My favourite sport

I like table-tennis, chess and football. Football is    1    (I) favourite sport. I’m good at    2    (play)football. I think it is easy    3    me. I have my favourite football    4    (play). He is Shevchenko. He is    5     AC Milan Club. I want    6    (be) a famous football player     7     Shevchenko. I often play football    8    my father at weekends.    9     Sunday I like     10    (watch) football matches.

6 . Without three key players, including the former captain, how did 55-year-old Jenny Lang Ping and her girls spent the 20 days before winning against Japan with 3-1? Getting the world title at the 2015 FIVB Women’s World Cup is _______. The three players, namely, former captain Hui Ruoqi, Yang Fangxu and Xu Yunli, all _______ a lot to Chinese national women’s volleyball team. Hui Ruoqi and Yang Fangxu helped the country win the silver _______ in last year’s World Championship, while Xu Yunli helped China win the third _______ at Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Facing this, Jenny Lang Ping, who is called “Iron Hammer”, never _______ in her weak team and prepared for the coming competitions at the 2015 FIVB Women’s World Cup by _______ the confidence of her girls. Head coach Lang Ping and her girls met their first _______ after failing to beat US women’s volleyball team on Aug 24, 2015, two days after the start of the 2015 FIVB Women’s World Cup. The girls couldn’t help crying in the face of the _______, but Lang Ping _______ them around and said: “Calm down, girls, it’s still too ________ to see who will win, since we can learn lessons from this failure”, after analyzing Chinese team’s problems during the game and thinking about the ________.

________ encouraging words and smiles, the head coach watched the video of that game until late night and just had a two-hour light sleep. But the 55-year-old did not fight ________. Her girls returned with ________ to fight until the end. And finally, they ________ it.

7 . Exercise and healthy eating go together to produce a healthy lifestyle! Many of us have internal (内心的) ________ why we can’t do either one! We have all once felt ________ for planning an activity but failing in the end! We are busy. We don’t have time to drive to the ________, the weather is too bad for that promised walk, and it’s too hot or cold out, or any other number of excuses!

The good news is that any exercise helps increase our ________. Fifteen minutes of activity a day, or 90 minutes per week, is enough to cut your risk of death by 14%, compared to ________ people. That is a healthy ________ to develop.

Please take the time to add ________ to your life. Start slow, if you are out of shape. You do not need to be a (n) ________ sportsperson. Fast walking is enough to help control diabetes (糖尿病)! ________ by adding a 10-minute walk to your daily life! Even adding 5 minutes to your walk each week can make a(n) ________ difference.

Try to ________ for at least 30 minutes per day. You can break it up into three 10-minute ________ if you need to. It all makes ________. Just get moving! Moreover, some apps on your phone can help ________ your steps. You do not need an expensive gym membership either. To ________ your health, just walk out the door!

The students from China did well at the English Speaking Union’s 2023 International Public Speaking Competition, in London, England. The competition, which     1     (hold) from May 8 to May 12, chose “Relations between nations are too important to be left to the government alone”     2     its subject for the final. The competition brought together students     3     (age) 16 to 20.

Liu Bowen,     4     was from Peking University, said he was very proud to stand among all the international contestants from over 30 countries and regions, which means China is having     5     increasing voice in the world and the competition was not only presenting speeches but a very     6     (forgettable) journey for him to enjoy the cultural communication.

The other contestant from China, Wu Dongxu, talked about his hometown, Hangzhou, in East China’s Zhejiang province, during his speech and     7     (eager) welcomed the audience to visit the city. He thought this was a very good opportunity for him to say something about China     8     introduce China to the outside world. It was also an opportunity to see how different     9     (culture) can meet, and help him know what career we should do in the future and how     10     (do) it.