My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk, but would never run very well. The first three years of his life was (16)____ in hospital. By the time he was six, you wouldn’t know he has a problem when you saw him (17)____.

  Children in our neighborhood always ran around during their play, and Joey would jump and run and play, (18)_____. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be able to run like the other children. So he didn’t know.

 In his(19)_____ grade, he decided to join the school running team. Every day he trained. He ran more than any of the others, (20) ____only the top seven runners would be chosen to run for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.

 He ran four to five mile every day - even when he had a fever. I was (21) ____, so I went to look for him after school. I found him running (22) _____. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said he had two more miles to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept (23) _____.

Two weeks later, the names of the team (24) _____ were caked. Joey was Number Six on the list. Joey had made the team. We never told him he couldn’t do it … so he didn’t know. He just took it. How (25) ____he was!

(   ) 16. A. spent    B. taken    C. cost    D. paid

(   ) 17 A. talk      B. sit       C. study   D. walk

(  )18 A. either    B. too      C. though  D. yet

(  )19. A. six     B. seven     C. eighth  D. nineth

(  )20. A. so      B. if        C. then    D. because

( )21. A. excited  B. tired     C. pleased  D. worried

( )22. A. alone   B. away     C. almost   D. already

( )23. A. riding   B. walking   C. playing  D. running

( )24. A. jumpers  B. runners  C. doctors  D. teachers

( )25.A.good    .B. lucky      C. clever   D. well

   “Depend on yourself” is what nature says to every man. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. Others still can help you. But all these only help you to help yourself.

   There have been many great men in history. But many of them were very poor in childhood, and had no uncles, aunts or friends to help them. They couldn’t depend on them for education. They saw it was, and began to work with their efforts. To know something, they worked their own way up to fame (荣誉).

   One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his pupil, “I can’t make worthy men of you, but I can help you make men of yourselves.”

   Some young men are the best in anything, and they are so be pitied (值得同情的). They can never do things successfully if they don’t see their weak points and change their courses (做法). They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live if they don’t follow the advice of their parents and teachers, and depend on their own efforts.

(   ) 1. “Depend on yourself” in this passage means ___________.

A. depend on your own efforts     B. depend on nature

C. wait for others to help          D. depend on your parents

(   ) 2. Many of the great men in history succeeded because ____________.

A. they were very poor in childhood            

B. they could not depend on schools for an education

C. they made great efforts to learn and work  

D. they wanted very much to become famous

(   ) 3. According to the famous teacher in England, a teacher can _________.

A. make his pupil worthy men                    

B. teach his pupils everything he knows

C. help his pupils make themselves useful men       

D. make his pupils men of strength and courage

(   ) 4. If young people depend on their own efforts, ___________.

A. they are to be pitied                                  

B. they can never be successful

C. they are nothing now and will be nothing in the future       

D. they can be successful in their work

(   ) 5. The main idea of the passage is that ___________.

A. we should depend on our parents and teachers

B. we can depend on our friends and relatives

C. all great men in history were poor when they were young

D. we can’t depend on our parents or teachers, but we can get advice from them

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