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Lang Ping was a Chinese professional volleyball player when she was young and she brought honour and glory to China. Years later, she led the China women’s volleyball team     1     medals at world championships and the Olympics as a coach. And as a person, she     2     (love) by fans at home and abroad. During the preparation for the 2015 World Cup, she faced     3     great challenge: losing two important players. But Lang didn’t lose heart but     4     (hold) on to her belief.     5     (final), they became the world champions.

       Michael Jordan was known as “Air Jordan” and changed basketball with his graceful moves and jumps. His skills were     6     (impress), but the mental     7     (strong)   made him unique. Jordan always seemed     8     (find) a way to win in the final seconds of a game. He owed his success to learning from failures,     9     taught him to practise harder and never give up. In life, he also tried his best to help others. The Boys and Girls Club he started was a great try to help young people,     10     (make) him more popular among the young.

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During his life, Dr. James Naismith worked as a doctor, taught P. E. and wrote several books.     1     he never thought it very important, Dr. Naismith is today best known for one thing—he was the     2     (invent)of basketball.

    3     (bear)in Canada in 1861, he first worked at a special sports school in the USA. One day the school principal told James he was having a problem with the students. Because of heavy snow, the students could not go outside. He told James that they needed a sport that the boys could play indoors and gave him two week     4     (think)of something.

It was     5     the very last day that James came up with his idea. The “birth of basketball” is said to be on December 21, 1891, when two teams from the school played the     6     (one)game. It was quite different from the basketball games of today. It had nine players on each team, and footballs     7     (use)instead of basketballs. Soon after, the game changed to five players on each side,       8     (play)special “basketballs” on the court.

    9     (unfortunate), Dr. Naismith did not live to see basketball become the worldwide game as it is today. However, in 1936, just three years before his death, basketball became     10     Olympic sport at the games in Berlin.

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Gao Tingyu thrilled the home crowd by becoming the first Chinese man to claim an Olympic gold medal in speed skating,     1    (win) the 500 meters on Saturday.

“Gao has conducted an     2    (exciting) fast and excellent performance at the Speed Skating Oval. And the March of the Volunteers will be played again inside the stadium.” said the message from the General Administration of Sport shortly     3    the competition. This was also the fourth gold medal for Team China at the Beijing Olympic Winter Games     4     the first Olympic gold in the country’s speed skating history.

In 2018, the highly potential Gao already     5    (get) a bronze medal at Pyeongchang Olympics in South Korea, as he said after the win in Pyeongchang:“ I feel like that my capacity has reached the point     6     I can compete for Olympic medals.

As long as I’m in a stable state of mind, I think for me the opponent is only     7    (I). ”

Ever since he     8    (admit) into China’s speed skating team in 2015, Gao has won championships in    9    (competition) that were held home and abroad. He has suffered from severe back injuries and had an eight-month break before competing in the China Speed Skating Championship in 2021.

Gao was also the    10    (nation) flag bearer al the opening ceremony of Beijing 2022 on February 4.

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Freestyle skier Gu Ailing, 18, is one of the     1     (superstar) of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Born to an American father and a Chinese mother, Gu decided to compete     2     China in the 2022 Winter Olympics in June 2019. Just two months later, she bagged her first gold medal for China at the Australia New Zealand Cup. Her strength continued to grow as she     3     (win) one bronze (铜 牌) and two gold medals at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in March.

People say she is     4     (talent). But Gu says that talent counted for “only 1 percent" of her wins,     5     (add) that her hard work is what counts. While going to school in San Francisco, Gu could only practice on weekends. She spent eight hours going to the ski hill and back, doing her homework on the way and making full use of her time at the hill     6     (practice) skiing.

Gu said she wants to encourage more girls in China to try skiing and other extreme sports, many of     7     have only been known there for 20 years, according to the Olympics website. She said skiing gives her “freedom and     8     (creative)”, especially when she     9     (perfect) controls her body and does tricks that others cannot do.

On February 8th, she claimed her first Olympic gold medal in the women’s freeski big air of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics as     10     full-time athlete. “I’m not skiing just for medals,” Gu once said. “What’s more important is to bring out my own style, enjoy the game and love the sport.”

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Chinese teenager Quan Hongchan won the gold medal for the women's 10-meter platform diving at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Thursday.

Not only is Quan the youngest     1     (compete) in the women's diving field, but also she's the youngest of 431 athletes     2     China sent to Tokyo for the Olympics.   Had the Games gone on as scheduled last summer, she would have been too young     3     (meet) the minimum age (14) to compete in the diving competition. Now, she's made Olympic history.

Each of Quan's dives was the highest of the five rounds of competition at the 10-meter platform. Two scored perfect 10s from all seven     4     (judge). Only one judge found a flaw (瑕疵) with her final dive,     5     (award) her a 9.5 next to six 10s .     6     it didn't count, thanks to diving's scoring system. The two highest and two     7     (low) scores are thrown out and multiplied by the dive's degree of difficulty.     8     (eventual), only the three middle 10s counted on her final dive and added up 96 when multiplied by the 3.2 degree of difficulty.

At such     9     young age, Quan was a relative unknown until winning the 2020 Chinese national championship at 13 years old. She     10     (be) a 17-year-old veteran (老手) when the Paris Olympics start in 2024.

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It’s never easy for     1     Asian athlete to shine in track and field events. But Su Bingtian, 28,     2     (know) as the “Chinese flying man”, became the first male Chinese sprinter to win a     3     (globe) medal in an individual event. On March 3, he     4     (take) the silver in the men’s 60m final at the World Indoor Championships in the UK. In the final, Su Bingtian ran his personal best of 6. 42 seconds,     5     (break) the Asian record of 6. 43, which he also set last month in Germany.

The last time a Chinese athlete achieved a milestone was in 2004,     6     Liu Xiang won a gold medal in Athens     7     the 110m hurdles. Inevitably, Su is compared to Liu. “Liu Xiang is my idol and also my friend,” Su told Xinhua News Agency.

As a matter of fact, Su had expected     8     (win) a bronze during the final. “There is no difference between silver     9     bronze. Even a bronze could prove that Chinese sprinters have made breakthroughs in major world     10     (compete),” he said.

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There are many famous athletes at home and abroad. One of them is Lang Ping, a coach who led the China women’s   volleyball team to    1    (medal) at world championships and the Olympics. When preparing the   Chinese team    2       the 2015 World   Cup, her    3     (determine) was tested. One of the best plays got          injured, and the team captain left because of heart problems. Losing two important plays didn’t get Lang Ping lose heart. She believed that her young players could win    4     they worked together as a team. And she really   made    5     . Two weeks later, they were world champions!

Another famous player is Michael Jordan.    6    (know) as “Air Jordan”, he changed basketball with his     7    (grace) moves and jumps. His skill were    8    (impress), but the mental strength that he showed        made him unique. It seemed that in the final seconds of a game, Jordan could always find a way to win. When asked his secret    9     success, he says it is learning from his failures. Losing games taught him to practise   harder and never give up. In life, Jordan has learned to share his success with others. The Boys and Girls Club which he started in Chicago    10     (help) young people since 1996.

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From     1     teenage boy to a 38-year-old man, the skillful figure of Kobe in the basketball court is the memory of youth for many Chinese basketball fans.

On April 14th, 2016, Kobe Bryant     2    (unbelievable) won 60 points in the match versus Utah Jazz ending     3    (he) twenty-year career in NBA perfectly. On that day this match became a hot topic     4     Weibo and WeChat in China. Kobe’s     5    (glory) 20-year career in NBA became a wonderful memory of plenty of Chinese basketball fans.

Kobe’s     6    (retire) brings different kinds of feelings to many fans. For one thousand of Kobe’s fans there are one thousand different feelings. It is difficult for you    7    (show) no respect for him in the heart     8     you have ever loved Kobe or not. He is not a genius but he could face the whole Los Angeles city alone at morning 4 o'clock to practice; he has suffered from injuries, while he shouldered the duty to inspire the team with determination and courage. His diligence, motivation and enthusiasm will be remembered forever.     9     (look) back over the past twenty years, we have to admit that this man and the number 23 player of the Chicago Bulls     10    (change) the basketball game.

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Life is often a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. Sun Yang was the first Chinese man     1     (win) an Olympic gold medal in swimming. That moment     2     (come) last month, when he won the men’s 200-meter freestyle event at the Asian Games.

Sun has accomplished a Golden Grand Slam, having won the 200, 400 and 1, 500-meter freestyle events at the Asian Games, World Championships and Olympic Games. His     3     (patient) and persistence have paid off. The 26-year-old swimmer told Xinhua News Agency, “Not many swimmers could have waited for eight years over three Asian Games like me. My dream has     4     (final) come true.”

While Sun stood on a podium (领奖台)     5     (listen) to the Chinese national anthem (国歌) along with the silver and bronze medal winners, a technical problem caused the medalists’ flags to drop to the ground. Sun jumped off the podium, walked over to the officials and demanded that the flags again.     6     the end, the officials held the flags up themselves as China’s national anthem played a second time.

Many Chinese Internet users thought Suns reaction to the incident to be an act of patriotism (爱国主义). “    7     is great to win the championship, but    8    (see) our national flag go up again is also very important. Winning the title is an achievement     9     will be remembered, but raising the flag again is also of great     10     (important).”