Question

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，填上合适的词语。

People called her “the Black Pearl” and “the fastest woman in the world.” In 1960, Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman   1   (win) three gold medals in one Olympics. She was   2   extraordinary American athlete. She also did a lot to help young athletes   3   (success). Wilma Rudolph was born in 1940, in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. She had many illnesses when she was very young,   4  (include) pneumonia and scarlet fever. She also had polio (小儿麻痹症),   5   damaged her left leg. When she was six years old, she began to wear metal leg braces (腿箍) because she could not use that leg.

Wilma Rudolph was born into a very large, poor, African – American family. She was the   6   (twenty) of twenty – two children. Since she was sick most of the time, her brothers and sisters all helped to take care of her. They had to make sure she did not try to take   7   her leg braces. Every week, Wilma’s mother drove her to a special doctor eighty kilometers away. She later said: “My doctors told me I would never walk again, but my mother told me I   8  . I believed my mother.” Soon, her family’s attention and care showed results.   9    the time she was nine years old, she no   10  needed her leg braces. Wilma was very happy.

Answer 1

1．to win     2．an   3．succeed   4．including   5．which

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6．twentieth   7．off   8．would   9．by    10．more或longer