Someone said that encouragement is simply reminding a person of the “shoulders” he’s standing on, the heritage he’s been given. That’s what happened
36 a young man, the son of a(n) 37 baseball player, was chosen by one of the minor league teams. Hard as he tried, his first season was
38 , and by midseason he expected to be removed
39 day. The coaches were
40 by his failure because he possessed all the characteristics of a superb（杰出的）athlete, but he seemed to have become
41 from his potential.
His
42 seemed darkest one day when he had already struck out his first time at bat. Then he stepped up to the batter’s box again and quickly ran up two strikes. The catcher called a
43 and ran for a conference to discuss strategies. While they were busy, the
44 , standing behind him, spoke casually to the boy.
Then play
45 , the next pitch was thrown and the young man knocked it out of the park. That was the turning
46 . From then on, he played the game with a new confidence and power that quickly
47 the attention of the parent team, and he was called
48 to the majors.
On the day he was leaving for the city, one of his coaches asked him what had caused such a turnaround. The young man replied it was the
49 remark the judge had
50 that day when his baseball career had seemed
51 .
“He told me I reminded him of all the times he had stood
52 my dad in the batter’s box,” the boy explained. “He said I was holding the bat just the way Dad had held it.
53 he told me, ‘I can see his genes in you; you have your father’s
54 .’ After that, whenever I swung the bat, I just
55 I was using Dad’s arms instead of my own.”
| 小题2: | | A．star | B．average | C．amateur | D．old |
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| 小题3: | | A．embarrassing | B．disappointing | C．satisfying | D．rewarding |
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| 小题5: | | A．amazed | B．impressed | C．puzzled | D．ashamed |
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| 小题6: | | A．separated | B．different | C．inconsistent | D．divided |
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| 小题7: | | A．hope | B．future | C．dream | D．ambition |
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| 小题8: | | A．break | B．rest | C．pause | D．stop |
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| 小题9: | | A．catcher | B．coach | C．batter | D．judge |
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| 小题10: | | A．began | B．lasted | C．restarted | D．moved |
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| 小题11: | | A．part | B．point | C．place | D．spot |
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| 小题12: | | A．drew | B．fixed | C．focused | D．took |
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| 小题14: | | A．encouraging | B．casual | C．demanding | D．wise |
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| 小题15: | | A．said | B．made | C．given | D．pointed |
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| 小题16: | | A．fixed | B．useless | C．endless | D．helpless |
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| 小题17: | | A．on the right | B．on the left | C．before | D．behind |
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| 小题18: | | A．And | B．So | C．Thus | D．Therefore |
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| 小题19: | | A．strength | B．arms | C．body | D．talent |
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| 小题20: | | A．supposed | B．pretended | C．imagined | D．expected |
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