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Part 1 SnookerListen to the passage and fill in the blanks. Snooker is a big sport in China. Sources suggest there are 300 million snooker players there, which is more than the rest of the world ______1_____. So it's no surprise that some of the world's best players come from China. They have been ____2_____ their talent at the World Snooker Championship, which ______3_______ every year here in the UK at the Crucible Theatre in the northern English city of Sheffield. The World Snooker Championship is the most important event in professional snooker ____4____prize money, prestige and world ranking points. This year four of the contenders for World Snooker Champion were Chinese – Marco Fu, Liu Chuang, Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo. Liu Chuang and Liang Wenbo are ______5____in Sheffield this year, in fact. However, only one of those players, Liang Wenbo, has _____6_____ to the final eight.Wenbo is currently officially ranked 53 in the world. His best ______7______ was when he reached the last 32 in the 2006 Welsh Open, so to _______8________ to the final eight in the World Championship is quite an achievement. He may go even further. The left-handed snooker pro comes from Heilongjiang and it is hoped he will follow the success of fellow countryman Ding Junhui. Wenbo is the first Chinese player to ever reach ________9______ of the Championship and he just ______10_____ after an extremely tough second round game against Northern Ireland's Joe Swail. After a ________11__________ battle, Wenbo finally won 13-12 and he now faces twice World Champion Ronnie O'Sullivan. This promises to be another difficult game for the Chinese _______12______ as O'Sullivan reached the last eight with an _______13__________ of 147.O'Sullivan would have picked up 157,000 pounds (more than 2 million RMB) prize money but another player, England's Ali Carter, has now matched his achievement________14_________. O'Sullivan will have to share the money with Carter, and indeed with anyone else who gets a maximum break before _____15_____ the championship.