Sneakers are a kind of shoes worn by many people all over the world.____   , no one really knows where the word “sneaker” came from. Some say it came from the old English verb “sneak”, which means to move silently and quickly. The only thing we are____   is that when you put on a pair of sneakers, you feel light-hearted, light-footed and ready to play.

Sneakers of some kind are used by those who play tennis, basketball, and other sports. New design has been made____   for people who run slowly. In fact American children of____   ages would much rather play in sneakers than anything else.

New York City once held a poetry competition for children. The subject was only “sneaker”. One prize winner called____   poem “The Sneaker and the World Peace”. “When everyone is wearing sneakers,” she said, “it will be impossible to____   ”

American school children can be seen every day____   sneakers of all colors. They put them on in the morning and take them off at bedtime. Sneakers are____   washed. Some children think the older and dirtier they are, the____   loveable they are. When their sneakers wear out, children hate to throw them off. How do you explain the closeness between____   and sneakers? Perhaps another young winner in the New York Poetry Contest said it best. “A shoe is just a shoe,” he said. “But a sneaker is a friend.”