Moments of joy for Chinese superstars

July 27 to August 12, 2012 was a great time for London. It held the 30th Summer Olympic Games. There were 10,500 athletes (运动员) in the Games. They ________ 26 sports. Many young Chinese athletes gave us a wonderful________, They helped China get 88 medals(奖牌)in all. Let's have a look at some great moments!

Lin Dan, 28, badminton

Lin Dan won the gold medal in the men's badminton. At the beginning of the games, Lin fell behind but he never________. When he finally won the match, Lin shouted and ran happily across the gym(体育馆).

Sun yang, 20, swimming

Sun yang is the winner of this year's men's 1, 500m freestyle. He was born into a sporting family. His parents were once volleyball players. He is ________. He swims 20, 000 meters every day.

Chen Ding, 20, racewalking(竞走)

Few pcople knew Chen Ding before the London Olympics. He won the gold medal in the men's 20km racewalking. Chen once gave up racewalking ________ health problems. But he went back to the field. He is clear about his future. “If I want to win more, I need to keep going,” he said.

Ye Shiwen. 16, swimming

Ye Shiwen surprised the swimming field by two gold medals this year. Throughout the year the Chinese swimming Team has ________ many athletes abroad for periods of training, Ye is one of them. She knows that she has much to be learned. And her training really worked.

Xu Lijia, 25, sailing

Xu Lijia won the gold medal in sailing. It is not easy for her to win. She has hearing difficulties. Her left eye is far-sighted. ________, she has a strong mind and train hard.

1.A.took part in B.joined C.entered D.took

2.A.day B.show C.sport D.item

3.A.took away B.run away C.gave up D.turned up

4.A.hardworking B.different C.exciting D.talented

5.A.such as B.according to C.because of D.instead of

6.A.brought B.left C.invited D.sent

7.A.Besides B.Especially C.Finally D.However

Answer the questions(根据短文内容回答下列问题)

Most of us have never thought about building an educational toy by ourselves. If we need a learning toy or something, we simply go to the nearest store and buy it. However, things are not as easy in third world countries. With families even having no food to put on the table, buying toys, especially the educational ones, is the last thing on the parents’ minds.

So how can one get these kids interested in science? This was a question that worried the Indian engineer. Arvind Gupta so much that he decided to give up a good job and spend his life making toys from trash, things that people no longer want or need! Mr Gupta began teaching in the 1970s. While still an engineering student at the Indian College of Technology, he volunteered to teach the children who could not afford to go to school. Upon graduation, he found a good job at India’s Tata Motors and spent the next five years designing cars.

But he soon realized that this was not something he wanted to do for the rest of his life. So he took a year’s training course and took part in the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program whose aim was to make science fun and exciting for poor children using available materials.

Mr Gupta found the whole project so satisfying that he decided to leave his high paying job and focus his attention on designing educational toys that were not only cheap and easy to build, but also full of scientific principles(原理), so that children could get interested in this interesting subject.

When the Internet started becoming a more widespread learning tool, Mr Gupta created a toys from Trash website and also recorded over 250 YouTube videos.

Today, over 50,000 children and teachers visit the website daily to download the videos for the toy creations based on cool science. Some young children have become so inspired(鼓舞) that they have even won international science competitions with the help of his creations.

1.What are these educational toys made from?

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2.Did Arvind Gupta start building educational toys as soon as he graduated from the college?

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3.Who did Mr Gupta build these educational toys for?

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4.How are the educational toys designed by Mr. Gupta?

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5.What did Mr Gupta do to introduce his educational toys?

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6.How can these educational toys help the children in third world countries?

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