完型填空

　　My son Joey was born with clubfeet(畸形足)．The doctors told us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally 　　1　　 would never run very well．The first three years of his life were spent in 　　2　　．By the time he was eight, you 　　3　　 he had a problem when you saw him walk．

　　The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would 　　4　　 and play, too．We 　　5　　 told him that he probably wouldn't be able to 　　6　　 as wall as the other children．So he didn't know．

　　In seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross country 　　7　　．Every day he trained with the team．He worked harder and ran more than any of the others perhaps he 　　8　　 that the abilities that seemed to come 　　9　　 to so many others did not come naturally to him．Although the 　　10　　 team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential to 　　11　　 points for the school．We didn't tell him he probably would never 　　12　　 the team, so he didn't know．

　　He 　　13　　 to run four to five miles a day, every day even the day he had a 103 degree fever．I was 　　14　　, so I went to look for him after school．I found him running all alone．I asked him how he felt, “　　15　　,” he said．He had two more miles to go．The sweat 　　16　　 his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever．Yet he 　　17　　 straight ahead and kept running．．We never told him he couldn't run four miles with a 103 degree fever．So he didn't know．

　　Two weeks later, the name of the team runners were 　　18　　．Joey was number six on the list．Joey had made the team．He was only in seventh the other six team members were all 　　19　　．

　　We never told him he shouldn't 　　20　　 to make the team．We never told him he couldn't do it, so he didn't know．He just did it．

完形填空

　　The earliest men did not have much time for art; they faced many dangers, and hunting for food took 　　1　　 almost all their time．But after many thousands of years perhaps a million years or more they became very good hunters, and 　　2　　 gave them a little free time which they could use for other things．A few of them began to paint on the walls of the caves 　　3　　 they lived．Many early artists painted animals, 　　4　　 these were the most important things in their lives．Animals supplied 　　5　　 to keep them living, and skins to keep them 　　6　　．

　　Like painters 　　7　　, the early artists possibly painted for many 　　8　　．Perhaps they wanted to give their cave a little brightness and color; perhaps they had a few special ideas which they could 　　9　　 most easily in a painting; perhaps they 　　10　　 wanted to spend a little time in a pleasant way．Many of them believed in magic(巫术),and they often drew animals which were caught．They hoped that by drawing these things, they would make them really appear．

　　People have discovered cave paintings in many parts of the world．The earliest that we know about are in Europe．Because of the cool weather, the early men in Europe used the caves for shelter(隐蔽处); in many warmer parts of the world this was not necessary．We know quite a lot about the dates of the European paintings, and we believe that the earliest ones were painted about thirty thousand years ago．