Unit 3 Faster, higher, stronger Understanding Ideas The Road To Success 两篇课文的课文填空-2024-2025学年高中英语外研版选择性必修第一册

Unit 3 the Road to Success成功之路 Near the small town of Grottoes, Virginia, a narrow dirt road _____(go) from the house of Stephen Curry’s grandfather ________ the woods nearby. A far cry from the bright lights and ________(shine) courts of the National Basketball Association (NBA), it was along this road _____ Stephen’s grandfather built a simple basket ____ attaching a piece of plastic _____ a telephone pole. Like his father, basketball star Dell Curry, Stephen spent many childhood hours________(play) on this ________(mud) basketball court. He probably didn’t realise it ______ the time, but it was _______ he learnt to be creative and flexible as a player. You see, with every shot, the weak plastic backboard gave way. The bumps and rocks that lined the road under the basket ___________(cause) the ball to bounce______ all directions. ________(know) where the ball would go wasn’t easy. He had to adjust his own playing style as ______result. _______(shoot) with great _______(accurate) was another thing he learnt. Only shots perfectly _____(aim) at its centre went into the heavy, thick basket. In this way, _____________(practise) day in and day out helped Stephen ______(sharp) his skills. ________ his father’s successful career, Stephen __________(think)by many people, ________(include) his high school teammates and coaches, _______(be)too short, too thin and too weak____________( follow) in his father’s footsteps. But Stephen carried on. __________(play) basketball was his dream. He would not give ______. He finally ended up __________(play) college ball at a small, little-known school, Davidson College, not too far from _________ he lived. His ____________(creative) and ___________(persevere) made him Davidson’s star player. __________(select) for the NBA in 2009, Stephen joined the Golden State Warriors. He performed beyond everyone’s ______________(expect) with his accurate shooting and _____________(continue) efforts. In 2015, Stephen __________(win) his first NBA championship, and he _______(lead) the Warriors _______ their first championship since 1975. After _________(receive) the Most Valuable Player award for two years in ____ row, Stephen explained his philosophy, “I never really set out______________(change) the game... _______ I wanted to do was just be myself... I know it inspires a lot of the next generation, a lot of people who love the game of basketball ____________(value) the skill of it, value the fact ________ you can work every single day to get better. You’ve got to be able to put _____ the time and the work. That’s ________ I got here. That’s _______ I continue to get better every single day.” _________(inspire) others to believe ______ themselves, Stephen Curry is living ________(prove) ______ what other people think of you does not have to influence what you become. _________ self-belief, hard work, perseverance and some help from an old hoop, he has shown that anything is possible. Keys: goes; to; shiny;that;by; to playing;muddy; at; where; caused;in; Knowing; a; Shooting; accuracy; aimed; practising; Despite; was thought; including; to be; to follow; Playing;up; playing; where; creativity; perseverance Selected; expectations; continuous;won; ;led;to Receiving; a; to change; to change;What; to value; that;in; how; how; Inspiring; in; proof; that; Through; 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ Unit3 The Return of the Champions “The atmosphere here at Rio de Janeiro is electric! If China wins this point, they ______________(walk) out of the stadium __________ an Olympic gold medal. Zhang Changning serves. Over the net, Popovic dives _____ the ball. She only just reaches it... and it’s sent straight back to her by the Chinese spiker 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 ________(go) wild. You can see the joy and pride on the _________(face) of the Chinese fans. And there we see the Chinese players ____________(embrace), with tears of ________(happy) in their eyes... It’s a dream come true for China! The Chinese women’s volleyball team is Olympic champion once again!” The Chinese women’s volleyball team holds a very special place in the nation’s heart. In _______1980s, the team burst _______ the international volleyball scene with several major world _______(title), and ________ amazing three-set victory __________ the United States in the final of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. They became national __________(hero) overnight. There was gold once more at Athens in 2004. But _________(win) gold in Rio paints the most vivid portrait of the team’s _____________(compete) spirit. In Rio, the Chinese women’s volleyball team needed all of its fighting spirit after it _____________(assign) to the “group of death”, ___________ it faced several strong ____________(opponent) in the group stage __________(match). Despite __________(reach) the quarter-finals as the fourth team in the group,______ just two wins in preliminary matches, they were not going to give up. Every single member of the team gave their all ________ the fight, ___________(include) Hui Ruoqi who ______________(have) had had heart surgery less than five months previously. Their perseverance paid ________ with an epic comeback _________ the defending champion Brazil in the quarter-finals. Next, the Chinese team defeated the Netherlands in the semi-final matches, ____________( lose) to them in the preliminaries. At last,__________(show) a strong will and the ___________(steely) nerves, they played a close match against Serbia_____________(seize) gold in the final. But fighting spirit alone was not enough_______________( guarantee)victory. Strong team spirit also contributed greatly ________ their success. _____________(cooperate) between team members is essential. If each individual does her job and works well with others, then the end goal can__________(achieve). _______ fact, strong team spirit is _________________( important) than the skills of individual players. Zhu Ting, __________(name) Most Valuable Player at the Rio Olympics, also identified this _________the special ingredient in the team’s success: “Teamwork is the key_______ China’s victory. Thanks ______ my teammates’ hard efforts, I had the opportunity __________(show) my spiking skill.” Together, the Chinese women’s volleyball team has fought their way _______ ups and downs. _______(lead) by well-known Chinese volleyball player and coach Lang Ping, they have continued to aim high. Lang is only too aware_________ as soon as a team steps off the victory podium, they need to start _____ zero to prepare_______ new challenges ahead. In this way, the team begins its journey _____ the next Olympics. keys: will walk; with; for; has gone; faces; embracing; happiness the; onto; titles; an; over; heroes; winning; competitive was assigned; where; opponents; matches; reaching; with; to; including; had had off; against; having lost; showing; to seize to guarantee; to; Cooperation; be achieved; In; more important; named;as ;to; to; to show through; Led; that; from; for; to 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $