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.

Chen Xingrong, 16, was diagnosed with autism (自闭症) when he was a baby. His father, Chen Xunhu, quit his job     1     (immediate) and devoted his full attention to the topic of autism. In 2012, Chen Xunhu learned that swimming could help autistic people in several aspects. He spent months     2     (teach) his son and discovered that his son had gradually developed the ability to control his breath under water,     3     significantly boosted his confidence.

    4     (fix) from the ceiling, two hand rings and a swing are used to help Chen Xingrong     5     (strength) his muscles. On one wall of their home hangs a table for Chen Xingrong’s routine workout. “I used to make all plans for him, but now it is all up     6     him. He decides how many     7     (exercise) he wants to do, and it’s a process of self-management,” said Chen Xunhu.

In spite of all the hardships in life, Chen Xingrong managed to become     8     outstanding swimmer. In 2021, he won five medals, including a gold, at the 11th National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the eighth National Special Olympic Games.

Learning basic life skills, as well as swimming,     9     (be) also an important part of life for a teenager with autism. Chen Xunhu wants the public to know more about autistic people so as to reduce misunderstanding. He organized about 500 people to watch the autism-themed film, titled Ocean Heaven, which describes     10     a father attempts to teach his son the necessary life skills to live without him.

    1       (bear) in Jilin, a northeastern Chinese province where temperatures can remain below freezing for half of the year, Su Yiming first     2     (step) on a snowboard around age three, with the support of his parents. By six, Su was leaving his parents behind in the snow when they snowboarded together. His wonderful performance on the snow was     3     pushed him under the spotlight in 2014, after the celebrated director Tsui Hark cast him in his action movie The Taking of Tiger Mountain, after watching a video of young Su skiing. In the movie, Su helps lead a team of soldiers to     4       (safe) after they lose their way on a snowy mountain. He then appeared in several more television dramas, one of them alongside Xiao Zhan.

In 2018, Su Yiming, a 14-year-old native of northeastern China,     5     (face) with a difficult decision: Pursue a     6     (promise) career as an actor, or go all in on snowboarding, in a country where most people had never seen a snowboard. At the time,Su was fast becoming     7     household name in China’s film industry. But     8     the 2022 Winter Olympics approaching, the teenager saw an opportunity. He decided to     9       (temporary) put his acting career on hold. Three days short of his 18th birthday, Su took gold in the big air snowboarding event,     10     (write) history for the Olympic host nation by winning the country’s first gold medal in the event.

With International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach’s applause and the cheers from the audience, China’s 18-year-old freestyle skier Gu Ailing (谷爱凌),     1     hands on her head and a look of great excitement,     2    (obtain) the gold medal of the women’s freeski big air final at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

The win is a historic    3     (achieve) as Gu is China’s first women’s Olympic gold medal     4     (win) on snow sports. “This is the best moment in my life, and moments like this make everything so worthy,” Gu said to an interviewer and she expressed her sincere gratitude to the home audience for    5     (they) huge support. Gu is also    6     (talent) in her studies. She completed American high school courses ahead as the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games neared. Gu scored 1580 out of 1600 in SAT and     7     (admit) to Stanford University.

“Every time I see her on TV, she is confident and optimistic, her face shining with joy,     8     is really inspiring to us,” said a Weibo user. Some netizens said she is a perfect image that could not even be designed in a movie.

More and more people grow quite fond of Gu , a girl who enjoys eating dumplings and roast Beijing duck,     9     (especial) when they found out that Gu speaks Mandarin with     10     Beijing accent.

Stephen Curry, the son of the famous basketball star Dell Curry, is also a well-known NBA basketball player in the world. He spent his childhood years     1     (practise) basketball on the     2     (mud) basketball court. However, the poor conditions helped     3     (he) develop his own playing style. He also learnt to be     4     (create) and flexible as a player. Nonetheless, for many people, it seemed unlikely that Stephen would be     5     great basketball player, because he was too short, too thin and too weak     6     follow in his father’s     7     (footstep). Despite this, Stephen never gave up, and ended up     8     (play) college ball at Davidson College, not too far from where he lived.     9     (select) for the NBA in2009, he became a member of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. In 2015, he led the Warriors to their first championship since 1975. Stephen achieved his dream through self-belief, hard work, perseverance     10    some help from an old hoop. He has proved that anything is possible as long as you try your best to do it.