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    Just as the famous US boxer Gene Tunney said, '*Exercise should be ____ as a gift to the heart." It is important to exercise.

    Sports month is a ____ activity in our school. But students in my class are not very good at sports. So in the basketball game, we lost 32 - O. The defeat shocked us like lightning. Our opponents (对手) ____ us easily, and we seemed '1ike some weak and tiny ants in front of a lion. But we ____ each other up and were excited that we still had the volleyball game ahead of us.

    ____ we lost the basketball game, our volleyball competitors thought they would win ____.But we beat them! A1l of us were confident again.

    Then, we won the game in the____ round, too. It was amazing! We proved that even a class of non-athletes could keep fighting. I thought that sportsmanship was the key to ____ success. I truly believe that sportsmanship comes first and the result of the game comes next.

    Although we lost the game in the third round, we still had a chance to win third place. Just like ____ the US Congressman John Bingham said, "The miracle (奇迹 ) isn't that I finished.

    The miracle is that I had the ____ to start." I want to thank all the people who cheered for us. And I believe that my class will get what we want at the end of this competition.