短文填空。从下面方框中选出10个单词。用它们的适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺(每词限用一次)。

　　I used to watch a little girl playing basketball every day from my kitchen window．One day I asked her why she practiced so 　　1　　．She said：“I want to go to college．The only way I can go is 　　2　　 a scholarship(奖学金)．I like basketball and 1 want to be the 　　3　　 player in college．My dad told me：“If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count．”

　　She never changed her mind．1 watched her through those junior high years and into senior high school．One day before she graduated from high school, I saw her sitting on the grass 　　4　　．I asked her what was wrong．She told me that her coach said she was too short to be a good basketball player, so she should stop 　　5　　 about going to college．She was heartbroken and it made me feel bad 　　6　　．Then she smiled and told me her father said that coach was wrong．He did not understand the power(力量)of dream．Her father said to her：“If you 　　7　　 want to play for the scholarship of a good college, nothing but you 　　8　　 can stop your dream．”He told her again：“If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count．”

　　The next year, she and her team went to a big game．She 　　9　　 by a coach of a famous college team and was offered a scholarship to the 　　10　　 basketball team of their college．She was to get the college education that she had dreamed of and worked toward for all those years．

　　“If the dream is big enough．t}■le facts don’t count．”It is true．