“Living Legends of Sports” are athletes 【小题1】 are masters in their sports and also set a good example for others, like Lang Ping and Michael Jordan.

Lang Ping, 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, 【小题2】(win) the love from fans at home and abroad. At the 2015 World Cup, Chinese women’s team met with many difficulties. The team that Lang Ping built was falling apart because of 【小题3】(lose) two important players. 【小题4】(face) with such a big problem, she didn’t lose heart. She believed that her players had the 【小题5】(determine) and talent to win by working together as a team.

Deng Yaping, one of the best table tennis players, is the first woman player 【小题1】 (win) the championships in all the international 【小题2】 (event).

In 1984, she 【小题3】 (compete) for the Henan table tennis junior championship and won 【小题4】. However, it's a 【小题5】 (fail) for her to join Henan team because of her height. She tried to work harder and be 【小题6】 (positive) about her skills. In 1988, even 【小题7】 she won the national championship, she couldn't join the national team for the same reason. Later in November1988, Deng never gave up her ideal 【小题8】 made it finally. In 1989, she and her teammate Qiao Hong won the world championship. In 1991, Deng won the singles world championship. Those three years was the 【小题9】 (good) time for her sports life.

Deng got 18 gold medals and was the best woman player in the world for several years. After 【小题10】 (leave) the national team in 1997, she went to Tsinghua University.

2021 Annual People Award Ceremony was held. Ten people 【小题1】 (award) for their moving story and significant contribution to the society.

Renowned (有名望的) Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Yang Zhenning, 【小题2】(become) the first Chinese-American scientist who applied to return to China 【小题3】 the US just lifted the ban on visits to China in 1971. Yang also sponsored (赞助)hundreds of Chinese scholars to further their studies in the US through a committee for education exchanges 【小题4】was established by him in New York. These talents 【小题5】(late) became the backbone of the 【小题6】 (construct) of China.

Another nominee (被提名者) was Su Bingtian, the first Chinese sprinter【小题7】(compete) in the men’s 100-meter sprint final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. 【小题8】(be) a 32-year-old man, he shocked the world by finishing first in his group with a time of 9.83 seconds on the semi-final, 0.08 seconds 【小题9】 (fast) than his Asian record of 9.91 seconds in 2018. We are proud for 【小题10】 he had achieved.