1 . 阅读短文，用方框中所给词语或短语的正确形式填空，使文章通顺、连贯、合理。（每空只能填一个单词或一个短语，每个单词或短语限用一次）
| look back, decide, compete, one, scare, pride, sit, kid, quick, short |
A group of boys stood around a tree. “What a tall tree!” they said to each other, “It would be exciting to climb to the top.”
The group of boys made a 1 to play a game to see who could climb to the top of the tree fastest. Their mothers were 2 not far away, looking at their kids as they played.
One of the 3 was David. He was the 4 boy in the group. Nobody thought he would win the 5 .
Then the game started. All of the boys tried to climb as high as they could. Although the others climbed faster than David at 6 , he reached the top of the tree fastest in the end.
His mother was 7 to see this. She asked, “David, how did you reach the top of the tree so 8 ?”
“It was easy.” David said. “The other kids kept looking down as they climbed. When they realized how high they were, they got 9 and were afraid of looking down. However, I looked only up. When I saw how close I was, I kept going higher and higher until I reached the top.
It is true in life that if we just keep going forward without 10 , we are more likely to reach our goals.
