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练习五
Johnny Sylvester, eleven years old, was in bed
in the hospital. Several days before, while he was __36__ in a football
game, he fell and his head hit the ground. The doctors believed that he might
__37__ get well.
“He seems to have given up __38__. So medicine
won't do. Perhaps he needs something else,” said one of the doctors. “When I
visit Johnny, all he __39__ says is that he would like to meet Babe
Ruth.”
To meet Babe Ruth, of course, was not possible.
Babe Ruth was as __40__ a man in America as the president (总统) himself, __41__ he was the most
famous baseball player in the game.
The next day Johnny's father managed to tell
Babe Ruth about the story of Johnny on the phone. Twenty-four hours later, as
Johnny __42__ in his hospital room, Babe Ruth walked in. Young Johnny
couldn't __43__ it really was the Babe.
Babe Ruth sat down at Johnny's bedside and said,
“Now listen, kid, you’ve got to get well. I’ve brought you a new American
League baseball. You must start throwing it.”
Sylvester just stayed there, saying nothing, and
his eyes were __44__ in awe(敬慕)at the great man.
For Johnny this was the beginning of a new life,
one he thought he would never __45__. To the surprise of his doctors,
young Sylvester walked out of the hospital on his own a few weeks later. He was
also able to live a healthy life---all because of the present of Babe Ruth.