올림포스 영어독해기본(2) 7강 변형

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

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

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

In Cuju, players aimed to kick the ball through a central ____ 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 ____ two teams of equal size.

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

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

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

He ____ elected 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. Gysis ____ Loefftz as well as in London.

He painted landscapes in the vicinity of New York until about ____

He ____ went West and sketched desert 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 Mexico before World War ____ choosing “bare mesas and towering cloud formations” rather than mountains.

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

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

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

The plant grows rapidly, and its flowers are 4–6 inch in diameter, ____ 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 noon to a deep ____ red colour all in one day.

Temperature is thought as an important factor affecting the rate of colour ____ as white flowers kept in the refrigerator remain white 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 his parents died, Bunche’s grandmother moved the ____ to Los Angeles, California.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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