《2025年自我提升与评价九年级英语上册译林版》

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Fresh from winning a silver medal at the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, China's head coach Zheng Wei remained clear-minded about the latest achievement and wished her team to ⑴continue to grow.
At the 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup, China reached their first semi-finals(半决赛) in major competitions in almost three decades before ⑵losing to the United States in the final to get a silver medal for the second time in history.
"This result is better than expected, as our initial(最初的) goal was to do better than the last time(a sixth-placed finish)," Zheng said in an ⑶interview with Xinhua on Sunday, adding that her players dared to fight in their own style, which is ⑷truly remarkable(了不起的).
Sydney is a familiar place to Zheng. In 1994, ⑸as a basketball player, she and her teammates finished runners-up at the formerly known FIBA World Championship for Women. Zheng said that Sydney is a "blessed land" for the Chinese women's basketball team.
The 59-year-old was appointed head coach in May after working as an assistant coach(助理教练) within the team for more than a decade. She believed that the new role ⑹meant a different working style. "While I was an assistant coach, I took care of the players. But now I have to be ⑺strict with them so that they could give full play to their potential(潜能)," she said.
Zheng is still aware of the gap between China and those strong sides, ⑻especially the United States, who have won the World Cup four times in a row. However, Zheng stressed that the team is quite ⑼young with an average age of below 26.
"That means they still have room to ⑽improve," she said. "They don't have much experience in major international events. Given enough time, they will go further."

答案： ⑴ continue
⑵ losing
⑶ interview
⑷ truly
⑸ as
⑹ meant
⑺ strict
⑻ especially
⑼ young
⑽ improve