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.

At 10:20 am, July 24, Saturday, 2021, the first gold medal of the 2020 Olympics was     1     (official) won by China's Yang Jing in Japan. Yang Qian earned gold in the women's 10-meter air rifle（步枪）to take home the long-awaited first medal. The 21-year-old is     2     rising star in the sport. Yang,     3     was ranked sixth in the qualification, scored 251.8 points in the final, beating Russian Galashina’’s 251.1 points to set off Team China to a fine start at the     4     (postpone) Tokyo games. As the first champion of the 2020 Games, Yang     5       (award) her medal by International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach.

“It's an     6     (believe) thing that I can be here. The competetion was really tight, but I'm so happy that I could win,” Yang said after     7     (claim) the first gold medal of the Games and for China. “I'm so happy that this golden medal is a gift     8     my country. I'm so pround.” But she had to keep calm to do it. “During the match, I was very nervous     9     my heart was beating very fast, but I just tried to be     10     (I) and keep my emotions in control." the shooter added.