In seventh grade, Brittany Blythe dreamed of being a cheerleader. Her school’s coaches were less than enthusiastic. “They said, ‘I don’t know how you’ll be able to do it,’ she recalls. “‘You won’t be able to do it. ’”
But Brittany, now a junior at Strath Haven High School near Philadelphia, persisted(坚持). And when the junior team cheerleaders won a tournament last year, she was right there, dancing and cheering with the rest of the team.
Not bad for someone whose legs were cut off below the knee when she was two years old.
Brittany, 18, was born without shinbones(胫骨)--“just blood and muscle tissue”, as she puts it. When she tried to walk, her legs twisted.
After the operation, she adapted quickly. “From day one, I basically jumped up and wanted to do everything,” she says. Prosthetic legs(假腿) allowed her to move around upright, but too slowly to keep up with her friends. Brittany’s solution: take the legs off and walk on her knees---sometimes she still does when safety and fort permit.
She’s rarely daunted. Other children laughed at her through the years, especially in junior high school, but she says the challenge only made her stronger. Now she’s trying to convince her coaches to let her remove the prostheses and be a flyer, the cheerleader who’s thrown in the air and caught by her teammates.
Brittany doesn’t think her problems are more difficult than the next person’s. “My disability was the first thing I had to get through, and that’s going to prepare me for the future,” she says. “It’s all just a test: If someone throws you a curve ball(给你出难题), what are you going to do?”
【小题1】What was the school’s coaches’ attitude towards Brittany’s idea of being a cheerleader?A．Supportive B．DoubtfulC．OpposedD．Curious【小题2】What did Brittany do to keep up with her friends?A．She used a pair of walking sticks.B．She practiced hard every day. C．She walked on her knees.D．She asked her friends for help【小题3】The underlined word “daunted” in Paragraph 6 probably means .A．discouraged B．angryC．confident D．fortunate【小题4】We can learn from the last paragraph that Brittany .A．is not well prepared for the futureB．takes a positive attitude towards lifeC．likes the challenge of learning new thingsD．thinks that her problems are more difficult than other’s.B
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(答案→)B
解析：文章讲述了一个勇敢的女孩坚强面对生活的困难，积极向上的事情。
【小题1】推理题。根据文章第一段第二行I don’t know how you’ll be able to do it可知教练是持怀疑态度的。
【小题2】细节题。根据文章倒数第三段第三行Brittany’s solution: take the legs off and walk on her knees
【小题3】猜测词义题。根据She’s rarely daunted. Other children laughed at her through the years, especially in junior high school, but she says the challenge only made her stronger.可知别人嘲笑她，但是她很乐观，几乎不泄气。所以选择A。
【小题4】段落大意题。通读最后一段可知她对生活持有乐观的态度。