2 . I remember the first day when I saw Sally playing basketball. I watched in wonder as she struggled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. She seemed so _______ , but she managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her _______nobody could.
I began to notice Sally at other times, basketball in hand, playing
_______. She practiced dribbling (运球)and
_______ over and over.
One day I asked Sally why she _______ so much. Without a moment of hesitation she said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a _______ . I’m going to play college basketball and I want to be the best one. I believe that if I am _______ enough,I will get one. My father has told me that if the dream is big enough,the facts don’t _______. ”
I _______ her through those junior high years and into high school. Every week, she led her team to ________. One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting on the grass, her head ________ her arms. Slowly and quietly, I ________ and sat down beside her. “What’s wrong?” I asked. “Oh,nothing,” came a soft reply, “I am just too short. ” The ________ told her that at 165 cm she would probably never play for a top team一still less she would be ________ a scholarship--so she should stop dreaming about college.
I felt she was extremely ________ . I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were ________ . They didn’t understand the ________ of a dream.
The next year, Sally was seen by a college basketball coach after a big game. She was ________ offered a scholarship and ________ to the college team. She was going to get the college education that she had ________ and worked toward for all those years.
It’s true: if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.
1. A.silent | B.small | C.strong | D.huge |
2. 3. A.still | B.again | C.well | D.alone |
4. A.passing | B.running | C.shooting | D.struggling |
5. A.studied | B.practiced | C.expected | D.improved |
6. A.title | B.prize | C.scholarship | D.reward |
7. A.good | B.brave | C.careful | D.active |
8. A.lack | B.talk | C.appear | D.count |
9. A.encouraged | B.respected | C.watched | D.helped |
10. A.victory | B.confidence | C.responsibility | D.profession |
11. A.dropped | B.buried | C.covered | D.sunk |
12. A.walked off | B.walked out | C.walked around | D.walked up |
13. A.coach | B.teacher | C.captain | D.leader |
14. A.suggested | B.sent | C.promised | D.offered |
15. A.worried | B.excited | C.disappointed | D.surprised |
16. A.great | B.wrong | C.strict | D.cruel |
17. A.pressure | B.value | C.cause | D.power |
18. A.exactly | B.naturally | C.really | D.normally |
19. A.taken | B.admitted | C.introduced | D.appointed |
20. A.dreamed of | B.picked up | C.benefited from | D.carried out |