Su Bingtian, a Chinese sprinter, set     1     new Asian record when he clocked 9.83 seconds in the men’s 100-meter sprint (短跑) semi-final at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.

Besides     2     (set) the shortest time record for Asia, Su is also the first Chinese to make it to the men’s 100-meter Olympic final. He has done     3     (extreme) well, considering the fact that he is much older than his     4     (compete). Also, his 172cm height is not     5     people would call a dream height for a sprinter.

The spirit of going beyond himself     6     the Olympics motto inspire Su deeply. Su and other athletes are further proof of China’s arrival in sports. But at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, when Chinese athlete Liu Changchun     7     (participate) in the men’s 100-meter and 200-meter events, the entire Chinese team     8     (make) up of just 6 persons, and Liu had to rely     9     donation from local Chinese-Americans to pay for his return fare.

Nowadays, Chinese sportsmen have won many honors for our country and we hope they can realize more glorious achievements in the days     10     (come).

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.

Born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio, Simone Biles has been known     1     a champion in her sport. She and her sister, Adria,    2    (raise) by their grandfather Ron and grandmother Nellie, after their mother's struggle with substance abuse problem.

Ron and Nellie eventually     3     (official) adopted the two girls, and Biles calls her grandmother Nellie has been a constant source of support through Biles' rise in the world of     4     (compete) athletics.

Biles became     5     (interest) in gymnastics at age six during a day-care field trip to Bannon's Gymnastix, and she remained there for 11 years under the     6    (direct) of her coach, Aimee Boorman.

At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she became the first female U. S. gymnast     7     (win) four gold medals at a single Games. She was given     8     honor of being the Team USA flag bearer during the Olympics' closing ceremony.

There were high     9     (expectation) for Biles as she entered the 2020 Tokyo Games,    10     were delayed until 2021. However, she withdrew from most events due to a medical condition.

CHEN Lijun snatches gold in Men's 67kg Weightlifting. Till now, five years after     1     (force) to withdraw with leg cramps from Rio 2016, CHEN Lijun of the People's Republic of China     2     (crown) he Olympic champion in the weightlifting men's 67kg event at Tokyo 2020 with a total lift of 332kg.

It     3     (come) down to the final lit, with Chen lifting 187kg — an Olympic record — in the clean and jerk to beat Colombia's Luis Javier Mosquera Lozano by one kilogram. “I feel that it's very difficult, very hard to be in Tokyo 2020. I have many different     4     (feeling) because for a long time I've been struggling and working hard. This year is quite exciting and     5     (predict),” Chen said. “I'm very happy to win this gold medal and bring honour to my country and family.”

Chen, a four-time world champion, gave China their second weightlifting gold of the evening after Li Fiban won the men's 6lkg. Mosquera Lozano was in line     6     the gold medal after a mammoth total lift of 331kg—    7     Olympic record before Chen's final attempt.

Mosquera Lozano said, “I am very proud to win for Colombia and for my family but I understand     8     China won today, they are very strong in weightlifting. It's been wonderful to fight     9     my Chinese opponent.” I'm very happy for him and my Italian colleague but let's hope we can get more medals in the future.” Bronze went to Italy's Mirko Zanni,     10     despite missing his attempt at 172kg, went on to left a personal best of 177kg on his final attempt in the clean and jerk for a total lift of 322kg.

In a diving competition, Quan Hongchan from China set the 10m platform final alight with three 10s.

The perfect Quan, only 14 years old,     1     (bare) made a ripple (涟漪) as she surged (涌动) ahead with a score of 466. 20. Teammate Chen Yuxi won silver, more than 40 points back on 425.40, with Melissa Wu of Australia     2     (three) on 371.40. But the final belonged to Quan, who was thrilled and amazed in equal measure     3     (take) an unforgettable diving gold.

It was a fantastic performance from a young but     4    (excellence) diver who has only recently burst onto the scene but will surely provide some of the impressive images of the Games.     5     hero of Tokyo and new Olympic champion was the star of the show     6     a thrilling afternoon at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

Quan spoke after the final about how she had felt in     7     was the most important competition of her life. Yet despite her tender age, it seems that she didn't feel any pre-finals anxiety. “I     8    (be) a little nervous in the competition, but not very, just a little bit.” she said.

Quan also shared how she     9    (celebrate) her win. She said, “I want to eat a lot of delicious food tonight!” And when     10    (ask) about her favorite food, she said she felt like eating latiao (a popular Chinese spicy snack) the most.

Chinese shooter Yang Qian won the first gold medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the women’s 10m air rifle (气步枪) on Saturday. Yang was born in 2000 in Yangjianong,     1     small village in Ningbo. In 2011, she     2     (select) among the shooting team of Ningbo Sports School,     3     she started her shooting career. In 2019, Yang became a member of the national shooting team.

Yu Lihua, Yang’s first shooting coach at Ningbo Sports School, said in an     4     (excite) voice, “It is the first time that my student has won a gold medal in the Olympic Games. I’m so     5     (pride) of Yang Qian. Athletes in the Olympic Games should not only have great skills     6     also adjust their own mood to deal with anxieties. Yang Qian has such good sportsmanship     7     (control) herself well under pressure.” Yang’s mother, smiled through tears as her daughter won the     8     (compete). Zhu Xiaomei, her instructor back then, said, “Yang’s success will encourage both teachers and students     9     (great). As long as they work hard, they     10     (be) the top talents in their own field, like what Yang has achieved.”

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     4     (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     5     (judge). Only one judge found a flaw (瑕疵) with her final dive,     6     (award) 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(相乘) by the dive’s degree of difficulty. That means 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     8     young age, Quan was a relatively unknown person     9     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.

Stephen Curry’s grandfather built a simple basket by     1     (attach) a piece of plastic to a telephone pole. Stephen spent many childhood hours playing on this     2     (mud) basketball court. It was where he learnt to be creative and flexible as a player.

    3     (know) where the ball would go wasn’t easy in those poor conditions. He had to adjust his own playing style as a result. Shooting with great accuracy     4     another thing he learnt. Practising day in and day out helped Stephen sharpen his skills.

Many people didn’t think he would be a successful basketball player,     5     he never gave up. His creativity and     6     (persevere) made him Davidson’s star player.     7     (select) for the NBA in 2009, he performed     8     everyone’s expectations with his accurate shooting and continuous efforts. Stephen won his first NBA championship in 2015.

After receiving the Most Valuable Player award for two years in     9     row, Stephen explained his philosophy. In his opinion,     10     he wanted to do was just be himself. What he did was to work every single day to get better. At the same time, what others thought of him didn’t influence what he became.

Two books about the athletes have been released at the same time. In "The Barcelona Complex" Simon Kuper, a journalist at the Financial Times, analyses how the Spanish football club became a giant, with Mr Messi, its "engine and standard-bearer". "The Master"     1     Christopher Clarey, a journalist at the New York Times, is a more conventional biography.     2    (base) on interviews with the tennis player and his inner circle, both books offer     3    (value) ideas of how sporting greatness     4     (achieve).

Modern athletes are more disciplined than their ancestors who often lived like rock stars and expected their bodies to give out before    5     (get) to middle age. In the early 1970s, Johan Cruyff, another Barcelona footballing   legend,     6    (be) a chain-smoker. He was so unfit that, during his time at Ajax, Cruyff would hide in the woods     7     his teammates did running training, only rejoining them for the last lap. Mr Messi, by contrast, credits a mostly vegetarian diet with prolonging his career and has benefited from his club's focus on     8     science of nutrition, sleep and psychology.

By far     9     (long) serving member of Mr Federer's team is Pierre Paganini, a former decathlete (十项全能选手) who has been his fitness coach since 2000. "A big part of the reason that I'm here     10     I am today is definitely because of Pierre," Mr Federer has said.