1 . Exercise and I had never had a good relationship due to my fear of sports. From a young age, my dad _______ me into a dozen sports. I didn’t like any of them, _______.

When I entered the University of Regina, my dad _______ telling me “You have to find a way to stay _______.” or “You don’t want to get the Freshman 15, do you?” So I _______ to give swimming a shot, but I _______ managed to go to the pool twice during the fall semester (学期). Worse still, I was _______ to convince myself that’s OK.

The spring semester came. A friend of mine _______ me if I wanted to try Zumba (尊巴) with her. All I knew about Zumba was that it was basically a kind of exercise: dancing to Latin pop songs. It didn’t sound too bad, but I couldn’t be _______.

I went, and that was it. Zumba became my ________ of tea. The instructor would always say, “Don’t worry about the steps. Have fun. Do your own thing.” That removed my ________ of sports. I didn’t have to be ________. I didn’t even have to be good. I just needed to ________ the music and move. Zumba did ________ me from the Freshman 15, and it also did so much more. It let me make ________ with my unpleasant past about physical exercise, and enjoy staying healthy.

2 . 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 for me to enjoy basketball. At school, boys always 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 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, I not only feel happy and confident, but also ________ a lot.

I’ve heard the NBA star Tracy McGrady say, “Nothing is impossible.” 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!”

4 . Every year, the Olympic Training Centre has one extra special day just for women. This day celebrates the fact that _________ can join in any particular sport they desire, just as easily as men.

In the old days, women were told that certain sports were for men _________, and that women were forbidden to the _________. Well, eventually the women of this world decided to strike back, telling everyone else that they weren’t going to put up _________ this form of nonsense (冒失行为) any longer. _________ was then that women and men were declared equal _________ to any sports game, regardless of (不管) sex.

Tomorrow, this special day will be _________ by all Olympic Centres by offering a free tour as well as planned activities for all the _________ from the neighbouring schools. Since the Olympic Training Centre, here in San Diego, is just a few _________ from where our school is located, we received an invitation to this event as well. How wonderful, __________, and incredible! I simply can’t wait!

Our scheduled __________ are volleyball, archery(射箭), and track(田径赛). This means that we will play a game __________ two of volleyball with the US Volleyball Team champions, and __________ arrows(箭) with the Official Archery Team of the United States! We even will get to __________ the track with the US champs as well. All the instructors are __________ themselves, and all are on a championship team, representing America.

5 . I started training in tae kwon do (跆拳道) by accident. But in the first class, I learned something exciting—how to ________ someone grabbing your arm. I loved it, so I kept practicing and earning higher ranks.

At every rank, I found something ________, whether it was the kicks in the air or the increasingly complex patterns. But over time, “I can’t” ________ “How can I?” which then became “How will I?”

One day, I showed up to class and students were ________ wooden boards. I was convinced that they were all crazy and “I can’t” voice yelled again.

I watched, in ________ as student after student walked up to solid pieces of wood and broke them with their hands or their feet. When I was given the opportunity to ________ I chickened out. But my ________ were extremely patient. They invited me to work individually with them. I refused their first and second offer, but ________, I agreed to try.

They told me that board breaking was more a mental ________ than a physical one and taught me how to line up to break that board. And the first time I went to ________ it, I was so afraid that I missed and accidentally kicked the board holder’s fingers. I felt ________ but he encouraged me to try again. I told that doubting voice in my ________ to “shut up!”

I focused on the ________ I thought about how much I had improved and how I had surprised myself. I told myself I ________ to believe that I was able to do amazing things. And then—suddenly that board looked a lot less ________ I kicked with everything I had and it worked.

6 . Being a parent is already a life-changing experience. However, this 40-year-old dad_______an astonishing transformation after a hike with his kids.

Before Jeremiah Peterson looked like a supermodel, he weighed 290 pounds. He was only_______to lose weight after he went on a_______with his family in 2017 and became self-conscious about how quickly he was_______from the activity.

“Instead of remembering all the good_______we had made on this trip, all I can remember is this one thing that kept playing in my head over and over again: I found myself running out of breath and having to take_______way before my 9-, 7- and 6-year-old kids,” Peterson wrote on Instagram.

The dad from Missoula, Montana then was_______to get into shape.

He started by giving up drinking and_______a ketogenic diet(生酮食法). Every day for five months straight, he would hike for two hours and spend one_______hour at the gym.

After 150 days of a strict diet and lots of________, Peterson lost 92 pounds. Not only that, he can now run________up the hiking trail that once made him extremely exhausted.

Peterson now uses his story and fitness expertise to coach and________almost 100,000 social media followers---but he says that his kids are the real________for his success.

“Finding your reason that is________if you want to achieve success in life,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “If you don’t have a strong reason behind your________you are less likely to get the results.”

7 . Two years ago, Kiah Twisselman was working for the Kentucky Beef Council, when she reached the weight of 285 pounds. Kiah was responsible for their nutrition program, which meant _______ the health benefits of beef and it wasn’t sitting well with her. She had to stand up in front of a group registered _______, a group of influencers, and tell them about the nutritional benefits of beef, and it made her so _______.

While on a flight to a work conference, Kiah read a book by motivational speaker Rachel Hollis. “That book was kind of my _______ call to me that if you want to change your life, it is 100 percent in your _______ and nobody else’s,” said Kiah.

She started _______ Hollis on social media and decided to try her Five To Thrive plan, which _______ her to adopt five simple habits and commit to _______ them every day for 90 days.

Kiah started waking up earlier, _______, began daily journaling, drank water according to the instruction and ate healthily. In just a few months, she lost 25 pounds, which ________ her to keep going, ________ when she hit a plateau (停滞期). She set a new goal: to lose 100 pounds.

To ________ things up, Kiah started trying out harder workout videos. Unlike previously blaming herself for her failure, this time, she started from a place of ________. “When I failed, I was more willing to ________ myself and say, ‘What can I learn from this?’”

Over the next year, Kiah lost 103 pounds and the physical transformation was so ________!

8 . After having a child, I found my regular exercise interrupted. Not only was I busy, but I also lacked the motivation and ambition. Solo gym sessions or some quick ___ following the DVD while the baby slept didn’t ___ me at all. So I decided to sign up for a hiking trip in Peru, hoping that it would get me ___ again.

Looking over my travel arrangements before I left, I___ phrases such as “3-hour hike ___ primitive forests” and “sliding with a rope down waterfalls”, and I started to feel a little worried.

However, as we made our way through the forests and were ___ with amazing views of awesome waterfalls, this team of strangers ___ me to go on. Being physically active with a group motivated me to reach the ___ or the valley below—rather than simply lying down on the forest floor and giving up, ___ I might have done if I were alone.

Experts prove my experience:Group exercise can really start a new attitude toward fitness. “People get a better ____ in a group than they do on their own,” said Allison Kimmel, a group ____ instructor. That’s because other people ____ both support and competition. “Humans are ____ animals and the shared experience of facing a challenge ____ is compelling(令人信服的),” said David Ezell, CEO of fitness provider Darien Wellness.

With the ____ of a group, I’m slowly getting back into a healthier lifestyle.

9 . Flo Meiler was a Senior Olympics tennis player. She_________track and field at age 60. At 65,she tried the pole vault (撑杆跳高) for the first time. Now, over a decade later, Meiler has_________in the Nation Senior Games 13 times and holds 15 world records: one- hundred meter, the high jump, the long jump, the pole vault and so on. Meiler's_________of accomplishments goes on. Meiler is proud of it. How many_______ does your great grandma hold? Maybe none yet._________,Meiler will tell her there's still plenty of_________.

In Bernice Bates' yoga class, there is a motto: “I can do that.”You will feel_________when watching Bates twist and flatten her body into_________most healthy young people can't even do. Bates began_________herself yoga in 1980. Now, at 92, she__________a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest yogi on Earth. While teaching free lessons to residents of her Florida retirement home, Bates__________those who're decades younger than her by__________one simple philosophy: As long as you're alive, it's never too late to love your________This article must 　______　 with my own great grandmother who celebrated her 100th birth-day last year by bringing the whole family to a party on Orcas Island. Century old smiles are truly_______ a thing.

10 . If you are heading to the gym in the hope of losing weight, try to do it before you eat your breakfast. Exercising before the first meal of the day is more _______ than after it a British study has found. Although the _______ of exercise is well-known, people have been unsure about whether it is better to do it on an _______ stomach or a full one.

Dr. Jason Gill, who _______ out the research said that while exercise in itself is good, any done before breakfast may be extra good, because it _______ the body to rely on its stores of fat for _______ . When people talk about losing weight they _______ mean losing fat.” he added.

Ten men who made three _______ to his laboratory were given breakfast each time. On the first visit, the men didn’t do any _______ . On another, they did an hour's walk ahead of breakfast and on the third they did the walk________breakfast Those who exercised ________ more fat than those who simply sat around. And those who did their walk before breakfast ________ up 33 percent more fat than those who exercised after eating. Tests showed they also ________ a bigger drop in the blood fats that raise the risk of heart disease.

However, those who exercised after breakfast shouldn’t ________.” Dr .Gill said, “The biggest ________ is between doing nothing and doing something. You are still going to ________a huge benefit. Those who exercise before ________ only burnt off around a tenth of a pound more fat than the men who had a relaxing morning. ________ they did an hours walk every day for about ten days, they would ________ about a pound, which is about as fast as you can really ________ to lose weight.