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2017届高三英语专项训练完型阅读 编制:刘微 试做:尹玲 审核:李建玲 PAGE PAGE 4 限时训练一 I. 完形填空 “YOU’RE too small, Ginny, you’ll never make an Olympic team,” said my first-ever rowing （赛艇） coach, way back in the late winter of 1978. I had just 1 my dream. It was sure too big at that point to somebody whose 2 not only mattered, but whose emotional support could play a key role. Then I was just 20, and still a(n) 3 athlete. Maybe my dream wasn’t based on reality. After all, I had tried out for the national team for the first time the previous year and been __4 . I lacked the height that most Olympic rowers possess, not to 5 much experience as an athlete, and I suffered from asthma, but still, I was shocked by my coach’s response. 6__ not just by his choice of words, but by his certainty, I left the gym in a panic. As I walked, I began to rethink my future, making room for my coach’s opinion, setting 7____ my dream. A small inner voice had joined forces with the coach’s. “Maybe he’s 8 .” But then, another voice 9 . “What does he know? Why does he get to decide?” That my own coach didn’t have faith in me didn’t mean I had to give up on myself so quickly. By the time I arrived back at my apartment, I was 10 my coach. And my 11 was back on center stage. 12 came easy when it came to fulfilling that dream. I tried out for two more national teams and two different coaches cut me. But I was driven by my love of the 13 of rowing. I wanted to row 14 the best and I refused to stop until I achieved my goal. I made that 1980 team, 15 not getting to compete at the Olympics. I kept training four more years, and 16 won silver at the 1984 Olympics. All the effort was worth it. Everything I have today is a result of 17 that dream, all those hours on the water and in the stadium. They got me here, 18 I know now that big ambitions need not just time to develop, but firm 19 in them. If I’m