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　　 I used to watch a little girl playing basketball every day from my kitchen window. One day I asked her why she practiced so 　　1　 . She said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can go is 　　2　　 a scholarship（奖学金）. I like basketball and I want to be the 　 3　 player in college. My dad told me, “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”

She never changed her mind. I watched her through those high years and into senior high school. One day before she graduated from high school, I saw her sitting on the grass

　 4　 . I asked her what was wrong. She told me that her coach said she was too short to be a good basketball player, so she should stop 　5　 about going to college. She was heartbroken and it made me feel bad, 　 6　 . Then she smiled and told me her father said that coach was wrong. He did not understand the power of dream.. Her father said to her, “If you 　　7　 want to play for the scholarship of a good college, nothing but you 　 8　 can stop your dream.” He told her again: “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”

The next year, she and her team went to a big game. She 　　9　 by a coach of a famous college team and was offered a scholarship to the 　 10　 basketball team of their college. She was to get the college education that she had dreamed of and worked toward for all those years.

“If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.” It is true.

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　　Children's schooling is changing very fast today. In the past, teachers k 1 children sitting still for hours. They made them memorize d 2 kinds of things. In other w 3 , the children had to go on repeating things until they knew them “by heart”. Today, many teachers want to know if it is p 4 to make children learn at all. They say you can o 5 help them learn. They say you must let children learn and find out things for t 6 .

　　But for these children, school is a kind of prison(监狱). They are there only because there p 7 make them go. They get out of the classroom as soon as the teacher lets them l 8 Many of them want to find work. But the law will not let them work until they reach a certain a 9 . And so they have to stay in school. Often they do not learn any thing at all and h 10 every moment.

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　　John was nine years o 1 , and he was a very bad boy, so his mother always a 2 that he would behave (行为) better. Then one day, after John had come home f 3 school, John's teacher called his mother on the p 4 and said,“Did you k 5 , Mrs Perkins, that John saved a 6 boy when he fell into the river while we were out for a walk this morning?”

　　Mrs Perking was very h 7 when she heard this. She thought,“John is becoming a good boy.”Then she turned to him and said ,“Why were you so brave (勇敢) , my dear?”But John did not look very happy when he h 8 this. His f 9 turned red and said ,“Well , I really had to pull (拉) him o 10 , because I pushed (推) him in.”

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