3 . All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help to keep people healthy,happy and help them to live longer.

Sports change with the season.People play different games in summer and winter.

Games and sports often grow out of people’s work and everyday activities.The Arabs use horses or camels in much of their everyday lives;they use them in their sports,too.

Some sports are so interesting that people everywhere go in for them. Football, for example, has spread around the world. Swimming is popular in all countries near the sea or in those with many rivers.

Some sports or games go back to thousands of years ago, like running or jumping. Chinese boxing, for example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are quite new. Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or games all the time.

People from different countries may not be able to understand each other,but after a game they often become good friends. Sports help to train a person’s character (性格). One learns to fight hard but fight fair,to win without pride and to lose with grace (体面).

4 . As she waited at the edge of the ice for her music to start, Peggy took a quick look at her father standing nearby with a group of parents and teachers. He smiled at her. Then she ________ out at the audience (观众),________ to see her mother. These two, Alvert and Doris Flemint, had ________ all the way from California more than 2,000 miles away, to see their daughter compete in this sports meeting in Cleveland, Ohio.

The music ________ and Peggy moved onto the ice, letting the music ________ her along into her turns, and she began skating with much ________ in herself. The cold fear she always had in the ________ seconds before skating onto the ice was ________. She was feeling the movement of the music and letting it carry her. She skated easily,________ did some jumps, a final turn and her performance(表演) was finished.

The crowd loved it and cheered (欢呼) as she skated off the ice. “Nice job,” said one of the other ________. It was the remark (评价) that ________ came after a free-skating performance. But what should the ________ say? Standing beside her father, Peggy waited for the scoring (打分) to be finished. On all sides were other young skaters,some waiting ________ alone, others with a parent. Shortly before 10 o’clock the results were ________. The new United States Women’s Figure Skating Champion was Peggy Fleming of Passdena,________.