阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。How deep can a person dive underwater without any 【小题1】 (breathe) equipment? As one of the world’s top female freedivers, China’s Xu Tongtong’s answer is beyond the limit.
Freediving is gaining 【小题2】(popular) across the world. Divers rely only on their lung capacity to plunge as far as they can-either in open water in so-called “depth” events or in the swimming pool, 【小题3】 (simple) called “pool” events.
This year, the 35-year-old Xu 【小题4】 (dive) 100 meters underwater successfully in both constant weight (CWT) and constant weight bifin (CWTB) contests, becoming only the third female freediver on the planet 【小题5】(reach) this depth. “When I dived 100 meters and grabbed the depth tag, I knew I had done it and 【小题6】(swim) back to the surface with a smile,” Xu joyfully recalled of her 【小题7】 (history) feat (壮举).
Hailing from East China’s Anhui province, Xu changed from swimming to freediving in 2014. “I was able to enter the three-dimensional world from a two-dimensional space. That is 【小题8】 I fell in love with freediving,” she told Xinhua in a recent exclusive interview. The biggest attraction of freediving lies 【小题9】 facing up to and overcoming our fears. The training is a process of constantly knowing oneself, said Xu. After three months of training and competing this year in Panglao, Xu decided to stay on the island to continue her training and coaching, 【小题10】 major source of income for this world-class freediver.