1 . Every August, teams with players about 10 years old play baseball across the US, with the aim to become Little League _______. In this year’s game, Isaiah Jarvis, a Little League batter (击球手),   _______ the pitcher (投球手), Kaiden Shelton, who threw a baseball that hit him in the head. The   _______ scene brought tears to the eyes of the crowd in the stadium.

On August 7^th, Kaiden Shelton, from Texas, _______ Isaiah Jarvis, from Oklahoma, at the plate. With two strikes against Isaiah, Kaiden _______ lost control of his pitch. The ball hit Isaiah in his helmet, sending him to the ground. The field staff immediately _______ him and found him to be OK. He decided to remain in the _______. Yet Kaiden, the pitcher, appeared to be _______.

Isaiah called a timeout upon seeing his _______ battling emotions. He calmly walked toward Kaiden and gave him a big hug, trying to ________ him. “Hey, you’re doing just great.” Kaiden later shared with NBC News. “These ________ words from him really helped me.”

A video of the moment was posted online and attracted more than 6.5 million views. Danny Graves, a sports announcer, said Isaiah’s ________ was the best thing he had ever seen in Little League baseball.

The Texas team won the game 9-4 to ________ to the Little League World Series. And Isaiah was also ________ to the game to celebrate its 75th anniversary. The pair told NBC News they think their newfound ________ will last beyond any tournament.

2 . My father grew up in Chicago and loved the local team Cubs (小熊队) his whole life. I loved my dad, so the Cubs _________ me too. When I went back home after school or work, I always watched the Cubs with him. Two decades after my father’s _________, every time I watch the Cubs on television, I think of him and _________ with him in my head about their game.

Perhaps baseball is too _________ a thing for father and son to connect over. A ball game might seem, frankly, sort of _________ compared with family and career concerns. But that is _________ what makes it ideal for forming relationships. We had nothing to _________ as we watched them play, except for the _________ of enjoying the games together as father and son, which was much greater than it would have been, if either of us had _________ without the other. The Cubs were the “place” where we met to enjoy being __________.

Lots of sports fans have similar __________. Sportswriters find that 42 percent of sports fans were “very __________” with their family life, compared with less than a quarter of nonfans.

If your __________ with family are a little cold, you might be __________ too much usefulness in your activities. Maybe the solution is to develop a taste for baseball, or maybe instead for opera or __________.

3 . On my 70th birthday, I decided to participate in 70 different sports before I turned 71.I had played sports as a youngster and never stopped. So I was ________that 70 sports in one year was well within my________.My aim was not to ________ any of the sports, but to just give them a try. Try anything once, and then move on.________after my birthday, I made an attempt at paddle boarding. I tried to get on the board, then________on the board and finally fall into the water before trying all over again. A lesson learnt：perseverance________.Eventually I stood, I balanced and I paddled. A nearly________.

Then came the________to teach myself figure skating. It looked so________on You Tube. But attempting a simple spin(旋转) left me lying on the ice, feeling painful. However, Ⅰ________to give up. I said to myself if I don’t succeed ________, try, try again. In this case, I learnt some basics of figure skating, enough to perform for my wife

My family’s________was important. My wife photographed every event. My sons were always ready for a spirited game. The sports brought the whole family together.

Except some health advantages, I also realized dreams are important, regardless of how ________they might seem. As youngsters we dream of participating in the Olympics. As we ________, our hopes and dreams change, but we should never let them________.

4 . It was an overwhelming Friday afternoon. There were hundreds of students, who _________ to cheer their favorite team up.

I have always loved running, but my_________to compete for a long-distance race was terrible for me. I was_________to compete in a four-hundred-meter race, yes, it was indeed _________. When the competition finally began. I found my nervous self _________. I ran with my strength, but still did not make_________to the top three. My teammates, whom I have expected to comfort me_________to doubt my ability to compete in the next event. They never wanted me to be in the next track game. This belief motivated me to_________more.

I wanted to prove myself._________I decided to work more on my endurance(耐力)skills. As soon as I noticed my time__________were getting better. I signed up for the next track game. This time I not only __________to be one of the top three competitors, but also earned a medal for my team.

Nothing was more__________ than the medal I won at that moment. I was appreciated by the members of my team, who__________rejected my wish to compete on that game. I learned that whatever one puts their__________to do, that person will__________be the best at what he is aiming for.

5 . We all know that physical exercise has treatment power, but who would have ever imagined that playing ping pong could help _________ the brain?

For decades, the recording artist and activist Nenad Bach _________ the world performing with famous musicians like Bono and Luciano Pavarotti. However, everything came to a _________ stop in 2010 when Nenad was _________ to have Parkinson’s disease(帕金森病). Everything that Nenad thought was ordinary in life was _________. “Music is a passion of mine,” he said. “When I was told I had Parkinson’s, I didn’t know what it was. Five years later, I couldn’t play a single chord(和弦) on the _________.”

One day, a friend of Nenad’s asked him to play _________ with him, and Nenad said yes. The effects were _________ and positive: he woke up the next day filled with a “_________ to live”, and his physical and cognitive(认知的) issues had __________. Encouraged, he kept playing. For months, he told everyone around him about how ping pong was __________ his Parkinson’s, but his praise fell on deaf ears. __________, he took matters into his own hands and started Ping Pong Parkinson’s sessions. Once the sessions __________ momentum(势头), he created a nonprofit organization called Ping Pong Parkinson (PPP). PPP hopes to encourage people living with Parkinson’s to play ping ping for its multiple __________.

Nenad has made spreading the word about the power of ping pong as his new life goal! He hopes others will __________ the sport and see the same sort of cognitive and physical improvements he’s enjoyed.

6 . Marcus is a handsome and athletic kid. He plays tennis and _________ the state tournament every year. Marcus’s neighbor, Conrad, is also _________ to compete, but he has rheumatoid arthritis (类风湿性关节炎). Although it pains him just to walk, he _________ painful days at school walking to the sports field. He loves watching his school compete so he doesn’t _________ a game.

Marcus has known Conrad since primary school. They’ve always been _________. He sees Conrad in pain and his _________ at not being able to play sports. So, every day alter school, Marcus _________ his classmates to go to Conrad’s for a moment of discussion about the game competition. The discussion is as _________ as a real high school game, which makes Conrad forget the hurt.

Finally, the doctors found a new _________ to reduce the pain. Conrad walks without much pain, and then begins running, but he still has to learn the __________ of running. After a childhood of walking carefully and taking __________ steps, Conrad has to train his walking like a kid again and stay in shape. He pushes himself every day，building his lungs and doing leg lifts repeatedly for his leg __________. He knows what pain feels like, but running for Conrad is no longer __________.

To Conrad’s delight, he gets a chance to join the cross country team. Conrad doesn’t win, not once, but Marcus is there, __________ for him who always finishes in the middle of the competitors, breathing in wind and waving his hands __________.

7 . As her father guided her ________ down the road alongside the swimming pool, 12-year-old Tina Fisher fiddled (整理、摆弄) with the folds of the borrowed wet suit she was wearing and took a few ________ breaths.

This is a girl who loves the ________ of water flowing around her limbs (四肢), who until recently was ________ her underwater swimming, and who takes every opportunity to spend time in the water.

But this was the first time Tina had been anywhere near a pool since the otherwise ________ June 2 when she was playing with a friend. Just 90 minutes after the preteen felt pain in her legs — the first symptom of a spinal stroke — she became paralyzed (瘫痪) from the waist ________ .

Now she was going to try something she’d never ________ even when she’d had the use of her legs: She was going to take her first scuba diving lesson.

Tina’s father, Dennis Fisher, slipped into the pool and helped Occupational Therapist Kaitlin Macdonald ________ his daughter into the water. She lay ________ , rested her head on the surface and, for a few brief moments, ________ her eyes. Then she did something that made MacDonald smile. “Tina,” she said, “look at your leg.” Ever so slightly, Tina was moving her right leg. It was ________ a few inches, but still — Tina’s mind was telling her leg what to do, and her leg was ________ .

“A lot of times, we’ll see movement ________ in the water,” MacDonald said, “It means a capacity (能力) is there that we can build on, ________ it’s still weak.”

For Tina, it felt great to just be back in the pool. She wrapped her arms around her father and briefly lay her head on his chest. Then she turned to Macdonald and indicated she was ready to swim the ________ of the pool.

“OK,” Macdonald said, “Here we go.”

8 . I remember everything about my first Cubs game, although it was a few years ago. My uncle took me to it on a Saturday in spring, a bright sunny day. When we got there, I_________that even though we were at the upper level, I could see everything clearly, the_________field. It was great-seeing it this way was much better than watching it on TV. Then the game started, and everyone cheered when the Cubs_________on the field.The man next to me said, “This is going to be the year. This year they’re going all the way.” My uncle said to him, “Let’s hope this is the one.” But then he_________to me, “I think he is too hopeful. We’ll have to wait and see I always start the year thinking they’ll win the World Series, but then I remember the_________year. They started the season_________and then they had a long losing streak.” The final score was 7 to 0, so it was nine winnings of hoping and then losing. We were_________about that score.

“Tomorrow, they’ll win. I’m certain!” I heard one person say as we left to go home. “_________”another replied. When we were returning, I asked my uncle, “Why were they so_________ when the score was 0 today-how can they be sure that tomorrow the team will win?” That’s__________it means to be a Cubs fan: we believe in tomorrow. When they win, it’s the best. If they lose, we expect it will get better, even though__________may tell us it won’t. Every year, we hope; every game we hope and we don’t abandon hope, that’s__________. It’s about__________your team no matter what.

And the next year we were there too, cheering.__________they lost, then it was amazing what happened this year. The Cubs won the whole thing-they won the World Series.Their fans were so excited-I’ve never seen adults scream and__________that way.

9 . The grandmother from Shanghai has become a minor celebrity in recent months as her newfound and unlikely love for working out made national headlines.

According to Chen Jifang’s trainer, who helped to manage the Douyin account, she ________ more than 400, 000 followers within just a few months.

“The main group that I wanted to ________ was people at ages of 30 to 50,” says Chen. “I think they will be ________ to work out in the gym after seeing that a granny like me can. The ________ I want to convey (传达) is that it is never too late to pursue good ________.”

For Chen, her passion for ________ was born out of a need instead of a ________ to become famous. According to Chen, her health had been poor since she was a child. After becoming a gym goer in December 2018, Chen lost 14 kilos (30 pounds) in three months and many of her physical conditions are ________

Chen, who has a grandson aged 14, recalled the ________ looks she got the first time she walked through the gym door.

“They found it very ________ . They don’t usually see people at such an old age who ________ their health so much,” she says.

“If your muscles are ________ and powerful, they will protect your bones if you fall. The elderly are most afraid of   ________ ,” she said.

“In fact, I also fell once and fell ________ hurting my forehead, hips, knees and toes. They ________ an old lady with white hair lying on the ________ and passersby started ________ an ambulance. I said ‘Don’t.’ and I got up. I said, ‘I have been exercising, so I’m ________ ’. Then I left.”

She ________ , “At our age, it is not how much money you have, who you are, or how good your children are that matters. You just want a ________ record as short as possible.”

10 . Jordan has been a sports fan since his childhood. Since his father was a soccer coach, he would never miss out on ________ and would always be on top of his game. Jordan became a(n) ________ player in a very short time. He always knew that he wanted to build a career in sports and ________ to achieve it.

Jordan ________ from Auburn University and was one of the strongest and most competitive players on his team. However, his professional career ________ when he was at his peak — an injury was all it took to bring him down. He suffered from serious damage in his back, due to which he could never ________ to professional playing.

Instead of backing off and going into a period of ________ as most athletes do, Jordan made this ________ an opportunity to grow in this field. With his career being ended ________, he promised himself to ________ young athletes on moving properly and taking care of themselves. He became a coach. He ________ his trainees to follow his motto: Do what you do with all your strength.

As Jordan went through the difficult time, he was always ________ by the passion for training and developing healthy life routines for young athletes. He ________ to help them grow and reach their ________ to the fullest and do not repeat the same ________ that he did that ended his career.