Chinese chairman Xi Jinping greeted the Chinese women’s volleyball team on Monday. The Chinese women’s volleyball team 【小题1】 (easy) beat host nation Japan 3-0. They 【小题2】 (success) guarded (保卫､守护) its World Cup with a perfect record of 11wins. Xi first congratulated the volleyball players and coaches, saying that they 【小题3】 (win) a great prize for the country and the Chinese people. Xi stressed that the women’s volleyballers didn’t fear any sportsmen and 【小题4】 (fight) hard with both style and skills. The Chinese women’s volleyball team have showed the spirit of putting the motherland 【小题5】 (one). It marks a new era, and shows 【小题6】 (strong) will of the great China.

【小题7】 it comes to Lang Ping, everybody knows her well in China, especially for our parents’ generation. She was such a tough woman player and famous 【小题8】 the image of never giving up. In 1981, the Chinese volleyballers got 【小题9】 (they) major title (冠军) at the 3rd World Cup, which marks the beginning. Xi called on all sportspeople to look forward to 【小题10】 (achieve) the goal of China becoming a world sports power.

Basketball is a much—loved and active sport that is enjoyed by many for fun and exercise. The first basketball game 【小题1】（play） on December 21, 1891. Then in 1936 in Berlin, it became 【小题2】 event at the Olympics.

Basketball was invented by a Canadian doctor 【小题3】（name） James Naismith. When he was a college teacher, he created a game to be played inside on a hard floor. He divided the men in his class 【小题4】 two teams and taught them to play his new game. Players on the same team must work together 【小题5】（get） the ball in the other team’s basket. At the same time,   they need to stop the competing team from getting the ball into 【小题6】（they）own basket.

Today, with many young people dreaming of 【小题7】（become） famous players, the popularity of basketball has risen around the world. 【小题8】 America’s NBA games are the most famous in the world, the CBA games are becoming more popular in China. There are more and more foreign players in the CBA. Many young people look up to these basketball 【小题9】（hero） and want to become like them. These stars encourage young people to work 【小题10】（hard） to achieve their dreams.

Village Super League inspires passion for life.

It was a soccer match without fancy things like famous stars, or 【小题1】 (职业) players. But still, at least 50,000 people w【小题2】 it in person, and millions more online. At the Village Super League finals in Rongjiang county, Guizhou province, on Saturday night, most people didn’t really c【小题3】 about who won. What got everyone excited was the love for the game shown by the amateur (业余) players and the happy, friendly atmosphere on the field.

All the players in the Village Super League have different jobs. Some are students, others sell things, build things, drive cars, or run businesses. Even the referees are teachers, government workers, or villagers. B【小题4】 they can share a love for soccer. W【小题5】 makes the Village Super League so special? The love for soccer. And it gives people a love for life too.

This love for soccer is helped by a popular soccer culture and good facilities. Rongjiang County, which has 【小题6】 (少于) than 400,000 people living there all the time, has 14 soccer fields that meet the rules and nearly 40 teams of amateur players with more than 1,200 people. This great 【小题7】 (赛事) has made the local economy grow. 【小题8】 (自从) the matches started in May, the county has had more than 25 million v【小题9】 . Tourism has made over 2.8 billion yuan, which is at least 【小题10】 (两倍) as much as it was during the same time last year, according to local officials.