1 . When Muhammad Ali was 12 years old, someone stole his bicycle. It was a shiny new bike. Ali was very __________ and told a policeman he wanted to use his __________ to kill the thief. The officer __________ him to back up those “fighting words” by learning how to box.

During the next 25 years, Ali had a burning __________ to become one of the best boxers of the 20th century. He won a gold __________ at the Olympic Games. He went on to earn the title of world heavyweight boxing champion three __________ times. __________ his fights became major events watched by millions of people around the world.

Young Ali quickly made his mark in the __________ ring (拳击场). Instead of being a(n) __________, he turned professional after winning a gold medal in the Olympic Games in 1960. Four years later, he __________ Sonny Liston to __________ his first world heavyweight champion title.

In 1974, Ali __________ the world heavyweight title again by __________ George Foreman. Then he met Joe Frazier in the Philippines, to do __________ for the third time. It was __________, but Ali won that fight. Ali __________ his heavyweight title six more times before he __________ to Leon Spinks in February 1978. But Ali beat his __________ and got back the title seven months later.

Ali __________ in 1981 with a record of fifty-six wins and five losses. In 2005 he was __________ the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

2 . I am Ali. I have always had confidence in myself. My parents taught me to be _______ and that l could be the best at anything. I remember _______ my neighborhood boys to see who could jump the highest and run the fastest. Of course, I knew when I made the challenge, I would win. I never even _______ losing.

I started my boxing _______ when I was 12. In senior high school, I was sure I have the _______ to be the champion of the world. As part of my training, I would run down the street. I would rush in and out of shops to _______ them I was training for the Olympics and I was going to _______ a gold medal. I never thought of failing but only glory (光荣) that was going to _______ when I won. When I said I was going to be the “Greatest of the Time”, I _______ myself. And I still do.

But I didn’t know that my will would be ________ when I retired. In 1996, I was asked to ________ the cauldron (圣火) at the summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.

When the moment came for me to set fire to the cauldron, I realized I ________ the eyes of the world. Then I heard an extremely loud ________. I was reminded of my 1960 Olympic ________ in Rome, when I won the gold medal. I remembered those 36 years between Rome and Atlanta and ________ that I had come full circle. Nothing in life has defeated me. I am still “The Greatest.”

3 . American runner Isaiah Jewett took a deep breath. Entering the final stage of the men’s 800-meter semifinal race. Jewett _________ to finish in the top two and make it to the finals. And he was in the best possible position to achieve his aim.

“I was like ‘Okay, there’s a _________ to do this. Let’s do this,’” Jewett said.

That is when something unexpected _________. When Jewett got to the turn, Botswana runner Nijel Amos tripped (绊倒) him from behind.

“It was _________. I didn’t even believe it was me even though I was on the ground,” Jewett said. “I felt so _________.”

For Jewett though, showing good sportsmanship was more _________ than winning a medal. Growing up, he was exposed (使接触) to the world of anime (动画), which taught him valuable _________ such as never giving up and always finishing a race.

That is exactly what Jewett did with Amos.

“I just _________ that he was sad, and I shut off how I was feeling. I knew I couldn’t help him in any way but I _________ to do the best I could.” Jewett said.

After the __________, Jewett got up and helped Amos to his feet. Amos apologized for his __________, and Jewett put his arm around his competitor.

“Hey man, let’s __________ this race together; we’re not done yet,” Jewett told Amos. __________ , they crossed the finish line.

“It’s okay to compete but it’s also important to show that you’re a __________. That’s the way you show your heroism by __________ each other along the way and finishing the race together,” Jewett said.

4 . Yang Xiuyun, 72.is addicted to running. A 10-kilometer run in the morning is like her first _______ of the day. Before her _______. Yang was a breeder(饲养员). At that time, she did not know what a marathon was, but now she has run nearly 40 marathons, not only _______ in China, but also in Helsinki. Finland.

“Life is like a marathon. I’m just racing against the _______.” said Yang, who has been running consistently for 22 years. The old lady has short hair and speaks as _______ as she runs.

When she retired, Yang _______ kidney stones(肾结石). The doctor said that if she did not have _______, she could only recover by talking medicine or exercising. One morning, Yang went out for a walk and _______ a group of runners, who ran together and _______ each other. Seeing Yang’s ________ look in her eyes, the runners warmly invited her to join. “At first. I was afraid that I would become a drag in this group of young people, but they ________ me with great enthusiasm.” From 5 kilometers running to 10 kilometers, 20 kilometers, and ________the full marathon, the distance that Yang measured with her feet became longer and longer. Besides, she ________ a group of friends.

Running day after day has also brought changes to Yang’s body and ________. To the doctor’s ________, her kidney stones, which were ________ the size of broad beans, disappeared after several years of running.

In 2011, Yang ________ for the Shanghai Marathon, but she was not satisfied after finishing in five hours. Since then, she found ________ running teaching videos to adjust her running movements. After five years of professional ________, she ran for four hours and 20 minutes. In 2019. Yang signed up for the Helsinki Marathon with her running friends. “Even after all these years, running continues to ________ me,” said Yang.

5 . Being in the right place at the right time can mean the difference between life and death. A ____ named Zhu Keming despite the bad weather pulled six runners to ____ in a 100-kilometer cross-country race in China’s Gansu Province.

The day of the race started with mild weather. Zhu was ____ his flock (羊群) as usual. Then in the space of a few moments, everything ____. As the temperature dropped quickly and freezing rain and snow began to pound the land, Zhu took ____ in a small cave he’d been using for years to ____ emergency supplies.

It was from this point that Zhu ____ that one of the runners appeared disoriented (迷失方向的) and in pain. Zhu brought the man back to the cave to ____ him up. After lighting a fire, Zhu returned to the mountainside, ____ five additional runners to the cave. There’s little ____ that he finally saved their lives. ____ for the sudden change in the weather, most racers were wearing lightweight clothing that was no ____ for the coldness. The threat of hypothermia (体温过低) was all too real.

“I want to say how ____ I am to the man who saved me,” runner Zhang Xiaotao posted on Sina Weibo. “Without him, I would have been ____ there.” While Zhu is being praised as a hero in his homeland, the ____ shepherd doesn’t see the reason for all the fuss. He says he’s just an ordinary person who did a very ordinary thing.

6 . On Oct. 11, hundreds of runners competed in a cross-country race in Minnesota. Melanie Bailey should have _________ the course earlier than she did. Her _________ came because she was carrying a _________ across the finish line.

As reported by a local newspaper, Bailey was more than two-thirds of the way through her _________ when a runner in front of her began crying in pain. She _________ to help her fellow runner, Danielle Lenoue. Bailey took her arm to see if she could walk forward with _________. She couldn’t. Bailey then _________ to let Lenoue climb onto her back and carried her all the way to the finish line, then another 300 feet to where Lenoue could get _________ attention.

Once there, Lenoue was _________ and later taken to a hospital, where she learned that she had serious injuries in one of her knees. She would have struggled with extreme __________ to make it to that aid checkpoint without Bailey’s help.

As for Bailey, she is more __________ about why her act is considered a big __________. “She was just crying. I couldn’t __________ her,” Bailey told the reporter. “I feel like I was just doing the right thing.”

Although the two young women were strangers before the __________, they’ve since become friends. Neither won the race, but the __________ of human kindness won the day.

7 . To become the Olympic champion in the individual (个人) all-around event, Gabby Douglas had to leave everything she _________ best. She had to _______   her bedroom in Virginia. She had to say _________ to her two dogs and to the beach, where she loved to _________ waves on her board. But it was _________ to take the leap (飞跃), however _________ it would be. Even at 14, Douglas knew that. So she _________ about 1,200 miles away from home, to _________ with a coach from China. She lived with a family she had never _________ and everything was new to her.

As it turned out, Douglas did __________ what she needed to do to become Olympic champion when she __________two Russians. The Chinese coach __________ Douglas into one of the best gymnasts in the __________, helping her skyrocket from an __________ member of the national team to the top of the sport. By __________ the Olympic all-around title, she became the first black woman to do so. She __________ the competition from beginning to end. She said she had felt __________ all along that she would win.

Not so long ago, Martha Karolyl the coordinator (联络人) of the women’s national team, did not think Douglas had what it __________ to be an Olympian. As time went by, she thought __________ that she could make the London Games — and win.

“I’m going to inspire so many people,” she said. “I’m ready to __________.” And shine she did.

8 . Tempo (节奏) runs scare me. Those long and hard efforts always look impossible when I see them on paper.

I remember one 50-minute run_______. I saw it on my training plan and immediately created a laundry list of_________for why this was just not going to work, why I wasn’t fit enough, why I wouldn’t_______ — why I would fail.

Before I even laced up my shoes, I’d already _______ myself I couldn’t do this. Instead of using the warm-up to find my pace, _________for success, and get excited to make the best of it, I adopted a_________mind set (心态), revisited my list of excuses and_______ further into the bad-attitude trap. I quit the workout_________even before I started. After that, I shortened more workouts and my fitness moved backwards soon.

The _______, I realized, was that I treated my entire training plan like a tempo run — hard, fast and________. I felt that if I didn’t hit a workout early, I wouldn’t be able to________.

I realized I needed to treat my training like my favourite________: the long run. I love settling into a relaxed pace, enjoying the route and__________on only one goal — finishing. I love that I can have a bad mile in the middle and still end ________ .

Now, when I set a new goal and__________a new training plan, I have what I call “the long-run mindset”. I’m not ________for immediate results, as I have been in the past. I ________more about the big picture and my long-term goals as a________. Yes, there is still an important place for hard, fast tempo runs, but I have__________ my attitude, to think bigger than short-term ________ and instead work toward lifelong success.

9 . The World Cup is an international football competition that takes place every four years. The first World Cup event _________ in 1930 and it has only been cancelled twice in the history of the competition - in 1942 and 1946, _________ the Second World War. The World Cup can take place anywhere in the world. In 2018 the host country was Russia, in 2014 it was Brazil, in 2010 it was South Africa, and this year, in 2022, the _________ country is the State of Qatar. It is _________ time that a country in the Middle East is hosting the World Cup and only the second time that a country in Asia is hosting the _________.

While the World Cup usually takes place in the months of June and July. It is incredibly _________ in Qatar during the summer months, and _________ the competition will take place in November and December this year. There are 32 national teams participating. These teams were _________ through qualifying matches. There will be a total of 64 _________ played over the 28-day World Cup. These will take place in eight stadiums across the State of Qatar. The opening match __________ at Al-Bayt Stadium on the 20th of November between Qatar and Ecuador after the opening ceremony.

10 . Could you live without your smartphone for an entire year? A filmmaker and fantasy author from New York is about to try in an effort to win $100,000.

Vitaminwater launched a contest in December, offering one contestant the________to end up with six figures if she was able to go a________year without using with a smartphone or tablet.

After sorting through over 100,000________submitted online________how they would approach the challenge, Vitaminwater aimed the company’s chosen candidate on Friday.

Elana Mugdan, 30,________an infomercial style video on Twitter that impressed the judges with its unique approach and humor. “She________for her originality and creativity in our challenge,” says Natalia Suarez, a brand manager at Vtaminwater.

Mugdan is________her iPhone for a flip phone (翻盖手机) provided by Vitaminwater. For the next year, she can’t________any smartphones or tablets at all, even those________other people. She will be able to use laptops and desktop computers. Devices like Google Home and Amazon Echo are OK, too, as long as they’re not________to a smartphone.

Getting________to compete came as an absolute surprise to Mugdan, “I really thought that I was a good________for it, but this was the kind of thing I never________that I would actually win,” Mugdan tells CNBC Make It.

“At first I was shocked when they called me. I’m kind of a(n)________person, so I was having a panic attack,” she says. But shock________turned to expectation, and now she feels she’s up for the challenge.