阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Growing up for me was a challenge. I started out at primary school and was always asked by my teacher to sit at the
36 of the class because I was a fool.
I kept
37 things: I forgot nursery songs and spellings. I was the
38 of class jokes and I was all alone and
39 . I hated school, but my dad would hear none of it. He kept telling me I was a
40 , if I believed it.
A
41 around came one day when I remembered the
42 of the word “Cognoscenti”; a word all the other “
43 students ” had forgotten how to spell
44 they spent their free time making fun of me. I wasn’t asked to spell,
45 I raised up my hand. So I stood up and went to the front of class,
46 23 pairs of eyes staring at me. My teacher grabbed her stick, ready to hit me if I’d
47_ . I wrote the letters, spelt the word and became an instant champion. Afterwards, I
48 and won, for my school, five Spelling Bee championships.
Secondary school had its own share of challenges. I was a tall kid and wasn’t good at any
49 , except looking. I loved basketball and tennis.
50 I held a bat(球拍), I was laughed at by my opponent. He
51 six straight sets(盘，局) without sweat and there I was, sweating like I’d run a marathon, whereas I hadn’t even
52 a single point. My dad’s 53 kept playing in my ears “Stanley, you’re a champion if you believe it.”
Believe it I did, because I wasn’t only good at tennis and basketball, I was an all-round athlete and
54 won both athletic and
55 scholarships to university.
36. A. front
| B. back
| C. side
| D. corner
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37. A. forgetting
| B. leaving
| C. repeating
| D. using
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38. A. cause
| B. inventor
| C. object
| D. course
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39. A. rootless
| B. homeless
| C. careless
| D. friendless
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40. A. champion
| B. fool
| C. character
| D. failure
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41. A. moment
| B. possibility
| C. turn
| D. change
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42. A. meaning
| B. spelling
| C. way
| D. form
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43. A. polite
| B. dishonest
| C. bright
| D. absent-minded
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44. A. once
| B. while
| C. when
| D. because
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45. A. even though
| B. as though
| C. in case
| D. only if
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46. A. for
| B. as
| C. with
| D. before
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47. A. hesitated
| B. succeeded
| C. lied
| D. failed
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48. A. presented
| B. represented
| C. requested
| D. proposed
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49. A. exercise
| B. mathematics
| C. sport
| D. spelling
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50. A. At first
| B. First of all
| C. The first time
| D. For the first time
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51. A. won
| B. owned
| C. missed
| D. gained
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52. A. reached
| B. seized
| C. caught
| D. scored
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53. A. message
| B. information
| C. sentences
| D. words
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54. A. even
| B. still
| C. almost
| D. nearly
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55. A. economic
| B. historic
| C. academic
| D. financial
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