“Living Legends of Sports” are athletes who are     1     (master) in their sports and also set good examples for others, like Lang Ping and Michael Jordan.

Lang Ping, who is a former Chinese volleyball player, is now the coach of the Chinese national women’s volleyball team. She brought honour and glory to her country both as a player and as a coach,     2     (win) the love from fans at home and abroad. At the 2015 World Cup, Chinese women’s team met many difficulties. The team that Lang Ping built was falling apart because of     3     (lose) two important players.     4     (face) with such a big challenge, she didn’t lose heart. She believed that her players had the     5     (determine) and talent to win by working together as a team. They did make     6    .

Michael Jordan is one of the most famous basketball players in the world. He played so well     7     people called him “Air Jordan”. Not only were his skills     8     (impress), but also the mental strength he showed     9     (be) unique. He says the secret to success is learning from failures. Failure taught him to practise harder and never give     10    . He started the Boys and Girls Club in Chicago in 1996, and he has been helping young people since.

Residents of Xiazhuang, Chongqing, used to risk their     1     (life) whenever they ventured out of the mountain village     2     (surround ) by steep cliffs(悬崖) about 1, 000 meters high. It was Mao Xianglin, head of the village, who gathered nearly all Xiazhuang's 400 villagers for a meeting     3     1997 and suggested building a road snaking long the mountains. The 8-kilometer-long road links the village, located at the bottom of a valley, to the outside world.    4     it was built, it usually took the villagers more than a full day to access the outside world. Now it only needs a one-hour drive.

The construction work was rather     5     (difficult) than they imagined.     6     (stand) on the edge of the cliff , they were extremely terrified with their legs shaking.     7    , when there was a dangerous situation, Mao was always the first to go. After 7 years of wrestling with severe challenges, the road    8     (complete) in 2004. It is not only a road but a route     9     (overcome) poverty. Nowadays the villagers are much better-off than before by     10     (sell) agricultural products through live streaming.

Because of Richard Sears' enthusiasm for    1     (tradition) Chinese culture, he began learning Chinese in 1972.     2     (attract) by the ancient language, Sears often went back and forth between China and America. In 1994, after his recovery from a severe heart attack, he made a    3     ( decide) to make the ancient Chinese characters, Jiaguwen, available online.

From then on, Sears started programming and building a database （数据库）of Jiaguwen.     4     took him seven years to scan the characters in Chinese ancient books. In 2002, the Jiaguwen enthusiast's website    5    （create) though with only a few page views per day in the beginning. It    6     (rise) to 600 , 000 per day in 2011 after a blogger recommended the site on Chinese social media platform. "I became famous    7     ( instant) and was given a nickname “Uncle Hanzi”， Sears said with a smile. Up till now, the website has been continuously updated，    8     gives lovers of the ancient language from all over the world free access to browsing (浏览) in their free time.

At present, the70-year-old American has made his home in China.   Apart from    9     (take)part in some social    10     (activity),Sears devotes all his efforts to the study of Chinese characters.

When Kate’s car ran out of gas on a highway one night six weeks ago, she got into     1     panic. “I thought I could make it all the way home, but     2     (apparent) I was wrong,” Kate recalled. “I drove to the side of the road and got out,     3     (plan) to walk to the nearest gas station. That’s when I met Johnny, a homeless man sitting nearby. Johnny stopped me. Concerned about my     4     (secure), he told me to get back in the car and lock the doors. I obeyed. A few minutes later, he came back with a gas can that he bought with his last $20.”“    5    was crazy that he would use all his money on someone he didn’t even know,” Kate added.     6     (repay)Johnny, Kate returned many times and gave him some money, food and clothes. But she wanted to do more for this man. “Johnny is generous indeed,” said Kate. “He’s got     7     positive energy that he should be helped.”     8     (touch) by Johnny’s selflessness, Kate is now raising money online for him. “To my great delight, donations keep pouring in,” said Kate. “So far, over $100,000     9    (collect). He’s indeed a good guy and deserves everything    10    is coming to him.”