If you travel around China you {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (notice) a very popular activity everywhere you {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (go)--basketball. This much-loved sport {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (enjoy)by many, for fun and exercise.

    It {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (believe) that on December 21st, 1891, the first basketball game in history {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (play). Then in 1936 in Berlin, it became an Olympic event. A team from China took part and although they {#blank#}6{#/blank#} win they used the experience to help develop the game at home. Since then the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (popular) of basketball has risen worldwide, and {#blank#}8{#/blank#} number of foreign players in America's NBA {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (increase). Basketball has become a more and more popular sport for people to watch, and many young people dream of {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (become) famous basketball players.

    There was a small village by the sea in America. Every summer lots of people came here {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(spend) their holidays. But a few of them came here only to end their lives. Two months ago right here a young woman jumped into the sea in the darkness of the night. From then on, the people in the village began to pay more attention {#blank#}2{#/blank#}each of the visitors. If someone looked {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(happy) or worried, they would watch him all day long with care. They would never let the same thing happen again.

    A week {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(late) came several visitors. Among them there was a young woman. One day she looked different {#blank#}5{#/blank#}others. She went out alone at night. A villager found her. The villager made no noise and followed her. When the young woman {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(walk) to the beach, the villager rushed at(冲向) her and tried hard {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(pull) her back. "Let me go. Don't pull me!" cried the young woman, "I was playing on the beach this afternoon. Now I can't find the key to my suitcase. I think it must be left here." "But {#blank#}8{#/blank#}don't you look for it tomorrow morning?" said the villager. "Tomorrow morning I'll leave here and catch the early bus to New York. I must leave {#blank#}9{#/blank#}the day breaks(破晓) ." When the villager heard that, he had a good laugh and {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(help) her look for the key in the moonlight.