Question

I started to love running at a young age. I loved to  36  my father and my sister around the backyard. I couldn’t  37  to get older so that I could run in the Olympics and win lots of  38

One day my mother saw a（n）39  for a race in a newspaper. “Would you be 40  in entering this race ?” she asked me, pointing to the advertisement.

“Yes, of  course!” I answered.

I spent the next few days practicing for my big race. My sister  41  a table in the backyard so she could supply me with water and  42  me.

Just before the race began, my dad  43  in my ear. “Don’t use up all your energy at the beginning of the race. You need to have energy  44   you can speed up at the end.”

Following Dad’s  45  , I didn’t run as fast as I could. Then the other runners started passing me, which made me  46  . I began to feel tired, and started slowing down and  47   harder.

“Coming on, Kelly! You can do it! Keep running.”

Out of the corner of my  48  I saw Dad running beside me around the outside of the track.

“I can’t do it!” I  49   to say.

“You can! Don’t give up! Keep running!” he called back.

I took a deep breath and tried to  50  forward. Dad continued running beside me, shouting encouraging words.

I came fifth, but I felt like a（n） 51  . I’d done my best, and I hadn’t   52   .

I felt thankful that my dad had  53   left my side. He always  54   me when I feel like giving up. He runs alongside me  55   my life.

 

36.	A. bother	B. show	C. race	D. amuse
37.	A. help	B. stop	C. wait	D. compete
38.	A. money	B. gifts	C. flowers	D. medals
39.	A. story	B. report	C. advertisement	D. introduction
40.	A. interested	B. frightened	C. excited	D. surprised
41.	A. asked for	B. set up	C. brought back	D. thought of
42.	A. time	B. respect	C. watch	D. teach
43.	A. replied	B. smiled	C. whispered	D. shouted
44.	A. until	B. because	C. so that	D. if
45.	A. advice	B. step	C. voice	D. guide
46.	A. silent	B. angry	C. surprised	D. nervous
47.	A. running	B. breathing	C. thinking	D. suffering
48.	A. track	B. competitors	C. audience	D. eye
49.	A. continued	B. decided	C. managed	D. remembered
50.	A. speed	B. step	C. look	D. walk
51.	A. commander	B. winner	C. owner	D. actor
52.	A. broken down	B. fallen behind	C. run away	D. given up
53.	A. hardly	B. never	C. always	D. often
54.	A. comforts	B. encourages	C. educates	D. punishes
55.	A. through	B. for	C. about	D. with

Answer 1

36. C      我喜歡和父親姐妹圍著后院賽跑。全文的主題圍繞race展開(kāi)。

37. C      我迫不及待地等待長(zhǎng)大。

38. D      這樣我可以參加奧運(yùn)會(huì)去贏(yíng)得獎(jiǎng)牌

39. C      我母親在報(bào)紙上看到一份有關(guān)賽跑的廣告。

40. A　  你有興趣參加比賽嗎？

41. B      我姐姐在院子里支上一張桌子。set up：建立起；支起

42. A      她為我送水并且掐表計(jì)時(shí)。

43. C      我父親在我的耳邊小聲說(shuō)。

44. C      你需要保存能量以便于最后沖刺。

45. A      我聽(tīng)從了父親的建議，開(kāi)始沒(méi)有跑得太快。

46. D      其他選手超過(guò)了我使我很緊張。

47. B      我感到很累開(kāi)始慢下來(lái)并且呼吸困難。

48. D      透過(guò)眼角的余光……

49. C      我（費(fèi)了很大勁）終于說(shuō)。

50. A　 我深呼吸開(kāi)始向前加速。

51. B      我得了第五，但感覺(jué)就像一個(gè)獲勝者一樣。

52. D      我已經(jīng)盡力了并且沒(méi)有放棄。

53. B      我心存感激父親從來(lái)沒(méi)有離開(kāi)過(guò)我。

54. B      每當(dāng)我向放棄時(shí)他始終在鼓勵(lì)我。

55. A      為了我的生活他始終在陪我一起跑。