The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during the break .She seemed so small as she pushed her way __36__ the crowd of boys on the playground . She___37__ from them all.
I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing __38__.She would practice dribbling（运球）and shooting over and over again, sometimes until __39__. One day I asked her __40__ she practiced so much. She looked __41__in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, "I want to go to college. The only way I can __42__ is that if I get a scholarship, I am going to play college basketball. I want to be __43__. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count."
Well, I had to give it in to her--- she was __44__.One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head __45_ in her arms. I walked toward her and quietly asked what was _46___. "Oh, nothing," came a soft reply. "I'm just too short." The coach told her that at her height she would probably __47__get to play for a top ranked team,__48__offered a scholarship. So she _49___stop dreaming about college.
She was __50___ and I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just didn't __51__ the power of a dream. He told her __52__she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, __53___could stop her except one thing-- her own attitude. He told her again," if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count."
The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college recruiter（招聘人员）. She was indeed offered a __54__ .She was going to get the college education that she had __55___and worked toward for all those years.
| 小题1: | | A．across | B．through | C．over | D．into |
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| 小题2: | | A．brought out | B．showed out | C．stood out | D．worked out |
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| 小题3: | | A．only | B．lonely | C．simply | D．alone |
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| 小题4: | | A．dark | B．dawn | C．midnight | D．daybreak |
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| 小题5: | | A．how | B．when | C．why | D．what |
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| 小题6: | | A．worriedly | B．shyly | C．quietly | D．directly |
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| 小题7: | | A．go | B．get | C．enter | D．attend |
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| 小题8: | | A．worse | B．better | C．the best | D．the worst |
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| 小题9: | | A．encouraged | B．determined | C．fixed | D．fascinated |
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| 小题10: | | A．covered | B．enclosed | C．dropped | D．buried |
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| 小题11: | | A．the affair | B．the matter | C．matter | D．the wrong |
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| 小题12: | | A．ever | B．even | C．once | D．never |
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| 小题13: | | A．far more | B．much less | C．much fewer | D．many more |
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| 小题14: | | A．should | B．must | C．can | D．may |
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| 小题15: | | A．overjoyed | B．moved | C．embarrassed | D．heartbroken |
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| 小题16: | | A．understand | B．experience | C．learn | D．believe |
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| 小题17: | | A．even if | B．as if | C．that if | D．only if |
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| 小题18: | | A．anything | B．nothing | C．something | D．everything |
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| 小题19: | | A．prize | B．medal | C．scholarship | D．position |
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| 小题20: | | A．dreamed of | B．accepted | C．thought of | D．appreciated |
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