题目内容：

My son Joey was born with club feet(天生特厚的畸形脚). The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk________, but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were_______in surgery(手术). By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a _______when you saw him walk.

The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during________, and Joey would jump right in, run and play, too. We________told him that he probably wouldn’t be able to ______ as well as the other children. So he didn’t know.

In seventh grade he ______to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he _____ with the team. He worked harder and ran ______ than any of the others—perhaps he sensed that the________that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him.________the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential to________points for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.

He________to run four to five miles a day, every day —even the day he had a 103-degree fever. I was________, so I went to look for him after school. I found him   _____all alone. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. He had two more________to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever.________he looked straight ahead and kept running.

Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were_______. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in________grade —the other six team members were all eighth-graders. We never told him he shouldn’t_________to make the team. We never told him he couldn’t do it… so he didn’t know. He just did it.

1.A. quickly    B. slowly    C. normally    D. comfortably

2.A. spent    B. wasted    C. suffered    D. lost

3.A. pain    B. problem    C. treatment    D. surgery

4.A. holidays    B. day    C. fun    D. play

5.A. seldom    B. never    C. always    D. once

6.A. study    B. run    C. walk    D. behave

7.A. decided    B. preferred    C. refused    D. agreed

8.A. gathered    B. camped    C. trained    D. competed

9.A. more slowly    B. less    C. faster    D. more

10.A. ability    B. strength    C. power    D. energy

11.A. Since    B. Because    C. After    D. Although

12.A. increase    B. score    C. hold    D. take

13.A. continued    B. stopped    C. liked    D. hoped

14.A. sad    B. surprised    C. angry    D. worried

15.A. running    B. resting    C. crying    D. sleeping

16.A. tests    B. miles    C. lessons    D. examinations

17.A. Otherwise    B. So    C. Yet    D. Thus

18.A. included    B. found    C. shown    D. announced

19.A. sixth    B. eighth    C. seventh    D. fifth

20.A. manage    B. determine    C. expect    D. attempt