way I looked. ______, I wanted to improve my balance, flexibility and strength.

My trainer presented exercise as a way to boost myself up (增强) rather than ______, and to help my body be stronger and ______ for the things I wanted to do every day. To achieve this, I ______ time and energy in myself. ______ myself physically has not always been easy. It is hard work, I sweat a lot, and I ______ it. I finally found myself understanding ______ I would want to make exercise part of my life.

My body has built up. When I run, it takes less ______; when I dig my garden for hours, my back no longer ______. Now, when I’m ______ who I am and what I’m worth, I look down at my arms. Thanks to the exercise, my newly defined ______ reminds me of what I’m made of: the determination to thrive as well as survive.

8 . We runners know how precious our running friends are. Even when the sweat and the body pain make them feel like turning us down, they _______do. One of my oldest friends is a_______, like me. We live on opposite sides of the country and on_______career paths, so we don’t often see each other. On a recent summer afternoon, my friend Sarah_______her last-minute visit to our shared hometown with a running invitation for the following_______. She was only in town for a few days and was _______with her projects for medical school. _______, running provided us with an excuse to catch up and exercise _______ we ran along the beach that was once our high school cross-country teams meeting place for _______. We discussed work and family that had________since our last meeting as we ran the miles down.

We didn’t break any of our high school racing records that morning---that wasn’t the ________. While other friendships ________ a coffeehouse or bar for a catch-up session, Sarah and I can run in any________. Once being friends and teammates in school as________, we are now simply friends, ________each other to finish the last part of a hill as we ________advice on the larger struggles that we face in life.

While I________the lasting power of some of my other friendships, I never worry about this one. We each know what running means to the other person and the________ importance it holds for each of us. Running is the ________we can always feel good about, the high school tradition we dragged into our adult lives that never makes us ________. For me, running has always been a way to make and keep friendships.

9 . As she waited at the edge of the ice for her music to start, Peggy took a quick look at her father standing nearby with a group of parents and teachers. He smiled at her. Then she ____ out at the audience, ____ to see her mother. These two, Alvert and Doris Flemint, had ____ all the way from California more than 2,000 miles away, to see their ____ compete in this sports meet in Cleveland, Ohio.

The music ____ and Peggy moved onto the ice, letting the music ____ her along into her turns, and she began skating with much ____ in herself. The cold fear she always had in the ____ seconds before skating onto the ice was ____. She was feeling the movement of the ____ and letting it carry her. She skated easily, ____ did some jumps, a final turn and her performance was _____.

The crowd loved it and cheered ____ she skated off the ice. “Nice job,” said one of the other ____. It was the remark that ____ came after a free-skating performance. But what should the ____ say? Standing beside her father, Peggy ____ for the scoring to be finished. On all sides were other young skaters, some waiting _____ alone, others with a parent. Shortly before 10 o'clock the results were ____. The new United States Women’s Figure Skating Champion was Peggy Fleming of Passdena, ____.

10 . I used to hate running. It seemed too hard, and expanding my comfort zone was not something I like. In fact, I wouldn’t have become a runner if it weren’t for my husband Charles. He had been a serious competitive ______ for many years. After our marriage, he wouldn’t stop talking about how much he ______ it. So he picked it up again, and after about a year, I started to ______ him at the track. Just a few weeks later, Charles signed us ______ up for a five-kilometer race. I ______ about doing it because it was too soon.

The ______ sent a signal. Thousands of runners pushed forward. The first kilometer was ______. I was already breathing heavily and painfully aware of the group of runners ______ me. Charles was trying to ______ me, to get me focused on something _______my discomfort.

After another minute I saw the three-kilometer ______. “Painful” couldn’t _____describe how I felt. And there was pain, so much pain. I rounded a ______, and saw both sides of the street ______ with people watching the race, all ______ the runners up. I tried to keep my ______ going. I knew that if I actually ______ this race I would have achieved something. So, I ______ up and went on.

Finally I passed through the finish line. A volunteer put a medal around my neck. I ______ held my medal, walking to the post-race celebrations with Charles. My lungs and my ______ zone both expanded.