初中英语完形填空集锦.doc

My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk normally - but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were ______41_______ in surgery, casts and braces. By the time he was eight, you wouldnt know he had a problem when you saw him _______42_______. The children in our neighborhood ran around _______43______ their play, and Joey would jump right in and run and play, _____44______. We never told him that he probably wouldnt be _____45______ to run as well as the other children. So he didnt know. In _____46_____ grade he decided to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others, _____47______only the top seven runners have be chosen to run for the ______48______. We didnt tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didnt know. He ran four to five miles a day, every day - even the day he had a 103-degree fever. I was ______49_____, so I went to ______50_____ him after school. I found him running ______51_______. I asked him how he felt. Okay, he said. He had two more miles to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept ______52______. Two weeks later, the names of the team ______53______ were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had ______54______the team. He was in seventh grade - the other six team members were all eighth-graders. We never told him he shouldnt expect to make the team. We never told him he couldnt do it. We never told him he couldnt do it...so he didnt know. He just______55______ it. ( )41. A. spent B. taken C. cost D. paid ( )42. A. talk B. sit C. study D. walk ( )43. A. after B. before C. during D. till ( )44. A. either B. too C. though D. yet ( )45. A. able B. sorry C. glad D. afraid ( )46. A. sixth B. seventh C. eighth D. ninth ( )47. A. so B. i