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   The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played on the playground. She seemed so small as she pushed her way     1the crowd of boys on the playground. She    2from them all. I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing    3. She would practice dribbling（运球）and shooting over and over again, sometimes until   4. One day I asked her   5she practiced so much. She looked   6in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, “ I want to go to college. The only way I can   7is to get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. My daddy told me if the dream is   8enough, the facts don’t count.”

Well, I had to give in to her—she was   9. One day, I saw her sitting in the grass, head   10in her arms. I walked toward her and   11asked what was the matter. “Oh, nothing,” came a soft reply, “ I am just too short.” The coach told her that at her height she would probably   12get to play for a top ranked team,    13offered a scholarship. So she   14stop dreaming about college.

She was   15and 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 did not   16the power of the dream. He told her   17she really wanted to pay for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship,   18could 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   19by a college recruiter(招聘人员). She was indeed offered a scholarship. She was going to get the college education that she had   20and worked for all those years.

1.A. through   B. across C. over    D. into

2.A. brought out     B. showed out C. stood out    D. worked out

3.A. friendly   B. lonely  C. simply D. alone

4.A. dark B. dawn  C. midnight     D. daybreak

5.A. how B. when  C. why    D. what

6.A. worriedly B. shyly   C. quietly D. directly

7.A. go    B. get      C. enter   D. attend

8.A. small       B. big      C. real     D. false

9.A. determined      B. encouraged C. fascinated   D. struck

10.A. covered B. enclosed     C. dropped     D. buried

11.A. quietly   B. excitedly     C. angrily       D. hurriedly

12.A. ever      B. even    C. once   D. never

13.A. far more       B. much less   C. much fewer       D. many more

14.A. should   B. must   C. can     D. may

15.A. overjoyed      B. satisfied      C. embarrassed      D. heartbroken

16.A. understand    B. experience  C. learn   D. lose

17.A. even if   B. as if    C. that if  D. only if

18.A. anything       B. nothing       C. something  D. everything

19.A. seen     B. refused       C. treated       D. annoyed

20.A. dreamed of   B. accepted     C. thought of  D. appreciated

 We are invited to a party _________ in our club next Friday.

   A. to be held      B. held          C. being held        D. holding

 So tired __________ after walking such a long way that I ___________ stand.

   A. was I; could hardly              B. did I ; could hardly

   C. was I; couldn’t hardly            D. I was; could hardly

 Gun control is a subject __________ Americans have argued for a long time.

   A. of which      B. with which      C. about which       D. into which

 It is obvious to the students _________ they should get well prepared for their future.

   A. as            B. which          C. whether          D. that

 John may phone tonight. I don’t want to go out _______  he phones.

   A. as long as      B. in order that     C. in case           D. so that

 You are required to write _______ so that we can see it clearly.

   A. every the second line               B. every other lines

   C. every a few lines                  D. every other line

 ---When shall we meet again ?

   ---Make it ______ day you like; it’s all the same to me.

   A. one           B. any             C. another          D. some

 Last year the well-known actress did _______ she ________ help the poor children in the mountain village.

   A. what; could to   B. everything; could  C. all; could        D. that; could to

 In order to prevent the fire spreading, some of the houses nearby had been ________ before firemen arrived.

   A. burned down    B. pulled down      C. put down        D. turned down