올림포스 영어독해기본(2) 7강 변형

Cuju, an ancient Chinese ball game, holds a significant ____ in sporting history.

It was recognized by ____ as one of the earliest foot-based sports.

____ Cuju’s influence on modern football was not direct.

In Cuju, players aimed to kick ____ ball through a central hoop without letting it touch the ground, all while following the rule of not using their hands.

Traditionally, the ball was crafted from leather, and matches took place on fields with two teams of equal ____

Players wore light and flexible ____ to move easily during the game.

Beyond its sporting aspect, Cuju holds cultural significance in China, often included in celebratory occasions ____ events, highlighting its deep-rooted history in the country’s heritage.

Born in New York City, Albert Lorey Groll was an ____ and also a landscape painter specializing in Western scenes.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design in ____

He became a landscape painter, it is said, because he ____ then too poor to pay for models. In 1899, he studied at the Royal Academy in Munich under N. Gysis and Loefftz as well as in London.

He painted ____ in the vicinity of New York until about 1904.

He then went West and sketched desert ____ mountain scenes in Arizona and New Mexico.

The resulting ____ “Arizona” won a gold medal at the Penn Academy of Fine Art (PAFA) in 1906.

Groll was the rare painter in northern New Mexico before World War I, choosing “bare mesas and towering cloud ____ rather than mountains.

One of his paintings can be seen at the Octavia Fellin Public Library in Gallup. ____ died in New York City in 1952.

Hibiscus mutabilis, also known as the cotton rose, is a ____ cultivated for its showy flowers.

Originally native to southern China, it is now found ____ all continents except Antarctica.

The plant grows rapidly, and its flowers are 4–6 inch in diameter, blooming late summer right through ____

The species name mutabilis means ‘change’ in Latin, referring to ____ changing color of the flowers from white in the morning through light pink during noon to a deep rosy red colour all in one day.

Temperature is thought as an important factor affecting the rate of colour change as white flowers kept in the refrigerator remain ____ until they are taken out to warm, whereupon they slowly turn pink.

This ____ is best grown in well-drained soils and is quite drought tolerant.

Ralph J. Bunche was born on August 7, 1904, into ____ poor household.

After ____ parents died, Bunche’s grandmother moved the family to Los Angeles, California.

The only African American in his class, he earned the highest grades and graduated from his high school with honors, and was easily admitted to ____

Although he graduated with ____ a lack of money stood in the way of his dreams of attending Harvard Law School.

Fortunately, a women’s club in the ____ raised the money to help him pay for tuition.

During World War II, Bunche was asked to ____ for the State Department, and he helped to found the United Nations.

His first important negotiating job came during the 1948 war between the Arabs and ____

Much to his ____ the world’s relief, a peace treaty was finally signed. In 1950, he was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Ralph Bunche was the first African American to ____ this honor.