Unit3 SportsLead-in Activities1.sword playing; chuiwan; wresting; cuju.2.3.Omitted.Text AText Comprehension1.Answer the following questions after you have read the whole text.(1)Because Chinese Martial Arts has a long history, widespread influence and prominent cultural, sports, historic significance.(2)In the later primitive societies the skills of kicking, boxing and blocking began to appear at ceremonial rituals where they were combined with dance to represent their heroes, thus forming the earliest series of Kung Fu moves and performances.(3)Kung Fu styles are often classified according to their common traits and geographical location, identified as “families” “sects” or “schools” of martial arts.They can also be categorized according to religion, imitative-styles and family styles, etc.(4)The former emphasizes muscular strength while the latter the “internal power”, which includes the manipulation of the inner breath and internal circulation.(5)Aside from its function in offence & defence, Kung Fu has a considerable role to play in moral cultivation, body building, and aesthetic appreciation.(6)The Chinese character “武”(martial art) comprises of two characters: “止” (stop) and “戈” (an ancient weapon), which indicates that the essence of martial art is not to fight, but to maintain peace.(7)Chinese Kung Fu was first introduced abroad to the United States by Chinese-American Kung Fu master Bruce Lee, whose agile movements in a series of his great movies swept American audiences off their feet.(8)No. To further delight audiences, movie makers add more and more modern techniques into their films exaggerating the effect of Kung Fu.Vocabulary Exercises1.Choose appropriate words to fill in the gaps below. Change the form if necessary.(1)enchant (2) Primitive (3) render (4) prominent (5) imitative (6) exaggerated (7) deficient (8) circulation (9) survival (10) embraces2.Translate the following sentences into English with the words given below. Note that you are encouraged to use the sentences in Text A.(1)Chinese Kung Fu is effective both in battle and in building physical strength. In addition, it unites with the traditional medicine concepts of human’s meridians and collaterals, Qi and blood.(2)During thousands of years (of development)，Kung Fu has developed into a comprehensive system embracing numerous sects, schools and disciplines rare seen in the world.(3)All schools of Chinese Kung Fu masters hold it a top priority to cultivate moral characters, spirit and temperament, as well as develop good manners and conduct, through practicing martial arts.(4)Different with the aggressive and brutal western boxing based on the value of individualism, Chinese martial art is imbued with Chinese people’s unique perspective on fighting, profound culture and philosophy including Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism, thus forming a comprehensive and unique system.(5)Coming up to date, Chinese Kung Fu has become something of a necessity in movies and soap operas.Text BText Comprehensionplete the following paragraph according to the above text.The United Kingdom is notable for the diversity of its sporting interest. Sports play an important role in promoting integration and in nurturing talents in the country. The country has given birth to several major international sports such as football, rugby, cricket, golf, tennis, and track and field among others. Sport is a major source of entertainment in the UK with thousands of spectators filling stadiums and arenas to cheer on their favorite teams. Sports are also major sources of revenue in the UK for players, government, and investors.Cricket was first embedded in the UK before spreading to the rest of the Commonwealth C. The comparative slowness and quietness reflects British gentlemanly sportsmanship. Also, cricket is often believed to be associated with a set of English sportsmanship values such as “fair play”, “team spirit”and individual excellence. If any action in other spheres of life, whether in business, politics or everyday interaction does not meet these standards, particularly of honesty and fairness, it is described as “not cricket”.2.Read the text and Mark T for true statements, and F for false statements below.1.F2. T3. F4. T5. F6. T7. T8. T9.T 10. FTheme-related Exercises1.Read the following passage and fill in the gaps with words given in the box.Cricket fighting (斗蟋蟀)is a kind of sport involving the fighting of male crickets in China. Unlike most blood sports such as bullfighting and cockfighting, cricket fighting rarely causes injuries to the animals. To play the game, two crickets are matched up according to size, weight, and color. Both combatants are placed in a small fighting arena, with walls high and thick enough to prevent desertion. The cricket trainers stimulate their charges with a straw or a fine-haired brush, and then the insect warriors go at each other, antennae waving and jaws snapping.Cricket Culture in China encompasses a history of 2000 years. The two millennium of tradition may be divided into three eras. From times prior to the Tang dynasty (500 B.C. - 618 A.D.), people only appreciated the cricket’s powerful tunes. During the Tang dynasty (618 - 907A.D.), the imperial concubines used small gold cages to accommodate crickets and took them to bed to hear their singing during the night. In the Song dynasty (960 - 1279 A.D.), cricket fighting flourished as a popular sport. Such an activity was still flourishing during the Qing Dynasty (1616-1911), when the Emperor’s family, city residents or village men and scholars, all collected crickets feverishly every summer. The tradition has ancient roots and has been handed down throughout the generations to the present day.For centuries, China has regarded a cricket chirping around the house as an auspicious symbol, a deluge of cricket means wealth will come to the family. Now, cricket fighting is mainly found in the large cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong. There are cricket fighting clubs and societies that cater to member’s interest at all levels of intensity. With the migration of Chinese to otherparts of the world, cricket fighting can be found in New York and Philadelphia.2.Translate the following paragraph into English with the words in the brackets.Traditional sports with distinct Chinese characteristics are very popular, including martial arts, taijiquan, qigong, Chinese chess and Go (or encirclement chess). Martial arts, combining exercise and self-defense, enjoy great popularity in China. Martial arts include bare-handed boxing as well as offence and defense with equipment, both of which has different schools. Taijiquan, or Chinese shadow boxing, is one of the internal styles of Chinese martial arts. It combines control of body, mind and breath. Qigong, a system of deep breathing exercises, is a unique Chinese way of keeping fit. It aims at enhancing health, promoting longevity, curing illnesses and improving physiological functions by concentrating the mind and regulating the breath.。