1 . In 1991, Davenport played in her first professional tennis match when she was 15. She was ranked (排名) the Number 1 woman _________ player in the world eight different times.

I had the chance to _________ Davenport at the 2012 US Open. _________ that night, she answered some questions from our group and I asked her, “Ms Davenport, _________ can teach people a lot of lessons. What lessons did you _________ during your time as a professional tennis player that you didn’t learn as an amateur (业余运动员)?” To be honest, I had a personal _________ for asking this question. I played baseball in college, but not _________. So I wanted to know what I missed.

Davenport’s first _________ was to talk about how she had to grow up _________. She mentioned the power of the media and learning to live her life in front of a(n) __________. But then she changed the __________ and talked about improving her skill and the lessons of competition, hard work, and perseverance. Those things, she said, were learned long before she __________ a professional. In other words, to learn about what it’s like to __________ as a professional athlete, you need to be a professional athlete. But to learn the lessons of playing sports, you just need to __________ your sport.

Take note: you don’t need to be the best in order to be __________ or satisfied, but all that matters is that you play the game.

2 . After graduation, I decided to take the gym seriously. Accompanied by a friend, I______a routine of walking on the treadmill (跑步机). I was______with our routine in the gym. My friend, however, became bored.

One day, he suggested that we______an outdoor sport. I was an uncoordinated (动作不协调的) person, so I______his idea.

But several weeks later, he managed to______me to step onto an outdoor racquetball (美式壁球) court. When I hit the ball, I sent it flying in every direction except the direction that I had______. Still, somehow, I tried hard to learn it and became______after constantly practicing.

“We’re not getting enough______on the treadmill. Why not play tennis to build up our body?”suggested my friend.

“Tennis? I can’t play tennis! That______real skills!” I firmly resisted (抵制) his new______.

However, weeks later, I started playing tennis. After several months of painful practice, one day, as the ball came flying towards me, my racket and the ball met in what tennis players______as the “sweet spot”. I had______learned how to play tennis properly!

I learned a valuable______from these experiences: I can do whatever I set my mind on. I just need to put in efforts, and the results will______. And I become quite______about trying new things and I’m always filled with a sense of excitement.

3 . When Marco was a boy, he tried everything to get his father’s love and attention. He studied hard to get good _________ and tried to behave well. He was shy and shorter than the other boys. Besides, his father was _________ and had little time for him. Except for his _________ for housework after school, there was no communication. Marco felt very _________.

One day, his maths teacher called him that some young teenagers were _________ a public speaking contest. She thought Marco should give it a _________. She firmly believed he could perform on stage like other kids. Feeling her strong trust, he agreed to _________ the contest.

All winter, Marco took a bus to _________ twice a week in another city, where the competition would take place. He was taken by a strong _________ he never felt before. Finally, the big day arrived. His father, and yes, his maths teacher, were present. When he stepped onto the stage and began to speak, he felt __________ at home. He was funny, and acted very natural. He won! He noticed his father’s eyes were __________ — he was so proud. It was then that his father __________ he should pay more attention to the child.

As the winner, Marco’s name was __________ in the local papers. He knew this was the __________ of his new life. It all happened because of a phone call, from one who __________ him.

6 . On a Sunday evening, I was riding home when I saw a man in front of me, about half a mile away. I noticed the man was travelling at a speed lower than me. So, I decided to________him. I had about a________to go on the road before turning off. So I started cycling faster and faster and every block, I was gaining on him just a little bit. Just within minutes, I was about 50m________him, so I gathered all my________and tried hard to overtake him, and finally, I was ahead of him. And, finally, I caught up with him and passed him by. Within, while he had no clue that we were in a________, I felt like a winner,“I won”.

After I________him, I realized that I had been so________competing against him that I had________my turn, had gone nearly six________past it and had to turn around and go all back.

Isn’t that what________in life? We spend most of our time in________with neighbors, friends, family, trying to outperform them, or trying to be in front of them though we were________in the race with them. We use most of our time and________in competition and instead of________our destination, we miss out on our own________to our happy life.

7 . Growing up and playing hockey(冰球) with her brothers in the area, Manon Rhcaume learned pretty quickly that, despite her _________, she was often cut from teams _________ because she was a girl. Although it was _________ for the youngster, she continued to work hard and _________ her skills to prove she could _________ with the boys.

It didn’t take long for her to make a _________ for herself. In 1984, she became the first girl to _________ in the well-known Quebec City International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament.

When the Tampa Bay Lightning, a National Hockey League(NHL) team, came calling the following year, it was a _________ Rheaume could not pass up. When Rheaume arrived in Tampa Bay, she remembers there was a big bouquet(花束) of flowers waiting for her in her dressing room, along with a _________. “It was from a radio station in Montreal and the card __________ ‘Go further, good __________ to you, we’re all on your __________ and you’re not alone,’” she said. “When I got that, I realized a lot of people were __________ me to be successful.”

Although her experience with the NHL was brief, Rheaume encouraged countless girls to __________ their hockey dreams. Rheaume said, “Hard work and never giving up is what makes you __________. ”

8 . After graduation, I decided to take the gym seriously. Accompanied by a friend, I________a routine of walking on the treadmill (跑步机). I was ________with our routine in the gym. My friend, however, became bored.

One day, he suggested that we ________an outdoor sport. I was an uncoordinated (动作不协调的) person, so I_______his idea.

But several weeks later, he managed to ________me to step on to an outdoor racquetball (美式壁球) court. When I hit the ball, I sent it flying in every direction except the direction that I had __________Still, somehow, I tried hard to learn it and became ________after constantly practicing.

“We’re not getting enough________on the treadmill. Why not play tennis to build up our body?” suggested my friend.

“Tennis? I can’t play tennis! That ________real skills!” I firmly resisted (抵制) his new ________.

However, weeks later, I started playing tennis. After several months of________practice, one day, as the ball came flying towards me, my racket and the ball met in what tennis players viewed as the “sweet spot”. I had ________learned how to play tennis properly!

I learned a valuable ________from these experiences：I can do whatever I set my mind on. I just need to put in efforts, and the results will ________. And I become quite________about trying new things and I’m always filled with a sense of excitement.

10 . Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. “Football, tennis, cricket — anything with a round ball, I was _______,” he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the one always _______ in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.

It was a mountain _______ he received for his 15th birthday that _______ him. At first he went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to ride the bike along with a _______ friend. _______, Saunders set up his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and _______. At the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.

The _______ year, he met John Ridgway and was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s School of Adventure in Scotland, where he _______ about Ridgway’s cold-water adventures. Greatly ________ , Saunders ________ that this would be his future.

In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders ________ his first long-distance expedition (探险) towards the North Pole. It took ________ energy. He ________ frostbite (冻疮), ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the ________, pulling his supply-load sled (雪橇) up and over rocky ice. Since then, Saunders has skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.

Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilometre journey that has never been completed on skis.