For soccer fans around the world, the FIFA World Cup is a big event that can’t     1     (miss). This year, it’s being held in Qatar. At the end of March, its     2     (office) ball was announced.

Called “AI Rihla”,     3     means “the journey” in Arabic, the ball     4     (represent) the culture of Qatar. Its design has been inspired by the county’s architecture, its flag and its iconic (标志性的) boats.

To adapt to the speeds of today’s sport, the ball is designed     5     (be) high tech. The ball has first-rank shape and air retention (气密性). On the outside, it has 20 panels (面).     6     (follow) the laws of aerodynamics (空气动力学), the panels and surface material improve the ball’s     7     (accurate) and fight stability, noted the Qatar Tribune website. On account of this design, the ball     8     (consider) the fastest and most accurate ball to date.

The design of the ball also keeps sustainability (持续性) as     9     top priority (优先) because it’s the first World Cup ball made with water-based inks and glues only.

“This is an excellent, sustainable (耐用的) and high-quality official match ball that will be enjoyed by stars     10     well as grassroots players everywhere,” Jean-Francois Pathy, FIFA’s Director of Marketing, said in a statement.

I experienced the Naadam Festival in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for the first time this year. Naadam means “games” in Mongolian, and it     1    (represent) by three events: horse racing, wrestling, and archery. Mongolian wrestling is different from the wrestling in the Olympic Games. There are no rounds, and     2    (wrestle) are not separated by weight. Though the three events all left a deep impression     3     me, I liked horse racing best. I was surprised     4    (see) that riders were boys and girls! People say it is     5     children are lighter and the horses can run faster and farther.

“There is a long , long story     1     Tai Chi and me.” says jose Gago, 61, a Spanish man who has taught Tai Chi in his hometown for almost 36 years.

Although the first martial arts (武术) school     2     (found) in 1982 in Ourense, Spain, Jose did not make the trip to Yongnian, China, until 1994     3     (further) his study of Tai Chi. Since then, he     4     (travel) to China over 20 times. Tai Chi is not     5     (simple) a sport for Jose.     6     attracts him most is the Taoist philosophy (哲学) rooted in Tai Chi, of which the main elements consist in the principles (原则) of “softness, slowness, balance and rootedness”.

His martial arts school, which provided introductory programs for     7     (begin), has about 150 students,     8     (range) from children under the age of 5 to senior citizens over 70. He has trained thousands of students in Spain, many of     9     have won awards in a number of tournaments (锦标赛).

Jose’s hometown has hosted many free Tai Chi community classes and Tai Chi is acting as an important bridge for     10     (culture) exchange.

A new football competition, Man V Fat,     1     (organize) recently in England. Judging from the name,     2     is easy to guess that players can only join if they are fat. They can only win when they lose     3     (pound) after each game. So, the aim of this competition is     4     (get) fat men to do exercise always.

Jay Ali, a bank manager, found it a perfect idea. He said, “I don’t want to go to weight-loss classes     5     almost all participants are women there. And I don’t want to play football with my friends who are all     6     (thin) than me, so this gives me the perfect opportunity to exercise with guys who are the same     7     me. Here, no one judges me, so I don’t have to get     8     (embarrass).” Mr Shanahan from Staffordshire shared the same opinion, “I took part in the competition after getting fed up with (受够) the weight-loss classes which were     9     (main) filled with women.”

It seems that this football competition has offered fat men     10     amazing way to lose weight.

Khamisi Ally Abdi, a 25-year-old African student in Cangzhou Technical College, Hebei Province, has practiced tai chi for two years. Having worshiped kung fu stars such as Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan as     1     child, the Tanzanian understood Chinese kung fu to be a fast-paced attack and defense art before he     2    (arrive) in China, but now he realizes tai chi is different. It is tai chi moves with balance and deep rhythmic breathing     3     allow him to feel the charm of the exercise. It brings peace and     4     (calm) to his mind while building his muscles.

The college, as one of the international exchange centers,     5     (admit) more than 300 international students from over 50 countries since 2016,     6     (main) countries along the Belt and Road, providing a tai chi course for all foreign students.     7     (practice) tai chi has led Abdi to acquire a comprehensive appreciation of this Chinese culture and ideology. He now prefers people     8     (call) him his Chinese name Chen Yanzhi, as the characters of Yanzhi carry the meaning of talented and virtuous. The art has inspired his understanding of China.     9     he is longing for is teaching tai chi in his country and he expresses hope that this magical kung fu can be     10     (benefit) to more people.

Lifting a spear, Li Jinqi pulled it across her shoulders and spun (旋转) it     1     (quick). Following her example     2     (be) ten peers in two rows (排) who wore the same Kungfu — style garments (服装) and produced the same movements.

Li is a 24-year-old Ph.D. Student at Bei hang University in Beijing,     3     she is more widely known on campus as a martial arts master and led the university’s martial arts club. Despite being busy with research and coursework (课程作业), the Ph.D. student said     4     (practise) martial arts has become a daily routine for herself over the past five years. She has studied various styles, boxing and swordplay (击剑)     5     (include), and won several cross — campus martial arts competitions held in the capital city

Gao Xiaoya, majoring in electronic information engineering at Beihang, who also joined the martial arts club,     6     (share) that she draws inner peace and strength from the sport. Gao is     7     the many young people who were first attracted to martial arts as a way to keep fit, but who found that their     8     (enthusiastic) grew as they practiced more.

“The rapid growth of the Internet and social media also facilitates communication about traditional Chinese culture, enabling young people to have     9     (easy) access to rare art forms,” said Song Yu,     10     assistant researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.