Question

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Afel was only a small boy when he first saw snow in a picture book. In the pictures he saw a lot of children (1) ______ (play) in the snow.

Afel didn’t understand what snow was. But he dreamed about snow all the time. He dreamed of being able (2) ______ (fly) across the snow.

One day when he was twelve, Afel (3) ______ (watch) TV at his uncle’s house. The program was full of snow. Not only snow – there were people flying across the snow.

“Look! They (4) ______ (fly)!” he shouted excitedly.

The snow, and the people… It was just like one of his dreams.

“They’re skiing. It needs snow,” said his uncle, “it’s the Winter Olympics. It (5) ______ (hold) every four years.”

Afel (6)_________ （find）out that the next Winter Olympics would be in Sochi, Russia in 2014.

“Perfect,” he thought. “Enough time for me to become a good skier. I (7) ______ (go) to the Winter Olympics, and win the gold medal for skiing.”

“But there’s no snow here!” people told him. “Where are you going to ski?”

Afel made himself a pair of skis and skied across the sand. At first he couldn’t move, but he practised and practised until he could move quite quickly.

“How will you go to the Winter Olympics?” people asked him. “Our country (8) ______ (not, have) a team at all. Why (9) ______ (not, do) athletics (田径) instead? We have lots of good runners. And we (10) ______ (win) lots of medals at the Olympics.”

Now Afel is practising skiing down sand dunes (沙丘). He dreams that the yellow sand and brown earth of the desert (沙漠) is the white snow.

Answer 1

1. playing 2. to fly  3. was watching  4. are flying  5. is held

6. found  7. will go/am going  8. doesn’t have/hasn’t had

9. not do  10. have won