Twist was the name of an old champion racing horse. He was past thirty years old, but the heart of the true
36 still beat with the great spirit. However, I knew little about the
37 that the old horse’s spirit would have on my daughter.
My daughter Stacy had ever had a
38 experience with a runaway horse. She was just eight at the time, and a terrifying
39 accompanied the disaster. Although she broke no bones, her
40 , love for horses and the desire to learn to ride were
41 . No matter how my wife and I tried, we had no
42 in curing the damage caused that day. But when she was thirteen, a turning point came. One day as I saw Stacy look into the eye of the
43 fellow in the stall(牲口棚), I knew this was going to be the beginning of a
44 relationship.
Fortunately, Stacy’s accident had not weakened her love for
45 in general, and this small opening was all that Twist needed to create an unusual bond(纽带). In the following weeks, Stacy began to express daily
46 in coming to the stall with me. She
47 spent time with him, feeding, brushing and combing him, all the
48 talking to him about her life.
Then one day
49 I was readying one horse for a ride, I noticed the old guy’s
50 expression and desire to be included, too. So I asked Stacy if she wanted to take Twist out for a ride. In
51 , Stacy looked once again into the old man’s eye. That moment, their two spirits
52 and completed the bond that had been forming over a couple of months. Continuing to look deep into his eyes, Stacy didn’t
53 . She only nodded yes. Moments later, I saw them riding
54 together, Stacy winning renewed confidence and desire, and Twist winning his medal of a child’s
55 .
| 小题1: | | A．owner | B．winner | C．jumper | D．member |
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| 小题2: | | A．wish | B．idea | C．effect | D．ability |
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| 小题3: | | A．new | B．bad | C．rich | D．strange |
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| 小题4: | | A．fall | B．task | C．shake | D．attack |
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| 小题5: | | A．pride | B．skill | C．luck | D．confidence |
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| 小题6: | | A．ignored | B．reformed | C．destroyed | D．overlooked |
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| 小题7: | | A．aim | B．need | C．surprise | D．success |
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| 小题8: | | A．poor | B．old | C．brave | D．strong |
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| 小题9: | | A．serious | B．similar | C．special | D．formal |
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| 小题10: | | A．animals | B．parents | C．friends | D．fields |
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| 小题11: | | A．thanks | B．interest | C．opinions | D．sympathy |
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| 小题12: | | A．endlessly | B．roughly | C．unwillingly | D．actively |
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| 小题14: | | A．as | B．so | C．although | D．because |
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| 小题15: | | A．angry | B．sad | C．eager | D．anxious |
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| 小题16: | | A．brief | B．response | C．return | D．addition |
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| 小题17: | | A．met | B．rose | C．fought | D．recovered |
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| 小题18: | | A．act | B．think | C．speak | D．smile |
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| 小题20: | | A．heart | B．spirit | C．agreement | D．dependence |
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