When she was young，Merry Wilson was told that she was an epileptic(癫痫患者) ．He father，Jim Wilson，is a morning runner．One day，Merry told her father that what she’d really love to do is running．Her father told her，“If you do．I know how to do it．So let’s start running!”

    That’s just what they did every day．It was a good time for them to share．After a few weeks，she told her father,“Daddy，what I’d really love to do is to break the world’s long-distance running record for women．”

    As a student in her first year in college，Merry said，“I’m going to run from Orange County to San Francisco(a distance of 400 kilometers)．“in my second year,”she went on，“I’m going to run to Portland，Oregon(over l,500 kilometers)．)“I will run to the White House(more than 3,000 kilometers away) in my fourth year at college”

    That year，she finished her run to San Francisco．Her dad ran every kilometer  at her side，and her mom，a nurse，followed in a car in case(万一)anything went wrong．The next year，on the way to Portland，a bone(骨头)broke in her foot．A doctor told her she had to stop．But she didn’t stop．So she kept running to Portland．Four months later，Merry ran to Washington and shook the hand of the president of the USA．

    If Merry can do so much with such poor health，what can you do to outperform(战胜) yourself in a healthy state?

1．Merry．as a child．told her father she wanted to ______ ．

  A．run    B．go to college    C．ran to San Francisco    D．sing

2．The time she spent running together with her father was _____．

  A．hard    B．boring    C．pleasant    D．helpless

3．---What is Merry’s mother?---一She’s a _______．

  A．doctor    B．nurse    C．runner    D．car driver

4．What does the passage tell us?

A．Healthy people can’t do as well as the sick people．

B．People can do much better than they think they can．

C．Sick people can’t do as well as the healthy people．

D．The writer isn’t pleased with what the healthy people do.

When she Was young，Patti Wilson was told that she was an epileptic(癫痫患者)．Her father，Jim Wilson，is a morning runner．One day Patti told father that what

she’d really love to do is running．Her father told her，“If you do，I know how to do it，

so let’S start running!”

   That’s just what they did every day．It was a wonderful experience for them to share．After a few weeks，she told her father，“Daddy，what I，d really love to do is to break the world，s long—distance running record for women.

    As a student in her first year at college。Patti announced，“I'm going to run from Orange County up to San Francisco(a distance of 400 miles)．“In my second year，”she went on，“I’m going to run to Portland，Oregon(over 1，5Q0 miles)．” “I’ll run to the White House(more than 3，000 miles away)in my fourth year at college．”

    That year，she finished her run to San Francisco．Her dad ran every mile at her

side，and her mom，a nurse，followed in a motor home behind them in case(万一)anything went wrong．The next year，on the way to Portland，a bone(骨头)broke in her

foot．A doctor told her she had to stop．But she wouldn't give up．So she kept on running to Portland．Four months later，Patti arrived in Washington and shook the hand of President of the United States．If Patti Wilson can do so much with such poor health，what can you do to out form(战胜)yourself in a health state?

1．Patti，as a child，told her father she wanted to_________.

  A．run

  B．go to college

  C．run to San Francisco

  D．shake hands with President of the United States

2．The time she spent running together with her father was ________ ．

A．hard    B．boring    C．pleasant     D. helpless

3．What is Patti's mother?

A. A doctor   B. A nurse    C. A runner   D.  A motorbiker

4．Which of the following is True?

  A．Patti finished her college life ahead of time(提前)．

  B．Patti finished her running plan for college ahead of time.

  C．Patti didn't finish her running plan she announced at college.

  D．Patti finished her running plan in the fourth year of her college life.

5．The underlined sentence suggests that ______ ．

  A．the writer is pleased with what healthy people have done

  B．people can do much better than they think they can

  C．healthy people are doing better than sick people

  D．healthy people should do everything as well as sick people