(2013·高考天津卷)If he had spent more time practising speaking English before，he________ able to speak it much better now.

A．will be? B．would be

C．has been?? D．would have been

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A．will be? B．would be

C．has been? D．would have been

I graduated from a small public school in Michigan. One day，Mr. Ledy，our football coach，asked me to play football. I couldn’t help  36  ：me，play football? I was six feet tall and was not much __37__ a hundred pounds in weight. I thought that they might just need  38    fool to increase the number of the players. However，he was persistent(坚持的) and __39__I joined the football team. That           40  to be one of my best decisions as a kid.

Our worst game  __41__ was the one against Crystal Falls. They beat us 56 to 6. Yeah! That was a football not a basketball _42__. We played them again when we were seniors. They __43__ us again but the score was much more _44_，30 to 20.

Coach Ledy would not let that __45__ again. He encouraged us to beat them，to pay them back. And we did so in the last game we played before __46__. I had scored 6 points alone in the game. Coach Ledy praised me. It was a huge _47 for me.

Was I a football hero? Ha! Ha! No，I couldn’t __48__ it without our team. The thing I learned through football was __49__. We won as a team and we __50__ as a team.

I think Mr. Ledy would be __51__ of me if he knew that I had broken the athletic __52__ at the University of Michigan. I’m __53__to him as I would not have today’s honor without him. I’ll __54__life’s final war with pain to win the victory；I’ll seek the lights of glory wholeheartedly and I’ll __55__ working hard so as not to let him down.

1.A. shouting     B. screaming  C. laughing D. applauding

2.A. up              B. over               C. more      D. out

3.A. another          B. other              C. some     D. any

4.A. immediately       B. secretly           C. personally D. finally

5.A. took out     B. turned out C. gave off   D. gave out

6.A. never             B. once        C. ever      D. again

7.A. game     B. team       C. story           D. score

8.A. won           B. met       C. beat        D. fought

9.A. accessible  B. comfortableC. sensitive          D. acceptable

10.A. happen             B. succeed           C. spread           D. develop

11.A. liberation          B. closing    C. graduation          D. school

12.A. honor           B. hope            C. success       D. surprise

13.A. take        B. manage            C. solve          D. explain

14.A. courage   B. devotion          C. teamwork  D. contribution

15.A. united          B. appeared          C. prepared   D. lost

16.A. proud           B. fond             C. full          D. kind

17.A. time              B. record     C. date      D. ability

18.A. pleased    B. grateful            C. hopeful      D. loyal

19.A. fight                   B. join              C. desire                   D. enjoy

20.A. take on    B. put on     C. rely on       D. keep on

"Everything happens for the best, "my mother said whenever I faced disappointment, "If you 1 on, something good will happen some day." Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college. I had   2  myself for a sports announcer. So I went to Chicago to knock on the door of every station and was  3 every time. In one station, a kind lady told me that  4 stations wouldn't employ a person without   5   since I had just graduated. "Go out in the town and find a small station that might give you a chance, "she said.
I returned to Dixon, where I had finished my high school education and had   6  in the school football team. My father said that our town had built a store and wanted a man to manage its sports department. The job sounded just  7 for me but I wasn't hired.
My disappointment had  8 as if by design. "Everything happens for the best," Mum  9 me. Dad lent me his car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio Davenport. The program director told me they had already hired an announcer.  10 I left his office,! asked aloud,"  11 can a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?" Suddenly, I heard the director  12  . "Do you know anything about football? " Then he asked me to  13 an imaginary game. It was easy, and I did it without difficulty. The director was  14 and told me I would be broadcasting a game on the   15   Saturday.