Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash Sunday in California, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people. It is known that the helicopter     1    (carry) Bryant and the others crashed into a hilly area in     2    (fog)conditions, and the cause of the crash is still       3    investigation.

Bryant was     4    (wide)considered one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers. After the tragic accident, many     5    (celebrity)showed their great grief over the     6    (lose)of the great basketball player. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said, "Kobe     7    (remember)forever for inspiring people around the world to pick up a basketball." All-time basketball great Michael Jordan said Kobe was a       8    (choose) one and he would miss those conversations very much.

Thousands of people gathered to remember the star outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles,     9    the Los Angeles Lakers played their home games. From then on, the city would not be       10    it used to be due to the death of the great basketball star.

World Wrestling Entertainment(WWE) superstar Charlotte Flair is leading by example by using her platform to show a woman's strength in a historically male-dominated sport.

At first, Flair    1    (inspire) to take up wrestling by her father and brother. “It was my little brother who motivated me to begin wrestling, ” she said. “Now I continue to live his dream and continue my father's career. ”

Being a woman in wrestling means being devoted to supporting other female athletes and fighting    2    women's strength. “It means that I get to use my platform to promote strength and confidence in    3    was once considered a man's world. I    4    (full) believe female athletes are superstars, ”Flair said.

While Flair's field    5    (focus) mainly on outside strength, she notes that inner strength is equally    6    (importance) in the world of sports entertainment. “As a female athlete, your inner strength is only as strong as your outer strength as long as you believe in    7    (you) , ”she said.

Flair,     8    feels most powerful in her wrestling boots, wants women and girls to be better by inspiring one another and working together. “Instead of    9    (compete) with one another in an unhealthy way, we should work together    10    (create) change, ” she said.

Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash Sunday in California, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people. It is known    1    the helicopter     2    (carry)Bryant and the others crashed into a hilly area in    3    (fog)conditions, and the cause of the crash is still under investigation.

Bryant was    4    (wide)considered one of the greatest basketball    5    (play)of his generation during his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers. After the tragic accident, many celebrities showed their great grief over the    6    (lose)of the great basketball player. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said, “Kobe    7    (remember)forever for inspiring people around the world to pick up a basketball.” All-time basketball great Michael Jordan said Kobe was    8    chosen one and he would miss those conversations very much.

Thousands of people gathered to remember the star outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where the Los Angeles Lakers played    9    (they)home games. From then on, the city would not be    10    it used to be due to the death of the great basketball star.

On February 24th, 2020, a memorial     1    (hold) for Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gigi to celebrate their     2    (life)that were taken too soon. Kobe and Gigi died in a tragic helicopter crash on January 26th. Vanessa Bryant, Kobe’s wife, took the stage to deliver     3    emotional speech about the “most amazing husband” and their daughter’s “sweet grace”.   

Vanessa wasn’t the only one     4     (get) in front of the crowd. Michael Jordan also gave a moving speech. “Please,     5     (rest) in peace, little brother.” Kobe Bryant’s love of basketball was something Michael Jordan spoke of in his tribute. “What Kobe Bryant was to me was the inspiration that someone     6    (true) cared about the way either I played the game     7     the way that he wanted to play the game.”

Besides, Jordan encouraged everyone to follow Kobe’s lead by     8    (live) in the moment, saying, “Kobe never left anything on the court and that’s what he would want for us to do.”

No one knows how much time we have. That’s     9     we must live in the moment. “That same theme also applies beyond sports and into     10    (person) relationships.” Jordan continued, “We must reach and see and spend as much time as we can with our families and friends and the people that we absolutely love.”

On Feb 22nd, 2018, Chinese skater Wu Dajing became the first Chinese man     1     (win) an Olympic short track gold medal,     2    (claim) China’s first gold medal at the Pyeongchang Games. And on Nov 11, Wu Dajing, 24, set     3    new world record. It took him just 39.505 seconds to finish the men’s 500-meter race at the 2018 Short Track World Cup,     4    took place in Salt Lake City, US.

Shaoang Liu, who competed against WU at the World Cup,     5    (shake) his head in disbelief after the race. “It’s     6    (true) lucky to have been in a world record race,” Liu said. “The rest of us are all on a certain level but Wu is just, like, ‘up here’.” Indeed, every time Wu skates, he leaves his     7    (compete) behind within seconds. Wu is untouchable, not only for dominating his sport, but also for his unusual     8     (high) (182cm, tall for a short tracker).

Wu owes his success     9    his self-discipline. He started to skate at the age of 10. He got up at 4 am every day to practice. He never     10    (eat) meat or has carbonated drinks, even though he loves cola very much. Only once has Wu broken his self-made rule once-just after his win at the Winter Olympics.

By the time Michael Phelps retired at 31, he     1     (collect) a total of 23 golds, three silvers and two bronzes at the Olympics, a record that looks unlikely to be broken for many years     2     (come). Phelps suffered hyperactivity disorder as a child and     3     (encourage) to take up swimming at   seven   to   control his   energy.   Over the years   he developed   into a champion swimmer, beating record after record. “I was trying   to see     4     I could really do and where my potential could go” , said Phelps.

    1    (suffer) many failures, Rio Olympics gold medalist table tennis player Ding Ning rose to the peak of her sport, In 2006, Ding's ranking in the national team was the last but one,    2    within several years of practice, she raised her level little by little to become China's number one player.

Things don't always go so     3    (smooth). In 2010, when taking part in the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Moscow, Ding was beaten by a duo(搭档) from Singapore in the woman's doubles final,    4    made her burst into tears. The experience gave her a heavy blow. Drying her eyes, Ding worked harder    5    (relieve) herself of the pressure of the failure. In 2011, Ding harvested her first world championship in the woman's singles during the World Table Tennis Championships     6     (hold) in Rotterdam, Netherlands, which helped her step out of the shadow of the Moscow    7    (lose).

However, when she competed during the 2012 London Olympics, one of her playing techniques    8    (judge) repeatedly as & breach(违犯) of rules. At last she returned     9     a silver, The setback let her suffer a heavier blow.

“But all these failures are my most precious resources. They    10       (give) me a lesson about table tennis, life and healthy growth," said Ding.

There are three children in Bryant’s family. Kobe Bryant is the       1     (young) child and only son of Joe and Pam Bryant. His parents named him       2       a kind of steak: the famous beef of Kobe, Japan, which they saw on a restaurant menu. At       3     age of six, Kobe, his parents and two older sisters moved to Italy,       4     his father began playing professional basketball. He became accustomed to the lifestyle and became fluent in       5     (Italy). At an early age, he learned to play soccer and his favorite team was AC Milan. Bryant once said that if he     6    (stay)in Italy, he would have     7    (stick)with soccer and would have tried to become a professional soccer player. In 1991, the Bryants moved back to the United States. In the Philadelphia suburb of lower Merion high school, a spectacular high school career brought national     8    (recognize). Although his SAT score of 1080 guaranteed him various basketball scholarships from top universities, the 17-year-old made a controversial     9     (decide)to enter the NBA     10     (direct).

Kobe Bryant is a famous basketball player. His talent can     1    (see) not only on the court, but also in his writing.     2    book The Wizenard Series: Training Camp came out in March.

The story is     3    the West Bottom Badgers, a youth basketball team. It’s made up of five books, with each     4    (focus) on the story of one character: Rain, Twig, Cash, Peno and Lab. All of the kids on this team come from a poor neighborhood. No one     5    (have) faith in the kids to succeed,     6    things change after a new coach joins the team.

After reading the book, we got to interview Bryant. He said he didn’t think he was going to be an author, but that he often tells stories to his daughters. This is one of the     7    (reason) he wrote his own book. The book is based on parts of Bryant’s real-life experience,     8    (especial) when he played for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Bryant had two different jersey numbers - 8 and 24 - during his career.     9    number 24 means you need to work hard 24 hours a day     10    (succeed).

Our final thoughts on Bryant — he is cool and very funny.

Life is often a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. Sun Yang was the first Chinese man     1     (win) an Olympic gold medal in swimming. That moment     2     (come) last month, when he won the men’s 200-meter freestyle event at the Asian Games.

Sun has accomplished a Golden Grand Slam, having won the 200, 400 and 1, 500-meter freestyle events at the Asian Games, World Championships and Olympic Games. His     3     (patient) and persistence have paid off. The 26-year-old swimmer told Xinhua News Agency, “Not many swimmers could have waited for eight years over three Asian Games like me. My dream has     4     (final) come true.”

While Sun stood on a podium (领奖台)     5     (listen) to the Chinese national anthem (国歌) along with the silver and bronze medal winners, a technical problem caused the medalists’ flags to drop to the ground. Sun jumped off the podium, walked over to the officials and demanded that the flags again.     6     the end, the officials held the flags up themselves as China’s national anthem played a second time.

Many Chinese Internet users thought Suns reaction to the incident to be an act of patriotism (爱国主义). “    7     is great to win the championship, but    8    (see) our national flag go up again is also very important. Winning the title is an achievement     9     will be remembered, but raising the flag again is also of great     10     (important).”