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.

As an outstanding American gymnast (体操运动员), Simone Biles has won more medals     1     any other gymnast in American history. Although Biles has made great achievements in sports, she had never received     2     college education before. But it has changed. Biles is a college student now.

Biles had planned to go to the University of California Los Angeles,     3     she could go into a classroom and listen to lessons in a traditional way, but her busy life made it nearly impossible     4     (study) full-time at a university. So she     5     (decide) to take some classes at the University of the People, an online university, which     6     (set) up by Shai Reshef, an Israeli-born businessman. It offers degree programs of different levels. Now Biles is working hard to get her first degree, and she is     7     (satisfy) with the online education though she hasn't had a traditional school experience since she went to high school. She was home-schooled during her high school years to save time for her gymnastic     8     (train) .

The school's nontraditional methods are     9     (particular) fit for Biles, and her hard-working spirit     10     (shape) her gymnastic career will help her in her studies as well.

On August 5, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, Quan Hongchan perfomed two dives that received perfect scores by all seven judges on     1     way to winning the gold medal in the women’s 10-meterplat-form final.

Quan from a small village in South China’s Guangdong Province,     2     finally won the 10-meter platform title in the women’s 10-meter platform diving, became the second-youngest Chinese gold     3     (medal) in the event at the Olympics after Fu Mingxia took home the top prize in 1992 at just 13 years old. Quan, who scored a total of 466.20, also     4     (break) the previous record in the event. Two of Quan’s five dives in the five-round     5     (compete) earned 10s across the board, and another one of her dives received six 10s and one 9.5. But since the rules of diving called for the two     6     (high) and two lowest scores to be abandoned to arrive at the final score, it was     7     (effective) a third perfect dive.

Quan entered the sport in 2014, later     8     (join) a club in China’s Guangdong Province. The reason why Quan chose to become     9     athlete was heartbreaking---she wanted to win prizes as early as possible     10     (help) her seriously ill mother.

Ten years ago, Qieyang Shijie gained the honor of being the first Tibetan athlete     1     (win) an Olympic medal after claiming a bronze in the women’s 20km race walking at the 2012 London Olympics. She is now ready to turn that medal into gold after three Russian athletes had     2     (they) results overturned owing to doping (服兴奋剂).

The Athletics Integrity Unit said on Monday that race walker Yelena Lashmanova had been stripped (剥夺) of her Olympic gold medal for the event. In 2016, Olga Kaniskina, who won the silver medal, also had her results canceled because of doping.

The International Olympic Committee     3     (official) changed the results based on the     4     (punish) in June 2020, elevating Qieyang Shijie to silver medalist, and her fellow teammates Liu Hong to third place and Lyu Xiuzhi to fourth. Monday’s placings still need confirmation by the IOC and World Athletics.

After hearing the news, Qieyang Shijie thought it was     5     (surprise) news and she expressed mixed feelings on her Sina Weibo microblog account. “It’s been 10 years. When     6     (inform) that I’d won the Olympic championship this way, I was both happy and sad,” she said. “I feel happy that I can become the champion in my heart. But I feel upset at     7     same time that I could not get the feeling of being a champion. I did not get the aura (气氛) of being an Olympic champion. Although the aura is temporary, I still want to have the aura of that moment. However, past is past.”

Qieyang Shijie,     8     birthplace is Qinghai province’s Haibei Tibetan autonomous prefecture (地区),     9     (select) to become a member of the national race walking team when she was 20 years old. She is now training in Italy     10     this year’s World Championships in July and the Asian Games in September.

The ancient Chinese martial art(武术) tai chi has     1     (increasing) become popular among New Yorkers, thanks to the efforts         2     (make) by former world martial art champion Chen Sitan. From five-year-old kids to the elderly in their 70s, people from different cultural backgrounds in New York have been attracted to the martial art.

Chen started learning martial art at the age of six. By the age of 30 when he ended his athletic career, he     3     (win) 32 gold medals in Chinese and international competitions. After     4     (train) athletes in sports teams for several years, Chen decided to come to the United States in 2003     5     (bring) Chinese culture to more people around the world through tai chi. “Tai chi is not only about     6     (compete); it means much more,” said Chen. This gentle form of exercise helps keep     7     (strong) and balance, and can be     8     activity suitable for almost everyone.

Although tai chi is already getting popular in fast-paced New York City and neighboring areas, Chen is not satisfied     9     the achievements he has made. He is developing a training program through     10     his school could train more excellent teachers.

Su Yiming was born in Jilin province, which has produced a number of Chinese winter athletes.     1     his parents already fans of snowboarding, Su had his first try when he was three years old and quickly became hooked (着迷).

At seven, he obtained his first sponsorship deal and his extraordinary skill attracted the attention of film     2    (direct) to open up further opportunities.

In 2014, the film ‘The Taking of Tiger Mountain’ needed     3     young boy who could ski for several scenes. Su fitted the bill and he quickly became a child star appearing in several movies.

When Beijing was awarded right     4    (host) the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in 2015, Su decided to     5    (temporary) put his acting career on hold. At the time he published a post on his Weibo account saying: “    6     determines our life is not our ability, but our choice.”

In 2018, he     7    (select) for the Chinese Snowboard slopestyle and Big Air team and improved further under the     8    (instruct) of famous Japanese coach Sato Yasuhiro.

As the pioneer of the new generation of Chinese snowboarding, Su holds multiple    9    (nation) records and even achieved a world first in 2021.

At the Beijing Winter Olympics, Su Yiming made history by winning men’s snowboard slopestyle silver. Three days before     10    (turn) 18, Su received his first Olympic gold medal in the men’s snowboard big air final.

Lang Ping announced on Wednesday that she has stepped down as head coach of China’s national women’s volleyball team.

    1    (know) as the “Iron Hammer” during her playing career, Lang Ping is one of the most     2    (influence) figures in the world. She took over the Chinese women’s team for the second time in 2013.     3    Lang’s guidance, China won Olympic gold in Rio 2016, as well as 2015 and 2019 World Cup titles. But China failed     4    (progress) through the group stage at last month’s 2020 Olympic Games after losing against Turkey, the United States and Russia.

Since 2013, the 60-year-old legendary coach     5    (lead) China to win the Rio Olympics gold, two World Cup championships, one World Championships silver and one bronze. Lang emphasized her    6     (enthusiastic) for volleyball, but said it is not possible for her to coach the Chinese team forever. For Lang, Tokyo may see    7     end of her Olympic story, but for her team, it begins a journey     8     Paris 2024, which    9    (expect) to be a new high in their careers.

“    10     happened in Tokyo is a precious experience for those young players. I told them don’t forget this. They need to remember the failure and find out how to recover when they encounter difficulties in the next Olympics.”

With Eileen Gu     1     (win) the gold medal in the women’s freestyle skiing big air competition at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, one of the     2     (factor) that has drawn     3    (globe) attention is her education. Apart from skiing, the 18-year -old athlete has a successful career in modeling and     4     (gain) admission to Stanford in December, 2021.

Now, many parents in China owe Eileen Gu’s success     5     her mom. But parents trying to turn their children into another Eileen Gu may be disappointed to find the cut-and-paste function does not work in real life. We should acknowledge that economic status plays     6     important role in a person’s development. Sports take a lot    7     (much) than a pen and some paper. Young athletes take private lessons, buy equipment, and pay entry fees to compete in tournaments. All add up and become costly. Yet all of these are nothing     8     (compare) with skiing. Eileen was fortunate to have all the stars in the direction of her success. For many Chinese parents,     9     they often fail to realize is that financial, academic and social resources     10     (need) to ensure their children achieve success.

On December 26, at the 2021 All-Japan Figure Skating Championship, Yuzuru Hanyu won the championship with a total score of 322. 36. The Japan Figure Skating Association had previously stated that the winner of the 2021 championship     1     (quality) for the 2022 Winter Olympics directly. With this victory, Hanyu thus secured his ticket to Beijing. This was the first time that he     2     (appear) in a competition after an injury had forced him to withdraw from the World Figure Skating Team Championships in April of last year.

As a two-time Olympic figure skating gold medalist, the 27-year-old is no longer considered young for an athlete of his status,     3     he has nonetheless been working hard to live up to the measure of his own goals.     4     (return) from injury, he showed us again why he was considered to be one of the greatest men’s skaters in the history of the sport.

During the competition, Hanyu’s first attempt at performance a 4A jump -- the most difficult jump in figure skating -saw both of his feet     5     (hit) the ice. Despite some small mistakes in his performance, it was the brief moment of weakness     6     (show) in his landing leg that might have finally contributed to his failure to land the jump successfully. In a post-competition interview, Hanyu said it was his long-time goal to successfully execute a 4A jump and that he had done his best to do so this time around.     7     he was unable to perfectly land his 4A jump, this was indeed the first 4A jump in the sport’s history     8     (attempt) in a figure skating competition.

Hanyu said after the competition that he had felt a lot like     9     (cry) before his warm-up session. As he put it, “I don’t know how many more times I can continue to see this kind of scene. All the hard work I’ve done up to this point and all the different memories I’ve accumulated, suddenly overwhelmed me.” Nothing can embody (体现) the Olympic spirit more than a figure skating veteran (老将) still striving to achieve his dreams regardless of a career that has already established him     10     nothing short of a legend in his sport.

With the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games underway, Wang Meng,     1     four-time short track speed, skating Olympic champion and head coach of speed skating national team, is once again winning waves of hurrahs(欢呼声)from millions of Chinese     2    (viewer). But this time, the praise is not for her excellent show on the ice,     3     on the microphone as she delivers passionate,     4    (humor) and unique commentary on the events.

Paired with Huang Jianxiang, a popular Chinese sports commentator, Wang, one of China’s most decorated Olympic athletes,     5    (start) her commentary career on the first day of the short track speed skating competition via Migu, a branch of China Mobile that provides digital content and     6    (relate) services.

When skater Wu Dajing crossed the finish line and was waiting for the final result, Wang slapped the table and roared: “My eyes are     7     rulers. I’m sure China has won!”

During the race, Wang, from Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province,     8    (bare) sat down. She jumped up and down, waved her arms and cheered for the Chinese team. Her comment quickly became a catchphrase on Chinese social media,     9    (help) the 37-year-old attract even more fans.

She encouraged each team member and called them by their nicknames,     10     led to her receiving countless thumbs-ups and laughs on Migu.