Chris' worksheet Sports and Recreation

I. Vocabulary:

1. strengthen (v.) 加強
2. preparedness (n.) 準備；戰備
3. densely (ad.) 高密度地
4. populate (vt.) 居住於
5. seek after (vi.) 尋找
6. renovate (vt.) 更新
7. coliseum (n.) 體育館
8. township (n.) 小鎮
9. groundbreaking (n.) 動工儀式；破土
10. auspices (n.) 受…贊助
11. yacht (n.) 快艇
12. spot (n.) 參賽權
13. delegation (n.) 代表團
14. billiards (n.) 撞球
15. roller-skating (n.) 輪式溜冰
16. bocce (n.) 滾球
17. equestrian (n.) 馬術
18. Universiade (n.) (university+Olympaid) 世界大學運動會
19. Daegu (n.) 大邱(韓國)
20. recruiter (n.) 球探
21. foster (vt.) 促進
22. deaf (a.) 聾的
23. regatta (n.) 義式帆船
24. reinvigorating (vt.) 重甦
25. clinch (vt.) 贏取
26. martial (a.) 技擊
27. commitment (n.) 投入
28. headquarters (n.) 大本營；總部
29. distinctive (a.) 獨特的；有特色的
30. monetary (a.) 金錢上的
31. biennial (a.) 兩年一度的
32. aboriginal (n.) 原住民；原住民的
33. tug-of- war (n) 拔河
34. implement (vt.) 提供
35. territory (n.) 地區
36. fierce (a.) 激烈的
37. romp (vi.) 輕易的取勝
38. emphatic (a.) 引人注目的
39. triumph (vi.) 獲得勝利
40. debut (n.) 初次亮相
41. rekindle (v.) 重燃
42. adversity (n.) 厄運；逆境
43. acquisition (n.) 獲得
44. assess (vt.) 評估
45. competitiveness (n.) 競爭力
46. respectively (ad.) 分別地
47. terminology (n.) 術語
48. competing (a.) 僅能選其一的
49. further (vt.) 促進
50. intensify (vi.) 更激烈
51. survey (n.) 調查報告
52. issue (vi.) 發行
53. subsidy (n.) 補助；津貼
54. mandatory (n.) 代理者；受託者 ???
55. ecology (n.) 生態學
56. scenery (n.) 風景；景觀
57. possess (vt.) 擁有
58. asset (n.) 特產；資產
59. gym (n.) 體育館

II. Keywords:

1. NCPFS (National Council on Physical Fitness and Sports)
2. facility
3. The ROC Sports Federation
4. Chinese Taipei
5. spot
6. delegation
7. Special Olympics World Summer Games
8. Universiade
9. recruiter
10. Dragon Boat
11. Youth World Baseball Championship
12. Guoshu
13. headquarters
14. Zuoying National Athletes’ Training Center
15. Guoguang award
16. Indigenous
17. biennial
18. disabled
19. rekindled
20. WPA (World Pool-Billiard Association)
21. cross-strait
22. exchanges
23. domestic tourism
24. Council of Agriculture

III. Summary:

The NCPFS is the highest sports organization, its main responsibility is to promote “sports for all people” and improve the environment of competitive sports.

From 1998 to 2001, the NCPFS provided more than NT$2 billion to renew and build sports facilities for the high density populated Taiwan Island. Including coliseums, stadiums, swimming pools, sports parks…etc. November 2001, there was a groundbreaking of the Taipei Sports Dome. It will be an 15,000-seat stadium for multifunctional.

The ROC has return to competed in international competitions since 1984 Olympics in Los Angles with the name of “Chinese Taipei”. The ROC delegation is famous in international games on softball, archery, billiards, tae kwon do, and tennis.

From June, 2003, we competed in many worldwide sports competitions such as the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Dublin, Ireland and Summer Universiade in Daegu, South Korea. Through those games, our baseball players have begun to catch some attention of those recruiters. Chang Chih-jia, Hsu Ming-chieh, Chen Chin-feng, Wang Chien-ming and Tsao Chin-hui, they began to play in pro-baseball teams in Japan and US.

Taiwan’s dragon boat racing is famous on the world. The Guoshu (Chinese Martial Arts) is also Taiwan’s famous traditional competitions. And in recent years, Taiwan is held some of major world sporting events in order to foster exchanges and provide high quality competition for local fans. Just like the 11th Youth World Baseball Championship in Kaohsiung. We clinched the 2nd place behind the US.

For training our amateur athletes, the NCPFS build the Zuoying National Athletes’ Training Center. And to encourage athletes, the government also gives special medals and monetary award to those excellent athletes through the Guoguang award.

The indigenous athletes are the important part of Taiwan athletes. There is the biennial Aboriginal Sports Meet for the indigenous athletes. The NCPFS and the Ministry of Education are also paying much attention on the sports for the disabled.

Even Taiwan’s limited space, the pro golf is also popular on the island. Another more popular pro sport in Taiwan is professional baseball. There are now six teams managed by the CPBL. But that have the most competitiveness pro sports in Taiwan is the billiards. The famous Taiwanese’ players like Liu Shin-mei and Chen Ying-jie both won the gold medals in WPA World 9-Ball Championships, 2002, in Kaohsiung.

The government also tries hard on cross-strait sports exchanges, such as make the sports terminology standards and athletes exchanges. Between 1992 and 2002, there are 5,155 mainland athletes entered Taiwan.

Some surveies pointed the Taiwanese worked too much and also worried about their job. For those reasons, government made some policy to encourage all citizens to do some domestic tourism. The national tourism card was be issued to public servants. The Council of Agriculture also has some plans, to promote the local tourism, which uniting the ecology, scenery, life, agricultural development, and community culture. On the other hand, indoor recreation is very plentiful in Taiwan. Taiwanese youths have diversity choice to relieve themselves, such as going to gym, Internet cafes, KTV, and playing video games.