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.
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- Ding Junhui, ______ most famous snooker player, is ______ quiet young man. A: ; a B: the; C: a; a D: a; the
- The women's volleyball team, now missing its backbone players, age-wise, was rising once again under the leadership of Lang Ping, winning the championships both in ( ) and in ( ). A: the world cup B: the world championship C: the Olympic games D: the National games
- So far, China has basically built the world’s largest network of high-speed rail with a “eight vertical and eight horizontal” structure.
- Since the beginning of the 21st century, more than ____ of the increase of the world's greenspace comes from China. A: 1/2 B: 1/3 C: 1/4 D: 1/5
- Every year, about six million people die from smoking-related diseases in the world, ______ one million in China, according to the WHO.