用英语介绍一个或两个明星(80个单词)
用英语介绍一个或两个明星(80个单词)
yao ming
If you were seven-foot-six-inch tall,that is two-point-two-six meters — what would you do for a living?If you can play basketball,and you are from China,and your name is Yao Ming,you might become the newest sports star in the National Basketball Association.
Yao Ming is still working on his English skills.He usually has to speak to reporters and fans with the help of a translator.But he needs no help on the basketball court.
In 2002,the Houston Rockets professional basketball team chose Yao Ming as the number one new player.The owner of the Rockets team said choosing Yao would be the biggest sports story of all time.The twenty-two-year-old Chinese man has become very popular with American basketball fans.He has become well known for his hard work and his efforts to improve.
It has not been easy.Yao Ming is learning to play professional basketball,speak a new language and live in a new country.Yao Ming says he has just really started to learn.
Yao Ming did not come to the United States by himself.His mother came with him.She cooks the foods he likes best — pork chops and chicken soup.Yao says this helps,but he still misses his home in China.
Sports reporters and basketball fans ask him a lot of questions.He is quick to answer some of them.He likes American coffee very much.But he does not like huge amounts of vehicle traffic in the city where he lives,Houston,Texas.
Sports experts say Yao Ming will likely be chosen the best new basketball player of the year.