中国男篮挺进16强_奥运英语

中国男篮在世锦赛小组赛中神奇逆转，凭借王仕鹏在比赛结束前的一记压哨三分，以78∶77击败斯洛文尼亚，晋级16强。这场胜利也使中国男篮完成了赛前制定的目标。王仕鹏在终场前1秒钟出手三分，在球落进球篮的一霎那，终场笛声响起，全场比赛结束。姚明依然是中国队获胜的最大功臣，他打满了40分钟，拿下36分和10个篮板球。

slovenia's radoslav nesterovic （c） splits the defense of china's wang zhizhi （l） and yao ming during the first round of the world basketball championships in sapporo august 24， 2006.[reuters]

wang shipeng's three-pointer at the whistle has put china through the group stage to reach the final 16 at the ongoing basketball men's world championship in japan.

the clutch-time throw was his only score in the game， but was good enough to help china pass slovenia 78-77.

china's star center yao ming contributed 36 points and 10 rebounds.

both china and slovenia entered the game with only one target： beating the other side to reach the knockout stage.

the two teams opened the game head-on-head and scored successively before slovenia took a quick run to widen the gap， leading the game 22-17 at the end of first quarter.

in the second quarter， slovenia extended their lead to eight points， ending the first half 46-38.

china then managed to trim down the deficit to only two points in the third quarter， leaving the score 59-57.

however， slovenia again took the upper hand thanks to their quick breakthroughs to lead the game with a sizeable advantage.

in the final minutes， wang zhizhi， another star chinese center， bombarded the rivals with a three-pointer and two free throws to put china back on track.

zhu fangyu added another three-pointer to cut down the deficit to only one point， followed by yao ming's free throw that had evened the scores at 75 apiece.

with only 31 seconds to go， slovenia launched their final attack and converted the chance into two points.

china was left with only six seconds when wang shipeng dribbled the ball to release it in the final second of the game， scoring a dramatic three-pointer for china！

china lost their first three group matches to italy， the us and puerto rico respectively but managed to win the final two matches against senegal and slovenia to reach the next stage.

vocabulary：

3-pointers： 三分球

basketball men's world championship： 世界男篮锦标赛

rebound： 篮板球

knockout： 获胜

dribble： 运球，文中指“投篮”