Patti discovered the meaning of running when she was 23. At that time she was smoking two packs of cigarettes a day and had
36 over 50 pounds. “I decided to
37 ,” she says. She took a clock and started
38 what she did every day, and then she
39 an hour a day as a “be nice to Patti” hour. “I started having bubble（泡沫）baths with a candle
40 , because Cosmopolitan Magazine
41 that this would be good for me. But I got
42 of that soon,” Patti remembers. She wanted to do something really pleasant. She found that the
43 times in her life were times when she was physically active. So she took up
44 .
She decided to start
45 the next day. She ran for an hour,
46 a total of 7 miles on her first run. “I couldn’t walk for 2 weeks 47 I felt painful all over!” Patti recalls. “But I felt so wonderful!” Patti wasn’t crazy about running yet, but she was in
48 with the after effects of it.
Within seven months, Patti had run her first marathon, qualified for the Boston Marathon, and placed 25th in the world for
49 distance runners. Over the next years, she
50 records and set standards for women in the sport. She was the first American woman to run a marathon
51 than 2 hours 30 minutes, and then broke another two records
52 an 8-month period.
Patti believes that, if we can
53 standards for ourselves, we can pull ourselves out of the most difficult
54 and come out on top. “Everybody has to be a/an
55 and everybody has that in them.”
| 小题1: | | A．lost | B．gained | C．earned | D．reduced |
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| 小题2: | | A．change | B．move | C．walk | D．cry |
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| 小题3: | | A．remembering | B．collecting | C．sharing | D．recording |
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| 小题4: | | A．set out | B．set up | C．set aside | D．set about |
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| 小题5: | | A．lit | B．swung | C．surrounded | D．burnt |
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| 小题6: | | A．spoke | B．said | C．wrote | D．went |
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| 小题7: | | A．afraid | B．fond | C．tired | D．ashamed |
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| 小题8: | | A．happiest | B．saddest | C．loneliest | D．luckiest |
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| 小题9: | | A．smoking | B．bathing | C．dieting | D．running |
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| 小题10: | | A．only | B．right | C．even | D．again |
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| 小题11: | | A．overcoming | B．spreading | C．passing | D．covering |
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| 小题12: | | A．but | B．although | C．since | D．because |
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| 小题13: | | A．peace | B．line | C．love | D．touch |
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| 小题14: | | A．men | B．women | C．adult | D．children |
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| 小题15: | | A．kept | B．held | C．broke | D．cleared |
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| 小题16: | | A．faster | B．more | C．slower | D．rather |
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| 小题18: | | A．set | B．follow | C．require | D．seek |
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| 小题19: | | A．pleasures | B．pities | C．challenges | D．purposes |
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| 小题20: | | A．expert | B．runner | C．athlete | D．champion |
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