Unit 3 Section 5 Developing ideas&Presenting ideas-【赢在微点】轻松课堂2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第一册（外研版2019）

Section 5　Developing ideas&Presenting ideas 原|文|诵|读 The Return of the Champions 1．“The atmosphere here at Rio de Janeiro is ①！ If China wins this point, they will walk out of the stadium with an Olympic gold medal. Zhang Changning ②. Over the ③， Popovic dives for the ball. She only just ④ it...and it's sent straight back to her by the Chinese ⑤ Hui Ruoqi. Popovic can't get the ball back this time...and that's it! It's over! It's gold for China! Look how the crowd has ⑥. You can see the joy and pride on the faces of the Chinese fans. And there we see the Chinese players embracing, with tears of happiness in their eyes...It's a dream ⑦ for China! The Chinese women's volleyball team is Olympic champion ⑧！” 2．The Chinese women's volleyball team holds a very special place in the nation's heart. In the 1980s, the team ⑨ the international volleyball scene with several major world ⑩， and an amazing ⑪ over the United States in the ⑫ of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. They became national heroes ⑬. There was gold once more at Athens in 2004. But winning gold in Rio⑭ paints the most vivid portrait of the team's competitive spirit. 3．In Rio, the Chinese women's volleyball team needed all of its fighting spirit after it was ⑮ to the “group of death”， where it faced several strong ⑯ in the group stage matches.⑰ Despite reaching the quarter­finals as the fourth team in the group, with just two wins in ⑱ matches, they were not going to give up. Every single member of the team gave their all to the fight, including Hui Ruoqi who had had heart ⑲ less than five months previously. 4．Their perseverance ⑳ with an epic against the defending champion Brazil in the quarter­finals. Next, the Chinese team defeated the Netherlands in the semi­final matches, having lost to them in the preliminaries. At last, showing a strong will and the ， they played a close match against Serbia to gold in the final. 5．But fighting spirit alone was not enough to victory. Strong team spirit also their su