(2021·山东菏泽一模)
Maybe it’s my love of baseball that connects my aunt Helen and me. She has always kept me 1 in her experiences of playing baseball back in the 1940s. I would listen to these 2 over and over. She used to say,“Go after what you want. Don’t be ashamed of failing. Real 3 comes from never trying.”
In 1943, she was one of the young women who 4 for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She 5 what it would be like to win the championship for her hometown! She imagined a long narrow flag 6 at the baseball field, and on it the name Helen would be there for all to 7 .
About a week later, Aunt Helen received a 8 from the leaders of the baseball league in Chicago! Aunt Helen 9 it open and learned that she had been invited to the league’s main tryouts!
But as the days went by, Aunt Helen became 10 about travelling to Chicago alone. What if she went all that way and 11 ? When the day of the tryouts 12 , she was too afraid to go.
Aunt Helen has spent the rest of her life wondering what would have happened 13 she had gone to those tryouts. Because of this, she never missed another 14 in her life. She learned that every dream is worth 15 , even if you catch only a few of them.
1.A.interested B.concerned
C.disappointed D.devoted
2.A.messages B.novels
C.stories D.reports
3.A.success B.achievement
C.argument D.embarrassment
4.A.made up B.tried out
C.stood up D.looked out
5.A.thought over B.convinced of
C.dreamed of D.believed in
6.A.growing B.sticking
C.posting D.hanging
7.A.write B.see
C.listen D.talk
8.A.letter B.lecture
C.gift D.diamond
9.A.threw B.tore
C.broke D.struck
10.A.sure B.cautious
C.worried D.excited
11.A.slipped B.fell
C.slept D.failed
12.A.lost B.came
C.disappeared D.flew
13.A.if B.unless
C.until D.before
14.A.word B.journey
C.opportunity D.instruction
15.A.chasing B.running
C.giving D.cherishing
