As a teenager, I hated sports and physical education classes. I was always making up ______ to get out of them.

However, when I started university, I decided to ______ kung fu. To my ______, I loved it! It was a friendly and casual club. I used to go two or three times a week to   ______ . Because it is not a team sport, I didn’t feel ______ about not being very good. And because it is a combat sport, you train in pairs, which means that you get to ______ people and talk to them. I also ______ that the focus of the classes was on getting better at kung fu, ______ exercising to change my body. I think that advertising puts us under an unhealthy pressure to change our ________. When I was doing kung fu, my body did change-I got stronger and quicker-but the ______ were a side effect of the sport, instead of the goal. ______, in the last year of university I was too busy to do kung fu most of the time.

When I moved to Italy this year I wanted to start doing a combat sport again. I found a great local club that does mixed martial arts. The club is more ______ than the one at my university and we do lots of sparring（practice fights）. I think that sparring is like chess, but much faster and much more fun! If your sparring partner tries to punch you, you have to decide in an instant how to ______ . You could dodge, block or even   ______ their am and then throw them to the mat（垫子）.

When I was a teenager, I never ______ that I would like sports. Now I think that everyone should try as many sports as possible because I believe there is something out there for everyone!

I was never a fan of football, or any sports for that matter. At primary school, my classmates spent lunch break ______ on the playground, while I was in the library getting pleasure from ______ . In Games lessons, to fit in, I ______ to be interested.

As I got older, I ______ trying to fake (假装) it. Instead, I showed off my dislike for football as a sign of ______ “It’s only a silly game!” I’d tell Dad, as he ______ me to watch a match.

But, sometimes I’d find myself ______ an opener like, “Cor, a terrible season we’re having, eh?”, or ______, “Who do you support?”, and feel my heart sink, knowing my reply would surely ______ .

And then I became a dad, and I didn’t want my boy Harvey to ______ this desirable social skill. So I bought him ______ to watch our local team, Boreham Wood. And, because he kept asking me what was going on, I stayed relatively ______ on the game.

Almost without noticing, my ______ of support when “The Wood” scored a goal were actually real, as were my sighs when “we” missed a penalty kick (罚球).

Harvey was ______ , and we’ve since returned to Meadow Park five times, each time feeling a ______ connection with the team’s supporter community.

78-year-old Nora Langdon has become an inspiration to people of all ages. She _________multiple days a week at the gym training for three hours at a time.

At 65, Langdon was determined to live a _________lifestyle. In 2007, she weighed over 210 pounds and often struggled to catch her _________while going up the stairs. She knew it was time to _________

“On the first day I started, I told myself that I’d give up because it was too _________for me.” Langdon told Good Morning America. “Then I heard my _________saying from within, ‘go back.’ So, I went back and here I am today.”

After joining the gym and watching her trainer prepare for a powerlifting meet, she _________his competition and decided to try it herself. She began with the basics — using a broom (扫帚) as a barbell before _________moving to weights. It wasn’t long before she discovered _________was her love.

Langdon has __________19 world records and quickly became one of Michigan’s best in her age range. Although Langdon has some world records under her belt, she shows no signs of __________. Her next __________? To powerlift a total of over a thousand pounds!

Langdon wants others to know that with__________and strong faith, anyone her age can get into __________. “You were __________to continue until the Lord takes you away,” she said.