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阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,选择最佳选项。
My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk normally, but would never run very well. He had to ______ his first three years of life in hospital. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a problem when you saw him ______.
Children in our neighborhood always ran around during their ______, and Joey would jump and ran and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be ______ to run like the other children. So he didn’t know. In the seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross-country ______. Every day he trained with the team.
He worked harder and ran more than any of the other members. Although the whole team runs, only the top seven ______ would be chosen to run for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.
He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day – even when he had a fever. I was ______ so I went to look for him after school. I ______ him running all alone. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. He had two more miles to go.
Yet he looked straight ahead and kept ______. We never told him he couldn’t run four miles with a high fever. So he didn’t know.
Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in seventh grade – the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he couldn’t do it … so he didn’t know. He just ______ it.
1.A. cost B. take C. spend D. pay
2.A. lie B. sit C. stand D. walk
3.A. play B. race C. study D. exercise
4.A. able B. sorry C. glad D. afraid
5.A. class B. team C. group D. school
6.A. students B. boys C. runners D. players
7.A. afraid B. happy C. angry D. worried
8.A. found B. thought C. realized D. believed
9.A. riding B. running C. playing D. walking
10.A. did B. had C. left D. took
— Could you tell me _____________?
— At 2:30 tomorrow afternoon.
A. when the meeting will begin B. when will the meeting begin
C. when does the meeting begin D. when the meeting begins
— Look, what an old palace! It looks so great!
— Yeah, it _____nearly 800 years ago.
A. build B. built
C. is built D. was built
— Where is your father?
— He ____to Shanghai. He’ll be back next week.
A. have gone B. have been
C. has gone D. has been
I saw Lily just now but she didn’t see me. She____ the other way.
A. looked B. has looked
C. is looking D. was looking
— you read that sign from this distance?
— Yes, I can.
A. Can B. May
C. Must D. Need