My dad is an enthusiastic (狂热的) runner who     1     (great) influenced when I was young. So I was very sporty before the age of 14. However, when my family moved, my new school didn’t pay much attention     2     sports and had no after-school activities like football or running. Over the next few years. I stopped exercising, apart from during Physical Education lessons at school. I looked like I was     3     (health). However, I was not.

One day, I was late for a bus, tried to run after it and in under a minute was out of breath! This made me realize how unfit I was.     4     (help) myself get in shape again, I made a(n)     5     (decide) that I would take up a kind of sport.

A friend of     6     (I) suggested a swimming pool     7     is close to my house. Now, I’m a swimming lover! I find swimming in the pool very     8     (relax). I swim for an hour three times a week. I hope that I will soon start to feel     9     benefits of regular exercise, and     10     (become) fitter than before.

The Chinese arm swinging exercise, also     1    (call) Shuai Shou Gong is so simple. You do nothing more than swing the arms, and     2     takes you only 10 minutes to learn. If you do it     3    (continuous), you will enjoy its benefits in a matter of days. It is an excellent way     4    (relax) your body after a day’s work. Practice it daily over time, and it brings you many benefits. It helps you stay healthy and in shape. There are also many reports     5     how it helps in healing. The women,     6     were in their 60s and 70s, also found day-to-day     7    (activity) easier after practicing it. Researcher Professor Neil Roberts of Edinburgh University, said “These findings demonstrate that the gentle, rhythmic, whole-body sequence of movements of Shuai Shou Gong may be readily learned and enjoyed by older adults and improves general health and wellbeing.”

The exercise routine, which is more than 1,000 years old,     8    (consist) of a sequence of five arm swings. The first four involve swinging the arms back and then forward, to shoulder height. During the     9    (five) swing, you bend your knees twice-once when     10    (swing) your arms back and again when bringing them forward. The sequence is then repeated multiple times.

Wing Chun Kung Fu (咏春拳) is     1     excellent hobby for children and assuring (令人放心的) for parents concerned about their safety. It is easy to learn and     2       (huge) practical. It offers smaller people the ability to overcome larger attackers because the movements     3       (base) on skill rather than size or strength.

The International Wing Chun Academy     4     (train) children in Australia since 1973. Our Little Dragons classes for children     5     (age) from five to thirteen are safe and fun. Children can quickly learn the skills to notice and avoid dangerous situations when     6     can find no one for help.     7       the Academy’s aims, to teach children how to escape from a threatening situation without using violence is the most important one.

Wing Chun Kung Fu helps build the confidence of     8    (pupil) and helps build character,     9     makes it an ideal interest for shy children. Learning Wing Chun Kung Fu is a     10       (positive) step on the road to a healthy and active lifestyle than other forms of exercise.

It has been reported that     1     31st FISU World University Games came to a close on Tuesday night in Chengdu, Sichuan Province,     2    (win) wide praise from officials and athletes alike. Declaring the games closed, Leonz Eder, acting president of the International University Sports Federation, said the event has made the dreams of student-athletes come true     3     they have won medals or not, because their experience in the city has been gold medal standard.

The closing ceremony was held at the Chengdu Open Air Music Park. It is the first time in the world that the closing ceremony of a large international sporting event     4    (hold) in a park, according to the organizers of the games. “It was aimed     5    (leave) the audience worldwide with fond memories of a unique Chengdu, from     6     they got to know China and fell in love with its people,” the organizers said. A total of 6,500 student-athletes from 113     7     (country) and regions competed     8     269 events of 18 sports at the Chengdu games, which opened on July 28.

China     9    (successful) got 103 gold medals, 40 silver medals and 35 bronze medals. Japan was in second place with 21 gold medals. Republic of Korea and Italy both won 17 gold medals and 18 silver medals and ended up in third and fourth places, respectively. During the ceremony, the FISU flag was handed to a     10    (represent) of Rhine-Ruhr, Germany, which will host the next FISU World University Games in 2025.

Pillow fighting is moving out of the bedroom and into the boxing ring. The Pillow Fight Championship, or PFC, plans to hold     1     (it) first live, pay-to-watch event in Florida on January 29.

Steve Williams had the idea of     2     (turn) a children’s game into a professional fighting sport. The head of PFC said professional pillow fighting will have the     3     (excite) of hand-to-hand fighting without the violence of mixed martial arts, or MMA, and boxing. He said it is not a joke.

The male and female athletes in January’s event come     4     (most) from MMA and boxing. But Williams said the athletes are not going to get     5     (injure). “The fighters don’t like to be hurt, and there are a lot of people     6     don’t want to see the blood. They want to see good competition, and they just don’t want     7     (see) the violence.”

Since many people grew up pillow fighting with friends or relatives, Williams     8     (hope) the new sport will be popular and can attract a large audience, including children.

“You can call it     9     unusual sport, but we think it’s going to have main appeal (吸引),” he said. “Think about how they mixed country music     10     rap music and brought these different audiences together. That’s what we’re doing, and we hope it brings in a different kind of viewers.”

What makes something a sport? Traditional definitions usually included some physical     1     (activity) that show athletic ability or strength. But some sports can take the form of mental competitions. For instance, chess     2     (recognize) as a sport by the International Olympic Committee in 1999. Now, some people wonder if e-sports should also be considered sports.

The word e-sports is short for electronic sports. It is a form of competition in     3     professional players or gamers play video games either in teams or individually.     4     (typical), the winners receive prize money at the end of the competition.

The first e-sports event was the one     5     (hold) by Stanford University in the 1970s, for the game Spacewar! Over the next 30 years, video games exploded in popularity. More and more countries, such as South Korea, China     6     the United States,     7     (start) to develop e-sports into an industry. In the 2000s, television broadcasts of the competitions,     8     (feature) games like Street Fighter III, StarCraft II, and Counter-Strike, became popular. In the 2010s, thanks     9     online streaming services, e-sports grew rapidly with more worldwide tournaments, more viewers, and     10     (large) prizes. In 2020, the industry made more than $1 billion for the first time ever.

When I was in primary school, I disliked doing exercise. I felt tired when I     1    (do) any kind of exercise. My parents were really     2    (worry) about my health. One day, after having supper, my father     3    (come) and asked me to have     4     walk with him in the park. I agreed and we went out together. It was hard for me to walk for half     5     hour. I wanted to give up,     6     my father encouraged me to keep on walking. From then on, I was often asked to walk with my parents. To my surprise, I could walk for an hour in the     7    (five) month. How     8    (pride) I felt! I loved taking exercise gradually. Now I am an excellent runner in my school. I take part in the school sports meeting every year.

During all our life, we may face a lot of     9    (difficulty). Don’t be afraid of them. Please try to face them     10    (brave). After you overcome what you used to be afraid of, you may find how great you are!

World Cup is likely the most popular sporting event in the world,     1     draws billions of television viewers every tournament(锦标赛).

These days, football,     2     (go) back over two thousand years to Ancient China, is fun enough     3     (attract) millions of people. It’s a game to play cheaply and     4     (easy), which     5     (be) perhaps the basis of its popularity. People don’t need expensive     6     (equip) and the football doesn’t cost much money. People can see children playing to    7     (they) hearts’ content with a ball everywhere. Besides, another factor behind its popularity is the creativity and excitement on the field. You don’t have to be     8     fan to recognize the skill of professional players, but still can feel the excitement of a game ending with a surprising twist. What’s more, football has become one of the     9     (good) ways for people to communicate. It breaks down walls and brings people together on and     10     the field.

Though the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics ended on Feb. 20, it has left a deep     1     (impress) on people across the globe. At Beijing 2022, a total of 2,877 athletes from 91 countries and regions competed     2     109 gold medals. More than 45 percent of those athletes     3     (be) women, an all-time high in the history of the Winter Olympics. “Athletes competed bravely to exceed limits,     4     (set) a number of new world records and Olympic records. This is a vivid representation of the Olympic motto: Faster, Higher, Stronger Together,” said Cai Qi, president of the Beijing organizing committee. Besides the     5     (competition), the unique charm of Beijing,     6     hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, and the thoughtful services the city provided to all participants were also valued. As the first     7     (globe) multi-sport event held as scheduled during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Beijing Winter Games prioritized the health and safety of all participants. The organizers worked out and oversaw (监督) the implementation (执行) of the Beijing 2022 Playbooks     8     put in place a closed-loop (闭环) management system.

    9     (theme) “Together for a shared future”, the Beijing Games have left the city with rich legacies (遗产), including engaging 346 million people in ice and snow sports as well as hosting the Games in     10     more sustainable (可持续的) way.