完形填空。      It was the district sports meet. My foot still hadn"t healed (痊愈) from a(n)    1   injury. I had    2   whether
or not I should attend the meet. But there I was,    3   for the 3,000-meter run.
     " Ready … set …" The gun popped and we were off. The other girls rushed    4   me. I felt    5   as I fell
farther and farther behind.
     " Hooray!" shouted the crowd. It was the loudest    6   I had ever heard at a meet. The first-place runner
was two laps (圈) ahead of me when she crossed the finish line.
     " Maybe I should    7  ," I thought as I moved on.    8  , I decided to keep going. During the last two laps, I
ran    9   and decided not to   10  in track next year. It wouldn"t be worth it,   11  my foot did heal.
     When I finished, I heard a cheer-   12  than the one I"d heard earlier. I turned around and   13 , the boys were
preparing for their race." They must be cheering for the boys." I was leaving    14   several girls came up to me.
" Wow, you"ve got courage!" one of them told me.
     " Courage? I just  15   a race!" I thought. " I would have given up on the first lap," said another girl." We
were cheering for you. Did you hear us?"
     Suddenly I regained   16  . I decided to   17  track next year. I realized strength and courage aren"t always   18 
 in medals and victories, but in the  19   we overcome (战胜). The strongest people are not always the people
who win,    20   the people who don"t give up when they lose.

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C. earlier             C. imagined             C. ready               C. next to             C. excited             C. cry                 C. go on               C. Besides             C. in pain             C. race                 C. unless               C. lower               C. surprisingly enough  C. as                   C. passed               C. interest             C. begin with           C. tested               C. diseases             C. and

D. heavier                  D. doubted                  D. thirsty                  D. close to                 D. frightened               D. noise                    D. speed up                 D. However                  D. in advance               D. attend                   D. until                    D. louder                   D. strangely enough         D. since                    D. lost                     D. experience               D. stick with               D. increased                D. tiredness                D. but