Lesson 3 Sprots Stars
VENUS AND SERENA WILLIAMS are sisters. They are also both tennis champions who often have to play each other! Venus is now eleventh in the world, and her younger sister Serena has moved up to third. The two sisters were born in a poor and dangerous area of California. It was full of drugs and violence. In a recent interiew, Venus spoke about the time when she and Serena were practicing tennis, and they had to run and hide as bullets started flying through the air. Finally,in 1991, the sisters and their family moved to a safer area, and since then they have never looked back. The sisters'father,Richard, started to train Venus and Serena when they were young children, He has always been very strict with his daughters, training them hardto compete against each other Brandi,the sister's mother, taught her daughters at home. so that they completed their high school while developing their tennis careers.
vi. 竞争,对抗,比赛