Lang Ping, the head coach, once declared that the goal of the team was to raise our national flag and listen to the national anthem on top of the podium.

Every historic championship doesn’t come easy, and each victory was the hard work of the team, bit by bit. When people watch the China women’s national volleyball team play, they see a commitment     1     excellence.

In 1981, the China women’s national volleyball team     2     (lead) by player Lang Ping created the first miracle of China’s World Cup. The team defeated the Japanese national team with 3 to 2 at the 3rd World Women’s Volleyball Cup in Osaka, Japan. That’s the first world title for China women’s national volleyball team. Everyone     3     (shock) by this news.     4     the news was broadcast, people burst into joyful tears. Their victory was     5     result of all the former volleyball players’ efforts. A famous coach from Japan was invited to China to help train the China women’s national volleyball team.     6     (see) the     7     (player) conscientiousness and spirit and the support from the Chinese people, he exclaimed, “I’m sure that the China women’s national volleyball team will become strong!”

In 1984, Lang Ping endured pain from appendicitis (阑尾炎)     8     (finish) the competition and win remarkable gold with her teammates in the Los Angeles Olympic Games. She shot to fame and earned the nickname “Iron Hammer”. She said. “At that time the pain didn’t matter. Our slogan is no fear of     9     (hard) and no fear of death. We fear no death, let alone other difficulties.” So the proud head coach of Japanese national team said, “Defeating Chinese national team is equal to blocking the Yangtze River. Both are     10     (possible).”

Stephen is a famous basketball player. It was self-belief, hard work and perseverance     1    made him a success. Stephen’s grandfather built a simple basket by    2    (attach) a piece of plastic to a telephone pole along a narrow muddy road different from the bright lights and shiny courts of the National Basketball Association(NBA). The bumps and rocks caused the ball to bounce in all     3    (direct).     4    (know) where the ball would go wasn’t very easy. However, Stephen improved his skills by practicing day in and day out. Many people thought Stephen was too short, too thin and too weak to start his career. But he regarded playing basketball as his dream. He would not give up. He finally ended up    5    (play)college ball at Davidson College,     6     his creativity and perseverance made him a star player. In 2009,     7     (select)for the NBA, Stephen joined the Golden State Warriors. In 2015, Stephen won his first NBA championship and he led the Warriors to their first championship since 1975. In addition, he received the Most Valuable Player award for two years     8     a row. Stephen shared his philosophy: be yourself, value the fact that you can work every single day to get    9     (good), and be able to put in the time and the work. His success     10     (show)that nothing is impossible.

“Without the ball, I'm half complete of     1     , ”Luis Figo, one of the world's greatest football players once said.

The Portuguese played his first international match in 1991 at the age of 18 and has kept scoring ever since.

He reached a new mark on February 18 by playing     2     hundredth match for his national team in a friendly match against England.A crowd of more than 30,000 fans watched and cheered for     3     in Lisbon.“Figo, Figo, ”     4     (all, both) shouted excitedly when he walked onto the field.

The Real Madrid player,31, wanted to help his country in Euro 2004 and to win     5     (another, other) Spanish Cup with Real Madrid.Madrid bought Figo from FC Barcelona for 82.4 million dollars in 2000, and he showed     6     (everyone, anyone) what a great player he was by winning FIFA's Footballer of the Year award in 2001.

“Figo works like an artist and has the skills to be the most complete player, ”said FIFA President Joseph Blatter in 2001.“Figo     7     is a real leader     8     always tries his best on the field and a good team player.He doesn't have any problems working together with his teammate at Real Madrid, star footballer David Beckham.” In fact, Figo was the first     9     to welcome Beckham when he arrived.“We have a strong team, and we can help one     10     and work together to be successful, ” Figo said.

Michael Jeffrey Jordan （ born February 17, 1963 ）, also     1    （know）by his initials, M J, is an American former professional basketball player, entrepreneur, and majority owner and chairman of the Charlotte Bobcats. His biography on the National Basketball Association（NBA） website states, “By acclamation （喝彩）, Michael Jordan is the     2     （great） basketball player of all time.” Jordan was one of the most     3    （effective）marketed athletes of his generation and     4    （consider） helpful in popularizing the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.

After a three-season career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,     5     he was a member of the Tar Heels national championship team in 1982, Jordan joined the NBA’s Chicago Bulls in 1984. He quickly grew as a league star, entertaining crowds     6     his plentiful scoring. His leaping ability earned him the nickname “Air Jordan”. He also gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive     7    （play）in basketball. In 1991, he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls, and followed that achievement with titles in 1992 and 1993, securing a “three-peat”. Although Jordan suddenly retired from basketball at the beginning of the 1993-1994 NBA season to pursue a career in baseball, he rejoined the Bulls in 1995 and led them to three     8    （addition） championships（1996, 1997 and 1998）as well as an NBA-record 72 regular-season wins in the 1995-1996 NBA season. Jordan retired for     9     second time in 1999,       10     returned for two more NBA seasons from 2001 to 2003 as a member of the Washington Wizards.

The true spirit of the Olympics was embodied by an unknown underdog. Kiesenhofer, an Austrian amateur rider,     1     (get) a stunning victory that upturned the top professional riders at Tokyo Olympics Games. She catapulted     2     (she) into the world’s attention. As the initial media storm dies down, Kiesenhofer has some big decisions to make.

Since her victory, her mailbox     3     (flood) with offers of sponsorship, partnerships, and other prospective deals. She must also figure out     4     it will mean for her future.

“    5     (offer) many opportunities, I need to really sit down and think what I want to do with my life,” Kiesenhofer told Velo News. “I have to choose what I’m really interested in instead of what is     6     (simple) distractions.”

Although Kiesenhofer doesn’t know what the future will be like, she does know that it will likely mean     7     (let) more cycling into her life. Projects that allow her to combine her passion for mathematics, science, and cycling are of particular interest to the 30-year-old.

“I might make cycling     8     even bigger part of my life,” she said. “Not in the teams, but rather like individual projects, working     9     training, mentoring or appearances in public. And there’s also some kind of     10     (combine) with science, for example, aerodynamics(空气动力学) and I can make maths play a big role in simulations.