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I often watched a little girl playing basketball on the playground near my house. She would
1 shooting
over and over again, sometimes until
2 . One day I asked her
3 she practiced so hard. She said, "I like
basketball. I want to play for the top basketball team. I want to be the
4 . My daddy told me if the dream
is big enough, the facts don't count."
I watched her
5 those high school years. One day, I saw her
6 on the grass, head in her arms. I
walked to her and asked what was wrong. "Oh,
7 ," she said. "I am just too short." The coach told her
that she was too
8 to play for a top team. She was very
9 . I asked her if she had talked to
10 about
it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were
11 . They just did not understand the power of
a
12 . He told her that nothing could
13 her but one thing-her own attitude
14 she really wanted to play
for a good basketball team. He told her again, "If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count." The next
year, she
15 to join the NCAA women's basketball team.
It's true: If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.
注：(1) count 重要 (2) coach 教练 (3) power 力量 (4) attitude 态度 (5) NCAA 全美大学生体育协会
( )1. A. practice
( )2. A. past
( )3. A. how
( )4. A. kindest
( )5. A. through
( )6. A. reading
( )7. A. everything
( )8. A. thin
( )9. A. proud
( )10. A. himself
( )11. A. good
( )12. A. dream
( )13. A. follow
( )14. A. if
( )15. A. refused |
B. hate
B. light
B. when
B. best
B. by
B. playing
B. nothing
B. fat
B. glad
B. herself
B. wrong
B. team
B. choose
B. whether
B. asked |
C. mind
C. dark
C. where
C. cleverest
C. across
C. sitting
C. great
C. tall
C. sad
C. her dad
C. strong
C. pleasure
C. expect
C. as
C. was refused |
D. forget
D. future
D. why
D. tallest
D. for
D. smiling
D. dangerous
D. short
D. lazy
D. her coach
D. frustrated
D. knowledge
D. stop
D. because
D. was asked |