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【题目】阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文的连贯性，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词的正确形式填空。（每空不多于3个词） All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help people (keep) healthy, happy and to live longer. People play different games in winter and summer. Summer is good for swimming. And in winter people often go skating. Some sports are very and people everywhere like them. For example, football is very popular. In China, most people, men andwomen, boys and girls, like to watch football games. They often talk about them. (run) and jumping began long, long ago. But basketball and volleyball are rather new. People began to play them not long ago. And people are playing new sports or games all the time. Water skiing is one of (new) sports. People from different (country) may not be able to understand each other, but after a game they often become friends.

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【答案】(to) keep；popular；Running；the newest；countries
【解析】（1）句意：运动帮助人们保持健康、开心和长寿。help sb. do sth.帮助某人做某事，keep healthy:保持健康，所以答案是keep。
（2）句意：一些运动非常受欢迎，每一个地方的人们都喜欢它们。根据后句For example, football is very popular. 例如，足球非常受欢迎。可知这句是一些运动非常受欢迎。所以答案是popular。
（3）句意：跑和跳在很久很久之前就开始了。做主语要用动名词，and连接两个并列关系，根据jumping可知此处也是动名词，句首首字母大写，所以答案是Running。
（4）句意：滑水是最新的运动之一。根据句意可知此处要用形容词最高级，one of经常和形容词最高级连用，所以答案是the newest。
（5）句意：来自不同国家的人们可能不能互相理解，但是一场比赛之后他们经常成为朋友。different修饰可数名词要用名词的复数，所以答案是countries。