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 ___1___ in hospital. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he has a problem when you saw him ___2___.
Children in our neighborhood always ran around ___3___ their play, and Joey would jump and ran and play, ___4___. We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be ___5___ to run like the other children. So he didn’t know.
In ___6___ grade he decided to join the school running team. Every day he trained. He ran more than any of the others, ___7___ only the top seven runners would be chosen to run for the ___8___. 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 ___9___, so I went to ___10___ him after school. I found him running ___11___. I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. He has two more miles to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept ___12___.
Two weeks later, the names of the team ___13___ were out. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had ___14___ the team. He was in seventh grade — the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he couldn’t do it … so he didn’t know. He just ___15___ it.
1. A. spent B. taken C. cost D. paid
2. A. talk B. sit C. study D. walk
3. A. after B. before C. during D. till
4. A. either B. too C. though D. yet
5. A. able B. sorry C. glad D. afraid
6. A. sixth B. seventh C. eighth D. ninth
7. A. so B. if C. then D. because
8. A. neighborhood B. family C. school D. grade
9. A. excited B. tired C. pleased D. worried
10. A. think about B. hear from C. agree with D. look for
11. A. alone B. away C. almost D. already
12. A. riding B. walking C. playing D. running
13. A. jumpers B. runners C. doctors D. teachers
14. A. got B. kept C. made D. found
15. A. made B. played C. had D. took
【答案與解析】文章講述了Joey一出生便被醫生認定不能正常地跑動，但是Joey的父母一直沒有把這個情況告訴他。因此Joey就在這種毫不知情的情況下，憑借著自身的努力，終于如愿以償地入選了校田徑隊。
1. A。聯系此處的語境，再對照選項，可知這里應是“他生命中的頭三年是在醫院里度過的”。spend有“花時間于……，度過”的意思，并且spend還可做及物動詞，所以放在此處，不僅符合此處的語境，而且也符合此句的語法結構。故答案選A。
2. D。根據前文中The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk，可知醫生認為作者的兒子在經過治療后是能夠走路的。因此可推出此處是“在他8歲時，當你看到他走路，你察覺不出他有什么問題”。故答案選D。
