单选题
It was the district sports meeting. My foot still hadn"t healed(痊愈) from a(n)
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injury. I had
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whether or not I should attend the meeting. But there I was,
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for the 3,000-metre run.
"Ready...set..." The gun popped and we were off. The other girls rushed
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me. I felt
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as I fell farther and farther behind.
"Hooray!" shouted the crowd. It was the loudest
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I had ever heard at a meeting. The first-place runner was two laps (圈) ahead of me when she crossed the finish line.
"Maybe I should
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," I thought as I moved on.
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, I decided to keep going. During the last two laps, I ran
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and decided not to
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in track next year. It wouldn"t be worth it,
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my foot did heal.
When I finished, I heard a cheer—
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than the one I"d heard earlier. I turned around and
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, the boys were preparing for their race. "They must be cheering for the boys."
I was leaving
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several girls came up to me. "Wow, you"ve got courage!" one of them told me.
"Courage? I just
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a race!" I thought.
"I would have given up on the first lap," said another girl. "We were cheering for you. Did you hear us?"
Suddenly, I regained
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. I decided to
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track next year. I realized strength and courage aren"t always
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in medals and victories, but in the
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we overcome(战胜). The strongest people are not always the people who win,
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the people who don"t give up when they lose.