Question

【題目】 No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own efforts.

I learned this lesson from an experience many years ago. I took the head______job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was a tradition for the schools old team to play against the new team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn't even______to prepare for the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was______ because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated (打敗). I couldn't believe I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to realize that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were depending on me. I had to ______ my attitude about their ability and potential (潛能).

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little pride. Most important, I began to treat them like______.That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacations, we met every day and practiced passing and kicking the football.

Six months after being defeated on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to improve. Finally, we ______ the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a victory for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn't what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of the greatest thrills(興奮,激動(dòng)) of my life!

From the______I learnt a lot about how the attitude of the leader can offers the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and encouraged them. I helped them to see themselves______, and they built themselves into winners.

Winners are made, not born.

【1】A.runningB.drivingC.coachingD.swimming

【2】A.practiceB.makeC.learnD.forget

【3】A.sorryB.worriedC.braveD.excited

【4】A.takeB.changeC.insistD.catch

【5】A.winnersB.losersC.teachersD.students

【6】A.builtB.facedC.trainedD.thanked

【7】A.showB.visitC.experienceD.experiment

【8】A.luckilyB.easilyC.carefullyD.differently

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】A

【3】D

【4】B

【5】A

【6】B

【7】C

【8】D

【解析】

作者作為一個(gè)新球隊(duì)的教練，在球隊(duì)失利的情況下，通過改變自己對球員的態(tài)度，幫助他們建立自豪感，努力訓(xùn)練，終于獲勝的故事，得到的啟迪——獲勝者不是天生的，是努力創(chuàng)造的。

【1】句意：我在喬治亞州巴克斯利的一所學(xué)校擔(dān)任總教練工作。

running跑；driving駕駛；coaching教練；swimming游泳；根據(jù)下文作者帶領(lǐng)球隊(duì)取得勝利，可知空格指“在學(xué)校當(dāng)總教練”；故選C。

【2】句意：老隊(duì)沒有教練，他們甚至沒有練習(xí)準(zhǔn)備比賽。

practice練習(xí)、訓(xùn)練；make制造；learn學(xué)習(xí)；forget忘記；根據(jù)常識(shí)，賽前通常要訓(xùn)練；根據(jù)下文“I was excited because I knew we were going to win,”推斷空格指“沒有訓(xùn)練”，所以作者很興奮以為會(huì)贏；故選A。

【3】句意：作為新球隊(duì)的教練，我很興奮，因?yàn)槲抑�道我們�?huì)贏的。

sorry遺憾的；worried著急的；brave勇敢的；excited興奮的；根據(jù)上文“they didn't even practice to prepare for the game.” ，由上文可知作者知道老隊(duì)甚至沒有賽前訓(xùn)練，作為新隊(duì)的教練，推測他是很“興奮”，以為會(huì)贏；故選D。

【4】句意：我不得不改變對他們能力和潛力的看法。

take拿走；B. change改變；insist堅(jiān)持；catch捉住；由上文可知老隊(duì)在沒有任何賽前訓(xùn)練的情況下贏了作者的球隊(duì)，讓作者反思自己，作為教練他要改變自己對球員的態(tài)度和潛能；故選 B。

【5】句意：最重要的是，我開始把他們當(dāng)作獲勝者。

winners獲勝者；losers失敗者；teachers老師；students學(xué)生；根據(jù)上文“I started doing anything I could to help them build a little pride”，要幫助隊(duì)員建立一點(diǎn)自豪感，推斷空格指“把他們當(dāng)獲勝者”；故選A。

【6】句意：最后，我們面對的是該州的1號球隊(duì)。

built建立；faced面對；trained訓(xùn)練；thanked謝謝；由上文可知作者的球隊(duì)贏得了第一場、第二場比賽，并且繼續(xù)進(jìn)步。推斷空格指“終于，要和一號球隊(duì)比賽”；故選 B。

【7】句意：從這次的經(jīng)歷我學(xué)到很多關(guān)于領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者的態(tài)度怎樣為團(tuán)隊(duì)成員提供幫助。

show顯示；visit參觀；experience經(jīng)歷；experiment實(shí)驗(yàn)；由上文可知，作者通過改變自己對球員的態(tài)度，鼓勵(lì)他們幫助他們建立自信，終于帶領(lǐng)球隊(duì)獲勝；推斷下文意為“通過這次的經(jīng)歷，他學(xué)到怎樣成為一個(gè)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者” ；故選C 。

【8】句意：我?guī)椭�他們以不同的眼光看待自己，他們把自己塑造成獲勝者。

luckily幸運(yùn)地；easily簡單地；carefully仔細(xì)地；differently不同地；由上文可知，作者在球隊(duì)失利的情況下，通過改變自己對球員的態(tài)度，把他們當(dāng)獲勝者而不是失敗者，由此推斷空格指“以不同的眼光看待自己”；故選 D。