올림포스 영어독해기본(2) 7강 변형

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

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

However, Cuju’s influence ____ modern football was not direct.

In ____ players aimed to kick the 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 ____ leather, and matches took place on fields with two teams of equal size.

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

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

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

He was ____ to the National Academy of Design in 1910.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The species name mutabilis means ‘change’ in Latin, referring to the changing color of the flowers from white in the morning through light pink during ____ 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 ____ kept in the refrigerator remain white until they are taken out to warm, whereupon they slowly turn pink.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Much ____ his and 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 ____ win this honor.