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Part II Cloze 完形填空(共 20 题,每题 1分,共 20 分)
As I was growing up, my life went around soccer. I played on the national youth soccer
teams, and traveled to Europe. At age fifteen, I spent a summer __21__ with a professional
team in England. I always knew I was going to be a professional soccer ___22___. I had a
____23___ soccer scholarship to a top Midwest university.
But when I got to college, things began to __24__. I started to see everything I had
missed ___25__ the way. My high school years had been filled __26___ practices and games
and I didn’t get to do a lot of the other things my friends were doing. At college, I ___27___
to be “normal”. I was feeling tired out and __28__. Finally, I decided to give __29__ the
college life that was similar to my high school days. I walked away ___30___ soccer and my
scholarship.
I __31__ myself for the life I was living for a while because soccer was the only thing in
my life for which I ever had a passion. After a ___32___ of struggle, I went to another
university and finished school there. Then I did quite a ___33___ jobs. I worked in a financial
company, then for an Internet company, etc. I ___34___ wasn’t happy.
___35__ back, I can see that these jobs weren’t based on the ___36___ that were
important to me, honestly, stability, and family. Then an old soccer coach of mine called and
___37___ an opportunity -----teaching soccer and other sports to little kids. I thought, “Could
this be my calling?”
I’ve been teaching now for a ___38___ of years and really love it. I’m working with kids,
___39___ I enjoy. I’m playing soccer again. However, life is ___40___ from that of the past
days when I lived for only practices and games. Life is so colorful and attractive now.
21.A. thinking B. training C. hoping
22. A. leaning B. actor C. player
23. A. full B. empty C. great
24. A. enlarge B. change C. raise
25. A. along B. across C. aside
26. A. at B. on C. with
27. A. longed B. insisted C. imagined
28. A. pleasant B. unhappy C. curious
29. A. in B. at C. up
30. A. from B. with C. beside