3 . Short bursts of exercise can make you fit in the long term. To prove this, Gillen’s team randomly assigned participants to three _________. One rode an exercise bike at a moderate (中等的) level of _________ for 45 minutes, three times per week. A second group did three times _________ the 10-minute high-intensity workouts. A third group _________ a control and did nothing.

After 12 weeks, both exercise groups had _________ their insulin (胰岛素) resistance and also increased their _________ (as measured by their capacity to use oxygen during exercise) by about 19 percent. The gains were _________ between the groups, even though the group doing _________ workouts with high intensity intervals had spent only about 22 percent as much _________ as the group doing traditional longer workouts. But people in the second group do find these __________ interval exercise programs enjoyable enough to __________.

Turning to shorter workouts is not just a way to __________ time. It can also help you continue to make fitness __________ even when life gets in the __________.

“Let’s say you have exams coming up or your job is __________ and you only have a couple of hours perweek to exercise,” Androulakis-Korakakis says, “__________ feeling like your strength and muscle will __________, turning to a minimum-amount __________ can still help you continue __________ your body.”

“It’s hard to __________ that you don’t have 10 or 15 minutes that you can find. That’s just not checking your email one more time or getting off social media,” de Lannoy says.

Chinese wushu athlete Cao Maoyuan outperformed all others in men’s Nanquan,     1     (enable) him to gain the first gold medal of the Chengdu World University Games.

Cao, 25, a student from Chengdu Sport University,     2     (dress) in a red outfit with a green dragon picture, stole the show on the carpet as the local audience     3     (warm) cheered for him.

“I was a little nervous and excited in     4     beginning, because it was my first formal     5     (appear) at the Games,” Cao said after the competition. “I’m glad that I secured the first gold of the Games. I believe I will do better in the future.”

Wushu, or kung fu,     6     (be) the collective term for the martial art practices     7     originated and developed in China. Wushu is categorized into two main categories, namely Taolu (Routines Competition)     8     Sanda (Free-Fighting Competition). Nanquan, or Southern Fist, is part of Taolu, which consists     9     styles that originated and are popular in the southern banks of the Yangtze River. It     10     (characterize) by low stances with fewer leg techniques and a focus on short, powerful arm strikes often accompanied by vocal articulation (关节发声).