Deng Yaping, who was a well-known table tennis player, was born in 1973, in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. She started playing table tennis at the age of 5 and    1    (show) her great gift. Four years later, she won her provincial junior championship. At the age of 13, she won her first     2     (nation) championship and beat many other competitors in all kinds of matches in    3     following years. She had won 18 championships by the time she retired(退役) from sports at the age of 24. Deng Yaping is regarded as one of the greatest     4    (player) in the history of sport.

However,     5    (compare) with other athletes, she made more efforts    6    (achieve) her dream. At first, Deng Yaping    7    (refuse) by the Henan Provincial Team just because she wasn’t tall enough. Her path to success was filled with many other difficulties, none of     8     stopped her. She practised even    9     (hard) and finally made it to the top. Her great determination has inspired thousands of people. Now, she has become a living legend in the sports field    10    home and abroad.

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. If the Games had gone on as     3     (schedule) last summer, she would have been too young to meet the minimum age (14)     4     (take) part 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     5     (judge). Only one judge found a flaw (瑕疵) with her final dive,     6     (give) her a 9.5 next to six 10s. But it didn’t count, thanks to diving’s scoring system. The two highest and two     7     (low) scores are thrown out and multiplied (乘) by the dive’s degree of difficulty. That means only the three middle 10s counted     8     her final dive and added up 96 when multiplied by the 3.2 degree of difficulty.

At such     9     young age, Quan was a totally 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.

Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who scored the “Hand of God” goal in 1986 and     1    (lead) his country to that year's World Cup title, has died. He was 60. Maradona’s spokesman, Sebastián Sanchi, said he died Wednesday of heart attack, two weeks after being released from a hospital in Buenos Aires     2     (follow)brain surgery.

The office of Argentina’s president said it will decree(颁布法令) three days of national mourning, and the Argentine soccer association expressed     3    (it) sorrow on Twitter.

Maradona captivated     4     (fan) around the world over a two-decade career with a fascinating style of play. Although his reputation     5     (influence)by an ill-fated spell in charge of the national team, he remained idolized(偶像) in Argentina     6     “Golden Boy”.

“You took us to the top of the world,” Argentine President Alfredo Fernández said on social media. “You made us     7    (incredible)happy. You were the greatest of all.”

The No.10 he wore on his shirt became synonymous with(同义)him, as it also had with Pele, the Brazilian great with     8     Maradona was regularly paired as the best of all time.

“What sad news,” Pele said Wednesday. “I lost     9     great friend and the world lost a legend. May God give     10    (strong) to family members. One day, hope we can play ball together in the sky.”

There were twenty-two children in Wilma Rudolph's family, and she was the    1    (twenty) child. As a little girl, Wilma had many illnesses.    2    fact, she spent most of her early childhood    3    (lie) in bed. When she was four years old, she was diagnosed (诊断) with a disease    4    can affect the muscles. Doctor said that Wilma would never walk. However, Wilma's large, caring family helped and encouraged her. Every week, her mother    5    (take) her on a long trip to a hospital for medical treatment. Suffering from the disease, Wilma herself was determined and never gave up. And    6    (final) one day she removed her wheelchair and started walking.

Wilma not only learned to walk, she also learned to run-and to run fast. She ran so fast that at the 1960 Rome Olympics Games, she became the    7    (fast) woman in the world and the first American woman    8    (win) three gold medals at one Olympics.

Wilma said that it was most important to be    9    (you) and believe in what you can do. And it is not what happens to you that matters,    10    how you respond to what happens.