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I was in a skating competition, ready to do an axel *.
I can do this! I worked hard on the axel and my Olympic dreams depended on it. I started and I... failed. But it was not over. I'd try the next jump with the axel.
Then I fell. I tried every jump with the axel, but didn't finish one. I spent so much time falling on the ice that I felt like a human Zamboni *.
"Did she come here to make sure the ice was clean for the next skater?" When I finished skating, I heard people laughing.
That night, I told Dad I would give up skating. "I want to be a pianist," I said.
"But you don't play the piano."
"I can learn." I spent the following week trying different hobbies, but everything was not so interesting as skating.
I told that to Dad. He laughed. "That's life—full of failures. So you should stick to what you love, and you've always loved skating."
"I do. The speed, the wind. I love everything about skating except the axel. I just can't forget that I looked like a human Zamboni. But I'll never get to the Olympics without the axel."
"Maybe the Olympics isn't the goal *. Maybe you skate just because you love it."
The next morning, I stepped on the ice again. It was good to be back. My friends shouted my name. Nobody talked about my failure.
"We're glad you're back," said one of them. "It's been boring without you."
"Thanks. It was boring being away. Besides, I thought I had to come back. The ice needs me. If the Zamboni doesn't work, I can replace it."
Everyone laughed. I laughed. It was a pretty good joke, after all. And when I started to skate, feeling the wind on my face again, I knew I was in the right place.
(
A. She was not hard-working enough.
B. She was too worried to do an axel well.
C. The ice was not clean enough for her to skate.
D. She chose to do a more difficult jump than the axel.
(
A. To take a break between the skating competitions.
B. To make sure being a pianist was her only dream.
C. To avoid facing the result of the skating competition.
D. To find out why she would fail the last competition.
(
A. The love towards skating.
B. The chance to enter the Olympics.
C. The thought of making her friends happy.
D. The decision of doing a better performance.
7. Why did the writer joke herself as a human Zamboni at the end of the story?
I was in a skating competition, ready to do an axel *.
I can do this! I worked hard on the axel and my Olympic dreams depended on it. I started and I... failed. But it was not over. I'd try the next jump with the axel.
Then I fell. I tried every jump with the axel, but didn't finish one. I spent so much time falling on the ice that I felt like a human Zamboni *.
"Did she come here to make sure the ice was clean for the next skater?" When I finished skating, I heard people laughing.
That night, I told Dad I would give up skating. "I want to be a pianist," I said.
"But you don't play the piano."
"I can learn." I spent the following week trying different hobbies, but everything was not so interesting as skating.
I told that to Dad. He laughed. "That's life—full of failures. So you should stick to what you love, and you've always loved skating."
"I do. The speed, the wind. I love everything about skating except the axel. I just can't forget that I looked like a human Zamboni. But I'll never get to the Olympics without the axel."
"Maybe the Olympics isn't the goal *. Maybe you skate just because you love it."
The next morning, I stepped on the ice again. It was good to be back. My friends shouted my name. Nobody talked about my failure.
"We're glad you're back," said one of them. "It's been boring without you."
"Thanks. It was boring being away. Besides, I thought I had to come back. The ice needs me. If the Zamboni doesn't work, I can replace it."
Everyone laughed. I laughed. It was a pretty good joke, after all. And when I started to skate, feeling the wind on my face again, I knew I was in the right place.
(
B
)4. What made the writer fail her competition?A. She was not hard-working enough.
B. She was too worried to do an axel well.
C. The ice was not clean enough for her to skate.
D. She chose to do a more difficult jump than the axel.
(
C
)5. Why did the writer tried different activities in the following week?A. To take a break between the skating competitions.
B. To make sure being a pianist was her only dream.
C. To avoid facing the result of the skating competition.
D. To find out why she would fail the last competition.
(
A
)6. What makes the writer finally stepped on the ice again?A. The love towards skating.
B. The chance to enter the Olympics.
C. The thought of making her friends happy.
D. The decision of doing a better performance.
7. Why did the writer joke herself as a human Zamboni at the end of the story?
One possible version: Because at first, the writer failed to do the axel and was joked by others as human Zamboni. However, in the end, she accepted her failure and thought the most important thing was the love towards skating. She didn't care about the joke then.
答案
Ⅲ. 4. B 5. C 6. A 7. One possible version: Because at first, the writer failed to do the axel and
was joked by others as human Zamboni. However, in the end, she accepted her failure and thought the most important
thing was the love towards skating. She didn't care about the joke then.
was joked by others as human Zamboni. However, in the end, she accepted her failure and thought the most important
thing was the love towards skating. She didn't care about the joke then.
