When Mr. Little was young, he often

When Mr. Little was young, he often played football, and he was good at it. But then he went and worked in a town and there was no football team for him there, so he stopped playing. Then he began to get fat, so he thought, “I stopped playing football and I've got fat. What shall I do?” He thought about it for ___22___ days and he said to himself, “I'll play ping pong.” He has some lessons and he played for a few months. He met a nice girl at the club ___23___ day and they played a game of ping pong against(对) another young man and young woman. Mr. Little played very ___24___, and he was very sad about this. “I never played ___25___ than this before,” he told the girl. “Oh,” she said, “you played ping pong before, didn't you?”