Chinese teenage sensation(引起轰动的人) Quan Hongchan produced three perfect 10-point dives and won the Olympic women’s 10 meters platform gold medal on Thursday. Her performance illustrated China’s     1     (strong) in the sport.

China     2     (claim) gold in all of the women’s diving events since the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Quan, 14 years old, is the     3     (young) Chinese athlete in Tokyo. She admitted that she didn’t expect to win, as the Tokyo Olympics is her first time to compete overseas.

Quan made     4     (limit) splashes(飞溅) when diving into the pool. As     5     result, she made three perfect 10-point dives. When asked how she managed to do it, she said the team director just asked her to sleep early before the test.   “My parents told me not to be nervous.     6     doesn’t matter whether I get a medal or not. Just be myself. Those words really helped me,” Quan added, saying she planned to eat latiao, a popular Chinese street snack, to celebrate the win.

Thursday’s result means Quan became the second youngest woman     7     (win) a gold medal in the women’s 10 meters platform. Her predecessor(前辈) Fu Mingxia gained success     8     the age of 13 at the Barcelona Games in 1992. Her performance was met with cheers from onlookers(观众),     9     (include) Shi Tingmao and Xie Siyi. They are athletes     10     won their own diving golds in Tokyo.

Khorkina is one of the most successful gymnast in Russia. She was born on January 19, 1979, in Belgorod and     1     (introduce) to gymnastics by her mother when she was only four years old. Her coach Boris Pilkin was the only coach     2     her entire career. With the help of her coach, she has won numerous awards. In addition, she    3     (brave) entered the world of show business, and had even more courage to enter the world of theater. On August 19, 2004, she played the artist one final time. Even Olympic boss Jacques Rogge replies Khorkina is his favorite gymnast.

The ancient Olympic Games     1     (begin) the year 776 BC and died out around the year 393. Then only Greek men     2     (allow ) to participate. The modern Olympics were first held     3     1896. A Frenchman     4     (name) Pierre de Coubertin brought the Olympics back to life. The motto of the Olympics is “Faster, Higher, Stronger.”

Many remarkable Olympians have appeared, such as the boxer Cassius Clay from the USA     5     demonstrated great talent and personality and a former track and field athlete, Jessica Ennis-ill, from the UK who tells us how hard work and devotion can lead     6     sporting excellence.

China has played     7     important role in the Olympics. In 2008, China hosted the Olympic Games for the first time and it ranked first     8     the medal table. Furthermore, Beijing won the     9     (elect) to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The Olympic Games bring joy and excitement to people     10     the world.

When it comes to volleyball, we can’t help     1    (think) of Lang Ping. Lang Ping used to be a     2    (fame) player. Now she is also known     3     a coach. Led by her, Chinese women volleyball team won the world championship in 2019,     4     made the whole nation excited.

Lang Ping was born in Tianjin in 1960. Lang began playing volleyball as a teenager and     5    (eventual) joined the national team in 1978. Her height made     6     possible for her to play volleyball well. With time going by, Lang Ping played better and better. Lang Ping and her teammates played so well that they won champions several     7    (time) in the 1980s.

After she     8    (retire) in 1986, Lang Ping coached volleyball in Italy and America. In 1995, she returned to China to work as a coach. She was     9     busy with her work to take care of her family. In 2016 Chinese women volleyball team won a gold medal at the Olympics in Brazil. Because of the victory, Lang Ping became the first person in the volleyball     10    (win) an Olympic gold medal as both a player and a coach. And, Lang Ping and her team won another world championship in 2019 for our motherland.

    1       (bear) in Jilin, a northeastern Chinese province where temperatures can remain below freezing for half of the year, Su Yiming first     2     (step) on a snowboard around age three, with the support of his parents. By six, Su was leaving his parents behind in the snow when they snowboarded together. His wonderful performance on the snow was     3     pushed him under the spotlight in 2014, after the celebrated director Tsui Hark cast him in his action movie The Taking of Tiger Mountain, after watching a video of young Su skiing. In the movie, Su helps lead a team of soldiers to     4       (safe) after they lose their way on a snowy mountain. He then appeared in several more television dramas, one of them alongside Xiao Zhan.

In 2018, Su Yiming, a 14-year-old native of northeastern China,     5     (face) with a difficult decision: Pursue a     6     (promise) career as an actor, or go all in on snowboarding, in a country where most people had never seen a snowboard. At the time,Su was fast becoming     7     household name in China’s film industry. But     8     the 2022 Winter Olympics approaching, the teenager saw an opportunity. He decided to     9       (temporary) put his acting career on hold. Three days short of his 18th birthday, Su took gold in the big air snowboarding event,     10     (write) history for the Olympic host nation by winning the country’s first gold medal in the event.

With International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach’s applause and the cheers from the audience, China’s 18-year-old freestyle skier Gu Ailing (谷爱凌),     1     hands on her head and a look of great excitement,     2    (obtain) the gold medal of the women’s freeski big air final at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

The win is a historic    3     (achieve) as Gu is China’s first women’s Olympic gold medal     4     (win) on snow sports. “This is the best moment in my life, and moments like this make everything so worthy,” Gu said to an interviewer and she expressed her sincere gratitude to the home audience for    5     (they) huge support. Gu is also    6     (talent) in her studies. She completed American high school courses ahead as the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games neared. Gu scored 1580 out of 1600 in SAT and     7     (admit) to Stanford University.

“Every time I see her on TV, she is confident and optimistic, her face shining with joy,     8     is really inspiring to us,” said a Weibo user. Some netizens said she is a perfect image that could not even be designed in a movie.

More and more people grow quite fond of Gu , a girl who enjoys eating dumplings and roast Beijing duck,     9     (especial) when they found out that Gu speaks Mandarin with     10     Beijing accent.

Stephen Curry, the son of the famous basketball star Dell Curry, is also a well-known NBA basketball player in the world. He spent his childhood years     1     (practise) basketball on the     2     (mud) basketball court. However, the poor conditions helped     3     (he) develop his own playing style. He also learnt to be     4     (create) and flexible as a player. Nonetheless, for many people, it seemed unlikely that Stephen would be     5     great basketball player, because he was too short, too thin and too weak     6     follow in his father’s     7     (footstep). Despite this, Stephen never gave up, and ended up     8     (play) college ball at Davidson College, not too far from where he lived.     9     (select) for the NBA in2009, he became a member of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. In 2015, he led the Warriors to their first championship since 1975. Stephen achieved his dream through self-belief, hard work, perseverance     10    some help from an old hoop. He has proved that anything is possible as long as you try your best to do it.