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Life can be hard sometimes but it is you yourself who decide what kind of life you live. Born in 1949, Diana Nyad took an early interest in swimming as a sport and was a Florida State High School swimming champion. Like many young    21    , she had Olympic dreams,    22    a serious illness kept her from competing in the Games. The    23    didn’t stop her from going forward.  24   , she became interested in marathon swimming. A brilliant athlete, she was well-conditioned for spending    25    periods of time in the water. As a long-distance swimmer, she would compete    26    herself and the obstacles(障碍)   27    by distance, danger, cold, and exhaustion.

For ten years Nyad     28    herself to becoming one of the world’s long-distance swimmers. In 1970, she swam a ten-mile marathon in Lake Ontario,     29   the women’s record for the course. In 1972 she set     30    record by swimming 102.5 miles from an island in the Bahamas to the coast of Florida. Then she broke a third record

    31    swimming around Manhattan Island in 1975.

Nyad    32    to swim the distance between Florida and Cuba in 1978. Though the span(跨度) of water is less than 100 miles    33   , it is rough and dangerous. After battling the water for two days, she had to    34    for the sake of her own health and      35   . Even so, she impressed the world with her courage and strong desire to   36   . For Nyad her strength of purpose was just as important as reaching Cuba. That is    37    she defined(给……下定义) success. It did not    38     that her swim wasn’t completed; she believed she had touched the other shore.

When Nyad ended her    39   as a swimmer, she continued to try new things—travelling the world as a reporter, writing books and giving public speeches about her life. Diana Nyad works to    40    others, just as she did when she swam the waters of the world.

21．A．experts         B．athletes              C．coaches             D．challengers   

22．A．but                   B．unless             C．or                      D．and

23．A．excitement                                        B．engagement    

C．amazement                                     D．disappointment

24．A．Relatively        B．Besides           C．Instead              D．Otherwise

25．A．short             B．free                  C．long                D．bright

26．A．for                    B．by                   C．beside             D．against

27．A．spread              B．scattered          C．presented          D．found

28．A．put                 B．devoted          C．transformed   D．expressed

29．A．setting            B．enjoying           C．collecting         D．playing

30．A．other              B．one                   C．others               D．another

31．A．when              B．before               C．once                  D．until

32．A．managed         B．had                    C．attempted        D．continued

33．A．deep               B．wide               C．short              D．large

34．A．look up           B．shut up           C．give up           D．use up

35．A．safety             B．cost                 C．name               D．convenience

36．A．succeed            B．swim               C．compete          D．continue

37．A．where             B．because             C．why                   D．how

38．A．end                 B．matter                C．last                  D．know

39．A．interest            B．courage          C．career             D．pain

40．A．persuade         B．tell                  C．inspire             D．stop

【回答】

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