Across the street from our home was a school and I would often watch the kids as they played basketball during the break. I often noticed a small    1    playing with boys. I watched in

   2    as she ran circles around the other kids. She    3    to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her but no one could. At other times I saw her playing alone, sometimes until    4    .

       One day I asked her why she   5    so much. She looked    6    in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation（犹豫）she said “The only way I can go to   7     is to get a scholarship（奖学金）. I believe that I would get it if I were good enough at   8    . My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t   9   .” Then with a determined smile she ran towards the court. I watched her   10    those junior high years and into high school. Every week, she led her team to victory.

       One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head   11    in her arms. The coach（教练）told her that at 5 feet 5 inches she would   12    never get to play for a top ranked team—much less offered a scholarship—so she should   13    dreaming about college. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She   14    her head from her hands and told me that her father said those coaches just did not understand the  15    of a dream. He told her that if she truly wanted a scholarship,   16    could stop her except one thing—her own attitude.

       The next year,   17    she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college coach. She was indeed   18    a scholarship, a full one. She was going to get the college education that she had    19    and worked toward for all those years. It’s   20   : If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count

1．A．boy                      B．girl                      C．student                D．teacher

2．A．wonder                 B．shock                  C．doubt                  D．delight

3．A．attempted              B．tried                    C．failed                  D．managed

4．A．morning                B．noon                   C．dark                    D．dawn

5．A．practised               B．suffered              C．performed           D．drilled

6．A．slowly                  B．quickly                C．directly               D．quietly

7．A．work                    B．court                   C．school                 D．college

8．A．football                 B．basketball            C．my lessons          D．the exams

9．A．count                    B．delay                   C．damage               D．fail

10．A．past                    B．over                    C．through               D．beyond

11．A．buried                 B．placed                 C．hidden                 D．dropped

12．A．firmly                 B．probably              C．nearly                 D．sadly

13．A．begin                  B．stop                    C．continue              D．start

14．A．lowered               B．turned                 C．lifted                   D．moved

15．A．effect                  B．advantage            C．aim                     D．power

16．A．something           B．anything              C．nobody               D．nothing

17．A．after                   B．before                 C．as                       D．once

18．A．offered                B．handed                C．brought               D．sent

19．A．thought of           B．asked for             C．dreamed of          D．referred to

20．A．possible          B．true               C．proper            D．perfect

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

　　Besides electricity, a lion fears water the most, and a 1 with thunder and lightning brings both. For that reason I always have a written agreement that frees me from performing when it is raining.

　　For two days it was raining without stopping. By the 2 night, it wasn't raining at all. I gave the sign to the announcer, and the band began 3 my music.

　　The animals went through their tricks, but they were far from 4 about the wetness.

　　And so we came to the head-in-mouth 5 . When I pulled Leo's mouth open, raising his face and nose to the 6 , I noticed that the muscles(肌肉) of his jaws were tense．Then, as I put my head in, a rain began pouring down．I felt Leo become tense all over.

　　My head was in now．I counted to ten and then gave him the tap-on-jaw 7 to let me go. But this time 8 happened.

　　I 9 again on his jaw. Leo's 10 was like a steel trap(夹子). I heard 11 －men were trying to get Leo's attention. But already, with my face 12 in the back of his mouth, I was finding it hard to breathe. I knew what had happened: with the 13 beating on his face. Leo had 14 me. I heard the gunfire again……

　　I awoke with an oxygen mask(氧气罩) 15 my face, and a doctor was working over me. “You're 16 ,” said the doctor, “as soon as you went faint(晕倒) the lion dropped you. For nearly three minutes you had no heartbeat!”

　　By then it had stopped raining. I called Leo back and 17 his jaw. “Don't be a fool!” the doctor said, 18 I put my head in and counted to ten. Then I gave Leo the tap on the jaw－and he obeyed immediately.

　　Yet, when I tried the trick again the next time, Leo 19 . I believe he was unwilling to hurt me a second time. I 20 did the trick again.

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