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My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors said that with treatment he would be able to walk, but would never run very well. He    the first three years of his life in hospital. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he has a problem when you saw him    .

Children in our neighborhood always ran around    their play, and Joey would jump and ran and play,    . We never told him that he probably wouldn’t be    to run like the other children. So he didn’t know.

In    grade he decided to join the school running team. Every day he trained. He ran more than any of the others,    only the top seven runners would be chosen to run for the    . We didn’t tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn’t know.

He ran four to five miles every day — even when he had a fever. I was    , so I went to    him after school. I found him running    . I asked him how he felt. “Okay,” he said. He had two more miles to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept    .

Two weeks later, the names of the team       were caked. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had    the team. He was in seventh grade — the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he couldn’t do it … so he didn’t know. He just    it.

1.A. spent B. takenC. costD. paid

2.A. talk B. sitC. studyD. walk

3.A. after B. beforeC. duringD. till

4.A. either B. tooC. thoughD. yet

5.A. able B. sorryC. gladD. afraid

6.A. sixth B. seventhC. eighthD. ninth

7.A. so B. if C. thenD. because

8.A. neighborhoodB. familyC. schoolD. grade

9.A. excitedB. tiredC. pleasedD. worried

10.A. think aboutB. hear fromC. agree withD. look for

11.A. alone B. awayC. almostD. already

12.A. ridingB. walkingC. playingD. running

13.A. jumpersB. runnersC. doctorsD. teachers

14.A. got B. keptC. madeD. found

15.A. did B. hadC. leftD. took