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The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played
during the break.She seemed so small as she pushed her way __
1__ the crowd of boys on the
playground.She __
2__ 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 __
4__.One day I asked her __
5__ she
practiced so much.She looked __
6__ in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, "I want
to go to college. The only way I can __
7__ is that if I get a scholarship, I am going to play college
basketball.I want to be __
8__.My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count."
Well, I had to give it in to her-she was __
9__.One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the
grass, head __
10__ in her arms.I walked toward her and quietly asked what was __
11__."Oh, nothing,"
came a soft reply."I'm just too short." The coach told her that at her height she would probably __
12__
get to play for a top ranked team, __
13__ offered a scholarship.So she __
14__ stop dreaming about
college.
She was __
15__ and I sensed 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 wrong.They just didn't __
16__ the power of a
dream.He told her __
17__ she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, __
18__ could stop her except one thing-her own attitude.He told her again,"if the dream is big enough,
the facts don't count."
The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship Game, s
he was
seen by a college recruiter (招聘人员). She was indeed offered a __
19__.She was going to get the
college education that she had __
20__ and worked toward for all those years.
( )1. A.through ( )2. A.brought out ( )3. A.only ( )4. A.dark ( )5. A.how ( )6. A.worriedly ( )7. A.go ( )8. A.worse ( )9. A.determined ( )10. A.covered ( )11. A.the affair ( )12. A.ever ( )13. A.far more ( )14. A.should ( )15. A.overjoyed ( )16. A.understand ( )17. A.even if ( )18. A.anything ( )19. A.prize ( )20. A.dreamed of |
B. across B. showed out B. lonely B. dawn B. when B. shyly B. get B. better B. encouraged B. enclosed B. the wrong B. even B. much less B. must B. moved B. experience B. as if B. nothing B. medal B. accepted |
C. over C. stood out C. simply C. midnight C. why C. quietly C. enter C. the best C. fixed C. dropped C. matter C. once C. much fewer C. can C. embarrassed C. learn C. that if C. something C. scholarship C. thought of |
D. into D. worked out D. alone D. daybreak D. what D. directly D. attend D. the worst D. fascinated D. buried D. the matter D. never D. many more D. may D. heartbroken D. believe D. only if D. everything D. position D. appreciated |