单选题 My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors assured us that with treatment he would be able to walk normally, but would never run very well.
The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would jump right in and run and play, too. In seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others. Although the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential to score points for the school. We didn't tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn't know.
He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day-even the day he had a 103-degree fever. I was worried, so I went to look for him after school. I found him running all alone. He had two more miles to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn't run four miles with a 103-degree fever. So he didn't know.
Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. We never told him he shouldn't expect to make the team. We never told him he couldn't do it. So he didn't know. He just did it.

单选题 Joey couldn't make the team if he hadn't had the support of ______.
A. his parents B. his classmates C. his teachers D. his doctors
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】细节题。见文章第一段第一句和第二、三、四段的最后一句,说明文章是从乔伊父母的视角,用第一人称来写这篇文章的。
单选题 How many runners can make the team on behalf of the school?
A. Four. B. Five. C. Six. D. Seven.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】细节题。见文章第二段的倒数第二句。长跑队员中只有7人可以代表学校参加比赛。
单选题 Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. There was something wrong with Joey's arms.
B. Joey kept running even he had a high fever.
C. Joey's mother was cruel to him when he was running.
D. Joey didn't think he could make the team, but he tried.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】是非题。答案A与全文第一句不相符。第三段说明了作者作为父母对孩子的关心,故选项C不正确。文章第二、四段的最后一句均说明乔伊并不知道自己的身体和能力不及他人。所以,只有答案B符合题义。
单选题 What kind of boy Joey is?
A. Physically strong. B. Stubborn. C. Strong-minded. D. Lovely.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】推断题。从全文来看,乔伊是个身残志坚的男孩。他不畏艰辛,为了达到目标不惜付出比他人多出许多倍的努力,即使发高烧也依然坚持训练。所以,答案C最符合题义。
单选题 What conclusion we can probably get from the passage?
A. Good health is over wealth. B. A good beginning is half done.
C. Where there is a will, there is a way. D. Failure is the mother of success.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】推断题。乔伊为了达到目标不惜付出比他人多出许多倍的努力,最终克服了身体的残疾获得了成功。这一点恰巧印证了“有志者事竟成”这句话。