1 . I had been swimming competitively for about five years and was ready to quit because I felt I was horrible at it. I kept _______ “Honorable Mentions”(安慰奖). Any _______knows that you don’t want to have a bookshelf full of “Honorable Mentions”, which you get just because you _______.
One summer day, the day _______ a big swim meet, I decided to tell my grandma that I was quitting the swim team, but she said, “Baby, _______ these words: ‘A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.’ You go to that swim meet tomorrow.”
The next day we arrived at the swim meet late, _______ my group of swimmers in the 15/ 16 age group. My _______ insisted that I be allowed to swim with the _______group. I knew that she was _______ me in the race so that our long drive would not be ________. As I got on the board, I quickly noticed that these girls were here to do one thing—to________ me! All of a sudden my grandma’s words ________ in my head, “Ouitters never win and winners never quit, quitters never win and winners never quit.”
SPLASH!
I was swimming ________ than I’d swum before. As I drew my right arm back, I noticed I was tied with one person. I assumed we were battling for the eighth place and I refused to finish dead last, so I added more kick on the ________ 200 yards. I hit the wall and ________ to the left and to the right for the swimmers who had beaten me, but no one was there. They must have gotten out of the ________ already. I raised my head to see my coach________ hysterically(歇斯底里). My eyes ________her pointing finger and I couldn’t believe what I saw. The other swimmers had just reached the halfway point of the ________! That day, at age 15, I broke the national 17/18-year-old 400-freestyle record. I had hung up my honorable mentions. That day, I ________ them with a huge gold medal.
1. A.receiving | B.quitting | C.refusing | D.wishing |
2. A.reader | B.swimmer | C.athlete | D.learner |
3. A.come around | B.get out | C.show up | D.give off |
4. A.after | B.before | C.during | D.in |
5. A.write | B.have | C.learn | D.remember |
6. A.missing | B.winning | C.losing | D.having |
7. A.grandma | B.fan | C.coach | D.friend |
8. A.older | B.younger | C.quicker | D.stronger |
9. A.calling | B.including | C.teaching | D.forgetting |
10. A.wasted | B.considered | C.dropped | D.seen |
11. A.hate | B.love | C.beat | D.praise |
12. A.heard | B.sang | C.shouted | D.rang |
13. A.harder | B.faster | C.longer | D.later |
14. A.first | B.last | C.most | D.over |
15. A.swam | B.came | C.jumped | D.looked |
16. A.breath | B.water | C.time. | D.race |
17. A.encouraging | B.smiling | C.running | D.screaming |
18. A.saw | B.held | C.followed | D.grasped |
19. A.pool | B.road | C.field | D.board |
20. A.helped | B.joined | C.admired | D.replaced |