The Great North Run is one of the UK’S most popular sporting     1     (event). It is the biggest and best known half-marathon in the world. Around fifty-thousand competitors sign up to compete in the Great North Run every September. Around one hundred thousand friends and family members line the roads     2     (watch) the race and cheer the runners on from the sidelines.

First     3     (hold) in 1981, the Great North Run was to help raise money for charities and other worthy causes. A lot of people enjoy     4     (compete) in the half-marathon, and men and women of all ages take part     5     the race to help raise money for their favourite charity.

Running road races can be     6     (exhaust). So not all runners manage to go the full     7     (distant) and complete it and there are always some     8     fall by the wayside. Ambulances are kept on standby in case any runners need medical attention and     9     (bottle) water is provided at various stops along the way.     10     (usual), around two hundred and fifty thousand bottles of water are handed out during the race alone.

3 . FIFA, soccer's governing body, will seek to expand the Women's World Cup from 24 to 32 teams and double the prize money.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino wants more teams for 2023, but knows FIFA must work quickly "We will discuss it as a matter of urgency and se if we can already decide to increase for 2023, in which case we should reopen the bidding process and allow everyone to have a chance to organize or maybe co-host for some of those who have been bidding already for a 24-team World Cup, ""Nothing is impossible and based on the success of the 2019 World Cup, of course we have to believe bigger and to do what we should have done already probably some time ago, "Gianni said before the July 7 final between the United States and the Netherlands. The U, S. women's team won 2:0, which helped the growth of women's soccer.

Gianni earlier prioritized（优先考虑）enlarging the Men's World Cup. He pushed for a jump from 32 to 48 teams for the 2026 World Cup that the United States co-hosts with Canada and Mexico. A bid to speed up the process of expansion for the 2022 tournament in Qatar failed in May. That event will see teams dividing a $440 million prize. In addition, club teams, meaning professional teams, that let their players participate in the Cup will receive a total of $S209 million.

However, women's teams earn much less for competing at the women's event. FIFA plans to double the prize money and will spend more to prepare players and pay clubs releasing players. Gianni said that share would total $100 million. Gianni said FIFA would double its spending on women's soccer to $1 billion. Later, he said that most of it will not be going directly to players. Most of the money would be reserved for soccer federations（联合会）to request for specific projects that would require approval from FIFA.

Football, as an attractive ball game, used to     1    (play) with a hanging goal in the air by a group of people and was called Cuju in ancient China. But modern football is started in Great Britain     2     it was given new rules, allowing players to use any part of their bodies except their hands and arms.

One of the     3     (reason) for its popularity is the cost of playing football.     4     any expensive equipment, playing football is cheap and fun. Creativity and excitement are another factors for football’s global popularity. It is fun enough     5     (attract) more audience. Even     6     people have no professional knowledge about football, they can understand and feel the     7    (excite) moments. The unity of the team members is also another factor.

Even on Christmas Day 1914, British and German soldiers put down their guns and       8     (kick) football together. It was a moment there was no conflict. Bill Shankly, a famous footballer and manager, once shared     9    (he) agreement with some people’s belief that football is about life and death. Additionally, he made sure it is much     10     (important) than that, because our planet is shaped like a football.

8 . Indoor Skydiving

Have you ever dreamt of flying? Have you ever wanted to experience the excitement of skydiving, but didn’t want to jump out of a plane? Indoor skydiving has opened up a whole new world for you to try flying.

Indoor skydiving is an activity, simulating（模拟）the free fall of a skydive. That means you learn to fly in a column of air produced by a wind tunnel （风道） inside a limited area. Before flying, you need to wear certain equipment to protect you. And each of you is equipped with an instructor that helps you learn to control your body while flying. But you aren’t trained to be more aware in the sky as a normal skydiver.

To be an indoor flyer, you can be at all ages. Fear of height or lack (缺少) of experience won’t stop you from trying. The only real limitation preventing people from flying is weight limit. Countless physically challenged flyers have safely flown with the help of experienced instructors.

Although indoor skydiving gets its name from skydiving, the similarities between the two are actually very few. The one they are in common is in the sense that they both share the freedom of flying.

However, in traditional dives, skydivers usually step out of a plane from more than 10,000 feet high, while indoor skydiving just needs flyers to lean forward and lie on the air. Also, being an outdoor activity, skydiving depends on the weather. The wind, rain, or snow can cancel your plans to jump. Indoor skydiving removes this effect from the picture. Normally, a skydive lasts just between 45-60 seconds, but tunnels allow skydivers to fly longer and as much as they like.

While most people put skydiving in the must-do list, indoor skydiving is much more than that! What used to take skydivers tens of thousands of jumps and years of experience can be learned in a relatively shorter period of time. Skydivers could be trained at lower cost compared to being trained in the sky. Because people of all ages can fly, children are quickly becoming some of the most talented skydivers. Thus, all these will certainly benefit the development of skydiving.