All human societies play games. Kicking a ball can be found everywhere whether just a ball of cloth , or a skin_________ stuffed with feathers or air.

In China for well over 2,000 years, people played the game of“kickball”-cuju.The members were often young men from wealthy families though there were also professional kickballers whom you could stick with in your team as sleepers.

Cuju was played as entertainment at formal dinners or the _________ reception of foreign ambassadors(大使). Even emperors played kickball.

As you’d expect in a Confucian society, kickballclubs_________ were keen on the key qualities of mercy and _________ courtesy. Their rules included respect for other players,polite behavior and team spirit. There was to be no _________ ungentlemanly behavior, no dangerous play, and no hogging the ball.