When it comes to volleyball, we can’t help 【小题1】 (think) of Lang Ping. Lang Ping used to be a 【小题2】 (fame) player. Now she is also known 【小题3】 a coach. Led by her, Chinese women volleyball team won the world championship in 2019, 【小题4】 made the whole nation excited.

Lang Ping was born in Tianjin in 1960. Lang began playing volleyball as a teenager and 【小题5】 (eventual) joined the national team in 1978. Her height made 【小题6】 possible for her to play volleyball well. With time going by, Lang Ping played better and better. Lang Ping and her teammates played so well that they won champions several 【小题7】 (time) in the 1980s.

After she 【小题8】 (retire) in 1986, Lang Ping coached volleyball in Italy and America. In 1995, she returned to China to work as a coach. She was too busy with her work to take care of her family. In 2016 Chinese women volleyball team won 【小题9】 gold medal at the Olympics in Brazil. Because of the victory, Lang Ping became the first person in the volleyball 【小题10】 (win) an Olympic gold medal as both a player and a coach. And, Lang Ping and her team won another world championship in 2019 for our motherland.

During his life, Dr. James Naismith worked as a doctor, taught P. E. and wrote several books. 【小题1】 he never thought it very important, Dr. Naismith is today best known for one thing—he was one of the 【小题2】 (master) of basketball.

【小题3】 (bear) in Canada in 1861, he first worked at a special sports school in the USA.

One day the school principal told James he was having a problem with the students. Because of heavy snow, the students could not go outside. He told James that they needed a sport that the boys could play indoors and gave him two weeks to think of something.

It was 【小题4】 the very last day that James came up with his idea. The “birth of basketball” is said to be on December 21, 1891, 【小题5】 two teams from the school played the 【小题6】 (sweat) game. It was quite different from the basketball games of today. It had nine players on each team, and footballs 【小题7】 (design) for students instead of basketballs. Soon after, the game changed to five players on each side, 【小题8】 (challenge) each other on the court.

【小题9】 (extreme) to our sadness, Dr. Naismith did not live to see basketball become the worldwide game as it is today. However, in 1936, just three years before his death, basketball became 【小题10】 Olympic sport at the games in Berlin.

One afternoon 【小题1】Charlie Chaplin was sitting together with his friends talking, a fly flew into the room and kept 【小题2】 (fly) around the great actor’s head. Charlie Chaplin waved his hands 【小题3】(drive) it away, but the fly soon came back again.For once it even rested on 【小题4】(he) nose! The great actor got very 【小题5】(anger). He took up a fly swatter (苍蝇拍) and swung at it, 【小题6】the fly got away in time. Then the offender (冒犯者) stayed on the table before him. Chaplin 【小题7】(lift) the swatter for the death blow — he was sure this time he would kill it. But after he looked at it 【小题8】(careful), Chaplin put down the swatter.

“Why didn’t you kill it?” asked one of his friends.

Chaplin shrugged his 【小题9】(shoulder). “It wasn’t 【小题10】same fly,” he said.