四、完形填空
I get into position and take a deep breath. The music starts and my mind is on my figure skating(花样滑冰). Dressed in my shining blue dress and gliding(滑行)
1 the ice, I feel free.
I started figure skating again after the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. However, relearning figure skating at an older age is not
2. Balancing on those 1.5 mm - wide steel blades(冰刀)and stepping onto the clear ice for the first time in years, feelings of excitement and fear control me at the same time. I did not remember any of the
3 or spins that I had learned as a child. To make things worse, kids much younger than me were doing double or triple rotation jumps(旋转与跳跃). I felt so out of place.
Did I really belong(属于)here? “You have as much right to be here as anyone else,” my Olympian coach
4 me. I was very thankful that I found a coach that treated me the same as her other students. Every day at practice, she pushes me
5 my limits.
During the course of learning new jumps and spins, falls are unavoidable.
6 I learn a move, I devote to practising and falling for hours on end(连续), and there would still be a large chance that I could not finish it. Many times I have asked myself, “Was it really
7 it? So many hours of practice, and so much
8 spent on coaching and skating shoes, for what?”
Despite(尽管)these pains, every time I feel the wind rushing past my face as I glide, I am reminded of the reason why I started skating: This is the
9 thing I will get to flying.
The pain is temporary(暂时的),
10 the joy of landing that jump I have worked on for months is something I would not trade for the world. Fall down seven times, get up eight!
(
) 1. A. below
B. through
C. over
D. across
(
) 2. A. hard
B. easy
C. enjoyable
D. possible
(
) 3. A. dances
B. music
C. jumps
D. falls
(
) 4. A. improved
B. suggested
C. doubted
D. encouraged
(
) 5. A. against
B. over
C. below
D. beyond
(
) 6. A. Whenever
B. Whatever
C. However
D. Whoever
(
) 7. A. equal
B. worth
C. helpful
D. meaningful
(
) 8. A. time
B. energy
C. money
D. pain
(
) 9. A. fastest
B. closest
C. finest
D. easiest
(
)10. A. if
B. but
C. or
D. so