2、 (湖北省监利中学高一第一次月考) All over the world people
enjoy sports, Sports help to keep people healthy and happy, and to live longer.
Many people like to
watch others play games. They buy tickets or turn on their TVs to watch the
games. Often they get very excited when "their" player or team wins.
Some sports are so
interesting that people everywhere go in for(参加) them. Football, for example, has
spread(展开)around the world. Swimming is popular in all
countries near the sea or in those with many rivers. What fun it is to jump
into a pool or lake, whether in China,
Egypt or Italy! And think of people in cold
countries. Think how many love to skate or ski (滑雪) in
Japan, Norway or Canada.
Some sports or
games go back thousands of years, like running or jumping. Chinese wushu, for
example, has a very long history. But basketball and volleyball are rather new.
Neither one is a hundred years old yet. People are inventing new sports or
games all the time. Water-skiing is one of the newest in the family of sports.
People from
different countries may not be able to understand each other, but after a game
together they often become good friends. Sports help to train(培养,训练) a person’s character(性格,品格). One learns to fight hard but fight fair, to win without pride and
to lose with grace(胜不骄,败不馁).