3 . Lauren Price has come a long way from a taxi driver to an Olympic champion. She pursued her Olympic dream all the way to winning the middleweight gold medal at the Tokyo Games.

“When I look back now, I have to pinch (掐) myself at times, because I still think it’s mad that I won the Olympics,” Price told the media.

Raised by her grandparents, she was always encouraged to play sports. “They’ve always backed me. If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t have achieved anything,” Price said. Her grandma used to say to her, “Reach for the moon and if you fall short, you’ll land on the stars.”

She began with football. But Price was also a high standard kickboxer and was then talent-scouted by a taekwondo coach before she switched to boxing.

“For me the big turning point was as a child being inspired by Kelly Holmes. I remember watching her on TV and I was like, “Oh My God, I want to go to the Olympics,” Price recalled. “I had that dream over the years. I just worked hard. I believe if you put the effort in, you’ll get to where you want to be.”

When Price was breaking into the Welsh boxing team, funding was extremely limited. So she worked as a driver fora taxi company when she was still a teenager. “I was training Monday to Thursday and then I was taxi driving Friday and Saturday nights. I’d start work at five pm and I’d finish at four in the morning, picking up all the drunken passengers,” she remembered. That was a different kind of education. “It’s quite funny now when I look back,” Price smiled.

Ultimately, she excelled as a boxer. Price won every major gold medal going, despite the difficulties of competing against bigger opponents outside of her weight class.

Kathrine Switze was a great woman. She wanted    1    (finish) a (26.2 mile) marathon and challenge herself. As we all know, before 1967, women were not allowed to run in the race. But Kathrine managed to get an official    2    (enter). So Kathrine became the first woman ever    3    (compete) in the Boston Marathon.

In fact in the middle of the Boston Marathon, the race director tried to make her stop running. But a friend of hers stopped him from doing so and helped Kathrine finish the race.     4    (final), in 1972, the rules    5    (change) to allow women to run in the Boston Marathon.

Kathrine was    6    (energy) and continued to participate    7    more races, including the New York City Marathon, which she won several years later. Thanks    8    her, the Women’s Marathon became an official Olympic sport later.

Her courage and perseverance in completing the first marathon in Boston has made her a role model for women around the world,     9    also encouraged women all around    10    world.

6 . It was Canada’s first World Cup match in 36 years. This was the moment when 22-year-old Alphonso Davies found out that he took part in one of the biggest sporting ________ in the world.

Undoubtedly, Davies is a Canada’s ________ —not just a world-class player, but a massive marketing and social media presence and one of the faces of the successful United States, Mexico and Canada World Cup 2026 bid.

Davies was born in a refugee camp in Ghana. “But when I was 5, Canada ________ us in, and the boys on the football team made me ________.”

Davies was only 11 when Marco Bossio first saw him ________. Bossio ________ soccer at a junior high school. Scouting(物色) for new players, he said Davies would ________ immediately. He had this amazing talent and ________ that were just off the charts. The way he would move around the field and his ability to ________ the ball were just excellent at that age.

He said, “My goal is to play, to reach ________ level and probably play with some of the top athletes.” And he was as good as his word. At just 15, he ________ a contract with Major League Soccer’s Vancouver Whitecaps. Then in 2017, he became a Canadian citizen, which meant he could play for Canada’s national ________ . Two years later, he joined one of the biggest clubs in the world, Bayern Munich in Germany.

Davies’ success at the sport and his team’s World Cup appearance have made an ________ on others. After making the roster (名单，花名册) for the World Cup team, Davies tweeted, “A kid born in a refugee camp wasn’t supposed to ________ it, but here we are going to the World Cup! Don’t let anyone tell you that your dreams are ________.”

Lang Ping, born in Tianjin, China, played the leading role in the    1    (succeed) of the China women’s volleyball team in the 1980s.     2    (know) as the “Iron Hammer”, Lang Ping was

    3     outside hitter of the China women’s volleyball team and one of the team members who won several gold    4    (medal) in the world events.

Lang Ping is not only a successful volleyball    5    (play), her career as a volleyball coach is also a legend. In 1995, Lang     6    (become) the head coach of the China women’s volleyball team and

    7    (final) led the team to the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.    8     the coach of the China women’s volleyball team,Lang faced a great challenge before the 2015 World Cup because two     9    (importance) players left the team for certain reasons. She believed in her young players and they became world champions two weeks later!    10     August 21, 2016, Lang Ping guided the China women’s volleyball team to the gold medal at 2016 Rio Olympics.

10 . Egyptian table tennis player Ibrahim Hamadtou didn’t win a medal, or even score a victory. But he has become one of the most_________stories at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

Hamadtou lost his_________ in a train accident when he was just 10 years old. But that did not_________his love of sports. He used to play both football and table tennis. After the accident, he felt lost and stayed _________at home for three years. Then he went back to football, but football was too_________ for him. With no arms, he couldn’t protect himself when he fell!

After several _________, he found that he could play table tennis with his mouth. It took him nearly a year of_________to hold the racket (球拍) with his mouth and make the _________with his feet.

He first competed at the Rio Paralympics, and was finally able to fulfill his lifelong _________of competing in Paralympics. He lost his first two matches, but did _________ the respect of other players like David Wetherill. “He’s a legend in table tennis,” said Wetherill. “I know I won today but I think he has_________ far more skills than I have.

In Tokyo, he lost to a Chinese player and a player from South Korea,_________all the competitions at his second Paralympics. However, he has a(n)_________ for the world about what disability really means, in his eyes.

“I want to tell everybody that nothing is _________, and everybody should work hard for what you love and what you think is good for yourself,” he said. “The _________ is not in arms or legs; it is not to stick to whatever you would like to do.”