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What separates me from everyone else? The difference is not what clothes I wear or the music I listen
to, but what I feel
1 .
Ever since I was young, I have loved professional wrestling. As I grew older, my friends laughed at me
for following what was called a "man's soap opera." So, I put my love for wrestling on the shelf. It was not
until freshman (新生) year that I
2 I wasn't being myself.
That year, I tried many new things and
3 . In my town, football was the sport, so I decided to play
football, thinking it might give me a head start in popularity. The team started with forty-eight athletes (运动
员).
4 , there were fourteen of us
5 . I continued to practise not because I liked it,
6 because I am not
a quitter (懦夫). That long season taught me a lesson: I wasn't a football player. More
7 , it taught me to
be myself.
After that season, I went back to being a wrestling fan. I came across a well-known saying:"Don't Dream
It. Be It." When I referred to it, my friend Dan
8 my idea.
"What if we build a wrestling ring?" we asked. The following weekend, we met at his house. We saw
our dream in a pile in his backyard. We worked from dawn to dusk to build our great project. Our hard work
finally brought us success. We had a real ring. We decided to hold an "event." We
9 for hours, trying to
10 every aspect (方面)of our wrestling ability. The date was May 24th. To our
11 , about one hundred
friends and fans
12 to support us. It was the most important night of my life and a complete success. Since
that time, we have held five shows with as many as two hundred and fifty people
13 . We continued to live
this dream and we succeeded.
As my senior year comes to an end, I'll remember all of my high school memories. But what will value
most is the memory that I did something I loved, no matter what everyone said or thought, I
14 the goal and
lived my
15 .
( )1. A. outside
( )2. A. realized
( )3. A. assemblies
( )4. A. In the end
( )5. A. remained
( )6. A. then
( )7. A. necessarily
( )8. A. thought of
( )9. A. practiced
( )10. A. raise
( )11. A. surprising
( )12. A. came across
( )13. A. attending
( )14. A. earned
( )15. A. success |
B. inside
B. noticed
B. experiences
B. On the end
B. alive
B. but
B. properly
B. insisted on
B. worked out
B. learn
B. surprise
B. introduced
B. respecting
B. finished
B. dream |
C. behind
C. trusted
C. actions
C. By the end
C. admitted
C. and
C. importantly
C. approved of
C. dropped out
C. improve
C. surprised
C. turned up
C. displaying
C. achieved
C. failure |
D. beside
D. explained
D. activities
D. Above all
D. left
D. so
D. mainly
D. mixed up
D. stayed up
D. get
D. attention
D. were supposed to
D. leaving
D. continued
D. grade |