9. 山东省兖州市2009届高三高考仿真考试  完形填空

The school was across the street from our home and I would watch the kids as they   36  during the break. She seemed so small as she,    37   her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. She stood out 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 dark.  One day I asked her  39  she practiced so much. She looked  40   in my eyes and without a moment of    41    she said, ‘‘I want to go to college. The only way I can go is if I get a（an）  42   . I am going to play college basketball. I want to be college. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t   43  . ” 

Well, I had to give it in to her—she was   44   . One day, I saw her sitting in the grass, head   45   in her arms. I walked toward her and quietly asked what was the matter. ‘‘Oh, nothing, "came a soft reply. ‘‘I am just too   46  . ”The coach told her that at her height she would probably  47   get to play for a top ranked team much   48   offered a scholarship. So she should stop dreaming about college.  

She was heartbroken and I   49  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   50   .  

They just did not understand the   51   of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship,   52  could stop her except one thing—her own   53  .  

The next year,  as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college coach. She was indeed   54   a scholarship. She was going to get the college education that she had dreamed of and worked   55   it for all those years.  

36. A. studied     B. relaxed     C. played D. enjoyed 

37. A. pushed     B. cleared     C. lost D. gave 

38. A. well     B. freely     C. together D. alone 

39. A. how     B. why     C. where D. whether 

40. A. brightly     B. bitterly     C. directly D. casually 

41. A. argument     B. glance     C. panic D. hesitation 

42. A. scholarship   B. reputation   C. occupation D. graduation 

43. A. disappear     B. occur     C. exist D. count 

44. A. admired     B. determined   C. ashamed D. ignored 

45. A. showed     B. nodded     C. turned D. buried 

46. A. unique     B. flexible     C. short D. nervous 

47. A. never     B. always     C. ever D. still 

48. A. more     B. less     C. too D. as 

49. A. removed     B. sensed     C. reduced D. imagined 

50. A. wrong     B. strict     C. cautious D. important 

51. A. nature     B. complex     C. power D. result 

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

53. A. skill     B. attitude     C. champion D. award 

54. A. offered     B. required     C. promoted D. gained 

55. A. out     B. with     C. toward D. at 

答案  36.C   37.A  38.D  39.B  40.C  41.D  42.A  43.D  44.B  45.D  46.C  47.A  48.B  49.B  50.A  51.C  52.D  53.B  54.A  55.C