1 . A football-loving penguin was unveiled as the official mascot of the 2023FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Streetwise and confident, Tazuni ______from the crowd thanks to her signature blue bunch of hair. Tazumi is a penguin based on the Eudyptula minor species which is ______ to New Zealand and Australia.

The name Tazuni is a ______of her home — the Tasman Sea — and “unity”, the key______of the event to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand in 2023.

Her football dreams come true when one evening she looks up to see fireworks ______ overhead coming from a nearby_______. The kids from beach ______ over a personalized football kit, and she ______walks into the stadium to showcase her talents.

“Tazuni stands for everything which makes the event unique, and her______ will resonate with millions of young fans around the world,” Fatma Samoura said. “Tazuni is the______mascot for this tournament, ______ all that is positive about the biggest women’s football event ever ______, and our sport-obsessed host nations who are ready to ______ the world.”

Like millions of youngsters worldwide, football is how Tazuni ______herself, and the event will provide______ for a new generation of football fans and participants from across the globe.

2 . Marcus is a handsome and athletic kid. He plays tennis and _________ the state tournament every year. Marcus’s neighbor, Conrad, is also _________ to compete, but he has rheumatoid arthritis (类风湿性关节炎). Although it pains him just to walk, he _________ painful days at school walking to the sports field. He loves watching his school compete so he doesn’t _________ a game.

Marcus has known Conrad since primary school. They’ve always been _________. He sees Conrad in pain and his _________ at not being able to play sports. So, every day alter school, Marcus _________ his classmates to go to Conrad’s for a moment of discussion about the game competition. The discussion is as _________ as a real high school game, which makes Conrad forget the hurt.

Finally, the doctors found a new _________ to reduce the pain. Conrad walks without much pain, and then begins running, but he still has to learn the __________ of running. After a childhood of walking carefully and taking __________ steps, Conrad has to train his walking like a kid again and stay in shape. He pushes himself every day，building his lungs and doing leg lifts repeatedly for his leg __________. He knows what pain feels like, but running for Conrad is no longer __________.

To Conrad’s delight, he gets a chance to join the cross country team. Conrad doesn’t win, not once, but Marcus is there, __________ for him who always finishes in the middle of the competitors, breathing in wind and waving his hands __________.

3 . After watching my son Todd run in a race, I made my usual comment, “Todd, I could walk faster than those women run.” Todd ______ as he knew I wasn’t a runner. “Listen, Mom, how about you run with me next year at this race?” Without thinking, I quickly agreed to this ______. I felt this was going to be a piece of cake!

Never in my ______ dreams did I ever imagine what the next year would ______. When it was almost time for this race to ______, Todd wasn’t going to be running. He had died in a car accident. A few of his friends knew this “challenge” I had agreed to with Todd. They started to ______ me to run the race. I hadn’t ______ or prepared anything. Quite ______, I had almost forgotten I said I would do it.

I decided I should keep my ______. The day of the race came. I felt pretty ______. When it was time for the race, I was all dressed and ready. It was freezing cold that day, but I didn’t care. I ______ all my warm clothes and ran with only a sleeveless shirt and shorts on. Nothing was going to ______ me.

Before the race, I listened to some ______ talking about how to run a race. They gave ideas about staying ______ and knowing when to make your ______. I played the race over and over in my ______ when I listened to the tapes. Now the time had come to put it into a ______ practice.

No one knew what ______ me to run. I found that running ______ the stress I was feeling of losing my dear Todd. I finished my run, fell on the grass, and cried my eyes out.

It brought me___ and relief through running.

4 . The first Olympic Games at Olympia were held in 776 BC. They were held _______ four years from 776 BC to 393 AD. In _______ Greece, games were _______ connected to the worship(崇拜)of the gods and heroes. They were also held as part of religious ceremonies(典礼) to _______ dead heroes. But from the beginning the games at Olympia served to _______ the Greek sense of national unity. So every four years over 1,100 years, thousands of   _______ stopped all wars and _______ to a small sanctuary(圣殿) in northwestern Greece for five days in the late summer for _______ reason-to watch the Olympic Games. During that time, _______ from all over the Greek world competed in a number of athletic __________ and worshipped the gods at Olympic. The athletes competed not for __________ or material benefits, __________ only for the honor of being Olympic visitor. Like our Olympics, __________ athletes were heroes who put their hometowns on the map. However, unlike our Olympics, only free men who spoke Greek could compete, instead of athletes from any country and the games were __________ held at Olympic instead of moving around to different places every time.

The ancient Olympics had a __________ variety（种类) of games. Many of these are the ancestors(原型) of our modern Olympic Games and had rules and playing conditions.