The school was across the street from our home and I would watch the kids as they __1__ during the break. She seemed so small as she __2__ her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. She stood out from them all. I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing __3__. She would practice dribbling (运球) and shooting over and over again, sometimes until dark. One day I asked her __4__she practiced so much. She looked_5__ in my eyes and without a moment of__6__ she said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can go is if I get a(an)__7__. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be college. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t __8__.” Well, I had to give it in to her—she was __ 9__. One day, I saw her sitting in the grass, head __10__ in her arms. I walked toward her and quietly asked what was the matter. “Oh, nothing,” came a soft reply. “I am just too __11__.” The coach told her that at her height she would probably __12__ get to play for a top ranked team, much__13__ offered a scholarship. So she should stop dreaming about college. She was heartbroken and __14__ her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were __15__. They just did not understand the __16__of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, __17__ could stop her except one thing — her own __18__. The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college coach. She was indeed__19__ a scholarshop. She was going to get the college education that she had dreamed and worked __20__for all those years. 1.A.studied B.relaxed C.played D.enjoyed 2.A.pushed B.cleared C.lost D.gave 3.A.well B.freely C.together D.alone 4.A.how B.why C.where D.whether 5.A.brightly B.bitterly C.directly D.casually 6.A.argument B.glance C.panic D.hesitation 7.A.scholarship B.reputation C.occupation D.graduation 8.A.disappear B.occur C.exist D.count 9.A.admired B.determined C.ashamed D.ignored 10.A.showed B.nodded C.turned D.buried 11.A.unique B.flexible C.short D.nervous 12.A.never B.always C.ever D.still 13.A.more B.less C.too D.as 14.A.removed B.sensed C.reduced D.imagined 15.A.wrong B.strict C.cautious D.important 16.A.nature B.complex C.power D.result 17.A.something B.anything C.everything D.nothing 18.A.skill B.attitude C.champion D.award 19.A.offered B.required C.promoted D.gained 20.A.out B.with C.toward D.at
答案: 1-5 CADBC 6-10 DADBD 11-15 CABBA 16-20 CDB AC