1 . Standing in front of the bike shop, Dave stared at the shiny red bicycle in the window. He could _______ himself riding the bike in Saturday’s race and winning the first-place medal and prize money. “With that bike, I could even beat Adam,” Dave thought.

He rode on and stopped at Peck’s clothing store. The coat he planned to buy his mother for her birthday was still on sale. Dave knew she would _______ buy it for herself. She worked hard just to make _______ meet. But the prize money would be enough for him to buy that coat and surprise her.

Dave looked at his old bike. Two years ago, he found some old bicycles at the _______ and used the parts to make one bike. He called it his recycled bike. “I’ll never _______ the race on this old bike,” Dave sighed.

As Dave passed the junkyard, he noticed a newer-looking bike tire. He started _______ the huge junk pile. Finally, he found what he was looking for. “These two tires and the handgrips (手把) are just _______ for my bike.”

Arriving home, Dave put the used tires and the handgrips on his _______ bike, and oiled the chained. He stood back and admired the _______ he had made. “I might win that race after all,” he said to himself.

The next morning, when Dave and his mom got to the park, about thirty kids had already __________. Dave headed for the start line __________ Mom found a seat at the finish line.

Bang! The riders rushed off. Dave __________ Adam, who was in the lead. He __________ to pass one rider after another and was approaching Adam. Leaning forward, Dave pedaled harder and faster. __________ he sped by Adam and crossed the finish line.

As the announcer awarded Dave the medal and the check for fifty dollars, he asked, “What are you going to do with the prize money, Dave?”

“It’s a __________ ,” Dave said and waved to his mom.

2 . Being a parent is already a life-changing experience. However, this 40-year-old dad________a surprising transformation(转变)after a hike With his kids.

Before Jeremiah Peterson looked like a supermodel, he weighed 290 pounds. He was only______to lose weight after he went on a hike with his family and______how quickly he was tired out from the activity.

“Instead of remembering all the good______we had made on this trip, all I can______is this one thing that kept playing in my head: I found myself running out of breath and having to take______on the way before my kids, ” Peterson wrote online.

The dad then was______to get into shape.

He started by giving up drinking and______a ketogenic diet(生酮饮食). Moreover, he started______regularly. For five months, he hiked for two hours and spent an hour at the gym every single day.

After 150 days of a strict diet and lots of______, Peterson lost 92 pounds. Not only that, he can now run non-stop up the hiking trail that once made him______tired.

Peterson now uses his story and fitness expertise to coach and______almost 100 ,000 social media followers — but he says that his kids are the real______for his success.

“Find your reason that is______if you want to achieve success in life,” he wrote in a post.“If you don’t have a strong reason behind your______, you are less likely to get the results.”

5 . I am a girl, but I was born to be a rebel (叛逆者). I like games that can be ________. Some of the sports I like, even boys won’t play!

Wrestling (摔跤) is _______ seen as a sport for men, but I _______ to see if I could do it.

Every Saturday morning, I got out of bed early to go and watch my brother ________. From morning to night, I would sit watching the ________ have all the fun. Since then, wrestling has been part of my _______.

For three years, I ________ all the boys and became the best player in the team. My _______ memory of wrestling is when a boy walked off ________ because he’d lost to a girl.

My last ________ was at this year’s Girls’ State Wrestling Championships.

I was so ________. I was sure I would win. My heart was beating hard when the match started. I could see _______but my competitor. ________, when the final whistle (口哨) blew, I had _______ by four points. The cameras and lights all turned _______me: I was the new wrestling champion. I felt so happy. But after a few minutes of enjoying being a champion, ________ began to run through my knee. _________I hurt my knee, my _______ of being a national champion ended. Even so, I won’t_________ and still want to wrestle next year when I go to college. I have learned that you can do anything you want if you stay positive and put your ________ into it.

7 . My least favorite part was participating in sport meets, for I loved running by myself. When faced with running against fellow athletes, I was ________. I had butterflies in my stomach and the sudden urge to go to the nearest ________. This year, however, I was encouraged to join in a long distance running competition by my coach.

The 800-meter event was approaching, meaning that I would ________ soon. I breathed deeply and tried to ________ my worries. I walked over to some of the ________ who would run with me and started to ________ with them. We were all loosening up and getting ready to run as ________ as possible.

I stepped up to the line for the event. The starter raised his cap gun and ________. About twenty-five runners took off. With these runners around me, I ________ my coach’s words, “You may be small, but you have ________ power.” So, I kept up with athletes twice my size. I picked up the runner in seventh place and based my steps on him, making it a little bit faster. One by one, I ________ to make it to the top four, bursting around the lap.

It was the last lap before the final straightaway. I supposed I had the possibility to win. So I widened my steps, speeding up my________. I caught up with the runner in first place and we ran side-by-side down the last 100 meters --- I ________ him by a hair at the finishing line.

My coach gave me a ________ hug as I headed back to see him. He was ________ because I had shortened my original time by twelve seconds at least.

8 . I am a girl, but I was born to be a rebel (叛逆者). I like games that can be ________. Some of the sports I like, even boys won’t play!

Wrestling (摔跤) is ________ seen as a sport for men, but I ________ to see if I could do it.

Every Saturday morning, I got out of bed early to go and watch my brother ________.From morning to night, I would sit watching the ________ have all the fun. Since then, wrestling has been part of my       ________.

For three years, I ________ all the boys and became the best player in the team. My deepest memory of wrestling is when a boy walked off ________ because he’d lost to a girl.

My last ________ was at this year’s Girls’ State Wrestling Championships.

I was so excited. I was sure I would win. My heart was beating hard when the match started. I could see ________ but my competitor. When the final whistle(口哨) blew, I had ________ by four points. The cameras and ________ all turned to me: I was the new wrestling champion. But after a few minutes of enjoying being a champion, pain began to run ________ my knee. Because I hurt my knee, my ________     of being a national champion ended. Even so, I won’t lose heart and still want to wrestle next year when I go to college. I have ________ that you can do anything you want if you stay positive and put your heart into it.

9 . Don’t Take the Fun Out of Youth Sports

When I joined a private football league a few years ago, the sport meant everything to me.

My coach said that I had lots of potential, and I became captain of my _________. That was before all the fun was taken out of _________. At first, everyone on the team got _________ playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games, and the _________ started. Some parents, who had paid the coach extra so their daughters could have _________ one-on-one training, got angry when she didn’t give them more playing time in our _________. The coach was _________ . The new coach, however, took all the fun out of the game: all we did during practice was _________. I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the _________. Of course, all teams run drills(操练); they are __________. But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble __________. Younger people shouldn’t be doing exercises __________ for 18-year-olds. I was very thin __________ I started football, but as a member of this team I wouldn’t eat much, because I was afraid of being too __________ to run. I feared making mistakes, and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual __________. Is all this pressure necessary?

I __________ up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same, and two of them stopped playing football completely. That’s __________, because they had so much potential. They were just burned-out with all the pressure they felt from the coach or their parents. I continued playing football at school and __________ my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing for him, he told me I needed to __________ because I looked nervous. After I __________ down, I played better. When you enjoy something, it’s a lot easier to do it well.