Nov 28 - Thousands of football fans paid their final respects to football legend Diego Maradona on Thursday. Huge crowds of people lined the streets to say goodbye to     1    (he). The car carrying his body     2    (cover) with the Argentina flag and a football shirt with his trademark number 10. Thousands more walked     3    (silent) past his coffin(棺木) as it was put on public display at the Presidential Palace. They were crying, blowing     4    (kiss) to their hero and praying(祈祷).

Maradona passed away     5     Wednesday, aged 60. He died of a heart attack. One fan said: “Maradona represents Argentinianess. He transcended football. He has my respect. I had to be here.”

Diego Armando Maradona is widely regarded as one of the greatest players     6     have ever stepped onto a football field. Many consider him     7    (be) the best. He captained his     8       (nation) team when Argentina won the 1986 World Cup. He scored the famous “Hand of God” goal against England in the quarter-finals. In that same game, he scored another goal that was voted as the greatest goal of the     9    (twenty) century. Maradona played for Barcelona in Spain and Napoli in Italy. Current Barcelona captain Lionel Messi said, “Maradona will never leave us because Diego is eternal(不朽的).” Brazilian legend Pele said he     10    (hope) to “play together in the sky” one day with Maradona.

At the just-concluded Tokyo Olympic Games, the     1     (young) athlete of the Chinese sports delegation, Quan Hongchan won the gold medal in the women’s 10m platform     2     the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday,     3     performance shocked the whole world     4     (great).     5     (bear) on March 28, 2007, from Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, Quan Hongchan is     6     Chinese diver of the Chinese     7     (nation) diving team. In July 2021, Quan     8     (select) into the list of 10 people     9     (participate) in diving events of the Tokyo Olympic Games. On August 5, 2021, Quan Hongchan took the lead all the way in the women’s single 10m platform final of diving. She jumped out of full marks in the second, fourth and last     10     (round), and finally won the championship with 466.20 points. This achievement also broke the previous record of Chen Ruolin, who is the former world champion.

When talking about the China women’ s national volleyball team, we have to talk about one person —Lang Ping. She uses her strong will (意志) and great ability     1     (help) the China women’ s national volleyball team go to the world.

In 2013, it was so hard for Lang to make her decision of     2    (keep) on her volleyball career. At that time, there was something wrong     3     her body. But later, when she thought about the     4     (true) that we lost in the 2012 London Olympics and the future of the China women’s national volleyball team, he agreed to be the coach (教练) of the China women’s national volleyball team.

Then she started her hard     5     busy life again. It was really difficult to make the women volleyball players better trained. She had to correct many     6    (mistake) when improving     7    (they) skills of playing. But she never said that something was not possible.

All her hard work     8     (certain) had a good result. In 2016, the China women’s national volleyball team     9    (win) the gold medal in the Rio Olympics. Since then, the spirit (精神) of the China women’s national volleyball team has made     10     deep impression on the whole world.

While some athletes at the Tokyo Games shot to popularity by winning medals, others became stars on social media. Many competitors using services like TikTok and Instagram have     1     (great) expanded their fan base.

One athlete who is getting popular is not even an Olympian yet. Silvia Solymosyova is a swimmer     2     Slovakia, a small country. She has published videos on TikTok in English in an effort to get attention in the U.S. So far she     3     (gain) over 1 million followers, mostly with videos     4     (show) her dancing underwater.

Jagger Eaton is a young American skateboarder. He has been competing since he was a boy. He is now 20. Eaton, who won     5     bronze medal in Tokyo, said he is “stoked” that so many people are now     6     (interest) in skateboarding. He has about 500,000 followers between Instagram and TikTok.

Another American athlete, Erik Shoji, is getting attention for his videos     7     show off the food and atmosphere inside the Olympic village in Tokyo. Shoji is an American volleyball player. He said the goal of his videos     8     (be) to share his own experiences in the athlete’s village and     9     (help) fans to learn more about the U.S.     10     (men) volleyball team.

After a final jump with the highest degree of difficulty for female athletes at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao won     1    gold medal in freestyle skiing women’s aerials (空中技巧). The 32-year-old waited a long time     2    this moment.

First     3    (practice) the sport at the age of 12, Xu fell in love with the feeling of skiing on snow. She said that her deep love for the sport is her first     4    (motivate). Winning an Olympic gold medal was her dream.

But it wasn’t easy to make     5    . Finishing sixth in her first Olympics at Vancouver 2010, Xu managed to take home silver at Sochi 2014. Xu aimed to win the Olympic gold at Pyeongchang 2018, but she finished ninth.

She was not sure     6    she could maintain her     7    (compete) state, but she always felt motivated with support from many people. With perseverance, Xu achieved her dream in 2022. Speaking of the reasons behind this, she said it is not only thanks to her hard work but more     8    (important), the era. Chinese winter sports now enjoy fantastic developments. “This great age       9    (enable) the young generation to achieve our dream and inspires them     10    (build) together a better future for Chinese sports,” said Xu.

In summer 2021 Su Bingtian    1     (establish) a new Asian record at 9.83 seconds in the men’s 100-meter dash during the Tokyo Olympics semifinals, making him the first Chinese athlete    2     (qualify) for the event’s final. Following his achievement, some people in China described Su as YYDS, acronym(首字母缩略词) for yongyuan di shen.

YYDS translates as eternal god and describes    3     outstanding person or thing, rather similar to the saying GOAT (greatest of all time) in English.

With the power of the Internet and    4     (they) talent for quick adoption and adaptation, Gen Z (Z 世代) quickly use it in daily conversation to praise their idols or    5     (simple) describe something they are fond of. They use YYDS on their chat tools and social media    6     (platform) like WeChat and Weibo. You can even see people commenting YYDS on Bilibili’s bullet screen--a commentary system unique    7     the Bilibili ecosystem,     8     viewers leave so-called bullet comments, or danmu, that scroll across on-screen content. Similar to YYDS, juejuezi or brilliant (with a capital B), too,     9     (use) to express admiration. Nevertheless, this buzzword(流行词) comes with an edge as it may bear some negative meanings,     10     (indicate) someone or something is exceedingly terrible, depending on the context.

Both YYDS and juejuezi were listed in the 2021 top 10 popular Chinese cyber slang phrases on December 6, 2021.